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Many important things stop being boring once you decide to do them well.
the way to succeed is to do the boring things extremely wellView quoted post on X
David Jarvis
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CEO of @griffinbank - the bank you can build on. Wonderfully youthful in spirit - considering.
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This would be great for small banks and terrible for the big ones, amusingly enough. Small banks are the only ones who need to pay high rates today because they don鈥檛 benefit from the safety premium of being TBTF
Fascinating.
Chief Economist at Apollo: agents could cause a bank run by sweeping household cash into accounts paying 3-5% instead of the 0.1% national average, causing banks to lose a large share of their cheap deposits.View quoted post on X
I continue to be genuinely astonished at how bad the "Ask AI" feature is in @Superhuman. For a product that is otherwise so perfect, it's unbelievable to me that this is allowed to continue to be awful.
I know @Benji_Fernandes personally. He's an incredible founder (and friend) who's built an incredible business - a global business, but one headquartered in America.
It is not in America's interests to keep people like Ben out.
It's not in anyone's interest.
It is not in America's interests to keep people like Ben out.
It's not in anyone's interest.
America spent ten years turning a Tanzanian teenager into the founder of an American company.View quoted post on X
Then it exported him.
I wrote about it for the @nytimes today. Thread 馃У
Of course the counter to this view would be the Don Valentine view that nothing Sequoia invests in should have the potential to make them less than $100M. It鈥檚 hard to pitch both the potential and focus on something small at the same time!
You put your head down and work. You focus on solving one problem after another. Gains accrue exponentially. And then you lift your head up a few years later and look around, and you're amazed at what you've built.View quoted post on X
