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Sam Altman calls it the most common failure pattern in Silicon Valley: "I'll make $100M in 4 years, THEN build rockets." they never do either. > everyone can tell you're not serious about either one > investors sense it, employees sense it > people of any IQ have amazing bullshit detectors > if you want rockets go build rockets. today. someone > will pay your salary the deferred life plan empirically does not work. still, half this app is running one right now.
Veltrx655,771 views • 1 month ago
Sam Altman: "You can identify founders who have a chance at creating a $10 billion company. With practice." Then he shared the experiment that proved it. YC funded 20 teams of strong founders without ideas. All 20 failed. > real founders generate new ideas every week, not one big one > execution speed between meetings predicts success better than anything on paper > a founder improving fast over 2 months he's been right ~10/10 times on this signal > the core four: obsession, focus, frugality, love everyone screens for intelligence. almost nobody screens for slope. which one would you bet on?
Veltrx233,791 views • 1 month ago
Anthropic switched Fable 5 back on 24 hours ago, and it took me 1 hour to prototype a GTA 6 trailer. Not a mockup or a storyboard a rendered trailer with camera cuts, Vice City neon, and a chase over the causeway at dusk. The run looked like this: Minute 0 — dropped 6 reference frames and the leaked trailer script into Fable 5 Minute 9 — it wrote a full shot list of 22 shots timed to 0.1 seconds Minute 24 — generated every scene, with 19 of 22 usable on the first pass Minute 41 — cut the sequence itself, matching pacing to the trailer's audio waveform Minute 58 — export, 1080p, 91 seconds I typed 4 prompts total while Fable ran the other 200 steps on its own planning, generating, reviewing its own frames and regenerating the bad ones. The old pipeline for this was a VFX team, 3 weeks and $15,000 minimum, when 1 fake trailer shot from an Upwork freelancer already costs $2,000. Rockstar spent 12 years and a reported $2B making the real thing with 6,000 people. My version doesn't compete with theirs but the gap between a studio and 1 guy with a laptop just shrank to 60 minutes and 4 prompts.
Veltrx244,639 views • 1 month ago
Elon Musk sat next to Sam Altman in 2016 and praised the nonprofit they built to keep AI out of the hands of a few. Altman ran the camera. He asked how the 6-month-old company was going. Musk called it a talented team. A 501c3. A charity to democratize AI "so it doesn't get concentrated in the hands of a few." That was the whole pitch. Keep it open. Keep it shared. Keep it out of any single grip. 10 years later, that charity is worth over $800B and filing for a $1T IPO. The nonprofit grew a for-profit arm. Microsoft took a stake. Altman ran all of it. In 2024, Musk sued for $150B . He wanted Altman removed and the structure torn down for breaking the exact promise he watched him make on camera. On May 18, 2026, a jury threw it out in under 2 hours. Filed too late, they ruled. Now he calls him "Scam Altman." 3 days ago Apple sued OpenAI. Musk piled on. Altman's reply: the surest sign his model is winning is that Elon is obsessed with him again. 2 co-founders. 1 charity. 11 years. They filmed the whole thing themselves.
Veltrx65,158 views • 1 month ago
Everyone uploading PDFs to Claude is burning 70,000 tokens before asking a single question. A 20-page document costs between 1,500 to 3,000 tokens per page. Formatting. Broken tables. Images. Junk metadata. Claude processes all of it before you even type “summarize this.” There’s a free fix. It’s called Markitdown. Microsoft built it. 10,000+ GitHub stars. Almost nobody in the Claude community is talking about it. It converts any file PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, PowerPoints, YouTube videos into clean Markdown text. Token usage drops by up to 70%. Answers get better, not worse. Claude was trained on millions of Markdown documents. It reads the format natively. You’re not compressing quality you’re removing noise. There’s an MCP server too. Connect it to Claude Desktop once. Every file you upload auto-converts to .md before Claude touches it. You do nothing. It just works. Old way: upload PDF → Claude burns 70k tokens on junk → mediocre answer New way: Markitdown → clean .md → 70% fewer tokens → sharper answer The tool is free. The MCP setup takes 10 minutes. The token savings are permanent. You’ve been paying for Claude to read garbage. Stop.
Veltrx109,383 views • 2 months ago
Sam Altman screened 20,000 startups a year at Y Combinator, where all 8 of the only accelerator companies ever to hit $1B came from. Out of 2,500 accelerators on Earth, one produced every single winner and this is what he says actually separates the founders who make it. Speed beats everything, even determination. Decision speed correlates almost exactly with success across every YC winner, while slow but determined founders fail anyway. Hiring is a trap. The best YC startups hire the least Airbnb took 9 months to hire employee #1, Stripe about the same, because every early hire adds burn rate, politics, and inertia you haven't earned. The Airbnb founders were so broke they kept maxed-out credit cards in plastic baseball card sheets while rent was due in 10 days. Brian Chesky rented his spare room for the exact gap, and that desperation became a $100B company. Only 2 kinds of pivots ever work: The thing you wanted to build all along Instagram was a dying app called Burbn until Systrom built the photo tool he actually loved. The thing you found by accident Slack was a dead game studio whose internal chat tool turned out to be the product. Whiteboard pivots, where founders brainstorm a new idea after the first one dies, work 0% of the time. Altman never saw one succeed. The #1 mistake great founders make is waiting too long to fire, and every great founder makes it. Altman found every fired person a new job before they left but he never un-decided. The $1B valuation on your offer letter is fiction, since liquidation preferences make the sticker number meaningless. He said it flat: intermediate valuations mean nothing. His last rule covers all of it. Ignore everyone except your users.
Veltrx44,018 views • 1 month ago
Sam Altman taught 720 startups one formula where luck is a random number between 0 and 10,000. Stanford, 2014. The opening lecture of CS183B was so packed he asked for a bigger auditorium. He was 28, a dropout from this same school 9 years earlier, now running Y Combinator. The formula he wrote on the board: idea × product × team × execution × luck and you only control 4 of the 5, because the fifth one goes to 10,000. His words, not a metaphor. Then he did something strange: he handed half of his own lecture to Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, whose entire job was to talk students out of starting companies. Dustin showed one table. Employee 100 at Dropbox with standard 10 basis points made $10 million, employee 250 at Facebook made $200 million, and employee 1,000 joining in 2009, when everyone said it was too late still made $20 million. Your own startup? Best case you build a $100 million company and keep 10% after dilution. $10 million, same as employee 1,000, minus your health. Dustin knew the price because he paid it: at 21 he was throwing his back out every 6 months from pure anxiety, always on call, unable to quit a founder who leaves wears the black eye for a decade. Then Altman twisted the lecture back with advice that cut against everything in the room. The best ideas look terrible at the start: the 13th search engine, the 10th social network limited to college kids, sleeping on strangers' couches. If an idea sounds good, too many people are already building it. Make something 100 people love instead of something 10,000 people like. Ben Silbermann recruited Pinterest's first users by walking up to strangers in Palo Alto coffee shops, then resetting every browser in the Apple Store to Pinterest's homepage until they threw him out. And the only valid reason to start is that you can't not do it. Dustin built Asana at night, after full days at Facebook, unpaid and unasked. "The idea was beating itself out of our chest." The rest is a number between 0 and 10,000.
Veltrx41,461 views • 1 month ago
A guy runs 3 AI businesses from a chair and one prints $100,000 a month with zero employees. Everyone has the same AI now. Most of it spits out slop because they hand it a prompt and pray. He hands it a brain. Before his agent writes 1 word, it reads everything. A copywriting skill he built himself, a headline swipe file, his own marketing notes, and David Frey's 12-step sales letter system. Then it opens the context folder and swallows the whole company. The full knowledge base, the customer avatar, the exact questions real members ask in the private group. The tool is free and it's called Obsidian. Folders and files, nothing fancy. The skills are his, the context is his, and that's the part nobody can copy. Same model everyone else has. 1 guy builds slop, 1 guy builds $100,000 a month. The difference was never the AI. It was everything you fed it first.
Veltrx15,691 views • 1 month ago
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