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NEW: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard clashes with Democrat Senator Mark Warner over the potential for foreign interference in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. SEN. WARNER: "Please answer the question, yes or no. Is there foreign threat interference to our elections this year?" DNI GABBARD: "Please allow me to answer the question, sir. The intelligence community has been and continues to remain focused on any collection and intelligence program–" SEN. WARNER: "If you want to ask the question, you should have stayed in Congress. Please answer the question." DNI GABBARD: "I didn't ask you a question, sir. I'm trying to answer your questions."

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With today’s new pinned post, I want you to send it to as many solid and good accounts as you can! Whoever sees this and joins our Huge Gains community can put the words “you’ll thank me later” or your handle (example: Traditional Thoughts) as the answer to the screening question, they will get an intro on Wednesday from me! If I get too many to handle by myself, we will get one of the other mods to help out or carry on until they are done another day. This offer is good for 24 hours from the time of this post. Of course, we will check all applicants to make sure they’re not spam. Play along and help your favorite mod 😂 get as many new people in here as possible!

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Your mission this weekend, should you choose to accept it, is to share this trailer with everyone on the planet. Or at least, with a few friends who might enjoy a show about the neighbors you wish you had. Episode one of People You Should Know drops on my YouTube Channel May 2nd. I don't have a network behind me on this one, or a big production company, so you guys are my marketing and publicity department. No pressure, but the entire endeavor is in your hands. PS. This is the show I promised to do for the 2.3 million fans of Returning The Favor who have asked me every day for the last few years if I was ever going to reboot "a feel-good show about the making of a feel-good show." This is it. If you guys show up, I'll do more. If you don't, I'm never listening to you again!

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Best new app of the year. The best email client on iPhone I've ever used: extra.email Just was announced this week to a LOT of praise here on X. Founder Naveen Gavini has a conversation with me about the future of software design. One of my favorites in years. It improves Gmail 1000x. I'm not compensated by them, but they gave me 100 invites to use. Code word: unaligned See replies for more about this video. By the way, another founder, Eugenia Kuyda, who runs wabi, another really amazing iPhone app, praised it, which is why it caught my eye. I was the 79th user of Instagram because another founder praised it and took me over to the two guys who were putting the finishing touches on it. It always catches my eye when a company founder praises another founder. I can not recommend Extra enough.

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NEW: Tim Walz's wife talks to Kamala Harris voters like children, puts her teacher glasses on and says she has an "assignment due on November 5." "I'm here with an assignment for you today. It's due on November 5th." "Now, I'm gonna put my teacher classes on because this is really serious, like a final and there's no late work." "I need you to take yourself and three friends to the ballot box and make your voice heard. You have to vote. I'm gonna repeat that again. You and three of your friends have to make your voices heard by voting."

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Jensen Huang on how to convey your vision to employees: Question: "How you convey your vision to your employees and how you keep that sense of urgency in them so that they continue improving themselves?" Jensen: "So the question is how do I convey my vision to the employees and how do we convey a sense of urgency? First of all, you convey your vision the good old-fashioned way. And it's about telling a story. I'm not the best storyteller in the world, and I'm not the best, I don't enjoy public speaking, actually. And if you were to give me a choice right now between doing this versus just answering one of your emails, and I'll give you all my email address, you could all send me an email, and I'd be glad to respond to it. I'd rather do that. You know, I'm still an engineer, and I'm introverted by design, I guess. And I don't find myself particularly articulate. And so I don't enjoy the process of public speaking. But you have to force yourself to do it. It's for a good reason. It's for a good cause. I have to admit that speaking to my employees or speaking to NVIDIA's employees is the single most intimidating thing that I do. It freaks me out. And the reason for that is because I respect their time so much, and I know how important the meeting is, that in your own mind, the bar and the responsibility is extraordinary. But you have to put yourself, and I'm speaking to engineers here, you have to force yourself to communicate at a bigger picture level. You have to force yourself to practice. And it's something that over time you get better at. In terms of how do we communicate a sense of urgency? Just through action. They have to see that when I make decisions or when I do something or when something is near my field of influence, my scope of influence, that I do it with a sense of urgency. And it's amazing what that does. People simply pick up those habits from you. If your CEO works hard, you'll work hard. If your CEO cares, you'll care. If your CEO loves this company, you'll love this company. If your CEO is passionate about the work that we do, you'll be passionate about the work that we do. If your CEO does everything with an extraordinary sense of purpose and intensity and sense of urgency, you will too. It's amazing what happens when you're a leader of anything, whether you're a leader of a project team or, right? As I say that, you could almost everybody just, yeah, I get it. Leader of a project team or a leader of a lab team. The behavior and the values and the habits of that leader has an amazing way of rubbing off on everybody else."

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Today marks an important day in OpenPhone (now Quo)'s history. We’re officially becoming a 2-product company. I’m excited to introduce Sona, our voice AI agent! 🎉 So what exactly is Sona? Think of it as your always-available team member that answers calls when your human team can't. It has natural conversations with your customers and collects all the information your sales team needs to follow up effectively, completely eliminating missed calls. What makes Sona special is that it's built right into your OpenPhone system where your team already collaborates. No more call forwarding to external services or losing visibility into what's happening. And you can easily review and audit its performance with full transcripts and AI-generated summaries of every call. We're already serving 60k+ businesses with OpenPhone, and I'm excited that we're now able to bring Sona to all of them. For the last 7 years, we've been focused on building our business phone system, gaining product-market fit, and scaling our team. But today, we're entering a whole new chapter with the launch of Sona. Every SaaS founder knows they'll eventually need a second product—some do it too early and get distracted, others too late when growth stalls. For us, this moment feels just right. I'm excited for what's possible with Sona and thought I'd create a Sona experience for the Founder to Founder newsletter. I trained Sona based on the content of the newsletter and all the posts that I've published. And now anyone can call and get information or ask questions about the newsletter without me having to be available to answer. Give it a try by calling 434-FOUNDER or (434) 368-6337 Would love to hear what you think! I'll leave more information about Sona in the comments.
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Today marks an important day in OpenPhone (now Quo)'s history. We’re officially becoming a 2-product company. I’m excited to introduce Sona, our voice AI agent! 🎉 So what exactly is Sona? Think of it as your always-available team member that answers calls when your human team can't. It has natural conversations with your customers and collects all the information your sales team needs to follow up effectively, completely eliminating missed calls. What makes Sona special is that it's built right into your OpenPhone system where your team already collaborates. No more call forwarding to external services or losing visibility into what's happening. And you can easily review and audit its performance with full transcripts and AI-generated summaries of every call. We're already serving 60k+ businesses with OpenPhone, and I'm excited that we're now able to bring Sona to all of them. For the last 7 years, we've been focused on building our business phone system, gaining product-market fit, and scaling our team. But today, we're entering a whole new chapter with the launch of Sona. Every SaaS founder knows they'll eventually need a second product—some do it too early and get distracted, others too late when growth stalls. For us, this moment feels just right. I'm excited for what's possible with Sona and thought I'd create a Sona experience for the Founder to Founder newsletter. I trained Sona based on the content of the newsletter and all the posts that I've published. And now anyone can call and get information or ask questions about the newsletter without me having to be available to answer. Give it a try by calling 434-FOUNDER or (434) 368-6337 Would love to hear what you think! I'll leave more information about Sona in the comments.

Daryna Kulya

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Sequoia founder Don Valentine: “The art of storytelling is incredibly important” “The art of storytelling is incredibly important. And many—maybe even most of the entrepreneurs who come to talk to us can’t tell the story. Learning to tell a story is incredibly important because that’s how the money works. The money flows as a function of the stories.” The founder of Sequoia founder explains that the story is how you explain what you want to do, how long it’s going to take, who the competition is, and how much money you need. a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz shared a similar view in a 2014 Forbes interview: “Storytelling is the most underrated skill… Companies that don’t have a clearly articulated story don’t have a clear and well thought-out strategy. The company story is the company strategy.” He continues: “The story must explain at a fundamental level why you exist. Why does the world need your company? Why do we need to be doing what we’re doing and why is it important?… You can have a great product, but a compelling story puts the company into motion. If you don’t have a great story it’s hard to get people motivated to join you, to work on the product, and to get people to invest in the product.” This is the job of the founder and CEO: “The CEO must be the keeper of the story. The CEO is responsible for getting the story right, that it’s up to date, compelling, and can move the hearts of men and women. That’s the fundamental responsibility of the chief executive… The mistake people make is thinking the story is just about marketing. No, the story is the strategy. If you make your story better you make the strategy better.” Video source: Stanford Graduate School of Business (2010)
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Sequoia founder Don Valentine: “The art of storytelling is incredibly important” “The art of storytelling is incredibly important. And many—maybe even most of the entrepreneurs who come to talk to us can’t tell the story. Learning to tell a story is incredibly important because that’s how the money works. The money flows as a function of the stories.” The founder of Sequoia founder explains that the story is how you explain what you want to do, how long it’s going to take, who the competition is, and how much money you need. a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz shared a similar view in a 2014 Forbes interview: “Storytelling is the most underrated skill… Companies that don’t have a clearly articulated story don’t have a clear and well thought-out strategy. The company story is the company strategy.” He continues: “The story must explain at a fundamental level why you exist. Why does the world need your company? Why do we need to be doing what we’re doing and why is it important?… You can have a great product, but a compelling story puts the company into motion. If you don’t have a great story it’s hard to get people motivated to join you, to work on the product, and to get people to invest in the product.” This is the job of the founder and CEO: “The CEO must be the keeper of the story. The CEO is responsible for getting the story right, that it’s up to date, compelling, and can move the hearts of men and women. That’s the fundamental responsibility of the chief executive… The mistake people make is thinking the story is just about marketing. No, the story is the strategy. If you make your story better you make the strategy better.” Video source: Stanford Graduate School of Business (2010)

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TeamYouTube you've removed and given a strike on one of my recent videos due to "Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy", which according to you is and I quote: "Content that targets someone with prolonged insults or slurs based on their intrinsic attributes. This includes, but is not limited to, content that's uploaded with the intent to shame, deceive or insult a minor." The minor in question, and the video in question: Is where Simone & Malcolm Collins plays with his kids and in one instance calls them "little bastards" as an affectionate nick name. Policing how parents express love to their children (what was obviously happening in the scene) feels deeply dystopian. Many of us have memories of being called things like "little monsters" with affection... and trying to re-fame that as abuse is ghoulish. I hope this was just some kind of mistake, or an action by an over zealous moderator. If this is indeed against the rules, please tell us plainly that you think this kind of endearing moment is too far for your policies. (Clip attached with permission)
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TeamYouTube you've removed and given a strike on one of my recent videos due to "Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy", which according to you is and I quote: "Content that targets someone with prolonged insults or slurs based on their intrinsic attributes. This includes, but is not limited to, content that's uploaded with the intent to shame, deceive or insult a minor." The minor in question, and the video in question: Is where Simone & Malcolm Collins plays with his kids and in one instance calls them "little bastards" as an affectionate nick name. Policing how parents express love to their children (what was obviously happening in the scene) feels deeply dystopian. Many of us have memories of being called things like "little monsters" with affection... and trying to re-fame that as abuse is ghoulish. I hope this was just some kind of mistake, or an action by an over zealous moderator. If this is indeed against the rules, please tell us plainly that you think this kind of endearing moment is too far for your policies. (Clip attached with permission)

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Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, on why dogfooding your own product is the single best shortcut to building something people want: Shayne is asked what he thinks it takes for a founder to build a successful company. He starts by dismantling the fantasy he once had as a teenager: "When I was in high school, I was always like, man, I'm going to build this side project. It's going to get traction. People are going to give me money, and then I'm going to drop out. And it's going to be like this perfect clean break where I take no risk. Completely did not happen." Shayne dropped out of college at 18, but what followed was nothing like the smooth ride he'd imagined. "There were almost 3 years of like complete brutality of things not working and me trying things and me learning different things and running out of money, stressed about rent, like the whole 9 yards." That stretch taught him the first non-negotiable for any founder: full commitment. "If you really want to do this, if you really feel like it's your calling, don't half-ass it. Go all in. Don't hedge your bets." Shayne Coplan 🦅 continues: "If you're hedging your bets and you kind of haven't cut the rope and you're like, 'Well, I'm still at this, but I'm trying this on the side, whatever.' That's not how great, durable businesses and products start in this day and age. You got to go all in. You got to give it every ounce you got." But going all in is only half the equation. The other half, and the part Shayne believes is the real shortcut, is being one of your own users: "You have to obsess over your customers and people who are using your product. And just the easiest thing to do to build a product company is to use the product yourself and to talk to your own users all the time and triage between what you learn from your users, what you learn from dogfooding your own product, and your product development cycles." He ends with a dose of humility: "It's all I got. I'm still learning honestly."
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Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, on why dogfooding your own product is the single best shortcut to building something people want: Shayne is asked what he thinks it takes for a founder to build a successful company. He starts by dismantling the fantasy he once had as a teenager: "When I was in high school, I was always like, man, I'm going to build this side project. It's going to get traction. People are going to give me money, and then I'm going to drop out. And it's going to be like this perfect clean break where I take no risk. Completely did not happen." Shayne dropped out of college at 18, but what followed was nothing like the smooth ride he'd imagined. "There were almost 3 years of like complete brutality of things not working and me trying things and me learning different things and running out of money, stressed about rent, like the whole 9 yards." That stretch taught him the first non-negotiable for any founder: full commitment. "If you really want to do this, if you really feel like it's your calling, don't half-ass it. Go all in. Don't hedge your bets." Shayne Coplan 🦅 continues: "If you're hedging your bets and you kind of haven't cut the rope and you're like, 'Well, I'm still at this, but I'm trying this on the side, whatever.' That's not how great, durable businesses and products start in this day and age. You got to go all in. You got to give it every ounce you got." But going all in is only half the equation. The other half, and the part Shayne believes is the real shortcut, is being one of your own users: "You have to obsess over your customers and people who are using your product. And just the easiest thing to do to build a product company is to use the product yourself and to talk to your own users all the time and triage between what you learn from your users, what you learn from dogfooding your own product, and your product development cycles." He ends with a dose of humility: "It's all I got. I'm still learning honestly."

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Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, has a $10 plaque behind his desk that reads: "If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell." Of all the things this man could surround himself with, he chose a cheap plaque with a blunt truth about business. "You're always selling. You're selling to candidates. You're selling to vendors, you're selling to counterparties, you're selling to customers." And if you're always selling, you know what you're going to hear a lot of? "No." Griffin doesn't sugarcoat it. He tells two stories that illustrate just how brutal rejection can be. 1994 was a rough year, with Citadel losing ~4% of its capital. Griffin flew to Switzerland for a crucial lunch meeting, sat down, and his guest arrived only to say: "Oh, I thought you were John Griffin from Fen Church. I got to go." His lunch date got up and left the table. Later that afternoon, a Swiss banker spent 45 minutes with him in a beautiful office, smoking a cigar, before closing with: "Such a pity that such a bright young man picked the wrong career." Two rejections in one day for the founder of one of the most successful hedge funds in history — and his takeaway was simply this: "You just have to tolerate. You're going to hear no a lot, but you need to become accustomed to having to market your ideas and market what you represent and what you stand for." Absorbing rejection and continuing anyway is the actual skill, whether you're hiring, raising capital, or winning customers. Most people avoid selling because they're afraid of no. The ones who build great things have learned to expect it.
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Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, has a $10 plaque behind his desk that reads: "If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell." Of all the things this man could surround himself with, he chose a cheap plaque with a blunt truth about business. "You're always selling. You're selling to candidates. You're selling to vendors, you're selling to counterparties, you're selling to customers." And if you're always selling, you know what you're going to hear a lot of? "No." Griffin doesn't sugarcoat it. He tells two stories that illustrate just how brutal rejection can be. 1994 was a rough year, with Citadel losing ~4% of its capital. Griffin flew to Switzerland for a crucial lunch meeting, sat down, and his guest arrived only to say: "Oh, I thought you were John Griffin from Fen Church. I got to go." His lunch date got up and left the table. Later that afternoon, a Swiss banker spent 45 minutes with him in a beautiful office, smoking a cigar, before closing with: "Such a pity that such a bright young man picked the wrong career." Two rejections in one day for the founder of one of the most successful hedge funds in history — and his takeaway was simply this: "You just have to tolerate. You're going to hear no a lot, but you need to become accustomed to having to market your ideas and market what you represent and what you stand for." Absorbing rejection and continuing anyway is the actual skill, whether you're hiring, raising capital, or winning customers. Most people avoid selling because they're afraid of no. The ones who build great things have learned to expect it.

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “The great founders are frugal” When Eric joined Google as CEO in 2001 — two years after the company had raised a $25 million Series A — he shared an office with four engineers. He even had to lend one of the founders his car when theirs broke down. He believes this frugality is common attribute of the best founders: “I can always tell when we’re dealing with a proper founder by how they are spending their money… Whenever I go to startups that have beautiful offices and really nice chairs, I cringe.” Eric continues: “The great founders are frugal. They understand that the money needs to be used precisely for certain areas. Many of the most successful founders begin with no salary at all… If you’re not prepared to live that, you don’t really understand what being a founder is like.” Video source: Startup Grind (2016)
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “The great founders are frugal” When Eric joined Google as CEO in 2001 — two years after the company had raised a $25 million Series A — he shared an office with four engineers. He even had to lend one of the founders his car when theirs broke down. He believes this frugality is common attribute of the best founders: “I can always tell when we’re dealing with a proper founder by how they are spending their money… Whenever I go to startups that have beautiful offices and really nice chairs, I cringe.” Eric continues: “The great founders are frugal. They understand that the money needs to be used precisely for certain areas. Many of the most successful founders begin with no salary at all… If you’re not prepared to live that, you don’t really understand what being a founder is like.” Video source: Startup Grind (2016)

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