When I first set out to be an entrepreneur, my mental models were closer to that of building and running a small business, as my parents had done my whole life. Matters of profit margins and cost optimizations and pricing and aggressive but steady growth.
But as I've shifted to high growth start-ups I've learned the questions are different:
- what do you see or believe that no one else does?
- how can you put that insight to work to lasso and drag the future to now, faster?
- where do you believe the points of leverage are?
In hearing Sam talk about GPT5 and doubling down on coding tasks, I'm not surprised. A good number of people in the industry believe that if you can unlock AI agents that can code most effectively, you unleash the most impact - in scientific discovery, in productivity, in more... more.
I believe that todays tools leave a gap - between what the user wants and needs and how the tool works. This gap is the invisible load required by the user to bridge the gap to get utility from the help.Â
And I believe the smaller we make that gap - the more we can see it and solve for it, the more relief and space and help it opens up.
My leverage comes from seeing small details and embedding that into scale tools.
But the questions I keep asking myself: what do I believe that no one else does? And how do I use that as leverage?