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Read this korrent: The things worth building a business around are the ones that will not have changed in ten years, and those are identifiable in advance.
The things worth building a business around are the ones that will not have changed in ten years, and those are identifiable in advance.
Last stated 3 years ago
14 Dec 2023
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Jeff Bezos — holds since 2023-12-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Basecamp was the best business idea he will ever have: lightning is not caught twice, and a founder's second idea is rarely as good as the first. — tap to centre the map on it
Basecamp was the best business idea he will ever have: lightning is not caught twice, and a founder's second idea is rarely as good as the first.
Last stated 5 months ago
8 Apr 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 — tap for who they are
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Before you raise money, ask what happens if you succeed - whether you will still want this company in ten or thirty years. — tap to centre the map on it
Before you raise money, ask what happens if you succeed - whether you will still want this company in ten or thirty years.
Last stated a month ago
31 Jul 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did. — tap to centre the map on it
Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did.
Last stated a month ago
28 Jul 2026
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Blake Scholl — holds since 2026-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at. — tap to centre the map on it
A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
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Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it. — tap to centre the map on it
A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it.
Last stated 2 months ago
29 Jun 2026
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Ted Chiang — holds since 2024-08-31 — tap for who they are
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Nick Cave — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades. — tap to centre the map on it
Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.
Last stated a month ago
31 Jul 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: This is not the last moment to start a company, and the belief that the window is about to close is a recurring millenarian instinct. — tap to centre the map on it
This is not the last moment to start a company, and the belief that the window is about to close is a recurring millenarian instinct.
Last stated a month ago
31 Jul 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The companies that win ten years from now will be the ones laser-focused on a single niche with the right partners, not the ones doing everything. — tap to centre the map on it
The companies that win ten years from now will be the ones laser-focused on a single niche with the right partners, not the ones doing everything.
Last stated 3 months ago
18 Jun 2026
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Lip-Bu Tan — holds since 2026-06-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. — tap to centre the map on it
A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost.
Last stated 5 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. — tap to centre the map on it
A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system.
Last stated 3 years ago
14 Dec 2023
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Jeff Bezos — holds since 2023-12-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has. — tap to centre the map on it
A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 Jul 2023
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Cory Doctorow — holds since 2023-07-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that grows enough eventually has no need for investors. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that grows enough eventually has no need for investors.
Last stated a week ago
1 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them. — tap to centre the map on it
AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them.
Last stated 3 months ago
18 Jun 2026
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Lip-Bu Tan — holds since 2026-06-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being formidable means getting what you want in any situation, and that is exactly why investors want it: a formidable founder's interests and theirs are the same. — tap to centre the map on it
Being formidable means getting what you want in any situation, and that is exactly why investors want it: a formidable founder's interests and theirs are the same.
Last stated 5 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. — tap to centre the map on it
A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it.
Last stated 5 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. — tap to centre the map on it
Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers.
Last stated 2 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
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