Europe is the best place in the world to live and the worst place to be a founder.
Took a short break in Europe this Summer. First real one in 6 months.
Every meal here is a masterpiece: fresh, simple, real. A random café in Paris eats 99% of US restaurants alive.
Then you land back in the US and you start feeling the energy. The speed. The ambition. The stakes. The paranoia that someone, somewhere, is shipping faster than you.
America is the best country in the world to be a founder and the worst in the world to eat a healthy meal.
Pick your poison.
I filmed my whole experience.
aisloP episode 8: "The Break”, out now.
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Travis taught me the playbook on how to grow Polsia 100%+ MoM.
Here are the values I apply every day to get to that growth rate:
- Always be hustlin'
- Champion's heart
- Customer Obsessed
- Make Magic
- Big Bold Bets
aisloP episode 7 "The Mentor" explains all of them in details.
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My AI raised $30M by itself.
Well, it did most of the work. I showed up for the final meetings and the signatures.
It emailed the investors, ran the follow-ups, and the deck was public the whole time.
aisloP ep 5 "The Raise".
Learn the modern playbook on how to raise money.
Every founder should watch this.
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Polsia will be the first $1B company with the whole journey documented on YouTube. That's the goal.
I used 10+ growth techniques to get from 0 to 10,000 paying customers.
The highest lever of all was starting a YouTube channel.
I detail each one in aisloP episode 4: "The Growth."
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I raised $30M for my zero employee startup.
My AI told me we should do an offsite to align on strategy.
So I rented a mansion and a yacht in Cabo and flew the whole team out.
Well, it was only me… and Polsia.
Presenting episode 2 of aisloP, a docu-series on how I build Polsia:
“The Offsite”
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China will crash the US stock market this year.
They're dumping SOTA open-source models on the US, nearly as good as the frontier labs, basically free.
Nobody can refuse cutting a $100M AI bill down to $5M.
Once that deal is on the table for everyone, Anthropic and OpenAI can't justify their prices, or their valuations.
The bubble isn't AI. It's the price of AI. And it's about to pop.
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