This guy might be the most impressive person I know. We had a speaker cancel last minute, 3 hours before their slotted time. I was sitting next to @Jayyanginspires, I asked him: “Can you do me a favor?” “Could you give a 30 min keynote on building a personal brand?” Without hesitation Jay said yes. In the next 60 min he puts together and delivers a FULL keynote on the topic. He goes on stage with NO notes. He’s memorized the entire talk and delivers it perfectly. And he blows the audience away. Jay is 20. He’s a best selling author, 7-figure entrepreneur among many other things. I’m so impressed.

Excited to announce our special guest for the Outliers Summit: @Jayyanginspires At 16, he cold-emailed beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk (@denk_tweets) with ideas, landed an internship and built beehiiv101 At 17, he sent Noah Kagan (@noahkagan) a 19-page deck identifying gaps in his marketing. That became a Head of Content role, including work on the Million Dollar Weekend book campaign. At 18, he built a six-figure ghostwriting and creative agency in its first year. At 19, he joined Alex Hormozi's (@AlexHormozi) Acquisition(dot)com as a Written Media Strategist. He's also a 2x published author... at 20. He'll be giving a keynote on how to build an influential personal brand. Excited to have Jay.

The Outlier Summit begins this week! @ankurnagpal and I are hosting 2,000 people, starting with a welcome party (Nov 3), our VIP day (Nov 4), our summit (Nov 5 & 6), and the closing party on Friday night. We're incredibly excited for the following speakers to join us: - @rrhoover - @dunn - @thesamparr - @shl - @nateliason - @nadyaokamoto - @zsims - @Laraacostar - @vitaliidodonov - @Bencera - @julianweisser - @joshsuggss - @mattepstein - @oliverbrocato - @lukethorburg - @_May_Ham - @shamusmadan - @Jacobsklug - @JWordsOfWisdom & many more... See you soon.

We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy. I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.

Creatives and marketers are having a moment right now. With the AI enshittification of content, writing, design, and brand, the bar for great work has moved. If you can create something thoughtful and elegant AND communicate eloquently in person, you have a MASSIVE career advantage.

OpenAI is paying >$400,000/year (plus equity) for a Head of Events. They want someone to set OpenAI's global events strategy and lead a large, established events and production team. The scope covers everything from flagship conferences and product launches to developer gatherings, executive programs, and regional events. In OpenAI's own words, the goal is connecting the people building AI with the people using it, and letting them experience the technology firsthand. Digital is more crowded than ever. Feeds are full of AI content. Inboxes are packed. The real opening now is in person. The companies that win the next decade will pair a great product with a strong presence in the room and a story people remember. If you build communities, the biggest AI companies in the world are betting on what you do.

Traveled to 14 cities internationally this year. I have never come across an AI tool (including Claude and ChatGPT) that can plan my travel well. Restaurant, cafe, coffee shop recs have a 50% hit rate. Sightseeing recs are always missing a minor detail (place is closed, require tickets, is insanely crowded, etc.) Hotel recs aren't great - they're never the hotels I'd actually end up staying in. Transport recs are decent. I think the human touch is still so important here. Has anyone actually had success using AI to plan an entire trip?

Fascinating. @a16z is hiring a super connector - someone who is with a high level of social surface area, culturally attuned, and deeply entrenched into hard-to-access networks and communities so that they can surface top talent and future founders. Expect to see more of this in the coming years. I don’t think AI will replace this.

Eight Sleep just launched their new Pod 6. $2,899 for a Queen, down from $3,049 (cheaper than prev version) Key highlights: Hub is half the size. Cools and heats 20% faster (meh), but they went from 2 biometric sensors to 18, so it knows whether it's you, your dad, or your dog. Rare in consumer tech to provide better hardware for a lower price. I wonder why they did it. P.S. This is NOT a sponsored post. I am a happy customer of the Pod 5.

Eight Sleep just launched their new Pod 6. $2,899 for a Queen, down from $3,049 (cheaper than prev version) Key highlights: Hub is half the size. Cools and heats 20% faster (meh), but they went from 2 biometric sensors to 18, so it knows whether it's you, your dad, or your dog. Rare in consumer tech to provide better hardware for a lower price. I wonder why they did it. P.S. This is NOT a sponsored post. I am a happy customer of the Pod 5.

Can’t help but think we’re about to get 100x the amount of spam, phishing, and cyberattacks as AI gets better. The scary part isn’t that scams will look more sophisticated. It’s that they’ll look completely normal. “Hey, can you resend that wire?” “Your package couldn’t be delivered.” “Can you jump on a quick call?” “This is your bank’s fraud team.” Stay safe out there.

Cyril is an unusually strong & relevant founder. He was a physician and AI researcher who published work on clinical AI in medical evidence and on agents that navigate electronic health records. Talk about founder-market fit.

Some of my friends took (significantly) lower paying jobs for the opportunity to work with an experienced founder. I think this is a smart move ... proximity is EVERYTHING. Another way to think about it: what is the lifetime value of building credibility with a highly accomplished leader? It can be tangible (e.g. they invest in your future company) or intangible (e.g. they make introductions, promote your work, invite you into their network). Friend of mine crushed it at series A company for a few years (did his "tour of duty") and when he left the founder backed him with $100K.