Haaland, Vozinha, and Bellingham are the super heroes of this World Cup. It's not even a contest.

BREAKING: Company led by a leader with low morals does a bad thing.

With Claude Code, you are on the edge of your seat. You don't know if it'll crash, the API will error out, if you hit the usage limit for the period, or if it'll build an amazing feature.

This is the first World Cup that you learn about a team scoring in the group chat before you see it on TV.

LinkedIn Games is what happens when your strategy gets disconnected from your customer. Games -> Attention -> Ads -> Revenue. How does this align with their vision of "creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce"? This is what Eric Ries calls "corruption" in his new book.

This is the first World Cup with mass TikTok use, prediction markets, and AI.

Someday I'll tell my kids the fable of the three days of Fable.

Not enough people know the expression "Bread and circuses."

Five 8s is the new five 9s.

The new Spotify app icon is dystopian.

Love this. Unfreezing founder energy is the real multiplier. Those connections compound over years.

If you work at Microsoft, and you're a tech person or innovator, consider the other possibilities out there. --> seattleflow.org/startupday

If you work at Microsoft, May 7 is a big day. I worked there for 7 years. Built Startup Day for people sitting where you are now. Stay or go? Found or join? 16 founders sharing what actually worked. Startup isn't for everyone. Is it for you? May 15. Seattle. Prices go up Friday. Link below.

I worked for 2 years in Benefits/HRTech, and 5 years in HealthTech. My superpower was to be an idiot in understanding insurance, benefits, and healthcare. h/t @morningbrew.bsky.social

UNBREAKING: PRDs are not dead. It has a new shape, but still is a PRD.

If you take the blip from the pandemic, Seattle has had the lowest # of investment deals in a decade (since 2016 Q4). The situation is worse than it appears because the total number of deals in the US has grown 40% since 2016. I have several theories, but I want to hear what you think is going on.

Software engineers, PMs, designers, and CS / ML / MBA students: We're doing a Startup Fair @ Startup Day 2026. Builders from Clarify, Yoodli, Clearly AI, Predictable Machines, and more will talk product, tech, and their roles. No recruiters. May 15. Free 👉 seattleflow.org/fair

The Startup Day 2026 speaker lineup is live. 16 founders. 30+ startups built between them. Over $1B raised. Products used by billions. Seattle, May 15. Here's who's on stage. 👇

I don’t think there’s ever been a time that so clearly separates people with a growth mindset vs. fixed mindset.

The current conversations about AI remind me of when we first controlled fire, 400,000 years ago. “Do we really understand fire?” “Will fire take our jobs?” “Can fire be trusted? What if it burns us?” “What if fire is just hype?”

In 2010/2011, I printed a book called the Startup Guide. A directory of vendors and service providers for anyone building a startup in Seattle. Today we're launching the Startup Kit. Same idea, different format. A directory to help founders find the resources they need to build+grow their startups.

6,000+ tech layoffs in Seattle. Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta. You don't need permission to start a company. You don't need all the answers either. You need to learn from founders who've done it recently. That's why I'm putting together @seattleflow.org Startup Day!

The only reason Claude Code doesn't cost $2,000/month on the Max plan is Codex.

Even if doctors don't adopt AI, medicine has changed forever already. Patients are more empowered than ever before by using AI to analyze labs and scans, to help them better describe symptoms, by challenging diagnostics, and to think about treatments that are right for them.

AI feels like Vibranium. We are scratching the surface of what this new thing can do.

Having multiple VS Code windows is the new having multiple tabs open.

Shortcut to building a successful business: find a problem where you already know the market is there. Patrick Thompson built Clarify by skipping problem validation and front-loading business model validation instead. Hear Patrick + other founders at seattleflow.org/startupday

Walmart with a P/E of 45 and Microsoft with a P/E of 22 were not on my bingo card for 2026.

I've noticed a new trend on major products: bugs! Lots of bugs. I'm not saying it's LLM coding, but it feels to me that companies are struggling with the new software development lifecycle.

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