AI factors are likely responsible for roughly one-third of the recent economic growth in the US, according to Michael Pearce, an economist at Oxford Economics.
Marten Mickos
@martenmickos.bsky.social
CEO in the service of AI startup CEOs. Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.
Start at the age of 18 and make half a million dollars hunting vulns. Also learn what university studies or MBAs can't teach you. www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-t...
The Road Not Taken: What 10 Years and $500,000 in Bug Bounties Taught Me
At age 28, after more than ~10 years and earning ~$500k USD across HackerOne, Bugcrowd and other platforms through bug bounties, it was time to share some thoughts. Below are my absolute raw thoughts ...
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Simple: When you remediate a vulnerability it stops being one. The trick is how to get from finding to fixing - fast. www.hackerone.com/blog/fixing-...
Fixing the Fix Gap: Introducing H1 Remediation | HackerOne
Validated findings shouldn't stall in a backlog. H1 Remediation delivers source code-informed fix plans directly to your engineering team, automatically.
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San Francisco remains the most beautiful and consequential city on the planet, and tech reshaped SF in ways that have caused real harm. Both things are true at once. www.christofwittig.com/post/8234024...
San Francisco, On the Edge, Still Mine
I just finished Jonathan Weber's City on the Edge, his history of the last few decades of San Francisco. It's a good book, and an unsettling one, because I've lived more than two-thirds of that...
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Sales is changing: 1. Run the business in real time 2. Make every seller an advisor for innovation 3. Redesign revenue workflows 4. Turn customer signal into company advantage www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-...
Sales as we know it is over. That’s a good thing.
Sales isn’t going away. The way we’ve been running it is.
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Sprint Coordinator for Aalto Founder School. This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow. www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Founder Sprint Coordinator | Aalto University
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Four amazing mathematicians under 40 stand out in harmonic analysis, o-minimality, symplectic geometry, and partial differential equations. www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/f...
Fields Medals 2026 | International Mathematical Union (IMU)
For his work in partial differential equations, including the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from hard-sphere dynamics for rarefied gases, the derivation of wave kinetic equations from nonlinear dispersive systems, and probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrodinger dynamics.
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Cold calling is dead, but the phone is alive salesandmarketing.com/cold-calling...
Cold Calling Is Dead, But the Phone Is Not
You have to earn the right to continue a conversation. You do not deserve five minutes because somebody happened to answer the phone. You earn the first 30 seconds, then you earn the next part of the ...
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Excellent blog posts on software pricing for AI solutions drsalonen.com
Dr. Petri I. Salonen — Where AI Meets Business Strategy
Pricing strategist, author, and educator writing on AI monetization, software pricing, and the business of technology.
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Founders, initially you own 100%. When you are ready for a liquidity event, you own 10%. Bootstrapping would've kept you at 100%. So go for VC funding only if it allows you to produce more than 10x the bootstrapped business.
The Norwegian case for mediocracy: What happened when an aspiring American tiger mom came face to face with Norway’s ‘good enough’ model. (Behind paywall) www.ft.com/content/0fe0...
The Norwegian case for mediocracy
What happened when an aspiring American tiger mom came face to face with Norway’s ‘good enough’ model
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Help for Nordic startups going to America nordusgroup.com
Nordus Group — Helping Nordic Companies Enter and Scale in the US
Nordus Group provides strategic advisory for Nordic companies expanding into the United States. Founded by Henrik Johansson, a Swedish-born entrepreneur with three decades of US market experience.
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Five traps when pricing Agentic AI products www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-a...
The Five AI-Agent Pricing Traps I Keep Watching Software Vendors Walk Into
There is a specific kind of silence I have learned to recognize over the years. It settles into a conference room late in a working session, right after a founder has walked me through their impressiv...
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With $188 billion in valuation, Databricks is signaling they can reduce your AI cost if you let them handle all your data. www.databricks.com/company/news...
Databricks is Raising a Strategic Round of Funding at a $188 Billion Valuation
The new capital will drive AI innovation across Unity AI Gateway, Genie, and LakebaseSAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 16, 2026 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced strategic funding at a $18...
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Xi doing a better job than Trump on the global arena www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.
Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.
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The Four Quadrant Weekly System. Don’t let your calendar dictate your focus. buildtoscale.substack.com/p/reactive
Get Out of Reactive Mode!
Don’t let your calendar dictate your focus
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Learning about real-world asset tokenization. www.tradingview.com/news/cointel...
The 5 types of real world assets being tokenized fastest onchain
Standard Chartered head of digital assets research Geoff Kendrick predicted in a recent research note that assets in DeFi could reach $2.7 trillion by 2030.He said that, currently, only 3% of stableco...
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Erling Haaland grew up in a low-cost, high-participation system of youth sports that couldn’t sound any more radical to American ears. “It was always that everybody should play equally—that everybody should have fun. Winning matches at a young age was not important.” www.wsj.com/sports/socce...
This Nation Breaks Every Rule of U.S. Youth Sports—and Built a World Cup Monster
Norway’s Erling Haaland is one of soccer’s most fearsome and competitive stars. He grew up in a place where winning and losing hardly mattered.
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How to Repair the World. by Mike Olson on his blog Not a Tech Bro not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/how-to-repai...
How to Repair the World
I've just finished an excellent book by Theo Baker called How to Rule the World. Baker begins his book in the Fall of 2022, when he was a newly-admitted freshman at Stanford University. He opens with...
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The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025. -- the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
Opinion | How Trump’s Tariffs Really ‘Work’
He hails Toyota’s investment, but what about the higher costs and manufacturing job losses?
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VitaeMaxx started in response to a large number of international students requesting our help to enter the US job market. vitaemaxx.com
15 building blocks in basketball coach John Wooden's classical Pyramid of Success coachwooden.com/pyramid-of-s...
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The Official Site of Coach Wooden
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Three primary categories for secular growth: 1. Foundational Technology 2. Replacement Product, Existing Market 3. New Product, New Market AI fits 1 and 2 and 3? www.osterweis.com/insights/AI-...
AI Is a Secular Growth Unicorn
AI is both a foundational technology and the ultimate replacement product, which we believe explains why it has attracted unprecedented levels of capital and why the investment opportunities are so co...
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Always listen to Linus Torvalds when you get a chance www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKkE...
Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel
YouTube video by The Linux Foundation
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Concentration: 13 companies out of a thousand publicly listed tech companies command 40% of all tech revenue, 56% of total market cap, and 65% of all industry net income. (From linkedin posting by Lak Ananth of N47)
A founder told me he had to pause one of my early podcast episodes halfway through. Here's what he saw.
Live on an island. Build a global company. Fintech company Enfuce is a rapidly growing global credit card and payment processor. www.alandliving.ax/en/portrait/...
I can build a global company even though I live on a small island
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