5x successful founder including Introhive to almost $500M. Now founder of Postilize for building relationships and clients at scale
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I sat down with @KristinaSubbo to talk about 30 years of building companies— losing board control, surviving the 2008 crash with 3 months of cash, and building faster with AI than I ever did with 100+ people. My current company (Postilize) just grew ARR at the fastest pace yet. 20 people. First bootstrapped. The fastest learner wins. Listen:open.spotify.com/episode/2Ce…
If Google flights ever let you filter/sort by flights that are @Starlink enabled, it would be game over.
The AI coding tool market is shifting with this week's Codex release.
When the frontier models are all getting close to “good enough,” I’m noticing my team cares less about which model is underneath and more about the coding tool around it.
One small example: Codex now lets you keep coding from your phone even when your Mac is locked.
If the models quality is approaching perfect, the differentiator becomes:
- how the tool captures context
- how fast it removes friction
- how quickly it ships
- how well it improves your actual workflow
People are asking "What are the chances OpenClaw survives/thrives after this?"
The OpenClaw founder joining OpenAI is exciting for Peter.
But history isn't kind to "we'll keep it open source" promises from acquired projects especially when you can tell from interviews how hands on Peter was personally.
Will OpenClaw become ClosedClaw or SlowClaw?
I handed my AI assistant Bob (OpenClaw) full access to my digital life 2 weeks ago. It's now managing 8 home renovation projects, handling my inbox issues, and hugely improving sales strategy for my company Postilize. Here's what 'AI assistant' actually means in practice:
The home projects: 8 active renovation projects like landscaping, millwork, etc. Different vendors, timelines, follow ups. I used to keep it all in my head, badly. Now the system knows every project, every vendor status, every deadline. It WhatsApps contractors as me, with my permission, to check status, schedule visits, coordinate timelines. I just get updates.
The inbox rescue: My email was drowning in spam since I was one of the first Gmail users and years of history. The system went through and unsubscribed from everything it could. It made judgment calls on what to keep. For the handful with no unsubscribe links, it looked up contact emails and wrote personalized "please remove me" messages as me. I went from 200+ daily emails to about 20 that actually matter.
The sales leader: I asked it to map our top accounts at Postilize, who we're selling to, who we're not. Then it cross-referenced my investors' and advisors' LinkedIn connections to build an intro roadmap for the accounts we haven't cracked yet. Warm introduction strategy, auto-generated.
Meet the founder who decided lawyers shouldn’t need psychic powers to keep clients refreshmiami.com/news/meet-t…
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𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: Winter 2026 Residency for Technical Founders at Inception!
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This is how pay packages should be.
Why not encourage CEOs to hit milestones unlike how it’s done now where they’re often paid 10s of millions while stock goes down.
It’s obvious that @RolandForTexas is reacting to the massive wealth that was created but that’s what happens when people build something huge that changes the world.
It’s a feature not a bug.
You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world.
The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make.
Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing.
However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants to come along for the ride can buy Tesla stock.
If Tesla “merely” becomes a $1.999 trillion dollar company, I get nothing. This is a great deal for shareholders, which is why they voted so overwhelmingly to approve this, for which I am immensely grateful.
And they did so by a margin far more than you won your political seat.
Good for @elonmusk. I completely disagree with judges interfering in the decisions of companies, boards, and their management with respect to compensation. Rulings like the the Tesla case makes great companies leave Delaware or worse. It's supposed to be a free market.
Tesla awards CEO Elon Musk millions in shares valued at about $29 billion abc11.com/post/tesla-awards-…
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Tesla is giving Elon Musk a temporary pay package of 96 million restricted shares, worth about $29 billion, but he only gets them if he stays in a top leadership role for two years and pays a set price for each share ($23.34 per share, same as his 2018 CEO award).
He can’t sell or transfer these shares (except to cover taxes or the purchase price) for five years after they’re awarded, and if the courts decide to fully reinstate his 2018 CEO award, then this new award will be canceled or adjusted so he can’t benefit from both at once.
This award boosts his voting power as soon as it’s granted, which both Elon and Tesla’s board believe keeps him motivated to lead, and Tesla’s board says they’ll propose a longer-term CEO pay plan for shareholders to vote on at the next annual meeting.
So great to meet you Janice
CEO and founder of #Postilize, @jodyglidden joins me for a thoughtful conversation about how AI is transforming the way we work, live, and create. Including promising technology in weather forecasting to help us prepare with more advance warning. radio.foxnews.com/2025/08/03…
Amazing job to everyone involved in development and approvals!
Correct. The huge amount of corrections were seeing after IPOs is pretty clear that the current system isn’t working.
This was what I was hoping to fix with SPACs. You may not like SPAC founder promotes or other forms of value transfer to intermediaries but you can never claim it wasn't disclosed.
The Circle IPO, and ALL traditional IPOS, are the opposite. Value is transferred to randoms and it makes no sense.
In order to get the IPO off, the team at Circle had to sell 14.4M shares at the IPO price of $31 for total proceeds of $446M. These shares were "bought" by the IPO bank and then sold to their best clients.
Those 14.4M shares are now worth $3.456B. Meaning the employees that sold these shares lost out on $3B in the past 15 days.
To be clear, this method of value transfer doesn't happen via a direct listing or SPAC - the benefits in SPACs and DLs are disclosed very explicitly up front. They can be negotiated, minimized etc to the benefit of selling shareholders and buying shareholders.
Only in a traditional IPO do banks use opacity like this.
And the media acts along by writing headlines to tell you how a "first day pop" is a good sign. It's not. It means the deal was mispriced and banks were able to reward their best customers completely unrelated to the company in question with free stock.
In this case, it was a $3B gift from the employees and investors of Circle to people they don't know, will never know and have nothing to do with their journey.
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openai started a podcast too!
Introducing the OpenAI Podcast—a series of conversations with the people shaping AI.
@sama joins @andrewmayne on the first episode to talk about AGI, (wen) GPT-5, privacy, and what comes next.
