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Shaun John

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New Year’s resolutions began in ancient Babylon, ~4,000 years ago. Every year we set resolutions with ease, yet struggle to maintain them. Today is Quitter’s Day, the 2nd Friday in January, where 80% of New Year's resolvers abandon ship. Stay strong friends 💪🏾
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Moore’s Law, the cofounder of Intel’s empirical observation that computer chips will double in performance every 2 years, is now being outpaced by Nvidia.
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Although many a star is recognized as rising only after many years of burning brightly, I'm always glad to see my investor friends get their shine 🌟 https://www.venturecapitaljournal.com/meet-venture-capitals-2025-rising-stars/
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Four out of five founders are forced out by their boards, and successor CEOs rarely consult with former founding leaders. When they do, however, success rates surge by nearly 10-20%. If you can't stay founder-led, stay founder-inspired.
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Whether T-364, or Day 1, 2025’s now begun
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'I hope the story of Bench goes on to become a warning (for boards) that think they can "upgrade" a company by replacing the founder. It never works.' https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/bench-shuts-down-leaving-thousands-of-businesses-without-access-to-accounting-and-tax-docs/
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Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) - The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requirement sure to be due & enforced after December. Until, on 12/3…it wasn’t. Until, on 12/23…it was again. Until, on 12/26…it wasn’t again, yet again.
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The Surfer🤙, the Surfboard 🏄‍♀️, and the Wave 🌊 Of those three things, if you don’t get the wave right, nothing else matters. No matter how talented the surfer or how good the board, you’ll never have a good surf without a wave.
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I thought 1.800.CHAT.GPT would land somewhere between trolling boomers & a waste of time. But this may be one of the better magnets I’ve seen to pull laggards onto the innovation curve. Never used ChatGPT? Don’t delay, Call Today!
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In 2016, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son made a pledge to invest $50B into US ventures. After $18.5B sunk into WeWork didn’t quite pan out, guess what’s next…? A $100B pledge over the next four years. Make 2025 the year you double down, too — swing big & say it with your chest.
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After much debate w/ CFB enthusiasts whether the Heisman went to the right candidate, being “the top player in CFB” isn’t solely measured on stat line, nor strength of schedule alone & I can’t declass the award to just ‘popularity’ as some w/ sour grapes have.
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Data is more about humans than AI. Data, from the latin root of datum, meaning something that is given. Despite the rumors of our pending obsolesce in work, art, and culture, it is the human that gives context, intent, and meaning to it all.
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Over the past five years, societal, economic, and generational shifts have reshaped how people respond to direct communication, especially about money. Conversations that were once routine now carry an emotional weight that can derail trust if not handled carefully.
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Counterintuitive truth about starting a business today: Your biggest advantage is staying small and focused longer than anyone else is willing to.
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Fun Fact for my students during Finals — People whose surnames start with U, V, W, X, Y or Z tend to get grades 0.6% lower than people with A-to-E surnames📉
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Is SELECT * going the way of the dodo, in favor of vector database queries? YoY growth in vector database adoption and companies increasingly adopting RAG with vector DBs might prove that to be the case.
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Sometimes holiday convos run drier than the turkey & as compulsory as potato salad from 'you know who' https://shorturl.at/4KBrx But this list has gotten me through and will serve as my discussion guide across the remainder of the holiday season
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A relevant read, post food coma: ‘AI eats the world’ https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
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“Our priorities are to partner with the right long-term investor at a price that is fair in this market...” ...and other responses to navigate early deal negotiations, by NextView https://nextview.vc/blog/four-tricky-vc-questions-and-how-to-handle-them/
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