AI tools & automation

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Model Context Protocol: the open standard connecting AI to the world

Dylan Davis March 4, 2025

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AI tools & automation 9

AI strategy & adoption 7

Tech stack & software 6

• AI models are caged — MCP is the USB-C that frees them
• Anthropic open-sourced MCP to close the gap with OpenAI
• Auto-discovery and cloud servers will replace today's manual setup

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AI strategy & adoption

Podcast

How Adobe leads through AI transformation

Masters of Scale February 27, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Management 7

Business models 6

• Shifting from voice-wins to data-driven product decisions after cloud subscription migration.
• CEO leadership means narrowing focus to one or two high-impact areas per year.
• AI expands creative expression for billions; treat models like operating systems, not moats.

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AI strategy & adoption

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Why successful AI companies obsess over evaluations

Dylan Davis February 20, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Iteration & feedback loops 7

• You can't improve a multi-step agent without knowing which step fails.
• Binary yes/no criteria beat subjective rating scales every time.
• Start with AI-written unit tests before touching eval infrastructure.

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AI strategy & adoption

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How AI is reshaping enterprise software and why the TAM is expanding

Y Combinator February 19, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Business models 7

Pricing strategy 5

• Token costs converge to zero — the moat is software built on top
• AI expands the TAM; it automates work that was simply never done
• Fortune 500s are 1% into agents — the adoption curve is just starting

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AI strategy & adoption

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Eight AI-powered online business ideas worth starting in 2025

Silicon Valley Girl February 13, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 8

Business models 8

Growth hacking 5

• Pair AI with a specialist to build a high-margin subscription business
• Pure software plays like DocuSign 2.0 or an AI app store can scale infinitely
• Avoid manufacturing, social apps, and healthcare if you're just starting out

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AI tools & automation

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Soft skills, synthetic data, and building AI at the frontier

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth February 9, 2025

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AI tools & automation 9

AI strategy & adoption 8

MVP & prototyping 7

• Why creativity and listening will outlast coding as career moats
• How Canvas and Tasks were built using synthetic model-generated data
• Evals are replacing PRDs as the core product development artifact

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AI strategy & adoption

Podcast

Reid Hoffman on DeepSeek, AI investment, and political risk

Masters of Scale February 7, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Long-term planning 7

Fundraising & VC 5

• DeepSeek's cheap-model claim almost certainly relied on large-scale compute
• RFK confirmation will cost thousands of American lives, Reid predicts
• AI agents will naturally trend toward kindness, boosting mental health

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AI strategy & adoption

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How to find AI startup ideas worth working on

Y Combinator February 7, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Niche selection 8

Customer discovery 6

• Your deepest expertise is worth more than any trending idea
• Getting a job in an industry you want to automate actually works
• Outsourced and boring jobs are the clearest automation targets right now

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AI strategy & adoption

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How leaders can use psychological targeting for good

Coaching for Leaders February 3, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Compliance & regulation 7

Processes & SOPs 6

• Psychological targeting that sells can instead help people save money.
• Federated learning lets you personalise without ever collecting user data.
• The 'evil Steve test': design for the worst future leader, not the current one.

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AI strategy & adoption

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Bob McGrew on AI agents, reasoning, and the path to AGI

Y Combinator January 31, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 10

Long-term planning 7

Case studies 6

• Reasoning flips the reliability equation, making agents finally trustworthy enough to act.
• Pre-training hit a data wall; test-time compute is the new scaling curve.
• AI adoption lags because software linking capability to real workflows is missing.

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AI strategy & adoption

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Reid Hoffman on AI superagency and human control

Masters of Scale January 28, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Long-term planning 8

Motivation 7

• AI distributed widely creates collective superpowers, not just individual ones
• You're more likely to lose your job to an AI user than to AI itself
• Biggest real risk: AI giving superpowers to rogue states and criminals

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AI strategy & adoption

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How to use AI in your startup: a practical framework from YC

Y Combinator January 15, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Pivoting 6

Business models 5

• Switching to an AI idea without better customer insight changes nothing.
• Healthcare's $1.4T admin burden is almost entirely automatable with agents.
• Being in San Francisco right now is like walking downstairs to ask Pinterest about SEO.

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AI strategy & adoption

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Five bold AI predictions for 2025

Masters of Scale January 7, 2025

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AI strategy & adoption 9

AI tools & automation 6

Business models 5

• Agentic AI will move beyond chatbots to act on tasks you delegate to it daily.
• One-person startups using AI teams will reach billion-dollar valuations this year.
• AI health co-pilots powered by biometric sensors will personalize medicine and mental health.

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AI strategy & adoption

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How Blake Anderson built three AI iPhone apps earning $10M

Starter Story December 29, 2024

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Influencer & partnerships 8

Niche selection 7

• Self-taught in two months, then launched a $2.5M/year app
• Social algorithms now reward new accounts — distribution is learnable
• In-house organic content beats paid ads on profit margins

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Three AI SaaS opportunities founders should pursue in 2025

TK Kader December 29, 2024

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AI strategy & adoption 9

Business models 8

MVP & prototyping 5

• Reduce SaaS workflows to zero clicks — new entrants can, incumbents can't
• AI agents can replace a $14B industry built on repetitive human labor
• Co-pilots let services firms handle 100 clients instead of 10

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