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Career startup guy.
Author of the book "Inbound Marketing" (http://InboundBook.com)
Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Software Development, internet marketing,SEO
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- Woo hoo! My fourth appearance on the My First Million podcast is now live.
I'm going to risk putting the link right here (hopefully the LinkedIn algorithm will be kind):
https://lnkd.in/eBnh_Q-r
As always, fun to chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
There was lots to talk about on the AI front, and I'm glad I got to address tool calling and such.
Most important message is: You^AI. Think about AI as an exponential amplifier of your ability. It can help you be better, regardless of what it is you do.
Hope you enjoy the episode. Any follow-up questions, leave them here or on the YouTube page. I'll check periodically and respond to whatever I can.
p.s. I don't usually like to make reference to my billionaire status. But, I give the MFM team discretion to pick whatever title they think will work.
Talking to a billionaire about how he uses ChatGPTyoutube.com - This has been my definition of success for over 15 years:
Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant.
I talk about this, and a bunch of other lessons learned along the journey in my podcast episode with Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn):
https://lnkd.in/etGdhQQx
I'm neither the smoothest nor the most professional of speakers, but I think it turned out pretty well.
Also, I'll bet that by my definition you are more successful than you probably realize. There are people that have believed in you that you made look brilliant.
Cheers.
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Currently pondering: Should there be a "File System Protocol" whereby systems make their data/context available via a standard protocol that AI apps/assistants/agents can navigate and use?
Kind of like MCP (Model Context Protocol) but different and even simpler.
Last week I wrote about how coding agents were really, really good at using CLI tools -- and chaining them together.
This week, I'm thinking about file systems and how coding agents are *also* very good at effectively using them. They're good at understanding the hierarchical structure, navigating the tree, doing searches, etc.
The nice thing about file systems is that they're based on a relatively simple set of primitives but can represent a relatively rich, auto-discoverable data store. And they're familiar and friendly to humans too.
Decades ago, NFS (Network File System) existed, which was all about making a file system accessible remotely. I'm not an NFS geek, but wondering if a modern protocol based on the needs of today's AI agents could be useful.
We've had things like GraphQL available too, which lets you represent a traversable graph for systems to access data/context as well. Not sure which is better. Graphs are richer (and I happen to love them), but file systems are *simple*, and already exist in operating systems that we use on computers (and things like OpenClaw use them for all sorts of things -- including memory).
No concrete thoughts. Just some midnight hour hashtagpondering. (I'll do just about anything to avoid recording the video I was planning on recording today).
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Founder of HubSpot, a venture-backed software startup. HubSpot offers the industry's first inbound marketing system for small businesses. The software is available as a hosted service (SaaS).
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Popular blog and community for startups with over 900,000 subscribers.
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Founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software startup in the financial services sector. Pyramid was acquired by SunGard Business Systems, an $11 billion technology company, in August, 2005.
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My favorite tip: Allocate Most Time To Customer Value: Act as if someone
is paying you $1,000/hour for every hour you spend making life measurably better for your customers -- and $10/hour for everything else. In the long-run, the ratio will be about right.