Max Hanet

A new era for Sovereign AI starts today

european intern said he was optimizing his code to use fewer gpus cause he wanted to save energy told him this is America bro, just use more gpus

Peter Thiel has a theory most founders ignore: your company name predicts whether you'll win or fail. "I believe very strongly that the names of companies are often very predictive of future failure or success." His framework, in his own words: PayPal worked because it felt human. "It was the friend that helps you pay." Friendly, transactional, trustworthy, the name did sales before the product did. Napster was doomed from the start. "You nap", the connotation was sleep, theft, something illicit. The name telegraphed exactly what regulators and labels would eventually come after it for. The deeper point isn't aesthetics. A name is a compressed signal, about your market positioning, your customer relationship, and how the world will narrativize you when things go wrong. Names expose founder psychology. A name that sounds aggressive or antisocial is usually a tell that the founder hasn't thought hard enough about how their company will be perceived at scale. Most founders treat naming as a branding exercise. Thiel treats it as a predictive test. If you are building a startup, this is what I write about weekly in Product Market Fit: productmarketfit.tech/