Culture | Content | Commerce Partner @noxnado 🌪️
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Grateful that @NOXnado was featured by @tryramp & @Nasdaq on a billboard in Times Square in NYC.
I remember the days when I commuted from Fordham University in the Bronx through Times Square to The Alley coworking space for various roles as the NYC startup/tech ecosystem was taking shape.
Flash forward about 10 years to today, and seeing NOX on a billboard there is pretty surreal.
Grateful for all of the team members, partners, clients and communities we’ve helped build.
Grateful for all that we’ve accomplished, the challenges we've navigated and everything that’s in store for the future.
P.S. We’re actively hiring for some full-time and part-time roles (i.e. Account Manager, Digital Strategist, Content Creators/Video Editors). All details can be found via the link in the next post. Please don’t hesitate to reach out and/or apply, or pass it along to somebody you think could be a great fit.
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KAT told Knicks fans to get closer to Dylan Harper giving him no space to inbounds the ball
(Via @_angel281_)
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CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.
So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.
“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.
“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.
The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.
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I love this idea from Tobi Lutke:
“I take the view that I'm a corporate raider. That Shopify went bankrupt and I bought it on a fire sale and I'm marching in on day one, and that previous management was crazy and we need to turn this place around.”
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Brutal lack of understanding as to what is occurring here
Remember: He who controls the spice controls the universe
SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-…
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Calling it now, Agent operations is going to be one of the biggest role of H2 26 & 2027.
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The future of marketing is buying creators/media properties
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI!
The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday.
This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show.
Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.
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sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software"
look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents
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This is an extremely important point and touches on some of the most important questions to tackle: What new work may emerge? And how fast? And how do we support those contending with disruption during the transition?
Mockup of how would @AnthropicAI's new labor automation chart would've looked 200 years ago.
For our ancestors, the outer ring would be almost unrecognizable.
"Computer & math" was nonsensical. Medicine and law were tiny and barely professionalized.
The first photo was just about to be taken, so it would have been unfathomable to have a single blockbuster gross more than the entire gross national product of that period.
"Office & admin" barely existed as a concept; counting-houses employ a tiny literate class.
Agriculture alone consumed maybe 70-80% of the labor force in the US.
There was a thick band of artisanal trades that don't map onto any single modern category: coopering, blacksmithing, weaving, tanning, milling.
Clergy was a major professional category and Maritime labor was its own significant sector.
Artists are flooded with advice on what content they should be creating, and it often leads to analysis paralysis.
This foundational framework helps all the artists we work with at NOX zoom out and gain clarity on exactly what they need to do. Hope it helps you too 🫡
One of our most viral vids (25M views, 2.5M new followers in under 3 days) was shot ON AN IPHONE
In today's myth vs. method, we breakdown why bigger budgets do NOT equal better content, and what you should really be focusing on instead 👀
The best stories in sports aren't just about what happens on the field.
We spent 48 hours with @Rackkwall83, an NFL Pro Bowler, musician, mental health advocate, and all-around amazing human being.
This is what it looks like when you tell stories that resonate far beyond the highlights 👀
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Instagram Reels advertising on track to be larger than the entire US television ad industry
Zuck just said Reels revenues is now over $50 billion annually $META
US TV advertising ~$65 billion and shrinking.
Last night, @vj_edgecombe made NBA history.
2 years ago, @NOXnado brought one of his first brand deals to life.
5 years ago, he couldn't have taken that deal without losing NCAA eligibility.
Today, total NIL market spend is on track to go from $900M in 2022 to $3B by 2029.
The shift is real, and we're just getting started 👀
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AWS being down for 3 hours and more than half the internet shutting off is today's reminder that every app is an AWS wrapper
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Virgil Abloh would’ve turned 45 today
many don’t know this, but he played a pivotal role in @nowmedia’s early days
he was kind enough to make time for us and helped shape our positioning and mission to empower creators
I remember how excited he was about digital culture at a moment when many were doubtful
his energy was infectious, and when he asked to see our deck it lit a fire under us
that first deck helped define our vision, as did his framing of “tourists” vs. “purists”
Virgil’s influence lives on in the culture he championed and the lives he touched
very grateful for his guidance and the reminder to keep embracing what’s next
