Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Everyone in GTM right now wants to hire a "cracked" marketer or a "GTM engineer." 95% of you will hire the wrong person and end up donating $6 million to Google, LinkedIn, and Meta. Be very careful about who you hire.
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, on Joe Rogan:
"The knowledge worker was invented by Microsoft to sell more office software. A PC on every desk and you glued to it
If AI does that part now, it's not a bad thing"
In under 6 minutes, he explains why your desk job was a sales strategy, and what's left when AI takes it
Pen And Paper → A PC On Every Desk → Word And Excel → AI Doing The Desk Work
The next job gets built around asking AI the right questions, not memorizing answers
Worth more than any $1,000 career course
Bookmark and watch it today
Then read how to hand your desk work to bots that never clock out: Grok Bot, 6 bots, 200+ agents ↓
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
we completely romanticized the "business trip." in reality, it is just eating a highly processed airport sandwich at 9 pm in a sterile hotel room while missing your family for absolutely zero extra pay.
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Almost every company we talk to is worried about security right now.
AI has taken the gap between finding a vulnerability and someone using it from weeks down to minutes, leaving teams scrambling to keep up.
That’s why we built AWS Continuum, now generally available.
It works autonomously with guardrails you set to discover vulnerabilities, confirm which ones are genuinely exploitable, prioritize what matters most, and build the patches to close them. Teams spend their energy on real risk instead of chasing noise.
Customers like IBM, Robinhood, Capital One, Infor, and Luminate have been running it in preview and see a meaningful difference in their security efforts.
Continuum gives security teams what they need to keep up with the risks of today, and get ahead of them. Should be a huge help. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws…
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Game theory shows that the long game isn't a strategy most people can execute. That's because it tends to require a negative short-term position in exchange for a real advantage later. Most people cannot commit to this because their threat-detection system reads current loss as an existential failure. And that's vicious short-sightedness. It leads them to optimize for visible progress and sacrifice their real position. The people who constantly win rarely have better information. Instead, they accept that losing now will pay off later. Never quit a game before it starts.
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
People don't understand Caesar's insane work ethic. Caesar dictated letters from horseback while on campaign. He had two secretaries riding beside him constantly. Caesar wrote a bestseller called the Gallic War while still being on campaign. Caesar marched beside his men sharing their hardships. He ate the same food. He slept near their tents. His men loved him for this. When his men were scared, he would be at the frontlines. Caesar sent a flood of constant letters back to Rome giving orders. He was non-stop. I love studying the greats of history. They always remind me I can be working harder. I can do more.
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Dussehra is a beautiful reminder that no matter how tough the circumstances, good always finds a way to triumph. May we all find the courage to conquer our inner battles. Wishing you and your family a very Happy Dussehra! 🙏🏼
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
-getting humiliated
-showing up terrified and doing it anyway
-admitting you might be the problem
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
I think one of the biggest mistakes founders make is hiring a VP of Sales before they’ve figured out how to sell their own product.
You raise $10M, hire an experienced sales executive for $300K, give them equity, and expect revenue to take off.
Six months later, they’ve hired four salespeople, bought three software tools, and built a beautiful sales dashboard.
Revenue? Pretty much unchanged.
Here’s the problem.
You hired someone to scale a sales process that doesn’t exist yet.
Early-stage sales are messy. You’re still figuring out who buys, why they buy, what they’re willing to pay, and what actually gets them to sign.
A great VP of Sales can build a team and turn a repeatable process into a much bigger business.
But they shouldn’t be expected to magically discover your customers for you.
Founders don’t need to close every deal forever.
But before handing sales to someone else, you should be able to explain how your last 10 customers found you, why they bought, and how you’ll get the next 100.
Otherwise, you’re not hiring a VP of Sales.
You’re hiring a very expensive person to figure out your business model.
Sujoy Chaudhary retweeted
Founders: Tag every event opportunity to its lead source. Non-negotiable.
Without it you can't prove the channel, compare events, or defend the spend.
A pile of first meetings looks great — but if event-sourced deals go nowhere, the event was a false economy. Tagging is what reveals the truth weeks later.