2025-03-08 07:56:15
Re @afc Do you think this trend ever changes? Is it regulatory relaxation that accomplishes it, or most of the growth for the next 10 years will remain in the privates?
2025-03-07 05:34:02
RT Theory VC
Re @ttunguz on where we are in the AI S-Curve @VentureUnlocked:
📷 Listen: https://ventureunlocked.substack.com/p/embracing-ai-opportunities-challenges
2025-03-07 05:29:18
Where are we in the AI S-Curve? I shared my take on @VentureUnlocked:
- Smarter, cheaper, more autonomous AI models
- Open vs. closed-source AI
- Deepseek's breakthroughs surrounding reinforcement learning
- AI’s evolving impact on the labor market
Listen here: https://ventureunlocked.substack.com/p/embracing-ai-opportunities-challenges
2025-03-07 04:21:42
Imagine if every time you edited a document, the word processor forced you to retype everything that had been written before that edit.
How expensive would that be for a company?
This is exactly how data transformation works today. Each time a data engineer modifies some part of the data stack, the Cloud Data Warehouse & its transformation layer recalculates everything.
What if the system were designed so that it only recalculated the metrics needed? How much less expensive would it be?
@databricks partnered with @TobikoData to quantify the impact. Selective recalculation delivers a 9x cost savings.
Selective recalculation - only calculating what needs to be - delivers the 9x cost savings. This efficiency becomes critical as data transforms from a business asset into the business foundation itself with AI.
Migrating to a new system is often expensive, but with SQLMesh’s dbt adapter, no code changes are required to the existing schema to support this cost savings.
In a world where every cloud dollar counts, it’s time to stop forcing your data warehouse to rewrite “War and Peace” when all you need is the Cliff’s Notes — your CFO will thank you.
https://tomtunguz.com/tobiko-databricks-benchmark/
2025-03-06 02:35:49
As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success. After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind.
1. Management Philosophy
- Management is a design pattern: Just like engineering has patterns, management has best practices that can be learned and applied systematically.
- Use Situational Judgement: tailor support for employees ranging from micromanagement for new hires to hands-off for high performers.
- Lead authentically: The best managers don’t rely on mimicry but develop their own authentic style based on their values and strengths.
Management, like engineering, has repeatable design patterns that can be learned and applied
2. Organizational Structure
- Understand breaking points: Management structures naturally reach breaking points at around 8, 60, and several hundred employees - prepare for these transitions.
- Evolve your leadership: Great leaders consistently manage themselves out of the job.
- Design intentionally: Make sure you’re designing your organization with a span of control in mind.
Communication complexity increases exponentially with team size, creating natural breaking points in management structures
3. One-on-Ones and Feedback
- Structure your 1:1s: Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation.
- Create feedback loops: Design feedback systems with minimal latency, high potency, and maximum efficiency.
- 12 Questions to Find Great Managers: Use frameworks like Gallup’s 12 questions to assess your effectiveness as a manager.
4. Decision Making
- Audit decisions: Focus on how decisions are made rather than just the conclusions.
- Test the process: When advising someone with deeper expertise, evaluate their process rather than the outcome.
- Delegate based on maturity: Adjust your management approach based on the person’s Task Relevant Maturity.
Evaluate the decision-making process rather than just the outcomes
5. Leadership Mindset
- Balance three layers: Focus simultaneously on execution (laying bricks), tactics (building walls), and vision (creating cathedrals).
- Combine honesty with grit: Be ruthlessly honest about reality while maintaining the persistence to overcome challenges.
- Cultivate growth mindset: View challenges as learning opportunities rather than fixed obstacles.
Great leaders balance execution (laying bricks), tactics (building walls), and vision (creating cathedrals)
6. Team Building
- Anatomy of a Reference Check: Then get out of their way.
- Create psychological safety: Encourage calculated risks and constructive dissent.
- Balance autonomy and alignment: Give teams freedom within clear strategic boundaries.
7. Delegation Process
- Identify delegation opportunities: Analyze your calendar for time-consuming and repetitive tasks.
- Document thoroughly: Use video, Loom, or detailed documentation to transfer knowledge effectively.
- Verify understanding: Have delegatees summarize tasks to ensure clarity.
- Iterate with feedback: Continuously improve delegation through two-way feedback.
Adapt your delegation approach based on the person’s experience level with the specific task
8. Scaling Management
- Invest in managers: Great companies invest disproportionately in developing their managers.
- Build systems: Create scalable systems that reinforce your values and operational principles.
- Stay close to customers: Ensure management decisions remain connected to customer needs.
Culture becomes a critical management tool as your company scales
Effective management isn’t a natural gift but a discipline that can be learned, practiced, and refined. The best startup leaders recognize that scaling their management capabilities is just as important as scaling their technology or customer base.
https://tomtunguz.com/management-advice-for-startups/
