Join 📚 Calepes’ Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Carlos ☕️'s read, .

The best way to make things that increase rapidly in value is by making things people want at scale.

How to Be Successful

blog.samaltman.com

“Build it and they will come” is a myth. Creating a product people want is necessary but not sufficient. Delivering tangible value to customers is critical, but you still need to build the onramps to get them there.

Marketing Lessons Learne...

@KyleTibbitts on Twitter

The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar. They usually have most of the following characteristics: compelling founders, a mission that attracts talented people into the startup’s orbit, a product so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it, a rapidly growing market, a network effect and low marginal costs, the ability to grow fast, and a product that is either fundamentally new or 10x better than existing options.

How to Invest in Startups

blog.samaltman.com

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