Guy Friedman
@guyfriedman
Co-Founder & CEO @steadymd
Multiple non-technical friends have similar stories of ChatGPT/AI helping them diagnose things (big & small).
User gives AI their medical data and discovers a 10+ year issue doctors couldn’t figure out before. AI Agents will be able to process vastly more context about a patient than any human could, leading to far more of these outcomes in the future. Context is king.
We sat down with @pryceandstuff (Co-Founder & CEO @openledger) to discuss AI's role in fintech and bookkeeping. "We're weaving AI inside our general ledger architecture to automate bookkeeping tasks. "It's a really exciting opportunity and different from a lot of fintech…
New newsletter: We need to talk about how GLP-1 drugs seem to be good for practically everything—and what that means for the future of medicine and health Hundreds of studies have now shown that GLP-1s, such as Ozempic and Zepbound: - seem to curb alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco…
Maybe dumb question for my finance friends - how did they buy them if they didn’t have the cash in the balance sheet?
BREAKING: Trump Media, $DJT, announces it has acquired $2 billion worth of Bitcoin. The stock is up over +6% on the news.
Welcome, Johnny Cardoso! 🇺🇸🇧🇷 Agreement with @RealBetis for the transfer of the U.S. international, who signs for five seasons with our club.
Actually a smart idea
Can someone please start CAA for AI people.
The rideshare market for automated vehicles will undergo a 90% compound annual growth rate from 2025 to 2030, according to Goldman Sachs Research. Read more: click.gs.com/0gkh
Alphabet CEO @sundarpichai: "...Waymo is now safely serving over a quarter of a million paid passenger trips each week. That's up 5x from a year ago" $GOOG $GOOGL @joecarlsonshow
New newsletter: The death of partying in the USA The latest American Time Use Survey came out last month. I wanted to follow up on @elcush's declaration that Americans need to party more. The new data confirms: America's social crisis is dire. - Between 2003 and 2024, the…
Good advice
The Real Honeypot. Sell Revenue. In vertical AI, time savings is table stakes. Founders obsessed with generating revenue for their customer, on day one, will find immediate market pull. Examples: • Auto Repair - Revv has shown they can increase revenue 75% in 9 months and…
Great results from congestion pricing in NYC gothamist.com/news/numbers-a…
What’s today’s version of light by candles?
Life in 1776: - heat is such a luxury that Thomas Jefferson can’t write in deep winter bc his ink freezes (one reason perhaps why Independence Day is in July) - nighttime darkness is such a burden that George Washington reportedly spent $15k in today’s dollars on candles every…
Zuckerberg not messing around - fun to watch
🧵 The wild story of NFDG: How two Silicon Valley legends built a $1.1B fund, 4X'd it in 2 years, then abandoned it all for Meta this week. Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO) + Daniel Gross (ex-YC partner) launched NFDG in 2023 with $1.1B focused on AI investments. Their crown jewel?…
St. Louis holds a special place in the heart of American soccer ❤️🇺🇸 @AlexiLalas takes us through the rich history that the city has with the beautiful game ⚽️
Responses to this thread are crazy
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
Good advice to consider
Almost everyone I know who did 5+ yrs at a great scale up ($1-$20B) has become successful - Better education than grad school - An embedded network - Strong market signal, especially if promoted multiple times Putting yourself on the right playing field is underrated
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (@readkrystalhu / Reuters) reuters.com/business/gramm… techmeme.com/250701/p10#a25…