Steve Norman

So wild that only 4% of SaaS startups ever reach $1M ARR and of those the median time from first paying customer (not company formation or product launch!) is 2 years and 9 months This can be done so much faster if you know what you’re doing though - fastest decile is 9 mo! 🧠

If you’re sleeping on this your job is way way harder than it needs to be 😂😅

Your timeline is broken, full of manufactured panic and rage bait. I’m going to heal it by pumping it full of birdsong, bees, and bough-dappled light. Gonna fix you up real quick.

Really not looking forward to the world where Grok agent embedded on Neuralink has continuous Starlink service

*bubble - in this context isn't something that's going to "burst". bubble means we (techs, devs, ai bros) are not aware of users outside of our own tech/ai bubble. I think it's important to make that distinction.

See someone and know everything about them with face rec AI glasses

Where’s the models and bottles meme guy when you need him?

People would feel a lot better on their startup journey (read: any new adventure or project) if they just realized it is all simply a slow motion Dunning-Kruger effect

Chinese people are fun. She asks if he’s Jack ma and he says yeah. then she remarks that night time is a great time to go bike riding, Jack agrees that it’s quite cool and comfy at night. She suggests that you can ride for a long time in this weather and he says sure, then kind…

He owns a water company called Nongfu Springs, famous in 2013 for a scandal when it was discovered they were simply using unfiltered tap water that included heavy metals and ecoli lol

There’s going to be such an explosion of solopreneurs in the next 5 years. The commercialization AI resources need some work but that will come next

"AI will eat SaaS" IMO, no, it will eat Services which is 25X larger. the prize isn’t the familiar $200B SaaS pool; it’s the $4.6T enterprises pour each year into salaries and outsourced services – the very labor-intelligent agents are now poised to absorb.

What everyone who says Chinese industry is doing amazing stuff and their prices are 20-40% lower than everyone forgets is Chinese firms don't make money. Making money is not the priority. This is why the stock market is flat for the century, they are wildly overbuilt, and have an…

During travel season, I always reflect on how much the experience of travel has changed in the last 20 years. The greatest annoyance 25 years ago was finding the cool stuff. It was so difficult to know what was great and what was trash, and you had to chance it, risk it, ask…

We have strayed too far from God.

Im loving this roller coaster ride and experiencing something similar with the PMF tracker I’m building in Replit But Saturdays are always sacred for me for the same reason - if I don’t totally detach and behave like a human for 24 hours I start to lose my sanity lol

Valuable interview advice for any startup founder

Very cool and much appreciated ALSO This is why startups exist - if the idea of hammering against corporate politics for 2 years to get an obvious feature shipped sounds like a fate worse than death… You belong at a startup

Very underrated vibe shift underway… it will change everything

Unless you are already rich, Your own startup should be the best investment you’ll ever make — if it’s worth anything at all. Let other stuff go. Just put your cash into VTI/VOO. Take that one extra meeting. Push on to find that better CTO. Go visit that customer IRL. Stay.