Lessons from Matt Clifford

Matt Clifford is the co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, a pioneer of talent investing, whose work asks how societies can identify outlier talent, cultivate ambitious founders, advance technical progress, and manage the risks of transformational technologies.

Lessons from Arthur Hayes

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and Chief Investment Officer at Maelstrom, is a provocative cryptocurrency commentator whose Crypto Haymaker essays combine global liquidity, macroeconomic theory, trading psychology, and futuristic vision into a distinctive framework for interpreting markets.

Lessons from Maja Voje

Maja Voje is a go-to-market strategist, author, and growth advisor who offers a pragmatic, customer-centric framework for reaching product-market fit, arguing that durable scaling depends less on generic tactics than on strategic focus and proprietary customer insight.

Lessons from Christoph Janz

Christoph Janz, co-founder of Point Nine Capital and author of The Angel VC, helped define a modern playbook for SaaS metrics, seed-stage investing, and sustainable growth through practical frameworks connecting market structure, business scale, and venture judgment.

Lessons from Leopold Aschenbrenner

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI Superalignment researcher and founder of Situational Awareness LP, presents the “Decade of AGI” as both warning and strategic roadmap, asking how an intelligence explosion could reshape geopolitics, security, and human history.

Lessons from Jeffrey Emmanuel

Jeffrey Emanuel is an investor, technologist, and CEO of Lumera Network whose technical analysis of artificial intelligence and semiconductors challenges prevailing assumptions, exemplified by his research questioning the durability of Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware.

Daily Digest — 2026-03-14

Software is being redesigned for persistent agents that may outnumber people and become primary users. Success depends on lean harnesses, evolving skills, and environments that support autonomous work without making human attention the limiting resource.

Lessons from Peter Steinberger

Peter Steinberger, founder of PSPDFKit and an Apple developer community figure, moved from iOS engineering and software licensing into agentic development, using OpenClaw and autonomous AI agents to explore the emerging possibilities of “vibe coding.”

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