Articles from colossus.com
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- Mark Zuckerberg - Colossus
The piece profiles Mark Zuckerberg’s childhood, early coding feats, rise to lead Meta, his MMA training, and the epistemic isolation inherent in his unprecedented power.
- Invisible Companies: Why Overlooked Businesses Win- Colossus
Mundane, overlooked businesses can generate sustained profits for decades because potential competitors fail to notice or disdain them, a phenomenon called competitive neglect.
- Sarah Guo's Wager - Colossus
Sarah Guo contends that despite AI labs' dominance, opportunities exist for new firms built on open models, prompting her to invest against Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo.
- Inside Notion - Colossus
Notion's founders bet the company on AI in late 2022, fostering a culture of relentless rewriting, wartime urgency, and playful experimentation that has made it a standout pre-GPT startup.
- We Have Learned Nothing - Colossus
Decades of standardized startup methods like Lean Startup have failed to improve survival rates because widely shared techniques eliminate competitive differentiation, pointing to a Red Queen dynamic.