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GA! It's Brett.
Made a random goal form myself to double the number of users for my company, Micro.
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Started with this on Wednesday and it got people fired up:
"Red flag if your cofounder uses the word 'founder' in their bio instead of 'cofounder'."
The distinction matters: founder = noun for what you do. Cofounder = title specifying your relation to others in the company. Using "founder" when you have a cofounder isn't just imprecise — it's a signal about how you see the relationship.
The thread that followed turned into a full etiquette list. Here's all of it:
Use "cofounder" as your role, "founder" as a noun. Say "we" — "we started X," "we realized" — even if you're a solo founder. Say "I" only for negative things. Announcements are always done by the CEO and reposted by the others, even if the CEO has fewer followers. The CEO needs to be the loudest voice — help them if they're struggling. It's not a competition. Push each other to be better. Always give credit and hype up your cofounder and team. Never subtweet anyone on your team.
The "I only for negative things" rule is the one that always lands. Most cofounders do the opposite instinctively — they say "I" for wins and "we" for problems. That's backwards. The team gets the credit. You take the accountability.
And yes, solo founders should still say "we." You have a team — investors, advisors, early customers, people who believed in you before anyone else. "We" isn't a lie. It's an accurate reflection of how anything actually gets built.
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💥 The $1 trillion IPO nobody is fully prepared for
OpenAI confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC on Friday May 22. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are leading the deal. The target: a public listing as early as September at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion.
The number everyone is burying in their coverage: OpenAI lost $1.22 for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2026. Full-year 2025 revenue was $13.1 billion. Full-year 2025 losses were approximately $22 billion. Internal projections show a $14 billion operating loss for 2026.
They are burning more money than almost any company in history has ever burned — and the market is expected to value them at a trillion dollars anyway. That tells you everything about how investors are currently pricing the AI moment.
The context that makes this weirder: OpenAI filed the same week Elon Musk's lawsuit was dismissed. Musk lost in under two hours of jury deliberations. His last legal overhang is gone. The runway is clear.
Anthropic is targeting an October listing at a $900 billion valuation, after crossing $30 billion in annualized revenue. Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic is projecting its first operating profit before the listing. SpaceX filed its own S-1 on May 20, targeting a $1.75 trillion Nasdaq listing under SPCX, with pricing as early as June 11.
Three companies. $3.7 trillion in combined valuation. All going public before year end. Public companies answer to the quarter. Private labs answer to the mission. That distinction is about to matter more than it ever has.
🧠 ON MY MIND
Alot on my mind this week:
Google I/O: Sundar Pichai declared the "agentic Gemini era." Gemini 3.5 launched — competitive with GPT-5.5 but not ahead of it. The real story was the platform: Antigravity (agent orchestration across your workflow), Gemini Intelligence baked into Android 17 (proactive background tasks), Gemini Omni (text/image/video in one pipeline), and Android XR smart glasses arriving this fall. Monthly token processing jumped from 9.7 trillion to 3.2 quadrillion in one year. Google isn't racing to win the model benchmark — it's trying to become the operating layer for every device on earth. — Google Blog
Claude overtook ChatGPT in US business AI payments for the first time. Per payment processor data cited by TechCrunch this week, Claude is now receiving more business payments than ChatGPT in the United States. The timing: right after OpenAI's Pentagon deal and the subsequent wave of enterprise customers switching. Anthropic's revenue going from $9B to $30B annualized in four months isn't just investment narrative — the payments data shows it's real. — TechCrunch
SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 — targeting a $1.75 trillion Nasdaq listing under SPCX. Pricing as early as June 11-12. SpaceX post-merger with xAI now encompasses Starlink, the SpaceXAI division, the Colossus data center with 220,000+ Nvidia GPUs, and an orbital data center partnership with Google. If it lands at $1.75 trillion it would be the largest tech IPO in history. — TechJournal
Dario Amodei publicly called OpenAI's messaging around the Pentagon deal "straight up lies." The gloves are fully off. Amodei's statement came after OpenAI signed the DoD contract that Anthropic refused — and after Altman made public comments about Anthropic's position. Two CEOs of the world's most important AI companies are now openly calling each other liars in the press the same week both their companies are filing for IPOs. The timing could not be more chaotic or more revealing. — TechCrunch
ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295% after the DoD deal. The backlash to OpenAI's military contract was measurable and immediate. Users switched to Claude in large enough numbers to move payment processor data at the national level. The Pentagon deal may have unlocked government revenue but it's costing OpenAI consumer and enterprise trust in real time — which is exactly the risk Anthropic's refusal was designed to avoid. — TechCrunch
Meta's Avocado still hasn't launched. The model was expected in May. It's the last week of May. With SpaceX, OpenAI, and Google I/O all dominating the news cycle, Meta has no window to announce without being buried. June is the new target — which means whatever they ship will be directly compared to Gemini 3.5 and GPT-5.5. A tough position for a model that's reportedly already benchmarking behind both. — Build Fast with AI
👀 FROM THE FEED
F.O.L.A, X:
❓ AI GENERATED OR NOT
Black and white street portrait. Weathered face. NY cap. Eyes that feel almost too sharp to be real.
Last week's poll: Real. 75% of you got it wrong. It was a close-up photo of luminescent corals at the Cairns Aquarium in Australia. The neon blue, the perfectly smooth organic shapes, the black background — all of it was real.
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