You’re Not In The Hamburger Business

Three frontier labs killed the prompt box this week. Theory Ventures' Tomasz Tunguz killed the inbox the same morning. Jason Lemkin published a job posting for a senior demand-gen executive who would be reporting, in the org chart, to an artificial intelligence named 10K. The unoptimized layer in the loop is the only one that can land the plane.

At Ascend, one COO grew ARR 38 percent in six months with zero growth hires and a stack of Claude Code slash commands. Microsoft just published the data showing why most companies can't. The Musk–Altman trial just made clear why their boards won't.