We’ll be working, vibing, and going deep together with structured mastermind sessions. Other details:
Everyone will have their own private room and bathroom
Private chef and food are all included
All activities are optional but included (surfing, yoga, private boat, in-house massages, etc).
Dates: Wednesday February 25th to Sunday March 1st
Cost: $10,000 (business write-off eligible).
Expect killer founders, mindset-shifting conversations, and good times.
Anyway, here’s today at a glance:
Opportunity → Elder Care App For Managing Aging Parents
Framework → The Delegation Flywheel
Tool → Unsiloed AI
Trend → AI as a Healthcare Ally
Quote → Risk Is Opportunity
🔗 Houck’s Picks
My favorite finds of the week.
Fundraising
Nikita Blanc on how he earned with 0 warm intros (Link)
Toby Egbuna on how to get your first 20 investor meetings (Link)
Sunny Dhillon shares his pitch pet peeves that founders should never do (Link)
Illai Gescheit shares points that will help when an investor is ghosting (Link)
Sandry Kory shares his thoughts on investor scrutiny of Seed pitch decks (Link)
Growth
Lotanna Ezeike shares a simple app growth loop (Link)
ICYMI
Opportunity: Elder Care App For Managing Aging Parents
With birth rates continuing to fall, we’re going to see more capital be allocated towards ideas that help seniors.
This makes sense, younger generations are busier than ever, more likely to live further away than in the past, and there are simply fewer of them but seniors will still need support managing parts of their health and lives.
The last thing they or their kids want is for them to have to manage a bunch of devices and notifications on their own.
An app that acts as an aggregator, that alerts and summarizes health trends for trusted members of their family, would be genuinely useful. It could also provide a more streamlined way of managing their own health, with all of their considerations in one place.
Spotted on Ideabrowser
🧠 Framework: The Delegation Flywheel
I know a bunch of founders who’ve hired assistants in the last year or two for the first time.
Only some of them actually made it work for them on an ongoing basis. It’s not that the others were lazy, they just never set up the right system.
They’d delegate some tasks, their assistant would make mistakes, and the founder would think it’s faster to just do themselves instead.
But delegation doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It has compounding returns, when done right, and gets better every time you use it.
Here’s a simple framework from Aaron Hayslip:
Create a doc outlining the steps of a task or process you want your assistant to own
They execute it
You review the outcome and give feedback
The assistant updates the doc based on your feedback relative to their initial understanding
Most things you actually want to delegate to an EA are time-sucking, recurring tasks in the first place. One-offs exist, sure, but the highest leverage things an EA can do are the ones that free your time up in a meaningful, indefinite way.
🛠 Tool: Unsiloed AI
The quality of the output of a system depends on the quality of the inputs.
That’s the philosophy behind Unsiloed, a platform that takes your unstructured multi-modal data and, well, structures it in ways that are most easily used by LLM-based systems.
Chances are you have data that you haven’t even considered using because you either aren’t sure how to build out ingestion pipelines, or know that it would take a lot of time to do right. Unsiloed is handling that in a fraction of the time, giving you more of your own data to train your systems with (ultimately, in theory, improving outputs and user experience).
📈 Trend: AI as a Healthcare Ally
Which of these stats from OpenAI’s internal research surprises you the most:
Over 5% of all messages sent to ChatGPT are about healthcare
1 in 4 active users of ChatGPT ask it healthcare questions every week
Over 40 million people ask ChatGPT about healthcare every day
Regardless of which you picked, it was shocking to me at first that healthcare makes up that big of a chunk, but it makes sense when you think about it.
Healthcare is super complex, high stakes, and interacting with just about anything in the industry is a terrible experience.
Obviously, healthcare is a highly regulated industry and so breaking into it with new products has unique challenges, but it’s clear the opportunity is here, just like with anything else, asking ChatGPT is good but interacting with an LLM-based product specifically engineered for the industry / problem is better.
💬 Quote: Risk Is Opportunity
The best things in my life have always come from the times when I’ve taken the most risk.
Moving to a new city without knowing anyone and meeting incredible, lifelong friends.
Putting $25k on my credit card to rent an Airbnb for a month, without a job at the time, that ended up turning into a company we raised $23M total for.
You get the idea.
Real opportunities close fast (especially in startups, where billions of dollars in VC capital is actively looking to jump on them), so you have to be willing to take risk in order to achieve great things.
You won’t always be right, and failure hurts, but if you take the time to understand why you failed it will do more to help you (by training your risk assessment skills) than hurt you in the long run.