Marten Mickos
@martenmickos.bsky.social
CEO in the service of AI startup CEOs.
Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.
Former CEO of HackerOne, Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL.
What time of year should your fundraise for your startups?
The Seasons of Fundraising
by Omri Drory of NFX
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The Seasons of Fundraising
by Omri Drory of NFX
x.com/NFX/status/2...
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September 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
What time of year should your fundraise for your startups?
The Seasons of Fundraising
by Omri Drory of NFX
x.com/NFX/status/2...
The Seasons of Fundraising
by Omri Drory of NFX
x.com/NFX/status/2...
Students of Aalto University, students of the world, don't miss the season's first Founder Talk with Vinted's co-founder Milda Mitkuté.
August 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Students of Aalto University, students of the world, don't miss the season's first Founder Talk with Vinted's co-founder Milda Mitkuté.
Don't measure the amount of AI tool usage but the amount of time saved.
www.meetsol.com/blog/people-...
www.meetsol.com/blog/people-...
People are the Generative Force in an Organization — Sol
Ask most leaders how their AI investment is going, and you’ll get numbers: adoption rates, hours logged in the platform, seats filled.
www.meetsol.com
August 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Don't measure the amount of AI tool usage but the amount of time saved.
www.meetsol.com/blog/people-...
www.meetsol.com/blog/people-...
AI may make intelligence abundant. It will not make attention automatic.
economicsofai.substack.com/p/when-intel...
economicsofai.substack.com/p/when-intel...
When Intelligence Is Abundant, Attention Is What We Need
How AGI can help us care more for each other
economicsofai.substack.com
August 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
AI may make intelligence abundant. It will not make attention automatic.
economicsofai.substack.com/p/when-intel...
economicsofai.substack.com/p/when-intel...
The Java Story - finally an official documentary!
Must see both for those who were around at the time and those who weren't.
Thank you, James Gosling, Kim Polese and everyone else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...
Must see both for those who were around at the time and those who weren't.
Thank you, James Gosling, Kim Polese and everyone else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
YouTube video by CultRepo
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The Java Story - finally an official documentary!
Must see both for those who were around at the time and those who weren't.
Thank you, James Gosling, Kim Polese and everyone else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...
Must see both for those who were around at the time and those who weren't.
Thank you, James Gosling, Kim Polese and everyone else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...
Happiness in Finland isn’t about feeling giddy. It’s about the absence of worry.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont...
What can Seattle learn from Helsinki? | Op-Ed
Seattle, where trust in city government has taken hard knocks over a decade of visible struggle, cannot afford many more broken promises.
www.seattletimes.com
August 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Happiness in Finland isn’t about feeling giddy. It’s about the absence of worry.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont...
Pleasure is from Dopamine, happiness from Serotonin.
jordanshlain.substack.com/p/just-one-t...
jordanshlain.substack.com/p/just-one-t...
Just One Thing! Happiness Is Not Pleasure
How to move from instant gratification to deep life satisfaction
jordanshlain.substack.com
August 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Pleasure is from Dopamine, happiness from Serotonin.
jordanshlain.substack.com/p/just-one-t...
jordanshlain.substack.com/p/just-one-t...
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. - Peter Drucker
August 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. - Peter Drucker
How to know what kind of software to build, through Deductive Discovery
www.deductivediscovery.com/p/why-produc...
www.deductivediscovery.com/p/why-produc...
Why Product Discovery Keeps Failing For Complex B2B SaaS
Product discovery treats three different activities as one. For complex B2B software, that confusion leads to expensive trial and error labelled as “best practice.”
www.deductivediscovery.com
August 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM
How to know what kind of software to build, through Deductive Discovery
www.deductivediscovery.com/p/why-produc...
www.deductivediscovery.com/p/why-produc...
"We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity," says Mark Zuckerberg. Sounds good, but - remind me again - what philosophy has been guiding Facebook for the last ten years?
about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
The Future is for Everyone
A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future.
about.fb.com
August 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity," says Mark Zuckerberg. Sounds good, but - remind me again - what philosophy has been guiding Facebook for the last ten years?
about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
China produces a third of the world's electricity - by far more than any other country. Per capita, 16 countries produce more.
August 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
China produces a third of the world's electricity - by far more than any other country. Per capita, 16 countries produce more.
AI factors are likely responsible for roughly one-third of the recent economic growth in the US, according to Michael Pearce, an economist at Oxford Economics.
August 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
AI factors are likely responsible for roughly one-third of the recent economic growth in the US, according to Michael Pearce, an economist at Oxford Economics.
Start at the age of 18 and make half a million dollars hunting vulns. Also learn what university studies or MBAs can't teach you.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-t...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-t...
The Road Not Taken: What 10 Years and $500,000 in Bug Bounties Taught Me
At age 28, after more than ~10 years and earning ~$500k USD across HackerOne, Bugcrowd and other platforms through bug bounties, it was time to share some thoughts. Below are my absolute raw thoughts ...
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July 31, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Start at the age of 18 and make half a million dollars hunting vulns. Also learn what university studies or MBAs can't teach you.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-t...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-t...
Simple: When you remediate a vulnerability it stops being one.
The trick is how to get from finding to fixing - fast.
www.hackerone.com/blog/fixing-...
The trick is how to get from finding to fixing - fast.
www.hackerone.com/blog/fixing-...
Fixing the Fix Gap: Introducing H1 Remediation | HackerOne
Validated findings shouldn't stall in a backlog. H1 Remediation delivers source code-informed fix plans directly to your engineering team, automatically.
www.hackerone.com
July 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Simple: When you remediate a vulnerability it stops being one.
The trick is how to get from finding to fixing - fast.
www.hackerone.com/blog/fixing-...
The trick is how to get from finding to fixing - fast.
www.hackerone.com/blog/fixing-...
San Francisco remains the most beautiful and consequential city on the planet, and tech reshaped SF in ways that have caused real harm. Both things are true at once.
www.christofwittig.com/post/8234024...
www.christofwittig.com/post/8234024...
San Francisco, On the Edge, Still Mine
I just finished Jonathan Weber's City on the Edge, his history of the last few decades of San Francisco. It's a good book, and an unsettling one, because I've lived more than two-thirds of that...
www.christofwittig.com
July 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
San Francisco remains the most beautiful and consequential city on the planet, and tech reshaped SF in ways that have caused real harm. Both things are true at once.
www.christofwittig.com/post/8234024...
www.christofwittig.com/post/8234024...
Sales is changing:
1. Run the business in real time
2. Make every seller an advisor for innovation
3. Redesign revenue workflows
4. Turn customer signal into company advantage
www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-...
1. Run the business in real time
2. Make every seller an advisor for innovation
3. Redesign revenue workflows
4. Turn customer signal into company advantage
www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-...
Sales as we know it is over. That’s a good thing.
Sales isn’t going away. The way we’ve been running it is.
www.linkedin.com
July 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Sales is changing:
1. Run the business in real time
2. Make every seller an advisor for innovation
3. Redesign revenue workflows
4. Turn customer signal into company advantage
www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-...
1. Run the business in real time
2. Make every seller an advisor for innovation
3. Redesign revenue workflows
4. Turn customer signal into company advantage
www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-...
Sprint Coordinator for Aalto Founder School.
This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow.
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow.
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Founder Sprint Coordinator | Aalto University
www.aalto.fi
July 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Sprint Coordinator for Aalto Founder School.
This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow.
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow.
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Four amazing mathematicians under 40 stand out in harmonic analysis, o-minimality, symplectic geometry, and partial differential equations.
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Fields Medals 2026 | International Mathematical Union (IMU)
For his work in partial differential equations, including the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from hard-sphere dynamics for rarefied gases, the derivation of wave kinetic equations from nonlinear dispersive systems, and probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrodinger dynamics.
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July 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Four amazing mathematicians under 40 stand out in harmonic analysis, o-minimality, symplectic geometry, and partial differential equations.
www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/f...
www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/f...
