Max Votek

The Newsletters I Actually Open When They Land

Most AI newsletters say the same three things in a different font.

Oct 15 • Max Votek

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Watch the Payment Layer, Not the Protocol

Walmart, Shopify, and Stripe are helping open a door for personal AI agents.

Oct 13 • Max Votek

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Anthropic's Prospectus: $4.6 Billion in Revenue, $518 Billion in Obligations

Reuters got hold of a document Anthropic never meant anyone outside a banker’s office to read.

Oct 8 • Max Votek

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The Floor Moves Every Four Months

Sequoia almost never lets outsiders see what it actually tells its own LPs.

Oct 1 • Max Votek

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September 2026

I Tried Meta’s Agent. The Interesting Part Was Outside the Chat.

I installed Meta’s agent through the App Store and signed in with Facebook.

Sep 28 • Max Votek

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The Business Model That Depends on You Not Bothering

A huge part of consumer business doesn’t make its money on the product.

Sep 24 • Max Votek

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The Best 16-Year-Olds Rarely Become the Best 30-Year-Olds

34,000 elite performers, tracked from childhood to the top of their field, and one finding that should bother anyone who runs a selection process: the…

Sep 17 • Max Votek

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The Machine That Finally Reads the Fine Print

AI is saving me money in a place I never expected.

Sep 10 • Max Votek

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August 2026

The Technology Is Ready Before We Are

I’ve spent about 96% of my driving time over the past year on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.

Aug 27 • Max Votek

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AI Agents Are the Easy Part. Institutional Memory Is the Moat.

I spent an hour this week watching Cursor’s Grok Bot webinar, and honestly, I went in expecting the usual product pitch.

Aug 24 • Max Votek

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Coldcard Q: a device built by paranoid cryptographers, and why that paranoia just got vindicated

These days it’s hard to get surprised by a device or its design.

Aug 6 • Max Votek

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July 2026

The AI-layoffs story everyone’s telling isn’t the one happening in the room.

I recently sat down with Business Insider to talk about what’s actually going on behind the “AI is taking our jobs” headlines.

Jul 23 • Max Votek

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