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AI Renaissance (Vibe Coding), OpenCloud Opportunities, Taking Leaps of Faith
Kenny Grant
March 07, 2025
Hi there, thanks for the replies and feedbacks (I'll try to share more photos and videos!). I was under the weather for the first part of the week and was hoping to finish a blog post, but ran out of time for this newsletter. So, it sounds like an opportunity to capture feedback on version1. If you have a minute and want to give feedback or be included in the post, check it and hit reply.
In this edition:
Opencloud Report - If you've been waiting to jump in and capture cloudlike growth, AI's moment is now.
In the arena updates - weekly builder updates
Interesting Links - App screenshots, github for cooking, discharging ions, and more
Lessons - business and art + taking leaps of faith
Thanks for being here. Let’s go!
Featured
If you feel like you missed the cloud boom, the AI supercycle is your second chance. Even if cloud isn’t your focus, skimming parts of this deck is worth it—it covers how pricing models are shifting toward outcome-based approaches, the key players driving different motions and emerging categories (including GTM), and the current state of SaaS, which is stabilizing but down from previous years. Read the deck
🔸 Don’t Confuse the Sale with the Install
The lines between product, design, marketing, and sales are blurring. By integrating roadmaps into CRMs and fostering better cross-team communication (with customer context), companies can align more closely with customer needs. Turning the sales journey into a more transparent, collaborative experience that drives long-term success… Building better products, helping more customers, and make more sales.
In The Arena
🔸 Doing Things
AI Builder Observations
I've noticed a new, largely positive energy within builder communities lately and would love your feedback on this blog post draft. Squads 2.0, or what next..
AI Video Models
The nice folks over at Channel42 just launched a video editor packed with all the AI video models. They gave out 1000 free credits as part of their beta launch, and I've been playing around with it! While it (the models) still struggles a fair bit with text and the quality isn't quite there yet, it was far more interactive (and fun) than working with boring stock footage. Just wanted to share my quick experiments with you all! If you have a fav tool or model, let me know
🔸 Friends Building Things
Pixeldrop
Simple iOS app with machine learning to auto tag and blur faces
A handy TestFlight app that lets you quickly blur faces and sensitive info in photos before sharing with friends, colleagues, or posting online. Simple, useful privacy protection in just a few taps.
Office Hours - Let’s Connect
Looking to collab, co-market, or want to explore funding opportunities for something I'm working on? I’m currently taking on new clients and special projects. Whether you’re looking for a collaborator, need a hand on a specific task, or are interested in supporting a unique idea, let’s chat! Hit reply or schedule a time.
Other
🔸 Five Interesting Links
Think twice before taking photos or screenshots of passport, drivers license, passwords and wallet key phrases. Or if you plan to, keep those photos in a private folder that 3rd party apps can’t access. Apple and Google pulled 20 apps with malware that scans your photo library to drain your bank or guess your passwords. [Link]
Roux tastes a bit like github for cooking [Link]
Discharge your negative ions down by the Bay! It’s not just in your head, being by the beach, lake, or water truly helps you relax. [Link]
Apple has re-entered social? You can now create unique invitations and bring people together for events without Partiful, Luma, Fb Events, WA events, etc.. [Link]
Singapore launches innovative program incentivizes job seekers to attend professional events and training courses, transforming unemployment into opportunity. Smart move as AI and job disruption is on its way. [Link]
Qs or Quotes Bouncing in My Brain
Business and Art
Roger Corman, a highly successful filmmaker who earned over $100 million, had one secret weapon: an extremely low budget. He filmed abroad, secured sets at the last minute for minimal cost, and had a keen eye for discovering young talent (Robert Deniro). I love his quote:
If you’re just a straight businessman, your pictures will not be good. And if you’re just a straight artist, you’ll lose money. You have to be a businessman to understand art, and an artist to understand business.
Taking Leaps of Faith
I think it's, the old adage: "The harder I work, the luckier I get." I think chance is not a big factor in the long run. It can be a huge factor in the short run, being at the right place at the right time. But even with that chance, the critical factor is being able to recognize a true opportunity and seize it the moment it presents itself, and not wait and over think it, because it will pass.
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
If you don't have the ability to make that leap of faith it's going to be harder for you to accomplish something great, because there are going to be moments, there are going to be little windows of opportunity that open for a split second and you either squirt through or you don't. But at the moment that you do that, you have to have prepared yourself. You have to have prepared yourself for that fight, because that's going to be the fight of your life.
Whatever that opportunity is, when you grab it, it's going to be more energy than you can manage. It's going to be grabbing the tiger by the tail and if you have not prepared yourself mentally for it through study, through knowing and hypothesizing what it will be like when you're in that position, you won't be able to deal with it. And half of what you've concluded before the fact in your theoretical projection is going to be wrong but half of it will be right--and that's the part you're going to prevail with.
Personal Camera Roll
Thursday March 7 — hi there
Creative Mornings - Vancouver Art Gallery
Bye for now
Have a nice weekend. See you next later
Kenny
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Hi there! I help B2A2C startups go from 0 to 1 with resources, consulting, advisory, and writing, spanning product, marketing, team formation, frontier technology, and the good life. Prev helped 50+ startups and launched 20+ digital products. Although my perspective is universal, I mainly cover the frontier of North America and Southeast Asia.
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