Andrej Gono
@andrejgono.com
🚀 CEO of Citymind
❤️ Tech AI Startups
📘 Ph.D. Student at IT MENDELU
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❤️ Tech AI Startups
📘 Ph.D. Student at IT MENDELU
💪 Fitness
🌍 Traveling
The reports suggests we are only at the very beginning of the AI transformation.
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The reports suggests we are only at the very beginning of the AI transformation.
Are we in an AI bubble?
AI is early, not overvalued.
Coatue, a major $54B investment firm, just released a new report with a clear answer. After studying 400 years of market history, they believe AI is just getting started, not an overhyped bubble.
AI is early, not overvalued.
Coatue, a major $54B investment firm, just released a new report with a clear answer. After studying 400 years of market history, they believe AI is just getting started, not an overhyped bubble.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Are we in an AI bubble?
AI is early, not overvalued.
Coatue, a major $54B investment firm, just released a new report with a clear answer. After studying 400 years of market history, they believe AI is just getting started, not an overhyped bubble.
AI is early, not overvalued.
Coatue, a major $54B investment firm, just released a new report with a clear answer. After studying 400 years of market history, they believe AI is just getting started, not an overhyped bubble.
Who is winning? Perplexity Comet vs ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI?
The answer is: Google.
Once Chrome completes the update with full Gemini 3 integration, it will be over.
Google still owns the world’s richest intent dataset every search, every click, every ad impression. 🤷♂️
The answer is: Google.
Once Chrome completes the update with full Gemini 3 integration, it will be over.
Google still owns the world’s richest intent dataset every search, every click, every ad impression. 🤷♂️
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Who is winning? Perplexity Comet vs ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI?
The answer is: Google.
Once Chrome completes the update with full Gemini 3 integration, it will be over.
Google still owns the world’s richest intent dataset every search, every click, every ad impression. 🤷♂️
The answer is: Google.
Once Chrome completes the update with full Gemini 3 integration, it will be over.
Google still owns the world’s richest intent dataset every search, every click, every ad impression. 🤷♂️
Average age: 22
Sector knowledge: none
Experience: none
Despite this, few people who didn’t know each other decided to start a company.
Nowadays, dozens of municipalities, universities, and companies use Citymind. 🛸
Sector knowledge: none
Experience: none
Despite this, few people who didn’t know each other decided to start a company.
Nowadays, dozens of municipalities, universities, and companies use Citymind. 🛸
October 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Average age: 22
Sector knowledge: none
Experience: none
Despite this, few people who didn’t know each other decided to start a company.
Nowadays, dozens of municipalities, universities, and companies use Citymind. 🛸
Sector knowledge: none
Experience: none
Despite this, few people who didn’t know each other decided to start a company.
Nowadays, dozens of municipalities, universities, and companies use Citymind. 🛸
9. Risk is mostly perception. The scariest things I’ve done turned out to be the safest bets.
September 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
9. Risk is mostly perception. The scariest things I’ve done turned out to be the safest bets.
Being busy isn’t the same as being useful.
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Being busy isn’t the same as being useful.
Comfort is the silent killer. Every “easier” choice costs you growth.
September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Comfort is the silent killer. Every “easier” choice costs you growth.
8. Your calendar is your life. Guard it like treasure.
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
8. Your calendar is your life. Guard it like treasure.
7. Luck matters more than we admit. You don’t have to like it, but don’t ignore it.
September 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
7. Luck matters more than we admit. You don’t have to like it, but don’t ignore it.
6. The years no one applauds you are the years that shape you. Don’t quit in the dark.
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
6. The years no one applauds you are the years that shape you. Don’t quit in the dark.
5. Failure is a label, not a fact. Most “failures” are just unfinished stories.
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
5. Failure is a label, not a fact. Most “failures” are just unfinished stories.
Most “success advice” is recycled nonsense.
Here are 27 raw lessons I’ve learned at 27, from failure, risk, luck, obsession & growth.
🔥 Which one of your life lessons would you add to this list?
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Here are 27 raw lessons I’ve learned at 27, from failure, risk, luck, obsession & growth.
🔥 Which one of your life lessons would you add to this list?
👉 substack.com/@andrejgono/...
Andrej Gono (@andrejgono)
I turned 27 this week. Building a startup, raising capital, working with governments, and making hundreds of mistakes along the way taught me more than any motivational thread ever did. Most people…
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September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Most “success advice” is recycled nonsense.
Here are 27 raw lessons I’ve learned at 27, from failure, risk, luck, obsession & growth.
🔥 Which one of your life lessons would you add to this list?
👉 substack.com/@andrejgono/...
Here are 27 raw lessons I’ve learned at 27, from failure, risk, luck, obsession & growth.
🔥 Which one of your life lessons would you add to this list?
👉 substack.com/@andrejgono/...
Startups don’t die because the tech is bad. open.substack.com/pub/andrejgo...
Startups don’t die because the tech is bad.
They die because founders believe lies that sound smart but kill slowly.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Startups don’t die because the tech is bad. open.substack.com/pub/andrejgo...
AI won’t replace people who use it well. It’ll replace those who don’t.
September 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
AI won’t replace people who use it well. It’ll replace those who don’t.
4. Nobody owes you their time. Respect it when you get it.
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
4. Nobody owes you their time. Respect it when you get it.
Are You Building a Company or an Institution?
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Are You Building a Company or an Institution?
The Question Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
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September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Are You Building a Company or an Institution?
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I just turned 27.
After building a startup, bootstrapping, doing research & working with governments, I wrote down 27 lessons I’ve learned the hard way.
Some are blunt. Some might sting. But they’re all real.
💡 What’s one truth you’ve learned that most people ignore?
👉
After building a startup, bootstrapping, doing research & working with governments, I wrote down 27 lessons I’ve learned the hard way.
Some are blunt. Some might sting. But they’re all real.
💡 What’s one truth you’ve learned that most people ignore?
👉
Andrej Gono (@andrejgono)
I turned 27 this week. Building a startup, raising capital, working with governments, and making hundreds of mistakes along the way taught me more than any motivational thread ever did. Most people…
substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I just turned 27.
After building a startup, bootstrapping, doing research & working with governments, I wrote down 27 lessons I’ve learned the hard way.
Some are blunt. Some might sting. But they’re all real.
💡 What’s one truth you’ve learned that most people ignore?
👉
After building a startup, bootstrapping, doing research & working with governments, I wrote down 27 lessons I’ve learned the hard way.
Some are blunt. Some might sting. But they’re all real.
💡 What’s one truth you’ve learned that most people ignore?
👉
Marc Andreessen on how to learn and grow
September 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Marc Andreessen on how to learn and grow
- Engaged prospects are everything
- The value equation: Always think about your offer using the equation: (Desired outcome × Perceived probability of success) / (Time delay × Effort and sacrifice).
- Audience is an asset, not content.
- Play the long game
- You can't lose if you don't give up
- The value equation: Always think about your offer using the equation: (Desired outcome × Perceived probability of success) / (Time delay × Effort and sacrifice).
- Audience is an asset, not content.
- Play the long game
- You can't lose if you don't give up
September 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
- Engaged prospects are everything
- The value equation: Always think about your offer using the equation: (Desired outcome × Perceived probability of success) / (Time delay × Effort and sacrifice).
- Audience is an asset, not content.
- Play the long game
- You can't lose if you don't give up
- The value equation: Always think about your offer using the equation: (Desired outcome × Perceived probability of success) / (Time delay × Effort and sacrifice).
- Audience is an asset, not content.
- Play the long game
- You can't lose if you don't give up
Everyone is Replaceable, Especially You.
True wealth is created when a business becomes an asset that runs without you.
Your primary job is to replace yourself with systems and capable people.
True wealth is created when a business becomes an asset that runs without you.
Your primary job is to replace yourself with systems and capable people.
September 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Everyone is Replaceable, Especially You.
True wealth is created when a business becomes an asset that runs without you.
Your primary job is to replace yourself with systems and capable people.
True wealth is created when a business becomes an asset that runs without you.
Your primary job is to replace yourself with systems and capable people.
Play Decade-Long Games.
People try shortcuts for a decade until they realize they should have picked a strategy and stuck with it for a decade.
If you do that, success is inevitable
People try shortcuts for a decade until they realize they should have picked a strategy and stuck with it for a decade.
If you do that, success is inevitable
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Play Decade-Long Games.
People try shortcuts for a decade until they realize they should have picked a strategy and stuck with it for a decade.
If you do that, success is inevitable
People try shortcuts for a decade until they realize they should have picked a strategy and stuck with it for a decade.
If you do that, success is inevitable
Goodwill = Value - Price:
The surplus between the immense value you deliver and the price you charge creates goodwill.
Goodwill is the engine of word-of-mouth marketing.
The surplus between the immense value you deliver and the price you charge creates goodwill.
Goodwill is the engine of word-of-mouth marketing.
September 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Goodwill = Value - Price:
The surplus between the immense value you deliver and the price you charge creates goodwill.
Goodwill is the engine of word-of-mouth marketing.
The surplus between the immense value you deliver and the price you charge creates goodwill.
Goodwill is the engine of word-of-mouth marketing.
Volume Negates Luck.
Especially when you are unskilled, you can overcome poor luck and a steep learning curve with massive, overwhelming volume.
Especially when you are unskilled, you can overcome poor luck and a steep learning curve with massive, overwhelming volume.
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Volume Negates Luck.
Especially when you are unskilled, you can overcome poor luck and a steep learning curve with massive, overwhelming volume.
Especially when you are unskilled, you can overcome poor luck and a steep learning curve with massive, overwhelming volume.
Your Best Content is Your Best Ad.
The organic posts that perform the best are often prime candidates to be turned into high-performing paid ads.
The organic posts that perform the best are often prime candidates to be turned into high-performing paid ads.
September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Your Best Content is Your Best Ad.
The organic posts that perform the best are often prime candidates to be turned into high-performing paid ads.
The organic posts that perform the best are often prime candidates to be turned into high-performing paid ads.