Profound CTO on worldbuilding: describe the future specifically enough and people reorganize around it
adityaag · x · 2026-11-14
Profound cofounder/CTO @dbabbs shares the key concept from his 'minus one' journey at SPC: worldbuilding — describe the future specifically and believe it completely, and people reorganize around it.
His practical points:
- Hold audacious courage and epistemic humility simultaneously
- Ask for what the future actually requires, never negotiate against yourself
- Recruit the best people without hesitation
- Sell the vision to everyone, yourself included, every day
The retweeter adds an analogy: today's window resembles the Vanderbilt/Carnegie/Rockefeller era, except the infrastructure is intelligence — what gets built in the next few years becomes the world we all live in.
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