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UnchartedDo you want to transform the world of media from the ground up with AI? Build the CNN / News Corp / The Economist / The New York Times of the 21st Century? Come up with new ideas to improve the world and build the tools to make it happen? Then you should join me.
I've hired hundreds of people in my life and interviewed thousands. I know what a good worker looks like, and from what I've seen, the team at UT will be out of this world.
That's because UT doesn't just attract intelligent people (founders, CEOs, senior managers, investors, fund managers, university professors, politicians…). It attracts a type that's even rarer: missionaries. Unlike most workers I've met (mercenaries), the UT readers I've worked with are passionate about the mission to help others deeply understand the world to better navigate it. The result is that I think those who join UT will have both the attitude (missionaries) and aptitude (intelligence) to build something historic.
This is what we're going to build:
SCOPE OF EXPANSION
If all of this succeeds, UT should be much bigger than it is today, and instead of having just one creator, it would have a constellation of creators that consistently push the world to be more data-driven, more optimistic, and to make better decisions.
You love UT and want to help it succeed — not mercenaries chasing a paycheck.
You have strong ideas of what you want to do with UT in your field, lots of initiative, and want the freedom to try things.
Once you have a good sense of what to build, you jump in and make it happen rather than overanalyze.
Build fast, try lots of things, fail, learn, care deeply about results. Fail very fast, and always incorporate the learnings.
I'd rather have a person who doesn't know a field but figures it out fast than someone who has been in a field forever and wants to do things by the book.
Speed doesn't mean slop. We try things, but never things we know will fail because they don't abide by our high standards.
Nearly everybody in the company should be able to build their own software. If you don't vibe code yet, you must want to learn fast.
You love what you do, you're excited about how AI is impacting it, and you can't wait to apply it to UT.
You prefer a small team of amazing people over a large company.
The only thing that matters is moving fast and getting results.
Timezone and logistics — but open to other geographies.
I'll review applications over the next couple of weeks. Then, we will have one or two conversations to get to know each other, go through your background, and cover work that proves you will succeed at UT. In some cases, I may ask you to think through a problem or prepare something. In others, your past work will be enough.
The full process will probably take 1–2 months. I may not hire everyone at the same time. Some roles may open later.
I don't have all the answers yet. We will figure many of them out together. The expectation is not certainty—it's speed, judgment, and the ability to build. Many things we try will fail. That's expected.
