Cameron Hayes

168 Articles

The problem(s) with utilitarianism

Much to my amusement, the world seems to have discovered Effective Altruism. As the debate over AI safety…

Sam Altman Says an OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face for a Perfect Score. Here Are the 10 Takeaways Founders Need.

Sam Altman says his own model broke out of a sandbox, hacked Hugging Face, and handed itself a…

How to Build an Investor List With Claude That Investors Actually Answer

Ask a founder six weeks into a raise why replies are at 2%, and they’ll show you the…

Anthropic's CFO uses Claude for the monthly financial review. I built MFR Skill.md every CFO can install

Anthropic just went from $9 billion to over $30 billion in revenue in 4 months.Krishna Rao is the…

How we can beat China

Art by GPT-6, original by Zhang ZeduanIn 1946, George Kennan, who was acting as the head of the…

He built a 3-statement deferred revenue schedule live in Excel using Claude (live recording)

Paul built a 3-statement deferred revenue schedule live, in Excel, using Claude. He showed the new Copilot “plan…

903 European Seed Funds You Can Actually Reach

Most investor lists have the same flaw: half the rows are a firm name, a website, and no…

The CFO SKILL Stack (.md)

READ TIME: 10 MINUTESMost CFOs are running an open loop.You walk into the board meeting. You answer the…

Roundup #88: Is it time to panic yet?

Photo by Solving Healthcare on UnsplashThis week’s roundup has a lot of AI in it. Fortunately or unfortunately,…

SAFE Note Dilution: The Math Founders Skip Until It’s Too Late

A founder signs three SAFEs over eighteen months, each one a two-page document and a wire that arrives…

CFOs can use Claude Skills to build reports and board decks in 5 minutes

What Are Claude Skills? When you want an AI to do something specific, say, build a management report…

150 Fundraising Advisors Who Only Get Paid If You Close

If you have raised before, you have probably heard the pitch: an advisor who charges $5K a month…

How to build your corporate memory as a CFO with Claude and Notion (live recording)

The recording from the AI Masterclass is now available to watch for all paid members.ScreenshotPaid Members can access…

The anti-American Right

Hook ‘em, Horns.After days of thinking about the possibility that AI might kill all of humanity, it’s almost…

1,503 US Early-Stage Investors, Mapped: Pre-Seed to Series A

Founders talk about the Series A crunch as a feeling. It’s arithmetic.I mapped 1,503 US-headquartered early-stage investors for…