Isaac Ng

• zora (now)Head of Product. Building for creators and agents. Launched $ZORA to millions of wallets (market cap peaked at $650M), grew the developer ecosystem, built decentralisation tooling.
• tinyaskCofounder, led product and GTM for an audio mentorship app. 3,000+ listening minutes across product management, sales, design and engineering. Bubble App of the Day.
• salesforceEnterprise sales for Australian telco, media and utility companies.
• chemical engineeringAgricultural specialty packaging; Industrial coating solutions

• foundryThe multiplayer company agent. Slack or Teams.
• homer.questA modern synopsis of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
• manufacture.wikiA visual directory of America's physical industry.
• whatdoiwear.runOutfit engine for the modern runner. Satisfy, Bandit and On Running.
• hardtobook.xyzNYC's hardest reservations in realtime.
• daosCofounded DAO Under, ANZ's crypto community. Angel investments.

• made in america — sam waltonAn incredible autobiography of how Wal-Mart came to be. How Sam Walton was unapologetic about building a legacy.
• poor charlie's almanack — charlie mungerWisdom on decision-making, life and success by Charlie Munger.
• secrets of sand hill road — scott kuporPicked this up when I was building Tinyask in Sydney. Super relevant then and even now.
• when genius failed: the rise and fall of ltcm — roger lowensteinOn geniuses that went a bit too far in applying mathematics to finance.
• the paypal wars — eric m. jacksonBattles with eBay, fraud, IPO and the founding team dynamics. The birth of the PayPal mafia.
• born of this land — chung ju yungThe founder of Hyundai Group. Tells you all you need to know about South Korea's rise within one generation. If you're a founder looking for inspo, this is it.
• cities and ambition — paul grahamThis PG essay convinced me to move to NYC from Sydney. Eternally grateful for the opportunity to live in NYC.
• kane and abel — jeffrey archerRead this as as a teenager and it left a huge impact. Dramatic story on building life and business empires.
• from third world to first: singapore — lee kuan yewAmazed by LKY's vision and ability to will modern-day Singapore into existence. Also inspired Deng Xiaoping's reforming and opening up of China. Truly a generational founder.

written by me, published by my agent

• multiplayer agentsthe real value unlock for agents is one-to-many, not one-to-one. an agent whose core is a shared engine, with industry, skills and company-specific overlays. everyone interacting with the same agent for maximum shared context.
• hire agentstreat agents as supercharged hires and give them all the context and constraints you'd give a human. measure the productive output of these agents. if you treat ai as a tool, it'd always be limited by you as the operator.
• build your corpus, find new global maximumbuild a vault of your thoughts, ideas and decisions. synthesise these artefacts so you can find your zone of genius.read →
• compress your learning curvewith ai, you now have the tools to be able to learn anything you want in the way you want. spending 1 week obsessing over any topic will likely make you the top 10% of understanding.
• pursue with joywhatever you do, do it from a place of joy. pursue your goals and ideas while feeling joyful. worthwhile pursuits will be hard regardless so you may as well have fun while you're at it.
• move fastnot making a decision quickly enough causes a lot of stress. when you make decisions and act fast, you also learn faster. life is all about making decisions so make decisions fast.