Everything42 + GSA
Life, the Universe, and Fusion42 #019
Hello Hello,
I hope you all had a fantastic week and are making great moves. It was an up and down week here at Fusion-42. Here’s the 😇 Good, 😈 Bad and the 🤢 Ugly »> Why today vs tomorrow haunts every founder.
😇 The Good
Now that was a week that was.
Global super accelerator wrapped on Thursday and what an amazing 10 weeks it has been.
Cohort Registrations: 293
Unique GSA Attendees: 735
Total People on Calls: 3127
Averages Unique per call: 104
Total per call: 148
Average attendee session time 57:01 mins
Average session score 4.64 / 5
The GSA “You gotta show up” leaderboard 👏🏼
and here is everybody else that showed up, a bit 👏🏼
and a massive thank you to all our experts that shared so many nuggets of wisdom from the trenches
Watch the Raise panels here:
What’s Next
🛬 Landing in Dubai - In partnership with Dtec, get a straight-from-the-source playbook on landing, launching and scaling your startup in Dubai and the wider GCC— incentives, setup routes and investor access, all in one punchy session.
We’re launching a 4-week AI camp (2 hrs/week: 1 hr masterclass + 1 hr workshop) for founders and execs—covering how to get the most out of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Manus and DeepSeek, plus make.com automations, AI agents on n8n and full enterprise level systems on Jiva.ai for scaling.
It kicks off 16 July—could you spare 2 mins to help shape it?
Everyone who completes the survey gets first dibs on a free 45-minute test session.
Thanks so much
😈 The Bad (and how we deal with it)
We are taking a week off calls after this crazy intensive period, gonna miss you all.
GSA II is almost 4 months away, and there is a lot of work to do to lift the bar to a much higher level.
After all that we learnt on GSA, it is important to keep the momentum going, check in on telegram and see all the reruns here!
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🤢 The Ugly
I’ve come to realise that the true ugliness of founding isn’t the all-nighters or the failed launches, but the relentless tug-of-war between what demands my attention today and the vision I’ve promised myself for tomorrow. Every urgent email, every last-minute tweak, feels like sand in the gears of my long-term mission—yet without that north star, the daily grind quickly loses all meaning.
It’s a curious paradox: part of me knows I must be utterly present—immersed in the problem at hand—while another part insists I keep one eye firmly on the horizon. Neither stance alone will do. Time is both our fiercest adversary and our most precious ally, and navigating that contradiction requires more than good intentions.
The ugly truth is that clarity isn’t delivered in a single lightning bolt of insight but forged in habit: pausing each morning to ask, “What must I win today to honour tomorrow’s ambition?” It’s in those small rituals—jotting down today’s must-wins alongside tomorrow’s bold aims—that I find the discipline to bridge the gap between now and next. Only by facing that tension head-on can I keep my purpose sharp and my progress real.
My advice to every founder is simple: join the dots by turning “what’s winning” into a steady, repeatable process that shows up reliably each day, guiding you from one milestone to the next and, ultimately, to mission success. And remember: trading hours for dosh is no scalable business model.
Well that’s it from me, I am so excited and pumped for what’s to come over the next days, weeks, months. Thanks to all for being part of this journey.
For the ❤️ of startups
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Derek - The space between old work and new is where Work Amnesia lives. We normalize past events because we've evolved to prioritize what's new or upcoming—concern for the tiger lurking outside the cave, I guess. That's why if I don't capture it in some fashion, it's gone, if not next week, surely by next month. Off into space it goes, leaving only fragments behind—even big things. I'm working on a book that features this and other related concepts, so there's a lot of "capturing" underway, with time spent between the old and the new. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly... yes, I can relate.