No More Hustleporn: Too expensive or too cheap - why AI continues to reveal itself as a terrible VC bet
Tweet by sam lessin 🏴☠️ https://twitter.com/lessin @lessin: Too expensive or too cheap - why AI continues to reveal itself as a terrible VC bet
Tweet by sam lessin 🏴☠️ https://twitter.com/lessin @lessin: Too expensive or too cheap - why AI continues to reveal itself as a terrible VC bet
We pulled out the best insights from Ken Griffin's recent interview with Dean Kerwin Charles at Yale School of Management. Transcription and light editing by Anthropic's Claude, curation by Yiren Lu :-) Highlights And with that as a vantage point, I started Citadel effectively right out of college. I joined
We pulled out the best insights from Sam Altman's recent interview with Patrick Collison at Sohn 2023. Transcription and light editing by Claude, curation by Yiren Lu :-) Highlights Patrick Collison: Have any plugins become part of your workflow yet? Sam Altman: Browsing and the code interpreter once in a
Tweet by Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ https://twitter.com/FreightAlley @FreightAlley: A Taylor Swift concert is a combination of music concert and broadway play costing over $100M. Ever wonder what the logistics is for the one of the most expensive concert tours in history? 1/ @FreightAlley: The logistics and transport costs alone
Tweet by Lauren Balik https://twitter.com/laurenbalik @laurenbalik: Are you curious what firms have been charging for "data and analytics engineering" consulting? In today's Data Scam Lessons with Lauren™ we're evaluating what consultancies charge to make dashboards and do some data modeling exercises for ~3 month "Modern Data" starter…
Tweet by Dimitri Dadiomov https://twitter.com/dadiomov @dadiomov: 1/ Random payment trivia: the reason restaurants have two receipts, one with the items you got and a second one with the total amount + signature, is that in the early days of Visa they were worried that restaurants wouldn't sign up.
Tweet by Corry Wang https://twitter.com/corry_wang @corry_wang: 1/ This article on Pinduoduo (the 3rd largest e-commerce platform in China) is ostensibly focused on their new US venture Temu, but it quickly devolves into the most outrageous profile of Chinese corporate culture that I’ve ever read
Tweet by Chris Albon https://twitter.com/chrisalbon @chrisalbon: If you are interested in it, here why I think you should get into AI right now. Disclaimer: If you are looking for some AI hype thread, go somewhere else. @chrisalbon: TL;DR when a new thing comes along, there is
Tweet by Nick St. Pierre https://twitter.com/nickfloats @nickfloats: Ok, so after playing with text-to-video more, I’ve decided it’s actually a semi-shittyy workflow that isn’t very practical for storytellers and is pretty terrible (and expensive) from a production standpoint. The real solution is likely a combo
Tweet by David Perell https://twitter.com/david_perell @david_perell: I’ve been at The Masters all week, and I can certifiably say it’s the best sporting event I’ve ever been to. Here’s what stands out: @david_perell: Scalping tickets is strictly prohibited. But there's a
Tweet by Jason Gu https://twitter.com/jasonprompts @jasonprompts: Alright, figured I'd make a thread to cross it off my bingo card. Here's a rough who's who in AI land 🧵 OGs: @sama - CEO of @OpenAI , changed our world on 11/30/2022 @EMostaque - CEO of @StabilityAI , enjoys 2GB
Tweet by Ankur Nagpal https://twitter.com/ankurnagpal @ankurnagpal: Are you a non-US resident who wants to start a business in America but are concerned about your visa & immigration status? Here is a step-by-step guide on what to do: This works equally well if you want to start your own
Tweet by Vaibhav Kumar https://twitter.com/vaibhavk97 @vaibhavk97: How does OpenAI plugins/Browser work? A thread of detailed analysis on the server interaction. S/o to @CrisGiardina for helping with access. TLDR: Browsing (and possibly plugin) is a different model with 8k seq length support and a toolformer like
Tweet by Nick Dobos https://twitter.com/NickADobos @NickADobos: ChatGPT hack for adhd & executive dysfunction: Copy paste your todo list or the thing you’re avoiding and ask gpt to break it down into smaller steps. (Even if it’s absolutely trivial and you know the steps, like doing dishes)
Tweet by Artem Tepler | R.E. Developer https://twitter.com/ArtemTepler @ArtemTepler: $17,500 savings ordering living room furniture direct from China. Living room set for my personal house from Restoration Hardware for 5 pieces, would have been $21k+ with tax Cost from China = $3500 including tariffs and shipping for
Tweet by Alex https://twitter.com/alexalbert__ @alexalbert__: this clip from the gpt-4 demo was massively slept on gpt-4 can "see" your screen and describe the user interface of the application you are looking at here's @gdb getting gpt-4 to describe a screenshot of a discord server in painstaking detail
Tweet by Anmol Gulati https://twitter.com/anmol01gulati @anmol01gulati: 1/4: When I first joined Brain, a senior colleague, who later became a great friend, shared a mental model about engineering/research that has stuck with me since. It breaks down engineers/researchers into three categories: creators, adders, and multipliers.
Tweet by samir kaji https://twitter.com/Samirkaji @Samirkaji: A lot of panic re: SVB (you should see my phone/emails!). A bank run driven by panic is the real risk here, not the action of selling LT securities at loss I have no inside information as I left SVB
Tweet by deiniolb 🐻👉 aisuite.io https://twitter.com/danberridge @danberridge: I'm speechless. Not peer-reviewed yet but a submitted paper. The 'presented images' were shown to a group of humans. The 'reconstructed images' were the result of an fMRI output to Stable Diffusion. In other words, #stablediffusion literally read people's minds.
Tweet by Shengwu Li https://twitter.com/ShengwuLi @ShengwuLi: Many families have vindictive relatives. My relatives just happen to control a small authoritarian government. 🇸🇬 🧵 @ShengwuLi: My grandfather, Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), was the first prime minister of Singapore. My uncle Lee Hsien Loong (LHL), the current prime minister, disagreed with
Tweet by Speedwell Research https://twitter.com/Speedwell_LLC @Speedwell_LLC: Gary Friedman asked his team at $RH to analyze their $GOOG spend efficacy. The result? 98% of key words were “Restoration Hardware” and the 21 ways to spell it wrong. @Speedwell_LLC: RH no longer pays for Google Ads.
Tweet by Speedwell Research https://twitter.com/Speedwell_LLC @Speedwell_LLC: Gary Friedman asked his team at $RH to analyze their $GOOG spend efficacy. The result? 98% of key words were “Restoration Hardware” and the 21 ways to spell it wrong. @Speedwell_LLC: RH no longer pays for Google Ads.
Tweet by ValueAdd Capital (VAC) https://twitter.com/ValueAddCapital @ValueAddCapital: I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches. I've listed out a few below that I find interesting, but let me know what else you recommend or plug your newsletter here. @ValueAddCapital: @Finding_Moats findingmoatsinternational.substack.com @ValueAddCapital: yetanothervalueblog.
Tweet by ValueAdd Capital (VAC) https://twitter.com/ValueAddCapital @ValueAddCapital: I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches. I've listed out a few below that I find interesting, but let me know what else you recommend or plug your newsletter here. @ValueAddCapital: @Finding_Moats findingmoatsinternational.substack.com @ValueAddCapital: yetanothervalueblog.
Tweet by Karthik Hariharan https://twitter.com/hkarthik @hkarthik: Since leaving Uber in 2019, I've seen several former coworkers embrace cloud infra in their next jobs, as well as interviewed candidates from companies that scaled exclusively with cloud. A quick 🧵 on some of my observations. @GergelyOrosz: After the news of
Tweet by Connie Chan 🍒 https://twitter.com/conniechan @conniechan: Storytime! Why Instagram Channels, the new one-to-many channel, is a bigger deal than it seems, and how it’s following the same playbook as Wechat. 🧵 @conniechan: Let’s go back to 2012. WeChat’s widely used in China already, but only
Tweet by Varun Shenoy https://twitter.com/varunshenoy_ @varunshenoy_: A short guide to engineering better GPT-3 prompts. Here's how I redesigned GraphGPT's prompt to become faster, more efficient, and handle larger inputs: @varunshenoy_: Some quick background: GraphGPT is a tool that generates knowledge graphs from unstructured text using OpenAI's GPT-3
Tweet by Justin Jackson https://twitter.com/mijustin @mijustin: If you were building a new web app/SaaS in 2023, what would your tech stack be? (Rails, @laravelphp ? Fancy new JS framework? What database setup would you use? Where would you host it?) @mijustin: Personally, I'm still on team "full
Tweet by Sahil Bloom https://twitter.com/SahilBloom @SahilBloom: My mom hired a young writer to sit down with my 94-year-old grandmother in India and document stories from her life. They met weekly for two years. The process brought my grandmother immense joy—the result will bring my family joy
Tweet by DY https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere @DYtweetshere: We're releasing our @scale_AI hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with @evanon0ping @theappletucker But let me first explain how it works: @DYtweetshere: Our vision for a future tech stack is to completely replace the backend
Tweet by DY https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere @DYtweetshere: We're releasing our @scale_AI hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with @evanon0ping @theappletucker But let me first explain how it works:
Tweet by Alex Buraks https://twitter.com/alex_buraks @alex_buraks: You probably heard about Yandex, it’s the 4th biggest search engine by market share worldwide. Yesterday proprietary source code of Yandex was leaked. The most interesting part for SEO community is: the list of all 1922 ranking factors
Tweet by StripMallGuy https://twitter.com/realEstateTrent @realEstateTrent: Drycleaners, their devastating impact on our communities that nobody talks about, and a solution: As a strip mall owner, I've dealt with this issue for 15 years, and I'd like to address it here. Hope this gets Retweeted so we save lives!
Tweet by Blake Madden 🏥 https://twitter.com/B_Madden4 @B_Madden4: There are huge transactions in healthcare that barely get any coverage. Urology of Indiana, the largest urology group in the state in practice since 1887, just sold to a PE-backed group - U.S. Urology Partners. • 40 urologists, 20
Tweet by Romeen Sheth https://twitter.com/RomeenSheth @RomeenSheth: "What does the rest of the world not get about India?" I asked @kunalb11 this question last week. Kunal founded @CRED_club - a leading Indian fintech valued at $6.4B. This list is a must read if you're interested in
Tweet by Dhruv Vasishtha https://twitter.com/dvasishtha @dvasishtha: Here’s the uncomfortable truth no one wants to say out loud to startup employees: 90% of the time, joining a startup is not a good economic decision. The outcome will likely be zero, if it’s >0 you will be
Tweet by Aleksandr Volodarsky 🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/volodarik @volodarik: Did you know that Zoho was bootstrapped??? Sridhar Vembu grew it to 80M+ users and $1b annual revenue without ever raising a penny. Pretty wild. Here is what I've learned from their bootstrapping story: @volodarik: In 1996, @svembu & his co-founders used
Tweet by sam lessin 🏴☠️ https://twitter.com/lessin @lessin: The End of “Industrial” Seed VC… (and return to the cottage industry it always was) @euwyn: The idea of returning to pre-2010's seed investing seems nostalgic and appealing, but given how mature platforms are in scaling tech startups, the rewards for
Tweet by Sam Blond https://twitter.com/samdblond @samdblond: 1/ The best outbound campaign we ever ran at Brex (75% demo rate, 75% demo to close): Brex launched in 2018 as the first corporate card for startups. After launch, when we were still ~30 employees and near 0 rev, we
Tweet by Misha Laskin https://twitter.com/MishaLaskin @MishaLaskin: Transformers are arguably the most impactful deep learning architecture from the last 5 yrs. In the next few threads, we’ll cover multi-head attention, GPT and BERT, Vision Transformer, and write these out in code. This thread → understanding multi-head attention. 1/
Tweet by Ankur Nagpal https://twitter.com/ankurnagpal @ankurnagpal: The most important tax rule that affects startup founders, investors, employees & business owners is QSBS So many people I know missed out on massive tax savings since they didn't know about this! Here's everything you need to know about how to
Tweet by Gergely Orosz https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz @GergelyOrosz: I interviewed @artman about how he and the team are building @linear . An interesting thing Tuomas said: because he worked at Uber during hypergrowth (2014-19), he wanted to make sure that he applies the lesson learned at Uber at his next
Tweet by OnlyCFO https://twitter.com/OnlyCFO @OnlyCFO: How to Read Balance Sheets - Software Edition Most people somewhat understand income statements, but few understand balance sheets. Read on for the key takeaways🧵👇 onlycfo.substack.com/p/how-to-read-… @OnlyCFO: A balance sheet is a snapshot at a point in time
Tweet by Pekka Enberg (penberg@fosstodon.org) https://twitter.com/penberg @penberg: "Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database" by Corbett et al (OSDI '12) is a seminal paper from Google that I believe kick-started the last decade of distributed SQL databases such as @CockroachDB , @Yugabyte , and others. So let's dig into
Tweet by Austin Lieberman https://twitter.com/LiebermanAustin @LiebermanAustin: Snowflake CFO Mike Scarpelli recently spoke at a Barclays Global Tech conference Here's what he had to say about the state of Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors I'm a shareholder, so I've included a basic
Tweet by elvis https://twitter.com/omarsar0 @omarsar0: 2022: A Year in Review (ML Papers Edition) In this thread, let's take a look at some of the top trending ML papers of 2022 ↓ @omarsar0: 1) A ConvNet for the 2020s - Liu et al. Vision Transformers took off this year
Tweet by TJ https://twitter.com/teej_m Bunch of thoughts on data I want to write down so I can start next year fresh. Let’s go. BI (charts with pickers) feels further from solved than ever. Looker is great at 1-2 things but otherwise awful. All the startups
Tweet by Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly. Introducing the New Tenant Repeat Rent Index—a new way of tracking housing inflation
Tweet by Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly. Introducing the New Tenant Repeat Rent Index—a new way of tracking housing inflation
Tweet by Alex Cohen https://twitter.com/anothercohen I helped someone evaluate a startup offer letter this week as they weren’t sure how to evaluate their stock or cash comp. I don’t think most people know what to look for, so I thought it would be fun to
Tweet by Sean Linehan https://twitter.com/seanlinehan CEO @placement – on a mission to unlock human potential. Seeking coherence. Previously VP of Product @flexport, @Cal alum I launched an Income Share Agreement (ISA) company in 2019. Our company survived, but our use of ISAs did not. Overall, I think the
Tweet by Josh W. Comeau https://twitter.com/JoshWComeau Indie hacker and educator. CSS for JavaScript Developers: http://css-for-js.dev Previously @gatsbyjs, @concordia_btcmp, @khanacademy, @unsplash. He/Him🌈 The next major version of React, React 18, just launched. There's some *really* cool stuff in this one, and it sets the
Tweet by Dan Grover https://twitter.com/DanGrover PM in tech, ex-@meta, @tencent, @udacity. “There are no solutions, only tradeoffs." Between apps like Warp terminal, VS code, Obsidian, Linear, and Superhuman, there seems to be an emerging design language / set of conventions on what a "pro" desktop app looks
Tweet by Molson Hart https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart Independent thinker. Not afraid to be contrarian. Interests: business, law, health, int'l politics, supply chain, RE, tech, the future, how life works, & more. Pretty amazing. AFAICT this company doesn't fuck around. It's not one of those "fast.co" valuations. People use
Tweet by David Fishman https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat Electricity and China. Economics & policy for solar, wind, nuclear, storage, UHV grid. @LantauGroup @HopkinsNanjing alum 10-year migrant, currently SH So it's CRAZY that we have to do this, it's also incredibly fascinating from a supply chain/logistics/economics perspective. We are in
Tweet by Nathan Barry 🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/nathanbarry/ Founder & CEO at @ConvertKit — the leading Creator Marketing Platform. Grow your audience & earn a living with ConvertKit: http://convertkit.com My SaaS business hit $1,500 MRR and then got stuck. Until I learned an important trick… Here’s the exact method
Tweet by Dan Cahana https://twitter.com/dan_cahana VC @GGVCapital | Previously @GeneralAtlantic@Penn (1/13) Since its recent acquisition of @streamlit, I've been thinking about Snowflake's role in the data ecosystem and what its success means for startups. TLDR, more startups are building around Snowflake, and the opportunity is
Tweet by Peter Reinhardt https://twitter.com/reinpk CEO @CharmIndustrial, prev. CEO @Segment, @MIT aerospace. Biggest fanboy of @embrein. Lots to learn. One of my favorite learnings from Twilio CEO @jeffiel was that the most explosive developer products are the ones that solve a *biz dev* problem for developers. A
Tweet by Andrew Wilkinson https://twitter.com/awilkinson Co-founder of Tiny w/ @_Sparling_. We own @Dribbble, @AeroPress, @WeCommerce_co, and 35+ other wonderful companies. Funding science and journalism on the side. Most people are garbage at conversation. People don’t realize that it’s not what you SAY that makes
Tweet by Andrew Lunny https://twitter.com/alunny/ dachshund owner, frontend engineering at @stripe Over the weekend, my team at @stripe converted the company's largest JS codebase from Flow to @typescript. We modified about 3.5 million lines of code, and then hundreds of developers came in Monday morning ready
Tweet by Internal Tech Emails https://twitter.com/TechEmails/ Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 Get the free newsletter: http://techemails.com Bill Gates gets a product demo December 4, 1999 [This document is from Comes v. Microsoft (2007).]
Tweet by Ryan Law https://twitter.com/thinking_slow/ VP of Content @AnimalzCo. I tweet about writing & content strategy. My end-of-the-world book series, The Rainmaker Writings, out now👇 before I joined Animalz I cofounded a much smaller, much less successful content marketing agency watching Animalz grow has helped me identify
Tweet by Route 2 FI https://twitter.com/Route2FI Investor/writer in DeFi and web3. Player of long-term games. Research at @alongsidefi. Some high yield stablecoin opportunities: - Bancor: 25-28% APR on $USDC, $DAI & $USDT - Quarry: 21,5% APR on $FRAX / $UST LP - Saber: solUST / $UST 27% APR
Tweet by Amila Welihinda https://twitter.com/amilajack Autodidact. Making web apps faster @palette_dev. Web perf, open source, dev tools. Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck Try these instead 🧵 `bat` is `cat` with syntax highlighting and line numbers github.com/sharkdp/bat GitHub -
Tweet by Andrew Batson https://twitter.com/andrewbatson China research director for Gavekal Dragonomics. Aspiring blogger. Former Wall Street Journal. Places I've lived: Louisiana, Beijing, Pacific Northwest. Everyone knows China's population is aging, but turns out its population *of companies* is also getting older. An interesting new IMF paper finds
Tweet by Peter Reinhardt https://twitter.com/reinpk CEO @CharmIndustrial, prev. CEO @Segment, @MIT aerospace. Biggest fanboy of @embrein. Lots to learn. After we found product market fit @Segment in Dec 2012, we nearly ran out of money because we were so scared to ask customers to pay. It took
Tweet by Amanda Herson https://twitter.com/Amanda_Herson Seed investor @fcollective. I tweet about VC, building companies, crypto discovery journey, and sometimes parenting/ balancing act. This tweet is a reminder that D2C and VC aren’t always a great mix. You can put venture dollars into D2C, but you
Tweet by Nayut Sitachitt https://twitter.com/NayutSitachitt I manage ESA Global Value Fund. I’m here to learn and share what I’ve learned. My tweets are not investment advice. 1/ Understanding AWS - A perspective from a manager who has $AMZN as one of the largest positions in
Tweet by Lucas Ou-Yang https://twitter.com/LucasOuYang Currently leading new initiative @Tiktok_US previously engineering / product @snapchat & engineering @facebook. I write about Asian issues & tech Ever since I've started working at #Tiktok 1 year ago many friends r curious about what it's like at a Chinese company and the
Tweet by Abraham Thomas https://twitter.com/athomasq investor, advisor, explorer | exited founder @quandl (NDAQ) | ex hedge fund manager | tweets on data, markets, startups | not all those who wander are lost 1/ Let's talk about quant investing! People tend to label a lot of things "quant", but this muddies the
Tweet by Soumith Chintala https://twitter.com/soumithchintala I ❤️ research -- embodied models, robots, ML systems. I think deeply about lowering the barrier to use A.I. Co-creator and lead of @PyTorch at Meta A.I. It’s been 5 years since we launched @pytorch. It’s much bigger than
Tweet by Elizabeth Yin https://twitter.com/dunkhippo33 GP @hustlefundvc. Democratizing wealth via entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur-investor. SF Bay Area native. My email newsletter: http://elizabethyin.com After thinking about this for a few days, I’ll wade into this one - as a mom and entrepreneur, I think this is a
Tweet by Peter Reinhardt https://twitter.com/reinpk CEO @CharmIndustrial, prev. CEO @Segment, @MIT aerospace. Biggest fanboy of @embrein. Lots to learn. In the early days of Segment, right after we crossed $10m ARR our growth decelerated 8x from 300% yoy to 40% yoy in 6 months. What the hell
Tweet by Jack Raines (✈️,🇦🇷) https://twitter.com/Jack_Raines Pronouns: We/Them/Boys • 50% shitposter, 50% thoughtboi • Write for @litcapital • Travel blog: http://backpackin.blog • 6.9/10 newsletter 👇 1) 🚨WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN NO ONE CAN PAY THEIR CAPITAL GAINS TAXES 🚨 As tax season quickly approaches, countless "traders"
Tweet by Tuvia Gering 陶文亚 https://twitter.com/GeringTuvia/ Chinese security & foreign policy | China-Israel | China-Middle East | Disaster & Emergency Management | @JISS_Israel Research Fellow | @Krauthammer Fellow "The battle of the major powers is not hand-to-hand combat, but a long-term competition for sustainable economic development and labor productivity" - Dr. Zhang Jiadong
Tweet by Avichal - Electric⚡️Capital ┻┳ (¤,¤) 🍣🦙 🐇🕳 https://twitter.com/avichal/ Entrepreneur; Founder @ElectricCapital; Investor: @anchorage@bitwise@boomaero@cruise@deel@dydx@nearprotocol@newfronthq@notionhq@opensea@pulley 1/ Time for @ElectricCapital's Annual Developer Report: medium.com/electric-capit… We analyzed 150m+ repos & xM code commits to produce these 100+ charts. This was a
Tweet by Internal Tech Emails https://twitter.com/TechEmails Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔎 Get the free newsletter: http://techemails.net Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java September 30, 1996 Nathan Myhrvold emails Bill Gates October 1, 1996 [This document is from Comes v.
Tweet by Tom Goldstein https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs Associate Professor at Maryland. I want my group to do theory and scientific computing but my students don’t listen to me so I guess we do deep learning 🤷♂️ If you want to understand why TensorFlow is the way it is, you
Tweet by Sophie, indistinguishable from random noise https://twitter.com/SchmiegSophie Leading Cryptography (ISE) at Google. Algebraic Geometer. All opinions are my own. Isogenist. Schatzführerin des Oxfordkommakomitees. Will I, a Google engineer, who hasn't used "the Cloud" ever, be able to figure out to host a Terraria server in GCP
Tweet by Cobie https://twitter.com/cobie I get drunk every week on @uponlytv with a random dude from Alabama that I’ve never met Replying to @blknoiz06 95% of these trendy alt L1s will fail to maintain ecosystems & anything that will struggle with funding will disappear — eg Sushi maybe.
Tweet by Lawrence H. Summers https://twitter.com/LHSummers Charles W. Eliot Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard. Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the NEC for President Obama. The emerging claim that antitrust can combat inflation reflects “science denial”. There are many areas like
Tweet by Zac Denham https://twitter.com/zac_denham/ Working @mightyapp, bootstrapping https://spinneret.co For the past four months, I've been working part-time (Mon-Wed) at @MightyApp whilst building my own company. I gotta say—its been a stupendous experience and bolstered my growth as a founder & engineer in ways
Tweet by Zach Tratar https://twitter.com/zachtratar Banking-as-a-service at Stripe. Former co-founder of Jobstart (acquired). Angel investor. Radical centrist. No one is 100% wrong. Fun fact: Crypto inequality is *significantly worse* than traditional wealth inequality! The top 1% of Americans own 30.4% of total US Wealth. The top
Tweet by sam https://twitter.com/SamAllenX tech thot leader. southern belle turned nonbinary dyke. probably stoned. they/them This year I conducted 75 technical interviewers. Here's what I learned: 🧵 First, some background. I'm a tech lead at a hypergrowth startup and we've doubled our engineers from 50 -> 100
Tweet by Brandon Rohrer https://twitter.com/_brohrer_ Data science. Algorithm and feature design. he/him. Currently at iRobot, formerly of Facebook, Microsoft, DuPont Pioneer, Sandia Natl Labs, MIT. War stories please. What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on? You all are making
Tweet by Brandon Rohrer https://twitter.com/_brohrer_/ Data science. Algorithm and feature design. he/him. Currently at iRobot, formerly of Facebook, Microsoft, DuPont Pioneer, Sandia Natl Labs, MIT. Feeling bored with machine learning? Here's how to bring back the magic. 1. Choose a problem family. Bonus points if it's
Tweet by Urs Hölzle https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/ SVP Engineering at Google, working on the infrastructure powering Google Cloud and Google. Opinions are my own and are worth exactly what you pay for them. Here's another story from the trenches of the internet. Last month, a fire in a rural
Tweet by Montana Wong https://twitter.com/Montana_Wong/ Currently building 🛡️@pallygg, where creator teams make money | Co-Founder @SpriseHQ | member @CPGClub@ApeDao_ | ex-blockchain engineer @aws Adidas dropped their first NFT today. The sale was capped at a max of 2 items per person and it sold out in less than
Tweet by Samir https://twitter.com/heysamir_/ Fintech startup advisor + investor | Over-engineered fintech tweets every other week | Previously StratFin @Chime, Finance @Sift, Banking @JPMorgan | @Duke alum 1/16 Spend enough time in neobanking fintech & you'll inevitably hear somebody talk about the "Durbin Amendment". It's the reason every neobank exists AND
Tweet by Mike Simonsen 🐉 https://twitter.com/mikesimonsen/ Co-founder CEO Altos Research. Real Estate Data. Past Pres of Entrepreneurs' Organization SF. http://EOSF.org Writing/Speaking: http://HackingHappiness.IO Big drop in available inventory post Thanksgiving holiday. Down to just 350,000 existing single family homes on the market. Man,
Tweet by Dan Luu https://twitter.com/danluu http://patreon.com/danluu. Less tech-y alt account: @altluu Despite the market already seeming bonkers high then, it has gone way up since then. E.g., a friend of mine who was "senior" at Google (there 4 years with no promo) now
Tweet by Corey Quinn https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/ Chief Cloud Economist at @DuckbillGroup. Father to @QuinnyPiglet & @theMunchQuinn. he/him Get my snarky take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/ So a question I posed in slack.lastweekinaws.com led to an unfortunate realization on my part: @awscloud is too
Tweet by Dave Kline https://twitter.com/dklineii/ I teach aspiring leaders how to optimize their career & build great teams | Owner: http://SkillScouter.com | Alum: Bridgewater & Moodys Analytics I've trained 100's of managers. The 60% who fail make one mistake: They don't delegate Here are 9 tactics to win more
Tweet by Alex Garcia 🔍 https://twitter.com/alexgarcia_atx Marketing @Gumroad | Building: http://marketingexamined.com | Follow me for content that helps you optimize your marketing efforts. | prev:@thehustle Way before Airbnb topped a $100B valuation they were constantly rejected at just a $1.5M valuation. Seven times to be exact.
Tweet by Ming Zhao https://twitter.com/FabiusMercurius ex-Point72, ex-cyber hacker; master @ lock-picking, questionable @ stock-picking; i like maths Where does YIELD in crypto come from? It's 2021. 😡 $1 in Chase earns 0.05% APY. 😲 1 UST in Anchor earns 20% APY! 🤯 1 UST in a market-neutral fund running 50x levered
Tweet by Amjad Masad ⠕ https://twitter.com/amasad ceo @replit — bringing the next billion software creators online — work with me: http://replit.com/careers 🇯🇴🇵🇸 #Bitcoin I dreaded the idea of starting a company. As an early employee, I saw how painful startups were, in both success & failure. Replit was forcing
Tweet by Andrew Chen 📍SF https://twitter.com/andrewchen consumer partner, a16z author, The Cold Start Problem (Harper Business) launching Dec 2021 - next month! "creators" have been around for a long time - ever since there's been social media platforms But there's something new: "Creator-led" platforms, where roadmaps, monetization,
Tweet by Chris Dixon https://twitter.com/cdixon Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups. Investing in web3 @ a16z 1/ Topic: Turning networks into economies 🧵 2/ We spent the last 20 years building networks on the internet. Social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Discord are networks, which can be divided
Tweet by Lee Robinson https://twitter.com/leeerob Head of DevRel ▲ @Vercel. Helping developers build a faster web. Teaching about web development, serverless, and React / Next.js. 1/ You want to use serverless. But you've heard about issues connecting to your database... Here's how can you use databases in serverless
Tweet by Daniel Vassallo https://twitter.com/dvassallo I'm bad for the economy. I fought hard at AWS for 1 monolith per AWS service within my dept. We did that successfully in my ex-team, despite heavy pushback initially. 1 git repo, 1 build artifact, and the whole service runs from
Tweet by Sahil Bloom https://twitter.com/SahilBloom I explore my curiosity and share what I learn along the way. Gave up a grand slam on ESPN in 2012 and still waiting for it to land. In 1983, a 52-year-old senior executive at Texas Instruments was passed over for the
Tweet by Mike Forsythe 傅才德 https://twitter.com/PekingMike New York Times reporter. Now in New York after years in China. U.S. Navy veteran. Hoya. Views expressed are my own. CHINA'S RISE to dominate the clean energy revolution is a story that can be told from many angles. The
Tweet by Venkatesh Rao https://twitter.com/vgr Personal account. Writing @ribbonfarm. Hail threadthulhu🐙 Gonna make a thread of my ongoing slow journey (emigration? perhaps…) to Web3, along with my covered wagon full of Web1 and Web2 stuff. Including NFTs, DAOs etc. So if those topics annoy you, you can
Tweet by Walter Chen https://twitter.com/smalter co-founder of @sacrainc, investor at http://goldenwok.com and chairman at @animalzco. previously co-founder at @idonethis. during covid, video became critical infrastructure for all social interactions one company that's indexed on its rise is video api @MuxHQ which is positioning itself to
Tweet by Sahil Bloom https://twitter.com/SahilBloom I explore my curiosity and share what I learn along the way. Gave up a grand slam on ESPN in 2012 and still waiting for it to land. The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is a powerful tool for prioritizing your time and unlocking
Tweet by Internal Tech Emails https://twitter.com/TechEmails Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 Sign up to get new documents: https://techemails.net Jawed Karim emails Chad Hurley and Steve Chen: "video idea" February 13, 2005 [This document is from Viacom v. YouTube (2010).] Further reading
Tweet by jomaoppa.eth 🚩 https://twitter.com/jomaoppa Organic Video Creator: only use natural lighting, non-GMO. 1M YT subscribers How to succeed as a Creator in ANY platform: The fundamental theory of growing in any social media platform is actually *very simple* and a few days ago on Clubhouse @MrBeastYT
Tweet by Mostly Borrowed Ideas https://twitter.com/borrowed_ideas/ Equity Analyst. I publish one in-depth research on a company every month. Subscribe: http://mbi-deepdives.com/plans/subscribe 1/ Thread: $SQ 3Q'21 Earnings Update Cash App and seller ecosystem continue to grow at an impressive rate. My notes from this
Tweet by Jameson https://twitter.com/softwarejameson A credentialed gentleman of the information technology business sector. Staff Engineer @Reddit, previously Amazon, Intel. We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half. So for a team of 9, $32k of laptops will actually save
Tweet by Elizabeth Yin https://twitter.com/dunkhippo33/ GP @hustlefundvc. Democratizing wealth via entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur-investor. SF Bay Area native. Sign up for my email newsletter at http://elizabethyin.com Today's thread is on what to do when you think your company needs to shut down. Read on >> 1) The 1st
Tweet by Sean Frank https://twitter.com/SeanEcom/ COO of http://ridge.com Building 8 figure brands with 8 figure profits. I spent 3 days with 30 ecom owners who are doing 30m+ a year. The same three conversations kept coming up, over and over, regardless of size, niche, or
Tweet by Patrick McGee https://twitter.com/PatrickMcGee_/ San Francisco correspondent for @FT, covering Apple, adtech and hardware (drones and driverless cars). Previously with FT in Frankfurt and Hong Kong. 🇨🇦 An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google @Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed
Tweet by Adam Elmore https://twitter.com/aeduhm/ Independent cloud consultant helping startups build products on AWS. Also sharing stories from around the AWS community on http://aws.fm. I built a startup on AWS and have advised dozens of startups doing the same. This is a practical thread with
Tweet by Matty https://twitter.com/DCLBlogger/ NFT OBSESSED. Featured on @garyvee, @CBCRadio, @coindesk, @reuters. Founder @themetakey, Daily Live NFT Show YouTube NFT Scam Red Flags 🚩🚩🚩 Let's dive deeper into HOW you can spot NFT projects that are 99% a rug pull. Thread 1/ 2/ I tweeted earlier how Metabulls
Tweet by Ryan Petersen https://twitter.com/typesfast CEO of Flexport Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned. First off, the boat captain said we
Tweet by Austin Hankwitz https://twitter.com/austinhankwitz I create personal finance & investing content - empowering everyone to become an educated investor. Featured on @cnbc @wsj @nytimes 1/ I started posting personal finance & investing content on TikTok March of 2020 — I quit my FT job in corporate finance March of
Tweet by John Danner https://twitter.com/jwdanner I write about early stage startups and PMF. 3x founder (NETG IPO), pre-seed investor, board member @LambdaSchool, investor/advisor @outschool and @mavenhq. The current funding market is terrible for founders. Here's why it's damaging so many startups: 1/Normal market behavior is
Tweet by Drake Dukes https://twitter.com/DDukes12 Data Dealer 📈 I discover interesting companies and one-of-a-kind founders at scale using data. 🔎 How else was I supposed to make friends during the pandemic? Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information… I say liberate the
Tweet by justin g https://twitter.com/itunpredictable streetwear analyst / latex salesman @retool, lowest ftp on the block. this is a parody account If you saw Snowflake's S-1 and you're wondering what the hell they do, i've got a thread for you 🎶 Snowflake is a managed data warehouse. Data teams
Tweet by Jamin Ball https://twitter.com/jaminball Partner at Altimeter Capital // Investing predominantly in software businesses from Series B through IPO. Dad to 2 beautiful little girls. No investment advice We've seen some extraordinary IPO pops recently (change in IPO price to day 1 price). nCino popped 195%, Agora
Tweet By Mike Beckham https://twitter.com/mikebeckhamsm Husband, Father, Believer. Co-Founder and CEO of Simple Modern. Senior Entrepreneur-In-Residence @UofOklahoma. There is a major storm brewing in the supply chain. It could dramatically impact everyone's life next year, but almost no one knows about it yet. We are talking empty
Tweet by Dan Rose https://twitter.com/DanRose999 chairman coatue ventures / 20 years at facebook and amazon I had an opportunity to spend some time with Steve Jobs towards the end of his life. Over the course of a handful of meetings, he said many things I still remember. He
Tweet by John Hu https://twitter.com/JayHoovy I’m a Content Creator building tools for Creators formerly @StanfordGSB@NorwestVP@GoldmanSachs Facebook announced that it’s paying out $1BN to Creators. Should TikTok🎵, Snap👻, & YouTube📺 be worried? A quick thread on how FB shakes up the Creator Economy👇 FB announced
Tweet by Urs Hölzle https://twitter.com/uhoelzle A trip down memory lane...exactly 23 years ago Google signed its first datacenter contract. Let's walk through the lease in a thread. First, the copy you see here was sent by a "fax machine" which was something people used back then.
Tweet by Chris Cantino https://twitter.com/chriscantino Tweets exploring crypto, consumer, and community. Then: bootstrapped exit. Now: Partner @ColorCapitalVC. 1/ Anyone can create a free NFT that shows up immediately in their wallet. It only takes ten minutes—here’s how. 🧵 2/ There are many ways to “mint” (publish
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Tweet by ⚡️ Jean Yang ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jeanqasaur Founder + CEO @akitasoftware. Building the future of API observability. Former professor @CSDatCMU. @MIT_CSAIL PhD. Co-host #PLTalk. Co-producer @zoombachelor. When we talk about "developer experience," we really need to separate dev tools into two categories: ones that simplify things away and ones
Tweet by Hemant Mohapatra https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant now: SaaS & Crypto @lightspeedindia, past: investor @a16z, product BD @Google, engg @AMD; lifelong fan of physics, poetry and piano // http://hmohapatra.com Note: This tweet is from 2019 so the Lyft cloud numbers may be off, but I thought it was so
Tweet by Alex Rampell https://twitter.com/arampell?s=20 Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic) 1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap -
Tweet by Jordan https://twitter.com/JordsNel Investing and writing longform @ http://vineyardholdings.net || Learning about semiconductors, China, & DeFi. 1/ With all the hype around 4IR, IoT and AI, I thought I’d spend some time digging into the tech underpinning these trends: Semiconductors. Here’s a quick beginner’s
Tweet by Scott Kupor https://twitter.com/skupor Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz; Author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road; father of three amazing/crazy/beautiful girls Everything you need to know – or at least I what I thought was interesting – in<100 tweets about the Apple/Epic lawsuit verdict today. Fun facts – 64% of Fortnite users have only ever played the game on IOS devices, but 93% of Fortnite revenue is generated on non-IOS platforms; 87% of paying users never transacted via the
Tweet by Jonah Lupton https://twitter.com/JonahLupton Entrepreneur & Investor: @LuptonCapital@SoundGuardPaint@Fintrics@FinTwitConf http://stocktwits.jonahlupton.com http://youtube.jonahlupton.com http://substack.jonahlupton.com E-commerce valuations using 2022 estimates (EV = enterprise value / GP = gross profit) $AMZN Current EV = $1.67 trillion 2022 revenue estimate = $572 billion 2022 gross
Tweet by Trung Phan 🇨🇦 https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan Create threads that make you smarter and memes that make you dumber. Write on business and tech @TheHustle. Worked in fintech @kensho. Sold comedy film to Fox. This is Lex Greensill. He founded Greensill Capital to disrupt "supply-chain finance", a $500B industry