Creating products. Building momentum. Managing the moments that matter.
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We’re building the next generation of MagicCo around one thing: helping the world’s top consumer brands kickstart what’s next.
New products. New technology. New experiences. New ways to reach consumers.
From idea to market.
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The entire city of San Francisco is spooked and on edge due to AI safety shit, it’s insane how much it’s bleeding into my everyday life. Like I was at my bus stop and I notice a guy looking really stressed out so I said hey, are you worried about misaligned AI too? He took out an AirPod and said “what?” So I said you know stuff like agent swarms, AI escaping RL sandboxes, existential risk. He paused his Barstool podcast and said “sorry, what? What are you talking about?” Just the mention of this stuff made him too anxious to speak, I think. So I said I know man, what?! is my reaction to all this too, and then asked him what his p(doom) is. He then said “dude is this some gay thing or something because I have no fucking clue what you’re asking me” then he got on the bus. People are not handling all this news well. It’s really affecting us. All of us.
Don't be too afraid of A.I.
Congrats to the team at @FishAudio!
Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.
>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc
We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.
If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: s.fish.audio/tmapke
To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.
Vita Coco Frosted Lemonade is live on @Roblox! Build your own lemonade stand, sell frosty drinks, stack your cash, and own the hottest days of summer
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Check out our communications work for Winn-Dixie. Can you guess which parts are AI assisted? See more
youtu.be/Zuiv-y_E3GU?si=IgSu…
Silicon Valley has a massive PR problem, born in part from San Francisco’s lack of deep historical experience with advertising, mass-market persuasion, and public image management. That's been an East Coast thing historically.
MagicCo retweeted
Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham explains how he used ChatGPT/AlphaFold (spent $3,000 with no biology background) to create a custom MRNA vaccine to treat his dog’s cancer tumors. Unreal.
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
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Din Tai Fung makes $27m per restaurant in America, the top average unit volume (AUV) in the industry:
▫️Mastro's Steakhouse ($14.5m)
▫️Cheesecake Factory ($12.4m)
▫️Nobu ($10.1m)
▫️Chick-fil-A ($9.3m)
▫️Benihana ($6.5m)
▫️McD ($3.9m)
To make soup dumplings, new chefs train 6 months going through thousands of xiao long baos (aka "little basket buns"). Each dumpling is weighed to 5 grams and has 18 folds.
“To generate unit volumes of [Din Tai Fung’s] magnitude, a restaurant generally has to do three things: It has to be big, customers have to spend a decent amount, and it has to be busy,” explains Restaurant Business. “Din Tai Fung checks all three of those boxes.”
When I go to Din Tai Fung, I check two boxes: 1) destroy a basket of 10 dumplings in 3 minutes; and 2) get that glorious dip sauce (1 part soy sauce, 3 parts vinegar) all down my white t-shirt.
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Restaurant Business: restaurantbusinessonline.com…
Tasty: youtu.be/rY7HawoU-Cw?si=gxGM…
There’s never been a better time to be a creator, storyteller, or a VC with a vision beyond deep tech.
but by fostering growth that stands the test of time.We are excited to embark on this next chapter and look forward to building a more stable, thoughtful future together. (9/10)
The way forward is not about monopolizing attention but about earning trust—through consistent, human-centric strategies that help our partners thrive. This is how we will continue to lead, not through disruption for disruption's sake, (8/10)
ensuring every move aligns with the evolving needs of our customers and the broader market. Our focus will be on meaningful advancements, risk-averse strategies, and platforms that offer real, lasting value. (7/10)
Stability is not about standing still; it's about providing dependable, scalable solutions that reduce risk and increase resilience.This does not mean we will shy away from innovation. It means we will innovate with greater care, (6/10)
𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙨. We believe the future belongs to those who build with purpose, who design marketing campaigns that scale sustainably, and who prioritize long-term growth over short-term gains. (5/10)
even the government, and in many ways, this has become the status quo. In a market saturated with constant change and fleeting attention, differentiation demands a new approach.Today, MagicCo is ushering in a new era—one defined by 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, (4/10)