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can't believe people are still debating if this tweet is cap or not
bro Elon literally shipped AGI for $30
and people are already using it to wipe out entire agencies
grok bot can literally feed your children, take care of your wife & even give you a blowj..
ah nvm I'm joking
but seriously, there are levels to this shit:
• reads a founder's last 500 tweets in 10 seconds to tell u why his launch flopped & what to pitch him
• finds everyone crying about your competitor on the timeline & drafts a DM to steal them
• turns a 30-second voice note of u rambling in your car into a week of distribution
• executes trades directly from your wallet while u sleep
even I've been running private bots for my own workflow for months
never shared them because setting up the plumbing was a pain in the ass
now that grok lets u clone bots in 1 click, I'm just dumping all my setups on this account
did the trial & error so u don't have to
turn notifs on or whatever
told my grok bot to scan 6 months of a founder's content & replies before I reached out
the shit it pulls from someone's 2am activity is borderline illegal 💀
we are never doing normal cold outreach again
link to the bot here
Replying to @arpitatscale @gaby_goldberg
dropped the bot link in my telegram if anyone wants to use it for their outreach
link in bio
(and yeah dw its free)
nobody in tech wants to talk about these numbers publicly:
- organic reach on corporate company pages: down 80%
- cost per qualified demo on paid ads: up 3x since 2024
- cold email inbox placement on secondary domains: under 20%
- percentage of replies on branded posts that are AI bots: ~70%
- percentage of inbound pipeline coming from the founder's personal timeline: 80%+
- percentage of marketing budget allocated to the founder's content: 0%
icl founders will burn $25,000 a month on dead channels just to avoid being vocal online
pledging $159B to charity publicly while quietly writing "not legally binding" in your S-1 is the most San Francisco shit I have ever seen in my life
they played the entire world like a fiddle
Who actually gets rich if Anthropic lists at $2 trillion?
The S-1 filed on Monday lets us answer from the filing itself.
The reported target is $1.5T to $2T, listing the week of November 16. The filing implies about 16.9B fully diluted shares. So $2T works out to roughly $118 a share.
The cap table at $2T:
- $199B for the 7 controlling co-founders, about 10%
- $28B for Ben Mann, if his stake matches theirs
- $100B for the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, 5%
- $331B in employee options and RSUs, about 17% , That pool covers about 5,300 employees, an average of $62M each.
- But when you joined matters enormously.
The S-1 shows how much equity was granted each year, and at what price. [
Headcount went from about 300 to 500 in late 2023, to 940 at end 2024, to 5,300 now.
Match the two, and here is roughly how many people made what at $2T:
- $110M to $400M each: ~300 to 500 people hired by 2023
- $200M to $300M each: ~440 to 640 hired in 2024
- $70M to $95M each: ~1,360 hired in 2025
- $10M to $20M each: ~3,000 hired in 2026
So about 940 people hired by the end of 2024 average nine figures. Everyone hired since averages eight figures.
The 2024 class is the surprise. That year Anthropic granted 1.28B options at $1.30 a share. At $118, that one year of grants is worth about $133B.
Then there is the tender. In April, holders could sell at $25.91 a share. Investors lined up $6B, but only $4.7B sold.
Weeks later, Series H priced at $58.90 a share. At $2T, the people who held would be up 4.6x. And Dario and Daniela Amodei were among the sellers.
The 7 founders have pledged 80% of their equity to charity. That is about $159B at $2T. But the S-1 says the pledges are not legally binding.
3 months later & this tweet aged like pure milk
someone on github literally cloned @wisprflow exactly same
made it 100% free
made it faster
but people are still gonna give wisprflow $12/mo
only a few know why
people who think "code is the moat" seem crazy to me
they genuinely believe if u build a faster model & cut the price to 0...
the market will respect you
while actually the market does not give a fuck about your GitHub repo
non-technical buyers will (& still do) gladly pay $12/month for the luxury of never having to think about how software works
Free software on GitHub signals fragility
so buyers assume a free repo breaks on the next macOS update the second the maintainer gets bored or gets a girlfriend
but a paid subscription is psychological insurance that a funded company is legally & financially forced to keep the servers alive
the price tag is just the trust signal
Distribution is the only moat that can't be cloned over a weekend
20 negative prompts that stops grokbot (or any AI) from writing sloppy content
tested across X, LinkedIn & video scripts👇
I built a grok bot (CJ) to do deep research on people's X accounts before cold dming them
asked him to help me rizz up @gaby_goldberg
ngl it just leveled up my game 1000x
I can't fumble her now
nobody gives a fuck about another meta ads tutorial in 2026
this guy knew that, so he used an 8-figure bank wire as bait:
line 1: "a life changing wire hit my account"
actual topic: "how to run facebook ads"
how he tricked 1.3M people into reading it & how to do the exact same thing:
1. Finish Line Bait (Line 1)
"Two weeks ago a life changing amount of money was wired into my bank account from the sale of my business"
imagine if he said "here is how to get a 4x ROAS", nobody would've clicked
so he hooked them with the final destination
literally sold the irreversible end-state every single marketer on this timeline dreams about at night:
getting a massive check wired to their bank & walking away
hooking with the final result people lust after stops the scroll dead
2. Incentive Killer (Line 2)
"Since I'm no longer a competitor in this particular arena, I'm gonna drop some sauce..."
this is the most important line in the entire post imho
the number one reason people scroll past advice on this app is suspicion
the second an audience reads a tutorial, their subconscious immediately asks:
"if this actually prints money, why the fuck are u telling me on twitter instead of doing it yourself?"
line 2 kills that alarm instantly
"I don't compete here anymore"
with one sentence, he gave them an airtight logical reason why the information is free
the second people believe u have nothing to sell them, their defense drops to zero
3. Contraband Boundary (Line 3)
"I'm going to be vague so I don't dox myself, but here it goes:"
notice
he didn't say "bookmark this thread" or "drop a like for part 2" like a needy nerd
but made the audience feel like sharing this information was dangerous for him
people VALUE leaked secrets
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How to replicate this exact setup without selling a business:
you actually don't need an 8-figure exit to use this psychology
this 3-beat structure works for literally any topic:
1. anchor to something that ended or happened
a client contract that expired, a setup u just turned off or a campaign u ran for 6 months & killed
2. give the reader a concrete reason why you're willing to share the sauce right now
"we don't take clients in this niche anymore"
"we migrated our entire stack away from this"
"this contract ended last friday"
prove u don't compete with them
3. add a friction rule to protect yourself
"scrubbing the client metrics so I don't get an angry email from their board"
"can't share the exact URL for obvious reasons"
once u realize 90% of content fails because people smell an agenda
writing hooks becomes ridiculously simple
part 2 just dropped!!
bro's YC application is still in review & he's already committing $230,000 in SF payroll on his vercel subdomain
the confidence of tech founders on this app needs to be studied
did @bot just killed public links for grok bots or did my dashboard bug out?
the entire publish & share UI is gone
can't export or share a single setup
someone make a grok bot that tells me who viewed my profile & how many times
I need to see the stalkers ngl
people will laugh at CT for this and will never get why this actually happens
(it's definitely not because crypto users are boring)
it's because 95% of crypto marketing teams are fucking useless
the second bitcoin goes sideways for two weeks, every venture-backed marketing lead runs out of ideas & goes completely silent
& when u give 100,000 people nothing interesting to talk about, they default to arguing over who pays for sushi on a tuesday
notice what happens the second a team knows how to run a campaign in a boring market?
look at polymarket during the election
look at berachain making millions of people act like feral bears for months with zero paid KOL lists
loot at the worldxyz marketing genius
the timeline locked in immediately
people on this app don't want to argue about dinner bills anytime
they want a reason to give a fuck
if your project's marketing only works when the chart is green
you just have people sitting around waiting for bitcoin to do their job for them
someone doing $12,000,000+ a year paid this man to hire talent for his business
just clicked on his profile icl
now i can't breathe
btw, you genuinely don't need to hire middlemen like this anymore
a few simple prompts can scrape talent, cross-reference technical activity & flag who's fit for you in >30 seconds
I've been using a few private bots to do this quietly for my own stack for some time now
might drop the whole setup public in a few days
bookmark this / follow so u don't miss the link when I drop it
Arpit retweeted
Indians: We want jobs.
Entrepreneur: Here’s an idea. Let me take the risk, build a business, and employ as many people as I can.
(Some traction later)
Indians: Bloody exploiters. We demand everything, right now.
Entrepreneur: Okay. Shutting it down.
Indians: See? Capitalism doesn’t work. It can’t feed people.
(1 year later)
Indians: We want jobs.
"you are so far behind if you aren't using voice-to-text"
no u aren't
(and never does it makes you better at writing online)
when u talk out loud, your vocal tone tricks you into thinking your rambling is genius
but the second it hits a screen without edits, it reads like a drunk text (try it if you don't believe me)
the only time voice notes are actually lethal is if u have a ghostwriter sitting on the other end doing the edits for you
I always set up a private Slack for every founder I work with with one rule:
never type a brief
just drop raw voice notes whenever you want to share something for content inputs
when a founder sits at a keyboard, he freezes
because he's terrified of offending his investors
but when he drops a voice note:
- its convenient
- its raw without any filter
- and you get him to tell you the actual details without any gatekeeping (which btw is a game changer while testing hooks and content angles)
but most of that audio will be raw venting and its fine
because buried inside is the truth that nobody else is brave enough to say out publicly
voice-to-text is THE BEST for dumping the crime scene into your writer's Slack
but turning that mess into something people give a fuck about still requires taste
(dictating into claude ain't gonna save u)

























