Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
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Teslonda remains undefeated. Ashlee just dropped the origin story of scs
That thing where you're trying to mate a Honda Accord with a Tesla and end up creating a $2 billion company by accident. Our feature story on how @sendcutsend came to be. corememory.com/p/sendcutsend…
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Alexander Hamilton fought anti-automation and pro-import arguments in the 1700s that hardly differ from the modern day.
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I love to build beautiful things that empower people. That's been the main drive behind Todoist. We are super ambitious about that mission. Crushing someone else has never been a goal. Also, things aren’t zero-sum games. There’s many ways to look at things 😅
“We want to dominate. Otherwise, what’s the point?” Nik Storonsky. Revolut. One of the most hardcore and competitive founders I’ve talked to. Tomorrow!
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thinking: we’re quickly entering an era of contextual computing, where the next gen of our devices, operating systems, and application-like experiences (I hesitate to call them “apps”) will spawn from the context we provide them and be tailor-made to our preferences. we can imagine sensationally new types of products and super intelligent experiences, but their potential will be bound by the context we provide them. right now, we’re in the early innings of the context war, as agents seek our data, data stewards weigh the costs and benefits of allowing connectors, and customers weigh the risks of sharing. as consumers, we still lack a portable single source of truth for context, and we still don’t know who to trust and how to reconcile the trade of privacy for convenience... big opportunity.
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Everyone is like "omg what do you even use a Grok Bot for?" Carta is trying to bill me $14k for basic cap table management So I asked my Grok Bot to rebuild the functionality I need. Overpriced SaaS is so cooked.
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Made a video with @ycombinator on how to launch. I hope this helps someone out there finally get their first 1000 views, first customers, whatever. This is a game of consistency, not one time viral hits. TLDR: Record a shitty demo, and just start showing your work.
There’s a misconception that a successful launch video needs to cost tens of thousands of dollars and feel like a high production commercial. But @FarzaTV has a different approach. Farza is the founder of @heyclicky and previously built Buildspace, one of the largest online schools for people working on their own ideas. He’s been making videos for over a decade, and today his posts regularly get millions of views. Rather than treating launches as rare, high-stakes moments, he’s made them part of the everyday process of building a company. Farza sat down with YC’s @aaron_epstein to share his playbook for turning demos into stories people actually want to watch. He breaks down how he scripts videos that still feel off the cuff, why founders should launch constantly, and and how to figure out which channels actually convert. 01:44 — Launch Constantly 03:38 — Start Shipping Demos 05:02 — Show the Process 06:07 — The Clicky Launch 07:43 — Write a Hook That Stops the Scroll 10:30 — Why Farza Scripts Every Video 12:04 — Designing the First 10 Seconds 15:15 — Demo-Driven Development 17:25 — You Have to Take a Thousand Shots 20:48 — Farza’s Formula for Videos That Convert 23:01 — Turning Demos Into Stories 24:53 — Show What You're Actually Building 29:11 — Finding Customers on Social Media 31:02 — Which Platforms Actually Convert? 39:01 — Why Farza’s First Hire Was a Filmmaker 40:49 — The Video Stack 45:41 — The 30-Day Launch Challenge
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Apple CEO @johnternus is in Austin to kick off sales of the Duo. Not NYC, Not SF, Not LA, Austin. The signs are there if you look.
The doors are open! Apple CEO John Ternus welcomed the first customers into the Apple Store at the Domain Northside this morning as the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPhone, officially went on sale.
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my favorite details of the new Apple Maps in Austin 1. bats and kayakers in the lake 2. ufo flying over comedy mothership 2. dkr longhorn details – at Austin, TX
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introducing land search and enrich api + mcp billions of real world data points, structured for agents to make decisions. now your agents can: > find matching land across 160M+ parcels. > filter and rerank using 550 available data fields. > compare assets using structured data with sources. fetch, our location data api, got 4M+ calls. and we just made it completely free. built for agent speed and scale. dirt cheap. sign up and get $10 for free: mireye.com
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this is your sign to start using og:video on your website
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How @ShawnFarsai uses @figma @ElevenLabs and @claudeai to create hyper personalized marketing videos with agents
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Robotaxi mapping Bay Bridge
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That PHP vulnerability that’s gonna cause havoc this week was found with… GPT‑5.6 Sol.
OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites. Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors. Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact. This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare. openai.com/index/coordinated…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
‪OpenAI may claim a role in the coordinated response and patching process. But the initial discovery and exploit development, however, occurred several months earlier by an independent researcher.‬ ‪x.com/lcfr_hax/statu…‬
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Growing up with Dyslexia was tough as hell. Passing it on to my son was even harder. Seeing Karp talk openly about his dyslexia makes me proud to think differently.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said only the neurodivergent will outperform in the AI era So I connected Grok Bot to Robinhood's Agentic trading to put it to the test: Build a portfolio of companies run by neurodivergent leaders. It weighted the portfolio by giving every founder a "Tism score" (Grok Bot’s wording) and went live this morning with real money The top scorers, at 10 out of 10: - @ElonMusk ($TSLA $SPCX): said on SNL that he has Asperger's - Alex Karp ($PLTR): talked about his dyslexia - Yat-Gai Au ($RGC) wrote in his founder letter that he has ADHD, autism, and dyslexia Next come three 9s: - Ari Emanuel ($TKO): spoke on @davidsenra about his dyslexia and ADHD - @Tobi Lütke ($SHOP): has talked about his ADHD and dyslexia - @brian_armstrong ($COIN): has said he's “somewhere on the autism spectrum” Others: - Charles Schwab ($SCHW) scores an 8 for dyslexia - Adam Foroughi ($APP) scored a 7 - Mark Zuckerberg @finkd ($META) scored a 7 - @jack Dorsey ($XYZ) scored 7 - David Neeleman ($AZUL) scored a 7 Will continue to share updates if people are interested
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Jayme Hoffman retweeted
Introducing Blue Pages, our index of over 80M companies. Now your agents can find: -companies with recent funding rounds -lookalikes for your existing customers -companies that match a query/criteria We're already using it internally to accelerate GTM. Get 500 /company searches free when you sign up to context.dev
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Can't recommend @thelinqapp enough. The product and people are a breath of fresh air coming from Twilio.
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As AI forced the Bitter Lesson down everyone’s throat in 2023–24, we asked: what would the most expressive embodiment for AI look like five years ahead? What body would that brain yearn for, and what would it take to build it? That’s the bet behind Daxo: a scalable architecture the brain can easily program. My new essay explores that bet through an imperfect but useful analogy: “A Robot Is a Computer.” roboticist.substack.com/p/a-… It’s been a while. We’ve been building and rebuilding in the factory, walking actuator assembly lines, and digging all the way down to the raw materials behind physical embodiment. In the past year, we moved the entire company twice: Philly → Austin → SF. The team, the equipment, the whole operation. Twice. Our square footage has grown, and our technology is barely recognizable from where we started. Through every rebuild and relocation, our understanding of what matters, and what to build toward, has sharpened. The essay grew out of that journey.
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New on the blog: — Room for ambition A late-night conversation at a startup office in Finland has stayed with me for almost twenty years. Some thoughts on ambition, getting good at something, and the people around you. karrisaarinen.com/posts/room…
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Replying to @texashedge0
1. Listen to every episode of @FoundersPodcast 2. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.
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