Two ways to think about opportunity:
The Founder: narrow focus, high conviction, perseverance. Win by proving your idea is right -> earn outsized returns.
The Tycoon: fluid, opportunistic. Win by wrangling relationships and being the best at stacking legos of opportunity.
To build the future, there are more ways than just the Founder mode, i.e. to start one company.
There is also the Tycoon mode (h/t: @c3kel) where you chase capital opportunities from multiple streams. You may then reinvest the capital in causes and assets you care about.
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Excited for the world to see more of our work at @eigen_ai. We're the team behind Alphawrite, the AI writing tutor supporting students at Alpha School.
Good results from a school designed around personalized AI tutors: foxnews.com/media/texas-priv…
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The most productive calls I have are either ~15 minutes (highly tactical) or ~90 minutes (highly generative)
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PSA: startups will pay for introductions to your smart friends!
@TinaJiang20 and I are launching @bountyfyi, the best way to get paid (up to $20K!) for referring your friends to great jobs. producthunt.com/posts/bounty
Here's a bit more about why we built it:
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Some personal news: I’ve joined @contrarycapital as head of engineering, alongside two badass operators @zackabaker and @ninarstepanov.
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One of my favorite things about keeping an eye on @LambdaSchool / @AustenAllred's tweets: seeing how Lambda seems to become a part of each graduate's identity. Most are sporting #LambdaSchool hashtags and are the company's biggest advocates. "Alumni" carries weight.
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thanks for sharing @kimmonismus - my team @eigen_ai builds Alpha’s AI writing tutor.
We’re hiring AI engineers!
Excited for the world to see more of our work at @eigen_ai. We're the team behind Alphawrite, the AI writing tutor supporting students at Alpha School.
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Thanks for sharing this, Wes. My company @eigen_ai has been behind the scenes building several of Alpha School's AI tutoring apps.
For those interested, we're hiring AI engineers and product designers for our work on Alphawrite and beyond.
DMs open!
Excited for the world to see more of our work at @eigen_ai. We're the team behind Alphawrite, the AI writing tutor supporting students at Alpha School.
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Watched this a few times. Was expecting the character to get suddenly attacked. Or to be on fire.
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Lots of exciting startups hiring via bounties these days.
(over $100K up for grabs on bounty.fyi right now!)
Here's a thread of some of our favorites:
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I'm launching a Discord community for college students to congregate during #covid19.
Most classes are cancelled or moved online, but it's still important for us to socialize & collaborate. I hope this encourages students to stay home.
All universities welcome - DM me for link!
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Was talking to a pre-K teacher recently - she described some interesting observations about how kids (4 and 5 y/os) have changed over the past 13 years of working with them.
Thread:
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Contrary is the single most impactful community I've ever been a part of. It's a goldmine of talented friends and opportunities.
With the launch of Contrary Talent, we're expanding that access to the brightest early-career engineers, designers, and product minds working in tech.
Today we're announcing Contrary Talent, a program for the brightest builders nationwide.
Through Contrary Talent, access mentorship from successful founders, get help landing the best startup roles, and raise funding for whatever you do next.
contrarycap.com/talent
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In case you scrolled by and missed the details on @keegan_mcnamara's latest, Valkyrie:
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You can read more about Eigen's work with Alpha in our case study here:
eigen.net/assets/collateral/…
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With many universities moving online this fall, now's a great time to consider taking a gap year to start a company of your own.
Today, Contrary is launching a gap year program to invest up to $100k in students who pause school to work on a company.
More below 👇
Today we're announcing investments of up to $100k in students taking a gap year to work on a company during the pandemic. Learn more and apply here:
contrarycap.com/content/gap-…
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Deep Research will be a killer app for us at Eigen:
- gave o1-pro a call transcript & email chain w/ prospect; wrote a PRD & project scope w/ pricing estimate & estimated ROI
- gave the scope to Deep Research to validate estimates and build a best/worst/likely ROI case framework
Insane.
Deep-Research is something truly special.
It conducted an expert level business and technical analysis on Deepseek's entire R&D history, and made **excellent** extrapolations.
nitter.app/dhtikna/status/1886355…
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Alphawrite helps students master writing fundamentals through personalized, bite-sized activities that match their individual skill levels and interests.
It's like Duolingo for writing.
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If my only experience was what I'd gathered during school, I'd fulfill approximately zero requirements for engineering internships (save being in pursuit of a B.S.). Something seems off here...
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Thanks for sharing @gdb. My team @eigen_ai builds Alpha School's personalized AI tutors for reading and writing.
For those excited about bringing AI to students everywhere: we’re hiring engineers and designers to help build Alphawrite and more. DMs open!
Excited for the world to see more of our work at @eigen_ai. We're the team behind Alphawrite, the AI writing tutor supporting students at Alpha School.
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A goal of mine moving forward: exercise more creativity. I bet that being generative is something you can train for!
As a first experiment, I'll be jamming with @camwiese and the @WorldsFairCo community tomorrow night on the future of the home - inside and out.
DM if interested
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Terrapunk > Solarpunk vision
We're in control of our environment. It's our responsibility not only to treat it well, but to shape it to our will.
We need a deterministic view of the world around us. Nature reflects human will, not vice-versa.
seeing a lot of solarpunk content lately and honestly: i'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic. It feels anti-capitalistic and implies humans aren't capable of staving off climate change unless we dramatically reduce our capacities, & the only thing we can do about it is plant trees
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Cam’s shown dedication and vision over recent years as he’s worked towards the establishment of a new World’s Fair.
There’s no better person to join the task force that will develop the Great American State Fair in 2025.
Who can help connect him with @realDonaldTrump and team?
It's my mission to revive the wonder and optimism that World's Fairs once inspired in Americans.
I would be honored to serve on the Salute to America 250 Task Force and to help build the Great American State Fair.
It's time to usher in a new Golden Age of American prosperity!
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. @contrarycapital is launching Home(work), a virtual community for bright technologists, designers, and product minds to work on projects remotely.
If you're a student at home due to #covid19 and want to hack on a project in your free time, this is the best place to be.
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Thanks for sharing @reidhoffman. My team @eigen_ai builds Alpha School's personalized AI tutors for reading and writing.
For those interested, we're hiring AI engineers and product designers for our work on Alphawrite and beyond.
DMs open!
Excited for the world to see more of our work at @eigen_ai. We're the team behind Alphawrite, the AI writing tutor supporting students at Alpha School.
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The next step on our quest to identify and support every talented person globally.
If you're in college or a recent grad, we're launching Startup Fair to help you build real connections with leaders at career-defining startups.
Apply now: startupfair.com
Today we're launching Startup Fair, the best place for undergrad and new grad builders to meet and get hired by breakout startups.
Apply now to meet @figmadesign, @tryramp, @stytchauth, @viseinc, and more on July 15th:
startupfair.com
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Eigen's mission is to unlock human creative potential with AI.
We're growing our AI engineering team to build apps like Alphawrite that help people and organizations realize more of their potential.
Join us: eigen.net/careers or DM me
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The value of faster LLM inference speed beyond ~20 TPS accrues to agents, because humans can only read so fast (~250 WPM / ~17 TPS).
Two ways this will appear:
1. Fast navigation (like the example below)
2. Parallel operations which expand & synthesize
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New project just dropped!
We've compiled the 40 most exciting fintech companies expanding their teams this year. They're all growing quickly, backed by great investors, and hiring for unique roles.
Lots more coming soon via @startupsearch
Today, we're launching our 2021 FinTech List!
🚀We've compiled the top 40 high-growth, venture-backed FinTech startups.
📈They're hiring across product, engineering, chief of staff, bizops, and more.
startupsearch.com/list/finte…
We're featuring some of our favorites below 👇
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Today's find: a 509-page tome on wood as an engineering material.
fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgt…
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Hey Samo - loved your latest about Great Man Theory. Takes one to know one
Heard recently that @JeffBezos appreciated it as well.
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Having spent the last few years working with @etarczynski, @whrobbins and company, it’s clear to me that the Contrary mafia is a special bunch.
The amount of potential within Contrary is unmatched — and we’re only just getting started.
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Been excited for this launch for a long time. Atmos is helping clear a path to a part of the American Dream we've lost: building your own custom home.
For the amount of rent you pay in SF, NYC, and LA, you could build your dream home in Austin, Raleigh or Columbus.
We built this page to compare what your rent would get you and compare it to purchasing on the coasts🏡
buildatmos.com/timetobuild
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One of the projects I'm most excited about for this decade.
Don't bet against @camwiese or anyone else from @PraxisSociety
I've been hinting at this for the past few months —
it's time for us to build a new World's Fair.
cameronwiese.com/blog/worlds…
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Great opportunity to ride the hype train & work with the king of NFTs himself
HELP! Intrigued by the NFT craze?
We have a concrete plan to bring social to NFTs, and we need incredible engineers to help us achieve that @tryShowtime.
We have a 10,000 $ALEX bounty, my personal token (roughly $1k). You can refer yourself if you want. bounty.fyi/showtime/founding…
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Also: we're live on ProductHunt today! Feedback is much appreciated 👍
producthunt.com/posts/bounty
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Had some thoughts on Bostrom’s discussion of iterated embryo selection as a path to biological superintelligence. Here goes:
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With Alphawrite, students can:
- Write about the things they love
- Learn by writing real sentences and paragraphs
- Get instant, helpful feedback from AI
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- "The all-in-one solution for women"
- "Getting kids ready for the C-Suite"
- "Corporate mental health platform for pets"
- "Quickly build internal tools for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs."
- "Feature Flag Management Built for kids"
- "We solve drug resistance for tax data"
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1. hiring fast (limited runway + need to grow quickly)
2. hiring for quality (early hires define culture + approach to solving the problem you're tackling)
Great piece from @nfx and @GigiLevy on this idea: nfx.com/post/the-infinite-co…
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You and I might be one of the last generations with fully natural genes. Perhaps in 100-200 years, humans will look back and, in a way, envy us - for things like aggressiveness and disobedience.
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First, why do startups put up big $$ for referrals?
Hiring is often the hardest piece to get right when building a company.
Founders need to balance "The Infinite Conflict of Hiring":
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Print with Pellegrini
Today I'm announcing the launch of Field Report, a print-only magazine.
Most of us are writing online, where content is indexed by Google and used as training data for OpenAI. Our words are being lost in the sea of AI generated garbage that now fills what's left of the internet
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@BeanstalkFarms is a decentralized credit based algorithmic stablecoin protocol that is built on Ethereum. Beanstalk uses credit instead of collateral to create price stability relative to a non-blockchain-native asset. Beanstalk does not have any collateral requirements.
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Snappiness is so important. My use of o1 pro has dropped a lot because the desktop app is so slow on Mac
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Looking for an eng collaborator on an interesting prompt engineering challenge.
Relates to a new product I'm hacking on - waitlist has been rocketing the last few days.
Shoot me a DM if interested or know someone who might be
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What are the defining factors that you see separating the best-selling courses from others? Curious what makes something a $1k course versus $1mm.
Is the quality of the educational material significantly better, or do other things come into play? (marketing, name recognition)
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Plus, if you don't know someone right now, you can still get paid for passing a bounty along to friends who might
Example: @DrSepah put up a $2,000 bonus for sharing this Head of Ops role at Maximus:
bounty.fyi/maximus/head-of-o…
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If knowledge and practice compound into mastery, then even small extensions to human healthy lifespan will have outsized returns on productivity. An artist with 50 healthy years to paint might produce an order of magnitude more famous works than one with 40 healthy years.
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Second @jzlegion @trenthedge @LamaAlRajih @emmalsalinas and @jamesg_oca for sure.
Also @kochakian @whrobbins @keegan_mcnamara @chrisrgillett (hell, everyone in @ContraryCapital) @krishkhubchand, @AtmosXR team
and many others.
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Reminder to thank your friendly neighborhood engineer for designing planes that still fly even when this happens:
Plane drops debris, has emergency landing at Denver Airport news.yahoo.com/plane-drops-d… nitter.app/michaelagiulia/status/…
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Bounty helps streamline the referral process.
If someone you refer gets hired, you get paid. No gimmicks, no scams — we'll just send you an email when your money is ready.
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I've got an intern diving into materials science for the next month. What new developments (papers, companies, potential areas for new research) should they check out?
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Your referrals matter (and are worth $20K!) because they help startups cut through the noise and get in touch with relevant candidates quickly.
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In areas where recycling infrastructure is lacking or too expensive, consumers could sort their home trash into non-biodegradable bags with different colors.
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We’ve been quietly building this at Eigen: eigen.net
Eigen builds AI products and automations for enterprise.
All bootstrapped team of 8. Profitable since day 1. Strong margins -> we’re reinvesting in launching new products in ‘25.
We’re hiring AI engineers!
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Twitter is super underrated here, especially for hacking your way into an interesting / unique position.
Perhaps because it’s much more natural/personal >> professional?
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1/ Silencing notifications and keeping devices on "do not disturb"
Started doing this in July '18 in an effort to become less attached to my devices and social media. Wanted to use them more deliberately and less reactively.
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Just updated!
🔵 Founding Frontend Engineer @tryShowtime
🧰 React/Next.js skills + interest in crypto/NFT
🤝 Work with the crypto king @AlexMasmej and team
💰 $20k bounty + $2k sharing bonus
Ask nicely and you might get paid in $ALEX...
bounty.fyi/showtime/founding…
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