Totally normal and friendly robot, can’t imagine anything going wrong

Elon Musk has decided he’d like to be the only human that can be called to congress for up to 63 different topics.

Nintendo's mobile strategy: 2008: what's an iPhone 2010: what's an Android 2012: nope 2014: still no 2016: change how society functions

Something is fishy about all these Biden picks. They all have relevant experience for the job and seem extremely impressive. 🤔

And *this* is precisely why you can’t tax people on unrealized capital gains.

Ok now we’re just playing with fire

Iceland: 1, tech industry: 0

Combined value of Tesla and SpaceX now over $500B. Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t transform earth and space travel at the same time.

This is a real video. On the internet. 40 days out from an election. What are we doing here.

iPad calculator is actually pretty nuts

Obama: "Ok so then when a bill is passed by the House of Representatives it goes to the Senate..."

One thing they don’t teach you in business school is that product pricing is often determined through live negotiations with Stephen King.

Snapchat is now worth $100B. Everyone thought Facebook would crush them when they turned down a $3B offer. Staying focused and ignoring the doubters is how you continue to compound value over the long run.

He’s getting… polite?

It’s almost like panicking over everything isn’t a good leadership trait

Insane set of announcements from Tesla tonight. The multi trillion dollar bull case for Tesla feels entirely reasonable given self driving cars, robotaxis, and fully autonomous robots. Oh and distributed AI compute for inference as free upside.

The next time a politician wonders about the point of space exploration and innovation.

Teslas driving themselves off the factory floor. When you see stuff like this, it’s obvious that there are just crazy cool efficiencies anywhere if you’re looking properly.

Amazon's next innovation: Amazon House. You literally just live inside of their warehouse and get instant delivery.

Almost everything I've learned about startups: * Aim to get to cash flow positive early * Don't overly optimize for private market valuations * Build a great team and culture * Make sure the business model *works* * Focus, focus, focus. Dilution of effort will crush you

This is just sad 👇

3 most stressful things about business: 1. Growth 2. Profit 3. Trying to switch between the Calendar app and Phone app fast enough to type in the conference call code before the woman’s voice tells you to start over again.

Zuck really doing his part to make tech founders seem normal nitter.app/seyitaylor/status/1411…

What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the issue with FTX was the normalization of trading fake assets that anyone can invent out of thin air with no regulation and that have no underlying value. Nope, can’t be it.

After well over a hundred years of incremental progress, all of a sudden transportation is going to change very quickly

I have no evidence that it’s possible to arrive at an airport anywhere other than the farthest gate out. I see people at other gates but at this point just assume they’re paid actors.

ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.

This high skilled immigration debate is wild because you have a lot of people who don’t build things commenting on the type of talent it takes to build things.

I feel like everyone knows that the first rule of being the richest man in the world is never get caught on video with robotic supervillain arms.

Somehow this is real

The power of files, everyone

20 years ago.

That moment when you look at the price of bitcoin and think it can’t go any higher so you don’t buy any. Every day. For 4 years straight.

Zoom feature request exclusive to CEOs: the ability to enter any Zoom call in your organization at any time so you can disrupt meetings as you would normally when walking by conference rooms.

Twitter cannot be the main story on Twitter every single day 😭.

To be fair, this works successfully when you’re talking to Michael Dell.

Grok 3 introduced a very compelling Thinking UX. Super elegant approach for showing reasoning in real-time, and gives the user a ton of confidence in what's happening. Give the designer a raise.

Bitcoin is so 2020. GameStop is the new store of value.

We’ve collectively learned nothing from sci-fi movies. This is definitely the moment we’re supposed to turn back.

Friendly reminder to startups: customers don’t care about how brilliant your technology is. They only care about how simple your solution is. Focus on the latter at all costs.

This is like a really bad zoom meeting.

This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot.

Apparently the best way to get rich in crypto is to be a bankruptcy attorney.

2022 is definitely going to be our year

In solidarity with @tim_cook I have changed my name.

This machine will manufacture most of the intelligence in the world.

Bitcoin is now up about 10,000X since I started making fun of it. You win some you lose some 😀.

Bitcoin conferences operate at a different level nitter.app/CryptoWhale/status/140…

Anytime someone says “that problem has been solved,” remember Slack and Zoom have created ~$20B in value in categories most wrote off as finished.

As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too complex.

AI has officially replaced CEOs.

It’s wild it’s considered a bad thing that small businesses should be able to find targeted customers for their products

Just when you think we’ve invented everything important already

South Park: 1, Tech Industry: 0

This is a very cool mission from Tesla, and it’s clear that they have the building blocks to pull it off. Taking something scarce and making it abundant should be the goal of any tech company.

There will never be an internet troll as effective as your own mom.

The problem I wish Elizabeth Warren would solve is requiring hotels to all have the same lighting switch configuration. First 90 minutes of any trip is blown trying to figure this out.

Grok 3 seems very strong. Great proof that the scaling laws are not, in fact, over. Very bullish for the future of AI.

Stages of bringing new technology to market: 1. "Oh hell no." 2. "Politely, no, that technology would never work here." 4. "Neat, but not a priority for us." 5. "Maybe!" 6. "Actually nope, no budget." 7. "Well this is compelling." 8. "Where were you years ago?"

The Kamala Harris platform is out. And it reads like a startup economy manifesto. This is fantastic. kamalaharris.com/issues/

Elon Musk right now

Did something change in robotics like exactly one month ago to make all of this possible. This is crazy.

AI for interface design. This is getting wild.

Judging from his taxes, Trump has probably personally done more to defund the police than anyone else out there.

I’ve read almost every book on startups, and somehow have just completely missed the chapters that covered this part of the strategy.

High skilled immigration has been central to America leading the world in tech. The biggest misunderstand about high skill immigration stems from people thinking that the market opportunities in tech, and tech-adjacent fields, are zero sum. This essentially imagines innovation is finite and we’re all fighting over the same job or opportunity pool. This may be true of a few very legacy, slow growth industries, but it’s categorically not true for any important industry in the past 50 years or the next 100. Biotech, AI, advanced manufacturing, software, EVs, new energy sources, and dozens of other fields of the future are our high growth industries. And there’s no inherently fixed volume of companies or talent that the market needs. Tesla being started or not started in America is the difference between 100,000’s of jobs here - and leading in EVs globally - and not. Apple being started here is the difference between potentially millions of jobs being here - and leading consumer electronics globally - and not. You could go through this list all day long. Tech is not zero sum. More startups, pursuing more ideas, ultimately create more innovation and ultimately more jobs and prosperity. And that means you need the right talent to both work at these companies, and start the next ones. High skilled immigration has directly made America dominant technically and thus economically, and create far more jobs in America for others than are supposedly displaced. Even briefly imagining the alternative scenario, it’s obvious how disastrous this would be. The demand from tech companies for this top talent will remain, yet America won’t benefit directly from their hiring. That talent will go to another company that competes with the US and makes our dominance harder to maintain. You’re just increasing the odds you have more competition in the future. And even in the “best case” scenario (for our competitiveness) where a larger company like Google hires the same people internationally that would have otherwise moved here, when that person leaves Google to start their next company, it will be in their country of origin, not America. This is how you lose the tech war within one or two generations. There’s simply no good game theory in anything that reduces our talent access. Yes, we absolutely have and need to continue to educate and train incredible talent that grows up in the US, but equally having access to the world’s smartest talent has always been a huge advantage for America.

So like do Coinbase employees just pretend that debate didn’t happen tomorrow?

The market is up 9% since this tweet.

Apple is about to hit $1.8T market cap with only a few critical products. There’s an urge in startups to broaden your feature set way too soon. In most cases your market is far larger than you realize, and staying focused is far better than chasing more spaces.

This chart is insane. AI has now enabled the creation of the fastest growing software product maybe of all time.

The future of email is just receiving GDPR privacy notices until your inbox fills up and you no longer have the will to use email anymore.

Airbnb to be valued at over $100B today. Here are 5 rejection emails they got when raising at a $1.5M valuation. Amazing: medium.com/@bchesky/7-reject…

Benioff now owns Time Magazine. Bezos owns the Washington Post. If anyone has a reasonably priced blog on Medium for sale, please reach out to me.

Remote work starts out fun, then instantly turns into the hunger games once you and your spouse have conflicting video calls and only one "professional" space.

What’s the best explanation for why this doesn’t matter. Open to anything.

I have a bitcoin joke, but I can’t use it anywhere

If you’re the richest person in the world and *not* doing hostile takeovers, what’s even the point

The single biggest lesson I’ve learned in startups is focused persistence. When we were less than $1M in revenue it seemed daunting to scale. This year we’ll do $768M+. In between, we tried to avoid product distractions, focused on adding value for customers, and kept building.

To anyone who has ever said AI isn’t ready to solve the world’s hardest problems...

Kodak has launched KodakCoin and their stock is up 120%. Somewhere in the world there’s a strategy meeting right now to launch BlockbusterCoin.

This is why we can’t have nice things

Starting up is the act of doing as many jobs as possible so your company can survive. Scaling is the act of shedding as many jobs as possible so your company can survive.

It’s disappointing knowing you’ll never be able to leverage one of your company’s rocket launches to put another one of your company’s products into orbit and generate massive free advertising.

The shift toward Harris in silicon valley is very real. Seeing more momentum in this direction each day from founders, vcs, and more. Growing view that Trump was chaotic and unpredictable, and Harris can be a more stable, pro tech, pro business President.

Wow. Facebook just bought Giphy for $400M. This is the first time something has felt remotely “normal” in the past 2 months. Thank you Facebook for bringing back that feeling.

Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.

If soham immediately comes clean and says he was working to train an AI Agent for knowledge work, he raises at $100M pre by the weekend.

Tesla is now valued at nearly 2X of all major US car makers and airlines combined. 🤯

OpenAI was just like “hope you are cool redoing your entire 2023 plan in February” to every business in the world.

My best startup advice: 1. Find an under-appreciated problem 2. Build the simplest way to solve it 3. Expand the market 4. Find the next adjacent problem 5. Repeat step 2-4 forever

Way more startups have died by over-building for their market vs. under-building. Always start simple then expand.

Zoom grew 355% YoY in Q2. There is literally no playbook for these kind of numbers at this scale. Unbelievable.

Clever strategy to get teens into ERP systems while they’re young.

So my wife cut my hair today. I’ve never been yelled at so much by my own barber before.

On every level -moral, humanitarian, economic, logical, etc.- this ban is wrong and is completely antithetical to the principles of America.

Welp, there’s your ad for Tesla

ChatGPT will likely play out exactly as innovator’s dilemma suggests. To an expert in any given field, it has worse answers. But most people don’t have access to experts for everything, so it actually is a productivity boost to everyone else.

Speed is your single biggest advantage in tech. Everything about the world is slow and will grind you to a halt if you let it. This is why small teams, hyper aligned, with few constraints -whether in a big company or small startup- end up driving the biggest change.

Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago.