View of the U.S. Capitol as the storm hit Washington D.C. last night.
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“If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.”
“If a smart person asks a hard question, pay attention. The rest of the world will ask the same questions eventually.”
The intersection of those two ideas are why I learn more from tweets than my classes.
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Late nights. Early mornings. Zero sympathy for weakness.
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Stock should be up 100% based on this alone
John Ternus
@johnternus
hello
Takes
Everything begins inside your brain. Every thought. Every decision. Every experience. And yet the organ responsible for all of it, the physical instrument shaping how you think, react, connect and recover, has remained invisible for as long as humans have existed. Today, that Show more
Products
you should expect massive consolidation in regulated industries like banking, healthcare, etc to afford enough scale to defend against increasingly capable intelligent systems continuously shocked by how few people have reasoned about what this all means for The Firm
Joshua Saxe
@joshua_saxe
This is the median but imho incorrect view of the AI security situation in the security community: > LLMs, Agents etc are not magic, they are not terminator style bots, they are specific implementations of known and understood concepts. When the narrative turns into sci-fi
Takes
It's so great to be back at home! I missed my desk and office.
Aesthetics
roughly on schedule, there is imminent consensus that: - data centers grow blue collar jobs = good - mckinsey training + eng skills = formidable - VC without compute = lame - industrial operators = good - sf = renaissance florence - ai safety risks = real - usa = the best
Takes
upgrading the studio @StudioManneskja
Aesthetics
i want to make software that feels like this
Takes
We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone. We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.
Today, we're sharing that River AI has raised $1.1 billion, led by @generalcatalyst and @amppublic with strategic investment from @nvidia and @AMD. Additional investors include @ycombinator and @Temasek. We imagine a future where your AI works entirely for you and deeply aligns Show more
Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a Show more
Announcing Valar Atomics' $1B series B led by Sequoia, with Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Point72, Conviction, and others. Alongside the $1B equity, we have closed a $200m credit facility led by Erebor and JPM. I'm excited to welcome Shaun Maguire from Sequoia to our board.
Today, we're launching Base Core, our own battery designed & built in Texas, and announcing our $1B Series D to bring it to homes across the country. Three years ago, we started Base with a belief that batteries were the unlock to energy abundance. We saw battery storage as the Show more
Everything begins inside your brain. Every thought. Every decision. Every experience. And yet the organ responsible for all of it, the physical instrument shaping how you think, react, connect and recover, has remained invisible for as long as humans have existed. Today, that Show more
Get your slippers on and join us for a walk around our SF headquarters, where we're doing it all with Devin. Even ordering our morning coffee. cognition.com/careers
Today, we're launching Monaco into General Availability. We onboarded several hundred hypergrowth startups during our beta. The results are staggering: The average customer added 16 percentage points to their month-over-month revenue growth rate. The average customer tripled Show more
Introducing Harvey II: smarter agents from the start. - Featuring Harvey Tenet, our first model trained for legal work - Built around matters and projects - Agents start with the files, context, permissions, and history they need - Assign tasks to lawyers or agents, then track Show more
GE built America's first jet engine in 1942. Today GE Aerospace's engine technology powers 3 of 4 commercial flights in the world. Now they’re using Devin to build more, faster. One team nearly doubled its engineering output. Their software optimizes routes, reduces fuel Show more
Announcing Hone Intelligence has become abundant. Yet the world looks remarkably similar to how it did five years ago. With every model release, the gap between what frontier AI can do and the economic value derived from it widens. Closing the gap requires re-organizing work Show more
one of the most beautiful things about OpenAI is that every employee really has a voice. i wanted to capture what it feels like to work here, what our mission means to me, and why you should join us. so i made this video with Codex, shared it with the team, and they felt it was Show more
Introducing Cooley GO Lab Powered by Legora. Built with @WeAreLegora and debuting with @ycombinator, it helps startups in real time as they build. Cooley GO Lab helps teams understand documents, highlight key considerations and move forward with clarity: bit.ly/3SoCrot
Introducing model routing to Factory. Factory Router picks the right model for every task, automatically. Maintain frontier performance while cutting costs by 25%.
this might be the most aura video a startup has ever made
View of the U.S. Capitol as the storm hit Washington D.C. last night.
Late nights. Early mornings. Zero sympathy for weakness.
It's so great to be back at home! I missed my desk and office.
upgrading the studio @StudioManneskja
I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul. saloon.wtf
TIL The Mirage at Apple Park has its own page mirage.place
a little sunday ship: a careers page for @raindrop_ai raindrop.ai/careers some fun facts about our eng team : * scaled fraud detection at square in 2013 * built agents for federal government * 2 ex-apple, ex-airtable, ex-hubspot (cont'd below)
“To return to work is to return home.” Kier Eagan
The film. 🎞️ The photos.
The Wolf of Wall Street --sref 3714136637 --preview
Ege
@egeberkina
New York, New York
Richard Nadler
New week, clean slate. Go get what you want.
little office reshuffle
Ideas I’m saving for my future house
made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window
I love how heavily @SpaceX leaned into photography in their S-1. The first 15 pages are all pictures, many of which have no explanation at all. It just makes you... feel.
This is exactly the kind of home decor I’m obsessed with
Who cares about the Strait of Hormuz, Reddit has joined the S&P 500.
“Yeah I actually had a similar convo with Josh @ the Thrive office today” I casually mutter on the phone at the blue bottle in pac heights to illicit a reaction from the crowd of sweater vest whoop bedazzled men.
Those in venture, product, media etc. inevitably live in the Nontechnical North The few engineers here are aesthetes capable of eye contact (spiritually nontechnical) Tale as old as time: capitalist class in the north, and the oppressed labor class (openai researchers) pushed Show more
Every quarter, I assign a fresh batch of 1st-year associates to a project for a client known only as The Entity. There is no Entity. It is just me operating through an encrypted proton mail account. I demand absurd deliverables, like a 90-page comparative analysis of maritime Show more
Live view from Citadel trading floor.
gun to my head i'd have to say the mt rushmore of american inventions is: - f22 raptor - chatgpt - 4 loko - f150 super duty i will not be taking any further questions
Such an unreal logo spot this morning. BrainPOP is BACK.
how great is it everyday when you finish your coffee time and get to crack open your first diet coke. man. life rocks
2026 aesthetic: silicon valley bro who has never read bourdieu nor hume nor kant engages in heated discourse on taste
are u guys secretly drinking diet coke to save water for claude
Enhanced Games but it’s Tiger Woods faded on Percocet vs John Daly loaded on 15 Jack & Cokes
it’s rare for someone to get this much clarity
Nathan 🔎
@NathanpmYoung
My revealed preference is that I like being stressed.
since leaving college, i’ve believed really strongly that if you feel some innate desire towards some direction, you shouldn’t ignore it, you shouldn’t delay it, you should go Do the Thing. if it’s a Good Thing, then you made some positive change in your life earlier. if it turns Show more
Nix 🕊
@startingfromnix
“you can measure internal congruence by the lag between desire and action”
before the age of slop this is amazon internal guide on how to write
The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.
how to build previously impossible things: work with missionaries, suspend disbelief, seek joy
Camilla Guo
@brainstub
Looking at the first build of the robot we’re deploying to real homes for the upcoming Beta @sundayrobotics, I feel electric with joy It’s more intuitive, more capable, higher quality, and safer. So much can be accomplished in 6 months
Unhappiness often comes from the gap between what you have and what you want. You can close it by wanting less (hard in a world built to make you want more), or by getting what you want (but the goalposts always move). Turns out, there's a third way: want what you already have. Show more
Patrick Collison's advice to his younger self:
"it takes hard work to achieve anything great" is a dangerous lie. great output comes from finding an activity that feels as natural as breathing or walking and great work becomes the very substance of your existence. if it feels like a grind you've found the wrong expression
Study the man who never celebrates publicly, never complains openly, and never lets you know exactly how close he is to winning.
if your parents worked hard to give you a safety net, don't insult them by playing it safe
To achieve anything significantly big in life, you must be disgusted by mediocrity.
you are a product of your actions, not your aspirations
A peak life advice from Alex Hormozi: “The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.”
The biggest proof of a man’s greatness is how much he believes in his own greatness before there’s any visible evidence of it.
It's a fallacy to think you should drop out of college because you have an idea that has to be implemented right now, or it will be too late. If you stay in school you'll have other and better ideas.
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
Find more simple and useful apps here! go.easlo.co/tools
Stock should be up 100% based on this alone
John Ternus
@johnternus
hello
you should expect massive consolidation in regulated industries like banking, healthcare, etc to afford enough scale to defend against increasingly capable intelligent systems continuously shocked by how few people have reasoned about what this all means for The Firm
Joshua Saxe
@joshua_saxe
This is the median but imho incorrect view of the AI security situation in the security community: > LLMs, Agents etc are not magic, they are not terminator style bots, they are specific implementations of known and understood concepts. When the narrative turns into sci-fi
roughly on schedule, there is imminent consensus that: - data centers grow blue collar jobs = good - mckinsey training + eng skills = formidable - VC without compute = lame - industrial operators = good - sf = renaissance florence - ai safety risks = real - usa = the best
i want to make software that feels like this
Perception: • This is the craziest founder reveal ever! • This is the most insane velvet-rope launch strategy ever! Reality: • Some people just prefer quietly building vs. tweeting • Compute is really scarce right now! Have you not been reading Twitter?
By next year, using a computer will be optional. Work will radically change.
every tech company on earth right now wants to hire someone who can turn their expertise into viral content across LinkedIn, X, and YouTube I call them “Inbound Engineers” their job is to extract your company’s unique knowledge and value props, and distribute it through an Show more
I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence, and I wrote a long piece about Meta's philosophy and values for building a positive future for everyone. meta.com/thefutureisfor…
Meritocracy in tech is precarious. It’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Cynics will tell you there is none. How can it possibly be fair that the Stanford grad seemingly can raise from any VC they want but the VirginiaTech one has to struggle? If you’re from a big lab, Show more
Continues to be embarrassing for Americans that the Financial Times is the world's best newspaper
overnight success doen't happen overnight - daniel ek
It’s insane how many people I know from the competitive Public Forum debate circuit that are now some of the most successful founders, executives, politicians, etc. @suryamidha may be our poster child but we have many hidden slayers
Jai Bhatia
@jaixbhatia
competitive high school debate has done more for me in life than my uc berkeley cs degree
It is stupidly hard to start a pure software company right now. Customers don't want software, they want outcomes. So you end up having to do a lot of custom work for them. Anything horizontal is on a ticking clock. Every customer wants to deeply customize. There are Show more
I've now seen 50 screenshots of the Cursor founder in people's DMs and I'm convinced the real product was the outbound. man ran a one-man SDR team against the entire tech industry and closed it at $60B
Ramp is going to be a trillion dollar company. They are going to enable the accounting firms comfortable with AI to devour the ones which are not. It’s a far better tactic than the rollup accounting firms strategy because you are working with people who want the tech vs forcing Show more
Eric Glyman
@eglyman
Introducing Stack. The AI operating system that lets accounting firms take on more clients without hiring. Learns your firm's process, runs the close, posts the journals. Fully auditable. We’re living through the biggest shift in accounting since the spreadsheet.
i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.
My whole thing is: make it inevitable.
Scoop: Benchmark has raised $2 billion across two new funds, including its first growth fund, a big shift for a firm that spent decades defending a smaller, focused approach to venture investing. Details here: wsj.com/finance/invest…
Scoop: Ethan Choi who helped lead Khosla’s growth fund, is striking out on his own with at least a $500m new fund theinformation.com/articles/khosl…
Former Coatue investor Kris Fredrickson has teamed up with Benchmark’s Victor Lazarte to raise a new $800 million AI fund forbes.com/sites/iainmart…