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7 years ago i was at a low point in my life
decided "fuck it" and moved to sf although i'd never been here, had no money, and knew only one person
now i'm the happiest i've ever been
finally got my green card today. don't believe the haters, the american dream is real 🇺🇸
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Me: Dad, I'm on Forbes 30u30
Asian Dad: So what's your ranking within the 30?
😂
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Interestingly, not drinking has become the new status signal for tech elites
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huberman culture has gone too far… at a VC xmas party now and they’re serving bone broth instead of alcohol. help us all
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Lee Kuan Yew on why American culture is unbeatable
This really resonates. I’ve lived in countries all over the world, and this is the main reason I decided to get my green card and call America home 🇺🇸
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Friend: What’s starting a startup like?
Me: It’s building the plane while flying it at the same time... And also selling tickets to everyone saying it’s gonna go to Disneyland.
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Tiktok is the most meritocratic media network.
Talked to a PM at Tiktok who said every video gets 100 views. The early engagement on those determines how quickly it accelerates to the next threshold.
So every video starts off on an equal footing, and has a chance to go viral.
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A CEO friend told me today he interviewed 80 people to get one great hire, and had a really strict framework.
How come when it comes to choosing their life partner, most people don’t apply as much rigor? Seems like mostly serendipity at play.
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Turning 29 today. What’s your best advice for your 29 year old self?
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Poaching an engineer from a friend’s startup after raising funding in Silicon Valley is the equivalent of hitting on your friend’s girlfriend while drunk
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Literally using VC money to wipe my ass in SF
$4 for 27 rolls. You’re welcome
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Lots of hate in the replies. Obviously this is a comment about American culture and optimism, not an endorsement of the Indian genocide. Sad that even this needs to be stated in an era dominated by wokes assuming the worst possible interpretation of everything
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Anyone else finds it super weird that we don’t teach kids foundational life skills in school?
I’m imagining basic classes on:
- Healthy relationships
- Protecting boundaries
- Mindfulness
- Financial literacy
- Reading critically
What else?
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@snyatta
Yes, and I suspect
@hubermanlab
’s recent podcast on alcohol being poison might have something to do with it
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I've laughed, cried, and learnt a ton from podcasts, but it was always such a solitary experience
Finally built the magical podcast product I wish I had when I started listening years ago
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A college student just asked for advice saying that “nobody’s hiring during the pandemic”. My advice: create your own opportunity by providing unsolicited value. The best companies are almost always hiring for smart hustlers, even if they don’t have a job ad out.
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I'm one of those people "from the middle of nowhere"
@balajis
is talking about.
Having seen the insane level of talent he was able to assemble, this hiring strategy works. More founders need to look past typical SV credentials on the first screen.
via
@getshuffleapp
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Sama said this one day ago at APEC
Gobi finished training within the past few weeks and its capabilities scared Ilya into launching a coup. This is likely what happened, based on all the information I've gathered. (I'm extremely terminally online so my view counts for something)
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back when I was a coinbase product mommy i was a svelte asian woman who drank artisanal coffee and ate avocados. two months back into founder bb life and I’m doing two cans of diet coke everyday and mcd’s. truly the breakfast of champions
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Stoked to be on
@ForbesUnder30
's Media list this year. Incredibly grateful that I'm get to work every day on a huge vision with a great team.
We're gonna help the podcast medium go viral for the first time, through the power of their fans.
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It boggles me that in this golden age of rich media that all podcast players have the exact same UX... Which is basically one big play button lol.
Where are the:
- personalized reccs
- community discussion
- social signals
- transcripts
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My first blog post.
Basically… how to get lucky.
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Seems like most large consumer Internet companies have a team dedicated to experimentation tooling. I know this is true of Airbnb, Coinbase, Uber etc.
Why isn’t this a SaaS platform?
(Airbnb experimentation platform screenshot from
@lennysan
’s excellent newsletter today)
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@szabolcs0x
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)
Highly recommend!
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i have been feeling this way too recently watching everything going on in AI. there's a sense of melancholy when you realize that the thing that makes us special will one day fit on a thumbdrive
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Building a startup = a small team up against the world
It’s a magical feeling
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everyday i wake up and think of the day last year when i almost bought 10 btc at $3k
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ok, the US 2024 election is gonna be wild:
* anyone can generate fake media
* anyone can spin up AI agents to do the work for them
* finally, the missing piece, researchooors have found you can predict public opinion based off different media diets
you just know someone is out…
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A simple question that has had a big impact on my life:
Why not me?
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Wow this blew up. While you’re here, download my dad’s fav app. Of course it’s the one I’m building:
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Every time I go to Japan, I’m blown away by the level of craftsmanship shown by the *average* Japanese worker
You can clearly see the pride they take in their work, and the focus on quality and presentation
Why is this less common in other cultures?
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Meta point: Everything changes once you realize you don’t have to ask for permission.
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Some news... We're launching a new social experience on
@getshuffleapp
today where you can listen to a podcast while reacting with fun emojis, thoughtful comments, crazy GIFs, and more. Early users are describing it as "SoundCloud for podcasts, on STEROIDS".
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@alexeyguzey
Plug: use my immigration lawyer. He does A LOT of YC cases so he knows what he’s doing. He’s helped a ton of my friends. Feel free to DM me and I can also link you up, or feel free to go through the website
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The startup paradox: you can build ANYTHING in the world, but you have to focus
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@shreya_sud
Moving to SF and working in FAANG is the equivalent of moving to LA and waitressing while waiting for your big break out~
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Dope wisdom from
@APompliano
’s new podcast.
@KatColeATL
is the heroine we need. Amazing journey — started out as a Hooters girl at 17 to becoming President of a $1B F&B franchise at 32.
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There's a ton of tips on how to boost your physical immune system so you get sick less. But how do you boost your mental immune system so that you feel down less?
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Top product lessons I learnt from building
@getshuffleapp
last year:
* Don't just "talk to users", ask the right users the right questions
* Defaults are really powerful, design accordingly
* Defining your anti-persona can be really clarifying
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Prescient
It's almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!
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My investor updates be like
Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!
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Two years of runway for a startup sounds like a long time.
But as a founder running weekly sprints, this means you only have a 100 chances to build a product users love.
Make every build count.
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This is literally a page in my slide deck.
Large social aggregators have emerged for every medium except audio. Whoever cracks "snackable audio" will win.
@JoshConstine
Text: Blogger --> Twitter
Photos: Flickr --> Instagram
Video: Youtube --> Tiktok
Audio: Podcasts --> ???
I’m bullish. Audio is the 1 traditional content type that has no social antecedent. Clubhouse is a very fun example of what could become a class of new defining products. Over the last 20 years every media type has given rise to social media--except Audio, consider: (Thread)
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Didn’t realize how much of startups is about making tradeoffs. Time vs money, quality vs speed, aligning vs doing.
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@ricburton
This is beautiful 😭 bookmarked it. I’ve been putting off learning how to surf but I’m gonna do it!
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excited to launching our first drop today, where you can chat with famous podcasters via GPT-3 including
@naval
,
@theallinpod
besties,
@karaswisher
, and more!
we did this by feeding their funniest quotes to GPT-3, and the results are 🤣
check it out:
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Everyone non-technical should participate in a hackathon just to see the rate of progress in AI
I used to put eng on a pedestal, but ChatGPT & Replit have lowered the bar so much that I was able to finetune my first model and build a full working app last week
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Best part of being an entrepreneur is getting these DMs from users.
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@hankgreen
@getshuffleapp
👋 one of the co-founders of Shuffle here
@hankgreen
. can you DM me so we can make it happen for y'all (your DMs are closed) 😂
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It's common that people who worked together at some small failed startup when they were younger remain great friends, many years later
My best explanation is that it is probably trauma bonding from an intense experience -- sort of like having been in a cult
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Re-reading the Steve Jobs book now and found this gem written in 1977. Marketing, summed up in one page.
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Watching the new Netflix Indian Matchmaking show and it's been amazing... and Aparna should be a VC lol
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Weird shower thought of the day. When you communicate with someone, you basically send an information packet from your brain to theirs. We spend all day compressing information and then unzipping it. How do you minimize losses while being super concise?
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If you're an employee, you're learning on the company's dime. Mistakes are much more costly when you start your own thing.
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I asked a senior writer at buzzfeed what makes content go viral.
His answer? People only share content when it:
- Affirms something they have thought all along
- Shows others what they care about
- Settles an argument
- Puts them in different groups
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Been thinking about this paragraph
Charter cities = prosperity in a box
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A beautiful essay by
@EconTalker
. My Taiwanese grandma has a saying “我们都是彼此生命中的过客, 不知道会有多深的缘份”.
Loose translation: “we are all travelers in each other’s lives, and we don’t know how deep our destiny with each other will be”.
I've edited (shortened) my essay "The Story of My Life," my perspective on how to think about interacting with others. If you haven't seen it, here it is:
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@lennysan
Strangely enough, the best podcast I’ve heard on writing was
@collision
on
@patrick_oshag
’s podcast. Here’s a tip that was huge for me:
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Anyone else feel intense melancholy when they're in Tokyo alone? Something about the futuristic landscape, the language barrier, and being a single person in the horde of humanity just feels so incredibly alienating
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One of the main reasons why I love SF: being with other optimistic young people inventing the world they want to live in
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@balajis
One of the best things LKY did to attract talent was to make it prestigious to join the civil service. He did this by giving overseas scholarships and high salaries that are competitive with private sector.
Some of this was also handed down for free with Confucianism.
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Exactly the problem we're solving. Stay tuned.
This is fascinating and I think why podcast discovery is so hard: the cost of a bad recommendation is high - 40+ minutes of wasted time and the opportunity cost of listening to something that could've been much more entertaining, informative, etc.
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Talked to
@stephsmithio
today about the unbundling of Tiktok into various short-form apps:
* Shopping
* Learning
* Comedy skits
* Recipes
* Motivation & self-help
* Karaoke
This trend has already happened in China where there's a short-video equivalent of each vertical!
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The real reason why technological optimism is a moral imperative: so that we have more sci-fi with kind robots to train the AI on.
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Building a startup is like a spiritual bootcamp. It’s an amazing vehicle for personal growth.
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I am surrounded by startup founder friends and all of them after a year say they finally understand why it's like "chewing glass and staring into the abyss"
People don't talk about founder depression and the trough of disillusionment enough
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Something clicked for me last week when I realized that I don't have to file notes hierarchically anymore with
@RoamResearch
.
My brain is a web, not a tree.
Here's
@Conaw
describing how our brains organize knowledge:
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.
@firstround
's Fast Track mentorship program was 🔥
It's a steep learning curve as a first-time founder, but having great mentors can massively accelerate the process.
Thank you
@ai
teaching me how to be a more authentic leader, and the importance of culture.
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The atomic unit of Tiktok is not a video, but actually a song.
The music is key to the meme spread.
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reminded today of this classic video from Steve Jobs on waking up, and realizing YOU HAVE AGENCY. i only wish i truly internalized this earlier, it would have saved me years of unhappiness
You tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
But that’s a very limited life.
Peak Steve
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This dating app I’ve never heard of has 143k reviews and I just stumbled upon one of their dodgy acquisition tactics.
Assume $0.03 per MMS, 20% hit rate (not gay, female, or taken), 10% conversion to download, that’s $1.5 CPI.
It’s probably illegal though?
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Finding product market fit in a startup is being in the fog of war.
Looking back at the last startup I was in, it was very obvious in hindsight what the tweaks needed to reach PMF were, after we had done it. But I remember how uncertain those decisions felt at that time.
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