andrew chen
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🇺🇸 a16z speedrun
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David Sacks @DavidSacks is a throwback to the era of American greatness in which the most capable private sector citizens selflessly volunteered for government service in moments of peril for a dollar a day. He is a credit to our nation, and we need more like him, not fewer. 🇺🇸
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There's a half of the Icarus myth no one tells. Daedalus gave his son Icarus two warnings: 1. Don't fly too close to the sun; the wax will melt. 2. Don't fly too close to the sea; the sea spray will weigh down the feathers. Everyone remembers the first. Hubris. Overreach. We
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What’s a bigger miracle? That we give young people, often with no experience / no track record, millions of dollars within minutes of meeting them Or that the founders take the $ and work 100+ hours a week, rather than fucking off to Mexico Both are amazing
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The President is right. A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer. Federal AI legislation is essential. There’s no bigger issue for Little Tech — the builders who create the future, for America.
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I'm particularly excited about today's launch of @Reforge Build because it implements so many of the prototyping best practices I've been preaching to product teams. Design consistency → Your prototype should feel like your real product, not a generic mock. Reforge Build makes
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Reforge Build is out. Prototype from your product, not from scratch.
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BIG NEWS! For the very first time, we’re adding a new city to Tech Week next year… Boston! 🎉 Boston will kick off a full run of back-to-back Tech Weeks, and will run the week before New York, and then we’re back in SF and LA in October. Boston has one of the most thriving
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For the very first time, a16z is bringing Tech Week to Boston in 2026 (5/26-5/31). Sign up below to be the first to hear Boston updates and help shape the inaugural year.
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Would you give up a "dream job" to chase your childhood dream? Elena did. This is her story.
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BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #3 ok -- so here's the case against all the fun/dumb viral techniques you're seeing on social media right now. When people talk about "going viral" these days the state of the art -- if you can call it that -- is a hodgepodge of shitpoasting and social
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and the second: https://t.co/qQtOEsOEOd
BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #2 (posted recently about the science of viral loops from the Web 2.0 days -- see replies for the first post) You'll often notice that very viral products tend to fall into one of two buckets: Category 1: very simple apps that do one thing, and that one
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if you didn't read my braindumps #1 and #2 for viral loops -- here they are: https://t.co/e5Ornw2pdn
BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #1 The golden age of Web 2.0 (~2005-2010) was a special time for viral products, which were systematically engineered to reach millions of people. Back then, people were building the first versions of things we take for granted: Social networks,
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BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #3 ok -- so here's the case against all the fun/dumb viral techniques you're seeing on social media right now. When people talk about "going viral" these days the state of the art -- if you can call it that -- is a hodgepodge of shitpoasting and social
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startups are hard. babies are hard. what happens when you have both during a16z speedrun? a lovely story about philipp at nexxa. Congrats!!
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attaching VIRAL LOOP BRAINDUMP #1 for anyone who didn't see it: https://t.co/e5Ornw1RnP probably read this first for the whole thing to make sense, but X hates links on posts so putting it as a reply
BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #1 The golden age of Web 2.0 (~2005-2010) was a special time for viral products, which were systematically engineered to reach millions of people. Back then, people were building the first versions of things we take for granted: Social networks,
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BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #2 (posted recently about the science of viral loops from the Web 2.0 days -- see replies for the first post) You'll often notice that very viral products tend to fall into one of two buckets: Category 1: very simple apps that do one thing, and that one
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