Blake Menezes
@blakemenezes
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AI-first builder/operator. MFG & robotics marketer | GenAI+marketing | consultant. former: @pleaseplatforms @autodesk @brightmachines @bitski @OutCastAgency
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2011
This is why I always love Michael’s takes. Not just because he spots what’s in the zeitgeist before most people, but because he thinks about what had to happen inside the company to actually ship something like this. (Trust, clear decision making, etc.)
The mainstream marketing/advertising trades will probably not report on this, but this is such an amazing call/response. Heineken has people who get it and can sell it internally (or have proper processes) to turn this around quickly and ship. Incredible speed for a giant org.
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Unbelievably clever to hide invite codes in the launch video. (Even though I wasn't able to get one before they were all used) Excited to eventually try this out, I was an early user of sonar!
If you want your generations to feel designed and not…generated We hid a few invite codes to @variantui in this video The first 100 get unlimited credits, reply for a hint
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Beginning of fleet week weekend in SF! ✈️ No blue angels this year, but the Canadian “snowbirds” are doing a good job.
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At the @mastersofscale summit this week! First session of the day with @drfeifei and @reidhoffman. Let me know if you’re here and want to talk AI+GTM or manufacturing and AI!
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One of my favorite books.
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So, it's looking like I broke my thumb. X-ray is tomorrow. But the upside is that now I'm using @WisprFlow and realizing how much I've been missing out on this. Literally 3x'ing most of my processes just by having AI dictation built into every app.
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Let me tell you a dirty secret about a lot of execs: They're extremely smart. And they haven't had to do their own work for years. Look inside any mid->large size company and you'll find VP+ executives that were promoted fast and furious in their early career because they're
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RT’ing because @michaelmiraflor rarely misses on topics like this. Also: the average TS concert drives hundreds of millions in local economic impact, with Singapore seeing a ~0.2% GDP bump from Swifties.
The Swift Kelce wedding will likely have measurable impact on GDP. Pop culture coming to the rescue of the American economy. Closest thing to a royal wedding we'll have in this country. The merch will be in sane. The 24/7 media coverage leading up to it will break records. There
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Please keep an eye out for my upcoming LinkedIn post: "5 things I learned about B2B SaaS from dog-sitting my friend’s golden retriever 🐕💻"
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Experimenting with Opus 4.1 now....
Today we're releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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“Multithread” is a great term Dan’s been coining. My flavor: – Wake up, coffee – Fire up 2–3 Claude Opus or Sonnet tabs with different prompts – Queue up @Replit agents on async tasks – Scroll X like it’s work – Rinse, repeat
morning routine: - wake up - coffee - read (currently: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson) - start Claude Code agents in 2 different repos. Agent 1 to fix a bug, Agent 2 to build a feature - minimize, turn on Self Control - write for an hour this is how you multithread writing and
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cc @gregisenberg @boringmarketer @danshipper I feel like this is something you've probably experimented with already
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The people getting the most out of AI Agents right now are creating hyper precise prompts to describe what they want, and embracing the fact that their job is to review and edit the output. The moment you stop expecting perfection, your leverage goes up massively.
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Fantastic rubric on defensibility for startups against AGI. Makes me think quite a bit about the network effects impact that @chrisyeh , @jowyang, and @reidhoffman champion in their investing thesis.
Every investor is asking: "How is this defensible?" @vedikaja_in created a rubric to stress test a startups AGI-proof moat.
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Can’t wait for LinkedIn to learn about this so we can see the inevitable “5 things I learned about B2B Sales from Soham Parekh” articles. 🫠
Yes, I almost hired Soham Parekh. And yes, his alter ego is Satya Nutella.
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I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
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Replit is the 3D printer of software 3D printers revolutionized physical prototyping—what once required expensive machine shops, tooling, and setup costs became accessible to anyone with an idea Replit does the same for software. We've eliminated the complex dev environments,
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