Cliff Lerner
@clifflerner
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“Over-40 wisdom with under-40 curiosity” • Founded 1st dating app: 120M users, $100M rev • Full-stack vibe coder • 📚 Authored 'Explosive Growth' • 🏀 45% 3s
Read ‘Explosive Growth’ 👉
Joined April 2007
Loneliness Kills: As dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes daily, says the @Surgeon_General. At @getsaturdayapp, we’re tackling this head-on.
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VC asks: “What’s your moat?” Me: “I’m a full-stack vibe-coder.” Meet the team: • ChatGPT – tells me I’m a genius, writes pure chaos • Lovable – asks 3 vague questions, spins in a circle, gaslights me into thinking I built a unicorn • Claude – corrects ChatGPT and gets
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You almost never see this: The guy behind 5 BILLION views just dropped the exact system he used to get there. The good news? Roman just dropped his viral playbook. Steal it. Run it. The bad news? You’re not @roman_khaves. He’s the product. The growth loop. The
everyone wants to know how i scaled RIZZ app to 5B+ organic views. people were tweeting threads trying to break down my strategy. finally i’m revealing exactly how I did it:
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Omaha. May 4, 2025. Warren Buffett Steps Down. This Was the Moment. The GOAT of Capitalism Just Left the Stage.
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Brilliant and incredibly well-deserved. Bootstrapping RIZZ to over $10M and 5B+ views is impressive enough. Doing it while fighting a private battle shows remarkable strength and resilience. Truly inspiring and speaks volumes about your character. Founders like @roman_khaves
I bootstrapped RIZZ to $10M+ revenue and 5B+ views… All while quietly battling cancer. Here’s the founding story I’ve never shared before:
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The deck said, "Zero AI — handcrafted by experts." Even the AI rolled its eyes 😂😂😂.
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Links for things mentioned: • Read Explosive Growth (my book for startup founders): https://t.co/z0nTn5TddX • View Bryan Kim’s of a16z’s “Great” retention benchmarks for consumer apps: https://t.co/kG4DqYyxYp • Get Saturday App: https://t.co/947dmULz5i
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When a new social app starts to “work,” it feels like magic, but often looks like a black box. What causes a product to take off, and then continue to pick up steam—to the point where millions of...
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I thought I knew exactly how to build the next $100B social product. Why? I built the first swiping dating app - 120M users, $100M in revenue, went public, and sold. Served on Bumble’s board as it scaled to a $3B exit. My mentor built the first social network - $125M exit. I
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Hey @elonmusk, here’s my weekly productivity report… • Played basketball. Sloppy ball handling but shot well from 3-point range, around 50%. • Went on two dates. Live music and comedy. Both laughed. One at my jokes, the other at me. • Lost a ton of money in the market.
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Got asked my superpower at dinner—just realized it: “Over-40 wisdom with under-40 curiosity and hustle.”
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Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits! Wild specs: • Memory: 128GB unified (most laptops: 16–32GB). • Storage: Up to 4TB NVMe. • Scale: Link 2 systems to handle 405 billion parameters • SUPER Intelligence: Will finally reveal which came first—the
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Brilliant and insightful piece by @jvisserlabs —this explains the battle between innovation, deflation, and government money printing like no other. A must-read for anyone trying to understand the future of our economy. Link in comments. My favorite excerpt: "So here is my
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This is a must-listen, highly recommend.
Most people haven't heard of @jvisserlabs yet, but I think he will quickly become a go-to voice on bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and financial markets. Jordi spent more than 30 years running a large hedge fund. Now he is bringing that knowledge and experience to frontier
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if you could press a button that cures your child’s brain tumor in exchange for ending your life immediately, every parent would hesitate for zero seconds before fighting to be the first to press it the cruelest thing is that no such button exists. but there is always a move 👇
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☕️ The Starbucks Paradox: I held the door for someone this morning, and they slid right into line ahead of me. What would you do? A) Pretend it doesn’t bother you, but think about it all day. B) Smile and say, “Oh, the line’s actually behind me!” C) Stand awkwardly close
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Typical Sunday morning: I’m using ChatGPT to learn how to use machine learning to predict asset prices (obviously Bitcoin & $MSTR). Meanwhile, my friend’s 5-year-old is mastering prompt engineering: ‘Make a HUGE green poopy with a face on it!’ One of us is definitely closer
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