Over the years, I have tried to share learnings from my startups and seed investing. Decided to combine my startup tweets+tweetstorms into a tweethurricane. Here are my learnings + advice, from pitching investors to getting through the journey:

no more chasing down screenshots at 11:59 pm, we made receipt matching smarter. you can now set up gmail rules to auto-forward merchant emails to receipts@mercury.com, and we will match them to the right transaction… no uploads required. just saved time to continue building

Had an issue with my mic for podcasts and several engineers from the @RiversidedotFM team (including the CEO) showed up to help debug the issue. Thats why every single podcast recording I go to uses them. They care about making a sick product. Thanks for finding the fix!

Congrats to Cartesia on the new $100m raise! Building the best real time voice models. (disclaimer: small/proud investor)

Excited for Mercury to be featured in the Startup AI Playbook from @lovable_dev

Every startup needs a nucleus of a story that convinces investors, team and customers to join. At @TechCrunch Disrupt, I’ll share my framework for writing 2 sentences that can best explain your startup – and help as many founders as I can shape their stories. Come by Mercury’s

Iqram Magdon-Ismail (@iqramband) built @Venmo with one clear mission: help musicians get paid. Walk through New York today and every street performer has a Venmo sign. That's what happens when you start with a real problem, not a market opportunity. He made a sharp point on our

AI bubble getting out of control...

Fun throwback clip. Can't believe its been 6 year already (since we launched).

I have got to that stage in my American-ness where I no longer refresh my expired British passport. Should I bother?

We need a Survivor where all the contestants are billionaires. Would be great.

YIMBY bars with @Noahpinion

While Silicon Valley is debating whether we need UBI because AI will eliminate human purpose, DC is not worried about AI doom. They're not worried about mass unemployment. The technology just doesn't feel urgent to them. The gap between the people building AI and the people

Product-market fit doesn't exist in AI the way it does in other markets. Iñaki Berenguer, in his conversation with us, pointed out the fundamental problem: you can have PMF today, but in six months the market has completely changed. By definition, product-market fit means your

'Silicon Valley creates trillion-dollar companies. But the trains don't run on time.' @danwwang pointed this out on @FoundersInArms: America hasn't failed everywhere, but it only works well for a narrow slice of people. We've mastered building companies that reach

We are starting to do 2026 planning for @Mercury What features/products would you like us to build? Anything you need us to fix/improve?

Today we're launching Tasklet — an AI agent for automating your business. Unlike ChatGPT, @TaskletAI actually does the work for you: connecting to your tools, triggering automatically, and handling tasks while you sleep.

40% of Iñaki Berenguer's time as CEO went to HR while scaling CoverWallet. Not just hiring, the real time sink is what comes after: one-on-ones, retention conversations, maintaining the founder access that people joined for. At 200 employees, quarterly check-ins alone consume

It’s just insane how good grapes in California taste. If you haven’t had any recently go try them. (Maybe they are great everywhere in the US. But UK grapes don’t compare)

🚨 Introducing the AI Apps 50: Startup Edition Ever wondered how startups are spending their money when it comes to AI? Our team at @a16z worked with @mercury to crunch the numbers and rank the top applications by spend. The list + what we learned from it👇

Welcome to the era of chat-based editing.