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Peter Yang
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Here's my new guide on how to use AI to: - Write an article while taking a walk - Edit a transcript with a single prompt - Create 5 social posts from any article - Film a talking head video from a script - Generate 10+ clips from a video 📌 Read it here:
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Peter Yang
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Just had a call with someone on Forbes 30 under 30 list and came away really impressed. He shared with me how he made VP at a top tech company before age 30: 1. 4:30 AM wakeup 2. Cold showers 3. Gratitude journal 4. Meditate 5. Dad owns tech company
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Our jobs are safe, fam.
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Video of Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his kids while he stays behind to fight. Fuck war.
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Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As
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The only real parenting hack is to live close to the grandparents
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Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than: - Facebook ($665B) - Tesla ($618B) - Netflix ($168B) This is a company that started 30 years ago at Denny's and was for decades only a video game chip maker. Here's why Nvidia is surging:
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Unfortunately, not everyone is having a great Thanksgiving break
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A man from the future 😂
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I've watched hundreds of Korean movies. The best ones blend thrills, comedy, and tragedy into highly original stories. Here's a list of 12 Korean masterpieces that you must watch:
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An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns:
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Just looked up Prigozhin and the man had a wild life: 1981: Caught stealing in his early 20s -> 9 years in jail 1990: Sold hot dogs in a flea market 1995: Entered restaurant business 2001: Personally served food to Putin 2012: Supplied meals to Russian military for $1.2B a year.…
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How does this even work - is his team testing different thumbnails every few hours?
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What A/B testing at scale looks like 🤯
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The only concert venue where the nosebleed seats are better than the front row.
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Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them. Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️
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Community notes is still so underrated
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I will never get a parking ticket again.
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Kids will never do homework again.
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The general law of mathematics
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I am the documentation
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My mind is blown that this happened over a weekend with a logo from a user. Doesn’t this corporate rebrand stuff usually involve paying expensive consultants a few million dollars to make nice strategy decks? 😂
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Here's a wild stat: 43% of white students admitted to Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. 86% admit rate for athletes is insane.
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When your team is about to do a simple tech migration
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Peter Yang
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This is one of the best cold emails ever. But here a 3 ways that it could be even better: 1. Create a hook The subject line needs a better hook than "internship." e.g., "Snapchat feedback from 10 high schoolers + internship" 2. Add value Give first, then ask. e.g., "I spoke to…
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Who is SBF and how did he go from being crypto's savior to the man that brought a trillion dollar industry to its knees? I looked into it and here's the full story of his rise and fall:
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CEO lays off employees and posts a crying pic on LinkedIn. This is peak lunacy.
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I thought Dune 2 was the best movie of 2024 until I watched this masterpiece (sound on).
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Zuck thinks Twitter never succeeded because people on here are too mean
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A personal story about Satya Nadella's superpower from a Microsoft VP: "A few weeks after I joined Microsoft, Satya randomly called me and my manager to chat. During those 30 minutes, he only asked questions. He asked about our thoughts on the product strategy, Microsoft’s…
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An AI essay about how my dog ate my homework
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Follow me @petergyang if you're better at math than ChatGPT
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The general law of mathematics
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Dumb question - how does Microsoft own 50% of OpenAI but not have a board seat?
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Peter Yang
10 months
Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Today, they went a step further with a tool that shows the $$$ cost of holding meetings. I spoke to @CanadaKaz (Shopify's COO) about meeting bloat and protecting craft time. Here are 6 spicy takes from our interview 👇
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PM who infiltrated the dev only slack channel to understand how the project is *really* going
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Your product vs. what users actually want
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The secret is to start with another app that has 500M daily active users. If you enjoyed this groundbreaking insight, follow me @petergyang and RT above.
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70 million sign ups just 24 hours after launch. I spent time studying why this app became the fastest growing consumer app ever. Here's what I found 👇
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Zuck's remarks on Apple Vision Pro:
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ChatGPT has already made it to my iPhone Home Screen. It genuinely feels like having a personal assistant to ask questions to throughout the day.
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👏👏👏 to whoever made this lol
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Human architecture has become too advanced for even AI
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The best meetings are when you get in a room with other smart low-ego people to try to solve a problem and uncover the truth together.
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Peter Yang
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Airbnb has a blueprint of their entire customer journey on their office walls. They then map all product, policy, and service updates to it. More companies should do this to avoid shipping the org chart.
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Peter Yang
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Life luxuries without kids: 1. Traveling to exotic places 2. Dining at nice restaurants 3. Frequent hangouts with friends 4. Free time for personal hobbies 5. Clean house and peace of mind Life luxuries with kids: 1. Actual silence 2. A full night's sleep 3. Going to the…
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2 years
Follow me at @petergyang , but only if your dad owns something important.
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WeWork bankruptcy rumors remind me of the greatest slide deck of all time.
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The user retention funnel for most products
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Came across this Reddit thread discussing why someone got rejected from 16 colleges despite having a 3.97 GPA and starting his own company in high school. Something about this highlighted comment made me want to share this. Why should kids have to do performance theater to…
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The most interesting thing about OpenAI is: How did the company build a culture that not only shipped GPT4, DALLE, and ChatGPT — but also made every staff willing to follow Sam out the door? Do any OpenAI staff want to share?
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Peter Yang
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Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher who helped start OpenAI. He recently gave a talk on how to craft great GPT prompts that almost everyone missed. I watched the 40 min talk - here's @karpathy 's top 5 tips to make AI work better for you:
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@NickADobos Making 100 versions of a thumbnail for every video feels wild but I guess this is why he wins
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Peter Yang
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Love this clip from Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) on why innovation requires failure. "Unless you have a tolerance for failure, you will never experiment. If you don't experiment you won't innovate, and if you don't innovate you won't succeed."
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Imagine what we could build if there were hackathons 365 days of the year 😂
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"Must be willing to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment." The environment:
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Satya will never forgive the OpenAI board for making him miss the Australia vs India cricket match
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1 year
What a nice guy (His net worth is $7.9B)
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1 year
Gotta reallocate that household entertainment budget
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1 year
Twitter algo 101 Boosts - Likes 30x - Retweets 20x - Twitter Blue 2-4x - Trusted circle 3x - Images/videos 2x - Replies 1x Negatives - URL only - No text - Mute - Block - Unfollow - Report
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Mark Zuckerberg on middle managers
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Junior PM: "Can I be added to this meeting?" Senior PM: "Do you need me in this meeting?"
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Peter Yang
3 years
🔒 OnlyFans grew faster than any other creator platform this year. Let's explore why 👇 1. Overview 2. Flywheel 3. Creators 4. Fans 5. What's next
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If these leaks are real, OpenAI will let you create and share your own GPT starting tomorrow: You can give your GPT: - A name - A welcome message - Example prompts to start the conversation - Additional files for the GPT to reference - Actions like web browsing, DALL-E, code…
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I'm often asked how a big company might crush a startup. Well it's quite simple really, but few know the process:
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Peter Yang
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My life changed for the better when I learned about the 3 forms of leverage from @naval . It made me set new goals and redesign my life with intention. Maybe it'll change your life too:
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Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter's code base to tell Musk what Twitter needs to do is...interesting
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A preview of the content we've written and designed for our "Intro to web3" learning path. Launching next week - follow to be the first to read it 💫
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You can find great shitposts everywhere
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AI changing PS1 graphics to PS5
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Pizza in California is very underrated - here’s a meal I had at California Pizza Kitchen recently
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"Jobs to be done" in a nutshell
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This might be a dumb question but I don't understand why VCs are pulling back due to current market conditions if their time horizon is 7-10 years?
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It works lol
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An AI essay about how my dog ate my homework
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It never made sense to me why you need to be "accredited" (1M net worth or $200K+ income) to invest in the best startups, yet anyone can go gamble in Vegas or buy lottery tickets. I hope crypto blows this restriction wide open. We need more education, not blanket rules.
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Kids these days are unstoppable.
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It's wild that SF let its residents suffer for years under an open-air drug market and then cleaned it up in days the moment some world leaders come to visit. Almost feels like the city's residents don't matter.
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i’m downtown sf and there are heavily armed policemen everywhere — underground, drug stores, street corners. “how you doing?” one asked, super friendly, hand on his gun. all in advance of xi’s visit i guess, but crime has evaporated. it could be like this every day.
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When I worked at Facebook, Frank Gehry (the famous architect) stopped by and said something about Zuck that I still remember to this day: "He's the most driven person that I've ever met." Doing a 2 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 pushups, and 300 squats in 40 min is no joke.
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How to make great decisions async and save yourself and your team from drowning in a calendar like this:
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Big tech PM leading first meeting at a startup
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Tony Fadell co-created the iPhone. In his book, Build, he explains why product management and product marketing should be the same role. "Your messaging is your product. The story you're telling shapes the thing you're making." I've always believed this as someone who did…
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I schedule alot of Zoom calls and then cancel them to make my coworkers feel better
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Senior engineer who just came out of a sev1 incident and has to onboard new hires
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1/ Nvidia invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) back in 1999. Its GeForce series was a perfect fit for PC and console games that demanded high fidelity graphics.
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PM participating in a technical architecture discussion
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3/ It turns out that GPUs are also well suited for the data processing and model training demands of generative AI. From an analyst: "Training AI models demands chips that have large memory...Nvidia is the only company making those chips.” Nvidia's A100 chips cost $10K each.
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ChatGPT code interpreter is the best product to come out of @openai since GPT4. It gives everyone a personal data analyst. If you haven't tried it yet, let me show you exactly how it works:
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Damn - Satya is ruthless
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Just told my kids that I had to cancel Netflix and they have to eat ramen for a while so we don't miss out on: ChatGPT Plus $20 Perplexity Pro $20 Claude Pro $20 Microsoft Copilot Pro $20 Gemini Advanced $20
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Nvidia almost died 3 times in its 30 year history. CEO Jensen Huang shared these near-death stories at a commencement speech last night. Here's what he said:
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Peter Yang
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Meanwhile at Google
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Peter Yang
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New to web 3 and want someone to "explain like I'm five" how crypto works? I've written a single post that breaks down: 1. Web 3 2. Blockchain (wallets and keys, proof of work vs. stake) 3. Tokens 4. Bitcoin 5. Ethereum 6. NFTs 7. DAOs Let's dive in...
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I don’t understand how the people in charge of this city can call themselves “progressives” with a straight face when this shit happens everyday. Does “progress” mean rampant crime?
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What is a DAO? Let me try to explain using an example: Imagine that you want to work for a hot tech startup...
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Peter Yang
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5/ In a gold rush, sell the shovels. Nvidia's GPUs could be the most lucrative shovels ever. If you found this thread helpful, follow me @petergyang and RT the first tweet below:
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Peter Yang
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Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than: - Facebook ($665B) - Tesla ($618B) - Netflix ($168B) This is a company that started 30 years ago at Denny's and was for decades only a video game chip maker. Here's why Nvidia is surging:
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Peter Yang
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Excuse my language but holy shit
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Peter Yang
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2/ Memories of Murder Two detectives struggle with the case of young women being found murdered by an unknown culprit. From the same director as Parasite. Every frame drips with atmosphere, from the rain falling on the rooftops to shadows lurking in the grass.
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2/ But GPUs are just one part of the story. Nvidia launched the CUDA computing platform in 2007 to make it easier for people to program GPUs. This made it much easier for AI players to adopt Nvidia's chips vs. competitors. From Nvidia:
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4/ The market opportunity is huge. From CEO Jensen Huang: "The world has $1 trillion of data center installed, and it used to be 100% CPUs. In the next 5-10 years, most of that $1 trillion...will be largely gen AI."
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1/ Parasite Greed and class discrimination threaten the relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. The first foreign language film to win Oscars Best Picture - I've seen it 3x just to watch people's reactions to the twists.
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@TrungTPhan Well 99% don’t know this, but I’ll tell you: The secret to success is a leather jacket and a tattoo
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Jensen Huang built Nvidia to $2.2 trillion. I watched his interviews and here's what stands out: Pure Asian dad energy. "I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering." Going to give this pep talk to my 5-year-old this weekend. Will let you all know how it goes.
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An engineer and ex-founder wrote a long post on Google's culture. This line stands out to me:
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