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I'm hosting an AI Hardware Residency at
@fdotinc
in April.
- 4 weeks
- Workbench, equipment, and free lunches
- Surrounded by some of the best early-stage hardware founders in SF
Register now -> Lu . ma/raspi
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If you're thinking about moving to SF
1. You probably should
2. I'm happy to help (DMs are open)
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All the smartest people I know never give advice unless you force it out of them
All the dumbest people I know force their advice down your throat
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@roshanpateI
@DylanJardon
Vandy doesn’t have a Business Admin or Finance major…
Sus
Also magma cum laude with a 3.5? Ain’t no way
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Request for startup:
Turn Loom videos into automated workflows.
Many companies use Loom videos as a way to transfer institutional knowledge -> "How to do X"
It seems like its feasible to take those videos and turn them into automated scripts.
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> takes day off
> watches open ai dev day
> walks self back to the office
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@nonmayorpete
@inflectionAI
it's awful
just tried it
its soooooo slow and doesn't do anything different from gpt 3.5
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Excited to launch Attention Heads w/
@0xSamHogan
The podcast with the silliest name but the smartest guests.
It's an AI podcast for builders & tinkerers.
If you're not in SF, its the best way to keep up with what people on the ground are excited about:
- Product ideas we…
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We're incubating something that could become a generational company at
@fdotinc
It's a hardware company that has a clear path to being in every home in the next 5 years
We're looking for a CTO
Requirements:
- Strong AI eng skills
- Good product intuition / taste
- Hardware…
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Anyone not going home for Christmas + NY?
We're opening up
@fdotinc
to founders for the next 30 days.
If you're working on something cool in AI, DeepTech, AR/VR, or Crypto, DM me.
Send me:
- 1 liner of what you're building w/ link
- 1 liner of the most impressive thing you've…
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how to find great people:
1. find great work
2. find out who made it
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- Had 13 Zoom calls
- Had 4 interactions w/ people w/ 0 EQ
Been a long ass day, but living in the Marina makes it all melt away
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Over the past few months, I've had a front row seat into a startup going through hypergrowth.
Here are some things I learned working with
@btaleisnik
, the VP of Ops at
@beondeck
.
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Founders, Inc. will be the center of gravity for startups in SF
In the past, people moved to SF to be closer to tech
In the future, they'll move to SF to be closer to
@fdotinc
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Perhaps the most useful realisation you can have as a teen:
No one is coming to save you.
Once you do this, the next step is to take full responsibility for everything that happens in your life, good and bad.
Internalise this and you will be free.
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One path to success:
1. Get in the room
Find a way to be physically located around the people you want to be like. Even if it means sweeping the floors.
2. Stay in the room
Don't fuck things up, don't be weird, don't be a dick, etc.
3. Find & learn the skill that people…
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We're building "Smart Toys" at
@fdotinc
Bring any toy to life:
- Give it a voice
- Give it a personality
- Knowledge about your child's likes/dislikes
If you're a parent, I'd love to get some feedback on what we've built so far.
DMs open :)
PS: If you wanna work on this,…
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Hunter is building a portfolio of creator-led businesses:
-Short form editing w/ Sam Parr & Codie Sanchez
-Design w/ Sahil Bloom
-Animation w/ Dan Koe
And today, Hunter is launching his newest business, with
@AliAbdaal
.
It's a Youtube Growth Agency (
@SayHeyFriends
)...
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Many people on tech twitter talk a big game about the state of SF
Thankfully, there are people who care enough to do something about it:
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Always extremely sus when someone uses my name while I'm speaking to them
How to Lose Friends and Annoy People
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How
@IAmAndrewKirby
helped
@HamzaAdonis
go from $20k/mo to $200k/mo
Plus:
- How to price a community
- “The bigger the head, the longer the tail” strategy for retention
- Leverage
(Link below)
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This year I want to convince all my internet friends to move to SF for at least 1 month
(at the same time)
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"Focus is a superpower" –
@IAmAndrewKirby
Interview dropping tomorrow, 9am PST.
Subscribe so you don't miss it:
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1. Figure out what you want
2. Go at it w/ maximum energy
The problem here is that most people die without ever figuring out what they want.
I'm still figuring this out.
But here's what has helped me (so far):
1. Realize you're going to die. And after you die, you won't care…
there’s this crazy thing where in 2024 if you do exactly what you want and work really hard at it great things happen.
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First round of interviews went out.
Applications close in 2 days!
I'm hosting an AI Hardware Residency at
@fdotinc
in April.
- 4 weeks
- Workbench, equipment, and free lunches
- Surrounded by some of the best early-stage hardware founders in SF
Register now -> Lu . ma/raspi
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living in sf is just
hearing your roommate upstairs screaming (cold shower)
and your roommate downstairs screaming (cold plunge)
as you walk past the kitchen without eating (intermittent fasting)
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I'm thinking of starting a book club.
Here's how it'll work:
- Every month is a different topic: Ex. Obsession, Death, Taste, etc.
- Everyone reads 2-3 books (of their choice) that relate to this topic
- We come ready w/ notes to share w/ the rest of the group
- 2 hour…
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It’s Hubert’s birthday today
Help me make him a birthday card
Link ->
PS: Don’t snitch and tell him about this
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 3.0
In this episode,
@0xSamHogan
& I sit down with
@atbeme
, the founder of
@ultramail_
We discuss:
- Reimagining email using AI
- Reverse engineering crypto transactions using AI
- & Using AI to improve parenting
LINK ->
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If someone you're close to (friend, relative, etc.) is born in December, can you like this tweet please
Trying to see something
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One thing I’m seeing more and more:
Founders who raised substantial $$$ pre PMF, hired a team, and still haven’t found PMF.
Their emotional runway is even shorter because they have a demoralised team.
Managing their psychology as founders plus the psychology of their team…
founders and investors obsess over cash runway, but a founder friend recently brought up the idea of 'emotional runway' and i can't get it out of my head
running out of money kills lots of companies, but i think not enough people talk about how running out of willpower kills…
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We’re looking for a new roommate!
-Location: Fort Mason, 3 mins from
@fdotinc
& the ocean
-Start date: May 1st
-Comes with: private dinners, intimate concerts, & Bob’s donuts
DM me or
@DanteMonaldo
if you’re interested
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 2.0
In this episode,
@0xSamHogan
& I sit down with
@madhavsinghal_
We discuss:
- Training models at Replit
- His contrarian views on agents
- & Why integrating AI into software is the wrong way to think about it...
Search "Attention Heads" on YT + Spotify
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 8.0
In this episode,
@0xSamHogan
and I sit down with
@subby_tech
, founder of Maroofy . com
We discuss:
- AI generated music
- Livestream Deepfakes
- and we brainstorm AI product ideas (like creating the slowest self-driving car ever)
PS: If you listen…
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AI Tinkerers hosted a meetup at
@fdotinc
last night
Some dude walked up to me and said: "you're dressed like you know the wifi password"
(I knew the wifi password)
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Fast life, slow life
Sprint. Then do nothing. Sprint. Then do nothing.
This is how I plan to spend my life...
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Pretty sus that everyone is taking pics of the new Opal camera and not actually showing the camera quality
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I’m grateful for sunshine, capitalism, and the United States of America 🇺🇸
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Looking for a co-conspirator for a project I can't stop thinking about:
About you:
- High energy
- iOS dev / designer
- Lives on the fringes of the internet
DM me w/ your
1. Portfolio
2. The weirdest behavior you engage w/ online
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If I ever get on the Blueprint Diet, take me out in the street and shoot me
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The year is 2035:
@ericxhong
becomes the CEO of
@fdotinc
Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator) volunteering as a photographer at Y Combinator's startup school in 2008 to get his foot in the door
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The trick is to get 30u30, use it to get your O-1, and never tell anyone about it
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If you're a parent in the Bay Area with a child aged 5-8, please like this / DM me
Building something magical for your kids & would love your feedback!
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 7.0
In this episode, I sit down with
@joaomdmoura
, Director of AI Eng
@clearbit
& founder of CrewAI (Agent Framework).
We discuss:
- How roleplaying improves the output of agents
- Autonomous companies
- & Finding better ways to do the same tasks but with…
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We’re looking for another roommate.
October 1st.
We’re looking for a new roommate!
-Location: Fort Mason, 3 mins from
@fdotinc
& the ocean
-Start date: May 1st
-Comes with: private dinners, intimate concerts, & Bob’s donuts
DM me or
@DanteMonaldo
if you’re interested
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Another thing that seems like small boi stuff but isn’t:
Writing (good) documentation
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 4.0
In this episode,
@0xSamHogan
& I sit down with
@ashvardanian
the founder of Unum – "Storage, Search, & AI Libraries" designed for processing large amounts of data.
We discuss:
- His suite of open source tools
- The implications of his tools being…
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If you’re in SF & aren’t doing anything tonight
@omarwasm
& I are hosting an impromptu Eid dinner
DM if you want to come
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Greg Isenberg is building the YC for Creators.
In our latest video,
@gregisenberg
unveils his Master Plan
Link below 👇
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@ShaanVP
two sites you should check out:
- civit ai (top 1000 site in the world)
- janitor ai (80% of users are women!)
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One path to riches:
Make yourself into the kind of person who can mediate between the World of Influencers & the World of Software.
One path to riches:
Make yourself into the kind of person who can mediate between the World of Spreadsheets & the World of Pickup Trucks.
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 9.0
@0xSamHogan
and I sit down with
@therealprady
, cofo + CEO of Sync, a real time lip-syncing API.
We discuss:
- Personalized ads
- Challenges of building a foundational model
- The paper I saw but didn’t read (a model to detect smells)
LINK ->…
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On scaling yourself:
If you find yourself doing a task twice, write a playbook for it. When someone else needs to do the same task, you’ll save them 90% of the work.
If you find yourself doing a task thrice, automate it. If you can’t automate it, delegate it to an EA.
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Congrats to 2 members of our first Residency program on EV:
@_ellyshin
to delay menopause
@Harryoc493
to build humanoid robots
If you’re building something epic in emerging tech, my DMs are open.
Credentials not required
Emergent Ventures winners, 31st cohort, , congratulations to all!
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Blog posts someone should write
- Dynamic Interfaces
- Incentivising Agents
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What we've been up to
@fdotinc
last week
There's always something happening at the lab...
Here's a recap from
@safwaankay
of the coolest projects we shipped last week, in case you missed anything 🤖
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ATTENTION HEADS – EP 5.0
In this episode,
@0xSamHogan
& I sit down with
@chillzaza_
, cofounder and AI engineer at Khawaja Partners.
We brainstorm using AI for the real world:
- AI in law firms
- AI in customer service ("McAgents")
- AI in emergency services
LINK ->…
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This was the weirdest thing to me about SF
There are so many French founders in SF. San Francisco has become San Franceisco.
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There’s a reason Zuck is betting so heavily on AR/VR.
Despite owning the attention of the world, he still doesn’t own the platforms he operates on (Apple, Android).
He’s always at the mercy of Tim and Sundar.
So he’s been fighting hard to own the hardware layer.
Until…
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Greg Isenberg (
@gregisenberg
) used his 300k Twitter followers to start an agency.
Now, his agency is a cash-flowing engine that allows him to incubate and invest in multiple businesses for his personal holding company.
I built an 8 figure holdco based on this funnel
And I did it without raising $1 from venture capitalists
I call it the "Multipreneurship funnel"
This little funnel changed my life:
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It seems like you don't need to be an "Expert in X" to be seen as an "Expert in X"
All you need to do is tweet about it solely & relentlessly
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Multiple billion dollar companies have built on top of Salesforce:
-Veeva Systems ($25.57B)
-Vlocity (Acquired for $1.33B)
-Blackbaud ($3.25B)
The same could happen with Notion.
And who better to do it than
@TomFrankly
– the face of Notion.
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"Make the rich feel rich again."
That's how Christian Dior rose to fame.
In 1946, the world was still reeling from the devastation of World War II.
And women's fashion echoed that: plain, boxy, and masculine. To Dior, this was an opportunity.
An opportunity to bring back…
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If you want to build a generational company, what's the optimal strategy?
Iteration is in vogue (YC). But is this the best strat?
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