Thomas Marban
@thomas
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Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Current: https://t.co/5fHcsu3fBx ✕ @mcuban
Austria
Joined November 2006
Spending $100 a pop on real stock photos is the ultimate 2025 flex.
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When you don't believe in your own product, all you have left is a marketing stunt like this. @AravSrinivas.
Exclusive: AI startup Perplexity makes an unsolicited longshot offer to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion
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99% of AI influencers are the same people who emailed you pictures as a Word attachment a year ago. Remember that.
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The clearest sign that someone is too immature to be a CEO is when they start posting screenshots of private conversations.
jason rugolo had been hoping we would invest in or acquire his company iyo and was quite persistent in his efforts. we passed and were clear along the way. now he is suing openai over the name. this is silly, disappointing and wrong.
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GEO consultants are about to make SEOs look like saints. Same hustle, just sleazier, smugger, and even less measurable.
forbes.com
Businesses are scrambling to be cited in AI-generated answers on Google, Perplexity and ChatGPT. A new crop of nascent search engine optimization startups wants to help them stand out.
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Looking at Google's bland design language - even after 17 years - it still holds true: You don't gift an Android device to someone you love.
blog.google
Here’s a look at the new features coming to Android 16.
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It started with 'burn the banks.' Now it's . bundle your boring ETFs with us.
wsj.com
The platform will offer overseas customers tokenized versions of more than 50 stocks and ETFs.
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For all the hustlers who claim that they read a dozen books per month.
404media.co
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
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All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone — or with a @Meta chatbot in a movie theater.
nytimes.com
Blumhouse, the horror movie studio, has teamed up with Meta on a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones while watching a movie.
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How many times can you loop a single song on Apple Music before someone from Apple calls to check if you're still alive?.
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Missing the simple days of straightforward Enron-style bankruptcies.
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You know, if websites simply followed basic accessibility standards and used things like ARIA labels, we wouldn’t have to keep funneling money to companies that profit off fixing problems that never needed to be there.
We raised 17M to build web agents. We are looking for vibe coders btw.
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You get the Internet you deserve. via @jason_koebler.
404media.co
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
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I'm thrilled to announce that I miss the days when LinkedIn was full of humblebrags instead of people who think they're tech messiahs just because they clicked 'Generate AI Video' once.
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