Tim Watson
@TimWatson
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CTO/Cofounder @intro Backed by @a16z & @sevensevensix
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2009
One of the dumbest ideas the boomers ever propagated was that a home is an investment asset, not a good. We should be mass-manufacturing homes and driving costs down. If we have done so 45 years ago, homes might cost $250k instead of $450k.
Average cost for a 2,000 sq. ft. home in America: 45 years ago: $97,000 40 years ago: $124,000 35 years ago: $144,000 30 years ago: $159,000 25 years ago: $187,000 20 years ago: $249,000 15 years ago: $215,000 10 years ago: $272,000 5 years ago: $368,000
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We have the highest gas tax yet drive over the deepest potholes. We spend the most on homelessness yet have the most homeless. We spend the most on social services yet have the worst poverty. We're 1st in education spending growth yet 1st in illiteracy. Our government is broken.
“Over the last decade, California’s spending overall has doubled, while its population has stayed FLAT. The state’s education budget has doubled, while the number of students has DECLINED.”
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If you think AI coding agents are cool, wait until robots do the same thing for the real world
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10 days into 2026: - Terence Tao announces GPT & Aristotle solve Erdős problem autonomously - Linus Torvalds concedes vibe coding is better than hand-coding for his non-kernel project - DHH walks back “AI can’t code” from Lex podcast 6 months later An acceleration is coming the
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Larry and Sergey can’t stay in California since the wealth tax as written would confiscate 50% of their Alphabet shares. Each own ~3% of Alphabet's stock, worth about $120 billion each at today's ~$4 trillion market cap. But because their shares have 10x voting power, the
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This isn’t understood by enough people Try to be useful to your fellow man, by creating some product or service, and we all win.
"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because
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You see that phone in your hand that can do all kinds of things, those packages on your doorstep that you ordered 2 days ago, all the income taxes from all the jobs they created? We already have a contribution loop from the wealthy to helping the rest of the people in the state /
Rep. Khanna reached out to me to discuss the proposed California wealth tax; and while I am against the proposed tax, I'm always open to dialogue with our elected leaders. The proposed CA wealth tax is badly designed in so many ways that a simple social post cannot cover all of
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If your reflex is to defend dictators and scammers, you’re not the good guys
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We're rapidly entering a time where building is more fun than consuming.
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Crazy how many dems objected not just to Elon or his approach, but to the idea of it being done at all
Dems have a narrow window of time to resurrect this kind of 2011 anti-waste/fraud/corruption energy or internet-powered citizens are going to do it for them.
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Huge spike in volume 30 minutes before it was called with no new information for >24 hours before. Either someone got really lucky or there's some insider trading going on at Kalshi
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I believe that by 2035, AGI tutors will deliver personalized, mastery-based education anywhere in the world at nearly zero cost.
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Public schools hold students back to the lowest common denominators. AI tutors like @synthesischool will let each student move at their own pace and tailor the teaching to how that student learns best. Without that I don't think we turn the decline in public education around
I had a new student in my Algebra II class. She was homeschooled previously, and this was her first experience in public school. Two days in, she’s already unerolling. I’m not surprised, given our last conversation. Her words when I asked her what she thought: “I wanted to see
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Robots will be able to build houses for half the cost and 10x faster but what's more exciting is what new, bigger, things we'll be able to create
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They made 10 pies, gave away 9, and now people want to take the last one away from them too. Who’s the greedy one here?
Jeff Bezos is worth $238 billion, even though Amazon has a $2.6 trillion market cap. In other words, he’s created $2.4 trillion of value for other shareholders—plus trillions more for employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders. Jensen Huang is worth
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Like over 80% of iOS engineer candidates had never even downloaded the app when asked about it on the interview
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Good advice in this thread. Most applicants do the bare minimum. Show you care and can do the work and it's an easy yes
never compete when applying for jobs, there are hundreds of applicants with better grades and universities than you. but none of them will be making a personalized demo i used this demo to get all my interviews like openai over two years ago before moving to sf
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Rockets got their revolution with SpaceX. Jet engines are next. Join @AstroMechanica
People of Twitter: If you're a propulsion/design engineer from SpaceX, Blue, or elsewhere who wants to work on advanced airbreathing jet engines, please DM me We need NX wizards who can own variable nozzle design, flameholders, and other fun mechanisms and subsystems
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We're still hiring engineers but maybe this will be the last round of hires we do. DM me if you're really good and want to build something great
Codex is so good, and is going to get so amazing. I am having a hard time imagining what creating software at the end of 2026 is going to look like.
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If you want to change the world, make a lot of money, and meet the world’s most interesting people, join @useintro — now is the time to do it.
If you want to build a career, join an iconic company, at any stage, for any position
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