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🚨 a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 request for founders: the modern growth hacker 🚨 Distribution hacks change every few years. Airbnb growth hacked Craigslist, Zynga growth hacked Facebook. What’s next? Here’s the current meta that many are missing: clip-farming. Find an army of micro-influencers, have them film hundreds of types... of content testing everything from hooks to color to text position, programmatically figure out what’s likely to go viral, and then rinse and repeat. One founder I know spent $2K and got 10M+ views in a week driving thousands of high intent downloads. Amazing CPI. This strategy works because social media has changed from follower based graphs (news feed on Facebook, follower feed on instagram) to algorithm based graphs (for you page of TikTok). If you’re blessed by the algorithm and create good content, anyone can go viral. No need to pay top influencers top dollar. That means content creation is much more democratized. That means CPMs can be way lower if you can arbitrage talent that’s great at content creation but not big yet. Of course, this isn’t going to be a long term sustainable channel. Every channel gets crowded over time. I doubt this strategy will work a year from now. But if you’re thinking on the frontier of the next great growth hack, come join a16z speedrun 🧊. And if you’ve cracked 10M+ views in the last month, we should talk. Remember, attention is all you need.show more

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I can finally talk about this!! Hotbox is backed by a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 :) I spent the last 14 months in Korea and now I’m back in SF, where it all began. My entire career exists because of social media. From early NeurIPS papers, to working on ranking algorithms, and then building viral playbooks for startups. The thing I kept coming back to is: every company has no choice but to become a media company. To distribute. To get attention. That is the next generation of entrepreneur’s biggest challenge. That’s the next single person unicorn’s moat. Hotbox is built for that next gen entrepreneur. Businesses run entirely on social now. Hotbox is the sales infra for the social economy. more to come. sign up on our waitlist & lmk if you’ll be at the a16z speedrun demo day 🤫

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Don’t start with the product. Start with distribution. I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the time because distribution is the hardest part of building a company. “Build it and they will come” almost never works. And even if you expect distribution to be hard—it’ll be 10× harder. HotelTonight started with a distribution insight. In 2009, we saw that the App Store about to become a massive channel. Billion-dollar companies would be built there, and early movers could earn free distribution before the competition showed up. From that insight, we worked backwards to the product: - A use case uniquely suited to mobile: last-minute hotel booking - Designed to win App Store ranking and retention: beautiful UI, lightning-fast 8-second bookings - Clear, curated choices and amazing deals that fit the mobile moment That combo—a unique distribution edge + a product tailored to it—powered our growth. As you think about your next company, begin with your edge in distribution. Maybe you are an expert at selling into a specific vertical. Maybe you're great at creating authentic content. Maybe you’ve spotted an emerging channel before anyone else. Only then decide what to build—the product that best amplifies your distribution advantage. At speedrun, we’re seeing teams win with GEO, founder-led content, and high-intent launch videos. So I’ll leave you with a prompt: What’s your unique approach to distribution—and what product could you build that maximizes it? If you’re working on this, I’d love to hear from you. Apply to a16z speedrun 🧊 at sr [dot] a16z [dot] com.

Don’t start with the product. Start with distribution. I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the time because distribution is the hardest part of building a company. “Build it and they will come” almost never works. And even if you expect distribution to be hard—it’ll be 10× harder. HotelTonight started with a distribution insight. In 2009, we saw that the App Store about to become a massive channel. Billion-dollar companies would be built there, and early movers could earn free distribution before the competition showed up. From that insight, we worked backwards to the product: - A use case uniquely suited to mobile: last-minute hotel booking - Designed to win App Store ranking and retention: beautiful UI, lightning-fast 8-second bookings - Clear, curated choices and amazing deals that fit the mobile moment That combo—a unique distribution edge + a product tailored to it—powered our growth. As you think about your next company, begin with your edge in distribution. Maybe you are an expert at selling into a specific vertical. Maybe you're great at creating authentic content. Maybe you’ve spotted an emerging channel before anyone else. Only then decide what to build—the product that best amplifies your distribution advantage. At speedrun, we’re seeing teams win with GEO, founder-led content, and high-intent launch videos. So I’ll leave you with a prompt: What’s your unique approach to distribution—and what product could you build that maximizes it? If you’re working on this, I’d love to hear from you. Apply to a16z speedrun 🧊 at sr [dot] a16z [dot] com.

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I took a necessary break to learn Faceless AI content creation and in just less than 2weeks we hit 30k followers on facebook,10k on instagram and TikTok. I am glad I did this, got lots of job do create ads for businesses and currently building my YouTube channel. We just finished our first series and it ended yesterday. A series that garnered millions of views on facebook,TikTok and instagram. If you want to watch the full series..you can visit our YouTube channel( ) here to see and please like, subscribe and comment. Faceless AI content is the easiest way to build and monetize all your socials in just a short while.

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In 2025, everything is going to change about how we create content and do marketing. Today, we are introducing Superscale. This year, more people will become builders of software than ever before. This means more apps and websites in the world, aiming to reach the attention of their soon-to-be users and customers. But how do you get attention in a crowded online world? Get users and customers to your product? By becoming insanely great at content and marketing with the help of AI. And this is what Superscale will enable you to become. Whether you have never created a marketing asset, or you are a marketing expert, now you will get superpowers. Because every product deserves great content and marketing. And to be seen, used and loved. This is a new era for content and marketing. And we are building the platform for it. A platform proudly built in Europe for a global community of founders, builders, growth and marketing experts. Thanks to everyone who has supported us this far. Thanks to an incredible team for building a software that feels truly futuristic. The Superscale waitlist is now open. Two steps to get access: 1. Sign up at 2. Comment “Access” to move up the list and be one of the first we will onboard We will see you there 🔥🚀❣️

In 2025, everything is going to change about how we create content and do marketing. Today, we are introducing Superscale. This year, more people will become builders of software than ever before. This means more apps and websites in the world, aiming to reach the attention of their soon-to-be users and customers. But how do you get attention in a crowded online world? Get users and customers to your product? By becoming insanely great at content and marketing with the help of AI. And this is what Superscale will enable you to become. Whether you have never created a marketing asset, or you are a marketing expert, now you will get superpowers. Because every product deserves great content and marketing. And to be seen, used and loved. This is a new era for content and marketing. And we are building the platform for it. A platform proudly built in Europe for a global community of founders, builders, growth and marketing experts. Thanks to everyone who has supported us this far. Thanks to an incredible team for building a software that feels truly futuristic. The Superscale waitlist is now open. Two steps to get access: 1. Sign up at 2. Comment “Access” to move up the list and be one of the first we will onboard We will see you there 🔥🚀❣️

Patrick Haede

65,475 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

JAY AND JAKE SPEAKING FACTS 💯 🦮 one of the strongest points of our group is we have so many different doors opened for different types of people. so if you like music, if you love music, then we have very good, great songs that you can listen to. 🦮 but if you're also into vampires or if you're into like conceptual, like stories with albums that are filled with a lot of different content then you'll love enhypen. 🦮 this album… this next one has everything that you need. amazing songs with one of the best producers. amazing performance that you're going to see. the content that we have around this album is just amazing. anyone who enjoys music will definitely love this album and even if you don't know what k-pop is or that don't know or haven't heard of enhypen, if you just check out this album then i guarantee that it's gonna open your eyes to k-pop. it's gonna open your eyes to new different worlds of music 🐈‍⬛ we believe that this album is gonna be the best album you can find in enhypen in this moment

JAY AND JAKE SPEAKING FACTS 💯 🦮 one of the strongest points of our group is we have so many different doors opened for different types of people. so if you like music, if you love music, then we have very good, great songs that you can listen to. 🦮 but if you're also into vampires or if you're into like conceptual, like stories with albums that are filled with a lot of different content then you'll love enhypen. 🦮 this album… this next one has everything that you need. amazing songs with one of the best producers. amazing performance that you're going to see. the content that we have around this album is just amazing. anyone who enjoys music will definitely love this album and even if you don't know what k-pop is or that don't know or haven't heard of enhypen, if you just check out this album then i guarantee that it's gonna open your eyes to k-pop. it's gonna open your eyes to new different worlds of music 🐈‍⬛ we believe that this album is gonna be the best album you can find in enhypen in this moment

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54,195 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen

- Notion 2.0, 2026 plans - Alright guys, here’s a sneak peek at what the educational material inside Notion has become and what the plans are for this year. Over the past 2 years, I’ve written extensively. The result? A complete trading course, structured and accessible even if you’re starting from zero. We’re now talking about 1,700+ pages of PDFs covering everything from basic to advanced concepts. From market structure to Wyckoff, from AMT to SMC not just through written material, but also supported by in-depth video content. It’s truly a comprehensive learning path. And this year, it’s going to be expanded even further with new content across multiple areas: - Technical: time cycles, execution models, deeper operational frameworks. - Fundamental: with a strong focus on traditional finance. - Psychological: new practical guides and tools designed to help you stay calm, build discipline, and develop the right mindset. On top of that, there will also be live training sessions to make the experience even more interactive and dynamic. If you combine all of this with weekly and bi-weekly market analysis, video updates, and a tight-knit, growth-oriented community… what you get is not just a course, but a high-level learning experience. A special thank you to MisterPA of course not only for expanding the Notion with his educational videos, but for actively contributing with updates and analysis that are bringing real value to all members. If you’re looking for a structured growth path, one designed to guide you step by step, even if you’re starting from scratch.. this is exactly what you need.

- Notion 2.0, 2026 plans - Alright guys, here’s a sneak peek at what the educational material inside Notion has become and what the plans are for this year. Over the past 2 years, I’ve written extensively. The result? A complete trading course, structured and accessible even if you’re starting from zero. We’re now talking about 1,700+ pages of PDFs covering everything from basic to advanced concepts. From market structure to Wyckoff, from AMT to SMC not just through written material, but also supported by in-depth video content. It’s truly a comprehensive learning path. And this year, it’s going to be expanded even further with new content across multiple areas: - Technical: time cycles, execution models, deeper operational frameworks. - Fundamental: with a strong focus on traditional finance. - Psychological: new practical guides and tools designed to help you stay calm, build discipline, and develop the right mindset. On top of that, there will also be live training sessions to make the experience even more interactive and dynamic. If you combine all of this with weekly and bi-weekly market analysis, video updates, and a tight-knit, growth-oriented community… what you get is not just a course, but a high-level learning experience. A special thank you to MisterPA of course not only for expanding the Notion with his educational videos, but for actively contributing with updates and analysis that are bringing real value to all members. If you’re looking for a structured growth path, one designed to guide you step by step, even if you’re starting from scratch.. this is exactly what you need.

ZERO IKA 🗡️

29,444 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨 a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 applications are now open! we invest up to $1M in new start-ups building at the frontier - but that's just the start. beyond the investment, founders join a legendary community, work with our world-class operating team, and tap into the a16z network. details below: 1) the founder community - starting a new company is an emotional rollercoaster - being able to talk to founders on a similar journey can make it a bit less lonely - Speedrun is a tight-knit community of founders who support one another closely - providing advice, design partners, talent referrals, even investing in one another’s startups - during the program, we open up the a16z offices in SF and LA to founders as coworking space. dozens of founders work alongside each other before establishing their own offices - we have an alumni community >600 strong that come together every quarter through reunions and events at Tech Week 2) the a16z operating team - our operating team is a team of experts at the top of their field who provide specialized programs and hands-on support to founders. a few examples of how we help Speedrun founders: a) recruiting support to assemble and scale your team - direct intros to top talent in AI research, ML, full stack engineering, etc b) people support on US immigration and comp guidance for new hires / advisors c) GTM support on finding design partners and over $5M in credits on cloud, AI, and software spend d) marketing programs to build your brand and craft the perfect launch video to showcase your product e) capital networks support to refine your pitch deck and connect you to hundreds of prospective investors at demo day - many founders consider our operating team to be an extension of their own team in impact and how closely they work together 3) the a16z network - a16z as a firm has massive breadth and scale - we invest in and have networks across AI, bio/health, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure, american dynamism, and more - our network provides our founders an unfair advantage - it’s a rolodex they can tap into for intros to potential customers, employees, partners, and investors - providing a sense of power and reach you dont usually build until you're much farther along we know the best founders have many choices. if you’re setting out to build a generational company - we're confident you'll get unparalleled operating support, networks, & community from a16z Speedrun - all from day 0 if this sounds exciting, check out the link below!

Jon Lai

784,248 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Last week, Elon announced MAJOR algo changes for small accounts I know exactly what he is going to change, and this is great news for you If you were paying close attention to his Lex Fridman interview, Elon sprinkled in some subtle clues He mentioned small accounts that create great content still aren't seen, because they have very few mutual connections GREAT content should be seen by large amounts of people, no matter how many followers you have He also subtly mentioned AI will soon power the platform This is why I believe the next algorithm will be AI powered and be based on what's in your content, rather than who follows you Meaning if you write about basketball and it's actually dope, everyone on X who cares about basketball will see it Doesn't matter if you have 0 followers or a million When you open up X, the AI powering the algo will read every single piece of content on X and watch every single video in under a second, then serve you a list of content that matches your interests exactly Followers and tweepcred won't matter All that will matter is the better your content, the more people that will see it Grok isn't just an AI for making jokes, Grok will soon be helping small accounts get in front of millions of people Like a friend who knows you well giving you recommendations This will even the playing field and give every account a chance for exposure, both big and small If you feel like your content is amazing but being seen by nobody, have patience, better days are coming soon What are your thoughts? Will this be an improvement for the platform?

Last week, Elon announced MAJOR algo changes for small accounts I know exactly what he is going to change, and this is great news for you If you were paying close attention to his Lex Fridman interview, Elon sprinkled in some subtle clues He mentioned small accounts that create great content still aren't seen, because they have very few mutual connections GREAT content should be seen by large amounts of people, no matter how many followers you have He also subtly mentioned AI will soon power the platform This is why I believe the next algorithm will be AI powered and be based on what's in your content, rather than who follows you Meaning if you write about basketball and it's actually dope, everyone on X who cares about basketball will see it Doesn't matter if you have 0 followers or a million When you open up X, the AI powering the algo will read every single piece of content on X and watch every single video in under a second, then serve you a list of content that matches your interests exactly Followers and tweepcred won't matter All that will matter is the better your content, the more people that will see it Grok isn't just an AI for making jokes, Grok will soon be helping small accounts get in front of millions of people Like a friend who knows you well giving you recommendations This will even the playing field and give every account a chance for exposure, both big and small If you feel like your content is amazing but being seen by nobody, have patience, better days are coming soon What are your thoughts? Will this be an improvement for the platform?

Alex Finn

109,808 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI. So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion. Forty percent of economic growth is attributed to these companies alone, and 80% of stock gains this year came from AI companies. People are justifying these levels of investment because of the promises CEOs make — that there will be a return on that investment. For a company like OpenAI, their valuation is based on the expectation that they’re going to figure out how to make a profit off this, and they haven’t. Generating this increased human dependency that can be mined — people’s deepest fears, emotional content — can all be mined for this empty promise that we’re getting from these companies in the pursuit of profit. The reason I bring all of this up is that the exposure to this industry and this investment, I fear, has reached broad levels of the American economy. We’re talking about 40% of growth being attributed to that sector alone, and it has not turned a profit. We’re talking about a massive economic bubble. Depending on the exposure of that bubble, we could be facing 2008-style threats to economic stability.

AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI. So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion. Forty percent of economic growth is attributed to these companies alone, and 80% of stock gains this year came from AI companies. People are justifying these levels of investment because of the promises CEOs make — that there will be a return on that investment. For a company like OpenAI, their valuation is based on the expectation that they’re going to figure out how to make a profit off this, and they haven’t. Generating this increased human dependency that can be mined — people’s deepest fears, emotional content — can all be mined for this empty promise that we’re getting from these companies in the pursuit of profit. The reason I bring all of this up is that the exposure to this industry and this investment, I fear, has reached broad levels of the American economy. We’re talking about 40% of growth being attributed to that sector alone, and it has not turned a profit. We’re talking about a massive economic bubble. Depending on the exposure of that bubble, we could be facing 2008-style threats to economic stability.

Acyn

1,057,844 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

“The President has exactly two choices. He can pay Iran to open the Strait, or he can suffer the indignity of continuing this quagmire longer and longer. And because I listen to the Scott Jennings radio show religiously, I know that the White House has no intention of paying them to open up the Strait. A senior administration official told Scott Jennings exclusively, you should check it out, that they’re only going to pay them at the end of the process, not at the beginning of the process. The Iranians, by the way, are not going to go for that.” “That means this deal that they’ve been bragging about, which usually they brag about right before the markets open. It’s usually right before the markets open that there’s a lot of good news, and then somehow the markets go up. And then over the course of a couple of days, we find out that it was all BS. It turns out that that’s all BS because what’s going to happen is that they’re not going to want to strike this horrible deal, according to Scott Jennings’s top level sources. And that means that the deal is not going to be struck, and the war is going to go on, quite sadly, actually.”

“The President has exactly two choices. He can pay Iran to open the Strait, or he can suffer the indignity of continuing this quagmire longer and longer. And because I listen to the Scott Jennings radio show religiously, I know that the White House has no intention of paying them to open up the Strait. A senior administration official told Scott Jennings exclusively, you should check it out, that they’re only going to pay them at the end of the process, not at the beginning of the process. The Iranians, by the way, are not going to go for that.” “That means this deal that they’ve been bragging about, which usually they brag about right before the markets open. It’s usually right before the markets open that there’s a lot of good news, and then somehow the markets go up. And then over the course of a couple of days, we find out that it was all BS. It turns out that that’s all BS because what’s going to happen is that they’re not going to want to strike this horrible deal, according to Scott Jennings’s top level sources. And that means that the deal is not going to be struck, and the war is going to go on, quite sadly, actually.”

Josh Rogin

595,582 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

VP VANCE PREDICTED: PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET ANGRY, AND RIGHTFULLY SO "This stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice. People are going to get angry, and rightfully so." If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so. If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so.

VP VANCE PREDICTED: PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET ANGRY, AND RIGHTFULLY SO "This stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice. People are going to get angry, and rightfully so." If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so. If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so.

Svetlana Lokhova

254,325 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

"X is a shit show" "X is for Nazis" "X is all about Elon Musk" "X is too noisy" "X's algorithm sucks" How many of you have heard stuff like that? I do, especially when I go to other social media sites, like Threads, which just passed X in total users. I find attitudes like that uninformed, but what stopped an uninformed person from writing something on the Internet? Nothing. But since I jumped over to Threads today and got another eye full of that kind of stuff. So I mostly wanted to say thank you to the community of tens of thousands of people in tech that I follow, and show you what my screens look like today. If you turn on audio on the video here, you'll hear me talk through each of my lists. I use X Pro and lists. And by using them I find even my For You feed gets better. Much better, in fact. Why? Because if you engage on the REAL X, which you can only see on X Pro with lists, the algorithm figures out the kinds of things that catch your eye and looks for more. Also, by following lists you give the algorithm VERY IMPORTANT signal and a lot more things to choose from. Even if you just follow my feeds and never use them, your For You feed will get better BECAUSE you gave the algorithm more signal about what you want to see. If I see a brilliant person, or a new company, I put them on my lists. If I see someone go political all the time I remove them from my lists, or, maybe put them on my news lists if they are posting an interesting point of view that I would want to watch over time. These are the most complete lists in tech industry here on X, by far. I read through a LOT of lists: https:// ts And here is how I have my lists laid out in X Pro. If you are in the AI industry and you aren't following all my AI lists you are hurting yourself and ignoring many thousands of hours of work I've put into them over 18 years of being here on this service. I can only do this on X. The companies, for instance, aren't on the other services, and the AI research and development community here is stronger and more educational than they are on other services. And, because of Grok integration here, X is a far better learning platform. If I see a scientist sharing something I don't understand I click the Grok button and it teaches me a lot more. Thank you. And, yes, there are many other "X's" that I don't see. Sports, being one. I focus only on tech and educated people and my lists show that X is the best place for science, technology, and nerdy news. One last thing: the algorithm will, in about a month, radically change to be totally AI driven. When that happens X will radically change and lists will become even more important as a source of signal. If you want a better X, here's the key. Love!

"X is a shit show" "X is for Nazis" "X is all about Elon Musk" "X is too noisy" "X's algorithm sucks" How many of you have heard stuff like that? I do, especially when I go to other social media sites, like Threads, which just passed X in total users. I find attitudes like that uninformed, but what stopped an uninformed person from writing something on the Internet? Nothing. But since I jumped over to Threads today and got another eye full of that kind of stuff. So I mostly wanted to say thank you to the community of tens of thousands of people in tech that I follow, and show you what my screens look like today. If you turn on audio on the video here, you'll hear me talk through each of my lists. I use X Pro and lists. And by using them I find even my For You feed gets better. Much better, in fact. Why? Because if you engage on the REAL X, which you can only see on X Pro with lists, the algorithm figures out the kinds of things that catch your eye and looks for more. Also, by following lists you give the algorithm VERY IMPORTANT signal and a lot more things to choose from. Even if you just follow my feeds and never use them, your For You feed will get better BECAUSE you gave the algorithm more signal about what you want to see. If I see a brilliant person, or a new company, I put them on my lists. If I see someone go political all the time I remove them from my lists, or, maybe put them on my news lists if they are posting an interesting point of view that I would want to watch over time. These are the most complete lists in tech industry here on X, by far. I read through a LOT of lists: https:// ts And here is how I have my lists laid out in X Pro. If you are in the AI industry and you aren't following all my AI lists you are hurting yourself and ignoring many thousands of hours of work I've put into them over 18 years of being here on this service. I can only do this on X. The companies, for instance, aren't on the other services, and the AI research and development community here is stronger and more educational than they are on other services. And, because of Grok integration here, X is a far better learning platform. If I see a scientist sharing something I don't understand I click the Grok button and it teaches me a lot more. Thank you. And, yes, there are many other "X's" that I don't see. Sports, being one. I focus only on tech and educated people and my lists show that X is the best place for science, technology, and nerdy news. One last thing: the algorithm will, in about a month, radically change to be totally AI driven. When that happens X will radically change and lists will become even more important as a source of signal. If you want a better X, here's the key. Love!

Robert Scoble

43,712 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

“Geniuses only.” Nivi: To me, the missing ingredient in most people’s recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company, including yourself, as an enemy agent that’s trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business. It’s unfortunately just the nature of human nature. Naval: My co-founder and I have a new criterion in our company: “Geniuses only.” It’s a harsh word, but it sets a very high bar. You can just look around for who’s not a genius. The only way you’re going to attract geniuses—whatever that term means to you—is by having a company full of geniuses. And if someone’s not a genius, then either you’re transitioning into the phase where you can no longer hire geniuses and you just need to scale up for whatever reason, or you can just show that person the door because you hired them prematurely for the kind of company you’re trying to build. Now, this is very difficult. You’re lucky if you can hire one genius a month. You as a founder have to identify them and do whatever it takes to recruit them and motivate them. So it’s inherently self-limiting. Given that a person probably isn’t going to stick around your company for more than three, four, five years—although in some great companies, people stick around for decades—at that attrition rate you’re talking about a 30 to 50 person company. But if you can even assemble a team of 10 geniuses, you’re way ahead of everybody else. At most companies—the successful ones—the founders, and maybe a few early people are at the genius level. But in the urge and the rush to scale, that gets drowned out too quickly.

“Geniuses only.” Nivi: To me, the missing ingredient in most people’s recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company, including yourself, as an enemy agent that’s trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business. It’s unfortunately just the nature of human nature. Naval: My co-founder and I have a new criterion in our company: “Geniuses only.” It’s a harsh word, but it sets a very high bar. You can just look around for who’s not a genius. The only way you’re going to attract geniuses—whatever that term means to you—is by having a company full of geniuses. And if someone’s not a genius, then either you’re transitioning into the phase where you can no longer hire geniuses and you just need to scale up for whatever reason, or you can just show that person the door because you hired them prematurely for the kind of company you’re trying to build. Now, this is very difficult. You’re lucky if you can hire one genius a month. You as a founder have to identify them and do whatever it takes to recruit them and motivate them. So it’s inherently self-limiting. Given that a person probably isn’t going to stick around your company for more than three, four, five years—although in some great companies, people stick around for decades—at that attrition rate you’re talking about a 30 to 50 person company. But if you can even assemble a team of 10 geniuses, you’re way ahead of everybody else. At most companies—the successful ones—the founders, and maybe a few early people are at the genius level. But in the urge and the rush to scale, that gets drowned out too quickly.

Naval

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Sam Altman: “One of the few arbitrage opportunities left in the market is time” “I don’t think you can beat the market in a lot of ways, but the one way I do is by making a long-term commitment to something. My new belief on how long I should hold stock in the best companies I invest in is forever. And I think in a world where people are increasingly focused on the tick and the quarterly earnings cycle, you should try to go in the other direction. This is a great way to generate value and wealth.” Sam continues: “And so I think that when you’re thinking about a startup, it’s really worthwhile to think about something you’re willing to make a very long-term commitment to because that is where the current void in the market is. You get paid as a founder for the wealth you create for other people… The best companies just create massive amounts of value for the world, and then they capture some of that for themselves. But they capture far less than they create, and they do it over a very long period of time. So if you’re going to be one of those companies, I think you want to make a super long-term commitment to yourself and others that are going to work on it with you… It is worth waiting because you will make far more money over the long term by doing this company really well than a bunch of short term things along the way.” Video source: Y Combinator (2016)

Sam Altman: “One of the few arbitrage opportunities left in the market is time” “I don’t think you can beat the market in a lot of ways, but the one way I do is by making a long-term commitment to something. My new belief on how long I should hold stock in the best companies I invest in is forever. And I think in a world where people are increasingly focused on the tick and the quarterly earnings cycle, you should try to go in the other direction. This is a great way to generate value and wealth.” Sam continues: “And so I think that when you’re thinking about a startup, it’s really worthwhile to think about something you’re willing to make a very long-term commitment to because that is where the current void in the market is. You get paid as a founder for the wealth you create for other people… The best companies just create massive amounts of value for the world, and then they capture some of that for themselves. But they capture far less than they create, and they do it over a very long period of time. So if you’re going to be one of those companies, I think you want to make a super long-term commitment to yourself and others that are going to work on it with you… It is worth waiting because you will make far more money over the long term by doing this company really well than a bunch of short term things along the way.” Video source: Y Combinator (2016)

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