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This is crazy good
The harder the task, the less you care about people's race or sex or whatever, either in the racist sense or the diversity sense. You're so desperate simply to find anyone who can do it well that you don't think about anything else.
"oh but you should buy a physical device and buy a VPN and blablabla"
i literally just bought a cloud phone for $8/m, warmed up for 5 days and it's already distributing content for the us (and this cloud phone is really fast)
stop listening to this tiktok gurus, it's all bs, try things yourself
OpenAI fired this 23-year-old from their Superalignment team.
But he turned his insider knowledge into a $1.5B fund that's outperforming Wall Street by 700% this year.
He says maybe ~200 people in SF understand what's actually happening in AI right now.
Here's his thesis: 🧵
I've launched 13 apps this year
Only 3 are making enough money
I needed to build 10 apps to make 3 that make money
Build more!
Repeat Daily 🔁
Palantir's Forward Deployed Billionaires have created over $44B+ in value founding companies like..
FDE → Founders:
Chapter ($1.5B) - Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz
Kalshi ($2B) - Tarek Mansour
Sourcegraph ($2.6B) - Quinn Slack
Ironclad ($3.2B) - Cai Wangwilt
Addepar ($3.25B) - Joe Lonsdale *does this count?
ElevenLabs ($3.3B) - Mati Staniszewski
Anduril ($30.5B) - Everyone?
Shyam (@ssankar), you were the first FDE, what's the secret behind Palantir's culture that creates this success?
What are the core principles that make a FDE?
..am I missing anyone?
Doors don’t open for the thinker.
They open for the mover.
Speed multiplies options.
Momentum buys opportunities that standing still never sees.
My game "Replicube":
Code, Logic, and Math never looked so TASTY🍉
25% off on Steam right now to celebrate back to school!
Been testing this for the past 3 months with content internally.
Ready for public use Monday.
We wanted to test this grid trick to see how Nano Banana would handle it.
Turns out… it’s pretty good at it. 😎🐯
Find out how we did it below 👇
4-AcO-DMT converts to psilocin in your body with 99.9% efficiency. It's basically synthetic mushrooms that hit cleaner and dose precisely.
Shulgin called it "laboratory nature."
Nobody talks about it because it sounds too sciencey for hippies and too hippie for scientists.
My current portfolio allocation. About $1.3 million total.
Momentum is magnetic.
Once you start moving, opportunities chase you.
Every $100M app was a copy.
→ Tinder wasn’t first.
→ Calorie trackers weren’t first.
→ Meditation apps weren’t first.
Copy what works.
Add a spin to it
Out-market everyone.
Two important principles that have a lot in common:
If you make users love you, investors will love you too.
If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
If you have 100 users for your app
You already won. It's not a failure
Think about it:
Getting 100 people to download your app means you solved a real problem
Stop comparing yourself to apps with millions of users
Start celebrating the fact that you convinced 100 strangers to care about your work
So cool! Just got a prototype working
One of the best pieces of career advice I have received:
If you cannot do great things yet, do the small things in a great way
"nothing from my end"