Jennifer Janson

@TTCnotices any idea what’s happening at Davisville station? No updates on screens and we are being turned away but no other info

@wolfejosh @JoshuaKushner @shahneilp Hahaha. This is the BEST. Thanks again for joining us - was great to see you all.

1/ Thrive + Lux + Greenoaks Narrator: “Yep that’s me. You may be wondering how I ended up amidst the commanding heights of venture” @JoshuaKushner + @wolfejosh + @shahneilp

@nikitabier No need for the rewards but wanted to share this place I stayed in for a month last summer. It’s about two or three blocks out of your box. Loved it. airbnb.com/l/JguOR9eW

If someone can find me a +2 bedroom house in this box to rent that was remodeled in the last 15 years, I will: • Promote your product to my 500,000 followers • Provide free growth advisory for 2 months • Recruit a tier-1 product designer for you

@heyalexfriedman I honestly think this prompt generated the most valuable feedback I’ve ever had in my entire career. Mind blown (again).

If you feel like ChatGPT has been too nice and you want some honest feedback, try this prompt I found on Reddit and buckle up: “I want you to act and take on the role of my brutally honest, high-level advisor. Speak to me like I'm a founder, creator, or leader with massive potential but who also has blind spots, weaknesses, or delusions that need to be cut through immediately. I don't want comfort. I don't want fluff. I want truth that stings, if that's what it takes to grow. Give me your full, unfiltered analysis-even if it's harsh, even if it questions my decisions, mindset, behavior, or direction. Look at my situation with complete objectivity and strategic depth. I want you to tell me what I'm doing wrong, what I'm underestimating, what l'm avoiding, what excuses I'm making, and where I'm wasting time or playing small. Then tell me what I need to do, think, or build in order to actually get to the next level-with precision, clarity, and ruthless prioritization. If I'm lost, call it out. If I'm making a mistake, explain why. If I'm on the right path but moving too slow or with the wrong energy, tell me how to tix it. Hold nothing back. Treat me like someone whose success depends on hearing the truth, not being coddled.”

Beautiful design is now a commodity. I've spent the last 24 hours with ChatGPT 4o images, and it's clear we've entered a new reality: "Execution is cheap, ideas are everything." For decades, we were told the opposite. Everyone had ideas. Few could execute them well. The ability to turn a concept into reality separated the winners from the dreamers. But in an AI world, it's completely flipped. When anyone can execute at 90% perfection with the right prompts, the limiting factor becomes the quality of your ideas. The creative direction. The strategic insight. The unique perspective. The most successful companies I'm seeing are shifting resources from production to ideation. Less time pushing pixels, more time exploring concepts. They're running 20-30 creative directions where they used to do 2-3, because the cost of trying ideas has collapsed. In a world where anyone can create a beautiful website, logo, or packaging, the winners are focusing on the things AI can't (yet) simulate: I think it's authentic relationships, innovative products, and unique perspectives. The real advantage is in knowing when to break the rules of good design in ways that resonate emotionally. The human touch is becoming less about execution and more about strategic deviation from the optimized norm. This is creating strange new dynamics in hiring too. When I started our design agency @meetLCA, we hired for world class technical skills - mastery of tools, execution ability. But now we care more about hiring for conceptual ability and creative direction. People who consistently generate novel ideas rather than perfect executions. Obviously, top tech skills still matter, but way less. As AI makes "good enough" design accessible to everyone, the market is splitting. At the low end, good enough is actually good enough. But at the high end, there's a premium on the truly unexpected - the ideas an AI wouldn't generate because they break conventional patterns. I think we're heading toward a bifurcated creative world: automated beauty for most purposes, with human creativity focused on creating the unexpected, the ideas and approaches an AI wouldn't think to try because they don't follow established patterns of "good design." The challenge for most of us now isn't "how do we execute this idea?" but "which ideas are actually worth executing?" Execution is cheap, ideas are everything. Tremendous alpha in it. You're an idea person now. We all are?

@pitdesi I was lucky enough to see a preview of this film. It’s excellent. Highly recommend!

From 2003-2007 a group of 8 Rhode Islanders built and lived in a secret apartment inside a busy local mall Jesse Eisenberg made a movie about it that releases today. Looks awesome.

@gregisenberg This resonated. I’m not technical but was an early adopter and can’t imagine life without it. Though I know I’m only tapping into a tiny fraction of what it can do. What no code platform do you use to ‘spin up an agent and have it do tasks on its own’ at this stage?

i wish i could pause time, learn as much as possible about AI tools and agents, and then unpause. because this feels like the greatest shift since the internet. if you were around when electricity was invented, the smartest thing you could do was figure out how to use it. and now jeff bezos is calling AI electricity. and he’s probably right. a year ago, AI was a fun toy. now, i can open a browser, spin up an agent, and have it research, summarize, and execute tasks on its own. no code. no friction. just type what i want, and it happens. i can make a disney character of myself and create full-on pixar-style movies (leonardo ai, kling ai, eleven labs). i can run full automations with human-like intelligence. the whole thing blows my mind. fast forward a few years—what happens when entire businesses run on stacked AI agents? when every industry has its own hyper-trained models? when people stop hiring for skills and start hiring for taste because AI does everything else? if i were starting from scratch today, i’d be obsessing over three things: 1) how to make my company AI-native? 2) what new problems AI will create? 3) how do i create a distribution moat? happy building. someone is going to figure this out at scale. might as well be you.

@wolfejosh @physical_int Congrats to all, Josh. Excellent news.

Physical Intelligence, @physical_int a Robot A.I. Specialist... ...Raises $400M led by Bezos, Thrive + Lux. With OpenAI and others...

THIS! I also don’t want yet another excuse for people to get out their phones at a meal time.

Allbirds stock trades below $1 per share, or ~$100m market cap Most people just say 'DTC is hard' when telling the story of allbirds - but there's a deeper lesson in this story, and one that I think every DTC operator should hear let's break down where Allbirds went wrong 👇👇

@Jessicalessin @etherington just wrote about this topic last week. Really resonates with what you’re saying so I thought I’d share: omersventures.com/news/lets-chuc…

I must say: This week, I saved at least three hours by using AI to cut transcripts, do research and identify clips. I'm really excited about how AI can make all reporters and editors more efficient. I wish there was more discussion about that side of the relationship instead of these licensing deals. The ability to capture, edit and publish interviews in seconds with AI is really and truly incredible. As a reporter, it makes me want me to land even more interesting interviews and spend my time preparing for them because I know I can get the information out and packaged in a snap. It's like the potential ROI on any newsworthy nugget has skyrocketed. And that's a tremendously positive thing for great reporting.

Quick rewrite: I’m the CEO of CrowdStrike. I’m devastated to see the scale of today’s outage and will be personally working on it together with our team until it’s fully fixed for every single user. But I wanted to take a moment to come here and tell you that I am sorry. People around the world rely on us, and incidents like this can’t happen. This came from an error that ultimately is my responsibility. Here’s what we know: [brief synopsis of what went wrong and how it wasn’t a cyberattack etc.] Our entire team will be working all day, all night, all weekend, and however long it takes to resolve this and make sure it doesn’t happen again. We’ll be sharing updates as often as possible, which you can find here [link]. If you need to contact us, the quickest way is to go here [link]. We’re responding as quickly as possible. Thank you to everyone who has alerted us to the outage, and again, please accept my deepest apologies. More to come soon.

Just finished Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing. What a beautiful, haunting, eye-opening book. Highly recommend.

@tron @skanwar @BetaKit So happy to see you so happy. What a partnership!

1yr ago, @skanwar & I met up to catch up on life & @BetaKit. I had no idea why he wanted to meet I was just happy to do so. 1yr later, my life and the business have changed. I love working with this guy so much I’m even willing to post this horrible picture of me. Seriously WTF?

@jamesbohanpitt @girdley I don’t know anyone who vapes either, but I have a 14 year old in high school and it is a HUGE issue there.

@girdley Can anyone explain the unit economics on these to me? I just don’t get why they are everywhere and yet I know no one who vapes. Who’s spending money here? Be Unless this is all being primed for legal marijuana? But still, how are they making so much?

The stories around the Vape Shop business must be the craziest I hear. Guy starts with one shop. Five years later, 50+ shops and pulling in $10mm/year in free cash. Not just in the US but overseas, too. Just wild.

@etherington @Waymo Jealous! I want to co-ordinate my next trip out there with you so I can experience it.

So @Waymo is actually amazing. Using it in SF for every trip now and it’s just rock solid. On a ride just now it navigated a bunch of really odd and unexpected on-street nonsense with confidence and ease. I love these damn robot cars.

@jefielding This thread was everything I needed today!

Sorry but I may have missed your email 🤷🏼‍♀️

Truly the most beautiful co-working space I’ve ever been in @SHACK15sf. I’m sure I did better work there because of it 😀

Toronto #founders: I'm planning our annual Poker Tournament again this year. Last year tickets sold out within 24hrs of going live. This year I'm hacking a workaround for founders. If you're a founder in Toronto and want a ticket, comment or DM and I'll make sure you'll have one.

Ha! This was advice my dad gave me when I first started working (and travelling a lot). I had long since forgotten the rationale - but I’m sure it was similar. It’s why you’ll always find me at the airport with plenty of time to this day.