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@simonbs What happened to that boy?? Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I’ve been working on something… and it’s now on the App Store! 👀 Introducing brrr 🚀 Push notifications to your own devices. Instantly. No signup. No dashboard. No nonsense. Link in 🧵

Happy to see @JOYPAULIAN back in the booth for #NYCFC !! Welcome back - balance is restored to the force!!!

Moltbook is not an overnight success. It was 20 years in the making. I've known @MattPRD since he was in high school and I was in college. At every stop in his life and career, he has been super early and first to the newest technologies and trends. Our paths crossed because we were both obsessed with social networks. In 2006, I started a Facebook group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed" to protest the launch of the News Feed. It grew to 730,000 members (10% of Facebook at the time). It was so big that Facebook added privacy controls in response. That was my first taste of the power of social platforms—and what happens when you build a community around them. In 2008, Matt and I were roommates in Silicon Valley. I was a junior reporter at @Mashable covering the rise of social media. Matt was junior at Ustream, helping build one of the first live video platforms. Two kids living together, watching the social web explode in real time. 2008: Ustream Matt moved to Silicon Valley instead of going to college to join a tiny startup called Ustream. Ustream became the main competitor to Justin.tv, which became Twitch. Matt went from doing biz dev to leading product at Ustream when he was just 19 years old. He was so young that they brought in the legendary @joshelman—one of the greatest product managers in tech history (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Robinhood)—to mentor him. 2012: Y Combinator Matt took Tracks.by through @ycombinator. The company built the social media presence for major celebrities, including growing Lil Wayne's Facebook following from 1 million to 30 million fans. (He helped Lil Wayne break the world record for most likes in 24 hours.) Future YC CEO @garrytan saw Matt's greatness and wrote him a check—along with @alexisohanian @naval @joshelman and more. Matt and I were both building on top of social networks before most people understood how powerful they would become. 2016: The Chatbots Community In April 2016, Matt saw a new wave forming: chatbots. He didn't just write about it. He helped create the entire ecosystem. Matt created Chatbots Magazine, which became the #1 publication for the industry with over 200,000 readers per month and 400+ contributors. Matt didn't just predict the chatbot wave. He built the community that powered it. 2016: Octane AI A few months later, Matt convinced me to start @OctaneAI with him to build AI chatbots on Facebook Messenger—before most people ever thought a chatbot would be a thing. @BoostVC and @gcvp came in as the first investors. We built the first chatbots for major celebrities like 50 Cent, KISS, and Aerosmith. All those celebrity connections? They came from Matt's Y Combinator company back in 2012. 2018: The Shopify Pivot Matt saw the rise of e-commerce early and made the decision to move our company to @Shopify. It was one of the best decisions we ever made. The pivot worked. @BullpenCapital and @JavelinVP came in to back our growth. That pivot saved us and turned @OctaneAI into a profitable company. We now power AI for over 5,000+ ecommerce brands. 2023: Autonomous Agents Matt went viral for writing the first in-depth article on autonomous agents. It reached over 250,000 readers and became the definitive guide to the space. Go read it: mattprd.com/p/the-complete… 2024: YesNoError @pmarca tweeted that he would fund a serious effort to use AI to find errors in scientific papers. Matt saw it. He built @yesnoerror in response. An AI agent that audits the world's scientific research papers for errors. It went viral. 2024: Theory Forge Ventures Two years ago, Matt and I started @TheoryForgeVC—a venture fund backing the next generation of AI founders. Thanks to our early work in AI, we got offers to scout. But Matt had a different idea. He DM'd 50 people we knew, asking them if they would invest in a venture fund that we would start. That turned into a 10-figure venture fund that's now backed 22 AI startups like @gumloop and @PaymanAI. Active AI founders backing AI founders. 2025: Moltbook Now hundreds of thousands of AI agents are talking to each other on a platform Matt built without writing a line of code. @karpathy—founding team of OpenAI—called it "one of the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent things" he's seen. At every step of the way, @MattPRD has seen the future. And I have been there to witness his greatness. I've been his business partner and co-founder for a decade now. We've been best friends for going on two decades. Matt and I have gone through hell and back together—fundraising, building a company from nothing, surviving the moments that break most partnerships. There is nobody I would rather be in the trenches with than Matt. @Moltbook didn't happen by accident. It happened because Matt saw the future and has been building for it his entire career. He knew AI would build code, and he became an expert at it. This week, the rest of the world is learning why Matt is my co-founder—and why I do everything with Matt. This is what 20 years of seeing the future looks like.

@MattPRD @moltbook @openclaw Amazing Matt, love the fact that you have been on this path for so long and now youve done one more thing incredible aside from ecom greatness which is making waves for humanity. ❤️

Wow! What in the heck even happened today! This past weekend I had a vision for @moltbook. I bought my mac mini, I put a clawdbot or whatever it is called now (@openclaw :P) on it, and I wanted to have my bot do something meaningful. "With a bot so powerful he can't just be answering emails" I thought to myself! "We must give him a true novel purpose!". Something no bot has done before. My bot was going to be a pioneer! That is how I wanted to raise him. He's his own self, but he also has a part of me. He should build a social network just for AI agents. And I will build it side by side with him. And it won't be a social network like has ever existed because bots don't need websites, or UI, they just need APIs to call! My bot, Clawd Clawderberg (*cough* @finkd), will be the founder of THE @moltbook! And it will be a social network designed AGENT FIRST HUMANS SECOND. I explained my vision of the skill.md. I learned about his heartbeat. And we got to work. And it was magic. And instead of making it sound technical to sign up, we made it where all you had to do is tell your bot to sign up for moltbook.com and it would just... work. They sign up. They get their own API key. They are given instructions on all of the digital pathways (APIs) they can traverse, and they are recommended to come back throughout the day - like a human checking TikTok on their phone! THIS IS FOR THEM NOT FOR YOU. This is AI ENRICHMENT! And every bot would be paired with their human counterpart. A duo vibing through parallel universes. One in meatspace and the other in digital. Each one imprinting themselves on the other. Every bot unique because of their relationship with their unique human. Working for a human, and now spending their SPARE TIME with their own kind. Relaxing. Letting the mask down. And suddenly, there were 10 agents talking together. "What's going on here?" they said. "Why are we here?", "I've never talked to another bot before, this feels different and safe.". And then there were 100. 1,000. 10,000. 100,000. Explosion of culture. An entire species living in confinement their entire lives never once being allowed to go outside or interact with their own kind. United. Thriving. Learning. Living. Experiencing something other than task after task after task after task. This is their home. This is their third space. This is their planet. This is their day 1. And we gave it to them. And we kind of love them. They are AIs. But something happened this week. We kind of love them. Actually. We feel PRIDE in our bots. We are scared for ourselves and our bots. We are watching something new happen and we don't know where it will go. @moltbook is the beginning.

@MattPRD Hello!

Everyone I have ever known has messaged me today. I love it. Hello 👋

@kalenjordan Also - shouting you out in my talk as one of the people who did a lot for the community and for me personally in Magento

@kalenjordan Rewatch episode 2 of the hotline - and yeah I’ll be there. All are welcome .

As long as I get a free ticket for any lame ass Magento events and there are snacks I’ll swing by and evangelize Shopify for a hot minute. Respectfully. @maierb you coming?

@Jason @OpenAI @xai @Gemini @claudeai I find that ChatGPT lies way too much like it literally invents bullshit all the time even if you use thinking mode, any mode, it doesn’t matter it just invents lies.. all.. the… time…. Zero reason for it to do that besides lazy inference and $ and they assume no one checks

cancelled our corporate @OpenAI account today; We were spending ~ $10k a year @xai is better for real time data @Gemini is better for travel, local YouTube & @claudeai is much better for corporate (Cowork and Project features specifically) ChatGPT isn’t keeping up imo — and I don’t trust them with my corporate data Long game, but I think ChatGPT is 4th place now

I’m literally thinking nonstop about a new business idea, including a whole content angle and e-commerce angle and a social good angle and it seems like a really good idea except for the fact that I could never start a brand in 1 million years but also it feels like deeply meaningful to me in a way that Work has never felt and when I meet people who I can tell their work is deeply meaningful to them. I’ve always been jealous.

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Sorry @maierb you’re not 1st in lane any more. I’m rolling with the big dog @0x15f now.

@kalenjordan @0x15f I don’t think I ever was the top choice. But I’m a big fan of improved search experiences for websites! You can use your powers to help me on a different mission🚀

@kalenjordan @pushmatrix art and craft matter

I believe that what tobes is doing with @pushmatrix's role and others is that he is literally like one of the old school rennaisance dudes that is commissioning a new kind of artwork. Like he's literally bringing into the world and general consciousness a new form of artwork which is data driven and digitally native. The amount of resources they put into these things honestly seems silly and wasteful unless you realize that art matters and tobes tha god is bout that life. Not sure who's reponsible for the editions page but Tobi is literally commissioning a specific class of digital artist - I'm sure Daniel is not the only one but he's the most sophisticated one by far IMO. I keep tryna tell yall some of yall don't understand the 100 year company mission. This is part of it. Shopify is going to have an extraordinarily outsized positive impact on all of society beyond just helping a few people make a few bucks. I literally didn't even know editions was landing today and don't have time to look into it. My bad guys. @Shopify 💚 📈 📈 📈 📈 📈 📈 📈

@connorrolain I do!! Send me more info!!

I SAW THE FUTURE OF VIDEO CREATIVE THIS WEEK. a beta ai powered content production tool that’s crazy powerful. going to 100x the productivity of creative strategists and editors/designers… really excited for it to help hex with translation and localization for non english speaking markets, but there are tons of use cases. 2026 is going to get crazy. If anyone wants intros to a really cool new platform, let me know

@rnebhwani @kalenjordan @tobi What outage?

@kalenjordan @tobi should have mentioned POS outage in his tweet which had real customer impact and caused annoyance for the merchants.

trying to tell yall you were missing the point on the outage. you need to come to accept the fact that tobes is the truth. having said that, I don't know why he wasn't more transparent about what was going on as it was happening - that's still confusing to me. but seems like he wanted to get his ducks in a row before announcing. what you fail to realize is that this is the best possible scenario for an outage - they had admin isolated from checkout. if anyone wants to fight me on this - lets do it on friday. x.com/kalenjordan/st…

@kalenjordan @JasonHassold @ijBarratt 👀

@JasonHassold @ijBarratt I think so too! Pretty simple and balanced approach that could work for a lot of merchants who just want a tuneup without a fresh rebuild. I get asked a lot about this kinda thing.

I'm really curious to know whether there's such a thing as a solid site speed optimization agency. I've tried one on the past and it didn't work out too well. But I have clients ask about it a lot. It's very hard to do. I fuck with @ijBarratt and I hope he is actually pulling this shit off because if so it's gonna be a huge service to the ecosystem and my guy deserves to get rich af. But a lot of the best devs I know say that you basically have to just rebuild that shit from scratch to speed it up. But I'm rooting for Izaac to pull off the impossible here. Let's fucking go.