Bradley Horowitz

@paulg @paultoo Amazing institution. Congrats!

It's Y Combinator's 21st birthday today.

@Techmeme @Knibbs Couldn’t do better than Toni (even as interim)!

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (@knibbs / Wired) wired.com/story/bluesky-… #a260309p28" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260309/p28#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

@milesgrimshaw Congrats! Love that you shared some of the inspiration... he inspired a lot of us! @joechung

I was born too late for the early days of the internet, but I’ve studied it with boundless fascination. Stories like my dad’s, who founded one of the first ecommerce software companies out of MIT as a side quest from producing electronic music with Yo-Yo Ma. His love of creation inspired me. I pinch myself that we get to be a part of this moment! Change is the catalytic force for startups, and fundamental technical change is the most powerful of all. The internet digitized what we do. Intelligent computing does it for you. Every week our team has a ‘can’t unsee it’ experience, a product that would have been science fiction a few years ago. In a changing world, the biggest risk is comfort in the status quo. We are proud to be a part of the teams who are pioneering the future right under the nose of incumbents … look at Cursor, OpenEvidence, Turbopuffer, OpenAI… it’s a golden time for the missionaries, the visionaries, the inventors. With Thrive X, we are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to partner with the founders blazing new trails at this moment of tectonic change. thrivecap.com/thrive-x

Jobs called computers "bicycles for the mind" -- tools we could shape to our will. But they never were. Until now. Every morning an agent preps me for my day -- calendar, news, last 24hrs of Slack -- in a personal podcast. I made it by asking. Same for hundreds of other things. Launching @dreamer in beta today. That 🧠 bicycle, finally. dreamer.com

@hnshah @kcoleman

Distribution Is the Hard Part Most founders think the hard part is building the product. It’s not. The hard part is getting anyone to care. You can build something great. It can solve a real problem. It can even be timed perfectly. But if no one notices, it dies. This is where most founders get stuck. They think the job is to build. They think if they make something good enough, growth will take care of itself. That’s rarely how it works. A product without distribution is like a secret. And most secrets never get out. When founders talk about product/market fit, they often forget the middle part. The part where people actually have to find the thing. Try it. Tell someone else. Come back. And not just because the product is useful, but because they believe in it. The truth is, most products don’t spread on their own. People spread them. That means someone has to push. Someone has to tell the story in a way that makes other people want to be part of it. And that someone is usually the founder. This is what founders don’t want to hear. That they can’t hide behind the product. That being technical or visionary or obsessed with design isn’t enough. That the work doesn’t stop when the code is deployed. If you’re not doing the work to get attention, you’re betting on luck. And luck is not a strategy. People say things like “focus on the problem” or “build something people want.” That’s good advice. But it’s not the whole picture. Because no matter how perfect your solution is, it won’t matter if people don’t know it exists. Distribution is not a phase. It’s not a channel. It’s not a growth hack. Distribution is belief. It’s the transfer of energy from the founder to the market. The best founders do it relentlessly. They don’t wait to be discovered. They create momentum. The best ones know: the product is important, but getting people to care is what makes it real.

Many friends have asked how they can see Eno. Five upcoming (streaming) screenings! chanceoperations.com/events

@shaig Wisdom Ventures: OpenAI, Anthropic

@wolfejosh @patrick_oshag @GavinSBaker And me! @elatable

1/ Foretell is out of stealth Backed by Lux, Thrive, Founders Fund, Valor + @patrick_oshag + @GavinSBaker WIRED: "Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?

@RogerODonnellX HBD! Loved it.

Good morning and here's the premiere of Projections the video made by Mimi from hours and hours of video I shot over the years of touring and recording. Hope you enjoy it... youtube.com/watch?v=sdFW82…

Brian's First Day As CFO - Live From NYC x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Thrilled to share that former Surgeon General Dr. @vivek_murthy is joining Wisdom Ventures! wisdomventures.fund/articles/vivek…

@davemcclure @XooglerCo @ChristopherFong @airwallex So great seeing you @davemcclure Glad we shared the evening and the journey!

listening to @elatable talk about 25 years of Silicon Valley tech & startups, Yahoo & Google, investing in nerds and VC funds… what a wonderful wild journey to listen to! cc @XooglerCo @ChristopherFong @airwallex #singapore

@Scobleizer @fvogelstein @Techmeme Can’t remember being this excited. I’ll hit you up for a catchup toward end of the month!

@fvogelstein @elatable @Techmeme Still seeing the future! Having a great time doing it. You?

A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (@fvogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/at-… #a250909p8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/250909/p8#a250… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Had a fantastic conversation with @ryanlpeterman about #Engleadership, #career growth, and what we're building at /dev/agents. We covered everything from scaling from IC to VP at Google, to my time as CTO at Stripe, to why the world needs a new operating system for AI agents. Ryan's questions really got to the heart of what makes engineering teams and products successful—especially around building teams and creating the environment where people can do their best work. One theme that kept coming up: the magic of tight feedback loops and systems thinking. Whether you're debugging code, building a team, or designing the future of human-AI interaction, the best experiences happen when you can iterate and see results immediately. Watch it inline below!

@RakeshSFNYC @scottbelsky @mcuban @MikeBloomberg @richardbranson That’s pretty exceptional company you parked me with!

Based just on public reputation and what I've sought out, people I'd run through walls to work for:@scottbelsky @mcuban @MikeBloomberg @richardbranson @elatable (I've only met the last two.)

Congrats to @AppliedInt, one of two massive markups today in (my personal angel) portfolio (the other being @tryramp).

Congrats @tryramp, one of two massive markups today in (my personal angel) portfolio. (The other being @AppliedInt.) I'll spare you all the story of how I know @karimatiyeh and instead refer you to this hilarious video: x.com/loganbartlett/…

Today, @tryramp reached a new valuation: $16 billion Let the robots chase your receipts and close your books, so you can use your brain and build things. That's the way AI was meant to be.

Congrats to @alexandr_wang and the team @scale_AI! It was clear from moment one that @alexandr_wang was a special entrepreneur crafting a very special company. Consider myself privileged to have had a front row seat. Remembering fondly this chat with him from a few years ago... youtube.com/watch?v=LtfucW… (Congrats too to visionary investor @daniel_levine!)