Leon Khoshnevis

The new way to invest in early founders @liveplayahouse

"thing about Claude code is that by default it uses Claude. And I think Opus 4.6 is sort of ADHD CEO. He's the guy you want to get a beer with and he's got a billion ideas, but when the going gets tough, you got to call in your autistic CTO and that's Codex" - founder of gstack youtube.com/watch?v=wkv2if…

Who else is working on sales tech? Lmk what you're building, I'd love to connect with you #SalesEnablement #GTM #startup #salestech

@apartovi if you could replicate @neo at a university how would you do it.

@itsmikerose @liveplayahouse @ucsbaccelerator is also running this cohort, follow them as well!

@leonkhosh is building up the UCSB founder ecosystem. Give him a follow. First @liveplayahouse cohort is going live.

@itsmikerose @liveplayahouse 🙏

talked to @itsmikerose On raising VC: Most of the time, there are more reasons not to raise than to raise. VC money comes with real tradeoffs, loss of control, ownership dilution, and being locked into a path. Theres VC backed founders who can't pay themselves, their employees, or even sell if they wanted to, so know what you're getting yourself locked into. On timing: He compared it to Call of Duty, don't spray bullets at a door hoping someone walks through. Wait until you see the target. Starting a company should come from a strong calling with a clear reason, not just "I don't want a job." ~90% of his investment passes are founder-based, not product-based. Even if the business has traction, if the founder can't present well, answer questions sharply, or inspire future employees, he's out. He sees that as a ceiling on the company's potential.

I'm making a Twitter bot to post every day on @coralflavorcom, it already has 23K users and $900 MRR, but scaling distribution is so hard. Let's see if some GTM engineering helps

Had a conversation with @arthurgarzon_ about this yesterday and it stuck: Agents can't build better tools without benchmarks. No measurement, no improvement. How do you think Claude wrote Opus 4.7?

@johnplins @coralflavorcom So u run @coralflavorcom ?

Put your landing page in the comments and I'll lyk if I understood what it does within 5 seconds of opening it #StartupGrowth

Last week: 0 pilots. This week: 3. Free or paid trial for B2B SaaS?

UCSB Accelerator, Day 1 Supplies provided by @cursor_ai @ucsbaccelerator @liveplayahouse

who's made these:

I want to automate my homework so I can spend more time on cool shit. Gimme free credits: manus.im/invitation/NOK…

@ericzhu @humanbehaviorai

built an agent that uses posthog + shopify data to iterate on landing pages based on user interactions

@nick_linck Damn

situations you end up in when running a residency

@cory is very receptive to outreach, don't take advantage of this, talk about anything but be useful clear and direct. Thank you for the talk Cory, (love that you're bullish on startup residencies)

New @liveplayahouse startup: Uber Drones