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Feel the rain on your skin no one else can feel it for you…

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Day 1 of @solana Build Station Toronto Phase 1 is live. Workshops. Mentors. Real support. Our goal is to help you get funded 🚀

CN tower lighting with @solana colors ready for the Toronto Build Station opening day tomorrow

@frostedxyz @SuperteamCAN @supersimon77

Appreciation post for @SuperteamCAN. Their team, led by @supersimon77 and @benbottle, constantly strives to assist teams in raising capital, gtm, or just advice in general. Invaluable, to say the least. Excited for the future.

Join us while we explore the real journey of being a founder ft @TheOnlyNom from @bonk_inu Kick off your path into the @colosseum FRONTIER Hackathon with clarity and momentum. Your @solana story starts today.

@orca_so and @Raydium available to the masses 🤯

important communication for the community

@czamaru Let them talk, it's just a number. Happy birthday!

Turning 42 this week 🕯️ Celebrating a life well-lived over some vintage wine, in vintage cars

@garrytan Most orgs haven't updated the denominator yet.

The unit of software production has changed from team-years to founder-days. Act accordingly.

@pmarca The domains humans gave up systematizing are exactly where agents have the most signal to train on.

Thesis: the problem with AI working in every domain = all the edge cases. Antithesis: domains with lots of edge cases = difficult & time consuming to practically impossible for error-prone people. Synthesis: such domains = where AI agents will do best. (Such as SAAS migration…)

Great operators don't move faster than everyone else. They've already decided the things that slow everyone else down. The advantage isn't reaction time. It's the absence of recurring deliberation. Every time a team relitigates a decision, they burn time they already spent once. The goal isn't to move fast. It's to make most of the work not require speed at all.

@a16z The local hero framing undersells it. The real unlock is which institutional layer gets cut out.

"The winner of the AI race will not be the company with the smartest model. It will be the company that is most effective at making the local hero—the teacher, the accountant, the community leader—ten times more powerful. Because in the end, intelligence travels through systems, but adoption travels through people." @heysakina on what she learned growing YouTube internationally and what it means for the AI race: a16z.news/p/the-sovereig…

the term “hackathon” for @colosseum is a bit misleading. it’s closer to a startup competition. reframe it: colosseum is a venture fund that runs two cohorts a year, investing in and accelerating the strongest teams. don’t approach it like a weekend sprint where the goal is just to win a track. build like you’re submitting a real company. something sustainable. something that generates revenue.

If you can't name the category you're creating, you're not creating one. You're building a feature with a landing page. Category creation isn't a marketing exercise. It's a commitment to naming the problem before anyone else has named it. It means educating the buyer on why the old frame was wrong. That takes a point of view, not just a product. Most startups skip this because it can't be A/B tested. The ones who do it own the market. The ones who don't become someone else's feature set.

@a16z Cheaper software doesn't mean fewer engineers. It means higher ceilings.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's hot take about jobs in the AI era: "There will be more software engineers in 10 years than there are today, and there will be more lawyers." "It's going to become much easier to start a venture and run it autonomously." "You'll be a software engineer, de facto. You've got your Claude Code agents writing code for you." "There will be more businesses." "The need for the legal profession actually scales with business activity." "If you have a million businesses incremental per year, each of those is going to need legal support." @vladtenev on @basispointpod with @amitisinvesting and @stevenfiorillo

introducing hySOL stake SOL earn Zcash non-custodial, fully onchain and hard af hysol.hydex.io

@a16z Nadella didn't concede mobile. He accepted it was already someone else's category.

Balaji Srinivasan on taking the L to set up for the W: "Before Satya Nadella took over Microsoft, it was losing on mobile to iOS and Android." "He took the L... and he said, 'You know what? Linux is there. Linux is not going to go away.'" "We're going to run Linux on Microsoft hardware." "Mobile is not going away and nobody's installing the Microsoft mobile OS." "So we're going to allow Word and PowerPoint and Excel to run on iOS and Android devices." "And... the browser isn't going away. So we're going to make Office 365 work in the cloud." "Because he took the L, Satya set Microsoft up for the W." @balajis with @PeterMcCormack

What? Stache Node is evolving!