Alex Gillette

Fintech companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on diagramming tools like Figma or Lucid each year to make simple #FIAT and #Stablecoin payments funds-flow charts. So I built my own for $1. Here's what I learned shipping fundsflow.xyz in 48 hours 🧵

@business Guys you know that’s @PalmerLuckey not @peterthiel right

Peter Thiel-backed startup Erebor Bank has pitched itself to top Venezuelan officials on restoring the sanctioned country’s access to the US financial system. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Houlgrave @thestablecon @turnkeyhq @CoinbaxHQ @ingenico Let’s go!!! 🙌

I'm speaking at @thestablecon on May 19 in Amsterdam. 2 Sessions. Panel: 2:30-3PM with @turnkeyhq and @CoinbaxHQ Fireside: 3:40-4PM with @ingenico Who am I seeing there?

@businessbarista @tenex_labs @AnthropicAI Hell yeah brother

Anthropic just made a massive bet on small business AI through Claude for Small Business. This story is profound & personal for many reasons I'm about to share... 1) @tenex_labs is @AnthropicAI's official AI transformation partner for Claude for Small Business. Some highlights of the partnership: - We co-built the Cowork small business plugin: 31 skills built around the workflows SMB owners actually run (planning payroll, closing the month, chasing invoices, running campaigns). - We co-created the Claude SMB Tour: a 10-city, free, half-day workshop for 100 SMB leaders per stop. Starting in Chicago today. 2) Bringing SMBs along for the AI ride is so important for our country: - Small businesses are 44% of U.S. GDP. They're plagued by scarcity of money, of people, of time. AI can bring them abundance. - If every SMB gets a 10% lift in profits from this technology, that's a $1.41 trillion increase in U.S. GDP. - And the point most people miss: SMBs can move faster with AI than any Fortune 500. No crippling bureaucracy. No governance overhead. No corporate politics. If you want to see what's possible, read the recent Fortune piece on Rick Chorney. 29-year-old high school dropout. Started a janitorial company in Abbotsford BC in 2023. Year one: 7am to 1am, 7 days a week, $14/hr. One day he spent 4 hours figuring out how AI could help. Automated intake. AI receptionist for $99/month (replacing a $4K/month role). AI email triage cut his inbox to 20 minutes a day. Year 1: $242K. Year 2: $1M. Year 3 (projected): $1.3M. He works 8-hour days now. Takes vacations. Uses Claude as his business advisor. Rick is the roofing contractor in Tulsa, the bodega owner in Queens, the local accountant in Birmingham. He is the gold standard of what we need to help every SMB in American become. 3) I was this SMB audience for a big chunk of my entrepreneurial career. For most of @MorningBrew's life, we were a small business. Small team. No venture funding. Big aspirations. Scarcity was a breeding ground for creativity, but it was painful too. Worrying about payroll. Working insane hours. Saying no to anything that wasn't mission-critical. When I look at what AI can do today, I can't stop thinking about how much further we could've gone, and how much faster, if we'd had this magic in our fingertips. I want to make sure the next person building their version of the Brew gets to feel and harness that magic.

Clarity Act just passed. Send in Elizabeth Warren to say something totally useless.

@0xDaedalus ramp dot com slash lfg

ramp dot com slash stablecoins

being a dad is the thing that has most exceeded already-high-expectations in my whole life

@Bouazizalex @deel @Arsenal Congrats and go gunners!!

Next season, @deel will become the official sleeve partner of @Arsenal 🔴⚪ When we partnered with @Arsenal last year, we set out to build something lasting, starting with rolling out Deel across their workforce and HR operations. Having our name on one of the most iconic shirts in world football is the next step in that relationship. We made ‘Patchmaker’ with the club, a film featuring Viktor Gyökeres and Patrick Vieira. Worth watching 📷 Yes, I'm a PSG fan. But like every French kid, I grew up dreaming in front of Arsène, Titi and the Invincibles! #COYG

Eric Church isn’t eligible for a Pulitzer Prize for this speech (maybe the song at the end), but he darn well should be. Listening to this entire thing will be some of the best spent 17 minutes of your week this week.

@jacksdiningroom x.com/callmegillette…

5 places you should be eating at this week in NYC (in no particular order) 1. Cuerno Mexican Steakhouse 2. Bangkok Supper Club 3. Apollo Bagels 4. Il Corso 5. Aces Pizza

@Itsjoeco Congrats!

Happy to be a NJ Innovate 100 honoree. 100 under 100. First list, very dangerous.

@zcabrams Yeah but tokenized stocks in privates as a vehicle for regulatory arbitrage (and in some cases, flat out fraud) like what Anthropic uncovered ain’t it.

public markets used to capture most of wealth creation. they don't anymore. The # of public companies has declined 50% over the last 2 decades. Private company market cap now sits at over 13T, up from 2T 10 years ago. demand for private-company exposure is rational and growing. markets will find a way to meet the need ... whether via tokenized stocks or prediction markets or perpetuals or something else

NYC - Go check out my brother’s pizza shop. He partnered with a famous pizza chef in Japan to deliver something AI will never replace.

Zack responds to email at the speed that most people respond to text messages.

@tednotlasso 10/10 no notes

too soon?

@ScottHickle @ThroneScience Hell yeah brother

Both of my maternal grandparents had colon cancer. My mom has had four pre-cancerous polyps removed, and shares that my late uncle had "insane amounts" of pre-cancerous polyps removed. The mission we're we're working towards @ThroneScience could very well save my own life.

@Amanda_S_Wick Might be a shock to hear it, but this post was not about you.

@CallMeGillette I’m just confused as to whether I’m the pot or the kettle if I don’t think people trying to be taken seriously, and trying to get congress to take them seriously, should have official conference events with strippers and lap dances?

So let me get this straight: Somebody who has “web3 gaming” in her profile said that Main Street won’t take crypto seriously because CoinDesk sponsored a Consensus afterparty at E11even?

@Amanda_S_Wick I didn’t defend anything or say any of it was okay—I wasn’t in attendance. How companies and attendees choose to spend their money and time is not my business. What I did say was the pot seems to be calling the kettle black w/r/t yelling about unserious people.

@CallMeGillette I have a real picture. And as a former federal prosecutor and regulator, people defending this and saying it’s okay is one of the many things making it impossible to get legislators and regulators to take this industry seriously.

As someone who comes from a traditional finance/fintech background, I can tell you without a doubt that the people with NFTs as their profile pictures crying about an afterparty and (possibly illegally) filming the dancers is exactly why people across Wall Street and Main Street have reservations about the space.

@CallMeGillette You think this says “take us seriously”?

Happy first Mother’s Day to my incredible wife, today and every day—you’re a natural.