David Tintner

A friend sent me this today. He was researching a YouTuber in Claude, and Claude cited ThoughtLeaders for the channel's numbers. First thought: Yes! This is exactly what we’ve been working so hard for at ThoughtLeaders. What I keep coming back to: I only know this happened because he sent it to me. There was no signup. No web traffic registered on our Google Analytics. No form fill, no ping in our slack leads channel. Claude pulled our data into a private conversation with a user and every metric we normally watch is blind to it. If he hadn't screenshotted it, I'd never know. That's the shift. Everyone is going to be working inside agents and AI tools soon. The UI is going away, and most of what these tools do happens in private. Companies are getting cited, referenced, recommended, with no trail at all. Citations like this build brand, and they'll turn into sales. They just don't leave the fingerprints we're used to measuring. A lot to unpack here. It's a new world we're living in. And my take on it is that it requires a leap of faith to build for it and believe strongly that you’re going in the right direction when you don’t always get confirmation back. We’re pushing hard at ThoughtLeaders, but I’m very happy for the friends sending me screenshots :)

This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming! Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him. Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind. Here’s where the heat really picks up: This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming! Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him. Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind. Here’s where the heat really picks up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwa… His argument is that China will get the compute they need to train the best models anyway, and it’s silly to not have them build on the American tech stack and get them locked in to that. Also, he says that the developer ecosystem of cuda is the most valuable asset of nvidia. With 50% of the AI researchers in the world in China, they are missing out on a gigantic part of the market that could be developers contributing to and using cuda. Very curious to hear what other people think about this. Should the US let nvidia sell the most advanced chips to China? P.S. I listened to Jensen on Lex Fridman recently, and that was a great conversation with tons of insights. This Dwarkesh interview was completely different. Adversarial the whole time. It’s not often you get the chance to listen to probably the best CEO in the world in such a heated argument.

@jfgonzalezm Opus for everything! I can’t stand sonnet

@DMTintner Are you using Opus model? or you feel Sonnet does the work on most of the current Tasks?

Hot take: Claude code > Cowork… for everything. I tested Cowork, didn't like it, and went all-in on Claude Code instead. Now I'm pushing the rest of ThoughtLeaders to do the same. The part most people miss: you don't have to write any code to use it. Our finance team generates customer account statements in Claude Code. Marketing builds our email newsletters in it. SEO work on the website runs through it. I use the desktop app to send emails, pull company data, and build reports. One more tip for the non-engineers: don't panic when Claude Code throws an error or flags a code problem. Just ask it about it. Or screenshot the error and paste it back in. A few rounds of that and it solves its own problems. If you've written it off as a developer tool, take another look.

@tobi notebookLM for the mind map graphic, when prompted with a transcript of a meeting is also a really powerful tool like this

Nano Banana Pro is insane

This is a fantastic episode, one of my favorites from acquired. They explain the difference between “premium” and “luxury” - premium is when you pay more and get more utility. Not necessarily linearly, but still increased quality with higher price. Luxury, however, is pure status. You often pay more and get even less utility.

@paulg @LifeThruBook Take a listen to this if you're interested. They talk about margins and its generally a great podcast: acquired.fm/episodes/lvmh

I asked a friend who's been in the wine business for decades at what price wine quality is within a percent or two of the asymptote. He said £250 ($300). Beyond that you're just paying for brand.

@nicklmg Hey nick would love to get together at CES

Still have some time available for any creators that want to link up at CES next week! LMK :)

@CES @YouCamApps Can you access the Creator Space with a deluxe CES badge?

At the Creator Space at CES 2025, storytellers have resources to connect and create. Don’t miss the Makeup Station from @YouCamApps, with AR try-ons for glasses and makeup, AI analysis tools, and PerfectGPT™ for personalized beauty experiences. Enter with your media badge.

@RomanEcom Hey Roman, would love to catch up and talk yt sponsorships with you

I talked to a $40M D2C brand spending <10% of budget on Meta and >75% on YouTube ads - growing 100%+ a year. All VSLs. Big focus for me next year. If you’re big on YouTube ads: Please DM. I’d love to exchange learnings. Happy to share what we do on YouTube influencers to make that work at scale.

@SethAbramson You should read this thread x.com/osinttechnical…

CNN is airing video at this moment of Israel bombing the very escape routes it told Gazans living in the north of Gaza to take. This is a war crime and no Jew anywhere can defend it. (And for the record, I believe Hamas to be a terrorist organization that must be wiped out.)

@RebeccaEmcee1 @mreflow @vidsummit 🤠

@mreflow @vidsummit Meeee!

I am so excited to be headed to @vidsummit tomorrow. This’ll be my first YouTube-related conference ever and I have so many other friends going that I can’t wait to connect up with in person. I’m also on 2 panels. One for emerging creators and one about AI. Who else is going?

@thetalperry @austin_rief Hey austin, would love to. Happy to grab a drink, and if you want to work out of our office you’re more than welcome too anytime. Also can use our recording studio finance.yahoo.com/news/thoughtle…

@austin_rief @DMTintner

Going to Tel-Aviv in mid July. Who should I hang with?

The team put together an awesome report using our platform data for anyone interested in DTC marketing, especially on YouTube and podcasts

Yep, marketers can get catfished too. 🐟 Want to avoid that awkward conversation with your boss on why you spent $10K on Instagram bots last quarter? We thought so. Read up on how to spot fake #influencers with fishy followers via @Thoughtldrs. buff.ly/34gGJ4p

This is so cool. Great article by our @Thoughtldrs team digging into @benandjerrys history of marketing with a higher purpose

@DavidBloom been loving the interviews you're doing lately! We'd love to interview you on the @Thoughtldrs podcast. What do you say?

@heyamylin @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev I submitted a second cloudflare support ticket today about it. Still can’t even get a human response. We’re still experiencing it too.

@DMTintner @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev Any updates here? We are seeing this issue for the founders and investors using signal.nfx.com and thecompanybrief.com. This issue needs to be solved ASAP. I've escalated on Cloudflare's side and still no action.

I can confirm. Same thing happening to our site, and only for users in Israel. @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev please help!

@CloudflareHelp Israel users have been reporting error 1016 for 2 weeks or so now. This problem is confirmed by several other site owners in your forums. Please help!

I remember tuning in to AOL to watch dave play live from Central Park in ‘03. The world was really different back then, but somethings never change #PayItForwardLIVE twitter.com/i/events/12425…