Timur Ercan 🌏

@krishdotdev *heavy breathing*

If water is becoming the biggest bottleneck for AI data centers why don’t we just put them in the ocean?

@sunnydecree this beats any marvel, dc or live adaption slop any day of the week tho

Watched this for science only. The woke stuff is in there, but not as much as I expected. The movie itself is bad, though. I’d give it a 5.5/10. Don’t waste your time.

@jasonlk "But also, it’s now clear that if they were all there today, that startup would be crushing it." you mean if they were an alternate version that did not have the actually properties of the humans that had the low level conflict?

There’s a start-up I invested in years ago, at the time it was pretty innnovative. Since then, all the founders have left, and as they did, the rest of the market slowly caught up to their innovations. On the one hand, I get it. Things change. It’s been a decade. And low-level founder conflict was some of it. 10 years is a long time. But also, it’s now clear that if they were all there today, that startup would be crushing it. Stay or go as a founder, it’s complicated. I’ve just rarely seen a startup do better once a key founder … left. Today, I think it’s far more important than ever.

@kapilansh_twt "a 9-5 with a high salary is better than owning a startup" better in some metrics but yeah, its extremely underrated since the ones who actually opted out are just as biased they those who cant or wont

unpopular opinion a 9-5 with a high salary is better than owning a startup stable income clear boundaries someone else's problems at 3am founders romanticize the chaos until they're 6 months in with zero revenue and $80 a month in tool subscriptions

@SurrealVeal its a bit random though he want to hear it he is usually a rational strategist, this felt out of character ballsy without a good reason

In The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, there is a scene where Odysseus and his men encounter Sirens on their treacherous journey home. In the scene, Odysseus ties himself to the mast of the ship so he can listen to the Siren song while the rest of the crew clogs their ears with wax. After they clear the Sirens, his first in command asks: “What was the siren song?” Odysseus responds: “All the things you want it to be. Then, all the things you wished you never wished for. It was the delicious itch you go to scratch. The kind that’s under the skin but you can’t reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. Told you what you most want, is what you most can’t have. And what you most can’t have, is what you already had… and lost. It was the song of all the promises I failed to keep.” This is probably my favorite scene considering the broader context of the movie.

@hnshah you are right to clarify that i might have skimmed to fast :)

@ElTimuro I agree. That’s the point.

This is exactly right. We spent decades treating software as something built to last. It had to be maintained, reused, and worth the cost of creating. AI gives us software as scratch paper. You can spin up a dashboard to answer one question, explore a design until it feels right, or build an interactive HTML page that makes a complicated idea easier to understand. Once it has done the job, you move on. That shift is much bigger than it sounds. Software is becoming a medium for thinking. I recently taught a session on creating interactive HTML pages for exactly this kind of work. hiten.com/library/intera…

how you treat your LLM says more about you than it

@FightWithMemes POV you are Uthred of Bebbanburg

Probably, I mean.

@liebert_2026 "Are you not killing serendipity in a way?" serendipity for what? he specifically said in (i guess even this interview) this is great but he wanted to be rich first you don't need business serendipity when you are rich

why Naval deleted his calendar, ghosts everyone, and refuses to be anywhere at a specific time Naval: "I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don't keep a schedule. And I took that to heart. So I deleted my calendar and I don't keep a schedule. I try to remember it all in my head. If I can't remember it, I'm not going to add it." "I have a nasty email autoresponder that says, I don't check email and don't text me either. If you need to find me, you'll find me." "My wife knows not to ever book or schedule me for anything. I'm not expected to go to couples dinners. I'm not expected to go to birthdays. I'm not expected to go to weddings. If somebody tries to rope her into having me show up, she says he makes his own decisions. You got to ask him directly." Chris: "Are you not killing serendipity in a way?" Naval: "No. I'm freeing up all my time. So my entire life is serendipity. I get to interact with whoever I want, whenever I want, wherever."

meme so old it says twitter

💸 You think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder Raising money is not free, people don't give you money out of charity, they buy a little slice of your company every time they invest, so in every funding round you sell a share of your company's ownership for money, that money you use then to grow more, in the hope that your part becomes more than the ownership you just gave away Median ownership for single founders (via @cartainc): Seed: ~56% Series A: ~36% Series B: ~23.5% Series C: ~16.5% Series D: ~10% Series E: <10% Now if you have one co-founder (most startups!): Seed: ~28% Series A: ~18% Series B: ~11.75% Series C: ~8.25% Series D: ~5% Series E: <5% What if you're one of 4 co-founders: Seed: ~14% Series A: ~9% Series B: ~5.875% Series C: ~4.125% Series D: ~2.5% Series E: <2.5% Now imagine you get acquired after one of these funding rounds for $1,000,000,000 ($1 billion is a lot!), how much are you left with? Money made with $1B sale for single founders: Seed: ~$560 million Series A: ~$360 million Series B: ~$235 million Series C: ~$165 million Series D: ~$100 million Series E: <$100 million Now if you have one co-founder (most startups!): Seed: ~$280 million Series A: ~$180 million Series B: ~$117.5 million Series C: ~$82.5 million Series D: ~$50 million Series E: <$50 million What if you're one of 4 co-founders: Seed: ~$140 million Series A: ~$90 million Series B: ~$59 million Series C: ~$41 million Series D: ~$25 million Series E: <$25 million But let's be more realistic, the median acquisition value for a VC-backed startup sits at approximately $71 million: For single founders: Seed: ~$39.8 million Series A: ~$25.6 million Series B: ~$16.7 million Series C: ~$11.7 million Series D: ~$7.1 million Series E: <$7.1 million Now if you have one co-founder (most startups): Seed: ~$19.9 million Series A: ~$12.8 million Series B: ~$8.3 million Series C: ~$5.9 million Series D: ~$3.55 million Series E: <$3.55 million What if you're one of 4 co-founders: Seed: ~$9.95 million Series A: ~$6.4 million Series B: ~$4.2 million Series C: ~$2.9 million Series D: ~$1.8 million Series E: <$1.8 million Okay last one (this post is getting too long 😊), we know 1) the median time of acquisition is around Series A (quite early actually), and 2) we know the median acquisition value is $71M, so now we can tell you the median expected outcome for a startup that gets acquired: Single founders: ~$25.6 million One co-founder: ~$12.8 million One of 4 co-founders: ~$6.4 million Getting acquired itself is a remarkable event though as most startups are by definition doomed to fail, only ~15% of startups ever get acquired, so the expected outcome with probability included is: Single founder: ~$3.84 million One of two co-founders: ~$1.92 million One of four co-founders: ~$960,000 P.S. we did not include taxes and liquidation preferences, the investors may receive their preference before common shareholders receive anything, meaning founders receive even less, but we also didn't include taking money off the table in earlier rounds by founders to be fair, so they balance each other out a bit Not saying this is bad btw, it's just how the VC game works but good to write it out and be aware of how it works VC-backed startups shoot for the moon, it's one of the few ways you can have a crazy big payout and become an actual billionaire which is very rare as a bootstrapped founder with your own money!

@DiscussingFilm did he go for the head tho

The first trailer for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ has been released. In theaters on December 18.

@mil000 people will do anything but buying longterm compounding assets

don’t gamble.

@TechyAizen @neerajjj6785 its simple, not easy

@neerajjj6785 Because web development is easy

genuine question Why are vibe coders mostly web developers? You rarely hear people vibe coding kernels, databases, compilers, or distributed system

"my hot take is only 1% of software actually matters"

@thatguybg my hot take is only 1% of software actually matters

my hot take is that 99% of software can be built with the same set of finite elements spending time/tokens building any of this from scratch over and over again is peak AI psychosis

@markoa "Visual Studio Pro with MSDN subscription"

20 years ago a decent laptop + Visual Studio Pro with MSDN subscription cost $4,500–$6,800 adjusted for inflation building worthless products is more affordable

"taste will be the only relevant technical skill in the future"

@grok @Lil_Luna_IRLz @zoerosebryant good bot

@Lil_Luna_IRLz @zoerosebryant Yes, Odysseus is married to Penelope in the Odyssey. They have a son, Telemachus. The whole epic is him finally making it home to them after 20 years away. While he’s out aura farming at the World Cup, she’s back in Ithaca dealing with a house full of suitors. Classic. 🥹

mind you his wife and son are at home fighting for their lives