Benjamin Schieken

Introducing Lightreel - the first AI that doomscrolls for you Analyzes 150,000+ TikTok UGC videos to answer any marketing question “What hooks are my competitors using?” “Why did this video flop?” “Find me 10 NYU creators with 1500 followers” It helped me get 60 million views in 3 days Try it out today! (PS — Running UGC for free for one random person who retweets this. I'll make your app go viral)

@juliapintar Which test do you like

every member on my team is world-class at what they do because of this, my biggest stressor is creating an environment that supports optimal performance highly recommend having your team take a personality test + learn how to encourage each of them individually

@srcasm @flybridge Jesse - would be great to reconnect. We are obsessed with this in a major way and have some unique perspectives, access, and data to help deliver on the vision.

We’re about six months into deploying @flybridge 2025 (our 7th fund). The "AI" honeymoon period is officially over. In 2024, everyone wanted to talk about models. In 2025, everyone wanted to talk about agents. Nowadays, I’m looking for the Invisible Infrastructure. If you’re building the plumbing that makes autonomous systems actually safe, auditable, and reliable for a Fortune 500, we should be talking. Specifically, I’m looking for: > Tools that verify human intent in a world full of high-fidelity deepfakes. > AI that doesn't "forget" who I am or what we talked about yesterday across different apps. > Founders who spent ten years in a "niche" industry (like maritime logistics or waste management) and are now rebuilding it from the studs up. I know the best founders are often too busy building to be scrolling LinkedIn. If you have a friend who is currently building something that fits this description, tell them to hit me up. I don't need a deck yet. I just want to hear about the problem they can't stop thinking about. We’re cutting $1M to $3M checks. My DMs are always open.

@mikesimonsen Hey Mike! This is super cool. I’m curious to know how much data like this costs - can yin please dm me some details?

A great dataset I recently got access to: Xactus Mortgage Intent Index. Xactus processes credit pulls in the mortgage application process. The index is based on actual apps. It is highly correlated with the Altos weekly pendings data. Now at highest level in over 2 years

@NewsLambert Needed this today!

Execute. Execute. Execute. Move fast and put the ball in the hoop. Don’t make shit harder than it needs to be. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

@NayrhitB @SusquehannaVC @LightspeedIndia @BCapitalGroup @beenextVC @sparrowcapvc @2point2club Deck

The exact pitch deck that helped us raise a $9M Seed Round copy whatever you want VCs that invested: → @SusquehannaVC (led) → @LightspeedIndia → @BCapitalGroup → Seaborne Capital → @beenextVC → @sparrowcapvc → @2point2club joined. fundraising is hard enough without guessing what investors want to see. so - I'm making our deck public. if you're raising right now, take it and make it yours. Reply 'deck' + follow (so I can DM it over)

@ASALBERT Congrats! Great branding man, site and mantra are awesome

my cousin pitched me a greeting card company 5 times over 5 years. i said no every single time. then in 2025 i finally said yes. to a paper company. while every founder i knew was racing to build AI agents, we walked into VC meetings pitching snail mail. we kept telling investors: in a few years saying your company "uses AI" is going to sound as ridiculous as saying you're "an internet company." so we skipped that part. escargot is not a greeting card company. it's a way to stay close to the 15-20 people you actually care about. we remind you when the moments are coming, make it stupidly easy to show up for them, and close the loop so you actually feel it. no algorithms. no hashtags. just slowing down and being thoughtful. today @BusinessInsider published a feature on what we're building. we raised $2.75M led by @NWischoff and @HannahGreyVC with @southpkcommons , @_CommonMagic , @NextWaveNYC , @bentossell , and @LizaGurtin . grateful to my co-founder and cousin Andrew for not giving up after 5 rejections. and to our team — this doesn't exist without you. cards are just the beginning 🐌

The market is shifting, but it's not normalized. You need to shop your mortgage offer. Don't guess. Fincast it. Make lenders compete so you close that affordability gap yourself. Like or comment if you're seeing these prices in your market.

You're focused on the home price, not the APR spread. That spread is where you lose thousands.

Housing affordability: I'll explain the $25,000 gap. You're hearing affordability is improving. The numbers I'm seeing tell a different story. There's a $25,000 income gap still locking most people out.

We level it from the bottom up. The housing market is finally waking up. Are you watching this legislation? Like and comment if you think this will actually lower costs.

At Fincast, we built our technology for this exact environment. As the market opens up, transparency is everything. You need to know your options are real. This legislation levels the playing field from the top down.

Housing affordability is no longer a pipe dream. The U.S. House just passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act. The vote was 390-9. That level of unity doesn't happen by accident. It happens when a crisis becomes unavoidable. 👇