Orbit

Great thinking here 👇

Personalization has been the north star of consumer tech for decades. Products of the past have been built around social graphs, interests, and recorded behaviors. But who we are is far deeper than that. The next era of consumer products will be truly personal experiences with the full scope of our identities at their core.

@venivci Will be dreaming of discomorphism

@orbitai Wait it’s fire

This probably shouldn’t look this good

Musically → TikTok is the best example Musically had location and friends TikTok took this and added interests One extra identity signal led the product from $1B to $1T

The products that win in the next era of consumer are the ones that attain more identity data points than their competitors > Agents that act with your relationships, profession, and communication style in mind > Recruiting that matches beyond resume keywords into working style and culture fit > E-commerce that recommends products based on income, values, and lifestyle > Travel that builds itineraries around your pace, budget, and interests > Dating that matches beyond surface-level preferences into beliefs, daily routine, and culture Orbit’s Identity Graph makes this possible

Identity infrastructure has never looked this good

@MollySOShea @dkhos @Uber The journey that brought him here. orbitsearch.com/dara-khosrowsh…

NEW: Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber (NYSE: $UBER) @dkhos's vision for @Uber: One app for everything Go anywhere, get anything Dara took Uber from $4.5B in 2017 losses to nearly $10B in free cash flow We cover: → Full circle Expedia partnership (hotels on Uber!!) → Shop For Me + new product launches → Lessons from Barry Diller → AV platform strategy (Waymo, Zoox, WeRide) → Why Uber was built for the AI era Plus: learn how to actually raise your Uber rating. This was so much fun, I couldn't keep my cool. Hope you enjoy! Thank you @NYSE for the video production, & Brooke for helping set this up! 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO at Uber (00:48) The biggest bet of 2026 (02:04) The accidental feature (04:16) Your next Uber might come with a Coffee (05:54) Uber One’s global takeover (06:32) Growth hack to outpace rivals (08:04) Replacing overpriced room service (11:25) The Expedia reunion (14:10) The 10-minute airport hack (17:05) The $10 billion FCF comeback (19:00) Barry Diller’s golden advice (22:49) Uber’s internal AI shift (26:59) Will AI make Uber apps obsolete? (27:36) Self-driving cars (28:47) AI’s biggest misconception (29:39) Hack your Uber rating (31:36) Junior Devs coding for millions

@ChrisJBakke @eshear With this many wins on the board.. orbitsearch.com/emmett-shear

Emmett Shear reading this:

@RhysSullivan With this track record.. orbitsearch.com/emmett-shear

emmett shear catching a stray

@KevinNaughtonJr A moment of respect for this legend’s career. orbitsearch.com/emmett-shear

imagine cofounding twitch and selling it to amazon for ~$1,000,000,000 only to be referred to as "rando twitch guy" 😭😭😭

@essamsleiman Justice for Emmett. orbitsearch.com/emmett-shear

imagine founding and running Twitch to a ~$1B exit and still getting called “rando twitch guy”

@katiekirsch @a16z A powerhouse group! We made a thread to highlight a few of their stories.

Today we're stoked to announce the inaugural class of @a16z Growth Engineer fellows! 🎉 65 growth leaders selected out of thousands of apps from talented people around the world. Many fellows are household names in the growth × AI space who helped to write the original growth playbooks - like @lukeharries from ElevenLabs, @ramanrmalik from Perplexity, @BenShanken from Coinbase, and @DBredvick from Vercel. Some are AI-native engineers now building massive growth engines at scale - like Aaron Lu at Notion, Ramya Durvasula at Partiful, and @vaibhav_2991 at OpenAI. Others are product leaders turned growth engineers, designing powerful new growth systems - like @alkarim at Google, @ravishagrwal at Gamma, @egavrilenko11 at Cursor, and Ajay Prakash at Superpower. You might recognize @yash_tek from his educational Clay content, or Jordan Crawford from his thoughtful write-ups on growth engineering via Claude Code. But we’ve also got young hustlers like Diana Lim who are fresh out of college with CS degrees and already tastefully automating everything in sight at early-stage startups. Pumped about this group - and to do more fellowships & cohorts in the future! Sharing links below for more details - plus a sign-up form to stay in touch on the next fellowship. 🙌

@aaronclu, Global Performance Marketing at @NotionHQ. orbitsearch.com/aaron-lu3

a16z announced its first Growth Engineer fellows. The inaugural class is stacked with talent leading growth at some of tech’s fastest-growing companies. Some of the fellows you should know🧵👇

Diana Lim, Growth Engineer at @ListenLabs. orbitsearch.com/diana-lim-ba25…

@alkarim, Growth and AI Strategy at @Google. orbitsearch.com/alkarim-nasser…