Alex Steele

@aviel John Galt!!!!!

My land. My laws.

@aviel wesley mouch will now witness the competent flee...

Tell them to text me, I get the keys to my new apartment down there in 2 weeks.

Current status: Retardmaxxing.

truly one of the greatest of all time

We raised $64M for this moment: Introducing Bustem. Bustem scans the internet to find and eliminate 100% of counterfeits RT + comment “SCAN” and I’ll send you a list of every scammer targeting your brand 🫵

@__coderish__ @GetOpal @ianwcrosby Thanks brother

@alexsteele @GetOpal @ianwcrosby Crazy. Congrats Alex.

Today I'm excited to announce that @GetOpal has raised a $6M Seed round in just 4 hours. Our first angel, @ianwcrosby, made one call on my behalf when I moved to San Francisco. That call changed everything. I moved to SF on October 17th. The next morning, my phone rang. @xuezhao from @BasisSet was on the other end. I’d never met her before. She said: "Ian tells me I need to meet you immediately. Can we go for a walk tomorrow?" We lived five blocks apart. The walk was supposed to be one hour. We ended up walking for four. She was asking questions to get to know me as a person. Feeling me out for one thing: Am I the kind of founder crazy enough to build a credit card company with no finance degree and no banking connections? By the end of the walk, we had agreed on terms. Today, Opal is announcing our $6M seed round, led by Basis Set, with participation from Founders Co-op, Ian Crosby, and Adam Orser. We didn't start as a credit card company. But our customers told us we had to be. Here's what we've built: - A Visa credit card built exclusively for ad agencies and the brands they manage - Credit limits that reach seven figures - underwritten on managed ad spend, not agency revenue - 1%+ cash back on all ad spend - A fraud system that actually understands ad spend, so Google and Meta charges never get flagged and kill your campaigns Traditional banks look at an agency's revenue and give them a $50K limit. We look at the millions they manage for clients and give them what they actually need. To Lan Xuezhao and the team at Basis Set - thank you for betting on this on day two. To Ian Crosby - you opened a door I didn't even know existed. None of this happens without you. To the Opal team - you're building something that doesn't exist anywhere else. That takes a specific kind of crazy. I'm grateful for every one of you. If you run an ad agency and your credit limits are costing you - reach out. We built this for you.

@ashayasharma ❤️

Legend

@mattmcilwain @aviel California is a bargain at this rate

Sadly, this will be the “please leave washington” tax if it is passed. The chart below should be haunting to all legislators.

@quinnslcm She doesn’t deserve you brother 👑

Dating in 2026

@quinnslcm ❤️

Let me introduce you to opal by @alexsteele

The whole retardmaxxing thing is actually so real. Meet an oddball and initially you're just like ok this guy definitely has a few screws loose. Not a total weirdo but catches you off guard But as time goes on you eventually realize he's not trying to be that way and that he's actually just comfort in one's own skin mogging you into normalizing his way of conducting affairs. Then you start to question if you're being too rigid in how you move Total left curve victory. This is unironically how you get whatever you want in life. Present the most natural and unforced version of yourself and just rep it. Be so carefree that the world has no choice but to acquiesce to your version of reality

the best possible thing you could say in an interview is "i really want to win"

there is no better place than sf to build a startup anybody who says otherwise is coping or mistaken all the capital and talent is here

linkedin.com/jobs/view/4372… linkedin.com/jobs/view/4372…

hiring design engineers and product engineers $175-250k cash comp $200k-$1m in equity DM if interested or to make an intro $10k referral fee if you intro someone we hire

this is what every communist country becomes. it’s never a real eradication of status and wealth, because we’re human and that’s impossible. it’s a theft, with capable men who earned their wealth murdered and replaced by a small cabal of jealous, psychopathic bureaucrats.

Seattle friends who actually live/spend time in the city, I’m begging you, please do yourself a favor and visit another city other than Portland. This is not normal. You have developed Stockholm Syndrome. After spending real time in San Francisco (another supposed “west coast shit hole”) after nearly a decade of absence my brain is broken. We’re no longer even in the same league. Wake up!

You walk into a founders' office for an interview and see this bookshelf. What happens next?

This is the equivalent of people in 1976 finding out that nerds were spending hundreds of dollars on computers. Still early.