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@yacineMTB Nah.

OpenAI is starting to look like Google in 2002 & Anthropic is starting to look like Yahoo in 2002.

@agupta after we ban "let's double click into this"

can we ban the phrase “the real unlock”

@StartupArchive_ What? I named our first product voiceagent.net x64 enterprise edition!

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s advice for startups: “When you’re small, act small” A lot of founders try to emulate large companies, and will do things like use the same terminology as Microsoft to describe their products. But Garry argues this is a mistake: “When you’re starting something new, the whole advantage is that you’re a real human being. We are so starved for real, authentic connection that if you can talk to people and say ‘Hey, I’m the CEO. What do you need?’ That’s the most powerful thing.” Being small lets you offer fanatical customer support. Not only will this win customer trust, but it’ll help you find product/market fit. If you listen to customers, they will tell you what they want. “The reason why people don’t do this is they think starting a startup is building this incredibly complex machinery… But I encourage you to think about it in a different way. It’s more like throwing a really, really amazing party… You go there, you see a friend, they say ‘Welcome! Let me take your coat. Let me introduce you to your friends.’” For his first startup, Posterous, Garry and his team aimed to reply to every single customer support email within ten minutes. And if there was a bug, they fixed it on the spot. Human connection with your customers is really important. Garry cites a study on Usenet that found retention increased from 16% to 26% if someone received a reply to their post on the forum. As Garry explains: “A 10% difference in retention is actually the difference between a startup that’s flatlining and one that’s working. The compounding of this is really, really massive… Be small. Be human.” Video source: @ECorner (2023)

I did not know what to make of this @BG2Pod clip when it first dropped, but Satya Nadella was incredibly prescient in how he framed the future of SaaS. youtu.be/9NtsnzRFJ_o?t=… This feels especially relevant now in light of Julien Bek’s piece from Sequoia on “services as the new software.” sequoiacap.com/article/servic… h/t @JulienBek

@APompliano @michaeljburry Did he predict oil will surge to 116?

Whether you like him or not, @michaeljburry's AI short trade from last year played out almost exactly as he predicted. Credit where credit is due.

FB Ad Manager has become unusable. So sad.

Trying to give X money and X just wouldn't accept it. sigh. Is Pay with Western Union an option?

Claude telling me I am at 90% of my session limit 15 mins into my session. Claude, r u mad?

80%+ of Meta video is watched on mute!!! 🤯 Real or Claude hallucinating?

@jacobandreou This is smart. We are seeing this new problem emerge where different models give completely different recommendations, putting the burden back on the human operator defeating the original purpose of the solution. Having the models reach consensus is huge!

Adversarial review produces better output Other labs aren’t incentivized to build this for you More to come

@davidmarcus Gemini and Chat also differ significantly in their recommendations to marketing problems. Good? Bad? I dunno.

It's wild that every time you run a Codex code review from Claude Code, it finds critical issues. Not 95% of the times, 100%.

@pmddomingos Banana?

Where's the Apple of AI?

What’s one workflow you’ve automated and one you’ve intentionally kept manual? We built our Phone Agent to handle intake, follow-ups, and scheduling, but also to step out of the way when you want to stay hands-on. revenaut.ai/agent/phone-ai

@JamesBorow It’s insane

LA based co doing $6B in revenue a year with ~1 billion MAU and some of the best gen AI tools on the planet currently raising at around a $6.5B valuation - lmk if you want in, can sneak you into the round.

@saranormous In my experience, anything labeled “labs” almost always dies.

if you’re a startup in 2026 and you don’t have a “labs” group, you might as well be enterprise SaaS

@WillManidis Trust and Safety is usually the last thing that gets funded.

a trillion dollars spent on ai risk teams and no one thought to hard code into the model to not tell Bernie Sanders that you do crime

@jacobandreou Thanks! We are currently exploring imagegen options. Will try this!

top 3 imagegen lab ✅ frontier soon come

I love the @SlackHQ huddle lobby music. Am I alone?

@jacobandreou @mustafasuleyman @satyanadella Congrats, @jacobandreou! Excited to see what you do. Microsoft has such strong assets already, and the opportunity ahead is massive.💙

Starting a new chapter today and stepping in to bring Consumer and Commercial Copilot together into one org. One team, one product, one experience. Grateful to @mustafasuleyman and @satyanadella for the opportunity. Let's build.