@jeff_weinstein @thomasbsauer Make it as easy to shut down a company 😅.
And taxes - didn’t realize it’s going to cost be $500 to file taxes for a business making $0.
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Aswath
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@thomasbsauer Kind words. Magic wand, what should Stripe solve for founders _after_ incorporation? Big or small ideas welcome.
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It’s an excellent platform.
10/10 would recommend.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Stripe Atlas just hit 100,000 all-time incorporations. Q1 2026 is +130% Y/Y.
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One of my favorite pictures. A guy I didn't know took it of us on a street in Palo Alto about 10 years ago.
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product idea - Oura ring app that always tells you that you had great sleep. no ring needed!
Brandon Luu, MD@BrandonLuuMD
Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.
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This is pretty spot on. It’s an extremely rare combination of skills and knowledge.
Probably closer to 250 but many of them work on well known products already at bigger companies
signüll@signulll
there are likely ~100 ppl alive today that deeply understand all of these together: product instinct, what makes good software, design, technical depth, a real model of ai, the psychology of a single user, the shape of culture, team building, the ability to motivate, & the narrative gift to make any of this actually legible to normal peeps. in consumer, where the tam is pretty much everyone, that combinatorial scarcity is the leverage. ~100 against 8 billion. pure asymmetry.
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Let me list the work I do in my personal life
- order groceries
- keep track of birthdays + gifts
- plan parties
- plan trips
- keep a house in standing condition
- keep a car in standing condition
- do my taxes
- pay my bills
- invest my money
- take, organize, and share family photos
- help my kids with homework
- enrich my kids academics
- register my kids for activities
- attend and manage several kids sports teams
- keep my body healthy
- keep my kids healthy
- keep an eye on my parent's health
- cook meals
- clean + organize the house
- stay intellectually engaged / read
- exercise
- design, furnish, and organize our home
- keep plants alive
- stay engaged with the neighborhood
- stay engaged with politics
- keep up to date on the news
- repair broken things around the house
- chauffeur my kids and their friends
- price compare and purchase utilities
- make holiday magic
- order school lunches
- pick and manage charitable donations
- endless returns
yoni rechtman@yrechtman
Growing suspicion that there are vanishingly few use cases for consumer agents. People don’t do work in their personal lives. The only people who do are sf dorks using spreadsheets to plan trips to tahoe
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Mindbody switched yoga studios to sign-in with Google. But the sign-in happens inside a browser frame. So instead of a user/password for a super low risk yoga site, I now have to do a full Google authentication every class.
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“And if all else fails, I suppose you can always ask the all-powerful Claude to help you with meaning. Perhaps it will generate an immersive world for you — with no AI, limited resources, chores, and jobs.
Maybe that is where we already are.”
open.substack.com/pub/aswathkris…
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@jacobandreou Unless there’s a different bottleneck that can’t be solved with code?
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@tomfgoodwin GM, Old Navy, WalMart, Tysons, Nabisco…
People seem to demand many things that aren’t so “great”. Maybe there are other attributes to being great besides a singular notion of absolute quality?
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When you think about it, Almost every single Microsoft product is substandard, yet here they are with 228,000 employees making $281.7 billion in revenue every year.
The idea that people demand or use or appreciate great software just isn't true.
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in the last 24 hours, 57% of merged PRs at ramp came from our background agent
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong
Good progress for agentic engineering
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@haridigresses How would you express “create the next AirPods” in code?
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All knowledge work can be expressed in code.
It used to be expensive to produce code, so we only did it for the highest value use cases. Code is now cheap.
If you are not a software engineer but work at a desk, the words "Claude Code" should terrify you.
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@s8mb even wrote a poem about it :) aswathkrishnan.substack.com/p/nap-time
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Lounging around with a tiny baby sleeping in your arms is really wonderful.
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@bluewmist the damn phones! went from 2+ hrs to <30m of screentime with the NoMo Screentime app - apps.apple.com/in/app/nomo-re…
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