Ben Gusberg

Amazing evening hosting @gregisenberg last night! They say don’t meet your heroes, Greg is proof that saying is wrong! Thanks to everyone who joined us. Apologies to the many folks we had to waitlist, but feel free to follow me for future NYC community events. 👀

@eglyman Kirby 4 lyfe

Scott Wu solved a Putnam problem in 90 seconds. beat Mango at Melee. raised from Peter Thiel over chess. I beat him at N64 Smash once. nobody's writing a Colossus piece about it, but I'd like it in the record.

Hahah I love this. I think the hard part is getting ppl to build a habit of doing this. For our customers for eg (I’m founder of an AI startup) even when we make the payoff super obvious - if there’s any friction at all they don’t do it. I wonder if there’s a way to encourage ppl to use voice recorders or Wispr flow. Anyways - thanks for sharing - I always love your tips

@bengusberg A sheet of paper on a clipboard on the side of their dominant hand with a pen they love to hold and wield. Write “WHAT IF I GOT AMNESIA” at the top. And even with that, prompt Claude to interview you. Example prompts below. alliekmiller.com/ai-context-vau…

I used to think the best way to come up with ways to use AI was to think about a painpoint or a problem and see if AI can make it better. I no longer think that. Why? Because that put every person into a loss minimization mindset. They were thinking about time lost because they had to manually go through corporate forms. Or money lost because they had 0.1% more theft this year than the prior year. But what this misses (and what people need) is the ability to reason, reframe, and reinvent. I want more of us in growth mode or work reinvention mode. And less “how can we retrofit today’s tech to be slightly less painful.” To that end, one of the best things you can do is keep a log of what you do, who you are, why you make certain decisions over others, what you’re goaled on, where you have low and high friction in your role, who you work with, those people’s incentives and implicit tradeoffs, what your resources and constraints are, what your output is meant to be, and how you deliver value. Then pass that to Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever best model in whatever AI system you have access to, upload your context docs mentioned above, and prompt: “Here is who I am, what I do, what I stand for, and how I deliver value. I am ready and willing to burn down our current playbook and stand something new up in under as long as it means and a more sustainable business model. Read what I have shared and build out a full profile of me. Build up my 5 layers of why. My 5 forces. My explicit and implicit values. My ghost or unnamed blockers. Things I haven’t mentioned and open questions you have. Be so thorough and cut so deep that it feels like a mentalist is peering inside my brain. Based on all the context I’ve provided, ideate several dozen potential workshift changes I can make from multiple angles (people, tech, environment, customers, combinations). Make them radically different. Then score them on likelihood to hit my timeline, budget, tradeoff gained. Then take the top 50%, and morph them ie make edits that only experts in other fields would have brought up. Combine the evolved list with the original top 50%. Loop this process two more times. Present all top winning ideas back to me. Each idea should have a title, short description, and one concrete action I can take in the next 24 hours to kick it off. Be as specific and actionable as possible.” The original method assumed the human was the sole owner of taste and judgement. The new version acknowledges that AI is performant enough to work alongside the human. The original method was only about pain minimization. The new method is about possibility maximization.

@LoganTGott PROMPTS

I built a database with every Claude + LinkedIn prompt you'll ever need. For free. Most people treat prompts like recipes. Copy, paste, hope it works. That's why 90% of AI-generated LinkedIn content sounds identical. The difference between generic AI content and content that books calls isn't the tool. It's the prompt architecture behind it. I've spent 6 months building, testing, and refining prompts specifically for LinkedIn growth in the AI/SaaS space. This database includes prompts for: → Profile optimization (bio, banner, headline, featured section, skills) → Viral content generation (hooks, lead magnets, repurposing, sales call mining) → Outbound systems (DM sequences, Sales Nav targeting, reply handling) → Strategy and funnels (competitor analysis, ICP research, lead magnet campaigns) These aren't generic ChatGPT prompts. They're built for one thing: turning LinkedIn into a revenue channel. These prompts work because they're specific to the LinkedIn algorithm, B2B buyer psychology, and actual conversion mechanics. Want the full prompt database? 1. Follow me 2. Comment "PROMPTS" I'll send it directly.

@Jason i'm in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

@dillon_dunteman @hyperion__cap congrats!!

Today, we are unveiling @hyperion__cap, an investment firm built to be the best strategy partner for deeptech founders. Again and again, we heard from these founders that venture capital has been failing them, even as more deeptech funds entered the market in recent years. Too many deeptech VCs lack a real command of industry history, hardware unit economics, go-to-market, and engineering nuance. Instead of rigorously evaluating complex frontier technologies, they often pass with vague references to “science risk." They overlook exceptional founders outside usual elite networks and concentrate capital based on pedigree, reducing their thinking to hand-wavy “founder bets." These VCs then prioritize promotion and social media over delivering real value to founders. In this world, LPs are also losing. And more of them continue to be disappointed by the lack of rigor that their deeptech GPs bring to evaluating these startups. We raised $35 million for Hyperion's Fund I to change this paradigm. On average, we complete 100+ pages of deep research and strategy ideas that are shared with our founders. We also share this industry research with our LP base, which has already helped support our founders with additional capital and valuable introductions. We hold regular strategy sessions with our founders and obtain key connections that unlock new growth vectors for their businesses. Over the last 6 months, we’ve already invested $9 million behind founders across 7 companies: @FarisSbahi at Normal Computing, @isaiah_p_taylor @ Valar Atomics, Will Wilson @AntithesisHQ , @drauwsy @ Kunin, @abeirami & @aparandehgheibi @ [stealth], Charlie Cheng @ TC Lab, and Mike & Josh @ F-ADA. I'm deeply grateful to the senior leadership at Vista Equity Partners for their support, to the venture GPs who have advised us, and to the founders who chose to partner with us in the earliest days. We’re especially grateful to our limited partners, who put their trust in us at the firm's inception. Lastly, to build this firm alongside one of my closest friends and college teammates @henr56520 been a true privilege. We’re looking forward to working relentlessly for the founders we've backed and for those we’ll have the chance to support in the years ahead. hyperioncap.co

@__mikareyes NickAI

is there an ai agent that can fold my laundry?

@vipul_1011 @0xataki

NYC has insane AI talent density, but barely any high-quality AI events. Meanwhile, SF has 5–6 every week. That gap doesn’t make sense. So we are trying to change it. We are hosting a curated meetup for serious AI builders & startup enthusiasts. First one is on Feb 27! We are starting small and will slowly scale it up. Comment or DM if you interested. Share it with your NYC AI friends!

@ashebytes thank you 🙏

@bengusberg x.com/ashebytes/stat…

the way to use agents/open claw to grow on social media... is by having them focus you on what actually matters: real human touchpoints real human connections are more valuable than ever

Some days being a non-technical founder sucks. I wish I could jump straight into the code and just ship. Particularly when demand is high and our bandwidth is so constrained. AI has helped me close that gap. It lets me prototype, explore ideas, and contribute in ways I couldn’t before. But it’s not 100% yet. I still rely on great engineers. I still hit walls. I’m excited for the day when that gap is fully closed. Until then, I build the best way I know how and will show you what I learn along the way. And if you have tips, let me what tools and workflows you've used to contribute to your own products!

While you were posting your “25 things about 2025,” I was sitting on a beach. And here’s my secret: I won. Not because I worked harder. Not because I figured something out before everyone else. Because I spent 5 days investing in a relationship with someone who deeply matters to me. We’re very good at celebrating grind. We’re much worse at talking about rest, love, and presence - like those things are distractions instead of fuel. They’re not. When you feel grounded and loved, you show up better. You’re calmer. You’re clearer. You’re more generous with your energy. That shows up in your work whether you admit it or not. Building relationships is the most important thing you can do in your career and in your life. Everything else compounds because of that. That’s why I win.

I’ve tried to post consistently 5+ times. I always quit. For 2026, I’m trying something new - just documenting my life as a founder building Cape. No polish. No threads. Just daily notes. Let me know if you want to do this too and we can support each other (and by that I mean like each other's posts 😂) 🥂 here's to keeping at least 1 of my New Year's resolutions.... See you tomorrow

@jspujji AI

@PranavSriram1 🙌

Transformers as Information Flow Graphs How do sparse attention variants work? What are QK and OV circuits? And how can transformers, trained on next token prediction, implement complex behaviors like planning ahead? 🧵

@jspujji viral

I get 15+ million impressions / year on social. My secret? I got actionable tips from a professional social media editor. I asked him to make a video teaching my portfolio companies: - How to come up with your ideal content topics - How to use conversations to extract your best content - How to turn meeting transcripts into social posts - How to use AI without sounding like a robot - How to turn social views into sales Want a copy of the recording? Comment “viral” and I’ll send it to you.

Yesterday was our single biggest revenue day at our company to date. I just wanted to tell someone. Bc startups are hard (but fun). 🚀

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If you comment "vibe" on this post below, you can get 1 month free of Vibecode Pro (worth $150) Also, we have one more thing. Hint: It starts with "a", ends with "d". Any guesses? Comment on Ansh's post (the QT below).

@anythingai yes please

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@austinh___ @unifygtm 🚀

Excited to share that we’ve raised a $40M Series B at @unifygtm to transform growth into a science. Many of the fastest growing companies like Cursor, Perplexity, Flock Safety and Airwallex choose Unify to reimagine growth in an AI-native world. This round comes just 9 months after announcing our Series A, and was led by Battery with participation from OpenAI, Thrive and Emergence 👇