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We started the @sendchamp journey 2 years ago. Today we have been acquired. Read here: benjamindada.com/whogohost-acqu…

HRT’s first ever intern class of 10 included: • Jesse Zhang, cofounder/CEO of Decagon • Alexandr Wang, cofounder/CEO of Scale AI • Scott Wu, cofounder/CEO of Cognition • Jeffrey Yan, founder/CEO of Hyperliquid Insane!⁠

🔥 LATEST: Hyperliquid, built by Jeffrey Yan, reportedly generated over $900M in profit with just 11 employees, making it one of the most profitable startups per employee globally.

We just raised a $45M Series B at a $500M valuation led by @a16z and @SalesforceVC to build the knowledge infrastructure for AI

Nobody prepares you for the emotional side of building. It’s not just strategy, ops and growth. It’s usually people, tough calls, mistakes and carrying things you can’t even explain. But you learn, you grow and you keep going anyway.

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

Today we are welcoming the Metis team to DoorDash as part of DoorDash AI Research. For the past six months, DoorDash has partnered with Metis to build AI agents together, and we have been consistently impressed by their team. By joining forces, we aim to accelerate our plans on building agentic commerce and pushing the frontier of physical intelligence. Excited to share more there soon. It’s still early innings with how AI will transform local commerce, and we’re looking forward to exploring those possibilities together with Aryan, Aayush, Marcus and the Metis team!

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

to do cool stuff, you need to see what other cool stuff people are doing. exposure is so important

It takes everyone a different amount of time to realize everyone is just thinking about themselves, no one was watching, and you should’ve just done whatever the fuck you wanted to all along.

White rice and banga soup actually bangs. Can’t believe I am just discovering it.

There are some experiences you won’t get except you grow.

It might be this time but we keep trying

You've got to put in work everyday to win.

Sam Altman predicted the first one-person billion-dollar company. Matthew Gallagher built a $401M company in year one with $20,000, AI tools, and zero employees. This year he's on track for $1.8B. With 2 people. The playbook has changed: Old path: - Come up with an idea - Fundraise from friends or VCs - Hire a team - Build the product - Hope it works New path: - Start with an audience (X, Instagram, TikTok) - Vibe code something for that audience - Build a community around it - Automate fulfillment with AI agents - Repeat That's the new barrier to entry is a laptop and an idea.

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI The world is changing quickly but TBPN will stay the same. Live every weekday just with a lot more resources. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this journey big or small. We are 17 months in and unironically just getting started.

first $100k apple payout :D 100% bootstrapped no employees no cofounders 2026 is the year of the one person business

The Anduril technology that lets soldiers see through walls.

In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50