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Over the years, I have tried to share learnings from my startups and seed investing. Decided to combine my startup tweets+tweetstorms into a tweethurricane. Here are my learnings + advice, from pitching investors to getting through the journey:

@jasongeater This was 2019

@immad I love seeing these posts; indicative of secular top. Now, we just need issuance to ramp up… queue the SpaceX and Co. IPOs… 📉

I made as much money selling half my small investment in Rappi in 3.5 years as I did from 8 years of grinding my previous startup. It was a little depressing how one investment that took relatively little effort amounted to the same as 8 years of a hard startup.

@javiderausquin Sure. The journey of investing is relatively uninteresting compared to building a startup.

@immad but what about the journey of building Mercury? that's priceless

Run: mercury hat Get yours.

Learn more: github.com/MercuryTechnol…

Mercury CLI is live! Install now: curl -sSf cli.mercury.com/install.sh | sh Our @Mercury MCP has been growing like crazy so I am excited to see what people do with the CLI too. AI is changing how people access services, I talk about this more in the podcast clip attached.

6/ Not a bank (for now) disclaimer :) * While we’ve received conditional approval to become a bank, Mercury today is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

5/ businesswire.com/news/home/2026….

1/ Today @Mercury received conditional approval from the OCC to establish Mercury Bank, N.A. I started Mercury in 2017 to build the bank I wish had existed as a founder. Nearly a decade later, we’re getting there. 🧵

AI is great at remixing existing design patterns. Building something genuinely new? That's still a human problem. Full conversation in bio.

@brycebjork what do you mean by "pulled transactions"?

@immad would be amazing if mercury personal pulled transactions from credit cards (eg amex)

it was wild watching @claudeai Design spin up a working version of our @mercury design system after spending 10m with our code. it got 90% there on the first try. also getting a full feature prototype live took minutes.

OpenClaw for businesses! Looks cool.

@blade_nd @mercury Hi Erick, We will definitely do this. Dont have a timeline to share with you right now. Our customers can use Coinbase/Circle/etc to get most of this functionality, but agreed that it would be nice if it was fully integrated.

Day one of tagging @immad and @mercury for stablecoin support. tf's going on, either it's coming around a corner or y'all are going to miss a generational run and marketshare. who's calling the shots here

@arram It was a genuine question!

@immad @immad 😁

I'm trying not to get hyperbolic but I feel like I've just been shown electricity for the first time. I'm not sure what we're going to do with it, but damn if it doesn't feel like it could change everything.

AI trustworthiness depends on data quality, which is why @mercury uses what we call Canonicals Canonicals are accurate source data, linked and included in LLM responses These are system level primitives. Our LLMs only return fully-sourced data points, minimizing hallucinations

Just 6 vintage years produced 85% of ALL venture returns since 2000. If you think you can time venture, @Noah_L came with receipts that'll prove this thinking B.S. Noah Lichtenstein runs @CrossoverVC a unique fund-of-funds with access to ~800 companies and he has 120+ data points tracked on every one. He's backed 23 managers like @immad @yuris, @andykonwinski, @jaltma who he says, can win with a median fund size of $40M. Emerging manager allocation is now down 81% from 2021. Money flooding to mega funds. Noah thinks that's *exactly* the right time to back operator-led Fund 1s. His math: with 10% entry ownership, a $40M fund has a lot more ways to return 3x than a billion-dollar fund that needs $30B in exits. His hottest take: early-stage funds might produce liquidity faster than growth-stage. $500K at seed, you sell down by Series C. Lead the A and sit on the board? Locked in til IPO. Noah admitted he doesn't do a lot of talk shows or podcasts. But when he shows up, man, he shows up with ALL the data. Full conversation on the new CLIMB. This one you won't want to miss