Jason Tan
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Jason Tan
@jpctan
I build AI products without VC money. I created Engage AI, which ruined LinkedIn. Now automate SMBs as CAIO at https://t.co/eA1pXp8Fjm. Refund: https://t.co/nwcrVS3XXB
Australia Katılım Mayıs 2015
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@ClementDelangue AI replies might not be the trend. A lot of people say that ruined LinkedIn. I know I don't use them and I love AI
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why don't all messaging apps (slack, whatsapp, gmail, linkedin,...) have great AI powered suggested replies and great autocompletes? Sounds kind of trivial given they have your voice and history and would save everyone tons of time.
Too costly maybe with big models (😉😉😉 smaller open-source on-device models)?
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Starting Rocket Lab without $100M
"We knew that we could never outspend our competitors. That was just never ever going to be a thing.
The reason why the Rutherford engine is named after Ernest Rutherford is because he had a very famous saying: "We have no money, so we have to think."
At the start of Rocket Lab...I would go to junkyards and crawl over old machines to unscrew all of the Swagelok fittings because we couldn't afford to buy them.
So the first few vehicles all used second hand fittings.
That kind of hardship really cemented part of the culture at Rocket Lab.
If you look across the space industry, especially amongst companies that went public, most of them are toast.
If money could solve space problems then there would be a lot of success — money does not solve this problem."
$RKLB
Ti Morse@ti_morse
My first interview with @Peter_J_Beck, Founder & CEO of @RocketLab. Rocket Lab is scaling launch cadence faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9. 0:44 The biggest bottleneck to increasing launch cadence and mass to orbit 1:25 Growth of new space startups 3:05 Why governments have been ineffective at scaling launch 3:53 Tall Poppy Syndrome 4:38 Starting Rocket Lab without having $100 million 7:24 Scaling Electron vs focusing on Neutron 9:17 Rocket Lab hustle 11:10 Creating a culture of “F*ck it, let’s do it” 11:40 Worst supplier experiences 13:54 Having an engine explode before an important meeting 18:52 Rocket Lab’s first mission to the moon 20:55 Chewing glass and forcing the outcome to be good 22:57 Similarities in how Elon and Peter operate 25:05 Elon time and how to structure timelines 27:13 Designing a culture where everyone runs towards the fire 28:44 Making the Ferrari of rockets — the importance of creating beautiful things 31:20 “You don’t need to equate a price tag to beauty” 32:12 Why Peter hates launch day 34:48 “After a launch failure this place is a morgue” 35:22 Moving forward after a failure 36:40 Transitioning from an R&D organization to scaling rocket production 38:07 Production hell with rockets 39:09 Taking learnings from Electron to Neutron 41:03 Having dinner with Elon 42:00 Keeping the hiring bar extraordinarily high 44:05 “My job is to fix sh*t” 44:56 Rocket Lab’s first NASA launch 45:55 “The great thing about America is anything is possible” 47:40 Coming to Silicon Valley — meeting with Vinod Khosla 51:22 Why he decided to take $RKLB public 54:12 Creating a company that will outlive you 55:41 Turning Rocket Lab into a profitable business 57:23 The best space companies will all build their own rockets 1:00:35 Scaling Neutron 1:01:32 Why they’re using carbon fiber instead of steel 1:02:56 “Going public was a great capital unlock” 1:04:10 The importance of relentless optimism
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@AnnieAndrewsMD Annie, it’s inspiring to see someone turning their professional expertise into public service at scale, and setting sights on big, meaningful change.
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20 years ago it was the eve of my residency match day. The next day I matched into my dream program at Cincinnati Children’s and then spent 3 years learning how to be a pediatrician from the best of the best.
Tonight is the eve of the day I will file to run for the US Senate to become the first ever pediatrician Senator, fight for South Carolina’s kids and all 73 million kids in 🇺🇸, and retire Lindsey Graham.
Life’s a journey. Do the big thing.
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This is dangerous, immoral, and illegal - the third government he's tried to overthrow in the first three months of this year. We are in a worst case scenario of authoritarianism.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."
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Had trump not violated the Constitution, the Administration would have had to present to Congress and the American people the case for war with Iran. And lots of people would have asked the Administration what is the plan to protect allies, and U.S. bases in allied countries.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked
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@cryptopunk7213 Even if it doesn’t fully replace humans, handling SEO, content, and social media at a fraction of the cost is massive efficiency and savings.
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i think AI just replaced an entire marketing team. $170,000 job now costs $1000
paste your website address and watch a:
SEO agent optimise your discoverability
AI writer handle written content (product descriptions, blogs etc)
reddit / X agents handle social media posts and replies
i can’t imagine this thing automating 100% of marketing but even if it’s just 30% that’s a LOT of money and time owners save
weird fucking times
Okara@askOkara
Today we're introducing the world's first AI CMO. Enter your website and it deploys a team of agents to help you get traffic and users. Try it now at okara.ai/cmo
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@Scaramucci @saylor Exactly! Saylor sees the inflection point where mainstream adoption goes exponential.
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Saylor is right, this is his iPhone moment. $STRC has set the clock on global adoption. When youf faces melt off may your last words be: @saylor was right.
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@saxena_puru Jensen’s $1T forward demand projection is eye-popping, and it highlights the scale of AI infrastructure growth.
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"I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion. In fact, we are going to be short. I am certain computing demand will be much higher than that." - Jensen Huang $NVDA
AI stocks are oversold and due for a multi-month rally.
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@milesdeutscher This is solid advice, Miles! These 8 features transform Claude from a chat tool into a full productivity engine.
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I've been using Claude non-stop for the past year.
I literally cannot live without these features.
Do these 8 things, and you're already ahead of 99% of Claude users:
• Custom Skills - easiest way to automate repetitive workflows (writing, grammar checks, research formatting, etc.)
• Custom Plug-ins - the best way to literally automate entire roles - go to Cowork and set these up asap
• Connectors - if you're not giving Claude access to your tools (Gmail, Calendar, Design tools, etc.) - you're leaving MASSIVE productivity on the table
• Projects - take <10 minutes to organize your Claude
• Stars - take <5 minutes to star the chats you use often (Skill chats)
• Memory - every few weeks, go through your memory settings to reduce hallucinations
• Extended Thinking - most people forget this exists
• Claude in Chrome - most people have no clue this exists - Claude Chrome extension that enables Claude to live in your browser
Everyone should set these features up ASAP.
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@krishnanrohit It’s a stark reminder of how structural quirks in U.S. benefits and healthcare costs affect everyone, even billionaires. Only in the U.S. does this make sense.
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Man gets nearly a billion dollars but still includes 40k for healthcare coverage. Only in the US.
Variety@Variety
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav will receive $887M in payments tied to the WB-Paramount merger: • $34.2M cash severance • $517.2M in unvested equity awards • $335.4M tax reimbursement • $44,195 in continued health coverage benefits variety.com/2026/biz/news/…
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@TheICHpodcast Super classic strategy, buying when fear is high and prices are low can create outsized returns.
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Caleb Hammer reveals that a third of his net worth has come from buying market dips👀
“I’d say about a third of my net worth has been from pumping in during big dips over the past couple of years. There's just been great rebounds”
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This is could be a payroll of $1,000,000,000. Ugly math for the state.
The Seattle Times@seattletimes
Seattle-based Starbucks is reportedly considering leasing enough Tennessee office space for up to 2,000 employees, far more than previously acknowledged. ebx.sh/Ok6J21
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@slow_developer RSI isn’t just about writing code; it’s about the full self-improvement loop: designing models, optimizing architectures, managing data, and orchestrating compute.
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both openai and anthropic seem close to RSI
dario says real limits still exist, such as chip manufacturing -- but RSI is not just coding; it is the full process of AI improving itself
and if end-to-end SWE gets automated next year (as dario predicted), that could cover the coding side of RSI
that is why 2026 is a year to watch
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@MattWalshBlog Yes! McCarthy’s prose is unforgettable because it’s both precise and expansive. Every sentence feels intentional, like a brushstroke, and the themes linger long after you finish the page.
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Reading Blood Meridian. I wonder if there will ever be an author like Cormac McCarthy again, or if we’ve seen the last of the truly great writers. Every sentence he composes is art, like a painting. You see and feel what he’s trying to convey. He wrestles with big things, the human condition, good and evil. He doesn’t give you answers but he leaves you with a lot to think about. An absolute master of his craft. Not the last, I hope, but I don’t know.
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@Noahpinion In reality, both views can coexist: AI is immensely powerful but also messy, uneven, and sometimes overhyped. How useful it feels often depends on what problems you’re actually trying to solve and how well you leverage it.
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Last week two different AI founders came over to my house for tea. One told me he would like AI to be banned, and wishes it had never been invented. The other claimed that AI has plateaued and isn't very useful.
Always interesting to see the diversity of viewpoints out there.
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This 100% resonates with me: "took modafinil just to stay awake longer to be able to turn the momentary crystalline structures I had in my brain into lines of code before sleep or human distraction turned it to grains of sand"
For some of us-this is the most exciting time ever!
Garry Tan@garrytan
This is at once true but also unfathomable to me personally I took modafinil just to stay awake longer to be able to turn the momentary crystalline structures I had in my brain into lines of code before sleep or human distraction turned it to grains of sand I love coding but I love coding with AI even more. I speak it listens and we create. I see the structure and it is built. There is no more powerful an experience to me than that.
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@Clara_Gold The frustration comes from expecting AI to be flawless and independent, when really it’s an accelerant, not a replacement. That “losing it” moment? Totally normal, your brain is just catching up to the speed you’re asking it to manage.
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Remember when multitasking was a women-only superpower? AI just gave it to men too.
At first you feel unstoppable right? Claude’s writing your emails, coding, planning your trip, drafting your deck… you’re running 5 lives at once.
But quickly, something is slightly off, 17 opened tabs, nothing actually fully done, you have to fix everything, and you’re in the chat like “CLAUDE WTF IS THIS?? ARE YOU ACTUALLY STUPID OR WHAT?? I ASKED ONE THINK. ONE. AND YOU CAN’T EVEN GET IT DONE?!!!!”
Well, now you guys understand why we lose it “for no reason”.
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@GavinNewsom Absolutely Gavin! Dyslexia isn’t a flaw, it’s a different way of thinking that can be a superpower.
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To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you.
Dyslexia isn’t a weakness.
It’s your strength.
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@AndrewCurran_ The narrative almost feels inevitable in hindsight, but the speed and scale at which players like xAI and Google moved proves the industry can shift dramatically in just a few years.
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GPT-4 officially launched three years ago. Back then, Anthropic and OpenAI were in the lead. It feels as though an ocean of time has passed since then, yet three years later it's the same story. GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 are both special models, and I think they are both helping drive the current acceleration.
I would not have predicted this leaderboard in 2023. At the time I didn't understand the industry, or the people in it, or the models, or even this story. If you had asked me back then, I would have guessed Microsoft (with their own models after an incredible betrayal arc) and META would be at the top. Once you understand this story though it feels almost inevitable, narratively, that it has to come down to OpenAI and Anthropic fighting it out at the end of time.
The reason I don’t mention Google is that in 2023 I didn’t think they could turn the battleship. I knew they had great people, but the structure seemed way too big. Somehow they did it. Logan was an incredible hire, and to this community he has become the face of Gemini.
I also underestimated xAI. I didn’t think they could go from zero to the frontier in three years. I thought maybe five. Maybe 2028. I assumed Elon would eventually build some gargantuan machine once he became obsessed with winning. But it didn't even take three years, they ended up closing the gap in about twenty six months. Considering the scale at which Elon and Mark Zuckerberg continue to build, they will both be part of any near term takeoff scenario, regardless of who has the best model at the time.
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