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cats outta the bag! we're (just) a fund now Launch House --> Launch House Ventures

I've went through a terrible PR crisis exactly like this when negative press about you or your company goes viral and whether its accurate or not doesn't seem to matter to anyone. we were on front page news. trending on X. my heroes in the industry were slamming me left and right. everything was melting down. over a piece written by an activist reporter that flat out lied or stretched the truth. we sent evidence refuting their points directly to the editor in chief but they rushed the piece out so they could keep the story but avoid liability. looking back, it all made sense. when your company gets successful enough, you have a target on your back. particularly when that success feels unearned and/or you represent something the average journalist stands against. a female journalist friend told me this: "people have stereotypes about everyone. you as a straight white man are perceived as entitled and misogynist. so when an activist reporter can craft a story that validates this stereotype, they will and people will want to believe it" (note this was when BLM and Me Too was at its height) I don't know if Phoebe is in the right or wrong here. but I do know that being the daughter of Bill Gates, a billionaire wrapped up in the Epstein controversy, put a massive target on her back from the beginning. I try to ignore pieces like this unless they affect me directly. in which case, I research the publication and author's history of journalistic integrity alongside the facts themselves. many founders definitely do very unethical things, but it's dangerous to assume everything you read online is fact. do your homework before joining the conversation.

excited to announce Agentic Shitpoasting the first and only AI plugin for you to shitpoast like a pro 17 skills & agents now in Micro, Claude Code, Codex & OpenClaw (link below)

4 years ago, crohns disease almost took my life. 4 months in the hospital. 7 stomach surgeries. a $2m bill. it was reactive care that treated symptoms vs. the root cause but here’s the craziest part: i'm now convinced that the same gut breakdown that nearly killed me is quietly happening to most modern humans. sharing everything I've learned:

IT'S TIME – announcing our most important launch yet. Superpower is now only $199. Almost every American spends a few hundred $ per year on things like: – Netflix – Spotify – Amazon Prime – Dating or meditation apps – Annual credit card fees Today, that's true for the most important thing of all. Your health.

BREAKING: Superpower is now available for only $199 almost every American spends a few hundred $ per year on things like: – Netflix – Spotify – Amazon Prime – Dating or meditation apps – Annual credit card fees and never thinks twice. but there has never been an accessibly priced, canonical consumer membership for the most important thing of all: YOUR HEALTH. it’s our goal to build the most valuable, lowest price health membership in America. and now it’s never been simpler to get started: – full body health testing (100+ labs annually) – one home for all of your health records, unified in one place – a personal health LLM to chat with and make sense of it all – plus a human medical team + marketplace for anything you need, like prescriptions, supplements, tests, or health answers – all at 20% cheaper than elsewhere all for only $199. it pays for itself. it’s taking control of your health. “But Jacob — I have a bit more budget to spend on my health, this feels too cheap” feedback we get often. however it’s our belief the greatest consumer companies are built with low floors ⬇️ and high ceilings ⬆️; accessible enough to welcome anyone in, yet expansive enough to grow with those who want to invest more deeply. (eg. almost every American has an Amazon account, half of which pay ~$200/yr for prime, and 30% of which account for 70% of sales. our top superpower member has already spent over $30k on their health within the ecosystem) this moment has been a long time coming and couldn’t be more thrilled to unveil it to the world alongside such an incredible team. ps – we’ve also just launched the mobile app, DM if you’d like the test flight!

Goodbye, shadcn. Hello, Micro UI. Our summer release is our biggest UI overhaul to date. We've replaced our entire front-end component library with a custom, in-house solution. It's part of growing up as a startup. Here's why we made the switch 🧵

excited to announce the micro relationship engine it pulls in all your connections and lets you message them on any platform & automatically updates their profiles and CRM records but don't call it a personal CRM:

today marks an exciting milestone for @superpower 12 months ago we publicly announced the company and a waiting list. over 100,000 people signed up, and we’ve been onboarding them as fast as we can and now we’re opening up capacity and removing the waitlist. so that everyone can join to get access to 100s of lab tests annually that are otherwise really challenging, expensive and cumbersome to obtain on your own. it’s data that makes a difference. a comprehensive view of your health – across nutrients, hormones, toxins, and gut health – and a plan for how to improve it. with simple suggestions on how you can meaningfully change the trajectory of your long term health. this knowledge has personally transformed my life and I've now made it my mission to deliver this information to a broader audience and for those who have been following along, I wanted to share a personal friends/family code to make it more accessible and save $100 (link below) -- can’t wait to show you all what we’ve built – many of us have no idea how good we can feel, until we peek under the hood and make a few simple changes 💫 and I'm so proud to be working with such an incredible team that shows up every single day for this mission @maxmarchione @KevinUnkrich @amadareyes_ @hannah_ahn @manoj_arachige @albetremblay @audricciel

4 years ago, @J__Cub was fighting for his life in a hospital bed Today, he’s raised $30m for @superpower to help humans live longer. This is a day in his life👇

we're hiring founding engineers at Micro us: - top 1% eng team - doubling revenue monthly - thousands on our waitlist - backed by a16z and other top investors you: - better than everyone you know at coding - elite taste in eng and design - want to work on something really hard - productivity, data, AI obsessed DMs open (yellow line = top 10% of eng teams)

Better health is better business. Today we’re launching the Founder Health Coalition — a movement for founders, investors, and startup leaders who believe that peak performance starts with peak health 👇

announcing @superpower's $30m Series A to build the world's first AI doctor and health super app led by @ForerunnerVC 🧵

what if your tools knew things? here's a look at micro's global/personal knowledge graph (powered perplexity and more):

excited to announce Micro the first product since gmail launched 21 years ago today that transforms email into what it should be an all-in-one tool that organizes itself

coming very very soon

inbox 0 is an unattainable goal for 99% of people so we started a company reimagining email from the ground up transforming it into an all-in-one platform that keeps you organized, so you don't have to be it's called @microHQ 👇

nothing else matters if you don't have your health. that’s why we started @superpower.com and today we’re announcing the launch of our beta membership. we’ve made it easy to test your whole body (100s of labs, microbiome, toxins, & more) view all of your healthcare data in one place for the very first time and access a full time concierge clinician team, starting at only $499. (it's all the things you wish mainstream medicine did but is not able to do) our waitlist has exploded to 100k+, and we’re building as fast as we can to meet demand. onboarding new members starting today – DM me if you'd like early access or join the line on our website. welcome to a new era of personal health 🧡

We have #TechWeek, Restaurant Week, Climate Week, and now there is …. #DateWeek!! 🕊️ Super excited to collaborate with local businesses in LA and SF to put on a variety of events for singles!! Fitness classes (Barry’s, Soulcycle, DMN8), sunset hangouts (The Penmar, Waterfront, Hotel Erwin), cooking classes…. and a lot more #DateWeek LA: Oct 4th - 11th, calendar is live! #DateWeek SF: Nov 1st - 8th, coming soon - subscribe for updates on the site! events are at date-week dot com if you’re single - hope to see you there or send it to someone who should attend🙏