Linda Tong

the same feels true for ai coding. post cursor/claude code, i've been coding more, not less.

@jackmcclelland @GammaApp @AforeVC 🎉

excited to partner with @GammaApp on our $10m ideas-to-reality fund @AforeVC backed gamma a few years ago (pre-product), now they're a $2b company with 70m users and $100m+ in run rate this fund will back ~10 pre-seed founders who want close relationships with gamma, more below

@emilkowalski emil.md is the best $50 i've spent this year so far period

@C51Alix @xai real

@xai api been 503ing for 2 days. stop goofing off with the merger and fix ur service. thanks

@pusongqi @speedrun let’s go steven!

How I @speedrun from “founding” → “acquired” in 8 days. Built an app in a week. Sold it 8 days after launch. Here’s what happened: 1. Tried building an AI mascot to sell products on TikTok Shop 2. Reached out to tons of brands on IG 3. Realized IG DM’ing is pain… but it converts 4. Hacked a tool to mass DM on Instagram 5. Tool became its own app 6. Launched → got users → got paying users 7. 8 days later: inbound acquisition. Negotiated. Sold. Resetting. Doing it again. What should I speedrun next? P.S. Throwback to when I tried to speedrun Halo Reach on Legendary. What do you think @levelsio

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lele’s website is so good that my banana bread caught on fire while i was talking with her ai (a true story)

me when he goes on and on about company naming: (delaware) c u later

@gucaslelfond my fav creatives

@lktong_ woo!

great success

@gucaslelfond also such a small world can’t believe u and @emilyzsh now see each other all the time

sora app reminds me so much of can of soup @killahtcell…onboarding flow with the face scan, social features like remix/cameo feel identical

feel like there needs to be a third space / publication that’s not the free press

jasmine’s substack feels like the new yorker of silicon valley lol

@pusongqi miss youtube from that time: ted.com/talks/kevin_al…

how did 2012 become the most magical year of the last decade? temple run, smosh, lebron at the heat, google glass, xbox360, ios6, call me maybe, the first avengers movie... what's your fav song/movie/app/news from 2012?

@jackmcclelland probably focus on what is already on your plate really well instead of looking too far ahead

useful framework for personal clarity / self-improvement: "if your life were a movie, what would the audience be yelling at the screen for you to do?"

the promise of every venture backed startup — lose money until you get customers hooked and make it back

thinking about hanafuda (story of nintendo), pachinko (masa) — there’s something very entrepreneurial about these businesses that emerged from legal grey areas, because the people who worked on them did it to survive at any cost