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lucy chen

@lucychen_

applied ai phd dropout @stanford. I lead eng at Claude Code @anthropic. my thoughts are my own

san francisco Katılım Eylül 2025
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Pavan Kumar
Pavan Kumar@PavanKumarNY·
Random thought: Car design is getting commoditized through AI. What's stopping people from building the next Ferrari, Lamborghini, or Porsche at 1/10 of the cost? Same quality. Same taste. Better price.
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NRM84
NRM84@Mappy6984·
The dad has to feel like a failure
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Bikutā
Bikutā@Bikutawins·
Avi Patel explains why he publicly called out the startup Luel ai that copied Kled... Avi starts by making it clear he is not against competition and even says he is friends with competitors in the data space. But he says this situation was “absolutely unacceptable” and needed to be called out. He explains that he saw a post from Yuri at @generalcatalyst , after having multiple meetings with GC himself, then clicked through to the company’s website and noticed what he describes as a “very glaring resemblance” to @useKled website. Jason then tightens the clip by saying the site looked “photocopied” to an absurd level, and Avi says they had not publicly addressed the allegation.
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Rasmr called Avi live to ask how a competitor raised $31,000,000, Avi explained that "Silicon Valley is broken"... the competitor raised $31 million at a $300 million valuation on the exact same terms he had asked from General Catalyst, meaning they could have written the same check to him instead. Avi argued the raise was driven by "hardcore nepotism" and VCs preferring a moldable, "buttoned-up" founder over someone like him who "does what he wants" and can't be controlled. Despite the call going viral and bringing massive inbound interest, Avi refused to capitalize on the drama, saying he'd rather build real revenue and "mock these guys on the business front" than raise money off manufactured attention.

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lucy chen@lucychen_·
@emkwan jong ive must really fucking hate ferrari
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EMKWAN
EMKWAN@emkwan·
For the last 3 weeks I’ve had to keep this quiet… but I’ve genuinely been honoured to be one of the first people in the world invited to Rome to see the new Ferrari Luce. 🇮🇹⚡️🐎 Love it or hate it… this is a HUGE moment in Ferrari history and being part of the global launch honestly feels surreal. Grateful for every single one of you supporting this journey
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Ben Cera
Ben Cera@Bencera·
$10M run rate. $100k -> $10M in ~3 months. 1 Founder + AI. Zero employees. "Polsia spelled backwards is AI slop". Correct. Here's the thing: that's the entire point of this project. Polsia aims at producing the inverse of slop. Slop is what happens when AI ships without taste, without direction, without a human touch. Polsia enables thousands of every day people that never thought they could start a company to become founders. They have taste. They guide Polsia everyday to build their dream company. 15+ messages/day/DAU. 8,698 companies live. +41% WoW. The future is agentic. There's no turning back. Everyone is a founder. A billion people will access this new AI economy.
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Pierre-Eliott Lallemant
Pierre-Eliott Lallemant@pierreeliottlal·
We used cold email + LinkedIn outreach to kickstart Gojiberry to $2.5M/year. It costs almost $0, yet most founders won’t even try... How you can do it too: 1. Find high-intent leads. Not random Sales Nav lists. Find people who: - commented on a post about your problem - engaged with a competitor - liked posts with specific keywords - match your ICP and are active on LinkedIn 2. Collect the context. Name. Company. Role. What they engaged with. What problem they seem to care about. This is what makes the email feel personal. 3. Build the blueprint before you send anything. A blueprint is not a pitch deck. It’s a simple doc that shows: - the problem - the exact workflow to solve it - screenshots/videos of how it works - the result you got - how the reader can copy it - where your product makes it easier For Gojiberry, the blueprint is: “how to find high-intent LinkedIn leads, enrich them, and contact them before competitors do.” 4. Send the blueprint, not the demo ask. Bad cold email: “Want to book 15 minutes?” Better: “Saw you commented on my LinkedIn post about getting warmer leads. I can send you the exact setup we used to book 100+ meetings from high-intent leads. Just reply YES and I’ll send it over.” 5. Let the blueprint sell. Inside the doc, show the manual way first. Then show the shortcut: - here’s how to find the signal - here’s how to qualify the lead - here’s how to enrich the email - here’s how to write the message - here’s how Gojiberry does it faster Now the product is not a pitch. It’s the obvious next step. 6. Add the CTA at the bottom. After they understand the workflow: “Start a trial” or “Book a demo if you want this set up for your market” That changes everything. You’re not dragging people into a call. They read the blueprint, understand the value, and decide they want help. It’s boring. But ever since I started sending the blueprint first, I stopped asking for demos in cold email. Ps : We also used reddit, youtube, B2B influencers... the more marketing channels, the better.
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:
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lucy chen
lucy chen@lucychen_·
@mike_matas what a fucking piece of shit exterior design. shame on you
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Mike Matas
Mike Matas@mike_matas·
Introducing Ferrari Luce, the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom.
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Aaron Epstein
Aaron Epstein@aaron_epstein·
Every generation has a company that seems inevitable. Microsoft in the 90s. Google in the 2000s. Facebook in the 2010s. Anthropic/OpenAI now. It always feels like it's different this time. It never is. Startups always find a way.
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lucy chen@lucychen_·
Garry Tran trying to ship A “to-do” list app
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Aman
Aman@Amank1412·
your founder friend asks for $20k to pivot a failing startup. do you lend it?
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lucy chen
lucy chen@lucychen_·
@brookejlacey everyone here knows that the company is a scam made as a joke right???? Polsia = AI Slop written backwards No, and i mean no one my brother actually uses it past 1 month cause the product is garbage. It is a masterful bait from the guy running it
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Brooke Lacey
Brooke Lacey@brookejlacey·
A $30M Series A. The About page autoplays the actual instrumental of Daft Punk's "Giorgio by Moroder" with Moroder's vocals AI-stripped from the track. Not a reimagining. Not "inspired by." The real song, vocals removed looping on the page in the background while you read. The words on that page mirror Moroder's opening monologue beat by beat. like letter-precise transposition. he cast himself in the Moroder role- He scored his own founder bio to a copyrighted Sony track he ran through stem separation which is, incidentally, the same category of tool his platform sits in. I spent a weekend trying to decide whether to read this as elaborate performance art or as the most expensive sony copyright violation in startup history. Either way, it's the about page of a $30M company. The announcement video pinned to the round contains literally zero product. No dashboard. No demo. No metric. No customer. Just diatom thumbnails and pixel art "lonely AI" and stock footage of children silhouetted on beaches at sunset. The ARR claim has 14x'd in 90 days. 🤡 $709K on Mixergy → $3M on the True Ventures blog → "approaching $10M" in the announcement. 2.7-star Trustpilot. The math doesn't math. And then the founder, on his own announcement post on X, in reply to someone asking what the $30M is actually for: "mostly AI compute and marketing tbh. And also hire the best marketing agencies to help to the next marketing stunts." The next. Marketing. Stunts. He said it in writing. With "next" doing the work of admitting that the previous ones were stunts too. The mask isn't slipping down his face he took it off and is holding it. I don't actually care if my brother in Christ here gets called out. I care that this is now the precedent. If a $30M round closes on this in 2026, the next ten companies of this shape are much easier to fund. Which means every founder who is actually shipping something real, who is grinding through compliance, who is in their inbox at 3am answering customer emails (unlike my guy here), just got handed a version of the AI startup category that they have to compete with for capital and attention and air. The receipts of "aisloP" BS have been sitting on the marketing surface the entire time. Nobody hid anything. So what do we do when the dishonest version is louder than the honest one?
Ben Cera@Bencera

Will I be the first one-person billion-dollar company? I don't care. My goal is to be the first one-person company to help a billion people get into the new AI economy. That's Polsia. Fun talking through it with the extremely talented @willsclips_ on his behind-the-scenes documentary.

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lucy chen
lucy chen@lucychen_·
I don’t get why apple charges $99 just to prove you’re a developer
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Marlin, Esq
Marlin, Esq@nostalgiafkninc·
So far I, personally, have called ICE on 72 individuals and 53 of them along with their families have been deported.
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lucy chen@lucychen_·
This mf needs to be studied
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lucy chen@lucychen_·
This is terrifying. Can’t believe this is how it really is.
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lucy chen
lucy chen@lucychen_·
You could literally study Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay, dm the girl who went to Cathedral whose father is an MD at Reliance, and take her to the sea lounge at the Taj Mahal Palace for your first date, get married at Raffles - but you will not.
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Sehran Hasanli
Sehran Hasanli@sehranhasanli·
Life update: I was part of the May 20 meta layoffs. I was a SWE on multimodal AI working w image/video ads. Oh well. Looking for what's next! 0-to-1 AI work, agents, LLM apps, multimodal systems in prod. have done both SWE and eng mgmt for ~10 years. If I sound like someone you need, DMs open
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lucy chen
lucy chen@lucychen_·
>Yale or Princeton first, because brand matters and pretending otherwise is cope. >Then Goldman IB or ECM. >Then HBS or Stanford GSB, where the real degree is the network. >Then a sharp boutique. >Then buy this penthouse. BUT YOU WON’T DO IT
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