Michael Cutajar, CPA

In 2023 I decided to take on software development, it was a stark change from my career as an accountant and then eventually in sales, but it was very rewarding and I'm more than happy I did it. I started out by getting a teacher from Preply, and then by building my own projects. That was a great move in hindsight and its paying dividends now.

I've been speaking to some lovely accountants who are in love with the mission at Open Accountants and they've requested to verify skills related to GAAP and IFRS, which is something I am on board for. So from next week we'll not only have tax skills on the site but also GAAP and IFRS related skills verified by experts in the field. Thank you to the accountants that are so mission driven to make this happen. If your an accountant and would like to contribute hit me up, the opportunity for you (besides ensuring that LLMs get the info it spits out right) is that you get free AI based SEO. We're seeing instances where an LLM refers the accountant who verified the skills in question for follow ups and further advice. I hope we can all collectively take the industry into the age of AI safely, it requires a group effort.

@fardeentwt yes fair, its false though. I would know as I'm from Malta and everyone tends to know everything. He had a partner in Valar ventures who has a foothold in Malta but Peter never officially got the passport. Plus now its gna be hard cause the Eu is stopping it for Malta.

@michaelcutajar he applied in 2022 and there is no information regarding whether he got it or not but do you think they will reject his application?

> be Peter Thiel > spend 20 years funding politicians who said America first > help put Trump in the white house twice > his company Palantir makes $687 million in government contracts in a single quarter > sign a $20 billion army deal through Anduril > California proposes a 5% tax on billionaires > quietly packed bags and said he is leaving because of the direction of the US, and the risk of nuclear war > already have new zealand citizenship since 2011 > already have a Maltese passport for EU access > now moving to Argentina to hang out with Milei > buying land in Uruguay, possibly building a bunker > previously tried to build a sovereign city in the ocean with its own laws > previously tried to build a sovereign city in Honduras, sued for $10 billion when they shut it down > America was always just the most convenient option

@parkerjlathrop I got diagnosed with this too :/ must be the over 30 years old effect

Runs a 10k and it becomes my whole personality…

@f4micom they're targetting the pizza duh

are they targeting the EU talent pool or what

so claude opus 4.8 is out.. any initial feedback from the soldiers on the frontline in the AI world? (it was just released 5 hours ago)

@johnennis great ill buy ur shares in Series AZ

@michaelcutajar I’m hoping to buy some secondaries off Series AA

This is getting ridiculous This company should’ve IPO’d long ago If they are serious about public buy-in for AI, they should have done their best to make sure that retail was invested instead of just providing exit liquidity for VCs

@ClementDelangue @Jason Cometh the hour, cometh the man

@Jason nowhere unfortunately at the moment

Where is the open source frontier model company in the USA?

@GadSaad "The old man was dreaming about the lions" One line which I will remember till I die.

Oh my God!

yep. pretty impressive, can imagine a world where most CPAs are building lightweight ledgers on cowork for their clients.. benefits are that the data remains local stored in the browser (thats also its current limitation since it maxes out at like 10mb which means a couple of thousand of line items not more)

@johnmarkwendler @mattyp @jasononfirms For sure. Also, as @michaelcutajar kindly showed me this morning, if you create a live artifact in Claude Cowork and ask it to make a GL with double entry accounting and postings...it'll blow your mind in just a few minutes.

There’s this thing called “plain text accounting” where you basically keep a ledger of your accounts in text files Tedious for a human, perfect for an agent I can’t help but think this is an absolute home run for tracking - specifically with something like a hermes agent (assuming proper security) I could imagine an agent that keeps a ledger of all my accounts, matches them to receipts in my inbox, then does my taxes and financial reporting I think we have the tools

@KevinSzabo14 no shit sherlock

I'm going to say it: Entrepreneurship is harder than a 9-5 Change my mind.

@TaxHacker @RDriscollCPA can help you out.. shes advised loads of firms on this particular problem.

Arrgh! I’m so angry right now. I have client that I need to just fire. My question for you, #TaxTwitter: when I fire them, do I tell them the reason all of their employees just stop showing up to work is because their emails reek of hostility, condescension and entitlement?

@DarioAmodei just built my own GL for testing on Live Artifacts in Cowork. Not too bad, but way far off from what it should be. Claude should have inbuilt double entry features without needing to build one own GL ledger from scratch... the opportunity is massive.

@aaron_epstein Pity not many people see it like this.

I'd bet on startup founders over middle managers at some 1,000+ person company any day.

@Don1Corleoni finally i can say it properly

This is how it sounds.

@dvassallo can someone show Dana White Maradona's goal against England (not the hand of god)

@allred_chase jesus christ mimetic desire is just so huge in this space

bro thinks he's steve jobs

@deedydas haha funny point and you might be right, we've built openaccountants.com

I'm convinced that adding "Open-" to your company name instantly 10x's your odds of success. OpenAI OpenEvidence OpenTable OpenRouter OpenCode OpenDoor OpenGov OpenWeb OpenText OpenView OpenSea OpenStore OpenFX OpenSpace OpenArt OpenHands OpenPipe OpenNote

@tunguz Fully agreed and Im from the EU.

I am increasingly skeptical of all these measures of wellbeing. They all seem to cater to purely individualistic and materialistic categories. The older I get the more I value interpersonal, social, and communal aspects of wellbeing, especially once your *basic* material and safety needs are satisfied. I am sure many of the examples below are rich in some of those dimensions as well, but I know for a fact that some of the top ones are woefully inadequate there.