Nick Frost

Just opened a new (and my first) restaurant in West Hollywood. An old Hollywood style bar / nightclub that serves SUPER amazing pizzas 🍕 Lmk if you visit and the pizza is on me!

@thepatwalls @HubSpot Congrats!

8 years ago, I started a side project inside of a tiny Starbucks. Today, Starter Story is being acquired by @HubSpot. Here’s how it happened.

Apple's Finder 🤝 Canva's design tools 🤝 Google's Nano Banana beehiiv's all-new media library leave the clutter for your desk, not your creative.

@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

I'm giving away my entire @openclaw architecture. Behind my $250k/month agency. After weeks of building, I've dialled in the exact system that runs my business 24/7. What's included: • Memory folder structure (how to organize agent context) • Cron job templates (daily briefs, meeting syncs, content automation) • How to build a custom dashboard in @lovable • API reference doc (so your agent never forgets its tools) • Voice training method (85 posts to teach it your style) • Supabase schema for dashboard connection Comment "OS" and follow. I'll DM it to you. P.S. This will probably blow up so give me some time to reply.

@skeptrune Hiring for any marketing roles?

we're hiring, come work with me!

@kamil_sattar Banana

Google’s new Nano Banana Pro turns a single product photo into $1,000-level image ads in under 3 minutes. No designers. No revisions. No $3k–$5k retainers. I paired it with one custom GPT and now my ads look like the biggest DTC brands for £0. Should I drop the exact prompt + model link before they force Google to shut it down?” Google Nano Banana Pro +my custom GPT prompt = better ads than 99% of agencies, in 2 minutes 47 seconds. reply “BANANA” if you want the prompt before I get sued 😂🍌”

.@kirstenagreen, founder of Forerunner and investor behind Oura Ring, Hims, and Dollar Shave Club says the biggest risk in consumer is the “say/do gap.” People say one thing, but what they do tells a different story. The ability to spot these latent behaviors - the ones that feel “weird” today but inevitable tomorrow - is what @ForerunnerVC calls CQ (Consumer Quotient). In this episode of The Library of Minds, we cover: • Why early data misleads founders building consumer products • How intuition detects behavior before metrics do • Why “discomfort” is the earliest sign of a real insight • How to read emotional signals consumers can’t articulate • The danger of relying on “experienced patterns” in fast-moving markets Kirsten breaks down how she built a $3B consumer fund by treating intuition as a skill to train - not a feeling to trust blindly. For anyone navigating consumer behavior, this conversation is a reminder that the earliest truths aren’t found in the data - they’re sensed in the moment.

we know the good founder coffee spots in SF… so we you made a custom google maps list 📍 and if you're a mercury cardmember, coffee at any of these spots is on us next week → partiful.com/e/aMaDh4Qkm223…

Today, we're announcing @episteme, a new type of R&D company that recruits exceptional scientists to pursue high-impact ideas. Science isn’t bottlenecked by the availability of talent, but by places where they can do their best work. Scientific progress has driven human flourishing: extending lifespans, lifting billions from poverty, and expanding our understanding of the universe. But history is littered with transformational ideas that were overlooked in their time. That problem is still acute today: too much promising talent remains uncultivated, and remarkable ideas die in the lab or are filtered out by misaligned incentives. Today, scientists face suboptimal paths for translating their research into impact: academia is famously risk-averse and incentivizes publications and winning grants vs. translational research. Industry is too often focused on short‑term incentives. And startups lack the substantial capital, expertise, and complex infrastructure needed to deliver long-term scientific progress. On top of that, recent funding cuts in the US mean the overall supply of ideas is decreasing. Put together, the global scientific production system is operating at a fraction of its capacity. How Episteme operates is different: we identify great scientists who can meaningfully benefit humanity, but who aren’t supported efficiently within traditional institutions today. Researcher by researcher, we work with them to determine the bespoke resources, operational support, and environmental conditions to execute on their research. We bring them together in-house, and provide those resources to ensure that their breakthroughs are deployed for real-world impact. We’ve already assembled an amazing team of operators, ranging from the Gates Foundation, DeepMind, ARPAs, DoE – just to name a few – and researchers who are pursuing important problems across physics, biology, computing, and energy. Our team has spoken to hundreds of researchers across disciplines and geographies to understand the limitations they’re facing and what can be done better, and designed Episteme for them. We’re backed by individuals like @sama, Masayoshi Son, and other long-term partners who share our mission of enabling ambitious science for tangible human impact. About me: I started working as a researcher 9 years ago, on problems ranging from AI-driven drug discovery to developing brain-machine interfaces. It was that experience that led me to realize that so many scientists with great potential to change the world don’t have access to opportunities equal to their capacities. @sama and I believe that much better science should happen for humanity, and that a new engine is needed to support that. We decided to cofound Episteme together, and I am incredibly grateful for Sam’s unwavering support as a thought partner and founding investor. Our conviction is that by supporting the right people with the right incentives, we're set to generate breakthrough discoveries to benefit humanity. We cannot rely on the course of history to shape scientific progress; we need to proactively shape the system by supporting the most talented people with the right resources and incentives.

@justingordon212 You should!

I want to expand the media side of The LA Grind soon I try to pay attention to how I feel about each part of the business, what I'm drawn to, where there feels like there's an opportunity... And it feels like there is a lot of room to expand on the media side: New editions, new sections, new cities, new ways to partner with companies to give them exposure, new ways to highlight founders, investors, and operators in each city I've done a lot on the events side, and that part is rolling Still a lot to do there... But it kinda feels like next up is to expand on the media side Stay tuned.

@danielcberk @beehiiv Hiring?

I joined @beehiiv in November of 2022, which might as well be 20 years ago. I can recall thousands of conversations where I had to explain what beehiiv was. We weren't even doing $1M in revenue yet, had less than 10 employees, and were working endless hours to out ship and out grit everyone else in the space. There were times (many times) that I would work 15 hours, put the kids to bed, say goodnight to my wife, pour a glass of bourbon (before I stopped drinking) and hit up Zendesk until 3 or 4am to answer support tickets from customers. I remember taking a demo call on Thanksgiving because the company was international (they're now an enterprise customer). I remember cold emailing important political figures and influencers on Super Bowl Sunday because I knew they would be looking at their phones. I remember doing 4 months of diligence with a $125 billion dollar company (yes billion) only to be turned down because we didn't have enough employees (yet). I remember waking up to at 4:30am call to fix someone's website because they'd be driving traffic 3 hours later from the Kelly Clarkson show and the site wasn't loading. The early days of beehiiv are something I remember and won't forget. They were special and are the lifeblood of what we've become and are evolving into. Now I routinely speak to billion dollars companies who ask ME for advice about how to turn their email program into a profit center. I have texted powerful political figures, famous billionaires, and C-suite individuals of the largest media companies on the planet. I get messaged dozens of times a week asking for referrals to work here. When we have a job opening, thousands of people apply (actually thousands, multiple). Daniel in 2022 wouldn't have been able to understand what Daniel in 2025 is witnessing first hand. And we're just getting started. The best is yet to come, and we haven't even scratched the surface. Strap in.

@heydrkyra Great list! Would love to see a breakdown of how you use them. What’s your newsletter link?

Newsletter tech stack: Beehiiv Manychat Canva Edits Templify Kardow (job board) Lovable Claude Make Quo Jotform iPhone shortcuts (one-touch captions👌🏼) Buffer Any gold I’m missing??

@carlvellotti CC

Every PM should be using Claude Code. So I built a HUGE course for you to learn Claude Code... IN Claude Code! 🔹 Complete guide 🔹 Make PRDs, analyze data, create decks Soon, I'll sell it for $149. For the next 24h: FREE! Follow + RT + comment "CC" & I'll DM it.

@shl 🙋‍♂️

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Hack. Because you can. Here’s the first t-shirt we created at @AngelHack in 2012 to help inspire those early creators to do their best. This shirt still motivates me today.

just 3.5 years after launch, thrilled to share that @beehiiv just surpassed $20M ARR 🥳 that doesn't include revenue from the Ad Network or Boosts (additional ~$10M) our biggest bets are still ahead of us. locked in and ready to keep building 🫡

@HoodyAndShorts What AI tool(s) are you using for your local newsletter?

Might’ve just effed around and made an ai agent… for my city? Total accident but this thing rips. What do I do now?

@VE3MGB @HoodyAndShorts What AI are you using for your local newsletter?

@HoodyAndShorts Hey Shane. What services are you providing them? I'm using AI for my local newsletter, and notice that people like the stuff I create. I created some content for businesses. Wonder how to launch as a separate biz.

Started a local AI agency last month. Did 1 job for free. Got my first paying customer today. Super simple stuff, but people don’t care to learn it. Go do a job for a friend for free. Start making connections. Become the local AI guy/gal.

You can now schedule your processes in NextStep📆 🔁 Set up processes to start automatically either one-off or on a recurring cadence (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) Perfect for regular check-ins, weekly reviews, or even those dreaded monthly board reports. Set it once. Forget it. Stay on track. ✅

@nicochristie @Fundamental Looks awesome! Can I get a code?

Comment for an invite code and I will send you one ASAP! We will need to scale this gradually as Shortcut is pretty token-hungry. Tryshortcut.ai A huge thanks to our special projects team of researchers and engineers at @Fundamental

Codes are limited at tryshortcut.ai Beyond doing your work, it also has near perfect feature parity on Excel. Directly edit, import, and export files. That means there is no reason to go back to Excel. It's like going back to VScode after Cursor.