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Neil Witten

@nwitten

Entrepreneur, Business Advisor, Podcaster @lifedonediff, Co-Founded @StoryStreamAI now building https://t.co/61uQZyYifN & https://t.co/wIogojBjyT You only get 1 go, live consciously 🏂

Brighton Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Oli@CARN0N·
An Australian breakfast radio show spent their morning show today seeing how far they could drive their Tesla past 0%. Probably the most entertaining piece of Tesla content I’ve ever watched 😂
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Neil Witten@nwitten·
@levelsio are you going back to this instead of openclaw? like this = vanilla php (simples), and openclaw = react (less simples)?
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@levelsio@levelsio·
Ok now we have 7 :D I think I lose focus after 4 panes though and it takes too much time to context switch for me
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Finally trying 4x Claude Code's on server in one @TermiusHQ, really nice and you don't have to fiddle with shortcuts, just drag your existing terminal tabs into this and arrange it Nicer to work for me cause I can work on one feature while waiting for the others to finish
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Neil Witten@nwitten·
@levelsio CEOs who lift weights < founder + engineer CEOs + who lift weights That's the magic.
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@levelsio@levelsio·
So I bought over $1M in Google today Kinda crazy but also not so crazy I've been the biggest Google hater for years, it was completely mismanaged, destroyed by politics and lack of any leadership, fumbled inventing Transformers etc. Then Sergey returned and suddenly Google is dominating not just in the AI benchmarks and leaderboards but in real usage AI benchmarks can and are easily rigged But me running an AI startup and always wanting to use the best models makes me conclude something basic now: it's really just Google and Elon Musk and the Chinese in the end who will probably win The models I use are all by either Google, xAI, or the Chinese (ByteDance, Kling, Minimax) As you know Google now has its own chips (TPUs), Google has the biggest data set in video (YouTube), images (Google images) and generally the web (for LLMs), still the one of the biggest general user bases (Google Search etc), and they finally have a real engineer being the de facto CEO now (Sergey Brin) Elon Musk with xAI you can't bet against cause he simply has the sheer willpower to get things done The Chinese are similar, sheer willpower and they don't sleep and they really want to win, and companies like ByteDance (TikTok) have massive data sets in video too of course In my opinion everyone is still staring too much at LLMs, I've always been more interested in image models, video models and now the nascent 3d and world models, that's where it's going and where we'll be able to prompt entire worlds or apps or whatever, it's hard to imagine WHAT exactly With my app Photo AI I try be a little part of that journey there of course Now I can't invest in xAI, I'm a bit invested in the Chinese via the ICHN ETF, but of course Google anyone can invest in and so I think I should I've reduced my Nvidia investments already months ago, as it was inevitable there'd be real competitors to their chips at some point, with Google's TPUs there are now I'm not an expert, and you should mostly just buy ETFs, and you shouldn't listen to me and this is not financial advice
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@levelsio@levelsio

This is Sergey Brin's yacht He got so bored of sitting on this $450M yacht that he had to get out and go create things again The only true long-term satisfaction for man is to create, either things, or babies

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Laura Roeder@lkr·
I was listening to @thesamparr talk about a classic entrepreneur struggle: how many hours to work. He said "I say work for my kids, but I know all they really want is time with me" Sam, I have your answer! There's a simple system that solves this problem. ⬇︎
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Neil Witten@nwitten·
@levelsio Just got a new mac and stickered it. first one i've ever stickered, which either means it's gone full circle and it's cool again.... or i'm just old and out of touch (i vote cool)
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@levelsio@levelsio·
When I see laptops full of stickers nowadays it looks kinda cringe to me It was normal though 10 years ago I wonder what exactly changed in culture to make it cringe?
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Dylan G.@gezfilms·
Soon, AI will give us editors the chance to be more than just editors. Made with Nano Banana and Veo 3.1 at @freepik
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Aman DevX@amandevx·
Sora 2 is INSANE! like and comment "SORA" for code invite 🥰
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Neil Witten@nwitten·
@marclou are you gonna start tracking investment returns alongside other projects like levels vc (cc @levelsio)? difficult to know how to treat it / think about it / track it.
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Marc Lou@marclou·
I also made $24K from my boring investment. (not directly startup revenue, but reinvesting profits into SP500)
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Marc Lou@marclou·
I made $41,383 in September 2025. 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $15.4K ⚡️ ShipFast — $14.1K 📈 DataFast — $8.5K 🐥 Twitter — $1.3K 🍜 Indie Page — $785 🧬 BioAge — $490 💨 Zenvoice — $236 🎞️ YouTube — $132 🚀 LaunchViral — $129 🌱 HabitsGarden — $118 🛡️ ByeDispute — $117 📚 WorkbookPDF — $57 💩 PoopUp — $19 HOLD ON POOPUP, HOLD ON!
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David@davidfigeira·
$82K last month Agencies can’t keep up Nano Banana + MakeUGC + Veo3 + Higgsfield = the new AI video stack Flawless avatars Zero bugs 200+ ads daily for cents Our team is scaling toward $870K/month RT + comment “AI” and I’ll DM you the workflow. (must follow for dm)
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Neil Witten@nwitten·
@gregisenberg Totally agree @gregisenberg. Greta idea. I basically teach founders of all sorts of businesses these concepts. Seth Godin has the altmba which is in this direction. But don’t know of anything that’s as focused as what you described.
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GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg·
my dream is to build this so i’m putting it out there. what does an "alt business school" look like? business school is broken. case studies from the 90s, professors who’ve never shipped, debt that takes a decade to crawl out of. it doesn’t answer the real question: how do you learn to actually build and sell something in 2026? YC is incredible, but it trains you to raise venture, hire fast, and swing for unicorns. and there's only 500 companies per year. what about the other path? the indie one. the profitable one. the path where you can own a few cash-flowing apps, live comfortably, and keep your freedom. the path of jason fried, pieter levels etc what would that program look like? courses like: 1/ vibe coding: how to spin up an mvp with bolt, lovable, claude code etc. 2/distribution engineering: how to make a single tweet or tiktok drive 10k signups. content pipelines, repurposing systems, and paid amplification. 3/ short form 101: how to write scripts (hook, problem, solution, cta), film and edit that . light, sound, editing shortcuts. 4/ ai as leverage: using llms for market research, lead gen, onboarding flows, and customer support. how to run a “20-person company” with two humans. 5/ cashflow math: unit economics, churn, ltv vs cac. the difference between ramen profitable and dead. 6/ community design: turning customers into a movement. discord, circle, whatsapp groups and the subtle mechanics that make people show up every day. 7/ pricing psychology: anchoring, charm pricing, the $29 → $99 jump. how tiny tweaks change revenue curves. 8/ retention mechanics: streaks, leaderboards, habit loops. why duolingo feels addictive and your app feels forgettable. 9/ distribution through ai search (geo) and ASO: how to get your site embedded in chatgpt/perplexity/gemini answers and shown up in app store search. 10/ narrative & brand: why story is a moat. how to write copy people quote back to you. building brand assets that arescroll stopping. 11/ weekly sprints where you launch, test, kill, and double-down. you leave with a live product, with customers, not a diploma. this is the “alt business school” l i wish existed. no suits, no debt, no case studies about get in 1987. just the tools, tactics, and reps to build modern businesses that work. I know this wouldnt be the best social experience. But for people who have the drive, this would be a solid option for them. The ones who can’t sleep at night because until they make wealth and get a kick out of happy customers in a niche. I’m not sure the model, how many people, where it would be. but id like it to see it affordable, and I think there is room for thousands of companies per year from this program. why i care about this problem I know that building a bootstrapped changed my life. Instead, I moved to Silicon Valley, spent 10 years building venture-backed startups. It was super fun, but wish I got into profitable, cash-flowing software startups from the get-go. Less risk, and there’s life changing opportunity. one day i’ll build this. I believe this is the GREATEST time in history to start a company It does feel like it should exist now for that reason even though I'm not ready yet/have got my hands full. What do you think?
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@levelsio@levelsio·
Tried @StianWalgermo's idea to make a video of the interior transitions Starting with construction base to the Interior AI design to it adding people And Suno 4.5+ to add that cliche interior transition music
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@levelsio I did the same thing for my solution recently 👇🏻 here is image-to-video with kling and suno for music, making a promo video for my app. x.com/stianwalgermo/…

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MONTE@fromzerotomill·
How To Reliably Validate And Scale Infoproducts my system never failed me once: the old way: build product → launch → pray my way: validate → build only winners → scale hour 1: create sales page - use carrd or lovable or docs - write headline and 3 benefits - add buy button that goes to "sold out" page total time: 45 minutes hour 2-3: run traffic test - ads with $100 budget - funnel target audience to page - measure click-through on buy button hour 4: analyze and decide - 2%+ click buy button = build it - under 2% = kill it last week's test on the real estate niche: spent: $50 clicks to page: 10 clicks on buy: 9 (5.4%) decision:BUILD built it all out in 12 hours. launched properly. now doing $8k/month calmly but here's the psychological hack: even though you don’t have the product when you test it, do this: take the buy button to a “sold out page” but also add an “enter email for waitlist” area 43% who click buy join waitlist. these are GUARANTEED buyers that i later reach out to to buy. when product launches, email them: "got XYZ early access spots before second launch." 87% conversion rate on that email. the validation paid for itself before the product existed. tested around 30 products this year using this system - 16 failed validation (saved me 500+ hours) - 14 passed and were built - 12 are profitable - total investment: $2k+ in tests - return: $190k+ in sales the validation isn't about being right. it's about being wrong faster and cheaper. so you can find what’s RIGHT even faster, and print like crazy. Like + Comment 'INFO' + RT and i’ll send you my info playbook that made me over 7 figs in info
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David Roberts
David Roberts@recap_david·
I built a Morning Brew-style daily newsletter that writes itself with AI (now at 10,000 daily readers) (and I’m nuts for open-sourcing it) The AI system behind @therecapai clones how a human writer would function, but each step is packaged into an agentic workstream. The full automation handles: - Daily scrapping hundreds of reddit threads, hackernews, twitter posts, Google news API to build a massive data lake of 'daily AI news' - Dozens of custom prompts to pull the top daily stories from this data lake, write short breakdowns, & format the newsletter - Builds custom images based on each story with ChatGPT image generator This was 5 MONTHS of iterating and fine-tuning prompts to get the output and content to an extremely high quality state (no AI slop) and call me crazy, but I'm giving it away for free. Just Retweet, follow me, and comment on this thread "NEWSLETTER" and I'll DM you the full n8n template that you can copy/paste and fine-tune to your use-case as well as a full hour long video breakdown explaining the build. Also you can see the actual contents of the newsletter for yourself with the link below—proof of the quality that is possible with AI. RIP media companies 💀 AI is here.
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