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NYC/Montréal🇨🇦 Katılım Kasım 2015
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Day 1 of building things no one wants: Mix songs without a DJ board🎧
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What happened to etched after groq got acquired?
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Ashwin Gopinath@ashwingop·
We've raised $5M to build organizational memory. Every company runs on decisions, but as teams grow the, context behind them gets lost. We built Sentra to make sure that never happens again. Start using Sentra for free today!
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Really cool but the logos added to their aesthetics tbh now it looks like a naked f1 car
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John Coogan@johncoogan

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.

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Charles Liu
Charles Liu@CharlesLiu9·
I left my $300k job exactly one year ago to build an app Learned a lot and grew our app from less than $5k/month to $80k/month in our fourth month Finally convinced the team to let me ungatekeep what I know since we’re working on smthing different now Stay tuned!
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Oil war starts: BYD: Let’s spam UGC campaigns to sell more EVs
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𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖊 𝖏𝖎𝖆𝖔
At @cmmnknwledge, we’ve been building a new stylus-first tool for doing work on your iPad. We’re looking for beta testers who’d like to try this out and shape this experience with us. Comment below to get in touch!
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God bless claude
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dar@radbackwards·
NEO is in NYC right now. Doing a meet and greet Saturday night if you want to say hi to NEO & the team— lmk. Limited availabilities.
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aili@aililiuu·
PSA: Chinese manufacturers are desperate for US builders. I've spent the last year taking 40+ founders to Shenzhen and visiting hundreds of factories, my learnings below. Comment to join me in Shenzhen this March
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SLAM & Co
SLAM & Co@slamco_·
Meet Liam. For the next 24 hours, he’s going to turn every reply on this tweet into a real, playable video game. His tool, @gojieditor, turns words into fully-built, published games within minutes. What game do you want to make?
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Pat@pattssun·
@emiliemc Ion think the non-crypto-native audience received it that well. Your best marketing is btc price going back up
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@_milankovac_ More foreigners will travel to china over japan/korea as chinese soft power increases
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Milan Kovac
Milan Kovac@_milankovac_·
I visited Beijing and Shanghai in 2019 and absolutely loved it. Beijing felt remarkably orderly — the Forbidden City and National Museum were stunning, and I even took a fun table tennis class. Shanghai had that electric mix of old and new: the lively vibe, beautiful French Concession alleys, and peaceful walks in Yu Garden. Both cities felt extremely safe (!), the food was incredible, and you could see this successful blend of deep traditional culture with massive modern infrastructure everywhere. China really seems to embrace the future without letting the past fade — something I sometimes feel the US excels at innovating but can lose sight of heritage, while Europe holds tightly to history but struggles more with forward momentum. Their competitiveness today isn't accidental. Decades as the world's manufacturing powerhouse gave them unmatched supply chains, plus a culture of national drive, intense education, and hard work churning out top engineers yearly. I saw it firsthand early in the humanoid robot race (pushing Optimus when everything technical was still uncertain): within just a couple quarters, several Chinese companies had robots that matched or even surpassed what we had at the time. Serious wake-up call. DeepSeek was another huge signal — China isn't just executing established tech anymore; they're innovating at the frontier. And I'd bet that's only the beginning. I'm proudly Western and always will be, but I think the smartest path to self-improvement is honestly recognizing others' strengths instead of fixating on weaknesses. Visiting China is eye-opening — more people should go see it for themselves.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

@JessePeltan More people should visit China

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proh@PR0H0S·
Having ~$1 million dollars liquid is truly an interesting limbo. Golden handcuffs in a way. You have almost infinite money for daily expenses like groceries, amazon binges and chill little vacations, but you can’t really splurge on anything sick. You have just enough money to think about making a real boy amount, but a razor thin margin for error if you screw it up. You’re also at the exact amount where it becomes cozy and hard to motivate yourself to go that much harder. Tough spot tbh.
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Pat@pattssun·
In Italy right now. Honored to enjoy peak European innovation:
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Robots and automation are everywhere in shenzhen. Robots deliver food to your hotel room, food recognition cameras identify your meal items for payment, self-driving cars are on the road. And all of these are taken for granted by the locals. It’s just part of everyday life.
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Just came back from China, some early thoughts: Life observations: - the great firewall is not that great, so easy to get a vpn or an e-sim that has one - hongkong is surprisingly really run-down, locals have said it’s way past its prime - everyone of all ages in china doomscrolls (douyin/xiaohongshu for gen z, wechat for boomers) - chinese immigration is hella efficient and automated with face recognition (i look chinese and have a 10-year visa tho) - shenzhen has 18M+ people but the city does not feel dense at all - china loves heavy packaging (delivery food, consumer goods, etc.) - life is generally more convenient than in the US (safety, delivery food, transport, etc.) Tech observations: - speed is everything in china - for software, consumer > b2b because chinese companies don’t trust each other for enterprise deals + labor is cheap so b2b software can just be built in-house - chinese VCs are super risk averse, that’s why the US is still the king of 0-1, while China thrives in the 1-100 (master of scale and second mover advantage) - fierce national competition, copying each other is a given, most industries seem winner-takes-all - chinese app UIs maximize optionality, that’s why they feel so dense and chaotic - big culture of after-lunch naps in the workplace - big companies have special trade schools right next to their factories to create a direct pipeline of loyal specialized workers

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Chinese Ubers or DiDis are so cheap. My ride from the shenzhen train station to my hotel (13.9km, 31min) was 36.8 RMB or 5.22 USD. My uber from jfk to my apartment in nyc was 100+ USD (although it’s a longer distance).
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Just came back from China, some early thoughts: Life observations: - the great firewall is not that great, so easy to get a vpn or an e-sim that has one - hongkong is surprisingly really run-down, locals have said it’s way past its prime - everyone of all ages in china doomscrolls (douyin/xiaohongshu for gen z, wechat for boomers) - chinese immigration is hella efficient and automated with face recognition (i look chinese and have a 10-year visa tho) - shenzhen has 18M+ people but the city does not feel dense at all - china loves heavy packaging (delivery food, consumer goods, etc.) - life is generally more convenient than in the US (safety, delivery food, transport, etc.) Tech observations: - speed is everything in china - for software, consumer > b2b because chinese companies don’t trust each other for enterprise deals + labor is cheap so b2b software can just be built in-house - chinese VCs are super risk averse, that’s why the US is still the king of 0-1, while China thrives in the 1-100 (master of scale and second mover advantage) - fierce national competition, copying each other is a given, most industries seem winner-takes-all - chinese app UIs maximize optionality, that’s why they feel so dense and chaotic - big culture of after-lunch naps in the workplace - big companies have special trade schools right next to their factories to create a direct pipeline of loyal specialized workers

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8/8: Cable manufacturing by TopBrand Electronics
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I visited hardware/robotics factories in shenzhen. Here are some highlights:
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Just came back from China, some early thoughts: Life observations: - the great firewall is not that great, so easy to get a vpn or an e-sim that has one - hongkong is surprisingly really run-down, locals have said it’s way past its prime - everyone of all ages in china doomscrolls (douyin/xiaohongshu for gen z, wechat for boomers) - chinese immigration is hella efficient and automated with face recognition (i look chinese and have a 10-year visa tho) - shenzhen has 18M+ people but the city does not feel dense at all - china loves heavy packaging (delivery food, consumer goods, etc.) - life is generally more convenient than in the US (safety, delivery food, transport, etc.) Tech observations: - speed is everything in china - for software, consumer > b2b because chinese companies don’t trust each other for enterprise deals + labor is cheap so b2b software can just be built in-house - chinese VCs are super risk averse, that’s why the US is still the king of 0-1, while China thrives in the 1-100 (master of scale and second mover advantage) - fierce national competition, copying each other is a given, most industries seem winner-takes-all - chinese app UIs maximize optionality, that’s why they feel so dense and chaotic - big culture of after-lunch naps in the workplace - big companies have special trade schools right next to their factories to create a direct pipeline of loyal specialized workers

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