Stan Lee (founder)

elon musk is an immigrant jensen huang is an immigrant sergey brin is an immigrant the secret to building a trillion dollar company has never been clearer i'm moving to canada for 3 months so I can come back to the united states as an immigrant

just raised a $10 million pre-seed round for my pre-revenue startup here's how i plan to use the money: $1m on engineers $1m on ads $1m on a sick office $7m hiring a team of 30 ghostwriters and influencers to make us look successful online this is how you build a company in 2026

sf is wild man yesterday I met an 8 yr old who dropped out of elementary school to build an agentic medtech AI drone startup he raised a $300 million seed round I gotta level up

why did investors trust me with $20 million in seed funding? it's simple I dropped out of stanford then i dropped out of YC investors could see that at 20 years old, i have perserverance and would never give up on running this company

pitched a VC last night he asked if we had any traction after just 2 weeks of running the company yep showed him a list of 400,000 names and emails in a spreadsheet "holy shit, are these your users?" i just smiled i didn't actually say "yes" but now he thinks I have 400k paying users for an app that's only two weeks old when in reality those are just random strings of characters i generated in Excel remember, it's not fraud if you don't actually say anything

@m_im_ha yeah

@stanleefounder bro, is this even real??

friend got laid off from Meta last year he was making $450k a year as an engineer couldn't find a job I told him he's so lucky - now he has freedom and can build his own company a year later, he's living in a 1 bedroom apartment with 8 other 19-year old founders and making $500 a month so cool to see people live their dreams

@adrian_mm_00 he is building a startup

@stanleefounder making $450k means not entry level likely 26+, why is he living with 19 yr olds lol

my startup does 996 new hire asked if we do summer fridays i stared at him for 20 seconds before finally saying sure, have a summer friday as he left the office to enjoy the day, i deleted his access to slack, notion, and gmail the rest of his summer will now be a summer friday

met with a VC told him my startup is at $15k MRR he liked it but said it's too early for him "come back when you have more traction" I returned to his office the next day just hit $250k MRR, I told him he was shocked at how fast we moved he invested $5 million immediately the key to success? knowing how to lie about your numbers

met an engineer who got laid off from Google he was making $400k a year then he couldn't find anything paying more than $120k devastating he almost had to give up his $8k/mo apartment but then he had an idea he started up an agentic AI startup easily raised $10m based on his work experience now he has $10m in the bank and can just pay himself $400k for the next 25 years before he runs out of money raising money is a cheat code

just spoke to a young founder he's 6 years old dropped out of 1st grade moved across the country to build SF is insane bro

@shahriarr_here he can always just start his own company and get it to $10m ARR

@stanleefounder lol you mean he saved literally 0 after getting $750k for years. nice ragebait

met a senior engineer who got laid off from Meta used to make $750k a year plus every perk imaginable now he can't afford his $9k/mo condo payment frantically trying to find a new he's interviewing to be CTO of every startup in the bay area all he can get is $80k salary, 0.1% equity, and an air mattress on the floor of the founder's living room he's not sure if his wife and two kids will be okay living like that welcome to the tech job market in 2026

just met a startup founder he's 14 and just moved to sf to build an agentic AI tool raised a $9 million seed round his first week here his startup's biggest challenge? that his mommy finds out where he is, makes him come home, and grounds him for 3 months

@WurtDotApp he invested most of it into angel list syndicates

@stanleefounder How do you make 750k a year and not afford 9k rent lol

they reinvented phone operators from first principles

elon musk is 54 years old and giving out startup advice bro, if i wanted to hear from an unc i'd call my great-grandpa i want to learn from guys who are 21 and scaling businesses right now

met a founder started an AI-first company has zero employees $10 million ARR works 5 seconds per day incredible The best part? I just made this guy up

@Tristanrhee3 27? it's so over bro, I'm sorry

I'm a 27 year old founder. KINDLY recommend to me oddly specific tips for life. NO general “surround yourself with good people” tips please. I want the most random advice possible.