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Ben Stevenson

@thebenstevenson

🚀 Head of growth @ Upgraded (YC S16) 🤙🏼 Make life an adventure 🧘🏼‍♂️ Mastering marketing and AI, not necessarily in that order

Austin, TX Katılım Eylül 2021
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Ben Stevenson@thebenstevenson·
"The Founders ETF" I analyzed every publicly traded company covered by David Senra (@FoundersPodcast) on Founders. If you put $100 into every stock on the day its episode came out (as opposed to the S&P500), you'd: - Beat the S&P500 by 74.3% - Be up 149.6% since Founders first aired in Sep. 2016 - Have invested $12,500 and have made $31,203.77
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AI video content is notoriously clouded by two loud minorities. One side claims “AI just killed filmmaking” while the other says “all AI content is slop”. I believe in real world data. So I put the major AI video models to the test, comparing each one head to head across 6 different use cases, like marketing, UGC, movies, motion graphics, etc. Then I put it all into one video so you don’t have to waste time (and credits) like me.
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Ben Stevenson@thebenstevenson·
@shiri_shh "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" I asked Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity to research and find which of these are the best buys... Picked up some NOW, DDOG, and TEAM. Will lyk how it goes.
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bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭
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Naval@naval

Software was eaten by AI.

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Ben Stevenson@thebenstevenson·
If I missed someone or got something wrong, reply and I’ll fix it + pin corrections. In particular I think some of the scores are a bit weird/could be tuned up. But again, it’s complicated to put everything onto the same scale.
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Again this isn’t a definitive ranking. But for someone who’s a bit newer to AI history, it’s helpful + cool to see it broken out like this.
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Ben Stevenson@thebenstevenson·
I used AI to map every major AGI prediction from 1950 → 2026. Here’s how we did it (we meaning me and Claude, mostly Claude):
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Ben Stevenson@thebenstevenson·
I just hit my claude usage limit for the first time...what do y'all do when this happens
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6 hours later, Austin received us with open arms and with all limbs intact, and now we’re on to the next part of the mission, selling laptops. Don’t let life take the adventure away from you.
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And stealthy enough to fly under the radar at the security checkpoint on the way back up. (By which I mean they politely asked us why we had so many MacBooks in our car, and we politely explained what we do, and they let us through)
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So anyways, there we were, hopping in the vehicle at 4:15pm for a 6 hour drive to a remote Texas town where legend has it tumbleweeds still blow and George Strait still has an ex or two. Why?
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