Parit

Grateful for the journey and the opportunities that led to this milestone. Can't believe its been nearly a year!

Still rocking ChatGPT like it’s a Nokia 3310

who is building the cloud based version of Claude Co-Work that is cheaper than Perplexity Computer? either I'm stuck with having to keep my laptop on and scheduled tasks are a bit janky or getting nailed on credits

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

@sanj_jey @StevenBartlett Whatever your fave game is make sure you’re playing in it. If you don’t play you can’t win.

this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾 The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup. But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want. Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams. But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾 Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy. You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years. If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller. You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7. You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success. A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship. You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever). You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible. You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison. And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder. More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you. In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional. I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness. Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾 ✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why ✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games ✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses ✅ Designing within them, not against them Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story. Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are! This does the beg the question, why do I do it? If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know. It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues. Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me. This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled. To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture. And to me, their life would probably feel like torture. And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists. Please know what you are not!

ChatGPT's market share loss signals one reality -> employees are now using Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and dozens of others. Companies who can’t see where they’re going face two immediate problems: 1) "The Subscription Spree" 2) Blind Shadow AI

This is how AI governance is actually unfolding: 2023-24: Organisations wrote AI policies. 2024-25: Everyone realised nobody follows them. 2025-26: IT gets asked to “fix AI risk.” 2026-28: Lightweight enforcement + real visibility becomes the default stack.

Note to self: don't start vibecoding post 9pm

My top 5 highlights from token: 🥇 Predictify Everything - event 🥈'The next Tiktok is a prediction market' - talk 3⃣ 'Markets instead of Algos' - talk 4⃣ Base app's builder <> creator <> investor flywheel - talk 5⃣ Panels on prediction markets and crypto x fintech Read about all of them + links 👇

Two years ago, I started building @mbdtheworld with a simple question: what if people had real choice over their algorithms? What if any developer can spin their own in minutes? Every day, billions of people open feeds that shape what they think, trade, and believe. But those feeds are controlled by a handful of black-box algorithms — designed for ads, outrage, and doomscrolling. Web3 felt like the perfect place to fix this. Networks like Farcaster showed us how incentives could be redesigned at the protocol level. So we went deep into the research: how to decentralize recommender systems and moderation, while keeping them scalable and open. Along the way we had wins and setbacks. We tested dozens of models. We learned how hard it is to balance discovery, trust, and incentives in feeds. And then something clicked: the same infrastructure we built for web3 social feeds is exactly what’s needed for content coins, memcoins, and prediction markets — a new kind of Web3-native content. Billions of micro-forecasts, onchain by default. All of them need personalization, discovery, and moderation. That’s where ❜embed is now headed. We can already predict what people will swap and bet on next with +90% accuracy on @base @solana and @Polymarket. The pull from the market is clear: - 10M+ monthly API calls (still in beta) - 1 billion recommendation by end of year - 650+ developers signed up - +10 design partners in token and prediction market And we’re just getting started. Our goal is to give users and builders real choice over algorithms — to move beyond ads-driven feeds into an algorithm economy that anyone can build on. If you’re at #TOKEN204 and this resonates — whether you’re building social apps, markets, or investing in the next wave of infrastructure — let’s talk. DMs open.

@Apple just released thinnest iPhone ever with the iPhone 17 Air with a bigger screen than the 16. So....we now have the iPad Air, iPhone Air and now larger iPhone Air... Personally I was quite a big fan what they were doing with the Vision Pro! At least it was new innovation.

I'm going with the idea below I will be: - using @mbdtheworld to fetch your feed - using @OpenAI api to create content based on your previous posts - using base pay to process the payment then, post on base app to earn going live in 5mins, will share link in comments !

S&P 7 vs S&P 493 🫣

RWAs are the bridge between TradFi & Web3 and I'm a Trad-Fi boomer saying this. I’ll be joining Ascend as a mentor to help founders building this future — up to $500K in funding, top investor intros, and 9 weeks of expert support. Apply by Aug 18 → ascendrwa.xyz

Rachel is absolutely right. The fact that Revolut still can’t get regulated in the UK over a decade after founding is a failure of state capacity. This is the first UK-founded company likely to surpass a $100bn market cap—and yet the country has systematically missed the upside: •No British capital on the cap table—UK pension funds and endowments missed out •High-paying jobs now mostly overseas due to domestic talent shortages (fewer than 50% of staff are UK-based) •Founder moved to Dubai to avoid punitive capital gains tax •No chance of LSE listing without serious reform—another blow to UK wealth creation and tax revenue The UK should have benefited from this success story through jobs, taxation, and institutional prestige. Instead, we exported it. We can’t solve stagnation or the productivity crisis without backing startups to scale and list here. That means better regulation, better tax policy, and a functional public market. If the Bank of England can’t evolve to support that mission, it needs new leadership.

say what you want about the @base app feeds, mini apps, payments will push the wallet space to experiment more. loved seeing how quickly they shipped and how they leaned on a range of data partners to make it happen. the @mbdtheworld powered feed already feels hyper-personalized also cool to see @zerion API powering transaction data under the hood coin everything.

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Coinbase launched a finance super app last night: Social + Payments + Chat + Trading + Discovery — all in one. When we started Zash ~4.5y ago, this was the vision. Last night, it went live — at Coinbase scale. Proud to partner via @mbdtheworld to power TikTok-grade discovery.

~40% of HOOD's income is from net interest income. COIN has significantly less interest income exposure (chat gpt tells me 3%), played ball with the SEC and 100% crypto. Fed rates come down soon - what do you think happens next?

@albiverse @mbdtheworld it looks like someone impersonating @YassineLanda ?

@therealparit @mbdtheworld founder something something

introducing our Chief of Staff (+ head of sales + head of "don't mess with meeting agendas") @therealparit ladies and gentlemen 🕶️