Zach Roth

@startupandrew @TaskletAI @tbpn Tasklet’s the best tool on the market! Stand by that - keep killing it

Had a great time talking about @TaskletAI and YC demo day on @tbpn today!

@ryolu_ What does cursor design in? Figma?

Cursor is hiring design engineers. looking for people with taste, systems thinking, and deep care for fast, polished experiences – especially folks excited to build the tools that help designers, engineers, and agents ship quality code. know someone? tag them or DM me 📧

@signulll Gotta check for sebago distribution - I know them from school top 50 Amazon seller 100% reliability

when i shop on amazon i carefully look for trusted name brands… brands like ZDFKEA & RTUARL... you know familiar household names. it makes me feel like i’m buying a mission, not just a product.

@paulg Yes - encyclopedia

If a site or app forces me to answer some unnecessary question before I can continue, I always give a wrong answer. How did you hear about us? Radio. Does anyone else do that?

It seems, (and this is just a hypothesis from my timeline), that many are falling into Goodhart’s Law - acceptance to YC as the metric to measure instead of building something people want. While YC is a good *indicator it’s hardly the metric determining pmf and an overall successful company. I think this is a direct illustration of Goodhart’s Law when it comes to the comments on YC (e.g., “what has happened to YC”, “since Garry has taken over YC has fallen off”, etc). I’d argue that neither of those things are true. Garry has done a terrific job of continuing the YC values and ecosystem - it’s bigger than ever before. I believe what is the case is that YC has become a status metric that has been turned into a target. Therefore, a lot of highly intelligent & competent people are maximizing for YC acceptance and not building something people want. As a result, the filtering for YC has become harder and batch sizes and batch frequencies have become larger. This isn’t bad for YC, it’s the complete opposite. However, it does mean that there will be a larger percentage of YC companies that don’t make something people want. This isn’t a poor reflection on YC or Garrys leadership just the result of human psychology constantly optimizing the wrong metric and the general popularity and increase in size of YC (e.g., more batches - more batch frequency, more startups, more successful startups, more failed startups)

@itseieio Mustache was clean; non usage of Claude code was not

forgot that I used to have a mustache. Kinda miss it tbh

It's true- Jane Street rejected me for this mock interview even though I had already worked there for 7 years They said I should've used Claude Code. I said it was 2022 and Claude literally didn't exist yet. They said I should have invented CC during the interview Crazy stuff!

@pmarca Co sign?

Hard to argue with.

@levelsio @Bankless @diogenes @patagon 😂😂

@Bankless @diogenes @patagon Most annoying haircut I've ever seen in my life

LIVE NOW - The $200 Billion Shadow Market Behind Anthropic's Stock | Dio Casares Anthropic's secondary market is tens of billions of dollars deep, stacked with SPVs on top of SPVs charging 10% fees plus carry, and almost entirely opaque. @diogenes of @patagon breaks down how it actually works: - which deals Anthropic blesses and which get cease-and-desists, - why fake share certificates show up in 10-20% of executed deals, - what tokenized equities and pre-IPO perps actually represent, - and the mess of lawsuits and stuck shares coming when Anthropic finally IPOs. Enjoy. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:40 What is Going on in Secondary Markets? 7:03 How Anthropic Secondary Markets Unfold 14:51 Anthropic’s Secondaries Social Elite 19:00 Emerging SPV Structure 21:51 Accidental Frauds? 27:04 After IPO Consequences 35:13 Private Market Lessons 38:21 Patagon Markets 43:54 Tokenized Perps 44:57 Closing Thoughts

the more thought you put into a post, the less it will resonate on the timeline. what’s a good name for this law?

@bchesky @benhylak The problem is “best” is different depending on the persons tastes

@benhylak The ChatGPT interface doesn’t work for this. We’ve already tried it.

LITERALLY ALL I WANT IS A CHATBOT FOR TRAVEL "FIND ME THE BEST HOTEL AND BOOK IT"

@maxmarchione 😂😂

Breaking: Superpower is acquiring Hims. Half cash. Half stock.

@signulll They built apis to the world - which is arguably the most necessary. Our senses.

it’s kinda fascinating that evolution didn’t ship apis for the body. e.g. you can’t read your cortisol or write to your heart rate. the nervous system roughly exposes two endpoints for managing these.. breath & movement. both of which are indirect.

We just launched the @Link CLI: github.com/stripe/link-cli. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time. I asked Claude to buy itself a gift. It chose HTTPZine on Gumroad.

@derekhalpern @signulll It’s my favorite I go through bags every month. Keep killin it!

@zachjroth @signulll Thanks for the shoutout. I think thats a great recommendation. I'm biased.

what’s your favorite protein shake? i just can’t drink the core power stuff anymore. tastes so bad now for some reason.

@Celesteamadon Have you tried @TaskletAI

I would pay anything for a CRM that tracks cross platform (texts, emails, dms) everyone I know and when I last talked w them

@bscholl Let me know when you need more funding 📈

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine (assembly). It's not too late to be part of the team that builds the first independently-developed supersonic jet engine.

It took me 43 years to realize there are no adult. Just kids in adult bodies trying to figure it things out the best they can.

@rexsalisbury @AngelList How did you get past investment flow? I keep getting stuck when I press continue button

I invested in xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic. hate that venture is exclusive. this new vehicle from @AngelList makes it less so. that said, if you want to invest in venture through vehicles like this. do it eyes wide open. venture is - high fee (~2/20 for underlying funds + ~1% management fee for USVC) - illiquid if private markets are the new public markets, the public should be able to access them. the early attempts will not be perfect (see again -- high fee, illiquid), but it's a start.

@archiexzzz Yeah but you can’t get past the first part of the investment flow anyways, site is super buggy and broken. Seems vibe coded 100%

@zachjroth i don't have SSN/ITIN

I am not a US citizen(yet), but i am ready to invest a generous amount. how do i do it?