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@marshal Watch out. You got the bug and it’s addictive

Another day another airline issue. AA delays would have us missing a connection to Nantucket. Next available flight was 24hrs later. So, I chartered the minivan of the sky to not miss a full day of vacation with the family.

@shawngorham Best game. I think if I read it right, their highest paid player makes 150k or something silly.

This Argentina and Cape Verde games is INSANE

Damn.. best game of the World Cup. Cape Verde played one hell of a game.

@jesseproudman @AskVenice Congrats Jesse! Huge

Today, @askvenice announced a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation. We started this company in 2024 with a simple conviction: people deserve an AI platform that doesn't spy on them or decide what they're allowed to think. Our job was to build a private, unrestricted AI platform that could find product-market fit without compromising on principles.

@Tanwardds1 100%

@zakboca Great Game!

A really special experience taking my dad and 6 other family members to Seattle for the World Cup to watch my dad’s home country Iran play.

@DallasAptGP Man it was wild. Even though it was a tie, such good memories cheering for Iran together.

@zakboca What a crazy final few minutes!?! Family will remember that experience forever

@Stealx Nice- my dad and I head to Seattle tomorrow for the Egypt game. Can’t wait

12 years later at an Iran World Cup game 2014, surprised my dad with WC tickets in Brazil to see Iran. Brazilian embassy messed up and couldn’t get our visas in time and we never made it. Father’s Day 2026, wasn’t missing the opportunity again Surprised my parents and brought them to the game in the most VIP way possible They deserve it and more for the sacrifices they made for us Happy Father’s Day to all

@alexisohanian Did the same.

I made a mobile-web app for Jr so she wouldn't have that summer slump - she runs her duolingo math lessons and logs them, then every Friday an adult logs the XP she gained that week. Let's see how this goes! She gets payouts in Roblox (and her avatar levels up). Thanks, Claude!

@danushman The move is a v neck sweater.

Agree with this. Dressing up in a generic overpriced uncomfortable man uniform with a weird cloth wrapped around your neck doesn’t impress anyone…

@Stealx Awesome man love it

We handed out lavashak at my daughter's school Culture Night It's the original Fruit Roll-Up. Real fruit, sun dried, no chemicals First Iran table the school has ever had For one night, Iran wasn't a headline, it was the snack the kids couldn't stop asking for

@sweatystartup You need a team that isn’t afraid to adopt AI and is being encouraged to. I had one 8 figure exit- an AI business that wouldn’t have been possible to do without AI and with people.

Every time my team brings me an AI tool that is heavily subsidized: It is still more expensive than humans doing the work form Philippines or Latam.

@Storage_Venture Some people are addicted to vintage stuff.. have always had a thing for vintage Porsches, vintage cameras, watches, and now vintage storage facilities ;)

@zakboca Just so many things I’d rather spend 50k on

Never owed a Rolex. Or any expensive watch. Rock the Apple Watch every day. Never understood the allure.

@bryan_johnson I feel seen

go to bed right now i know the build is almost finished the eval can wait til morning the agent will still be failing tomorrow you won't figure out why it's hallucinating yes your coworker ships on 4 hrs of sleep they also hallucinate a lot off you go

@practiklyperfct @jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX Thanks will take a look

@zakboca @jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX Oh, are you looking for an online version? I did see once I selected “enroll” that kids can sign up for more than one week.

Does @AlphaSchoolATX offer a summer version (2-2.5 month bundle) of the Alpha Anywhere program? Would be a great way for those thinking about making the jump to try it out and avoid the summer slide.

@practiklyperfct Its addicting isnt it?

@zakboca I make a Replit app almost every day.

Before Replit, this simple page would have taken a month at least. Here she is- roleinlife.com Now moving on to auth

@practiklyperfct @jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX This seems to be only for a week and in person, I think.

@jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX They do! Here is the link summer.alpha.school

@jliemandt @jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX Hey Joe- can you point me to the summer alpha program? We are signed up for a week but wondering if there is an alpha anywhere for the summer. Thanks

@jordanhall @AlphaSchoolATX Yes.

@businessbarista @tenex_labs I remember when we spoke about AltExhange, you asked what continued to drive me. I could sense you were in that in between spot, which is tough. We sold Altexchange, my 5th exit, but it never fails that those questions creep back in. Congrats on bouncing back!

2 years ago, I was directionless, unmotivated, and uninspired. I had just sold my business, didn’t know who I was outside of it, and questioned everything about my abilities. Today, I’m the cofounder of @tenex_labs, an enterprise AI transformation firm that will be my life’s work and quite possibly a $100 billion company. I’ve seen what can happen when the right founders are disrupting the right market at the right time. And this is that. Quick recap: - We’re on pace to be a Series D startup size by end of year. - Large portfolio of Fortune 500 clients. - Best-in-class talent from Amazon, Salesforce, McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Bain, Accenture, Deloitte, EY. - True AI engineering & transformation acceleration at a time where there’s a lot of snake oil. I’ve been reflecting on the small & large decisions that have allowed us to compound like crazy the last 12 months. Here it goes: 1. The only thing that matters The first time I read @pmarca’s essay “Only Thing That Matters,” I couldn’t get myself to agree. I’ve always preached “people are your most important asset,” so I couldn’t square up how something could be more important. But he was right. Market is everything. If you pick the right market, it’s like a black hole that sucks in everything else you need to build a great business: bags of money and world class talent. At Tenex, we’re blessed to be building in a space where our TAM is global GDP and every business on earth needs help becoming AI-native. 2. Cofounder market fit In personal life and founder life you make one choice that changes the entire trajectory of your story: the person you pick to write that story with. And in business, the choice is actually a set of many micro decisions that compound into either the best move of your career or the worst. Choice 1: Am I value aligned with this person? Choice 2: Do we have complementary spikes? Choice 3: Do we have compatible communication styles? Choice 4: Do our skills have product market fit with the market we’re in? I’m super blessed to be a yes on all 4 with my cofounder @ArmanHezarkhani. 3. Stack hubs in GTM Marketing is nothing more than a game of hubs-and-spokes. Hubs are digital or physical channels that give you leveraged access to spokes, your ideal end customer. Your job as a marketer is to define your budget, know the portfolio of hubs at your disposal, determine which hubs to invest in, know when to triple down on outperformers, and proactively stack hubs so new ones perform as old ones plateau. I, as a creator, was the first hub for Tenex. We knew I’d drive a bunch of business, but we also knew that my distribution would plateau just like any marketing channel on earth. That’s why we’ve stacked a host of hubs like channel partners (I.e @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @vercel), branded media (newsletters, playbooks) and creators (@JJEnglert). 4. Novelty is good for ego bad for business We purposefully kept as many variables constant while building this business. We’re not reinventing strategy consulting. We’re not reinventing engineering-as-a-service. We’re not reinventing change management. We’re not reinventing forward deployed engineering. We are only innovating on 1-2 vectors that we believe are mission critical to build a post-AI McKinsey with the set of constraints we face. One example is pay. We are the first company in the world to pay engineers like salespeople. Every engineer at Tenex has a standard minimum guarantee and is paid uncapped variable upside based on output (read: Storypoints completed). We picked this comp model for 3 reasons: it allows us to hire top talent without raising money, it incentivizes our engineers to gain leverage through optimized AI workflows, and it aligns incentives with clients desires. 5. We’ll eat your scraps Whether it’s less sexy work (like AI trainings) or a a less sexy category (like being a dev shop), when others have shied away, we’ve leaned in. Is a training business a great business? No. But being the best at teaching executives and companies how to use AI is an incredible way to build trust and identify other opportunities in a client’s business. Am I proud of Tenex partly being a dev shop? Absofuckinglutely. Dev shops get an unnecessarily bad rap, and we’re the one to rebrand them. Companies come to us for engineering help, not because they want cheap offshore talent, but because they want worldclass AI engineers they couldn’t hire on their own. We are in the business of selling trust and however we can get an edge or opportunity to do so, we’ll say yes all day.