Yuva Krish

@adamshuaib Pathological inability to believe you are going to lose

Across 5000+ founder meetings, the single rarest success trait we saw was pathological determination (<1% of founders). Having a good work ethic is not enough; these individuals possess a borderline-delusional ability to run through any wall they meet, and don’t have an off switch. It’s not easy to see and most investors don’t ask the right questions in founder meetings to uncover it. We have 10-15 proxy signals that we use to turn determination into a data point. Across hundreds of founders, we looked for a desperate desire to prove someone/something wrong, multiple previous failed businesses, early-life adversity and irrational optimism when most others would quit. Our early findings showed that founders with a high determination index were significantly more likely to build bigger companies, even if it took them longer on average. Determination wasn’t correlated with confidence or charisma. The most determined founders were more introverted and did not light up rooms. Most investors overvalue raw talent and ignore the sheer power of persistence. Brilliance is fragile. Obsession is anti-fragile. When vetting a startup, back the team that refuses to stay dead.

@nina_phatak Band

it’s quite beautiful how we took our means of living and cognition and translated that mathematically into what we know as agents today

@nina_phatak Nietzsche

is niche neesh or nitch?

@nina_phatak @Sree_Surineni Croissant

3D printed with neon blue ABS. regardless of the color @Sree_Surineni is happy

@loriberenberg Is a devil investor worse or better…

angel investor implies the existence of devil investor

@shannonrwatts 😭

Everything I know about Bryan Johnson is against my will.

@hthieblot Noninvasive neurotech wearable that sits behind your ear, reads your brain, and augments cognition through adaptive audio. Flowstatebci.com

Describe your product in exactly one sentence. No buzzwords, no fluff, just the core value. If I can’t understand your business in ten seconds, I’m not investing. Hit me & i'll be in your DMs

@daniel_dhawan @dunkhippo33 @speedrun Only need to get rich once in this life

My first 6 years as a startup founder: - Failed with 4+ startups - Ran out of money multiple times & had $15K credit card debt - Was rejected by Y Combinator 8 times - Got 200+ rejections from investors My last year as a startup founder: - Got into a16z @speedrun & raised $18M - Moved to SF & got O1 thanks to @tmhammer & @lighthousehq_ - Scaled Rork to #1 AI mobile app builder in the world The average journey to a $1B company takes 10 years. I’m on year 7. Keep building.

@bryan_johnson Could you ever have too much data

How I've measured my body this week: + 7 blood draws + colonoscopy + esophagogastroduodenoscopy + whole body MRI + comprehensive eye exam + 24/7 + core body temp (ingestible pill) + blood glucose + HR/activity + stool + fertility + blood pressure + sleep

@TTrimoreau Pencil and paper

As a founder, what’s the one tool that actually helped you when your building?

@neuralunlock Probably

The next great founder is just getting started and probably has 300 followers. I will find you and I will fund you.

@ProductHunt Neurotech minimal wearable augmenting cognition Flowstatebci.com

pitch your product in 5 words or less 👇

@sumoru Agree

Given where we are in the cycle and the cresting wave of agentic AI, I have a feeling SR007 is going to be epic.

@loriberenberg Trying to make a larger loop

as a human, what are you doing in the loop?

@colorkevin @speedrun @andrewchen dmed!

@YKischapped @speedrun @andrewchen dm me, hit me with the deck if you got one

SR007 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN as a @speedrun scout I can write you a cheque under 24h + refer you tell me what you're building! apply here: speedrun.a16z.com

@bryan_johnson Oh

Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.

@adelwu_ That’s great but let us have it

founders be like: i’ll be in sf from 5pm to 6pm! who should i meet? whose lap should i sit in? whose hand should i hold? who wants to smooch at blue bottle??

@adriannalakatos Sounds like my team and I, building a neurotech wearable that noninvasively tracks and augments cognition- flowstatebci.com

request for builders: • the 19-year-old who grew up flipping pokémon cards and is shipping apps at 2am • the single mom who built to $4k mrr during nap time instead of selling arbonne • the nurse coding patient tools on night shifts • the beauty creator showing off an app she built instead of another product haul • the gamer with 500k followers and more github commits than brand deals • the dropout with more paying users than classmates • the kid whose parents think they’re doing homework sound like you? drop the link below. ugly mvp, janky demo, messy screen recording. whatever you’ve got. i write $100-$250k checks for the underdogs p.s. if it’s cool, i’ll invite you to our campus

@ArtinBogdanov @speedrun @sunapp_ai Building flowstatebci.com - neurotech wearable sitting behind ear designed to track and augment cognition

The next a16z Speedrun cohort opened up last week. If you're applying - comment below. What are you building and what do you actually need right now? I did @speedrun with SUN this year. Moves fast, worth it. I'll go first: @sunapp_ai turns any topic into an audio course or podcast in seconds. For people who want to learn but have no time to read. What are you working on? Drop it in the chat! Let's get you visible.

@ryancarson General rule I follow is if i scroll through and don’t see anything I would find useful in professional/interests, usually don’t accept

I've started to say no to LinkedIn requests. What is everyone else's strategy here? I used to just accept everybody, but I realize now the signal-to-noise ratio on my connections is not good. I really wish somebody would boot up an Agent First network that was actually good, so that my agent could go out and find other people's agents and request permission to meet them. I still can't believe LinkedIn isn't doing this. It just seems like it's there for them to grab and own.