Joel Hansen

Guess the net worth of @ycombinator's first class of startup founders

Every new Claude launch since the beginning of 2026👇 - Jan 2026: Claude Cowork launched. - Feb 2026: Opus 4.6 released. - Feb 2026: Sonnet 4.6 released. - Feb 2026: PowerPoint integration - Feb 2026: Excel integrations added. - Feb 2026: Co-work plug-ins released. - Feb 2026: Claude Code security launched. - Feb 2026: Claude Code Remote Control - Feb 2026: Scheduled Task in Co- work - Feb 2026: Connector available in the free - Mar 2026: Claude memory is free - Mar 2026: Claude Marketplace launched - Mar 2026: Claude com ambassadors - Mar 2026: Code review for Claude code - Mar 2026: Claude skills for Excel & Slides - Mar 2026: charts & diagram in chat - Mar 2026: 1 million context window - Mar 2026: Dispatch for Claude Co-work - Mar 2026: Claude code Channels - Mar 2026: Co-work Projects - Mar 2026: Claude Computer use Anthropic is cooking

Had a company meeting this morning. Glad to see everyone showed up.

being an incredible entrepreneur and an incredible father doesn’t need to be mutually exclusive - @alexisohanian you can crush it at both love seeing entrepreneurs so passionate about building great families

@eladgil have heard good things about john

Stripe shareholder annual box Personally was hoping for some more stock but instead got some gifts and a nice handwritten note from some guy named “John”

Toronto Founders. Save the date. May 25th. We're flying in for @TOtechweek and have quite the line-up 2 more special guests getting dropped next month... RSVP here: luma.com/4blca6wi

Got to sit down with @harleyf today, the King of Commerce 👑 Great conversation about entrepreneurship and the future of retail. I’ve been heads down building @ZiggysApp on @Shopify and this conversation added rocket fuel 🚀 Shoutout @northhouse for making it happen.

attention all Canadian builders (in SF and in 🍁) -we're hosting a 🇨🇦 demo night at our new SF HQ -we're picking 2 Canadian builders to fly out for free if you want a free trip to sf comment what you're working on, i'll dm you march 26th nice people, nice food and nice demos

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Canadian goes to Austin for first time. Runs into @friedberg in the first hour. The Twitterverse ain’t lying. Austin’s worth the hype. food’s amazing, everyone’s smiling and you have a high chance of bumping into one of the @theallinpod besties

Off to @sxsw. Who’s in Austin this week?

My favorite Buffett stat is that Berkshire stock could drop 99% and he still would have outperformed the S&P 500 since he took over. Enjoy retirement.

Bullish on 1 person teams • @joshmohrer - $7M ARR • @iangcarroll - $7M ARR • @levelsio - $2.7M ARR • @BrettFromDJ - $1.3M ARR • @yongfook - $950K ARR • @marclou - $1M ARR Who else?

this changes everything

@andruyeung great list

The books I’d recommend reading to be a successful creator in 2026: 1. Superfans - Pat Flynn 2. Building a StoryBrand - Donald Miller 3. Fans First - Jesse Cole 4. Influence - Robert Cialdini 5. Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath 6.Contagious - Jonah Berger 7. This Is Marketing - Seth Godin 8. Positioning - Al Ries & Jack Trout 9. Trust Me, I’m Lying - Ryan Holiday 10. So Good They Can’t Ignore You - Cal Newport 11. Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara Anything I’m missing?

@PottsJustin wild

Aesop just opened a bathhouse in Montreal

I shipped more code in the last 3 weeks than the decade before. The top AI models / agentic systems right now are an entirely different thing to what people used until the beginning of December.

If @HamptonFounders was a publicly traded company, I’d dump all my life savings into it. @thesamparr and his crew are building something special Thanks for letting us drop by your new york office today

I’ve been building communities (online and offline) for +13 years. A few things I’ve been thinking about lately. Sponsors. Don’t do it (in most cases). Charge customers membership fees and don’t let sponsors muddy the waters. Communities are sacred. Sponsors aren’t. We don’t do it. Sponsoring a podcast, fine. But community is for members. If you’re an online platform, ads maybe are ok. Integrity. Speaking of, if you have a bar for who gets in and what values the community stands for, don’t bend the rules for anyone.this is hard! We have thousands who apply and let in a tiny fraction (4-5% maybe). It sucks turning down money. But If you say admissions are X but the sales person is willing to bend the rules, likely bad sign. If someone breaks the rules, regardless who they are, punish them. Be suspicious of fast growth early on. A community can last 100 years and make you a billionaire. Great business. But early on, growth should likely be slower than you want. Community is so easy to sell, particularly if you’re new. But so hard to maintain. You need to indoctrinate early members carefully. Help them feel special. Then slowly add. It will take years. Or decades. But will be worth it. Decentralization. Just about every big, powerful, successful community I know of is decentralized. Meaning there are local nodes that sorta call the shots, create the culture, then a centralized hq that creates the infrastructure. This feels unnatural because you won’t to control everything. Don’t listen to that urge. I’ve made all these mistakes. And will make many more (these examples included). But these are the things I’m thinking about lately. It’s funny because I like to be alone more often than not. Yet, Community, particularly Hampton, is likely going to be my life’s work. And so I’m learning (and have learned) so much this past decade owning communities. I’ve owned a book club, half a dozen small to big fb groups, conferences, event series, and more. And when doing those things, I always wished I could've done tech or Ecom or something “scalable”. But then I realized: 1 community does scale. Just differently. 2 they can be huge, impactful products and incredibly great companies (but most don’t know how to do it or have the patience…I’m still learning!)