Austin Tse

Tesla will bring about the true autonomy revolution with physical AI

@techsaleshackz Profound keeps spamming my inbox

Startups in NYC/SF to keep your eye on rn: - Profound - ElevenLabs - Decagon - Sierra - Aaru - Listen Labs - Factory Big fan of what some of these teams are building. Have met w/ a lot of the for GTM/Ops/FDE recruiting As always, best team + pmf + leadership will win in their space

Purple cow principle-- people don't care about a cow, but seeing something one of a kind like a purple cow will not only be remembered, but you'll tell your friends about it

Marketing is just the art of attention and maximum fomo generation. Good, revolutionary products market themselves because they capture the imagination

Burgers are truly one of the best foods

@andruyeung Try robotaxi

Waymo is the future - no forced small talk - cars are new and smell great - feels way safer & more private - consistent experience every time - no drivers talking loudly on phones Cool to see Austin roll it out during SXSW

@DavidMoss Thanks for coming!

I was so happy sitting in the Cybercab 😂 Felt like I was a kid on Christmas

@TedPillows Always seek asymmetric returns

A 10% loss requires a 11% gain to get back to even. A 20% loss requires a 25% gain to get back to even. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to get back to even. A 90% loss requires a 900% gain to get back to even. This is why protecting capital is even more important than making money.

@oliviaakory At this point I'm not sure why companies don't have agentic campaign management. So much of the ads admin is trivial knob turning

Meta is 100% running an experiment on how shitty the Ads Manager experience can get without impacting revenue. It’s brilliant.

@justinskycak I used to wonder why companies required so many years of experience in a field. I realize now that intuition is critical for fast work

Intuition is just compressed experience. You don't get it until you've done the grunt work so many times that your subconscious has automated the pattern recognition.

@RyanDanz Everything correct except Mexican food. The best ethnic food is in densely populated ethnic enclaves untouched by gentrification (east side San Jose, parts of LA). I will say americanized Mexican is quite good here though -- think Puesto or South of Nick's in del Mar

One of the most epic stretches of living in the history of the world Sure, it takes making 1MM/year to live adequate, just enough to get a starter home (which starts at 2mm for anything non-tear-down), and pay the bills, afford a closet full of vuori, drive a Tesla, surf 10am-1pm on a weekday, and drink $7 cups of micro roasted coffee with chai tallow, take a few yoga classes per week, get a club membership, … but 10/10 public schools, year round 72 degrees with a light breeze, organic grocery stores, no smog, no insects, no swamp ass, no crime, no homeless-tent cities, no parking meters, the best Mexican food north of Mexico City, the most slightly above average looking but fittest people you’ve ever seen and 10000x less pretentious than Newport and LA folk World class and open to the public; •Beaches •Hiking •Golf •Museums •Parks •Zoos And a tax racket that means homes worth 5mm that were bought 25 years ago for 500k, only pay 5k/yr property tax and locked for life (sans capped increase) And this doesn’t even include that little hamlet to the right on the map called Rancho Santa Fe which is a tweetstorm all unto itself

@sendilpalani A legendary run. I'm fortunate to have worked with you and wishing you the best

After seventeen incredible years, my latest chapter at Tesla has come to a close. Words won’t do justice to how fulfilling the experience has been, but I’ll try anyway: Tesla barely survived Christmas 2008. I started a few days later in our Finance team, under an ongoing “Tesla Deathwatch”. I slept under my desk in San Carlos, CA at least once, and I wasn’t the only one. There are many companies with hard-working and talented employees, but few have the level of commitment and collaboration of the Tesla team. In retrospect, this should have been an obvious predictor of the successes that would follow. This is as true today as it was in 2009. To my former Finance team: You are heroes within a company full of heroics, given the full-body workout that is your daily job. Take an Accounting or Finance textbook off the shelf and flip to a random page - Tesla is undoubtedly manifesting the underlying concept in the real world. From selling hardware and software under various business models, managing assets of all types (including digital ones), to pursuing continuous investment into an ambitious future throughout the world, you make the impossible look easy. To my colleagues across the rest of the company - I am grateful for the time that you have spent to educate me, including during my stints outside of the Finance team. You have started with one of Tesla’s strongest advantages - the strongest talent across engineering, manufacturing/operations, and customer-facing functions - and have turned it into an unstoppable force via your “one team” attitude. For me, late-night sessions on topics ranging from the physics of a brake rotor to the training of a neural network proved more valuable than any classroom experience that came before, and made the company stronger as a result. Going to work is not supposed to be this much fun. @elonmusk : A heartfelt thanks for your endless love of humanity, and for demonstrating the power of thinking from first principles at all times, about all things. When Abundance is achieved and money ceases to have meaning, these lessons will be the most valuable commodity in our economy. To the outside world, who may not have experienced the above first-hand: Remember that Tesla’s mission is so ambitious and complex that any narrative about the company is naturally an oversimplification. Seek the truth about the company at all times. And support it in any way that you can! There are few higher callings/better uses of your time.

@thecybersurg The luxury of time and the relief of stress is priceless

Full self driving is a luxury greater than any luxury and any other car

"Mom how did we get so poor?" "Your father vibe coded a polymarket trading bot and connected it to our bank accounts"

@ysuckme This is what the Buddhist metaphor of reincarnation is supposed to represent. Not learning your lesson means you are cursed to relive the experience into eternity

YOU MUST BREAK THE PATTERN TODAY OR THE LOOP WILL REPEAT TOMORROW

@CartuneNetwerk Don't get high on your own supply

Founder of Instagram hasn’t posted in 8 years. Mans created a clout machine for normies. People killing each other to win the social game on there and the guy who created doesn’t even use it.

@SelenkaOnChain Statistically makes no difference but it's your money 🤷‍♂️. A better betting strategy is Kelly criterion which adjusts bet size based on estimated advantage

@austntatiously it's all about right time to stop

Has anyone tried Martingale strategy for 5-min markets? (doubling down after every loss until you win). Asking for a friend.

@SelenkaOnChain It's important to note that betting strategy (like martingale) with no additional alpha or edge at its best is breakeven expected value. But the worst part is that it sounds good, exposes the bettor is risk of insanely high loss and basically provides no source of edge

@austntatiously show me the proofs

People underestimate how critical prompting is When a LLM has a universe of internet info in its brain that could be an appropriate response to your question, the least you can do is give effective constraints to refine its thinking Context is insanely important