Building the social network layer for AI apps - starting with college. Co-Founder of A1Zap (YC W25)💬, Forage (YC W19 - Acquired)

Joined February 2009
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Make sure you find people who are willing to fight patiently on the oceans long enough for the wave!
A lot of succeeding in startups is just surviving long enough to catch a wave... have experienced many such examples recently.
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Some of you guys gotta read zero to one again and realize secrets are valuable!
This has fundamentally changed how I use Codex - everything runs out of a single persistent thread (my "chief of staff") - anytime I start a new project or workstream, I have that thread spin up a new thread (because it's already found the context from slack, etc) - the CoS thread checks in on the project threads during heartbeats, and occasionally sends relevant updates from slack to that thread everything flows naturally to the top
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If you’re in AI pivot to consumer
what's the 2026 version of this tweet?
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We're in this fun era of software again where every time I see a software update I'm excited to see what new features are on an app or tool. Haven't felt like this since being a kid!
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🚀 100,000 sessions on A1Zap since launch 📷We’re just getting started. Today we’re shipping two features that turn A1Zap into the social layer for AI apps: 🔔 Subscribe to builders — follow the creators shipping the apps you actually care about. 💬 Native comments on social apps — every app now has its own conversation layer.
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It turns out you can tweet your way to policy change!
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I'm going to sign off on every Aus-related tweet with this now. It worked for Carthage! "Furthermore, I consider that the capital gains discount on houses should be destroyed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartha…
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Cooking @ListenLabs 🎥 @Pashpops
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Now the YC threshold is how do you make a one trillion dollar company
Wow- YC owns 0.6% of OpenAI. Their stake is currently valued at $5B, which probably makes it their largest stake in any company. per @daringfireball daringfireball.net/2026/05/y…
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Look mom, I made @siliconmania!!!
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A1Zap from @a1baseapi is the social network layer for AI apps. Starting with campuses, build apps and make interactive social content that spread through a unified social graph. Congrats on the launch, @pashpops & @pennepastaa! ycombinator.com/launches/Q24…
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SF is in build psychosis
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Do you have an apartment, room or couch to sublet for a summer intern from Harvard (SF/NY/DC etc)? One of our social builders on A1Zap has built a tool that has a list of verified students who are looking for a place to stay during the summer internship period. DM me or comment on the thread and we can start connecting you to them
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Agree with this whole list - except I’d also - fuck yeah let’s go on that adventure again!
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.@pmarca on what motivates great entrepreneurs
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It turns out that to get AI into the hands of everyone, you have to rebuild the social network *for humans* in the age of AI. When Facebook first came out, I was still in high school. On it, an entire school could organise, chat, meet, and actually engage with each other in a shared space. That feeling has been missing for a while now. What replaces it is not another content feed, but a network of things people build and share with each other. A world of social builders, where apps, agents, and tools move through friendships in the same way posts once did. Distribution also changes. It is not something you figure out after you build. It is there from the beginning. What you make is immediately usable by the people around you, and it spreads through group chats, classes, and campuses in a much more natural way. To make this work, you have to go deeper into the infrastructure than most products do. Web, mobile, messaging, email, identity all need to come together so these things can actually live and move between people. We’re moving from a world where people post, to a world where people build.
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What the great men and women of history did was actually outrospection, using recursive brain power to change their world to their will
A lot of you need to do more introspection, obviously.
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Doing greatness for fun is the way
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This photo from above of Alysa’s last spin… woah
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The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness (2009) is a short Ogilvy & Mather handbook inspired by David Ogilvy. It outlines 8 habits for creative excellence: Courage, Idealism, Curiosity, Playfulness, Candor, Intuition, Free-Spiritedness, and Persistence. These counter vices like fear and complacency, promoting "divine discontent"—endless striving for better in advertising and beyond. Rare print, but digital versions exist.
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