Co-Founder & CEO @cheerfy | Entrepreneur, Engineer, Optimist | @MIT @Techstars
Joined December 2009
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
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90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
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There are two loops in every founder's head.
The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.
The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.
Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.
PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.
Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.
There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
May 23
Esto de @perezreverte sobre Zapatero, que es de antes de que fuera imputado por delitos de corrupción, es sublime.
La comparación entre malos y tontos es de antología.
Es para poner en loop y verlo 10 veces, y después darle RT.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
May 12
La IA hará brutal la diferencia entre saber pensar y fingir que se sabe. El niño que lee, calcula y escribe bien la usará como bicicleta eléctrica para la inteligencia. El que no, como muleta para no aprender. La prosperidad empieza antes de la empresa, empieza en el aula.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Apr 28
Dotcom telecoms 2.0. We built fiber for traffic that took a decade to arrive. Half the carriers died waiting. OpenAI's $1.4T in compute commitments versus $20B revenue is the same script, same math. Infrastructure always overshoots. x.com/i/status/2049032633167…
Apr 28
OpenAI's CFO just told her own executives the company might not be able to pay its $1.4 trillion in compute bills. OpenAI makes $20 billion a year.
That's a 70-to-1 ratio between committed spend and current revenue. To clear those obligations, OpenAI has to grow an order of magnitude in five years and hold it for a decade. Sam said last week the target is "hundreds of billions" by 2030.
Friar has said three versions of this admission in three weeks. At WSJ Tech Live, she pitched a federal "backstop" for the financing, then walked it back when the backlash hit. With Cathie Wood, she reframed it as a compute shortage, saying OpenAI is "making tough trades" and turning down projects. Now WSJ has the internal version: she's worried they can't pay the bill.
Same statement, three audiences, urgency turned up each time. The internal version is always the real one.
The math underneath. Oracle: $300 billion over five years, $60 billion annually starting 2027. Microsoft: $250 billion. Nvidia: $100 billion in chip purchases, with Nvidia simultaneously investing $100 billion back into OpenAI to fund those purchases. AMD: 6 gigawatts of capacity, up to $300 billion. Broadcom: $350 billion. AWS: $38 billion. CoreWeave: $22 billion.
Annual compute spend ramps from $6 billion this year to $173 billion in 2029 to $295 billion in 2030. Tom Tunguz modeled it straight from the public contracts.
Microsoft took a $360 billion stock wipeout last week when investors learned 45% of its $625 billion commercial backlog, roughly $250 billion, is tied to OpenAI. Oracle has already borrowed against its deal, already started building, already committed years ahead of cash flow. HSBC estimates OpenAI has a $207 billion funding gap to meet what's already signed.
The "Nvidia invests in OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips" loop is the same trade five different ways. Capital flows from one balance sheet to another and books revenue at every stop. If OpenAI's revenue ramp stalls, the loop stops, and every company holding the contract marks it down at the same time.
Friar is the only person in the building with every contract on her desk at once. When she tells the room she's worried, the other three statements were warm-ups.
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The hottest job for the next five years is going to be the agent operator.
They don't need to be an engineer. They can walk into marketing, legal, or life sciences research and actually make agents work for that function.
Required skills:
> MCPs
> CLIs
> Writing skills (the file kind)
> agents.md fluency
> Business acumen
None of this is in any CS curriculum today.
Soon, enterprises will be pressured to redesign their workflows for agents, not for people. And when that happens, agent operators will be in massive demand.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Si no lo hubiera escrito hace 32 años lo volvería a escribir ahora.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Feb 19
The best founders I know don't retire — they just upgrade their obsession. The skills that built company #1 become the foundation for company #2, but with better pattern recognition and fewer dumb mistakes. The 'retirement' is just the refractory period between ideas.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Feb 20
If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.
Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Jan 29
AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Can’t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science
Jan 28
Our breakthrough AI model AlphaGenome is helping scientists understand our DNA, predict the molecular impact of genetic changes, and drive new biological discoveries. 🧬
Find out more in @Nature ↓ goo.gle/4bXlV6y
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Before you sell,
Before you quit,
Before you step down
Remember at best, we have 3 >real< start-ups in us as founders.
And often just 1 good one.
If you have any traction at all -- maybe find a way to make this one work.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
Jan 5
We don’t need more startup theatre. We need more innovators quietly building and shipping products that feel like magic. Building trust > buzzword filled posts.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
20 Dec 2025
If I could send my 18 year old self a message, it would have three parts:
1. Prestige is often mistaken. Follow curiosity instead.
2. There's no way to avoid hard work. It's not sufficient, but it is necessary.
3. Don't take your parents for granted.
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In 1971, money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat).
Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system.
Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves, new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
30 Oct 2025
You think it's the competition
The funding drama
Those lost key deals
That rough quarter
You think those are what wear you down
But it's the internal battles that do the real damage
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
17 Oct 2025
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4 employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
12 Oct 2025
Preparando la visita a Almaraz mañana.
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Carlos Gomez retweeted
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This should be a poster in every classroom.
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