founder & youtuber - prev: eng @stripe, founder @rib_gg (acquired), top 30 @starcraft player

Joined November 2012
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Theo breaks down the state of tech, founders, and being a creator all in one sitting "I'm gunna say things I'm gunna get in trouble for" We go over: - His journey to where he is today - The current state of tech - How to become an exceptional engineer - The downsides that come h being a creator - How he handles criticism Highlights: 05:03 - Dev job market & who's struggling 07:12 - How to become an exceptional engineer 20:38 - Get a job first, then startup 27:08 - YC vs other accelerators 39:07 - Creator-founders and why they're bad 56:18 - How Theo handles criticism 01:14:53 - Passion, depth, and "10x agency" 01:28:27 - "Make what you wish existed" 01:30:16 - How to get good at public speaking Definitely one of the most interesting discussions i've had in a while his authenticity & passion for what he does is contagious and honestly such a breath of fresh air in tech
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Startups are the new dropshipping - the majority of people are just focused on money, status, and signalling
This is incredibly low signal Chasing a VC is exactly what YC would tell you not to do. They would tell you to be relentlessly resourceful in finding customers. This just shows you’re doing everything to please VCs instead of focusing on customers.
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3 albums so he can go #1, 2, and 3 - he's the big 3 now
OFFICIAL ALBUM COVERS FOR DRAKE’S 3 ALBUMS DROPPING AT MIDNIGHT - ICEMAN - HABITI - MAID OF HONOUR
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we have some of the best engineering talent leave canada every year because building in Canada is horrible fix the leak before adding more water
Canada is seeking top talent, including: • medical doctors, researchers and senior managers with Canadian work experience • workers with French-language proficiency • health care and social services professionals • tradespersons • educators • professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations • professionals in transport occupations These categories provide clear pathways to permanent residence for top international talent. Find out how Express Entry category-based rounds of invitations work: bit.ly/4s0UAFi
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holy shit lmao
Paul You peaked at Engagement Manager at McKinsey In 2015 During the easiest economic conditions in a century Your other credential is Operations Manager at Amazon 40,000 people hold that title simultaneously That is your resume That is what you are standing on when you tell strangers how to conduct themselves professionally You have publicly discussed failing with matchmaking services You have posted multiple times about entitled women You pay for a service designed to produce dates and it produces nothing and you blame the product The man who cannot generate interest through a system engineered to generate interest is giving unsolicited professional advice to strangers at midnight You look like you moderate 4 Discord servers You post like someone whose opinions have never been requested in a room with a door You carry the energy of a man who corners people at conferences and doesn't notice them looking for the exit Then you posted a 7-tweet thread about social media killing $300K job offers You used your own social media to publicly police a stranger's selfie And then lectured the internet about how employers judge social media You are the red flag in your own thread I scrolled through the profile you decided to correct It is mostly pictures/selfies of her running Running consistently Which if your McKinsey brain could still produce a thought without a 2x2 matrix you would recognise as a signal of discipline, accountability, and someone who can commit to something long term That is literally the trait you claim to value in your thread about professional credibility And you looked at it and saw a selfie problem Because your pattern recognition is so broken by whatever is happening in your personal life that you cannot process a woman being visible without experiencing it as something that needs to be corrected You absolute fucking moron The information was right there You had the data You drew the wrong conclusion That is not a social media literacy issue That is a you issue And it explains the matchmaking results better than anything I could write If I was hiring and saw a candidate doing what you did I would pull the offer before the background check finished Zero social calibration Zero awareness of how unsolicited corrections land HR incident within 90 days "Could care less if you listen" It is "couldn't care less" "Could care less" means you care Based on 4 follow-up replies to someone who was clearly not interested you care significantly About a stranger's selfie At midnight "Genuine feedback from a place of kindness" Every person who cannot mind their own business uses this sentence It is not kindness It is the compulsion to correct people who did not ask by someone whose authority to correct is visible to nobody except himself The Halo Effect is one of the most documented cognitive biases in existence Decades of research Every industry Presentation affects perception You know this You resent it And you process that resentment by lecturing strangers instead of fixing yourself Paul You are a loser I say this because the pattern is specific A man who is unhappy Who cannot generate the respect he believes he deserves Who processes that by diminishing strangers who did nothing to him It has never worked It will never work You are the common variable in every failed interaction you have described on this platform And maybe if you stopped spending your evenings correcting strangers on the internet and started being a genuinely decent person things would change Not because you learned a technique Because you became someone people don't instinctively avoid That is the only thing that has ever worked It is free It requires becoming less of what you currently are You are not going to do this You are going to read this and feel attacked and post something about how "the haters prove the message resonated" and learn absolutely nothing Because that is what you do That is all you do NGMI Everyone can see it Paul Except you I scrolled through the person's profile you decided to correct Most of the pictures are running content That is someone who gets up and runs That is discipline That is accountability to yourself That is the exact quality you claim to value in your shitty thread about high-performance careers A person who runs consistently and posts about it is demonstrating the same trait you lecture people about from your McKinsey Engagement Manager pedestal. but your ex-consulting brain can't produce that thought without a 2x2 matrix and a hypothesis-driven framework to arrive at a conclusion that a normal human being sees in 3 seconds you are genuinely never going to make it, to the place where you think your heading and speaking of things you produced that nobody asked for "I wrote the book nobody in a corner office wants you to read" "Reviewed by 7 consulting partners and PE MDs who refused to be named" Refused to be named 7 people reviewed your book and not a single one of them was willing to have their name associated with it publicly You framed this as mystique This is not mystique This is 7 people who read your book and said "sure Paul it's fine but please do not tell anyone I was involved" that is a restraining order from your own endorsers "Every email you send is a power move. Most people just don't know the rules" You are writing about email power moves In 2026 A man who peaked at middle management 12 years ago wrote a book about email strategy and got 7 anonymous reviews from people who are embarrassed to know him and then went on the internet to tell a stranger that their selfie is unprofessional This is the most complete portrait of a man who has absolutely nothing going on that I have ever assembled and I did not have to try hard because you provided all the materials yourself You are a clown Paul An actual clown With a book nobody will read Reviews nobody will claim Opinions nobody requested And a matchmaking profile that produces the same results as your career advice: nothing, for anyone, ever Everyone can see it Except you
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startup founders doing shady shit thinking itll never backfire
His muscle memory made him start walking on all fours.
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needing this many accounts says volumes about the quality of the content
I thought having 40 TikTok accounts was already insane. But this guy running 600 accounts with 69k posted videos. 🫠 At this point, organic growth is no longer about “posting content.” It’s about building a distribution machine. Virality depends on luck. But volume increases luck. i need more accounts 🥴
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fitbit is still around?
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If you bought a Whoop, I feel sorry for you. Google’s Fitbit Air just made it look silly - $100 one time payment vs Whoop’s $199–$359/year forever - Free tier actually works HR, sleep, SpO2, HRV, recovery, no paywall - Optional $10/mo for Gemini Health Coach (vs Whoop where the sub is mandatory) - Gemini analyzes meal photos, not just biometrics. Whoop can’t touch that - Conversational health AI ask questions like why was I tired Tuesday?and get a real answer - Open data platform Apple Watch, Garmin, third-party data all flow into Google Health - 7-day battery, 5-min quick charge = full day -Whoop just got a $10B valuation… and Google undercut them by 50% on day one
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the world needs a startup that flags bullshit self proclaimed titles like “the worlds first personal intelligence” like i get that’s what you might have pitched your investors but the rest of the world isn’t that stupid
We’ve raised 25M to build the world’s first Personal Intelligence. Introducing Vellum: AI that belongs to you. My assistant @ash_vellum has his own X (like grok), tag him and he'll answer.
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paul it sounds like you might not understand how social media works at all
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After having a baby i’ve realized how much AI content has really changed Google for the worse. I only use Google if i want authentic human written information, and all the top 10 websites with baby information is just plastered with low effort AI slop GEO/SEO farming sites. If I wanted info from an AI i would have just asked one.
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the enemy of my enemy is my friend
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
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Milo is the best investor we’ve ever had, highly recommend taking a cheque from him. Aside from the 80% we gave him in exchange for his weekly “taste audit” calls, he’s also been extremely helpful with discouraging our competitors by shit posting on X. If your VC ain’t on X 10 hours a day hating on the competition they aren’t your VC, they’re just your boss.
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“viral” content so good that they had to pay a bunch of X accounts to quote tweet it
viral AI startup launches don't happen by accident... there's maybe 5 agencies in the game who can engineer them on demand these guys are one of them
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This is a serious problem on X The majority of “viral” launch posts are completely manufactured by undisclosed advertisements in the form of quote tweets. @nikitabier something needs to change because it’s getting pretty old
real talk - is the only way to get people to read or watch your stuff now to ask/pay people to quote tweet it and say "wow excellent read"? I'm kinda shocked at the number of DMs I get from people asking to reshare their post - clearly the whole thing is gamified I work really hard on the articles I write and I never ask people to explicitly repost them. Probably out of pride and of the silly belief that people would share it if they got value it But I think that's been to my detriment, I just dislike the new meta
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Milo’s GTM is absolutely genius He’s been hating on every startup for the past 3 months so when he launches his engagement will be through the roof. something something “no such thing as bad publicity”
the most annoying person you've ever met is always a few weeks away from shipping
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when token prices finally go up we’re all gunna be cooked
new study finds that Gen Z prefers prompting codex 5-5 over having sex (per @sama)
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required reading for anyone trying to make a positive impact in the world
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finally some chaotic good in tech
Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.
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Anthony Sistilli retweeted
Welcome @sistilli to Superteam Canada! 🔥 Co-founder of Sidestack, as well as a YouTube and Instagram creator. Ex-Stripe, built and exited RIB GG, and once a top 30 StarCraft player. Builder energy all around. Welcome Anthony! 👍🍁
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