CEO and Founder @Spektergames — 5x founder with multiple exits including @nWayGames, Pixelberry, Nurien, and IvyConnection. @a16z speedrun scout.
Joined March 2008
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Spekter City Open Beta is live!
No web3 features yet, still focused on what matters most: fun gameplay and strong economy.
Max out your vehicles and expand your fleet now as those will matter when Web3 features go live at full launch.
See you inside: t.me/spektercity_bot
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Spekter City's Phantom League is going live on June 24th!
Jun 12
How can I join Phantom League and earn TON from Spekter City!?
Phantom League is a high-stakes, seasonal competitive mode where top Operators compete to earn sTON, a digital currency that may be redeemed for TON in accordance with the Phantom League rules.
In this trailer, you will learn how to earn TON and utilize the best strategies to dominate in Spekter City.
Phantom League starts on JUNE 24. Make sure to watch and learn how to stay ahead of everyone else!
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Jun 10
Season 2 is Now Officially Closed 🏁
Season 3 begins today at 6PM PST // 1AM UTC // 9AM PHT)
Here is the FIRST thing waiting for you in S3:
In @SpekterCity , Phantom League will go live on June 24. This is a high-stakes, seasonal competitive mode where top Operators go head-to-head for a shot at earning sTON, a digital currency redeemable for TON. Make sure to fully upgrade your epic and legendary vehicles! If you've been waiting for a reason to climb the ranks, this is it.
We are also preparing some more exciting launches coming soon 👀
On Spek Vault Rewards: We are currently evaluating and confirming all data. Once verification is complete, Spek Vault rewards will be distributed to all qualifying players. We appreciate your patience while we make sure everything is accurate.
See you on the field 🫡
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TK retweeted
Jun 8
Any founder dissuaded by an investor saying "Apple/Google will do this" or now "the labs will do this" should also introspect on their level of commitment to the idea.
That said, if you're directly in their tracks, ensure that (1) the market is big enough for more than one company to win in, and (2) your velocity advantage outpaces their distribution advantage.
Jun 8
"What if the model companies do this?" is the new "What if Google does this?" I.e. the meaningless question investors ask that shows either that they're stupid or that they dislike you and are looking for ways to find fault.
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Excited to announce Phantom League! High-stakes competitive mode for the top players in Spekter City. More information to roll out over the next few weeks.
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The events of the last 6 months in technology are arguable amongst the most important in human history
The tools now increasingly exist for recursive self improvement of models & agents
We are likely in very early lift off & exponential
Largely unnoticed outside of tech
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Congrats @ArtinBogdanov on shipping SUN Skill, an open-source Claude Code skill that saves AI-generated audio courses straight to your Spotify! @sunapp_ai is a fellow @speedrun company from SR006.
May 14
A few days ago, @GustavS showed save-to-spotify: a @Spotify skill that lets agents turn calendar, news, and Slack updates into private podcasts.
We loved the behavior and put a SUN-spin on it!☀️
And today we’re launching sun-to-spotify, an open-source Claude Code skill that turns a topic, prompt, or file into a ready-to-listen audio course you can save privately to Spotify.
My life right now has three tabs open at all times: startup, marriage, infant son. Along with your usual other 67 tabs of research, meeting notes, studies, Slack updates, product docs, or the thing everyone is suddenly posting about.
So, the point is the same: if it can become audio, it has a better chance of actually making it into your day.
Especially if it shows up right next to your workout playlist and suspiciously specific late-night podcasts👀
SUN for your next era of audio learning. Now, SUN for your Spotify library too.
Check out the demo 👇 and play around with the skill (link is in the comments).
Tell us what you created!
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Congrats to @a_p_c_1120 and @spacero on finally unveiling @aeren_app. Your personal AI agent that will help you look younger and hotter! If you care about looksmaxxing per @im_roy_lee's suggestion, join the waitlist!
May 17
Aesthetic decisions are expensive, personal, and often irreversible, yet the guidance is fragmented and just plain unreliable.
We're building AEREN to change that.
A personalized AI for aesthetics that proactively guides you from skincare to cosmetic surgery, powered by real outcomes from people like you.
Join the waitlist → aeren.ai
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Disclosure: I worked closely with both @a_p_c_1120 and @spacero at my previous startups, and they are amazing operators and builders. They are going to be exceptional founders. I'm also an investor in aeren.
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Less than 48 hours left until the speedrun 007 application deadline.
Thanks to everyone who's been DMing me for referrals and scout checks. I've been getting hundreds of DMs and a few common mistakes I keep seeing:
1. When you send your company blurb, it should be one paragraph on what you are building, and another paragraph on you and your team. Both should be about equal length.
2. Investors spend less than a minute skimming your deck. Keep it clear, visual, and easy to digest. Avoid walls of text. Your core idea and traction should be understandable in less than a minute.
3. Your team slide is the most important slide in the deck. Brag about yourselves to the point of being uncomfortable. Quantify your achievements. Make it visual with logos of companies, products, brands, schools, exits, or anything else that help convey your awesomeness.
If you are thinking about applying, now is the time to do it. Send me a DM if you are a cracked team building something awesome and want to be referred / considered for a scout check. Good luck to all!
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May 15
UPDATE: we've been hard at work to grow the total value of partner credits on our a16z @speedrun marketplace. We are now have over $7M in savings available to founders as soon as they get into the program!
Want in? This is your last weekend to apply. Don't miss your chance.
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People are becoming increasingly comfortable sharing personal data with AI in exchange for better recommendations and outcomes. Personalized AI agents specialized in specific verticals, with deep access to user history, preferences, and intent data, have the potential to become incredibly powerful distribution platforms for those industries.
In the AI era, the next great software distribution company won’t look like an app store
For the last decade-plus, building a strong software business was mostly a game of scarcity. The hard part was assembling the capital, taste, engineering, and distribution to build one enduring app. The discovery systems we built matched that world: app stores, SEO, search bars, rankings, reviews, ads, marketplaces
AI has blown up these constraints
Soon, anyone will be able to generate software for anything: a workout injury, a work project, a personal workflow, a one-off analysis, a weird niche need only they have, maybe only in a single moment
Some apps will last forever, but most won’t. Many will exist for minutes or hours, and be created even faster
But just because software can be created at the speed of thought doesn’t mean everyone will become a developer. Most people won’t want to prompt, build, debug, deploy, or manage software. They’ll just want to be matched with the right tool for the job in front of them
The same technological wave enabling software creation at scale is also breaking software distribution at scale. Search assumes the best answer already exists somewhere. App stores assume software is something you browse, compare, install, and keep
In a world of personal software, the real question becomes: Who understands enough about me, or has earned enough trust from me, to know what software should exist for me right now?
The next great app distribution companies may look less like search engines and more like trusted relationships
Some will win by importing and processing personal context: your goals, constraints, calendar, body, files, workflows, history, collaborators, and intent. Others will win by exporting taste and trust: experts, creators, communities, agents, and brands that people rely on to decide what is worth using
Either way, the new gateway won’t be a search box or an app store shelf. It will be the layer that recommends, assembles, routes, and personalizes software at the moment of need
This is the new frontier: context, recommendation, trust, and distribution in the age of infinite software
If you’re building platforms or experiences for this future, we want to meet you. Apply to @speedrun. Applications for SR007 close this weekend
Application link below
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A friend's startup is growing at 93% a month. I pointed out that her net worth is also growing at 93% a month, and that she can thus feel, in her own life, the falsity of politicians' claim that you have to do bad things to get rich. They're just focusing on making users happy.
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a16z speedrun applications close in just 5 days, on May 17th at 11:59pm PST. If you are applying or already applied and believe you're building something special, DM me what you're working on with a quick intro on the team. As a scout, I can refer founders directly to the speedrun team, and in some cases write a small investment check in < 24hrs if I see strong potential.
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Huge respect for Tom and the team for helping founders outside the US and making speedrun more global. This type of work is what makes speedrun so amazing.
30 of the 70 companies in our last @speedrun batch had founders born outside the US
and if we keep doing our job – and we will – that number is only going up:
* founders building products teams internationally
* builders stuck in an H-1B job ready to accelerate their slope
* students here on F-1 who are ready to take a shot at their startup idea
Speedrun Global Founders is our answer >> our end-to-end approach to guiding founders through visas, customs, housing, banking, and building local SF community, while enabling founders from all over the globe to participate in Speedrun
we also have the coolest hat in venture - maybe thats a lame flex, but i honestly challenge you to show me better vc drip
you might catch a few of our founders wearing them today. come through Global Founders and I’ll bring you one 🫡
-apply below my friends-
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a16z SR007 applications are open: speedrun.a16z.com
If you are building something awesome and are considering applying or have already applied, DM me on what you are building. As a scout I can refer you and write a check for a small investment < 24hr if I like what I see.
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