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Elon runs six multi billion-dollar companies simultaneously (SpaceX, Tesla, X, xAI, Neuralink, and Boring Company) Most founders can’t run one. Walter Isaacson (who spent a year shadowing Elon and wrote his biography) explains ‘How Elon does it’ on a podcast Thread 🧵
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Very amazing email to get: “Hi JCal, Chamath, 55 days ago you two had a 4 minute conversation about EAs and Athena. Since then we have: closed $29M in new revenue 🤯 seen a -53% decrease in blended CaC, placed 683 Athena executive partners ❤️  683 new jobs!!” If you are looking for an EA, try Athena - they are excellent, only cost $3k/mo and you are helping some amazing people around the world upgrade their quality of life. Athena.com
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Jonathan Swanson retweeted
The best recruiting signal is often sitting in public GitHub data. Today, we’re open sourcing the data layer we use to help founders recruit exceptional engineers. research.powerset.co/posts/r…
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Actually, someone should MVP a version of this on top of X Take top 1000 accounts in tech and use LLMs prediction markets to score each for accuracy Then create a list on X of the top 5% most accurate And once/month refresh the list
the next social network is a prediction market where your feed is ranked by accuracy not engagement. the person who is right 80% of the time gets seen while the person who is loud gets buried
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I want this
the next social network is a prediction market where your feed is ranked by accuracy not engagement. the person who is right 80% of the time gets seen while the person who is loud gets buried
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Wild stat: one organic mention from @chamath and @Jason on the @theallinpod drove 2x more pipeline for @athenago in one week than Jude Law drove for Legora in 30 days. 🤯 All-In > Hollywood.
Wild stat: the Jude Law campaign Legora ran last month generated $50M in qualified pipe in the subsequent 30 days. 🤯
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Jonathan Swanson retweeted
3/ Angel investing complements company-building. On average, our founders have increased their own valuations by 5x in 2.5 years since joining Powerset. Powerset provides full-stack legal and back office support, so founders stay focused on their companies.
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2/ Since Q1’23, our founders have seeded 100 companies including Deeptune, Braintrust, and OpenCode. In aggregate, investments from our first two cohorts are already marked at ~2x net (ahead of top VCs from this vintage).
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Jonathan Swanson retweeted
1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 4, where top founders get their own $ 1M fund for angel investing. Last year, Anton Osika (Lovable) and other elite founders joined Cohort 3. Our founders have deployed $ 20M so far and are outperforming top VCs.
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Torenberg in his zone of genius. Excited for this!
Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Austin Rief, Ryan Delk, Jonathan Swanson and more. The founding team includes @ChrisJBakke @theojaffee @gbrl_dick , @netcapgirl, among others. MTS’s initial hosts include the above as well as @MarkHalperin @creatine_cycle @amitisinvesting @labenz @JackFarley96 @jessegenet @stevesi , and more experts across tech, finance, politics, and culture.  MTS aims to be the best place in the world to make sense of what’s happening, *right now*, and it’ll be on X.  This was the original vision for CNN by the way. They called it “Randemonium”. The idea was, whatever the Current Thing happening in the world, put it on CNN full time, cover it from every possible angle, and keep it running until a more important Current Thing comes along. The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening.  Essentially, what the hell is happening and why? The world’s an incredibly complex and erratic place and trying to figure that out is a lifetime occupation.  Figuring that out is the occupation of MTS. To Monitor the Situation is to watch history in the making.  P.S. MTS is looking for hosts, guests, sponsors, teammates, and other monitors to help make sense of what’s happening. Reach out if this is you, and feel free to join the MTS discord.
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Great point
$6m post in 1977, just adjusting for inflation, is $32m post today And today’s startups are much easier to scale! Anchoring on this, the “seed prices today are insane” discourse gets weak fast
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A great book written by the best dude
🚨📕 THE BOOK OF ELON IS NOW LIVE!!! 🎉🚀 This is the book we WISHED @elonmusk would write… “All of Elon's most useful ideas, in his own words.” Learn directly from the world’s greatest entrepreneur, like you’re sitting across from him at dinner. It took FIVE YEARS to make this for you. Because it's built from hundreds and hundreds of Elon's public appearances. I went through 3,000,000 words to collect the most useful and timeless ideas. The final book is ~50,000 words. Every word is USEFUL. (This is what I do. My first book, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, is one of the top 100 most highlighted books of all time on Kindle.) Then, I spent $50,000 on editing and design so it looks and feels beautiful. Then… > Foreword by @naval. > Visuals by @jackbutcher. > Blurb from @mrbeast. > Published by @scribemediaco. > And yes, approval on this idea from Elon himself, thanks to @samteller. I went Maximum Effort to make this an all-timer. We got 10/10 on reviews from early readers, then worked on it for ANOTHER YEAR. Why so much effort? My mission is to create One Million Musks. For a generation to lift our gaze and build, so our grandchildren live in a world beyond our wildest dreams. I’m an independent author. I don’t get an advance. I risk my own time and money to make these books. Then we give away millions of them. Digital versions are free. I believe this book can benefit every human, and if you can’t pay five bucks for it, I want to personally gift it to you. Because I know it is useful. Useful how? You may be seeking purpose, a mission worthy of your life’s effort. You may have a clear purpose and seek the tools for success. You will find both in this book. Get the benefits of Elon’s entire life of hard-won lessons in a five-hour, easy read. (I checked, it’s a 5th-grade reading level.) You’ll feel personally mentored by the greatest entrepreneur in history. Click below to buy it now on Amazon, Audible, or directly from me. Amazon: amzn.to/47avSuh Audible: lnkd.in/gi_7HrFP Me: lnkd.in/gS2xWUWH If you’re not sure it’s worth $4.99 yet, just start reading the free version. PLEASE take 6 seconds to Like, Bookmark, and Repost. Even better: send this to your friends, team, or Group Chats! I guarantee this book will improve their lives. Spread the word! Every little thing helps. Your support spreads good ideas around the world, helping people and making the future better for everyone. Thank you! Forward. Together.
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Exponential take off 🔥 First in code, coming soon to rest of economy
We replicated the @SemiAnalysis_ estimate that ~4% of public GitHub commits are being authored by Claude Code. Moreover, this figure is growing exponentially.
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The power law of venture, open source edition: a16z > all other early-stage VCs combined
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found: • Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025 • Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed • a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined More below
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Jonathan Swanson retweeted
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: I've wanted to interview @swaaanson for YEARS. The dude has life figured out. He delegates everything from inboxes to baby monitors across six personal assistants. We talk about: - Founding and evolving vision for Athena - World-class delegation with personal examples - Unlocking time freedom
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What is the impact of foreign, remote labor on the US economy? Athena's @swaaanson explains his view, along with how people are using this labor to drive GDP growth in America.
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Silicon Valley cycle of life: Everyone wants to be a manager, until they manage Everyone wants to be VP, until they are VP Everyone wants to be CEO, until they are CEO Everyone wants to IPO, until they are public Seen it a hundred times 😂
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2. Partner program Shopify's partner program wasn't just distribution—it was delegation at scale. Design agencies get 20% of subscription revenue for life when they bring in merchants. Lütke turned thousands of small agencies into Shopify's growth engine.
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3. Delegation The 2009 strategic move: Lütke opened Shopify's API, launching the Shopify App Store to delegate creating plugins for merchants to external developers By 2017, the ecosystem included over 1,400 apps offering solutions for marketing, shipping, accounting and more.
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