Artist-entrepreneurs are the rarest breed. If you find one, never let them go.

we turned this 54-room hotel into the world’s first-ever hacker hotel, startup incubator and research lab, all combined into one. we cover flights, food, and your own hotel room for three months. we take 0% equity, no strings attached. this is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to

"People love browsing the aisles—that is a deeply human experience that will stand the test of time" –Blockbuster Executive in the 2000's "ChatGPT hallucinates" –Lawyer, Accountant, Bookkeeper, Admin, Analyst today

'4000 weeks' is by far the most insane framing for how short life is.

One of the questions I ask startups is how long it's been possible to do what they're doing. Ideally it has only been possible for a few years. A couple days ago I asked this during office hours, and the founders said "since December." What's possible now changes in months.

Super excited to introduce SO-101 today from Hugging Face, in collaboration with Rob Knight, Wowrobo, Seeedstudio & Partabot. Building on top of the insanely successful SO-100 (the most popular robot arms ever?), SO-101 are the first robot arms any AI builder should buy.

The more control you have over your attention, the more control you have over your future. And it starts with having enough courage to protect your time. It's so easy to say yes. We want to be agreeable, helpful, liked. That's how time disappears and attention becomes

Today I'm excited to announce Tomorrow: an AI-native product studio. We're completely rethinking what a product studio can be in the AI era…small teams, creative vision, minimal funding and intense focus. tomorrowstudio.ai Tomorrow studio

What was Jony Ive doing that was worth $6.5 billion dollars?

If I had to guess, whatever they make together will not have a screen. This would be the true divergence from devices today. Screens are obvious, breaking away would be the move. So the guess would be some sort of AirPod-style thing that is audio only. Audio feels future.

"The most elusive of human goals: keeping things simple and remembering what you set out to do." —Charlie Munger

Denial is a silent killer of startups. Almost every major change we made at Replit came later than it should have because it was too painful to come to terms with reality. That’s why today one of our operating principles is SEEK PAIN.

working on mediocre things is a disrespect to life. being risk averse is a disrespect to life. waking up and doing things that are not your life’s work is a disrespect to life. not taking a swing at pursuing the biggest opportunity in front of your eyes is a disrespect to life

Asked the Head of AI at a Fortune 500 how he decides buy vs build, and his framework feels widely applicable: “we buy what accelerates us, and build what differentiates us”

It took years for Replit to get to $11k MRR, but now companies built on Replit take mere months to get there! “You have a platform when the economic value of its users exceeds that of the company creating it” - Bill Gates

How you do anything is how you do everything. Are you in the details? Do you have taste? I want to be surrounded people for whom this is all a "hell yes." Those are basically the only founders I want to fund.

just build the company you wish to work for

Work on your best idea. Don't diversify.

Following the H1B order, California may become an independent country.

You need to relocate your H-1B visa holders to Switzerland ? My DMs are open :)