Eloi vs Morlocks

↘️ Quoting Adam Singer (@AdamSinger)

Everyone thinks we're going to Wall-E or Idiocracy world. But this wholesale assumes *everyone* will be dumbed down, which seems unlikely. Enough humans who don’t want to live like that will persist.…

↘️ Quoting Radar🚨 (@RadarHits)

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The Senator who said “Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador," was just indicted on 18 counts for obstruction of justice.

Federal Prosecutors seized $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden…

All this stuff taught me that you shouldn't at all be impressed by rich people

Be impressed by nice people making cool stuff instead

↘️ Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

Not VCs but I got quite bad taste from dealing with Dutch rich guys who acted like angel…

X can be your new notes app

Instead of writing your notes privately in Apple Notes or Obsidian

Just write them as tweets and see the entire world chime into your live thought stream

And you'll learn a lot

Tell that to these founders who all got kicked out of the companies they founded:
- Steve Jobs, Apple
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter
- Travis Kalanick, Uber
- Andrew Mason, Groupon
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo
- Rob Kalin, Etsy

Almost:
- Sam Altman, Open AI

These are not…

Tell that to these founders who all got kicked out of the companies they founded:
- Steve Jobs, Apple
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter
- Travis Kalanick, Uber
- Andrew Mason, Groupon
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo
- Rob Kalin, Etsy

Almost:
- Sam Altman, Open AI

These are noyy…

Tell that to these founders who all got kicked out of the companies they founded, not small ones either (the odds you get kicked out get higher when it's successful)
- Steve Jobs, Apple
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter
- Travis Kalanick, Uber
- Andrew Mason, Groupon…

Many such cases

↘️ Quoting Slava (@mzaas)

@levelsio I worked with VCs in my startup at pressed($500k), seed($2M) and A($5M) round, there were 3 funders of us, investors did everything so that the founders would not get anything at the end.

Honestly not farming attention, just discussing something that happens to founders

People don't come out to tell the bad experiences for fear of reprisal and ending your startup career early by talking bad about VCs

But my DM is full of stories like these…

AGI by September 2024 https://youtu.be/pUye38cooOE?si=FOqX48hWLdCdgvs_

People say "I don't have ideas" etc

And I think sometimes it can be just your environment

If I am traveling a lot, and am in loud and hot environments with lots of people, and moving around all the time my brain goes in survival mode and there's zero creativity…

I have found the 📈 STONKS guy on X

Please everyone follow @gasvianiu

↘️ Quoting Ucha Gasviani (@gasvianiu)

@levelsio When and where were generated your "brilliant" ideas?

✨ Added [ Prompt ] text box to 🏡 http://InteriorAI.com so you can add stuff to your interior designs by typing

I didn't have prompting for 1 year+ because for interior design I think the interface should make it easy to do everything without typing

But…

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So many founders in my DMs now who want to tell their stories of getting kicked out of the startup they built by VCs

None of them can talk publicly about it because they signed NDAs and are NOT allowed to talk about it or they get sued or lose a lot of…

✅ New screen for $1500 (official Apple)

↘️ Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

Walked into the hotel table that was like 10,000kg and got a haircut in my leg bone

✅ broke MacBook screen
✅ broke leg bone

Next: break my neck with this angle 😀

Even @dhh said it in this video from now 14 years ago (!) why VC-funded founders don't talk about the bad sides of VC publicly

"When you're in that situation [of having raised money] and you're an addict, it's a pretty bad idea to piss off your dealer [VCs]…

I just thought

The Google of 2005 would have probably launched a Podcasts tab once podcasts started taking off

And they would have let you search ANY podcast

And they'd be 24/7 auto transcribing any new podcasts published immediately

↘️ Quoting Arvid…

Passed 15 customers @ $150 MRR for AI life coach 💆 http://cbt.chat

↘️ Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

Trying Claude 3 today by @AnthropicAI for http://cbt.chat

At first glance it feels slightly better than GPT4 and way better than Mistral etc.

The first…

Another crazy story from my inbox:

Guy grows startup to $10M ARR in 3 years

Raises $$$ from investors

Within 1.5 years, investors kick out the entire original founding team and appoint a new CEO

New CEO now calls himself the founder!

↘️ Quoting @levelsio…

↘️ Quoting brett goldstein (@thatguybg)

@levelsio what does the life coach say about celebrating such a milestone?