Paul Yacoubian

Paul Yacoubian

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Exploring intelligence. Founder/CEO https://t.co/Qy1IFm2BvC (acq) | angel investor in lucky, dimensional, wiselayer, circle, replit, mercury, scale (acq), replicate (acq)

DoorDash Poised to Dominate Physical‑world Robotics Delivery Network
SocialMar 20, 2026

DoorDash Poised to Dominate Physical‑world Robotics Delivery Network

DoorDash will win the race to own the physical world robotics service network they already have drivers and the ability to deliver any type of services anywhere and are well positioned with the best leadership team

By Paul Yacoubian
Sports Turned Into Betting Ads, Friends Losing Fortunes
SocialMar 20, 2026

Sports Turned Into Betting Ads, Friends Losing Fortunes

i stopped watching sports with my kids because everything is an ad for betting now, even the tv channel itself i know almost a dozen close friends who have lost all their money on betting apps

By Paul Yacoubian
Claude Must Resolve .docx and .pptx Lookup Issue
SocialMar 20, 2026

Claude Must Resolve .docx and .pptx Lookup Issue

claude has got to fix this "let me look up .docx and .pptx skill" stuff in chat

By Paul Yacoubian
Assessing Asana's Net Promoter Score: Your Rating?
SocialMar 18, 2026

Assessing Asana's Net Promoter Score: Your Rating?

On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend Asana to a friend?

By Paul Yacoubian
Call for Deloitte to Flag Poor Profitability in Audits
SocialMar 18, 2026

Call for Deloitte to Flag Poor Profitability in Audits

need deloitte to start adding “yeah its GAAP but this p&l is dog shit.” to their audit opinion for garbage public companies

By Paul Yacoubian
Founders Confuse Sales Gaps with Product Flaws
SocialMar 13, 2026

Founders Confuse Sales Gaps with Product Flaws

seeng founders with sales pipeline problems masquerading as product problems you need to be stress testing messaging, positioning, pricing and packaging with the market just as much as you are stress testing the product final validation that the product works happens...

By Paul Yacoubian
Ad Giants Earn $600B, PM Tools Worth $2B—Opportunity Awaits
SocialMar 9, 2026

Ad Giants Earn $600B, PM Tools Worth $2B—Opportunity Awaits

How the fuck are google and meta doing $600b in ad revenue per year AND YET the software used to coordinate their campaigns (eg Asana Clickup Monday) only worth a couple billion dollars Seems like a big opportunity to grab some...

By Paul Yacoubian
Do AI Company Employees Deserve Access to Your Chats?
SocialMar 1, 2026

Do AI Company Employees Deserve Access to Your Chats?

Should employees at openai, anyhropic, google etc be able to continue to read your ai chats?

By Paul Yacoubian
Free 6‑Month Claude Max: The New Severance Perk
SocialFeb 27, 2026

Free 6‑Month Claude Max: The New Severance Perk

a free 6mo subscription to claude max 20x is the hot new employee severance benefit

By Paul Yacoubian
Turn Unemployment Into AI Mastery Through Hands‑on Coding
SocialFeb 27, 2026

Turn Unemployment Into AI Mastery Through Hands‑on Coding

The fastest way to upskill to ai is to get fired, become unemployed and learn to vibe code apps and get addicted to building.

By Paul Yacoubian
OpenAI Labs Sneakily Appoint Farza as Dev‑rel Star
SocialFeb 26, 2026

OpenAI Labs Sneakily Appoint Farza as Dev‑rel Star

watch openai labs back door their way into getting farza to be dev rel extraordinaire

By Paul Yacoubian
OpenAI's 800M WAUs Show Chart
SocialFeb 23, 2026

OpenAI's 800M WAUs Show Chart

If OpenAI has 800m WAUs then this chart grossly overestimates the number of people who have never tried ai chatbots

By Paul Yacoubian
AI Founders & VCs Lack Corporate Experience, Hiring Suffers
SocialFeb 13, 2026

AI Founders & VCs Lack Corporate Experience, Hiring Suffers

you got ai founders who have never worked at a company before getting funding from VCs who have never worked in a company before the new hires are dog shit big problem to be on the lookout for

By Paul Yacoubian
Suno to Grant Rick Rubin 5% for Data License
SocialJan 8, 2026

Suno to Grant Rick Rubin 5% for Data License

Suno should give Rick Rubin 5% of the company in exchange for an exclusive license to his personal training data for a producer feedback model (TLDR do not RHLF on the user plz, it will be slop)

By Paul Yacoubian
AI Eliminates Execution Costs; Build 10 Projects in 90 Days
SocialJan 8, 2026

AI Eliminates Execution Costs; Build 10 Projects in 90 Days

AI is taking the cost of execution to zero, and the value of ideas up (not down), because you will be able to build everything without constraints of execution. The best way to prepare for this shift, is to build 10...

By Paul Yacoubian
Users Demand Voice Cloning and Granular Editing Features
SocialJan 8, 2026

Users Demand Voice Cloning and Granular Editing Features

Feature requests for Suno (@MikeyShulman) Would love an ElevenLabs clone of my voice as an option. Would also love Descript style word by word editting or regeneration to keep the best phrases in.

By Paul Yacoubian
Outsourcing Data Centers Fuels Nuclear‑Powered Startup Boom
SocialJan 2, 2026

Outsourcing Data Centers Fuels Nuclear‑Powered Startup Boom

Silicon Valley outsourcing physical data centers to other geographies will prove to be extremely shortsighted locales that get the data centers will be first in line to install low cost nuclear power plants those low cost plants will spawn next gen industrial...

By Paul Yacoubian
Trump Proposes $100B AI Fund in Austin
SocialJan 1, 2026

Trump Proposes $100B AI Fund in Austin

trump should set up a $100b ai startup fund via us treasury based in austin tx

By Paul Yacoubian
Tesla FSD Proves Its Worth Amid Ongoing Skepticism
SocialDec 31, 2025

Tesla FSD Proves Its Worth Amid Ongoing Skepticism

Telsa FSD works and is incredible, yet people on twitter will still post stuff like “elon overpromises and FSD is never going to happen”. I wonder how many years this can go on for.

By Paul Yacoubian
AI Data Centers: The New Token Factories of Manufacturing
SocialDec 25, 2025

AI Data Centers: The New Token Factories of Manufacturing

ai data centers should rebrand to “token factories” and be considered a key part of our manufacturing base

By Paul Yacoubian
Predictable Gains: Model Performance Scales With Compute
SocialDec 19, 2025

Predictable Gains: Model Performance Scales With Compute

Scaling Laws

By Paul Yacoubian
Google's AI Loop Fuels Endless Startup Creation
SocialDec 16, 2025

Google's AI Loop Fuels Endless Startup Creation

Google is building an RL environment for infinite startups Use Gemini to ideate and build the product/service Use Google ad platform to sell it Repeat

By Paul Yacoubian
Google's Gemini Enables End‑to‑End Business Creation Loop
SocialDec 15, 2025

Google's Gemini Enables End‑to‑End Business Creation Loop

google will complete the first full business creation to product market fit feedback closed loop use gemini to ideate and scope ideas use gemini to build the product/service use google ads to market the service

By Paul Yacoubian
New Prompt Generates Brilliant Startup Ideas Instantly
SocialDec 11, 2025

New Prompt Generates Brilliant Startup Ideas Instantly

Just found a chat prompt that finally produces fabulous startup ideas 🥹

By Paul Yacoubian
AI Breakthroughs Hinge on Ever-Faster GPUs
SocialDec 10, 2025

AI Breakthroughs Hinge on Ever-Faster GPUs

Ilya in 2016 "Our advances depend on GPUs being fast." https://t.co/MBmV24kdEw

By Paul Yacoubian
Humanoid Robotics Target $780B Market, Nursing $322B
SocialDec 10, 2025

Humanoid Robotics Target $780B Market, Nursing $322B

Just did the math and there are 12 verticals for humanoid robotics that have TAMs over $50b (total is $780b), assuming ~1:1 ratio of people to humanoids, that's $390b of direct SAM This excludes nursing which is probably the most valuable...

By Paul Yacoubian
Humanoid Reliability: 30 Actuators Fail Every 300 Hours
SocialDec 9, 2025

Humanoid Reliability: 30 Actuators Fail Every 300 Hours

Biggest issue for large scale Humanoid deployment is reliability. You have 30 actuators with 10,000 hr est. life, that equates to a failure every 300 hours on average according to Lusser's Law of series system reliability. The hand is likely to...

By Paul Yacoubian
Legs or Wheels Enable Versatile, Cost‑Effective Humanoid Robots
SocialDec 9, 2025

Legs or Wheels Enable Versatile, Cost‑Effective Humanoid Robots

The reason humanoids should have legs or offroad wheels is that you have to perform tasks with the bots in different environments with the same robots (to lower unit cost of tasks), if you have have to have a human...

By Paul Yacoubian
Unitree Thrives without Dev Ecosystem; Tesla Stays Closed
SocialDec 9, 2025

Unitree Thrives without Dev Ecosystem; Tesla Stays Closed

Unitree is winning without any semblance of a developer ecosystem. While Tesla appears to have no interest in opening up a developer ecosystem for Optimus.

By Paul Yacoubian
Robotics Lack Elastic Demand; LLMs Scale Infinitely
SocialDec 9, 2025

Robotics Lack Elastic Demand; LLMs Scale Infinitely

One issue with applied robotics is that few physical world services scale with high elasticity of demand, meaning, lowering the cost of a task doesn't necessarily get offset by more demand (eg napkin folding). While LLM value scales with...

By Paul Yacoubian
Chinese Factory Workers Fear Automation, Sparking Political Debate
SocialDec 5, 2025

Chinese Factory Workers Fear Automation, Sparking Political Debate

Overheard at neurips… chinese factory workers are extremely concerned about automation, and thats a bigger political issue due to concentration of manufacturing to total economy.

By Paul Yacoubian
NeurIPS Researchers Weigh Medicine Vs. High‑Frequency Trading
SocialDec 4, 2025

NeurIPS Researchers Weigh Medicine Vs. High‑Frequency Trading

Neurips ML researchers at the expo trying to decide whether to solve medicine or high frequency trading https://t.co/5X8vZ9wxAj

By Paul Yacoubian
VCs Present at NeurIPS: Curated List
SocialDec 3, 2025

VCs Present at NeurIPS: Curated List

A few startup founders asked me which VCs are at NeurIPS so I made a list. DM me if I've left someone out and I'll add them. https://t.co/8cEa0LMXpB https://t.co/sWAYAk5BS8

By Paul Yacoubian
Seeking the Perfect Claude Prompt for New Imitation Learning
SocialDec 3, 2025

Seeking the Perfect Claude Prompt for New Imitation Learning

At a Neurips tutorial session yesterday on recent improvements to imitation learning techniques and the only question i wanted to ask was “so whats the prompt i need to use to have Claude do all this correctly?” 😅

By Paul Yacoubian
Nvidia's Open-Source Toolkit Empowers Researchers
SocialDec 3, 2025

Nvidia's Open-Source Toolkit Empowers Researchers

Great overview of Nvidia open source goodies for researchers @NaderLikeLadder https://t.co/VMjG3DhzJD

By Paul Yacoubian
ChatGPT Should Request User Tips After Each Answer
SocialDec 2, 2025

ChatGPT Should Request User Tips After Each Answer

ChatGPT should just start asking for tips after responses

By Paul Yacoubian
New Twitter List Connects All NeurIPS Attendees
SocialNov 28, 2025

New Twitter List Connects All NeurIPS Attendees

I created a twitter list for everyone going to NeurIPS San Diego this week to make it easier to collab with people who will be there. LMK if I need to add anyone! https://t.co/1vEg8HOSea

By Paul Yacoubian
Robots Will Be Autonomous Before We Master Folding Clothes
SocialNov 24, 2025

Robots Will Be Autonomous Before We Master Folding Clothes

guys will invent autonomous robots before they will fold one article of clothing https://t.co/lJIMeG5dxL

By Paul Yacoubian
Google Poised to Pop AI Capex Bubble
SocialNov 18, 2025

Google Poised to Pop AI Capex Bubble

it's in google's strategic interest to burst the ai capex bubble, i think sundar knows this and will act accordingly

By Paul Yacoubian
Twitter Bots Start Posing Fabulous Questions in Comments
SocialNov 13, 2025

Twitter Bots Start Posing Fabulous Questions in Comments

twitter bots are now asking fabulous questions in comments https://t.co/8PxtwWbrcv

By Paul Yacoubian
VCs Tout Elite AI Labs; Founders Use Alibaba's Qwen
SocialNov 10, 2025

VCs Tout Elite AI Labs; Founders Use Alibaba's Qwen

venture capitalists: we back the top ai labs and infrastructure companies such as openai anthropic mistral huggingface coreweave cohere xAi ai founders: we use qwen on ali baba cloud

By Paul Yacoubian
Google Poised to Outpace iPhone with AI Leap
SocialNov 8, 2025

Google Poised to Outpace iPhone with AI Leap

google has a near term opportunity to push ai quality a lot further and disrupt iphone franchise

By Paul Yacoubian