Take a Small Step Today, but Still Plan Ahead
When faced with a monumental project, often people say: What’s one thing you can do today that moves this forward at all? Do that. Good: It gets you unstuck and starts momentum. Bad: It’s not a plan for how to actually accomplish the project. So do it, but still make a plan.
5 Hot Digital Products to Launch Before
Sell These 5 Digital Products Before They Get Saturated (2026) WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/uSwvC4ILNY I'm showing you the exact 5 digital products I'd launch if starting from zero in 2026 as a complete beginner https://t.co/xtyGDntRls
One Person Replaces $60K Team, Drives 32
I spent 12 years figuring out how to collapse a $60K/month growth team into one person. The results: 3.15% forecast to target across $3B in GMV. 32% yoy revenue growth. 41% yoy contribution margin growth. Here's the entire playbook. https://t.co/0oPoA7oEd8
Success Often Depends on Luck and Timing
Success isn't always about hard work. Sometimes, it's about being in the right place at the right time. Recognize the role of luck and timing in your journey, and don't be too hard on yourself during tough times. ❤️
Pitch, Learn, Then Build Without Waiting for VCs
I’m hearing a theme lately from the tech startup crowd. They're doing lots of pitching, lots of applause and interest… that leads no where. VC firms either being super risk averse or using potential investment as a carrot to get...
10 Venture Capital Firms Hiring Investors Now
10 venture capital firms HIRING investors right now 👇 ♻️ Repost to make VC more accessible.
AI Accelerates Product Cycles: 21-Day Launch Documentary
AI is compressing how we build. Roles collapse, roadmaps expire quickly, and you end up rewriting the product every few months. So we thought we’d give people a behind-the-scenes look. 21 Days to Launch, a Replit documentary. https://t.co/isWq9KtMIO
Don’t Let Brain Fatigue Drive Your Business Strategy
Before you switch direction, take a hard look at the work you did. Did you learn something concrete that clearly requires changing strategy? Or did you push hard and now your mental system is tired and wondering where the dopamine payoff...
Risk‑Free Trial Fueled Casper’s $750M Success
Casper hit a $750M valuation in 4 years with one move: a 100-night risk-free trial. They made buying a mattress feel safe. Meanwhile you won't even offer a simple money-back guarantee. That's the gap.
Build Your Own AI Sales Team Today
The future is about hybrid teams of humans and AI agents. But even today, you can start building your own personal team of simple, easy-to-use agents. If you work in sales or need to sell (because you're a founder/entrepreneur), you...
Great Journalism Turns Into VC Investment, Wired Missed
Trae Stephens Wants to Buy Wired. He’s Right. A 2011 article about male birth control became a Founders Fund investment. That’s what great journalism does. Wired forgot. https://t.co/nJv3I8Tg81
Seeking a Growth Marketer to Double ARR
We're doing $1million ARR with 3 people But now I am looking for the fourth I want the marketer that can work alongside me and help take Senja from $1,000,000 -> $2,000,000 ARR I'm personally working on product and lifecycle marketing So I want...
Escaped Social Capital Politics, Now Investing My Own Capital
What happened at Social Capital was several things: 1) Personally, I was going through a divorce. It was a very hard time. 2) My ostensible “cofounders” spent more time jostling for board seats and credit for deals with outsiders vs doing...
Celebrating 11 Years of SegNet with SoftBank Support
11 years since I knocked on your door @vijaycivs and we built SegNet 🚀 Thanks to @SoftBank_Group who tell the full story here.
Speed Is the New Moat for Solo AI Founders
Calendly has hundreds of employees. Meet.bot has one. Who moves faster? Vincent Jong told me something most founders underestimate: Speed can be your moat in the AI era. Incumbents are stuck protecting: – existing customers – existing revenue – existing...
Write for Real Customers, Not Giant Corporate Fantasies
Your next sale won't be a 1000-seat order from Google. But is your homepage written as if this is the target? Formal, obtuse, corporate-speak, pretending to be a mature, stable company. You’re alienating your actual best customers. https://t.co/2jsBd6Z3Ap
Action Over Intelligence: Create, Test, Choose the Best
Smart people wait for opportunities, while "lucky" people create 50 opportunities, launch them, analyze, and then pick the best 1-2. Intelligence is overrated. Volume and action win.
Empowering Women Founders with AI Training Sessions
We’re so glad that @claudeai gave the government the middle finger that we’re bringing in our partner and AI engineer, Kyle Cupples, to teach all @theannaio founders how to get started. Education is step 1. We’ll be doing 4 sessions...
Creator Network Proven Top Driver of Subscriber Growth
Overheard from a creator today: I’m really impressed with the Creator Network. It’s been my top source of subscriber growth, and now I keep telling every Kit creator I know to join if they haven’t already.
Paid $35K for Clarity: 5 Key Growth Priorities
I paid Alex Hormozi's team $35,000 to help me scale to $1,000,000. And I just got back from their workshop in Vegas. For the better part of 2 years now, we've been stuck trying to hit this goal. But I emerged with...
Honest Feedback Prevents Costly Pivots and Builds Credibility
Had a tough conversation this week where I had to deliver some hard truths about a product launch. The metrics looked okay on the surface. But when we dug deeper, the conversion story wasn't adding up. It would have been easy to...
Determination and Resourcefulness Fuel Tomorrow’s Winning Founders
Winning founders have two qualities: determination and resourcefulness. With that, I think you can achieve anything. It's my personal philosophy on life and it's how I got started at Harlem Capital 5 years ago. I created a 10-page deck and pitched them...
All‑in‑One Free Scheduler & Growth Engine for Threads
BlackTwist is the scheduling and growth tool built specifically for Threads. What we do: - Schedule and queue posts - AI Post Generator (write posts in your voice — beta) - Analytics and engagement tracking - Engager (reply to your audience faster) - Threads100 Challenge (100...
Phoebe Gates Raises $35M, Shuns Family Name, Focuses on Product
Phoebe Gates raised $35M for her AI startup Phia and refuses to use her last name in the pitch. She wants zero ties to privilege and took no money from her parents. Phia plugs into your browser and finds lower prices across...
Bootstrapped Founders: Validate, Then Cut 9 of 10 Features
Being a bootstrapped founder is writing down 10 features users might want, then talking to actual customers and deleting 9 of them.
Family Offices Debate AI's Role in Private Markets
Insightful quick trip to NYC to meet up 1 on 1 with many peers and participate in the Family office roundtable session at Bloomberg Invest. It was intriguing hearing different perspectives on private market investing, especially the varying views on the...
Black Mom Balances Special Needs Kids, Startup, and Hope
I’m a Black mother who’s raising small, Black children with special needs while trying to build an EdTech company with limited resources & extremely limited time. Building my first cap table & coding an AI tool while planning an IEP...
Seed and Series A Valuations Hit Record Highs
Carta data just released the latest fundraising benchmarks and I’m shocked. Median seed valuation came in at $23.4M post-money (all time high). Median series A valuation came in at $67.7M post-money (near all time high). 🤯
When Parents Get Your Job, You're Playing Safe
If your parents fully understand what you do for a living, you're probably playing it too safe.
Customers Prefer Familiar Solutions Over Disruptive Products
Most people don't want their lives turned upside down by a “disruptive” product. They want solutions for their current problems, with tools and metaphors they already understand. “Disruption” is rarely a good strategy. https://t.co/qb8ekeCEDM
From Zero to $10K: Readers Choose Next Steps
My Commercial Fiction Club newsletter, where I'm documenting the journey from $0 as a new fiction author, is about to hit $10,000/year. This isn't bad, but I'm still figuring out what readers want most from me. Drop a comment—what do you want...
From Panic to Product‑Market Fit: Listening Wins
As a college student, Peter Reinhardt (@reinpk) started a company that stumbled, pivoted, and nearly ran out of money before a small open-source library became Segment—the data layer behind thousands of software companies and was later acquired by Twilio. On the...
New Identity Layer Powers the Agentic AI Era
AI agents are acting, but your identity stack wasn’t built for that. @agenticfabriq is the identity and governance layer for the agentic era. Congrats on the launch, @paulinazhxu and @matthew_xu23! https://t.co/OVGYbWEZGo https://t.co/nHX5imQZFZ
AI Agents Accelerate SaaS Product Management Tenfold
AI agents are collapsing the traditional PM function. Here’s what that means for your SaaS over the next three years👇 For years, SaaS scaled with PMs translating customer input into documentation, and engineering turning that into a product. But now...
Figma’s Silent Change Signals Fight for Design Infrastructure Control
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...
Act Like a CEO, Ditch $50/Hr Tasks
I spent last week in the Belizean jungle, workshopping with some of my top agency owner students. Here’s what happened the day they got back to work yesterday. When you stop doing $50/hr tasks and start acting like the CEO you are,...
AI Redefines YC's Path to Product-Market Fit
New episode of Uncapped with Y Combinator's leadership, @garrytan, @harjtaggar and @snowmaker. We talked about YC's core value prop, how AI is changing the process of finding product market fit and raising capital, San Francisco and California, the future of YC,...
Startups: Survival of the Fittest Determines Winners
Startups are a game of last man standing: the survivor who outlasts others often wins.
No-Code App Built From Personal CBT Notes
In this video, Nico, our video producer, runs a live experiment - he builds a fully functional mood-tracking app with no coding skills, just his Second Brain and Claude Cowork He pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy notes he saved years ago,...
Use the Right Tool: Excavator Beats Spoon
An excavator replaces 10 people with shovels. Give them spoons instead, then you need 100 people. What are you digging with a spoon right now? Where could you use an excavator? https://t.co/MutWDGF2D1
Building Responsible AI Workforce Readiness for California Counties
Working on building a Responsible AI Workforce Readiness solution designed specifically for California counties — helping public sector teams adopt AI safely, ethically, and in compliance with emerging state regulations. What are you working on?
Align Boards, Embrace Simplicity: Surviving Three Health Pivots
This week on Lifers, I interviewed @othman about how he navigated @color through three massive pivots—from cancer genetics to national COVID infrastructure and now a virtual cancer clinic. Timestamps: (00:00) Preview (00:58) Intro (01:03) Lessons from Figma and betting on the tortoise over the...
Pick the Right Sale Type for Your Exit Goals
How much of your business do you want to sell? Should you pursue a minority, majority, or full sale transaction? Founders looking to exit or raise capital have to decide which is the best path to achieve your goals, both...
My $30k/Month AI Business Powered by This Stack
A complete stack for my 30k/mo AI buisness - Perplexity - Claude $200 - 1000% worth it - Gamma - Calendly - Grain AI - n8n for workflows - Agno for agents - Postgres - Notion And brain🧠
Use Expertise Wisely, Avoid Its Blind Spots
Leveraging your expertise is wise, of course. You’ll be more efficient and make better decisions. Well, sometimes? Or “expertise” can be blinders. Knowing that, you can avoid the trap, and indeed leverage your expertise. https://t.co/19xHUGd9lC
Value Decline, Not Churn Rate, Drives Revenue Loss
Your customers are churning. But not for the reason you think. Most founders look at monthly churn, see 3-4%, and think "we're fine." But then they pull up their net revenue retention at 12 months and it's sitting at 70%....
Never Too Late: Success Can Start at 40
Shipped my first SaaS at 36. Sold it at 38. Failed 3 projects at 39. Found product-market fit at 40. At 40 - I'm finally building something I love. You are NEVER too late to start.
Ecom Founders Seek Partnership, Not Just Business Cards
Everyone at a conference: Collecting business cards. Ecom founders at a conference: Finding one person to build a real partnership with. Different mindset. Different network.
Bootstrapped Founders: 3‑month Mentorship to $1M ARR
Are you a bootstrapped founder? Come work with me on @SenjaHQ for 3 months Run our engineering + learn how I scaled to $1,000,000 ARR by working alongside me Share how you get on with #buildinpublic Interested? Job description in the reply
AI Erodes Moats; only Proprietary Data Survives
AI is killing traditional moats. Process, capital, and information edges now vanish when anyone deploys a model in days through cheap APIs. The winners own proprietary data, embed AI into core workflows, and build feedback loops like Netflix, Tesla, and Amazon. Speed matters...