Allen Kleiner

building ai @retool. prev growth + product eng leadership at startups. hou+ill sports & beagle lover. 💍 @calismomm

[Allen Kleiner @AK34_]

@hareemmannan @AnthropicAI the 🐐 herself!

[Sarah Wolf @sarahzorah]

Day ✌️ at Claude Founder House

11:30am: Rebuilding from SaaS to agent-native, @AK34_ (Retool)

12:00pm: From founder to frontier lab @BMarcusMcCann (Anthropic) + @jarredsumner (Anthropic), moderated by @jneuwirth4 (Anthropic)

12:30pm: Building on the frontier, @timgl (PostHog), @joon_s_pk (Simile), @feross (Socket), moderated by Carly Ryan (Anthropic)

1:30pm: Building a GTM engine Edgar Sze (Profound)

2:00pm: From solo to multiplayer: AI with teams @nateparrott (Anthropic) + William Hu (Anthropic)

2:30pm: Securing the cyber frontier Shachar Hirshberg (Artemis), Erdem Menges (XBOW), @adylon7 (Outtake)

3:30pm: Growing a consumer AI product Deeni Fatiha (Gamma), @jgreze (Town), moderated by @omooretweets (a16z)

5:00pm: @nvidia AI for Science Happy Hour

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

An extraordinary season gets even better 🤩

Keaton Wagler is your #WestAward winner ‼️

[T3 @T3Bracketology]

Brad Underwood has always felt extremely underrated. It shouldn’t require a team reaching a final 4 for a coach to get their due

[Bret Bielema @BretBielema]

This might be the greatest thing I’ve seen #ILL

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Illinois is going to the Final Four

[Seth Davis @SethDavisHoops]

Illinois has one of the great fan bases in all of sports.

Live it up Illini Nation!!!! See you in Indy!!

[ESPN @espn]

THE ILLINI ARE HEADED TO THE FINAL FOUR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 21 YEARS 🟠

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

Breaking news.

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

ARE YOU WITH US?

For the first time since 2005, we're heading to the FINAL FOUR.

[University of Illinois @UofIllinois]

It was always going to be Illinois in the Final Four. 🗣️

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

For everyone in the Orange and Blue.

[ESPN @espn]

Andrej Stojakovic with a game-high 21 pts off the bench to lead the Fighting Illini to the Sweet 16 🔥

Illinois will face Houston next for a spot in the Elite Eight 👀

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

Big Z is a teacher. Just wanted to show Djokovic how it's done.

[Jeff Borzello @jeffborzello]

Keaton Wagler's 46 points is the most an individual has EVER scored in a road win over a top-10 opponent in AP Poll history, per ESPN Research.

[carl @CarlsBeef]

One more time folks

I-L-L

[Allen Kleiner @AK34_]

@ankrgyl 🫡

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

stop overthinking, start building:

the best way to predict the future is to invent it. and the best way to invent is to start building.

you can dream all you want. you can think in abstract, map out perfect systems in your head, debate the ideal architecture. but none of that matters until you start making something real.

building is like mounding clay. you don't start with the perfect form. you start with a lump. you push, you shape, you feel the resistance. the material talks back. it tells you what works and what doesn't. you learn by doing, not by thinking about doing.

with Cursor, the gap between idea and reality is basically zero now. you don't need to know every syntax, every framework, every pattern. you just need to start. Cursor helps you shape the clay. it fills in the gaps. it lets you focus on what you're making, not how to make it.

overthinking is just fear dressed up as preparation. you're not getting ready, you're just delaying. the longer you wait, the more you convince yourself it needs to be perfect before you start. but perfect doesn't exist at the beginning. it only emerges through iteration.
every great thing you've ever seen started as something rough. the first iPhone was a prototype held together with tape. the first Notion was a clunky tool that barely worked. the first anything was messy. but it existed. and because it existed, it could be improved.

so stop planning the perfect app. stop debating the right tech stack. stop waiting for the right moment. just open Cursor and start building. make something bad. make something that barely works. then make it better. then make it better again.

the future isn't something you think your way into. it's something you build your way into. one line of code at a time. one iteration at a time. like mounding clay until something beautiful emerges.

start today. start now. start messy. just start.

[STT @simon_turner16]

@retool has the best in app AI assistant of any other tool I’ve used to date (outside from actual dev tools). Superb implementation, hats off