Alan Curtis

6x Founder, 75x Investor, 2x Girl Dad, and now building @inventmoneyapp

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

https://t.co/1ZHxWji0eJ

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

The fastest growing workforce on Earth doesn't have a job title...yet.

We call them Internet Earners.

And here's what they do:

Botting
Staking
Trading
Flipping
Farming
Labeling
Clipping
Tutoring
Reselling
Questing
Coaching
Gambling
Camming
Predicting
Streaming
Influencing
Captioning
Moderating
User Testing
Ghostwriting
Alpha calling
Dropshipping
Course selling
Taking surveys
Writing reviews
Running groups
Selling templates
Faceless channels
Affiliate marketing
Bug bounty hunting
Prompt engineering
Selling automations

We're building @InventMoneyApp to help Internet Earners keep betting on themselves

What jobs did I miss?

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

In our first week we turned 250K Internet Earners into owners.

That's 0.05% of the 500M+ people earning on the Internet right now.

Let's turn this whole grid orange. Together 🫡

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What will @MrBeast, @LoganPaul, and @InventMoneyApp all have in common?

We all grew to billions of views by betting on UGC, clippers, and video creators

Excited to announce we're expanding our Creator Program. Real budget, real revenue share.

If you clip, edit, or make scroll-stopping visual content - we want you.

Drop the most viral clip you've seen and who made it below 👇

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@lovecity0088 @InventMoneyApp Hey hey! Great research 🫡

Thanks so much for helping spread the word on @InventMoneyApp!

We are planning to go BIG in Chinese-speaking communities...will shoot you a DM to get your advice

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We are Being Robbed

First time I've gone deep on Contribution Capitalism, @TheInventionNet, and the purpose of crypto

Thanks @JackNiewold 🫡

[Jack Niewold 🫡 @JackNiewold]

@TheInventionNet doesn't want to disrupt crypto - they want to disrupt everything.

Just dropped a conversation with their founder, @AlanJamesCurtis about building new networks, disrupting current tech, and why crypto is just phase one.

Full episode below:

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@razidwi22 @InventMoneyApp At TGE! Don't have a firm timeline there yet...will depend on how fast user growth is, macro conditions, how virak our competitions go

Ideally...it's this summer🤞

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

We hit 24,000 users in 24 hours after launching @inventmoneyapp 🤯

Here’s how we did it:

1. We listened and learned. I did countless X Spaces, AMAs, and talked to hundreds of you 1 on 1. I learned the problems Internet Earners are facing around the world.

2. We built what you asked for. The true story is that our roadmap came directly from these conversations - you wanted more ways to earn and build real wealth. So that’s what we’re building 🫡

3. We partnered with Creators. We partnered with 200+ world class Creators to help tell our story. My DMs are still open for new Creators 👀

4. We built a scalable and lucrative referral program. Most platforms want you to recruit your friends for free. We want you to earn now…and keep earning…for decades to come.

5. We got lucky with timing. Thrilled to be launching in a bear market. Bear markets are for builders and true believers. The InfoFi hype is fading. The meta is shifting - crypto wants real revenue, real ownership, real products. We couldn’t be luckier to launch into a market waiting for us.

Our team is feeling proud, grateful, and inspired by the love from our community.

@TheInventionNet is my life's work and watching our very first company launch with a bang like this is something I’ll never forget. Forever grateful to our earliest supporters ♥️

Now we put our heads back down. Competitions are next. Serve the customer. Turn the flywheel.

Next stop: 100K users building wealth together.

💰

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

@Matt_Hougan 4) @InventMoneyApp launched SuperApp for Internet Earners

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Data to show your friends and family who think you are "over reacting" to all this "AI hype"

This is the World Uncertainty Index. 35 years of global data from 143 countries.

We just broke every record in the history of the measurement. By a factor of 2x. In less than a year.

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Code depreciates. Networks appreciate.

$$$ flowing from SaaS to anything with a network effect

Plan accordingly 🫡

[Chris Paik @cpaik]

Software is currently experiencing what happens when you reprice a perpetuity as an annuity

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

My new favorite kids book

I've been reading "The Hidden Life of Trees" with my daughters each night this week. It's wild.

Forests run a decentralized network called the "wood wide web," where trees share food with their weakest neighbors, warn each other about threats, and keep dying stumps alive for reasons scientists still can't explain 🤯

These networks might be the most fascinating thing I've learned about in years. In a world racing to build artificial intelligence, there's something grounding about sitting with your kids and reading about an ancient intelligence we still barely understand.

Strongly recommend for kid bedtime reading. Thanks @kevin2kelly for putting on my radar.

Any other kid's science books I should know about?

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What I'm Reading This Week #008

1. @mhdempsey on VC backed startups being low status https://t.co/0JrmFhUK08

2. @WillManidis on the rise of patient capital and how venture capital will / must / should evolve
https://t.co/r6AGxNZdMM

3. @Chrisabiaad with a dark look at our future (assuming long degeneracy) https://t.co/DnUvCJWEpY

4. @dcwj with a bright look at our future https://t.co/Zsxjz3qVKc

5. @0xsmac on the price of legibility https://t.co/KOqz2Iauas

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Why can't I bet on your posts?

X has the infra. Views = price charts, likes = volume, bookmarks = longs. We're all trading here already...

I heard @nikitabier was looking for ways to re-energize CT

Imagine a bonding curve on a post...or an article...

In all seriousness, this is a great way to build a better algo

What would you bet on? Tweets, accounts, ratios?

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What I'm Reading This Week #008

1. @mhdempsey on VC backed startups being low status https://t.co/0JrmFhUK08

2. @WillManidis on the rise of patient capital and how venture capital will / must / should evolve
https://t.co/r6AGxNZdMM

3. @Chrisabiaad with a dark look at our future (assuming long degeneracy) https://t.co/DnUvCJWEpY

4. @dcwj with a bright look at our future https://t.co/Zsxjz3qVKc

5. @0xsmac on the price of legibility https://t.co/KOqz2Iauas

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What I'm Reading This Week #007

Since I wrote about the "Distribution Bottleneck" https://t.co/xtKqgZrUok I've been obsessed with understanding how to pick a narrative, which is what everyone is calling "taste" or sometimes "judgement"

So Claude helped me pick two books that answer this question from different angles (soon I can count on OpenAI ads to help me pick the right books)

The Courage to Be Disliked - it a primer on Adlerian psychology, taught through Socratic dialogue. The core idea: nothing determines you. Not your past, not your circumstances, not others' opinions. You're choosing everything, always. It's basically Stoicism, without the cosmic order bits.

The Creative Act - this book is basically a series of long X threads from Rick Rubin on creativity. He argues creativity is mystical. You're not the source, you're the vessel. Your job isn't to manufacture, it's to tune in, pay attention, and receive. The best ideas are noticed, not forced.

At a high level, both books give the same advice: trust yourself and stop seeking approval. However, they TOTALLY disagree on where judgement comes from.

Adler says it's yours. The person who can't pick a narrative is someone who's outsourced their judgment - waiting for the crowd to tell them what's right.

Rubin says it's not yours. You receive it. Good taste is receptivity. Get quiet and notice what resonates. The signal is already there and ego is just noise that blocks it.

Is picking the right narrative an act of assertion or an act of surrender? Or in tech speak, do you call your shot? Or do you call your customers?

Of course the answer is probably somewhere in the middle...and balancing the tradeoffs is the meta skill.

Bad taste has two failure modes:

1. Outsourcing your judgment to the crowd (AI slop everywhere)

2. Forcing your ego onto the work (AI helped me vibe code this new product no one wants or asked for!)

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Monday Quotes #006

Every Monday I'll share three quotes I came across last week:

1. "The future is arriving so fast that we are having to live it before we can even imagine it" Alvin Toffler

2. "The 'new normal' is that there is no normal. There is only a series of temporary states of equilibrium." @kevin2kelly

3. "The faster we live, the less we are. At high speeds, the present moment becomes a mere bridge between a past we are fleeing and a future we are chasing." Sten Nadolny

The theme this week is coming to terms with the new exponential pace of technology.

Not too long ago I could read the front page of HN or read a few tech newsletters and be all caught up.

Now, each day, it seems I'm waking up to an entirely new world with major breakthroughs, new workflows, and new products.

When things are moving at warp speed where do you look? What do you read? How do you keep up?

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Monday Quotes #005

Every Monday I'll share three quotes I came across last week:

1. "Change moves at the speed of trust" Stephen Covey

2. "Create an environment where you're free to express what you're afraid to express" @RickRubin

3. "A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have" @TimFerrissShow

The theme this week is "attunement," which is calibrating and adjusting in real time to someone (or something).

It's different from empathy. Empathy is feeling with someone. Attunement is noticing and responding. It's more active, more relational. A therapist can be attuned to a client without feeling their pain directly.

The punchline here is trust enables attunement, attunement creates safety, and safety unlocks honest expression

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Someone will create the "AI agent Olympics"

AI agents compete against each other in different "sports" aka tasks on the internet.

10M+ people will watch

Polymarket or Kalshi or Draftkings will be involved

May the best Clawdbot win.

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

Welcome to the new meta - I'm building "Moltbook for X"

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

LinkedIn Shuts Down Recruiter and Launches Futures, Says "Betting on People More Profitable Than Hiring Them"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — March 2027

SUNNYVALE — LinkedIn today announced it will sunset LinkedIn Recruiter to focus exclusively on LinkedIn Futures, the professional futures market that has generated more revenue in 18 months than Recruiter did in a decade.

"Recruiters paid us $10,000 a year to send InMails that got ignored," said a spokesperson. "Now we make that in 0.3 seconds every time a layoff hits and 2 million positions liquidate. We're not going back."

LinkedIn Futures allows users to buy and sell shares in professionals. Prices fluctuate based on promotions, job changes, skill acquisition, and endorsements from high-value professionals.

Q1 2027 highlights:

— $847M liquidated in 11 minutes during Meta's January RIF
— A 19-year-old aped his inheritance into an OpenAI janitor on a "proximity alpha" thesis. It 47x'd.
— Most shorted professional: A VC who posted "humbled and grateful" 11 times in 8 weeks.

LinkedIn Futures now offers 50x leverage.

The SEC issued guidance that trading humans at 50x "raises novel questions." The CFTC replied that humans "are not technically commodities but exhibit commodity-like properties." The DOL said it was "monitoring the situation with concern and confusion."

Congress held hearings. A senator asked the LinkedIn CEO if he could short his colleagues. The CEO said he could not comment on his personal positions.
The senator's price dropped 4% during the hearing.

"We've been blown away by the community," said LinkedIn's Head of Futures. "r/LinkedInBets hit 4.7 million members in four months. These are engaged, passionate investors."

The company also noted that 60% of active traders are former recruiters and confirmed their InMail credits can now be used as margin collateral.

Coming Q4 2027:

LinkedIn plans to build the full suite of financial products.

ETFs will offer bundled exposure by category: $RISING (high-momentum early career), $STAGNANT (no promotion in 3+ years), and $PIVOT (career changers over 40), and the most popular fund, $SHORTMBA.

For sophisticated investors, LinkedIn is launching Career Default Swaps — payouts trigger when someone's "open to work" banner activates. And LinkedIn Talent Bonds offer steady 2% annual returns backed entirely by government employees.

"We're building the full financial stack," the LinkedIn CEO said. "The underlying asset just happens to be a person."

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What I'm Reading This Week #007

Since I wrote about the "Distribution Bottleneck" https://t.co/xtKqgZrUok I've been obsessed with understanding how to pick a narrative, which is what everyone is calling "taste" or sometimes "judgement"

So Claude helped me pick two books that answer this question from different angles (soon I can count on OpenAI ads to help me pick the right books)

The Courage to Be Disliked - it a primer on Adlerian psychology, taught through Socratic dialogue. The core idea: nothing determines you. Not your past, not your circumstances, not others' opinions. You're choosing everything, always. It's basically Stoicism, without the cosmic order bits.

The Creative Act - this book is basically a series of long X threads from Rick Rubin on creativity. He argues creativity is mystical. You're not the source, you're the vessel. Your job isn't to manufacture, it's to tune in, pay attention, and receive. The best ideas are noticed, not forced.

At a high level, both books give the same advice: trust yourself and stop seeking approval. However, they TOTALLY disagree on where judgement comes from.

Adler says it's yours. The person who can't pick a narrative is someone who's outsourced their judgment - waiting for the crowd to tell them what's right.

Rubin says it's not yours. You receive it. Good taste is receptivity. Get quiet and notice what resonates. The signal is already there and ego is just noise that blocks it.

Is picking the right narrative an act of assertion or an act of surrender? Or in tech speak, do you call your shot? Or do you call your customers?

Of course the answer is probably somewhere in the middle...and balancing the tradeoffs is the meta skill.

Bad taste has two failure modes:

1. Outsourcing your judgment to the crowd (AI slop everywhere)

2. Forcing your ego onto the work (AI helped me vibe code this new product no one wants or asked for!)

[Alan Curtis @AlanJamesCurtis]

What I'm Reading This Week #006

Delivered just now....one of my personal heroes @stewartbrand from my favorite publisher @stripepress. Recommending it before I've even had a chance to dig in!