Alexia Bonatsos

Scrolling saves.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

What every store will look like after LLMs take over.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

This is a reaction to the AI apocalypse. Abundant: online time, code. Scarce, bottlenecked by human talent: these specific games https://t.co/3doxHxtcqj

[Will @gawillstewart]

@packyM Packy, I love your work but you are off on this one. They had a Chase card presale a couple weeks ago. NBA finals general public onsale would have less than 500 tickets available. This is just one of those once in a lifetime black swan type events.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

What every store will look like after LLMs take over.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

I have taken this conceit too far.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

@thatguybg @micsolana @traestephens put the "Fun" in Founders Fund.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

This is good VC content, and none of them fell asleep https://t.co/wlMKG2E1bj

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 001

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

@AriannaSimpson Explains the popularity of @eightsleep

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

Jony Ive shows possession, while Jony I've is a contraction of "I have."
https://t.co/WXQY9oVq9B

[Eugene Wei @eugenewei]

Never stops being hilarious to type "Jony Ive" over and over on any Apple device and having Autocorrect repeatedly turn it into "Jony I’ve", the perfect encapsulation of so many things about all concerned

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

Tech guy final boss https://t.co/oxMuAQqHuf

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME

he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying.

then projects them onto his ceiling in real time

when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination

pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible

but he didn't stop at planes

it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time

so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO

there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter

vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

@AriannaSimpson Thank you! (Nepo) Baby announcement.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

Niko is just saying this because we just had a baby https://t.co/yKrhXAGX19

[David Weisburd 🚀 @DWeisburd]

The most underappreciated founder demographic in New York City in May 2026, according to one of the most contrarian VCs in the country: nepo babies.

Not the ones who inherit the family business. The ones who don't.

@bonatsos, formerly General Catalyst, now Verdict:

"you need to pick the right nepo baby, the one who has huge chips on their shoulders, because they're not the ones that are in line to take over the family business"

"individuals can have significant unfair advantage over others"

The thesis: most people overestimate IQ and underestimate information alpha. A nepo founder with real agency, taste, and access becomes fluent in rooms it would take other founders a decade to even enter. Government rooms. Enterprise rooms. Sovereign capital rooms.

The advantage isn't the trust fund. It's the proximity.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

@FDavidsonT Nice name! 🏛️

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

X is the waiting room for all sorts of modern-day processes https://t.co/dj47mO3CMk

[Alex Ma @internetkid]

X is becoming the lobby where I wait for Codex to cook.

[Brie Wolfson @zebriez]

any startups want to hire this person?

she's my oldest friend & is the person with the most energy in any room despite the 5am daily wakeup for barry's.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

Soon: GyroGPT

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

American tech companies get their name from Greek words, while Greek restaurants get their names from American tech companies.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

Psist (Ψήστης) means griller, and a-gram (Γράμμα) is actually a Greek word too, meaning letter.

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

One day, "I didn't use an AI to make this" is going to sound like "I didn't use the Internet or any computers to make this."

[Alexia Bonatsos @alexia]

And fwiw I don't think you should "invest in nepo babies" as a strategy. Firstly, this is a stochastic game; secondly, they have enough going for them that they don't need us to operationalize it.