Andrew Argue

Founder & CEO @ Where tax work gets done.

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@mntruell 515 Folsom tomorrow at 9am, dm me here

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@JasonrShuman Can I get an invite? Thanks!

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@mudgen DM me your email and I'll have the team take a look

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

Accurate.

Victims be victims no matter the amount of money or status.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@IraGilligan Kill all.

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[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@CurtPhilipczak We'd love to have you switch to Instead for TY26!

[The Sovereign CPA⚡️🇺🇸 @ArnielSia]

YOU AREN’T BULLISH ENOUGH ON AI.

The team at Instead just released what we’ve been waiting for: AI agent tax prep. And it could not come at a better time.

Across #TaxTwitter, firm owners and clients shared their frustrations from arguably one of the most brutal tax seasons in recent memory.

Sweeping tax code changes, delayed 1099-DAs for crypto, and client situations that are only getting more complex year over year.

Meanwhile, the old model, where firm owners are buried in prep work, leaves no room for the thing clients actually need: strategy.

AI tax prep changes that. Firm owners can finally step out of the execution layer and focus on delivering tax savings and a better client experience.

Thousands of business owners will feel this shift firsthand during the upcoming extension filing season.

And next tax season? We’re going to be looking at a completely different world in the accounting space.

AI is a net positive for the accounting industry.

Do you welcome these changes?

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

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[The Sovereign CPA⚡️🇺🇸 @ArnielSia]

Just got news a major accounting software is going live with AI tax prep.

This is not just for simple returns, but complex companies and high net worth individuals.

Get ready.

[The Sovereign CPA⚡️🇺🇸 @ArnielSia]

@andrewargue WAY SOONER

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

Sooner.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Accounting will be automated within 2 tax seasons.

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

I want to watch the CEO of Thomson Reuters try to log in to UltraTax

#TaxTwitter

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@ShaynaCPA I've always wanted to work with you Shayna. Would be great to connect after tax season!

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@KJSAcct Just you wait

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

Agents are TikTok for knowledge workers

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

Everyone thinking AI can just “do taxes”.

It can do a lot probabilistically.

But the key is to marry the probabilistic data processing with the deterministic calculations required by the government.

And giving agents access to run both.

#TaxTwitter

[Alex Nùnez @AlexNoonan6]

Its so over for you accountants

[Andrew Argue @andrewargue]

@KJSAcct @Intuit We’d like to meet with you both!