Benjamin Anderson

Currently building Quinn with an incredible group of people. Former CEO and Co-founder of Amino Apps and Luna Park.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun:

- starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF

here's the link: https://t.co/opkX4cIaCF

- we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks

- But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders

- we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations

- yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical)

- Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons

- we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more

- the deadline for applying is May 17!

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

Pointing my OpenClaw at an X post and asking it to replicate features from someone else’s setup is fascinating. Is this an early sign of what’s to come? “I like what they built, go make mine do that.“

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@nicochristie Would love to try

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@SullyOmarr I’ve been using granola for this

[Aaron Levie @levie]

For enterprises going AI-first, the best way to think about AI is as a technology that increases output and accelerates timelines. Using AI to do what you already do, but cheaper, is a losing proposition. Eventually your competitors will just use it to do more and win.

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@cursor_ai @Replit https://t.co/hftLIS13uP

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

🚀 Ditched our web dev contractor & now our designer vibe codes our marketing site with @cursor_ai and @Replit! 😎Moving at LIGHT SPEED & loving it! Check it out 👇

#WebDev #AI #Coding

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@GregKamradt Building AI hosted team building experiences @ https://t.co/MleVcxdPIV 🎡

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@andrewchen Thank you for this! 🙏

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The US has only 5% of the world's population. So if talent is equally distributed, 95% of the most talented people are born outside the US. That's why any kind of work in which ability is at a premium tends to have lots of immigrants. And tech is that kind of work.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Andreessen Horowitz, maybe the top VC firm in the US, is moving away from a centralized HQ.

They will shift to smaller offices around the globe, and promote virtual work.

This is a signal to the next generation of startups they will be supporting.

A monumental move.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is such a big change, historically, that I doubt we've seen all the knock-on effects. The biggest may still be in the future. If you can predict one, you could grow a big company off the energy that will be released.

[Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer]

Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company’s most cited ML expert.

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

I believe video games are the solution to employee engagement for remote and hybrid teams. In this blog post, I break down our thesis and explain why: https://t.co/F6Ol063Ego

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

@changds @tonylongo @jsummers1 @waltdoyle @BJWeinberger @StartTank @PayPal @klandry21 @danielgheller @todd_pinkerton @AlexaBaggio Great times. Great group of people!

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

Do you have a remote or hybrid team that wants to know what it’s like to spend quality time together? Reach out to me at [email protected]

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

Luna Park went from -10% NPS to a 65% NPS in less than 3 months. Interested in how we did it? Here's a 🧵:

[Benjamin Anderson @Benjo430]

We’re so grateful to some of our early adopters who took a risk on us when our experience was…. new. @Scentbird @CockroachDB @getBevi @coUrbanize @karbrandt @OKplay @okerainc @mentorcollectiv @GoCatalant @kiwico_inc @PMPetitti and so many more!