David Tintner

CEO of ThoughtLeaders

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

A friend sent me this today. He was researching a YouTuber in Claude, and Claude cited ThoughtLeaders for the channel's numbers.

First thought: Yes! This is exactly what we’ve been working so hard for at ThoughtLeaders.

What I keep coming back to: I only know this happened because he sent it to me.

There was no signup. No web traffic registered on our Google Analytics. No form fill, no ping in our slack leads channel. Claude pulled our data into a private conversation with a user and every metric we normally watch is blind to it. If he hadn't screenshotted it, I'd never know.

That's the shift. Everyone is going to be working inside agents and AI tools soon. The UI is going away, and most of what these tools do happens in private. Companies are getting cited, referenced, recommended, with no trail at all.

Citations like this build brand, and they'll turn into sales. They just don't leave the fingerprints we're used to measuring.

A lot to unpack here. It's a new world we're living in. And my take on it is that it requires a leap of faith to build for it and believe strongly that you’re going in the right direction when you don’t always get confirmation back.

We’re pushing hard at ThoughtLeaders, but I’m very happy for the friends sending me screenshots :)

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming!

Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him.

Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind.

Here’s where the heat really picks up:

This podcast turned into an all out verbal fistfight between Jensen Huang and Dwarkesh Patel. I did not see this coming!

Spoiler alert: Jensen destroyed him.

Around 1:10:00 they start really arguing over whether the US should sell the most advanced chips to China. I went into this thinking that we shouldn’t. After listening to Jensen, I changed my mind.

Here’s where the heat really picks up:
https://t.co/cDdPruRZ4O

His argument is that China will get the compute they need to train the best models anyway, and it’s silly to not have them build on the American tech stack and get them locked in to that.

Also, he says that the developer ecosystem of cuda is the most valuable asset of nvidia. With 50% of the AI researchers in the world in China, they are missing out on a gigantic part of the market that could be developers contributing to and using cuda.

Very curious to hear what other people think about this. Should the US let nvidia sell the most advanced chips to China?

P.S. I listened to Jensen on Lex Fridman recently, and that was a great conversation with tons of insights. This Dwarkesh interview was completely different. Adversarial the whole time. It’s not often you get the chance to listen to probably the best CEO in the world in such a heated argument.

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@jfgonzalezm Opus for everything! I can’t stand sonnet

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

Hot take:
Claude code > Cowork… for everything.

I tested Cowork, didn't like it, and went all-in on Claude Code instead. Now I'm pushing the rest of ThoughtLeaders to do the same.

The part most people miss: you don't have to write any code to use it.

Our finance team generates customer account statements in Claude Code. Marketing builds our email newsletters in it. SEO work on the website runs through it. I use the desktop app to send emails, pull company data, and build reports.

One more tip for the non-engineers: don't panic when Claude Code throws an error or flags a code problem. Just ask it about it. Or screenshot the error and paste it back in. A few rounds of that and it solves its own problems.

If you've written it off as a developer tool, take another look.

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@tobi notebookLM for the mind map graphic, when prompted with a transcript of a meeting is also a really powerful tool like this

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

This is a fantastic episode, one of my favorites from acquired. They explain the difference between “premium” and “luxury” - premium is when you pay more and get more utility. Not necessarily linearly, but still increased quality with higher price. Luxury, however, is pure status. You often pay more and get even less utility.

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@nicklmg Hey nick would love to get together at CES

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@CES @YouCamApps Can you access the Creator Space with a deluxe CES badge?

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@RomanEcom Hey Roman, would love to catch up and talk yt sponsorships with you

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@SethAbramson You should read this thread https://t.co/ABLn3MKGoH

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Since everyone is trying to use the Salah Al Deen Gaza Wadi bridge explosion tweet to cudgel each other with things I did not say, even using it to deny another strike 5 miles away, I am going to remake the entire thread here, super fucking clearly.

Here is the explosion.

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@RebeccaEmcee1 @mreflow @vidsummit 🤠

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@thetalperry @austin_rief Hey austin, would love to. Happy to grab a drink, and if you want to work out of our office you’re more than welcome too anytime. Also can use our recording studio https://t.co/3CvZrm1qJJ

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

The team put together an awesome report using our platform data for anyone interested in DTC marketing, especially on YouTube and podcasts

[ThoughtLeaders @Thoughtldrs]

Great to see so many D2C marketing experts diving into our report! @mattahertz @frasermaclac @esavir @SaverioBianchi would love to hear your thoughts! https://t.co/U1LJaxMosA

[Fiddlehead @FiddleheadHQ]

Yep, marketers can get catfished too. 🐟 Want to avoid that awkward conversation with your boss on why you spent $10K on Instagram bots last quarter? We thought so. Read up on how to spot fake #influencers with fishy followers via @Thoughtldrs. https://t.co/TnKBEKrLIB

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

This is so cool. Great article by our @Thoughtldrs team digging into @benandjerrys history of marketing with a higher purpose

[ThoughtLeaders @Thoughtldrs]

How do you mix profit and principles? @benandjerrys has found the recipe! Check out this article to learn more about how this company has been a leader in the fight for social justice since its inception!

https://t.co/1UT9bvSQhT

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@DavidBloom been loving the interviews you're doing lately! We'd love to interview you on the @Thoughtldrs podcast. What do you say?

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@heyamylin @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev I submitted a second cloudflare support ticket today about it. Still can’t even get a human response. We’re still experiencing it too.

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

I can confirm. Same thing happening to our site, and only for users in Israel. @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp @CloudflareDev please help!

[Dr Brian of London 🇮🇱 @brianoflondon]

There is a significant breakdown in @Cloudflare in Israel it seems.

error 1016 Origin DNS error

It's in and off for weeks and I don't think @CloudflareHelp are taking it seriously.

https://t.co/4BJlnojcGg

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

@CloudflareHelp Israel users have been reporting error 1016 for 2 weeks or so now. This problem is confirmed by several other site owners in your forums. Please help!

[David Tintner @DMTintner]

I remember tuning in to AOL to watch dave play live from Central Park in ‘03. The world was really different back then, but somethings never change

#PayItForwardLIVE https://t.co/jSgauI24cb