Dion von Moltke

CPO @truefiretv. Previously co-founder of @Blayze (exited) and professional racecar driver.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

So we’re doing it to ourselves then? We need a hallmark channel where AI is the cheesy hero to train on apparently. Who’s making it?

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.

Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

100%! Their training on systems thinking from a product POV is unique and can become a super power.

[Robert Bye @RobertJBye]

@karrisaarinen IMO designers who can leverage AI, and have good business sense, will become some of the most influential people in tech.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

Agree but to me it’s “builders” and less specific to PM’s. As an example I’ve seen designers who have a great ability to be systems thinkers and ask the why behind anything getting built.

Those who can think through the why, how it fits into the product, and lead will win.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

bullish on the PM role quietly becoming the most important role in tech again

when anyone can build, the person who decides WHAT to build becomes the bottleneck

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@jess__yan You all have built just an incredible product with this. Our PM’s have really dug in and adopted this same flow! A recent employee joining our company mentioned he’s seen teams 10x the size that don’t take on the breadth of projects we are currently working on. Thanks to you!

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@helloitsaustin You all really nailed the brand guidelines part of this for a v1, incredible work!

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@Sonos @bhalligan whenever you takeover Sonos please let me know… would love to turn this thing around with you. Great hardware, terrible software. So fixable!

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

Is there anything less intuitive than the @Sonos app?? Crazy thing is it’s been this confusing for years now…

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@Sonos This is maybe the single most confusing screen of any app on the planet. I want both of these to play the tv…. I select both, select tv, and what happens? All sound stops.

It then says kitchen is playing some music… which I never selected, but the other system plays tv. Huh?

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

For those going deep into Claude code this is one the best things I read last week.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

https://t.co/SSSIK3BX4z

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

It’s really not that hard for 95% of use cases…

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Spoke to a CRO of a hot Series B startup yesterday:

“We don’t have the knowledge internally to implement AI and agents into our process.”

Toast. You are toast. That is unacceptable.

Everyone can learn. There is zero excuse for the above.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

Just filed for a Trump account for our new little one, just want to say a very special thank you to @altcap for making these happen!

You are an inspiration and are actively making our country a better place. Keep up the great work!

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@barisakis @milichab @JasonBud Building the super team, congrats!! 🔥

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@amasad Congrats @amasad! Very excited to see where you guys continue taking things. Thanks to you guys our non-technical PM’s are shipping full new iOS apps.

[signüll @signulll]

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.

when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.

i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.

& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.

the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.

before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

This is 🎯! Consider team dynamics & what actually works for YOUR team.

Ex: Dropping 1:1s bc Jenson skips them w/ 50 reports—without first asking: Is my team senior enough to skip regular coaching? Doomed for failure on most teams.

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Getting tired of this <x> is dead trend. The pendulum is swinging too much to the opposite side. Instead of declaring all previous workflows dead, how about we evolve them to suit this new world of AI agents. Prototyping is great and its fantastic that you can do this with much less effort now, but how about you still sit down and *think* about what a good feature entails. It's not one or the other, its both.

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Getting tired of this <x> is dead trend. The pendulum is swinging too much to the opposite side. Instead of declaring all previous workflows dead, how about we evolve them to suit this new world of AI agents. Prototyping is great and its fantastic that you can do this with much less effort now, but how about you still sit down and *think* about what a good feature entails. It's not one or the other, its both.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@v_computer 👀

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@wabi build an app that tracks all political races in the U.S., and shows % chance of winning each candidate has based on poly market. Let me click on a candidate profile to learn more about their stances and connect grok so I can ask questions to help me vote

[COATUE @coatuemgmt]

Chart of the Day:

The dot-com boom ran on debt. The AI boom runs on balance sheets. That difference matters. Good take by @GoldmanSachs.

[Dion von Moltke @DionvmR]

@clairevo @chatprd @toptal @DevinAI @cursor_ai 😂😂😂 have the same approach but not the same result.