Gil Bashan

Product Builder \\ 3x Founder \\ ex-Adobe, Samsung Ads, TubeMogul IPO + Acq \\ Empowering global brands @purrLabs

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@BaseJunkie_ Son, get the ladder!

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@evanbuhler Happy *early investor. Nice work 🫡

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@TalokCapital @MarikHazan

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@MarikHazan @ycombinator Every. Single. Startup. Wild times 😎

[Marik Hazan @MarikHazan]

We just rebuilt every startup in @ycombinator's latest demo day batch.

Here's what our agentic "founders" pulled off and what it means for the future of startups.

Fully useable products at the bottom of the thread below 🤖🧨

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@evanbuhler @TalokCapital Sometimes it’s the “small things” in life that make the biggest impact

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@antoniogm All the gum you can chew?

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@evanbuhler

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

A guy built a fake band, put it on Spotify, and 80,000 people had no idea.

Then it got even weirder and the tech behind this is wild:

- Used Suno AI to generate every song sounded completely real.

- Created AI music videos with fake members and faces.

- Built fake bios and a Tokyo address to sell the story.

- 80,000+ monthly listeners, fans had it in their Spotify Wrapped top 5, merch was selling​.

- Community sleuths exposed it and the AI-generated hands in the videos gave it away, creator traced to Europe, not Japan​

But here's where it gets insane:

Instead of running, the creator flew to Tokyo and recruited 7 real musicians to perform the AI songs live​.

they've played multiple shows, more are booked​.

the creator's response: "In an age where AI is taking everyone's jobs, this has actually created jobs. It's done the complete opposite."​

This is the first time ever an AI fake band became a real touring act and it worked.

Nobody in the music industry knows what to do about it​​.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Extraordinary

[CG @cgtwts]

> be travis kalanick
> build uber
> get pushed out of the company
> cash out $ 2.5B in shares
> start a new company called cloudkitchens
> build delivery-only kitchens that restaurants can rent
> raise $ 400M from saudi arabia’s sovereign wealth fund
> raise another $ 850M from investors including microsoft
> hit a $ 15B valuation
> scale to more than 2,000 locations across north america
> spend 7 years quietly building it
> then suddenly shut down the cloudkitchens brand
> rename the company atoms
> expand the company beyond food into robotics
> create three divisions
> atoms food for ghost kitchens
> atoms mining for autonomous mining trucks
> atoms transport for a robotics platform
> first move is acquiring pronto
> an autonomous mining startup founded by anthony levandowski
> the same levandowski who ran google’s self-driving project
> left to start otto
> uber bought otto for $ 680M
> waymo later sued uber for trade secrets
> levandowski faced 33 criminal charges
> pleaded guilty to one
> was sentenced to 18 months
> then trump pardoned him on his last day in office
> levandowski then started pronto
> pronto now has contracts with heidelberg materials
> deploying more than 100 autonomous mining trucks in brazil
> meanwhile uber sold its self-driving division to aurora for $ 4B in 2020
> kalanick later said he wished they never sold it
> now reports say uber might fund his new robotics company
> kalanick says software already automated language and math
> but industries like mining, manufacturing, and transport are still mostly untouched
> he calls the machines that will automate them gainfully employed robots

now he’s building what uber once had.

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@evanbuhler Definitely tacos… and hot chicken 🍗

[@jason @Jason]

my openclaw RN

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@jordan_ross_8F Marketing

[TBPN @tbpn]

"Go all the way until it hurts. If you're doing something and it's easy, it's not valuable." - @travisk

"If anyone says a strategic thing was easy, I'm like, 'You messed up. You could have gone way further. More competitive advantage. More differentiation. Get it together.'"

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@evanbuhler @TalokCapital When people can just spin up apps in minutes, authentic community connection and empowerment becomes the moat

[Talok Capital @TalokCapital]

For the last 20 years, American society has optimized for efficiency.

This got us scale, speed and convenience.

But everything has a dark side. 🧵

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@Winterrose Help others and replenish the coffers, this is the way

[Gil Bashan @GilBashan]

@nyk_builderz Context is 👑