Luke

Hacking on new stuff 🔮 - exited founder (swipehouse, YC W'18), scaling affordable education @fairoppproject, Gen AI @microsoft

[Luke @HeineLuke]

1/ After building social consumer apps for the past three years, I often get asked by friends working on social apps how to test them. Going to share some of what I learned here:

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[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Doesn’t get much clearer than this

https://t.co/X1UTqKSE3h

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@kventuroconerly Big congrats !

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@gregisenberg 100%

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@AlexandraSukin @BessemerVP Congrats !! :)

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@hoppermori awesome job team!

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@johncoogan @mwseibel @theallinpod Founders podcast is great! Nice shoutout!

[Luke @HeineLuke]

straightforward ways to determine whether you could use AI in your company:

if you could bring in 300 summer interns that were happy to do anything, what would you have them do? Can you have AI do this?

What’s something that no one wants to do because it’s tedious? Can you have an AI process do the first pass and then have people review it?

Do you have a unique data source that you could train a model on and then sell other companies in your space access to as an endpoint?

Does your company rely on large documents? Would time be saved if these were summarized for consumption?

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@FairOppProject just got backed by another national non profit funder - more deets to come

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Yo i've been burning through $$ on FAFSA ads to get students to file. Interesting to see that across demographics, almost zero engagement when we lead with FAFSA-forward content. Besides be a debacle rn, that agency also needs a PR lift

[Luke @HeineLuke]

@CookingWong I like framing this like a cover letter. For juniors, we have them write a common app essay, and it's to get at that reflection piece

[Luke @HeineLuke]

My quest to give out $60,000 to high school students continues. What do you think of this criteria for college seniors
- You have to open a tax-advantaged account (roth/529)
- gotta complete the FAFSA
- gotta write a resume
- and then book a 30 min college mentorship session here: https://t.co/DNSiyBOOEs

giving it out in $100 increments to Wis students while supplies last

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Might have them set up a Roth IRA

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Thinking about allocating $60k to micro grants for high school juniors over the summer. If students complete a set of tasks that helps them be financially / life prepared, they’ll get $100 each meant to cover future post-high school fees. What should those tasks be?
Some ideas:
- give essay topic that makes them write out pros and cons on a variety of life paths
- gather parents tax forms for FAFSA filing
- write their common app essay so they already have momentum moving

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Hear me out. Apple buys TikTok

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Kinda feel like LLM’s are at dial up speeds rn. When that latency comes down (and cost), giddy up !

[Luke @HeineLuke]

So epic hosting the 3rd Annual Northland Hackathon. Shoutout to all the participants, mentors, and judges who make it possible! The winning team (Tech Titans) built an interactive tech map to explore Minnesota's tech resources.

This year to get the word out we also:
- sent physical mail to every public MN high school
- bought up billboards around the state
- emailed most MN science and math teachers.

If you want to get involved: https://t.co/SLWJ3yeb9a

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Sun gives all life.
We can’t look at it.

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Buying billboards across Minnesota for https://t.co/RYFWdy5AN0 - but how could they be cooler + readable

[Luke @HeineLuke]

this is too real

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Every investor who has stood in the way of a company being acquired has regretted it. Once an acquisition is in motion, the most important thing to do as an investor is to fall in line. The process is so incredibly stressful that any effort to derail it will also derail the company.

[Luke @HeineLuke]

Did you know that Oregon Trail was made by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium?

https://t.co/VfNcibtpPm