Max

Building & info:

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

Food is as scandalous as the tabacco industry

[Cormac @cormachayden_]

David is trying to silence us.

They sent us a cease and desist for sharing what's actually in their products.

David's founder previously built RXBAR a brand famous for clean, simple ingredients.

Now he's built David, a protein brand whose bars have over 15+ ingredients, including a chemically modified fat your body can't digest and artificial sweeteners.

Their new frozen dessert claims to have:
- 30g protein
- 260 calories
- under 2g sugar

Here's how they get away with it

Instead of real milk fat, David uses EPG a plant-derived oil chemically restructured with propylene oxide so digestive enzymes can't break it down. It passes through your gut mostly intact and that's why the calorie count looks so low.

For sweetness they chose sucralose
- same in Quest bars
- reduced insulin sensitivity in healthy adults
- sucralose-6-acetate, a compound present in commercial sucralose, damaged DNA in human cells in vitro
- linked to gut microbiome disruption

We shared publicly available ingredients and published research

David's response was to send a legal letter telling us to stop talking.

That's exactly why Oasis exists

To break down what's actually inside these products, the ones with great marketing AND the ones that are actually clean

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@thepatwalls @levelsio Your first company made money. That's a big win

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@heyitzami Congrats on all the progress dude. Very relatable story. I'm also a father, 32, publishing first apps, building agency.

Keep going💪🏼

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@marclou @VacarciucF @mathorde @TarkleHQ @SowaKillian @damjan_malis

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

Anyone else seeing people they're not following in the 'Following' without someone commenting or reposting?

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

The world would be completely different if @sama listened to foks like Raj

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@lennysan Wild, also the reason they have not shipped Mythos yet

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

This is why they haven't shipped Mythos.

Every AI lab is incentivized to keep its frontier model internal until its lead is too big to close.

The one that claims safety comes first is doing exactly the same thing

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

ITS HAPPENING

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@immad @yacineMTB I know you're not flexing but this is the biggest flex

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.

This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.

[Bullionaire Invests @itsbullionaire_]

So you’re telling me if I own 100,000 shares of $NVDA…

I’d make $25,000 per quarter
$100,000 per year

It’s never been easier to make 6 figures a year.

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

Karpathy in his first day

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Andrej @Karpathy has joined Anthropic.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

The battle of narratives is going strong.

Our countries are a recurring target.

It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story!

Protect what matters - our democracy.

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@zenorocha Goats. Is SaaS really shrinking though?

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@CestIvan @tibo_maker Haha, I feel like I'm on shark tank lol. But you're right though.

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

Happy at where every Marc is > miserable at $1M/mo.

I think he's making a solid choice.

[gabriel* @gabriel__xyz]

marc could be at $1M/mo

but he’s limiting himself chasing the dopamine of 0 → 1

instead of pushing through 1 → 100

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

@rowansail The opportunity

[Max @Maxvdvloet]

Me trying to explain this to my non-tech family

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

new business applications are at record highs

hiring intent is falling & AI spend is going vertical

everyone's calling this an anomaly but it's a pattern

1440: Gutenberg's press. one operator outproduces a monastery of scribes. the solo pamphleteer becomes a real economic unit for the first time

1850s: the sewing machine. factories had killed the cottage weaver. the sewing machine brought them back. solo tailors re-emerged as viable businesses almost overnight

1985: desktop publishing. before PageMaker, you needed a typesetter, a layout artist, a print shop. after, 1 person and a Mac could produce a magazine

2000s: blogging and AdSense. first time in history one person could build an audience and monetize it

every single time, a new tool collapsed the minimum viable team size from 5 to 1

a wave of new business formation followed, hiring intent flatlined

then an entirely new economy emerged, bigger than the one before it

AI is the sewing machine moment for knowledge work