somewhatCPA

Ex-Deloitte. Licensed CPA. I won’t answer your tax questions. Building many things at the moment.

[somewhatCPA @Occupy_JLI]

Great thread

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.

Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.

👇👇

[Naval @naval]

Good marketing is finding different ways to tell the truth.

[Naval @naval]

It's the Age of Builders.

(sorry financiers and talkers)

[brryant @bryantchou]

AI is making marketers lazy.

So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee.

And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and @firstround.

I spent 12 years at Webflow as the founding CTO where I built the product, but also started our marketing and sales teams that drove our fastest periods of growth. That experience made one thing obvious: the website is the center of your business. And it's only more important in the age of AI.

Foundation model apps can generate assets.
Point solutions can optimize pieces of the funnel.

But nothing runs the whole growth system: your site, brand, CMS, CRM, campaigns, analytics, SEO, AEO, and customer data all working together.

Until now.

Teams at @hex_tech and @clay_run, and growth agencies like Tonik and TNT Growth, are already powering sites on Ploy. Hex is generating on-brand ABM pages at scale, Clay is using its data to power a programmatic SEO engine, and TNT Growth is spinning up a landing page for each of their clients’ ads.

Wake up every morning with a report from Ploy - with what it did, and what it wants to do next.
Approve it. Ship it.
Or be lazy and just watch it cook.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Health insurance is broken.
(Here's what I'm doing about it.)

For years, I’ve paid $2,000+/mo for the privilege of paying out-of-pocket anyway due to huge deductibles.

🐘 Here’s the elephant in the room:

The main reason health insurance is so expensive is that health-conscious people are forced to subsidize those who make poor health choices.

The data is clear on this:

🤯 20% of people are responsible for 80% of healthcare spending.

🤯 90% of that cost is chronic conditions that are heavily influenced by lifestyle choices. Acute injury and illness are only a small portion of healthcare expense.

That means:

80% of us overpay for health insurance
to support
20% who spend far more than they contribute.

Conceptually, sharing the burden of healthcare is a good thing. I’m willing to pay a little extra to help others...

But not 400% more!

It’s all about incentives. In the insurance system, there is zero incentive for...

1) Consumers to make good health choices. In fact, the more unhealthy a person’s lifestyle, the LESS the portion of their healthcare cost they pay. 🤪

2) Insurance companies to rein in cost. They just pass it on to us.

The solution isn’t going to come from within the broken system.

That’s why I recently joined @JoinCrowdHealth. I think it’s one of the most important companies in America because it’s tackling the elephant.

CrowdHealth isn’t insurance—it’s literally a crowd of people directly funding each other’s health expenses. At scale it works beautifully because incentives are aligned in two powerful ways:

1) Basic up-front filters on membership. Members of the crowd don’t want peers who refuse to take personal responsibility for their health. Smoking is a prime example—we know that smokers are:

6X more likely to have chronic lung disease
4X more likely to have heart disease
3X more likely to have diabetes
2X more likely to develop all types of cancer

I’m not interested in funding the predictable consequences of others’ bad choices. Sorry, not sorry.

2) Because CrowdHealth is a cash pay system, both the company and its members are incentivized to negotiate prices. As we all know, cash pay prices for medical procedures are often 30-70% lower than insurance prices.

These common-sense guardrails eliminate most of the cost of healthcare, so that a family of four can participate in a CrowdHealth plan for around $500 a month.

It’s not perfect, but for millions of Americans it’s a better option, and that will only become more true over time.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.

[Mason Hughes @msnrhu]

The sooner I get the Porsche the better for my mental health

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

I'd rather be a failure than a coward.

[Naval @naval]

The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.

[Naval @naval]

Anthropic doesn’t have Claude, Claude has Anthropic.

[Naval @naval]

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Never deleting this app ☠️

[Mustufa Khan @mustufa4socials]

https://t.co/m5leqLx6zj

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

The creator of Claude Code teaches more about vibe-coding in 30 minutes than most tutorials do in hours.

Save this — it'll change how you build forever.

[somewhatCPA @Occupy_JLI]

@SahilBloom @signulll The tallest dwarf

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Two Anthropic engineers spent 24 minutes exposing every Claude Code feature you didn't know existed.

Most people will scroll past this. Don't be most people.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

🚨 Anthropic's own team just showed how to actually prompt Claude.

24 minutes. free. from the people who built it.

watch the workshop. bookmark it.

worth more than every $300 course you almost bought.

you've been using Claude without knowing 40 of its prompts.

Then read the guide below.

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

To everyone shitting on the SF tech bros for "inventing friendship from first principals": have you actually tried making new friends as an adult?

Real friends. Not acquaintances. Not hookups. Not “we should grab coffee sometime.”

I’ve built community online and offline for years. Big ones. Small ones. Weekly ones.

If each person who *regularly* comes to my events *in my town* invited me to just ONE event per year, I'd have something to do 3 days a week.

But they don't.

Because almost no one wants to consistently host, plan, invite, and follow through. Everyone wants to keep their options open. Everyone wants to keep it simple.

And yet. There are some people who truly want to make new friends where they live (not just in SF, LA & NYC).

The advice to "just meet people at the bar" or "talk to people at the gym" is lazy.

Being in public is not the same as being open to connection.

Maybe the guy sitting at the bar just got laid off. The cute lady at the gym has her headphones blasting.

Churches & golf clubs do this well (owning real estate helps).

But not everyone is religious. And not everyone plays golf. But a lot of people are hungry for belonging.

That’s why these products are working and the market opportunity is so big.

The next era of community apps won’t be optimized for more screen time.

They’ll be optimized for getting people off their phones and back into real life.

That’s why these products are working. And I love to see it.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

This video is literally 50 entrepreneurs giving you an MBA in 18 minutes: