Paolo Antici Carroll

@airgoods | @yale

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

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[tobi lutke @tobi]

We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse.

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

Win for Shopify (and Shopify brands).

Innovator’s dilema in action given Amazon’s dependence on ads.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Amazon cuts off Muse.

While I am bullish Meta and Muse, I think many people are overlooking the digital knife fight that’s about to occur

Nobody wants to get commoditized or layered here. Let the games begin

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Pete Carroll says winning championships was never actually the point

“It isn’t about winning the championship. It’s not about that. As soon as you win it, it’s over with. It’s in your back pocket. You’ve already done that.”

“That’s not the motivator. The motivator is to be the best you can possibly be. That’s ongoing. It never ends. I’m not a big goals guy.”

“Goals, you achieve them. To me, I want ongoing, never-ending aspirations of being great at what you’re doing. There is no one game that is the only game. There is no one accomplishment that’s the only accomplishment.”

“Can you come back again? Is that really who you are? Is that worth fighting for?”

“Can you be true to yourself? Can you really be yourself under all circumstances? No matter what happens, when you get your ass whipped in the freaking Super Bowl, when you had two in a row and you’re two seconds from doing it again, can you come back after that moment and still be who you are?”

“That was what the challenge was to me. As hard as that looked, as hard as it felt, and as hard as it was on all the people around me, I took it like this: ‘Okay, you knew this was going to happen sometime.’ ‘Are you going to be the real deal or not?’”

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

@diegozaks Looks clean.

Back at you with ours @airgoods

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

Full-year dataset for U.S. Retail Trade business applications mapped across 2024, 2025, and 2026.

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

US business formation (EIN applications) at an ATH in July 2026, with Retail Trade driving most of the spike.

https://t.co/bnonG3P6YZ

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

@alazsengul @snowmaker Sick! Congrats :)

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

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[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

New look!

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

Relevant links 🔗

Careers Page: https://t.co/ku1Xfr9JAI

Roles
- Platform Engineer: https://t.co/6RBuqiJWg6
- Design Engineer: https://t.co/JTFeFKvb3V
- Mobile Engineer: https://t.co/x3pu05OOk0
- Marketplace Ops: https://t.co/41dlmpF9WO

Best-selling brands
- David Protein: https://t.co/q9FP1BX1Vf
- Fishwife: https://t.co/fqwo7mXPFB
- Athletic Brewing: https://t.co/samiGMpjTw

Specialty stores
- Butterfield Market: https://t.co/Ni5vmHwq7k
- Happier Grocery: https://t.co/2im0rWqq5e
- Tiny Grocer: https://t.co/XdTLSoWQNM

Investors
- YCombinator: https://t.co/ggpRa0Zv3e
- Initialized: https://t.co/oeKRe15k8h

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

We're hiring at Airgoods 🚀

Since we launched in 2023, we've powered millions of shipments to all 50 states and helped the country’s best specialty stores discover best-selling brands like David Protein, Fishwife, and Athletic Brewing. We're backed by YCombinator and Initialized and are on a mission to reinvent food and beverage distribution. We’ve been growing fast and are currently hiring across engineering, design, and ops.

If you or someone you know is interested in joining a fast-growing startup, please reach out! The positions are all full-time roles, in-person in NYC.

See relevant links below 🧵

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

Product development tool ➡️ work orchestration tool

[Linear @linear]

Now ready for deployment: @cursor_ai

Delegate any Linear issue to Cursor, and a background agent will get to work. Once the task is complete, the Cursor agent will update the issue automatically with a PR.

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

interestingly, the inverse also seems to be true.

if you introduce tool calling that isn’t well suited to the underlying model you can get worse outcomes vs. if you just had the model figure things out

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

there's definitely been a step-change in cursor's ability to build features e2e in bigger codebases over the past month.

well-crafted tool calling is making it 10x more powerful.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang: “VCs don’t invest in business plans”

When asked for advice on business plans and raising venture capital, Jensen tells the student audience at Stanford:

“VCs don’t invest in business plans… They invest in great people. And so the question is: do they trust you? Your reputation matters. Your history matters.”

He explains that a one of the key reasons Sequoia wrote the initial check into NVIDIA was because he had done great work with Andy Bechtolsheim, the founder of Sun.

Jensen also argues that you need to have a vision that’s “sufficiently large to invest in.” Because of the nature of the businesses VCs invest in, the odds of success are rather low.

“If they need to put in $10 million and the market is only $20 million, they’ll never get that $10 million back with a reasonable return.”

But market size is secondary to people:

“You might have to reinvent yourself over time, and if you want to reinvent yourself, you need to have great people. That’s why great people are so important.”

Video source: @StanfordOnline (2011)

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

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[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Thanks for all the feedback on our design work in the Summer Release. Here’s a little preview of everything we worked on for our new design system—new font, navigation, layout system, colors, cards, and of course, icons. Much more to come…

[Weave Robotics @weaverobotics]

Tidying should feel robotic 🔊🐝

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

@jesslivingston So good! Congrats Jessica

[Paolo Antici Carroll @paolocarroll]

@bhalligan Do hard physical things (i.e. running)