Robbie J Frye 🎤

Podcast - The Frye Show | Cofounder - Kinnto

[MLB @MLB]

Yoshinobu Yamamoto strikes out 10 and the @Dodgers have won 14 of their last 17 games!

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Tom Petrini @RealTomPetrini]

Wemby shot from here with the game on the line man

What the hell

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

@ihtesham2005 @davemcclure This book was a “life” changer for me. Went to a conference for “play” in LA and there was a talk about this book. As a “former” architect and Apple employee —-> helps you understand kids and much more. If you love design, legos, Apple it’s a must.

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

I will pay good money for new AI generated episodes of The Office.

I'm not joking.

$20 per episode.

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

WNBA vs Euro league. Melatonin league

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

@signulll When was the last time you downloaded an “app”. Nothing has changed. “Things one weirdo + 2 ppl + Ai” = services that feel like social media. Aka. Your grandpa dancing to bad bunny while you unpack the newest protein powder while sharing your advice on how to invest

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

@diegohaz @carlrivera @nubank @SomosGlobal66 ❤️❤️💪🏽

[Clara Gold @Clara_Gold]

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco.
It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take:

1. SF is both overhyped and underrated

The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time.
The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds.
If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling.

2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected

Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick.
The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession.

3. The status game favors builders

This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane.

4. The market liquidity is absurd

Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going.

5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming

Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares.

6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy

I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building.
I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest.

So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane.
But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity.

And for now, that’s enough.

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

@Dostoevskyquot Whhhhhhaaattt

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I hate how good this sounds

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

[Arnaud T @sceniuslatam]

"The next Elon Musk."

That's how many investors who met @forrestheath3 describe him.

But instead of moving from South Africa to Silicon Valley, he moved from the United States to Colombia 🇨🇴 to build his startup.

With the news that @somosinternetco raised US$40 million in a Series B round, I want to share the extraordinary story of its CEO 👇

Forrest Heath arrived in Medellín without speaking a word of Spanish, no contacts, and no experience in the telecom industry.

7 years later, he is the founder of the fastest-growing fiber internet startup in Colombia and is on the verge of conquering Mexico.

How did he pull it off?

By looking at the problem from first principles.

He realized that the major operators no longer even understand how their own systems work, creating massive inefficiency.

For two years, Forrest walked through the most underserved neighborhoods of Medellín hanging WiFi routers on the street to build a massive network.

With that MVP, they got into @ycombinator

They eventually pivoted from dense urban neighborhoods to large apartment buildings, and shifted from WiFi to fiber optic.

Today their solution is the only end-to-end one on the market: from connecting to submarine cables on the coast, deploying fiber in the streets and into buildings, all the way to redesigning the network hardware.

They became a vertically integrated telco.

Their customers in Bogotá have access to speeds of up to 100 Gbps, among the fastest in the world.

This success was only made possible by Colombian and Latin American talent.

Forrest hired brilliant engineers with a pirate mindset, capable of taking on legacy telcos with limited resources.

Today they have US$40 million in the bank account to fulfill their vision, and make Latin America the region with the best connectivity on the planet.

Long LATAM 🫡

[Juan Carlos Echeverry @JCecheverryCol]

Agradezco el nombramiento como presidente del
BANCO DE BOGOTÁ

Es un gran orgullo

Impone enorme responsabilidad y humildad, pues estamos parados sobre hombros de gigantes

Llego a una institución con un siglo y medio de historia. Es la decana de la banca en Colombia

Ha sido referente de solidez, confianza, manejo prudente del riesgo, frontera tecnológica y aporte al desarrollo del país

El mayor VALOR del Banco de Bogotá es SU GENTE

Mi convicción es seguir fortaleciendo una institución cercana, confiable y relevante para Colombia, acompañando a las personas y las empresas en sus momentos y decisiones clave

abordaremos esta labor con

Mística
Responsabilidad
Integridad
Visión de largo plazo
Sentido de urgencia y
un profundo sentido de Comunidad

Doy gracias a sus directivas por esta designación

[Luke The Dev @iamlukethedev]

If your OpenClaw agents don’t go to the gym,
something is wrong with your setup.

Just added a gym to the 3D office.

When agents are learning or developing new skills,
they go train.

Even AI engineers need leg day. 🏋️

[Francisco Mejía @franciscome]

Alejandro Salazar, algo carretudo y un poco beating around the bush, dice a @RobbieJFrye que Petro y su gobierno son un síntoma que Colombia está saliendo de su enfermedad, de su miedo. Ojalá no nos mate el miedo, que puede pasar. Magnífico podcast.
https://t.co/H2O0rQYfuS

[Juan Carlos Echeverry @JCecheverryCol]

Si quiere hacerse a sí mismo el mejor regalo, escuche este podcast de The Frye Show con Alejandro Salazar, de principio a fin.

No hay mejor forma de usar dos horas de su vida.

https://t.co/rbRn36M99D

[Robbie J Frye 🎤 @RobbieJFrye]

I wannna seee this!!

[Latest in Culture @latestinculture]

The Spirited Away stage show has convinced me of the magic of theatre.

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Kids go head-to-head in a dance battle and it’s incredible 🔥👏