scott belsky

helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

You know that iconic scene, at the end of The Matrix when Neo suddenly “gets it” and picks bullets out of thin air as if they are cute and curious little things? Been thinking: what’s the equivalent of “seeing the matrix” for product leaders?

10+ Realizations that come to mind:

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@justfred_ar It has been used more than abused, and empowered more than hurt. But I do worry about use among kids with underdeveloped brains.

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

there is a right and wrong way to use technology - and when it’s new, the spectrum is entirely unclear.

whether it was the locomotive, the internet, the camera, computer graphics/CGI…all unclear at first. but the work to figure it out is the work that advances every industry.

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@beffjezos 💯💥

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

congrats to the @etched team, remarkable vision and willingness to keep at it...

[Etched @Etched]

Our inference systems are built to push the entire pareto curve on frontier models, including many-trillion parameter MoEs, long context, and agentic workloads.

We've co-designed new chips, packages, PCBs, cold plates, interconnects, & more.

Today, we're sharing two breakthroughs to make this happen:

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@patrick_oshag @Etched Incredibile team/story...

[Dave Morin 🦞 @davemorin]

Very cool work @jgebbia and team.

[VV @visualizevalue]

"No wind, no wave."

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@grinich love this

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

genius

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

great discussion with a founder I really
admire - @may_habib 💥

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

"In the Series A, the Sequoia rejection included a line about how inspiring it was that I had two little kids at home while I was pitching them."

-- @Get_Writer CEO May Habib (@may_habib) with some real talk on being a working mom in Silicon Valley 👀

"Everybody wants to hear you say that there is nothing more important to you than being a billionaire," she says. "And the reality is, my kids are more important than that."

Now, when investors ask Habib about her family, her instinct is to stress that her in-laws take care of the kids, while she works 90 hours a week.

"It's sad that's the instinct. At the same time, I know that if I weren't working that hard, if our whole team weren't working that hard, it would have been much harder to get to where we are today."

Catch the full interview on The Upstarts Podcast, presented by @Rippling 👇

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

ultimately, the leaps forward are made by specific empowered creative people with clear vision, not sprawling orgs or adhering to a process.

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

“the Rebel Alliance will produce many of the most important companies of this era — not despite the power of the large model providers, but because of the ecosystem dynamics playing out around them.” agree.

[Nick Grossman @nickgrossman]

https://t.co/GBy2md7JxD

[naveen.com @naveen]

Om Malik, 1966-2026

https://t.co/CtBTmHLV5n

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

the world has lost a tremendous human - someone I always looked up to for his taste, perspective, and wisdom. for some reason, I often captured a profile shot of Om when we got together, like this one from a few yrs ago. whenever he popped up on my camera roll, i'd remember our conversations, and this was meaningful to me.

@om left his mark on a lot of us, and will be missed.

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@GavinSBaker @sarthakgh @X great idea

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@karimatiyeh @rahulgs awesome

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@zoink congrats on an amazing launch 🔥

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

“boredom was the engine of the inner life.” good hot take from an unexpected source

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

@astrodanish and I suspect we have much to learn from them

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

art of a sort

[EHT Comics @EHTcomics]

The Unabomber’s cabin in FBI storage is the most David Lynch thing I’ve ever seen in real life.