Tess Suchoff

Founding team @apptopia, venture advisor @thcap2, angel investor, Nuclear Reactor+Data Nerd; posts are mine 🤓

[Tess Suchoff @TessRachel]

@andrewdobrow The best products often are created from the needs of one for the needs of many. Makes for a much speedier 0 to 1 when it's a pain point felt by the masses! 🤓

[Tess Suchoff @TessRachel]

@andrewdobrow @rezoundous Agreed, once the industry crosses the early adopters part of the chasm, it will be about CX, brand, and trust.

[Tess Suchoff @TessRachel]

@andrewdobrow Product-market fit right there!

[Tess Suchoff @TessRachel]

@alexisohanian @Ferbin08 Or are these AI hallucinations? 👀🤣🤓

[Tess Suchoff @TessRachel]

@JoshMalina Who wore it better? 💃🕺

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Basically everyone's gotta be selling or building. The superstars will be great at doing both. But you gotta figure out your path for one of the two.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Cerebro got leveled uppppp

[Kyber Labs @KyberLabsRobots]

We built this demo in collaboration with a clinical pathology lab. It shows a single system doing real lab tasks: tool use, precision manipulation, and high level planning.

This was done in one take with no teleop and uses our skills based AI to enable generality while staying deterministic and reliable for real world workflows.

See more here: https://t.co/ZYCuUkOJKq

[Adam Blacker @AdamBlacker25]

Free interactive dashboard alert! Track consumer usage of the major AI apps, their adoption rates, engagement levels, and impact on other apps and whole sectors. https://t.co/0xNICkXmKQ

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

I thought founder-led comms was important 20 years ago, but it's become even MORE important now in the age of AI and infinite distraction. I used to get flak from my boards about how public I was—now it's tablestakes. Hard to imagine it becoming less important in the next 10yrs.

[Adam Blacker @AdamBlacker25]

Right now people are spending an average of 109 minutes/day on TikTok. Facebook is responsible for 69 minutes/day. Then consider most social media users are using more than one app each day.

With the exception of Facebook, these numbers are even higher for people aged 17-25 (the youngest cohort we observe).

[Adam Blacker @AdamBlacker25]

Apptopia's monthly Gen AI Chatbot app update. Chat has lost US DAUs for 4 consecutive months. Claude reduces churn by 19 percentage points. https://t.co/K9Tz5i3bDc

[(((Jew))) @JoshMalina]

Well, you found me out.

[TELEGRAPH HILL CAP @Thcap2]

Qué satisfacción ver a ⁦@Payflow_es⁩ ⁦@Brickbro_⁩ ⁦@biglelegal⁩ ⁦@apartool⁩ - todas parte de la familia ⁦@Thcap2⁩ - en el ránking Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Programme!! Enhorabuena a las cuatro, gran trabajo!! 👏🏼🚀 https://t.co/UFAFWnAoWs

[Adam Blacker @AdamBlacker25]

Peacocking. More about its user acquisition & re-engagement here - https://t.co/nH9sbWV4Bk $CMCSA

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Marc Andreessen on how to get people to join your 3-person startup

Marc says founders have two tools at their disposal to win new hires: 1) Stock options, and 2) vision. He explains:

“The best entrepreneurs are really good at selling people on their company precisely because they can explain how the world is going to look in a way that is so compelling.”

Marc points to Steve Jobs’s “reality distortion field” as the epitome of this:

“If you get within 10 feet of Steve Jobs, whatever he says in the next 20 minutes, you’re going to walk out of there believing. He can say that the sky is purple, and you’re like yep that makes total sense . . . The best entrepreneurs all tend to have that in common and tend to be really good at that. It’s essentially sales — selling to employees. It’s an incredibly valuable skill to be able to do that. That plus stock options.”

The other thing Marc has observed about hiring over the years is that right employees have to self-select into your company, even though that can be incredibly frustrating at times:

“If you hired all the people you interviewed, it would turn out that 2/3rds or 3/4ths of them you probably shouldn’t have hired anyway. So what the best companies do is they provide a very stark idea of what the company is and what is it isn’t: ‘We are a company where people are expected to work 18 hour days and if you don’t like that, don’t come here’ or ‘We are a company where people expect to go home at 5pm every day and if you think that’ll be frustrating’ — whatever it is.”

Marc gives the humorous example of Asana where it was a requirement that the whole company did yoga together:

“If you like yoga, this is the company for you. If you don’t like yoga, don’t go there. You’re going to be asked to put your feet in positions that you’re completely uncomfortable with.”

He continues:

“I think the very best companies tend to be polarizing. So if in your hiring process, you’re turning people off as much as you’re turning them on because they’re deciding ‘this is clearly not the right fit for me,’ I think that’s a good thing.”

[Adam Blacker @AdamBlacker25]

Two different views of Sora's falling downloads. Data is Apptopia.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Earlier today (Sunday), a large barrage of anti-tank missiles was fired toward IDF troops in southern Lebanon.

During the attack, two IDF soldiers were severely injured and multiple other soldiers were lightly and moderately injured. Their families have been notified.

An initial review showed that an IDF tank that was trying to evacuate injured soldiers while still under fire backed several meters into a UNIFIL post.

Once the enemy fire stopped, and following the evacuation of the injured soldiers, the tank left the post.

During the incident, a smoke screen was used to provide cover for the evacuation of the injured soldiers. IDF soldiers maintained coordination with UNIFIL.
Throughout the entirety of the incident, no danger was posed to UNIFIL forces by the IDF activity.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

This is October 7. And you must bear witness.

The KiIIing Roads is a raw documentary of that Black Saturday — with about 50% of never-before-seen-footage.

Yes. This will punch you in your heart — over and over.

The filmmaker Igal Hecht has made it free for all.

Please share.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐚 𝟐𝟏-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐘𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐒 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐪.

In an operation coordinated by the IDF and led by @cogatonline @USEmbassyJLM and other international actors, Fawzia Amin Sido was freed from captivity and returned home to Iraq.
At 11-years-old, Fawzia was trafficked by ISIS to a Hamas terrorist in Gaza, who was presumably killed during IDF strikes. She fled to a hideout in which she was rescued in a secret mission through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

This is further proof of the connection between Hamas and ISIS, as well as the crimes against humanity committed by the terrorist organization in Gaza.

We will continue to act to dismantle the Hamas-ISIS terrorist organization and free all hostages in Hamas captivity.