Kitty Sullivan

Growth strategy advisor | Proud rescue dog mom | DMs open! 📥

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

@justindross Fascinating that creating trillions in market value does not qualify as “helping society”…

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

@Liv_Boeree @RepNicole Still a chance this can be shot down in the Senate, yeah?

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Engineers! We want to:

Fly you to Austin

Give you an apartment

Clean your room

Do your laundry

Feed you 3x/day

Help you master building with AI

And give you a $200k to $1m job.

You pay nothing, ever, no matter what. Even if you don’t take the job.

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

@kirbywinfield @vsodera

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Let this be the year in which you rebuild your attention span. Big Tech wants you unable to focus on anything for longer than a few seconds. Resist the infinite scroll. Avoid short-form videos. Watch movies without being on your phone. Read voraciously and often.

[Georges St-Pierre @GeorgesStPierre]

One of my favorite quotes is the one from Marcus Aurelius: ‘The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.’
I think it’s always good to remember it.

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

Will be in Tel Aviv for a VC summit Dec 8-11. My first time in TLV and would love recommendations for who to meet (especially local founders and investors) and things to do.

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

Hey babe, new Black Mirror episode just dropped

[Calum Worthy @CalumWorthy]

What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

✅ Hot takes
✅ Non-consensus views
✅ Hard-fought lessons learned
✅ 0 → 1 playbooks

This one was a fun one to record. Thank you Team @slice_fund for having me on!

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

@akirathedon @ZohranKMamdani @aptaube Nailed it

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

Grammarly has officially rebranded to Superhuman!

☑️Superhuman Mail
☑️Superhuman Go
☑️Coda Docs
☑️Grammarly
☑️Agent Store

Mail, Docs, and AI that work in every app and tab. Superpowers, everywhere you work.

Congrats @shishirmehrotra, @rahulvohra, and team. Let's go! 🦾

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

An underrated law? Kidlin's Law.

That if you write down a problem clearly and specifically, you have already solved half of it.

The act of clearly & specifically describing a problem on paper creates a deeper understanding of its components & makes it easier to find solutions.

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

As a pre-seed VC, it is so necessary to wire and then get out of the way.

But for the times when you need to be an on-call "fractional founder", and help portfolio founders with their 0 → 1 pains (PMF, recruiting, fundraising) — that is the best part of the job.

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

Congrats to my cofounder @vsodera and to me on our latest product launch 🥰#Proudmom

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

New AI model just dropped: Baby-2o (codename “Sloane”) #prouddad

• Key features: Revolutionary sleep prevention capabilities, unlimited milk consumption, self-evolving
• Reasoning: Limited
• Compute: 1 hr / charging: 2 hrs

(Note: swag for babies > swag for adults)

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

Lina Khan deciding if you should be permitted to sell your startup or be forced to deliver additional shareholder value.

[Kitty Sullivan @TheKittySully]

@MartinGTobias @vsodera no question!

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Reminder: Profit is a good thing.

This should be an obvious statement. But, since our youngest and most educated citizens keep voting for people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, apparently it needs to be reiterated.

Profit is a good thing. It is critical for a progressive, flourishing society, and the ethical pursuit of it should be celebrated, not criticized.

What is profit?

Profit represents the financial gain that accrues to owners of a business when total revenue exceeds total costs. Put simply, it’s how much business owners get to keep when they’re able to sell things for more than it costs to create them.

Socialists commonly denigrate profit as “exploitative” or “parasitical”; if they’re trying to sound fancy, they’ll say things like “the surplus value of labor that the bourgeoisie capitalist class has extracted from the working class.”

They are wrong.

Profit serves two extremely valuable—and irreplaceable—roles in society, even for people who don’t own businesses:

1. Profit rewards risk and incentivizes growth. All economic ventures that create value for the wide range of stakeholders in our society—from financial parties, such as investors and lenders, to customers, suppliers, employees, governments, and community organizations—have financial outcomes that are inherently uncertain. This uncertainty is called risk, and, in varying levels, it is inherent to any project without a guaranteed and instantaneous payout.

Without profit, there would be no incentive for companies and their shareholders to assume these risks. Without profit, there would be no capital investments (e.g., equipment purchases, new factories), innovation (e.g., new technologies, pharmaceutical R&D), or entrepreneurship. Without profit, there would be new jobs created, no new restaurants to enjoy, no tax revenue to fund government benefits, national defense, public education, municipal parks.

Profit is the mechanism that makes progress possible, for business owners and employees alike.

2. Profit sends a signal to the rest of the economy that a certain product or service is valuable, and that someone should make the investments necessary to supply more of it. Economists refer to this as a price signal, and it’s virtually impossible to replicate outside of profit creation in a market-based economy.

When auto manufacturers are able to sell cars profitably, it sends a signal to the market for competitors to produce more of them (whether through greater capacity utilization at existing facilities or by constructing new factories). This leads to more cars being produced and sold, lower prices for customers, greater labor demand, and, over time, stronger wages for employees.

The same applies to plumbing companies, iron ore mining, wheat production, new medications, video games, coffee shops, and every last job in the labor market. Profit provides the signal that subtly directs every economic decision across our complex, wonderful, multifaceted society.

It sounds simple, right? But there are millions of variables here across millions of economic participants, all of them changing continuously. What looks seamless in a market-based economy becomes impossible to model in a centrally planned one. It’s laughable to even try.

Our modern-day capitalist society is nothing short of a miracle. It may not be perfect, but it’s vastly superior to any other economic system ever attempted or imagined.

Profit is a foundational pillar of that system, and it deserves respect as such. Keep that in mind next time you’re at work, checking out at the grocery store, or filling out your ballot in a voting booth.

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Biggest career accelerator in the next decade: get really, really good at learning
- figure out your learning style
- use AI to convert material into that format/style (podcasts, quizzes, etc.)
- apply knowledge
- repeat
Learn fast, grow fast

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Humanity's progress is accelerating insanely fast:

Stone Age→Farming: 100,000 yrs
Farming→Steam: 12,000 yrs
Steam→AI: 200 yrs

2000-2014: 100 years of progress in 14.
Moore's Law predicted 32x. AI chips did 1000x.

Law of Accelerating Returns is getting weird with AI🧵👇🏻