AK

Head of Growth, @Google. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Former @Facebook, 3x exited entrepreneur and indie investor. 🇨🇦🌵

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

The Birds of Canada banknote series was so peak.

[AK @alkarim]

@WatcherGuru @mcuban bullish

[altra @catboosted]

Co-founder disputes are rarely about disagreements.

They are long horizon revealed talent disparities cloaked as disagreements

[AK @alkarim]

yep…

[RapTV @Rap]

Drake's new albums spell out "HIM" 😭🔥

[Spectre @spectre0799]

2 Hard 4 The Radio but the beat is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

Kyrie Irving speaks out on Drake and his upcoming album ‘ICEMAN’ 🧊

“He transcended so many haters that were telling him he couldn’t amount to sh*t and he ended up doing some legendary sh*t that won’t be topped.” 💯

(via @Twitch)

[Abdul @Abdul01821]

We watching a literal movie

[CP24 @CP24]

#BREAKING: Drake ‘freezes’ CN Tower for release of ‘Iceman’ album https://t.co/el2NoXRxQP

[Katie @katiekirsch]

Today we're stoked to announce the inaugural class of @a16z Growth Engineer fellows! 🎉

65 growth leaders selected out of thousands of apps from talented people around the world.

Many fellows are household names in the growth × AI space who helped to write the original growth playbooks - like @lukeharries from ElevenLabs, @ramanrmalik from Perplexity, @BenShanken from Coinbase, and @DBredvick from Vercel.

Some are AI-native engineers now building massive growth engines at scale - like Aaron Lu at Notion, Ramya Durvasula at Partiful, and @vaibhav_2991 at OpenAI.

Others are product leaders turned growth engineers, designing powerful new growth systems - like @alkarim at Google, @ravishagrwal at Gamma, @egavrilenko11 at Cursor, and Ajay Prakash at Superpower.

You might recognize @yash_tek from his educational Clay content, or Jordan Crawford from his thoughtful write-ups on growth engineering via Claude Code.

But we���ve also got young hustlers like Diana Lim who are fresh out of college with CS degrees and already tastefully automating everything in sight at early-stage startups.

Pumped about this group - and to do more fellowships & cohorts in the future!

Sharing links below for more details - plus a sign-up form to stay in touch on the next fellowship. 🙌

[AK @alkarim]

@fahdananta and here's another hit, Barry Bonds

[AK @alkarim]

Slowly but surely everyone joins Telegram

[AK @alkarim]

explains all the bicycles

[Sharbel @sharbel]

https://t.co/VmJZdkrtHq

[rapklipz @rapklipz]

Drake & Ye on stage in Toronto vibing out and performing “Headlines” together (2013 / Rare Footage)

[wayBackinTimes @waybackintimes]

A Nelly Furtado singing the remix of Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On (which isn't on any streaming platform) It caught me completely off guard

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

https://t.co/V9spYMY2rK

[Micky @Rasmic]

Do skills replace MCP? (or vice versa)

Here's a quick class on MCPs + Skills and how they compliment eachother

[Marc Lou @marclou]

I made an app to turn web analytics into a Severance episode.

Every page on your site is a department.
/pricing is a department.
/blog is a department.

Your visitors are innies now.

When they visit your site, they arrive through the elevator.
When they navigate to another page, they walk to the next department.
When they bounce, they walk out.

It's called MACRODATA: https://t.co/mVKikEQpYy

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

so just to recap this week (so far)

- musk industries is real (spacex, tesla, xai merger)

- clawdbot explosion leading to a bankrun on mac minis but then anthropic released their own version

- tesla dropped the bomb they’re halting production on model s and x to scale 1M optimus humanoid robots this year instead

- china dropped the mother of all open source models kimi k2.5 that turn video into production-ready apps but then google dropped a gemini update ON THE SAME DAY that does the same thing gg

- google said fuck it and also launched the worlds greatest world model genie and switched on gemini for 3.8B chrome browser users AND released alpha genome model that one-shots 1M dna base pairs for 3000 researchers across 160 countries AND teased new veo model

- microsoft crushed earnings, launched a new ai chip but stock still tanked 10% because they *only* grew rev 39%

- anthropic round 2X oversubbed raised to 20B 🏌️

- openai raising another $100B, 750B val 🏌️

- intel leaked they’re gonna help produce nvidias next gen feynman gpus - hello americas tsmc

- a robot (built by figure) washed the dishes with zero human interaction

- apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics

- demis confirms google glass 2.0 coming this summer

fckin hell

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Getting older is crazy. One wrong pillow angle and your neck is disabled for the entire week.

[AK @alkarim]

just saw five undercover cops jump out of an unmarked car and run down and bust a drug dealer on a skateboard at Mission/7th - new Mayor living up to his promises