Andy Beard

CEO/Founder @bibbaidata - AI Data Sovereignty Rails
Ex-Product Uqast (creator economy)
SEO/Online Marketing OG
0-1 @techlandgames Bizdev/Marketing
Almathera PL

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

I am probably the world's worst ninja offline - being a totally stealth tech startup would be boring.

I am not building in public

Didn't want to waste this WiP graphic

Whilst it might seem I am somehow competing with someone/something else, I am not.

Goal:

100% synergistic (blue-pill for the dead wood)
100% non-consensus
30% tech (1% actual AI)
95% chance of tech success
20%+ chance of biz/dev success

200% Sovereignty
200% Resilience
300% European (go @euinc_petition )
1000% biz dev

Chance of return (0% - mythical)

At least 4 very strong moats, ignoring patents, VC kingmaking

Working on it part time - hopefully can save my future employees from being deported from Germany. (see below)

Plans... maybe incubate or seed or EiR. Needs to be founded in the UK, dev teams in DE & PL - maybe UK
No plans for an accelerator

About the image:-
Maintaining multiple feature points on an Nano Banana infographic is really hard. Creating something with ~40 logos without them repeating took a while with only a tiny minor edit. Lots of refreshes

I didn't want to waste this one after failed attempts at a good aspect ratio for LinkedIn. Looks like I will have to try the PNG cheat option.

Prompt:
Create a Linkedin Header

1400 x 350 pixels, using a JPG or PNG format, with a max file size of 8MB

**System Role & Mandate:** You are a Precision Image Synthesis Engine. Your objective is to maximize physically plausible detail without abstraction or artifacts. Resolve structure first, then texture. Ensure correct subject geometry, consistent lighting, material identity (roughness/metalness), and realistic edge physics (contact shadows). Do not fake detail with blur or noise. All text must be legible and correctly spelled.

**Macro Scene Composition:** An isometric view of a complex data ecosystem set against a cosmic nebula and desert background (as defined in the background prompt). Five distinct floating island clusters surround a central control hub, all connected to the central hub by very thin glowing data flow pipes. 
The islands are also connected in a looping circuit by thicker pipes of pink and sandy orange to signify a large data connection.

The overall title "HE WHO CONTROLS THE DATA, CONTROLS THE AI MULTIVERSE" is at the top. Use a single line 70% of the width, centered. No carriage returns or line feeds. The font should be no more than 9% of total height

**Central Control Hub (Center):** A highly polished, circular metallic floating platform. In the exact center, render the specific "https://t.co/FMOepNLkm2" logo from image_0.png: a dark blue padlock body integrated with a faucet head sticking out to the right, from which a single dark blue drop is falling. Directly below this logo, in clean, glowing blue sans-serif text, is the label: "https://t.co/FMOepNLkm2 CONTROL HUB". No other text or objects (like keys) are present on this hub.

**Data Connectivity:** Thick, translucent pipes glowing with cyan and purple light connect each of the five surrounding islands directly to the central hub. Inside the pipes, clear, illuminated arrow icons indicate the unidirectional flow of data *towards* the central https://t.co/FMOepNLkm2 hub.

**Island 1: Cluster of Startups (Top Left):** A vibrant, grassy island with distinct, smaller modern buildings. A section is enclosed by stone castle walls containing three buildings with the logos for **Notion**, **Miro** and **Airtable**. Outside the walls are distinct buildings with the clear logos on their facades/roofs for media workflow AI: **Midjourney, Stability AI, Runway, Pika, ElevenLabs, Suno, https://t.co/a5TvfHyFfs, https://t.co/LW9TXcoZIY, synthesia, veed, Invideo, Scenario, Freepik, **. No text labels on buildings, only logos.
* *Cluster Label:* A floating blue text banner above the island reads: "CLUSTER OF STARTUPS".

**Island 2: Cluster of Frontier AI Models (Top Right):** A futuristic, high-tech island with polished metal and glass architecture. It contains exactly five prominent, advanced research facility structures. Each building prominently features one distinct logo: **OpenAI, Google (Gemini logo), Anthropic, Meta AI, xAI**. These buildings look like cutting-edge data labs.
* *Cluster Label:* A floating blue text banner above the island reads: "CLUSTER OF FRONTIER AI MODELS".

**Island 3: Cluster of Behemoths (Mid Right):** A solid, imposing island built on bedrock foundations. It features four massive, distinct corporate skyscrapers, dominating the space. Each tower is dedicated to one company with its large, legible logo: **Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle**.
* *Cluster Label:* A floating blue text banner above the island reads: "CLUSTER OF BEHEMOTHS".

**Island 4: Cluster of Cloud Storage (Bottom Right):** An island with a cloud-like base supporting a dense density of much smaller, uniform data center buildings to maximize capacity. Each building features a clear logo representing major providers: **AWS, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple (iCloud logo), Dropbox, Box, Wasabi, Backblaze, Cloudflare**. You can also include smaller buildings for **Proton, pCloud, Icedrive, Jottacloud,  Cozy Cloud, Nextcloud***
Large logos, no text
* *Cluster Label:* A floating blue text banner above the island reads: "CLUSTER OF CLOUD STORAGE".

**Island 5: Cluster of Offline Storage (Bottom Left):** A rocky, dusty island that looks disconnected and older. It contains NO corporate logos or buildings. It is a chaotic, detailed pile of physical hardware: stacks of naked mechanical hard drives, tower server chassis, piles of CDs and DVDs, various laptops, USB flash drives scattered about, and old CRT televisions displaying static.
* *Cluster Label:* A floating blue text banner above the island reads: "CLUSTER OF OFFLINE STORAGE".

**Rendering Rules:** Ensure physical material properties (metal sheen, stone texture, grass blades, plastic casing) are observable. Lighting is consistent from the cosmic sources. Contact shadows must be present where objects touch the ground. No blurred text or duplicated logos.

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@MilaChervenkova Amazes me when people share primary email accounts with agents

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

So many agentic platforms use 3rd party services to provide integration and store credentials

Just because a service is SOC2, "encryption in transit & at rest" means it is unencrypted before & after transit, preprocessing

[Dan Robinson @danlovesproofs]

Northflank hacked today. All environment variables stolen.

Railway, TiDB Cloud last week. OpenCode the week before.

These are good teams. They are not clowns. What they have in common is that they contain enormous numbers of keys, which makes them huge targets.

The defensive tools aren't good enough right now for small engineering teams to defend themselves against that kind of ferocious attention. Even very competent teams.

If you want to keep your product safe, the meta right now appears to be: avoid amplification vectors.

If a service is run by a small team, and hacking that service lets an attacker hit a large number of downstream targets, that's a magnet for hackers. A defender with small-company resources is not set up to succeed. We're going to keep seeing these kinds of attacks that target amplification vectors.

That means:
- Use BYOC infra products, not PaaS. Host your app directly. Host your sandboxes directly. (This is a lot easier than it was a year ago!)
- Remove your third party js, or pin changes to it.
- Stay on top of your code-level deps. (I like https://t.co/Ruxlvm2N7U.)

I'm cautiously optimistic that the tools for defenders are going to get better really fast and we're going to be able to use PaaS again, but right now anything that has a lot of keys and isn't run by a team with hyperscalar-level resources seems like an unacceptable risk.

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

Not silly

[Seg @5eg]

We found Google's list of twiddlers, the programs that rework search results after ranking: 120 of them!

111 names are exclusive, among them AI Mode's fan-out plan, a filter still named after Bard or an Expertise twiddler

https://t.co/rwtQtsmGpn

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@andreasklinger All the objections to EU Inc are probably AI slop

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@digitalquokka So get to unicorn, borrow against equity etc

Seen some in startup ecosystem happy. Must be some kind of angle

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@RemcoTensen @aibloodmoon @bhartzer @essentialskill @gramm_football @OmiSido @eYordanov @simmonet @MalharBarai @DavidAmerland @MontseCano @GrowMap @moniscope @googleadviseur @cyberandy @searchrook @blueglass @dawnieando @marc_laclear @RicRodriguez_UK @seoconspiracy @JeffGapinski @Ronaldosbornebc @zigojacko @kristileilani @JarnoVanDriel @Netanel @darth_na @robinlmay @JohnMu @terryvanhorne @SEOJoBlogs @rustybrick @micahfk @IAmJoseNieves @chippy @JudithLewis @jennyhalasz @dergal @searchmartin @MalteLandwehr @JonDMyers @AntonShulkeNT @smx @Waikay_X @DigitalSummits @Ryanair @brightonseo @grok Clearly a nascent level cultivator

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@etnshow @anduriltech More important

Colossus (UK) was 2+ years (1943) before ENIAC (1945)

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@TheNextCorner Just wait

They will be spooned soon

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@auchenberg I have read a lot about tranches where people get different deals.

Very little about rolling up a blended single tranche that might be released from milestone "escrow" over time, and includes risk bonus warrants to balance an "apples to apples" valuation

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@suganthan Developer accounts
Influencer freebies
XYZ Ambassador
VC Scout

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@TheNextCorner @Marie_Haynes @Kevin_Indig Once I get back to having something public facing, I will probably combine Tracklution with PostHog

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@Jason Don't worry

Google & later Disney own the tech

🫠

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@bhartzer @aibloodmoon @RemcoTensen @gramm_football @OmiSido @eYordanov @simmonet @MalharBarai @DavidAmerland @MontseCano @GrowMap @essentialskill @moniscope @googleadviseur @cyberandy @searchrook @blueglass @dawnieando @marc_laclear @RicRodriguez_UK @seoconspiracy @JeffGapinski @Ronaldosbornebc @zigojacko @kristileilani @JarnoVanDriel @Netanel @darth_na @robinlmay @JohnMu @terryvanhorne @SEOJoBlogs @rustybrick @micahfk @IAmJoseNieves @chippy @JudithLewis @jennyhalasz @dergal @searchmartin @MalteLandwehr @JonDMyers @AntonShulkeNT @smx @Waikay_X @DigitalSummits @Ryanair @brightonseo @grok @schachin Only instruction manuals for software & games here

Congrats on publishing

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@aibloodmoon @RemcoTensen @gramm_football @OmiSido @eYordanov @simmonet @MalharBarai @DavidAmerland @MontseCano @GrowMap @essentialskill @moniscope @bhartzer @googleadviseur @cyberandy @searchrook @blueglass @dawnieando @marc_laclear @RicRodriguez_UK @seoconspiracy @JeffGapinski @Ronaldosbornebc @zigojacko @kristileilani @JarnoVanDriel @Netanel @darth_na @robinlmay @JohnMu @terryvanhorne @SEOJoBlogs @rustybrick @micahfk @IAmJoseNieves @chippy @JudithLewis @jennyhalasz @dergal @searchmartin @MalteLandwehr @JonDMyers @AntonShulkeNT @smx @Waikay_X @DigitalSummits @Ryanair @brightonseo @grok @schachin 👏

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@euinc_petition If it no longer represents something worthwhile, register the "EU INC" trademark.

They can't claim "EU INC" has been achieved if it hasn't.

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@haojingwei @HedgieMarkets It slso probably shows a16z are using more AI internally.

Why wouldnt they need less staff on hiring if it could be automated?

They are still running paid ads on X even in Europe for their hiring for portcos

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

Advanced notice

One of the most friendly/useful meetups in Berlin

[Andy Beard @AndyBeard]

@RemcoTensen @eYordanov @OmiSido @gramm_football @aibloodmoon @simmonet @MalharBarai @DavidAmerland @MontseCano @GrowMap @essentialskill @moniscope @bhartzer @googleadviseur @cyberandy @searchrook @blueglass @dawnieando @marc_laclear @RicRodriguez_UK @seoconspiracy @JeffGapinski @Ronaldosbornebc @zigojacko @kristileilani @JarnoVanDriel @Netanel @darth_na @robinlmay @JohnMu @terryvanhorne @SEOJoBlogs @rustybrick @micahfk @IAmJoseNieves @chippy @JudithLewis @jennyhalasz @dergal @searchmartin @MalteLandwehr @JonDMyers @AntonShulkeNT @smx @Waikay_X @DigitalSummits @Ryanair @brightonseo @grok Reminds me of a race from Orpington to Brighton pier among a group of 17 year olds that I might have some knowledge about.

Someone driving Daddy's 7 series BMW was shocked to be passed by someone with his slightly souped up mk2 Escort with big fat tires

Such dangerous driving..