Asher Hunt

Co-founder, @bitetoothpaste 🌎🌴Entrepreneur. Designer + Eng. 😇 Investor: @NotionHQ, AirChat, @clubhouse, @italic, Okendo, Intro, Gorgias, Peel

[Asher Hunt @asherhunt]

Holy &@#%!

Unreal! @bitetoothpaste was the first store featured on @Shopify Unite!!!!

Thank you @tobi @harleyf for empowering entrepreneurs like @lindsaymc and I (and team!!!!) to bring Bite to the world.

https://t.co/4S7yChg0ik

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@travisk alternatively, right before closing a seed in '15, I once pitched 3 partners, 1 principle + 1 associate frm an LA firm in my tiny apartment's living room (all on one couch) + 9 kids from the team scattered about floors, corners.

still wonder how I manufactued the leverage lol

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@travisk exactly why I say shark tank was literally the easiest pitch I've ever done — wysiwyg

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@GrantM @adamhjk @Austen did I also split my pants?

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Love @OisinO and team and this is such a bold, smart maneuver. Very excited to see what’s cooking.

[Oisin @OisinO]

My company, Recharge, just acquired Skio for $105m. This is the largest private acquisition in the space ever.

Just 5 years ago I got a crazy phone call that nearly killed us...

Here’s the story I've never told anyone before:

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Them: “Do you ever get lonely working from home?”

Me:

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@OpenAI "Think" intentionally capitalized?

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@_catwu not showing for me? (Max + V 2.1.53) any advice?

[Notion @NotionHQ]

Introducing Custom Agents. The AI team that never sleeps 🌙

They’re autonomous, built for teams, and easy for anyone to build. Give them a job, set a trigger or schedule, and they'll get it done 'round the clock.

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@OisinO Wow

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@akothari but do you actualize the tap dance?

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@teslascope 📐?

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@farbood @jordihays I didn’t even have to see this reply to assume a high double digit percentage of who this was. Solely based on the described exchange 🤣

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@thsottiaux shift tab to switch modes 🫣

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

"I don't know who discovered water, but I'm sure it wasn't a fish."

This is my most personal conversation this year. If you build with AI and care about avoiding slop, this interview might offer a fresh perspective.

Alan Kay is my hero and a big reason Notion exists. He helped invent many things we consider "computers" today: the first personal computer at Xerox PARC, the GUI (which Steve Jobs saw and took to Apple), the desktop metaphor, and Object-Oriented Programming. Most people don’t know Alan cares and thinks more about humanity than computing.

In this chat, Alan explains:
— Humans lack built-in limits for once-scarce rewards. Marketers turn these into legal drugs. The Industrial Revolution amplified salt, sugar, outrage, and validation.
— We swim in our blind spots. Perception is a reconstruction in the brain. Cut off feedback in an isolation tank and the brain starts dreaming while awake.
— Media becomes our culture and environment, the water that fish can’t see. TV normalized what once seemed unthinkable, like reality TV.
— New media imitates old media at first, hiding its true effects until it is too late.
— Without education between human and tool, we create informational hydrogen bombs used by 100,000-year-old brains.
— Point of view is worth 80 IQ points. Problem finding matters more than problem solving, but schools teach the latter.
— Paradigm shifts make reality simpler and truer, like moving from Earth-centered epicycles to Kepler’s ellipses.
— To have ideas, keep a "crazy room" and a "sane room." Let ideas rip. Avoid naming too early. Do not chase ratholes.
— ... how to build tools that shape civilization for the better.

Notion was directly inspired by Alan’s work from the 70s. This conversation is aligned with what we are trying to build at @NotionHQ.

Alan's metaphors take time to absorb. It’s worth revisiting.

[dani bauer @danizeres]

@OpenAI @OpenAIDevs met amazing @ShopifyDevs here 💚🐐

👋🏻 @benparr & @asherhunt

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Headed to SF for OpenAI Dev Day. Who’s around?

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@btibor91 Yes!!

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@btibor91 delegate lower priority bugs to people and those who fix them first get an invite

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@btibor91 any invites? 🫣

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@OpenAI Here we go