Atherton Hobo

im on cap tables you couldn't even fathom

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

because its consumer and its about building hype and vibes and standing apart from other ai companies… and it actually works because there’s a real product underneath it

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Why is this marketing going down the Cluely path?

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

welcome back opus 4.6

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

its funny. this was the case with series a investors barely 3-4 years ago. at some point there will only be pre-seed investors and megafunds left

[Helen Min @helen_min]

I think seed investors have 3 equally good options right now:
-pay up
-sit out
-move much earlier

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

alright guys if we get the crypto markets pumping again we won’t even notice when the ai bubble pops

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: BlackRock says AI compute could be tokenized in the future.

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

yes but consumer assistants will feel stickier to the average user. i just migrated from grok bot to muse. not a ton of work for someone who is an ai power user but annoying enough for the normie

[Alex Iskold | 2048.vc @alexiskold]

Kind of shocking to see people proclaim that it’s over and @Muse won.

I mean you previously said @ChatGPT won then @AnthropicAI then @Google with Gemini.

You see the pattern?

Still early days in this race.

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh man

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Erebor wants to be the first US bank in markets reopening to the global financial system.

Venezuela first, now Syria.

Basically: take geopolitical + compliance risk that big banks won’t, and become the financial bridge before others show up.

https://t.co/fiVMSQpYKT

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

@RHouseResearch in a world where the direct vendors put up a fight and make it hard for agentic assistants to take real action. once direct vendors enable that, expedia is toast

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

i'm happy to announce that my barber has received conditional approval for an occ charter

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

the secret to normie adoption was making a cute mascot after all

[Expedia @Expedia]

Here at Expedia, we love planning trips. Soon, your personal AI agent will too. We're joining @Muse: tell it where you're headed and it can work with Expedia to sort your hotels, and everything in between.

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

well one of the greatest hacks was to post up in a cardboard box in the tenderloin but no one is willing to admit it

[Hamed @hamedinsf]

You would be surprised how many people in San Francisco have weird hacks to life for free / super cheap rent

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

end of a (very short) era. LONG LIVE MUSE

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

we're all underestimating the power of a good mascot in the ai assistant wars. muse is killing it

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

@shaig i think the problem with your post is that i can think of maybe five different fintechs that could be doing this right now, which is a problem 😭

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

i know a guy who exclusively communicates to his wife through muse now and their marriage has never been better

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

yes but i'm sure going to miss the forced opportunity to be truly present in my surroundings while riding public transit in sf

[sam @sam_d_1995]

I am extremely happy to see that “let people smoke meth on the subway” leftism is finally dying out

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

we could give them all unique profile pictures verified by the blockchain. like non fungible photos. but also used in a machine context. we could even call them non fungible tokens

[deepfates @deepfates]

When everyone has long-running agents, where will they communicate? How will they know who's who?

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

@signulll i’ve been saying for a while there’s a real investment thesis to be built around the seven deadly sins when society is actively experiencing moral decay

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

i beg you bro. just spend one more second critically thinking bro. of course kalshi volumes were fudged bro. of course the labs overstated security threats bro 😭

[Atherton Hobo @athertonhobo]

@matt_slotnick finally a take that makes sense. amazon is a scaled consumer utility at this point that dominates consumer mindshare. they can play ball when they figure out how to extract maximum value out of the ecosystem