Thomas

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

Thank you for putting it out there @tell_me_mur
It is just mind-blowing how these so called tech reviewers didnt realise this since the day of launch.
That vertical space is so wide that you could play tetris on the side 😂

[Davyd NRB @tell_me_mur]

By the way, here’s how 𝚂𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚎𝚊 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚝𝚜 look on the 𝗶𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗼 📱
{
"𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚖": 𝟹𝟺,
"𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝": 𝟶,
"𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁": 𝟴𝟰,
"𝚝𝚘𝚙": 𝟶
}

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@kevinclark Yes this should have been it. The icons should disappear when the page is scrolling and when it stops the options show up at the bottom.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

I get that apple did something different with their ui for the duo and all the apple fans are raving about how neat the ui is but how is that right side bar acceptable?
Changing things for namesake does not make it amazing.
This looks absolutely horrendous.

[Max Schoening @mschoening]

This is going to require a lot of work.

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

I’m a founder. I like to focus on engineering and building rather than responding to false allegations. But there is so much here that I had to say something.

I was born in China, and I am a proud Australian citizen who immigrated there as a teenager. Australia gave me the freedom and opportunity to build this company. The United States represents that same promise more powerfully than anywhere else on earth.

Having employees in China is not, by itself, a security issue. The question is how customer data is protected. Joe knows that many of the world’s largest payments, banking and technology companies have employees and operations in China. What matters is the architecture, controls and safeguards governing access to data.

Our controls have been independently assessed, and our product and security teams include veterans of Palantir and the Australian Defence Force. These allegations did not originate with a security breach or regulatory finding. They originated with investors in Ramp, our direct competitor.

We have written to the Congressman and look forward to answering his questions. You can read the correspondence here:

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@Peranavann @kro_roe Agreed. That's the beauty of competition. The ripple effects of this will be great for all foldables no matter the maker.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@sunnny1583 At the end of the day it's the trade off and it's going to be very subjective to each. Both Matt and glossy are good. Neither are bad. It's a matter of preference.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@sunnny1583 It's all an illusion. Physics will not allow crease to be eliminated at this stage of technology advancements. The trade off with Matt finish is the washing of colours and drop in sharpness both of which are not great for content consumption but great to eliminate reflections.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@RjeyTech Aa a fold user since fold 1 and to now fold 8 ... Weight is such an important factor especially from an ergonomic standpoint. There is no amount of justification for having this heavy a phone.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

"If you're an analytical SaaS company, it's over. It's over."

- Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora

"What is an analytical SaaS company? It is a company that says, “I'm going to collect a lot of data for you and analyze it for you.”

I don't need you to analyze it for me. I can run models against the data and analyze it myself.

Think about it: almost every SaaS company has a marketplace. You can buy applications from the Salesforce Marketplace. What do those applications say? “You have Salesforce data. I'm a marketplace app. Use me, and I'll help you analyze that data.”

But I don't need to do that. You don't need those applications anymore. I can simply run an LLM against the data.

Therefore, all the additional functionality that has traditionally been sold to us as incremental software modules may no longer need to be sold separately. I would much rather have an LLM run against the data."

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From "All-In Podcast" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@rogeravats @TechCrunch @grok @TechCrunch do your research as a tech news page and publish accurate data. This just goes to show how much you know about technology.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@rogeravats @TechCrunch @grok This is factually wrong @grok he is using the fold 8

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@_prophet_futu And you call yourself a tech enthusiast 😂
Samsung pioneered the flex mode since the beginning. So get your facts right.
Apple leveraged it. Both are doing a good job but don't make yourself sound like a🤡

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@thesamuelnam @Xiaomi Not really. Aesthetically yes it might look good but from a functionality standpoint it's actually better if it is in the center. When you do video calls especially with more than 1person on a call you see the advantages of it. You are not looking at the corner (like in an ipad)

[Shannon Scott @shannonscott]

We didn’t know it at the time, but the foundation we spent ten years building turns out to be exactly what the agentic economy needs.

Excited for the next chapter of Airwallex.

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@Muskanjain0401 @supermemory Would love to try it out

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

I keep seeing headlines about layoffs driven by AI automation… and honestly, I don’t fully understand it yet.

At @airwallex, we’ve dedicated almost all of our engineering resources to building customer-facing AI products and infrastructure. We barely even have enough engineers working on internal automation yet.

The demand for AI talent inside our company has gone up, not down.

Maybe I’m missing something, but right now it feels like AI is creating more product opportunities, more engineering demand, and more ambitious problems to solve, not fewer.

What are others seeing?

[Thomas @beardedvocalist]

@JunaidSamodien_ @grok explain this in more detail.

[Airwallex @airwallex]

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[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before: