Brett Hellman

Founder • @MatterApp • Former Founder of Hall (acquired by Atlassian).

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

Seeing a pattern lately.

Employee uses Matter.
Changes jobs.
Gets the new company on @SlackHQ so they can use @MatterApp.
And recognition and rewards blossom.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@musho testing 123

[Michael Wolfe @michaelrwolfe]

At least we can all stop calling it “Super Intelligence” now.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@Bandrew Short term good. Long term bad.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

Google has become the Kirkland Signature of the internet.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@michaelrwolfe Worse

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

👍👍

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

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[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@lennysan love this - congrats

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

https://t.co/AKIDkNQy8n $20,000

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Shopify spent $99M on https://t.co/pkvW60xjC6, the biggest domain sale ever.

2nd is https://t.co/lkdE6pI3ko, bought by https://t.co/EEFA7JOrke's founder for $70M in 2025. The previous owner Arsyan Ismail bought it for ~$11M in 2021 because it matched his initials!

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

And, it has actually gotten worse over the years.

[Sam Snelling @snellingio]

I am once again absolutely convinced no Apple executive actually uses Siri.

It shocks me how dogshit it still is.

[Samuel Rondot @samuelrdt]

"Saas is dead because customers can vibe-code their own tools."

People can cook. Restaurants still exist.

[NASA @NASA]

We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund   
https://t.co/luC5CdcWDy
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources    
https://t.co/zvNptfyuNd

Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@apoorva_mehta Congrats!

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

At my co., we regularly work with extremely hardworking people at Microsoft. This video is unfortunate.

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Starting to see how they can fire 60,000 employees and have 0 drop in productivity

[Bobby Goodlatte @rsg]

We have some very big announcements coming up soon for Sunflower

I'm so proud of our team and the craft they're pouring into this product

I wish I could spill the beans today... but the wait won't be much longer 🌻

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

Speechless

[Tesla @Tesla]

Roadster https://t.co/G0jU4mWfid

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@agarwal When I saw this video this morning I thought it was a joke 🤣

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

1 in 3 employees hear a genuine thank you at work once a month or less.

Recognition isn’t rare because good work is rare. It’s rare because most workplaces never built the habit.

Our 2026 report:
https://t.co/fEDWdYUfJ9

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

I wish this existed when I was younger.

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates.

We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past.

The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley.

The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website.

We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board.

Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university.

We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco:
https://t.co/NfavmBy2ex

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

So are folks really hiring less humans now?

@ICONIQCapital has the latest data:

- Folks growing > 100% a year are adding 133% headcount a year. They aren't cutting humans, even as they invest the most in AI

Everyone else is ... growing headcount more slowly than revenue

- Folks growing 50%-100% a year (still reasonably fast by pre-AI standards) are adding 25% headcount

- Folks growing 25%-50% only adding 10% headcount

- Folks growing < 25% a year aren't adding any headcount at all