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]

@RonConway @garrytan 🙏

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@trysunflower magic! 🪄

[Sunflower @trysunflower]

Magic Reply is now live for all users in our alpha!

Here's what it does:
→ Reads and understands your full email thread, not just the last message
→ Asks you the right questions instead of guessing your answer
→ Writes a reply that sounds like you, based on the context

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@lennysan @TheRialMichelle Congrats!

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

Maybe it named itself 😱

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it.

In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin.

It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it.

In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin.

It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

It also raises a hard truth that the people making these decisions are not always the ones best positioned to shape the future.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

Layoffs at scale are meant to strengthen companies, yet they rarely produce the outcomes leaders hope for. For many, the moment becomes an inflection point toward founding, building, and leading something much bigger.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

I was chatting with a group of Princeton CS students and they told me the CS enrollment has been way down. I looked into it, and it's definitely a trend:
- Nationally, 62% of CS programs reported declines in 2025
- Down 9% over past 2 years across UC schools
- Most striking, existing CS majors are feeling the most regret about their choice of major with the rise of AI (more than Humanities majors 😬)

Whether we'll need more or fewer engineers in the future, the supply of new ones is shrinking. Maybe a temporary blip, maybe a sign of things to come.

The silver lining though is that if there's a surge of demand for engineers, existing engineers will become super valuable.

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

Before you decide to be a manager, you should think hard about whether it's the right path for you. Because you don't have to do it. Especially if you don't really want to, but believe the management ladder is the only way to move up in your career. A lot of people shouldn't be forced into management – if you're really not a people person, or you only want to focus on the work, or you thrive on having regular day to-day successes and accomplishments and the murky maybe-your-team-will-succeed-one-day-style of management is less motivating to you.

- #BUILD Chapter 2.1 Just Managing

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@sean_lynch surprised?

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@pitdesi @jmj great card but really low limits

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Your customers will teach you how to go from $1m to $100m ARR, you just have to listen

True especially if your initial TAM seems quite small

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

.@sama Feature request: If there’s an image in my clipboard when ChatGPT opens, auto start the upload.
Tiny change. Huge time saver for power users.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@sama well said

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude https://t.co/LR1v4xz9ds

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

.@molekuleair still no update from support. help please?

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

.@molekuleair my Air Purifier been broken since December. Support is not helping. Taking days between unhelpful email replies. Please help.

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@bdistel Sooner you embrace it the better off you’ll be!

[Brett Hellman @bretthellman]

@nikunj @lmramirez_ @hall time for a reunion