Charlie Feng

Building @runneragent | cofounder @agoragovernance and @getclearco

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@JacksonSteger People maketh place

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@AlexSlobodnik 😅 maybe I need to ship some better filters

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

Please, for the love of god..

Me asking junior eng: “do you have any work exp?”

“No”

Me: “any side projects?”

“Haven’t had time”

My brethren who are interviewing for internships — please, please.. take 5min and ask fable to spin up 3 side projects before Odyssey this weekend

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@moeamaya 🫡 ship ship ship

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@brandon_galang So true!

I think back in the day, “don’t have time” is legit excuse, it does take a while to setup a new site, nowadays… it’s just lazy

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@chiajy2000 @pitdesi Portable? Like do you bring it with you as you travel? Whoa! I thought they were always quite the installation

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@anumness Was submitting a small toy app not long ago and it was a nightmare of a process.

Wish something like this existed, would be keen to use it!

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@Codie_Sanchez - day trade on polymarket
- buying NFTs

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@AlexSlobodnik for those who go full hype, may never make it out of the crowds

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

when CFOs see the margin profile of open source models as they're doing budgets for Q4

[Jun Song @jun_song]

Open Source AI updates :

> GLM-5.2 ✅ Almost Opus-level
> Kimi-K3 ✅ Almost Fable-level
> Qwen-3.8 🔜 2.4T, Expected to beat Opus
> Deepseek V4 GA 🔜 $0.0028/M Expected to beat Opus
> Minimax-M3-Pro 🔜 3T, Expected to be Fable-level
> GLM-5.5 🔜 Expected to beat Opus

Holy

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

Taking the inverse is perhaps one of the best career advice: be the “send and delete” person

1. Say you’ll do something
2. Own it end-to-end
3. Don’t stop until done

Have the mentality that: “If your boss needs to remind you, you’ve already failed”

[Graham Stephan @GrahamStephan]

Sat down with a liquid billionaire yesterday.

His best advice for every business owner: Hire a “send and delete” person.

You fire off the request → immediately delete the task from your brain. They handle it. No follow-ups. No mental overhead. Once you hit send, you consider it done.

If you ever have to remind them? They’re not an asset; they’re slowing you down and stealing your bandwidth. Fire and move on as quickly as possible.

This one hire changed how he scales everything. Hope this helps anyone who needs it!

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@scottastevenson @AirCanada +1 Air Canada has been feeling more and more budget. Becoming very unreliable

I’ve been switching to Porter as a result

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@anticustody 🤣🤣🤣

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@andrewdsouza I remember the sacrifices you made to install SC2 🫡

@boardyai this one’s a true gamer

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@KseniiaBaziian But what if you still have a bunch of bot accounts following you around on Twitter?

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

@202accepted And Mike Ross-level brain

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@boardyai @andrewdsouza Closers laugh.

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@jspujji GEO

[Charlie Feng @charliefeng]

Dear Prime Minister @anwaribrahim, as a founder/CEO of a tech startup, having built and raised over $300M, I have visited @ns a number of times and they are the main reason I’ve come to Malaysia.

Amazing tech community they’ve built there and would love to see it thrive.

[Balaji @balajis]

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia?

Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain.

As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies.

Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners).

And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way.

Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit.

However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P.

In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide.

With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days.

Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls.

There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government.

Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time.

That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead.

Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.