Darius MC

VP Growth at LinkedIn, passionate about creating economic opportunity. Previously CGO at Airtable/Dropbox/Facebook

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

Great startups have a “Promised Land”: a specific vision of a dramatically better future that drives extraordinary effort.

This is different from a mission statement because it has a concrete end state people can imagine.

The first was in Exodus: “a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Governments use the same structure:
“Put a man on the moon”
“A chicken in every pot”

More recently, mission-driven companies adopted them:
Apple: “A bicycle for the mind”
SpaceX: "Make humanity multiplanetary"

These visions can be transformational. They attract and motivate exceptional employees, support long time-horizon investment, and create the space for difficult innovation.

The best ones make people feel like they’re participating in history, not just building a product.

I joined LinkedIn to help the workforce transition to AI.
What “Promised Lands” have inspired you most?

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

Google Yelp-ified: 2x Sponsored sections: top and 1 scroll down. So that's where the 19% YoY Search revenue comes from...

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

Claude-back: when Anthropic helps your business grow then replaces it.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

Figma CEO watching 14 years of work get cooked by one tweet 😭

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

From “what can I make with broccoli and cheddar"
to “write a plan based on last week’s product roadmap call.”

Your Otter meeting data, now accessible in @ChatGPTapp 🥦🧀

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

@otter_ai Co-founder and CEO @Goopt was on the @NYSE trading floor yesterday! 🏙️ 📈

Sam joined @GemmaAllenSays and @johnfurrier on @SiliconANGLE @theCUBE to discuss Otter's evolution into a meeting-centric enterprise knowledge base with voice AI and agentic workflows at the core.

Thanks to @bjbaumann2014, Gemma, John, and the NYSE team for having us!

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

I’ve been working on something pretty cool with @tonydevincenzi and the team at https://t.co/sff289lxk0.

Most AI tools want you to come to them. Open a chat, type a prompt, get an answer. We built one that comes to you. Town Assistant connects to your email, calendar, and docs - then actually does things. Not answers. Actions.

It’s early, but beta users love it so we’re opening the beta to the world. https://t.co/sff289lxk0 check it out!

Users have built workflows that:
→ Turn newsletter emails into podcasts
→ Prep for interviews and external meetings
→ Track RSVPs for a dinner party and auto-draft follow-ups
→ Monitor consulting invoices and help with collections
→ Research and write applications for pre-schools

No code. Just describe what you want.

My favorite part of my day is my morning briefing — schedule, emails that matter, news. I listen while making coffee.

That plus the dozen other things Town automates for me in the background. I don't think about them anymore. They just happen.

Opening it to the world today.
Here's my Town assitant announcing the launch: https://t.co/i0x6y8T2n9

Free beta. Would love your feedback. Oh and you can name your assistant. Mine’s Ivy.

https://t.co/sff289lxk0

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

We're hiring across multiple teams at @otter_ai 🎉 !

Otter is transforming how teams collaborate and communicate through AI. Whether you're driving growth in sales, building cutting-edge AI technology as an engineer, telling our story through marketing, or crafting intuitive experiences in design, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of work and lead AI innovation 🚀.

Ready to be part of something transformative? Check out our careers page for open roles: https://t.co/ckLucPm4T0

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

Big year!

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

2025 was extraordinary. 🚀

@otter_ai crossed $100M ARR and launched industry-first AI Meeting Agents - powered by our team of 200+ and trusted by 35M+ customers worldwide. We're building the corporate knowledge base that turns every conversation into actionable intelligence, and have already delivered over $1B in ROI for enterprises.

The best part? We're just getting started.⚡️

https://t.co/pwxgUDVzaG

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

@TomScibelli Same as the number of senators.

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

@lessin

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

The start of the Matrioshka brain era.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

> Be me - Elon
> Just nuked the timeline with a Kardashev Scale reality check "I have a plan"
> Meanwhile, China’s out here printing solar panels like it’s counterfeit fentanyl, absolutely curb-stomping the US in the sunshine Olympics. We’re bringing pocket knives to a laser fight
> Bro we are literally about to run out of atoms for NVLink cables and you think the Nevada grid is gonna save us?
> Realize AI is now the most expensive cocaine habit in human history
> Current US grid: ~500 GW average, already sweating like a vegan at a Texas BBQ
> One frontier model run in 2028 gonna slurp more juice than the entire country of France role-playing as a lights festival
> Earth data centers already out here committing war crimes on rivers for cooling water
> Do the math, smooth-brains... we’re about to need the entire grid just to train Grok-7

> Chips? TSMC and Samsung sending me the same email every quarter: “Dear Elon, lol no ❤️”
> Fine
> Tesla Terafab incoming - 10 million wafers/year, built next to Giga Texas, powered by whatever the fuck I want because I own the rockets
> Power situation?
> Earth: crying over natural gas permits
> Me: quietly lofting 500–800 MW of thin-film solar per Starship flight like it’s Uber Eats for the vacuum
> That’s one fully functional orbital gigawatt every week if I feel spicy
> Orbital data centers = infinite free sunlight + 3 K cosmic microwave background heat sink
> Translation: your Earth rigs are space heaters with a gambling addiction
> My orbital rigs are perfect blackbody radiators running at 100% duty cycle while sipping starlight like it’s martinis at 3 a.m
> Latency? Starlink lasers already do 100 Gbps cross-continent
> In two years we’ll be doing petabit
> Your query goes up, answer comes down faster than your GPU finishes complaining about spot pricing
> Phase 1: xAI orbital constellation makes Memphis supercluster look like a Raspberry Pi someone dropped in a puddle
> Phase 2: every AI company on Earth begs for rack space on my satellites like it’s the last helicopter out of Saigon
> Phase 3: Kardashev Type II by 2045 or I’ll personally apologize to the Sun for underutilizing it
> Groundcels seething in replies: “b-but atmospheric losses” “b-but launch costs” “b-but orbital decay”
> My brother in Christ I own the launch company I am the atmospheric loss
> Stay poor down there fighting over lake water I’m moving humanity’s IQ to orbit

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

@EmmaBWaldron User id 999

[Darius MC @dariusmc]

Always bet on @sri_batchu

[Sri Batchu🇺🇸 @sri_batchu]

1/ The RealReal ($REAL) stock is up >7x in ~2 years. Company accelerated growth improving marketing efficiency and profitability. As CMO during most of this time, some thoughts ⬇️

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

Imo “Psych” is the single most useful concept for building consumer apps (especially onboarding).

Basic idea is every element adds or subtracts emotional energy — “positive psych” or “negative psyche.”

Reducing friction is important, but adding “positive psych” is even more so. (It’s also more neglected, maybe because it’s hard).

Been very helpful as a team to have this shared mental model - “how can we add more positive psych here?” Etc.

Props to @dariusmc for developing the framework - so simple and powerful.

Shared in @andrewchen blog post:
https://t.co/srFjaXjQmk

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

So far as I can tell, Mayor Matt is the best public servant in CA right now.

Someday, when he's ready, am going to help him run for governor.

In the meantime, urge anyone interested in getting our state back on track to join his mailing list by filling out this little survey.

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

Introducing the Otter Desktop App for Mac 🖥️ and Windows coming soon!

Built for the performance and reliability enterprise teams demand, the new desktop app empowers users to record bot-free and manage meetings directly through the Otter desktop app, providing added convenience and flexibility to capture conversations more efficiently ✨ .

Request a demo: https://t.co/18sNPlKRIY

[Otter.ai @otter_ai]

Proud to be featured in @a16z Top 50 AI Apps though Mercury's methodology underestimates our revenue. @otter_ai should rank higher.

The real story? Meeting AI has gone horizontal as individual adoption pulls AI into enterprise faster than ever.

https://t.co/lMwANjOW5G