Clayton Blaha

Profoundly illegible | Prev. Growth @Audius, Co-founder @OWSLA

[Clayton Blaha @FerrariJetpack]

i did it. i found a way to bring together first year consulting analysts and touring musicians. this viral tweet is my mona lisa.

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one of the coolest american companies. i wonder what private equity group owns it

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@otisframpton @BatmanAnthology you sound like a guy with a closet full of performance polos

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we deserve everything bad that happens to this country

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
https://t.co/Por7hr92K2

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@sophiadew great thread

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@WillemDaFro whole time i was reading this i was like “hell ya i love florida”

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@cdixon @eriktorenberg great name, nailed it

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@elite_gz don’t forget hyphy

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@mattcynamon @ckurdziel @nickgrossman @JesseLDN @usv @jessewldn big big same, napster user <1M

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@nickgrossman @JesseLDN @usv stoked for this one

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@jacques_davey @WillManidis

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@20inchStil3ttos @cornski its fun until its not lmao

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it feels like everyone fails to consider that shopping feels really good

[brexton @brexton]

Rant that no one asked for:
My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality

Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer

I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already

There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year!

This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is:
1. Save/make consumers money
2. Make consumers entertained or famous
(And, of course, vices)

Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs

Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it)

P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

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@brexton @binji_x this is me saying that consumer AI is mostly dumb and will ultimately commoditize down to distributors

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@abhitejxyz I’m not, thanks

You are presumably a really smart guy, either do better or hire people that know better and listen to them

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new incel just dropped

[Abhitej | Bento.fun @abhitejxyz]

We fixed online dating

Stop paying to be miserable on dating apps

Meet https://t.co/I5ASxdMpG0, where personality > looks

• Invite-only
• Rip packs, gacha-style
• Build Aura, become a catch

Girls get paid. Guys get dates.

Built on @monad

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@TheStalwart @austincampbell good to see you are finally on your way

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@MediumSizeMeech its actually really good to countershop her, works magically

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@matdryhurst one year in mexico

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@laughnowcrynow they for sure did, i actually thought it was thoughtful and pretty well done for what is ultimately an impossible task

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i actually think time will be very kind to this rollout and maybe even the album. then again i dressed like this at one point so maybe im biased