Gary Evans, Jr.

Lover of: Jesus, beautiful wife, 2 daughters, and singing bass (Acappella, United Voice Worship). Director of IT at Smooth Fusion. Real estate owner/investor.

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@steve2bacon @jrtowell 😂

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

Best Independent Coffee Shop https://t.co/FYdHs8i1wA

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell Haha

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

The First AI-Generated Video That Looks Super Real

Microsoft Research announced VASA-1.

It takes a single portrait photo and speech audio and produces a hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements generated in real-time.

This is amazing, given that the AI-generated video looks very real!

Of course, these examples will likely be cherry-picked, but this is still amazing.

My favorite use-case for this tech is to revive old actors like Cary Grant in new movies with this tech :)

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

So AppFolio is a quiet member of the 10x ARR club

- SaaS for property management
- $660m run-rate, $7.2B market cap (11x)
- Growing 29% a year -- efficiently
- Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services
- 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins
- Frozen hiring for 2 years to get super efficient, despite strong growth

And ...

- Stock up a stunning 86.96% this year

That's what the markets want for now. Efficient, measured, high operating margin growth.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

So AppFolio is a quiet member of the 10x ARR club

- SaaS for property management
- $660m run-rate, $7.2B market cap (11x)
- Growing 29% a year -- efficiently
- Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services
- 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins
- Frozen hiring for 2 years to get super efficient, despite strong growth

And ...

- Stock up a stunning 86.96% this year

That's what the markets want for now. Efficient, measured, high operating margin growth.

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell ‼️

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

GPT-Engineer is insane.

Simply specify what you want to build with a prompt, and the AI agent builds the entire codebase.

It's completely free and open-source, and it's already at nearly 17,000 stars on GitHub 🤯

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@melodykevans

[SHEIN @SHEIN_Official]

@RuthC_Z Hi there! It's pronounced SHE- in. 😀

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell sounds like you…

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

SQL is going to die at the hands of an AI. I’m serious.

@mayowaoshin is already doing this. Takes your company’s data and ingests it into ChatGPT. Then, you can create a chatbot for the data and just ask it questions using natural language.

This video demoes the output.

🤯

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell AutoGPT!

[Gaurav @agarwal__gaurav]

AutoGPT has EXPLODED in the past 5 days.

Reaching #1 trending on Twitter.

It's the latest & greatest AI you've seen yet.

Here are the top 10 threads that'll leave your jaw on the floor:

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The Fed aiming for a soft landing😳

🔊

https://t.co/dVqvWzizkZ

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

This is crazy @jrtowell

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@melodyevans

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

Y'all check this out! Desiring God the new song from Acappella was just released on all platforms! https://t.co/KFQ0vocnlb

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

Demand for office is picking up!!

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@melodykevans

[NWS Lubbock @NWSLubbock]

Ok folks, here's a real treat from one of our friends at the West Texas Mesonet. It's a Sun pillar! These are more commonly seen up in the Arctic at sunrise or sunset, but it was just cold enough and just clear enough to spy one in West Texas. #lubwx

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell We will be patient.

[From Growth To Value @FromValue]

Warren Buffett famously said:

"The stock market is a device which transfers money from the impatient to the patient.”

I see a lot of impatient investors and few patient...

But that's probably exactly what this is about.

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell

[Josh Montgomery @hq_storage]

RV Storage might be the ultimate covered land play.

We are expanding our RV storage by 55 spots next month.

Keys to a successful RV storage yard

🧶 👇👇

[Gary Evans, Jr. @garyeevans]

@jrtowell 😂