Geno Jose

Writer, Marketer, Builder
Founder @geonsocial, the first social-tech platform to allow anyone to build communities for the AI age.
Founder at The Growth Graph

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@415venture We are building vertical AI for creators economy. Imagine openclaw for creators and their followers in a community.

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@benln Would live to show you what we are building at @GeonSocial. We are enabling creators with their own AI enabling them to move their workflows to a single platform. It's a vertical AI infrastructure space we want to be in. Have sent you a DM.

[Gabriel Ramans @gabrielramans]

The Silicon Mania Mag II has landed in NYC

the best April tech stories. printed.

499 copies. limited edition.

who wants one?

[Captain Abhimanyu @CaptAbhimanyu]

हरियाणा के फतेहाबाद की प्रतिभाशाली खिलाड़ी पूजा ने हांगकांग में आयोजित एशियन U-20 एथलेटिक्स चैंपियनशिप 2026 में महिला हाई जंप प्रतियोगिता में 1.93 मीटर की शानदार छलांग लगाकर स्वर्ण पदक अपने नाम किया। इस ऐतिहासिक प्रदर्शन से उन्होंने भारत और हरियाणा का मान विश्व मंच पर ऊँचा किया है।

पूजा की यह उपलब्धि उनके समर्पण, अनुशासन और कठिन मेहनत का उत्कृष्ट उदाहरण है। पूरे प्रदेश को उन पर गर्व है। इस शानदार सफलता पर पूजा को हार्दिक बधाई एवं उज्ज्वल भविष्य के लिए ढेरों शुभकामनाएँ। उनकी यह जीत युवा खिलाड़ियों, विशेषकर बेटियों के लिए नई प्रेरणा बनकर उभरी है।

[Anshul Dhir @anshuldhir_]

"Best skills to learn as a non-technical person who wants to build or join a startup? I will not promote"

Great startups always look obvious in hindsight.

In the moment, they look like a niche bet on an unlikely future. That gap between obvious and unlikely is exactly where the asymmetric returns live.

[Silicon Mania @siliconmania]

Shark Tank is dead.

no one has 2 hours to watch a fake, cinematic, scripted drama.

we just fixed that.

introducing... The Buzzer 🔴

1 founder. 1 investor. 5-minutes speed date.

every time the set turns red, either one can reject the other and get a new match (yes... founders can reject investors too LOL)
if they both survive the 5 minutes, it's a match. and they get a private second date.

it's entertaining. it's educational. and it's actually very fun to watch.

this is the new Shark Tank.

and it's called The Buzzer 🔴

enjoy! 🍿

(and shoutout to CUT for the inspiration, and to @compai for sponsoring this episode 💚)

[Rajesh Sawhney 🇮🇳 @rajeshsawhney]

Investing in Indian Consumer is a Trillion $ opportunity. Platforms and Brand creation are on an inflection path.

Insightful discussions amongst 50 VCs & Founders after a hearty breakfast at Magnolias club, Gurugram.

Hosted by @gsf_fund

We will publish insights next week.

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@hthieblot The most important but in the visual are two things:
- the place it depicts outside the window, and
- the monstrous monster. Whats with that

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@zachtratar @sseraphini Would love to show you what we are building at @GeonSocial. Sent you a DM.

[Adam Guild @adamguild]

Introducing Grader: the world's first AI CMO for restaurants.

It’s helped us drive over $1 BILLION in sales for our customers.

Grader outperforms human marketing teams. See how:

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Marc Andreessen breaks down the exact personality profile that separates true innovators from everyone else:

According to him, it's a specific combination of five personality traits, each spiked toward the extreme, that almost never shows up in the same person.

He walks through each one using the Big Five framework:

The first is very high openness. Not just in one domain, but across the board.

This is why many of history's great innovators were unusually creative people outside their main field too, because the trait doesn't discriminate.

But openness alone isn't enough.

"If you're just open, you could just be curious and explore, and spend your entire life reading and talking to people and never actually create something."

The second trait is extreme conscientiousness, meaning the willingness to apply yourself to a single thing over many years.

@pmarca is pointed about how this reality gets buried under myth:

"The stories told about these people... there's this kid, this stroke of genius, this moment in time... And it's no — for most of these people it's years and years of applied effort."

Here's where the profile gets genuinely rare: openness and conscientiousness are opposing traits.

Open people drift. Conscientious people grind. Being extreme in both is vanishingly rare.

The third requirement is high disagreeableness. The innovator must be able to hold their conviction when everyone around them says the idea is stupid.

And the world will say it's stupid:

"The reaction most people have to new ideas is, 'Oh, that's dumb.'"

An agreeable person folds and stops pulling the thread. The innovator keeps going, not out of arrogance, but because they structurally don't bend to social pressure.

The fourth trait is high IQ, which Andreessen treats as the price of entry:

"It's hard to innovate in any category if you can't synthesize large amounts of information quickly."

The fifth and final trait is relatively low neuroticism. The innovator has to withstand years of hard work with no guaranteed outcome, and too much anxiety makes that simply unsustainable.

The bottleneck in innovation was never capital, or the quality of ideas — it was always the rarity of a single person carrying all five traits at once.

And on the rare occasion that person exists, that's exactly where breakthroughs come from.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

There is no substitute for the person who Knows What To Do.

[LEAP 71 @leap_71]

We manufactured the world's largest 3D-printed aerospike rocket engine with @HBD_Technology. Building on the same Noyron DNA as our already-tested engines, this behemoth stands a meter tall and targets 200 kN (45,000 lbf) of force.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

The next generational company will be powered by Palantir.

Palantir Startup Fellowship 002 applications are now open.

We're selecting an elite cohort of startups to build agentic AI products on AIP — with hands-on support from the Palantir team. Ship your product in 8 weeks.

[Geno Jose @genojose]

We got accepted to @Lvlupvc Marketing Edge Accelerator. They're helping us take @GeonSocial to everyone. Thank you so much for the partnership.

This feels the right time to talk about what we are building and how we see the future play out.

Back in 2024, December it was. We all crossed a chasm. AI was not that very expensive toy that only the rich could play with. I mean the startups that had money. It was suddenly accessible. Markets shook. Builders took notice. And, started building towards a world where we could all come together and be builders.

Not just the ones that could build these technologies, but anyone. Last year we saw startups based on this idea build for the builders and become successful, and acquired in months, not years. Everyone knew the potential, but no one knew how it would play out.

The base models were still catching up to the fact. We all predicted that we are way closer to singularity than we thought we were. True. But, more importantly we thought that work as we know it needs another definition. This split the market into two dramatic sides. One said we don't need any more knowledge workers, and that all work will be done by AI. Also true, well partially. And the other side said that knowledge work would change as we know it.

We all need knowledge workers, because all of us are knowledge workers.

We are strictly in the second category trying to bring everyone onboard.

Ge-on is based on this idea. That we are all needed. That we are all a part of the whole, and that we are all required to build the next phase in human history. With AI. Knowledge work or not, we will need us to keep us going.

Anyone who says that there won't be work to be done by humans in the future, is missing a key element that we bring together uniquely.

Which is intuition, depth in forward thinking, curiosity in the human condition, and the will to put it together in a package that resonates with other humans.

'Expression of the self'

AI is going to be the enabler in this enablement and not the 'it'.

Which means there is plenty to be done by humans. Human consumption will move to human generated experiences, and that's what we want to enable.

So what do we do exactly?

We want you to build. Your community on a platform that you own. Which will build your AI. Which in turn will deploy your inference where you want it to be. All on your terms.

We are building the platform to do it on. That's what we are doing.

We are enabling the next generation of builders, dreamers, story tellers, creators, artists, and God knows what else we would call ourselves, to own their own AI, their community and their token generating machines at one place.

If this sounds interesting to you and wants to build with us, please reach out.

Coming to your token generating machines soon.

[Guillermo Flor @guilleflorvs]

🚨 BREAKING: I’m partnering with @deel to fund up to 10 founders with $1,000,000 🤑

Deel just launched The Pitch, a global startup tournament, for the best founder in the world. The prices:

• 10 startups will each receive a $1M SAFE 
• 100 regional winners will each receive $50K SAFEs
• $15M+ total capital deployed

And we’re officially partnering with them to push this to the Market Fit audience 🔥

This isn’t a gimmick. It’s a real funding vehicle.

Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Submit a 5-minute application
2️⃣ Top startups get invited to regional in-person finals
3️⃣ Regional winners get funded
4️⃣ Global finalists compete for $1M

Just product, team, and ambition.

I know how cracked my founder audience is. If you’re building something serious, this is an asymmetric upside.

Don’t worry, we’ll be spotlighting strong applications from our side 😉

I’ll personally be backing and pushing the strongest applications.

Apply. Swing big. Let’s fund one of you!

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽’𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜’𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 🔥

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@OisinO @tobi Great, sending you DM.

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@pmitu Solo + AI co-founder

[Geno Jose @genojose]

Intresting. Slack was never built for this. Do you happen to build your own AI to enable the interactions at scale? Or is it .a service? I ask this because I'm building a creator AI that wants to enable this and solve it at scale. Of course you will need your own infra for this.

Would you have time for a quick chat around this. Would help us a ton and maybe we could help you solve it at scale.

[Geno Jose @genojose]

@OisinO @tobi I mean to ask, where do you think the Shopify app is limited in its capacity compared to the scale you are at? Are you able to serve your community of customers well and to your content? Which tools do you use to build your community, and does Shopify app help you?