Jane Yu

Writer/inventor/absurdist • past lives @litcapital @netflix @goldhouseco • not famous but known

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

A pic from running check-in at a filmmaker dinner. No words.

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

My prep process for writing any piece of work is simple

Have a clear sense of big picture moral to the story, a collection of personal experiences and canonical references to infuse throughout, and characters I design such that they are rootable yet 3D, complex, believable

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Imagine if we still lived by Buster Scruggs rules where drawing the gun first means winning. What sort of planet is that. The idiot blind leading the blind

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

I’M SAYING THIS FOR GENERAL MORALE GODDAMMIT

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Fyi Skydance actually has stuff in dev with all the streamers (except maybe Disney)? They launched Ride Or Die with Amazon this past summer

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

I’m saying this for general morale.

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Zaddy Ellison ladies and gentlemen

[David Ellison @davidellison]

Today, Ynon and I are proud to introduce the Skydance leadership team — a group of creators, operators and visionaries united by a belief in the power of story. https://t.co/C1aIByKO0e

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Fyi Skydance actually has stuff in dev with all the streamers (except maybe Disney)? They launched Ride Or Die with Amazon this past summer

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Guess wheree

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

@litcapital Remind me who she hates 🙄

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

So much of culture now is just platform, without questioning the quality/substance of what’s being distributed

I get it now

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A wave of songs is taking aim at substandard men. We explain how it reflects a gulf between young men and women https://t.co/Pj6JLl7NnI

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Hot people want to be smart (but won’t show it), smart people want to be cool (but don’t know it), cool people want to be …

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

This is a reference to the work of esteemed academic Aswath Damodaran, who defined several foundational concepts in the field of corporate finance

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

Chamath Damodaran!

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

My 2025 Annual Letter is now out:

https://t.co/vjvpDz6exF

Contents:

- Returns
- If AI kills terminal value, the future is worthless until it arrives
- If the US and China own frontier AI, what happens to others?
- The surest AI bottleneck is physical
- Trust-busting Big Tech and winning the AI race may be incompatible goals
- Doomerism as a fundraising pitch
- Markets are repricing from P/E toward current free cash flow

and much more...

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

@zebird0 Hot smart customer service reps basically

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“mom how did we get so rich?”

“we pivoted from footwear to an ai infrastructure company”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A British founder I funded is doing everything right, but she doesn't realize it. She lives in the country and doesn't know any other founders, so she's never seen startups done wrong.

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

My M/O until I turned 30 and realized I should start being honest with people

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

i actually do this every time

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

is it better to have loved and lost or to not have loved at all?

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

The graphical corollary to this is a reverse Dunning Kruger curve (180 degree rotation)

[Jane Yu @jane_youu]

With ‘emotional closeness’ on the x-axis and ‘alliance stability’ on the y-axis