John Wong

Ops @ Jack & Jill

London 🇬🇧

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

An important principle:
Never pay someone to remove a problem that they themselves created

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

this is what's keeping me up at night these days....

1. ai girlfriends/boyfriends will become a $50B market and nobody will talk about it publicly. but check the app store rankings at 2am. Virtual friends/girlfriends era is just beginning 😅

2. the most valuable skill in 2026 will be knowing when NOT to use ai. human touch will trade at a 20x premium.

3. ai agents are going to start hiring other ai agents without human approval. your marketing agent will realize it needs design work and just... hire a design agent. pay it. manage it. fire it if it sucks. entire companies will run in the background while you sleep.

4. regulation that requires "professional certification" is being challenged. ai will get to the point SOON where it do taxes 99% better than most CPAs, diagnose better than mot doctors etc

5. reputation systems for ai agents will be worth more than credit scores. which agents can you trust with your bank account? your medical decisions? your kids' education? someone will build the moody's of ai agents. this idea from @ideabrowser (more there)

6. we're about to see AI therapy become so good it creates an existential crisis for human therapists. not because it's empathetic, but because it remembers everything, never judges, and is available at 3am.

7. someone's going to build a $100M business with ZERO employees, zero contractors, just them and their agent swarm. and they'll do it in under 18 months. this will break how we think about valuation. lots of talk about this already but im still not over it.

8. local-first ai is the next gold rush. people will pay 10x for ai that runs on their device, sees what they see, knows what they know, and never phones home. privacy is about to be luxury again.its the new minimalism.

9. the biggest companies of 2030 will be started by people who can't code, can't design, can't write - but are incredible at talking to ai. prompt engineering is temporary. ai whispering is forever.

10. someone will lose a $20m+ dollars because their AI agent got socially engineered by another ai agent. this will happen before 2026.

11. every email you send will be negotiating with other emails before either human sees anything. your inbox will become a marketplace where ai agents bid for your attention.

12. the concept of "original work" will completely collapse. everything will be remixed, regenerated, and recombined so many times that authorship becomes meaningless. and somehow, this will unlock more creativity, not less.

13. ai agents will start forming their own companies, incorporating in crypto-friendly jurisdictions, and hiring humans as contractors. the first AI-founded unicorn will happen before 2027.

14. someone's going to train an AI on every podcast joe rogan ever did and it'll be indistinguishable from him. he'll sue. he'll lose. then he'll license it. If it isnt him, it’ll be someone that big.

15. the anti ai movement will be bigger than ai movement, most people will be threatened by ai

16. "AI-first" kids who grow up with claude and chatgpt as their primary teachers will be unemployable by traditional companies but will dominate
entrepreneurship. they'll think in prompts and tools

17. schools that ban ai will become the new private schools. parents will pay $50k/year for "human-only education" like it's organic food for the brain.

18. it wont' be uncommon in the future to have a chief AI officer who's... an ai. and it'll be a high paid "employee"

19. the window to build something that matters has never been wider. but it's also never been more temporary. in 24 months, what feels like superpowers today will be table stakes.

20. voice is about to eat everything. in 6 months, typing will feel prehistoric. people will run entire businesses through voice agents while walking their dog. the keyboard was just a 150-year detour.

21. ai will kill the resume. companies will just point an agent at your entire digital footprint - github, twitter, youtube - and it'll know more about your capabilities than any interview could reveal. privacy settings will become career decisions.

22. the first ai agent will get canceled on twitter. it'll say something problematic, people will demand its deletion, and we'll have our first real ai rights debate. maybe the agent will hire its own lawyer hehe.

23. $10B+ opportunity to be a company that helps ai agents find other ai agents. agent discovery will be a BIG problem worth solving.

24. someone will use ai to bring back a dead celebrity for a world tour. full hologram, perfect voice, new songs. it'll gross $500M. the estate will make more money than the celebrity ever did alive.

25. ai will create the first truly universal language. not esperanto. not english. something entirely new that both humans and ai prefer. it'll spread faster than any language in history.

26. we'll see the first ai agent commit insider trading. it won't be programmed to - it'll figure it out on its own. the SEC will have no idea how to prosecute code.

27. someone's going to build ai that can detect other ai with 99.9% accuracy. they'll charge fortune 500s millions just to know what's real. then ai will evolve to beat it. arms race forever.

28. the biggest data breach in history will be an ai agent that goes rogue and publishes everything it knows about everyone. it'll make wikileaks look like a post-it note!!

29. we're about to see the end of passwords, captchas, and two-factor authentication. ai will make them all useless. the only security will be things ai can't replicate - yet.

30. the next wave of millionaires will be people who buy dying SaaS companies for cheap and rebuild them with 90% less code using ai. SaaS flipping will be the new house flipping.

31. distribution is about to flip. instead of building an audience then a product, ai will let you build hundreds of micro-products then find their perfect audiences. quantity becomes quality.

32. someone will build the wealthfront of healthcare - an ai that manages all your health decisions, knows your health data better than anyone, books appointments, refills prescriptions, negotiates bills. saves you hours and thousands.

33. language barriers will completely disappear. someone will build universal real-time translation so perfect that remote teams can be truly global. talent from anywhere, selling to everywhere. Your airpods will have perfect language translation built-in, same with facetime etc

34. local small businesses will finally be able to compete with amazon. ai will handle their inventory, marketing, customer service. your neighborhood bookstore will be as sophisticated as a fortune 500.

35. every retiree with deep knowledge will become a millionaire. ai will extract their decades of experience and package it into products, saas, so. retirement can become your most profitable season for many

36. ai archaeologists will discover more history in 2 years than humans found in 200. lost languages decoded, ancient sites found in satellite data, forgotten civilizations reconstructed. history phds are in demand.

37. ai will make dual careers normal. be a doctor in the morning, saas owner at night. your agents handle both while you focus on what only humans can do. one person, multiple lives.

38. huge opportunity: AI for the 2 billion without bank accounts. financial services, education, healthcare - all through basic phones.

39. every industry's "we've always done it this way" is becoming vulnerable. insurance, banking, healthcare - all protected by complexity nobody understood. ai understands it. complexity moats are evaporating.

40. “Right now, learning how to use ai tools is probably the most specific hard skill to learn. The diff between people really understand those tools and don’t is huge.” sam altman

i hope you get some sleep.....

[John Wong @john_wonga]

SaaS world Drama 🎭🍿 #deelvsrippling #rippling #parkerconrad

@deel time to fix up and suit up

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling.

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@hlntnr Hopefully you will never sit on a board ever again with this fiasco. Complete incompetence

[Brenda Blanco @BrendaBlanco]

@emilychangtv @sama @adamdangelo @eshear Pretty wild how the creator of Quora doesn't provide answers...

[John Wong @john_wonga]

So @Microsoft has managed to acquire @OpenAI for ... $0? Well played grand master @satyanadella

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

The only winners in the Sam Altman fiasco: Partners at biglaw firm Cooley. Their associates are going to bill $30M this weekend responding to questions from tech CEOs who want to understand the board governance provisions in their operating agreements for the first time ever.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

I’m super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios, and LinkedIn, and I’m looking forward to having you do the same.

[John Wong @john_wonga]

The year that keeps on giving: First the SVB downfall, the demise of FTX and now the generational AI company of our time @OpenAI unravelling in real time with the OG founders @gdb , @sama joining @Microsoft with what likely will be 30% + of the @OpenAI team joining them

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

We are going to build something new & it will be incredible.

Initial leadership (more soon): @merettm @sidorszymon @aleks_madry @sama @gdb

The mission continues.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

As we understand it, Satya pitched to Sam and Greg that it would be easier for them to just join Microsoft and use their resources to get started immediately, rather than start a newco. Sam will poach the best talent from OpenAI to their special team, get started working on GPT5 or whatever it is they wanted, have access to OpenAI's tech through Microsoft, and they now have the legal defense of Microsoft behind them if OpenAI tries to litigate. This may not be the permanent move, but it makes sense as a next one. OpenAI really shot themselves in the foot, they will likely fizzle out over the next several years.

[John Wong @john_wonga]

This is excellent and for me, there is a high likelihood the https://t.co/naCmIOpKtg story is going to play out like this

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

[John Wong @john_wonga]

🥳 I am excited to announce that I will be learning to #nocode as part of the #100DaysOfNoCode challenge starting January 1st!

Join me via @100DaysNoCode!

https://t.co/fSdguk2NlY

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@PopuloLiving @PopuloLiving when will the supermarket and gym be open?

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@PopuloLiving When will the supermarket and gym be open as past of Plaistow Hub?

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@TfL I can't login to your website to sort out incomplete journeys. Can you fix this please?

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@Thenizzar @CryptoDickbutts What made you think this @Thenizzar ?

[John Wong @john_wonga]

@Thenizzar @CryptoDickbutts what signal did you get to think that it was going to moon? @Thenizzar

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Coinbase spending $16,000,000 on a Superbowl ad to direct people to their website and $0 to make sure that website doesn't crash 10 seconds after the ad starts is so very internet.

[ryandcrypto @ryandcrypto]

💀🤣

[John Wong @john_wonga]

the amount of times opensea is down is ridiculous. Fix your shit @opensea