Jason Chukwuma

Exploring the intersection of tech, media, and the future of entertainment | Harvard College & Law School

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

Powerful essay.

"The underdog Anthropic posture was: 'trust us, we are taking this seriously.'

The sovereign Anthropic posture increasingly feels like: 'trust us, we know better.'

And once you notice the change, it is very hard to unsee."

[Brett Calhoun @brettcalhounn]

The founders who normalize capital constraints and use them as creative fuel will always outperform the ones handed every resource from day one.

[Zoldyck @Michealkaiser_]

This how the Power Rangers would walk around and nobody ever put two and two together

[ع @pyari_eyesha]

Talking to parents about mental health is like discussing Feminism with Taliban

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

I can’t believe Anthropic comparing their product to nuclear weapons 800 times backfired on them. I am shocked

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

In AI most people are still trying to use old maps on a new territory.

Throw the maps away. It's time to draw new ones. The only way you can do it is walking the land.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

What timeline are we on man.

There’s a $60 million UFC cage on the White House lawn for the president’s 80th birthday. 125,000 guests. 494 port-a-potties. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower and said maybe they’ll never take it down.

The world’s first trillionaire was minted yesterday. SpaceX IPO. One person now holds more wealth than the GDP of most countries.

The government is negotiating to own a piece of OpenAI. The CEO walked into the White House and pitched it himself. They’re calling it a Public Wealth Fund.

That same government killed OpenAI’s biggest competitor’s models on a Friday night. The reason? A verbal jailbreak claim from an unnamed company. The same jailbreak works on OpenAI’s models. Nobody touched them.

The competitor got blacklisted by the Pentagon four months ago. Their crime? Refusing to let the military use their AI for mass surveillance of American citizens. A judge called it retaliation. The Pentagon did it anyway.

Both AI companies filed to go public in the same two-week window. Both targeting trillion-dollar valuations. One has a government equity deal in progress. The other can’t keep its products online.

The engineers who built the banned models can’t use them anymore. Because of their passports.

And an AI company that spent thousands of hours cooperating with government safety testing got punished harder than any company that didn’t bother.

UFC on the White House lawn. A trillionaire. Government-owned AI. Export controls based on phone calls. Cage fights and trillion-dollar IPOs in the same news cycle.

Watch the film titled Idiocracy. That’s the timeline we’re on.

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Guys making $30k a year when you say that becoming a trillionaire shouldn’t exist

[Pablo @4reezingPoint]

As delusional as I may be, I want Haiti to win the World Cup

[reversecowgirl69 @botticellibimbo]

looney tune ass summer

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

He’s like the sophisticated version of Future. I know y’all see it

[Cleo Editz 🏳️‍⚧️🎬 GOING TO BRAZIL IN PRIDE MONTH @CleoLovesLucie]

I have never wanted a movie to bomb more in my life

[Jason Chukwuma @kingchukjd]

@full_kelly_ @paulg Unfortunately true

[Jason Chukwuma @kingchukjd]

@paulg Well duh lol

[Jason Chukwuma @kingchukjd]

@kishswim They really tryna start a race war 😂

[y @SNTLRNTSTNR]

they got them dosages right hallelujah

[Jason Chukwuma @kingchukjd]

The “Musk Trillionaire” discourse is evolving finally

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.

[nico laqua @nico_laqua]

AI is letting too many people be perfectionists, and perfectionists don’t change the world. If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of what is released, you have waited too long. Ship now, and iterate!

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

I saw the trailer for The Social Network for the first time ever right before seeing The Town in theaters in September 2010. This trailer remains bonkers. Fincher is a mad man. How often can you tell someone you remember exactly where you were when you saw a *trailer*? Only David