Michael Broughton 🧃

Founder & CEO, Growth Sync. Prev. founded Altro (acq. 2024). Forbes 30 Under 30. Thiel Fellow. LA.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

AI has progressed 100x faster than the internet and we are just getting started

[Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem]

I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3.

I'm still in awe.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

Congrats brother!

[Ferdinand Dabitz @FerdiDabitz]

Augustus has raised 180M$ on 1B$ to build the Global Dollar Bank.

The dollar is the best product in the history of the world - with infinite global demand.
But International Fintechs and non-US banks are left with two unsatisfying options to access it: Either they build on legacy clearing banks that are slow and unreliable, or they interface with middleware providers that don’t move and hold dollars directly, but themselves rely on underlying legacy banks.

@augustus_bank collapses this stack by combining two things: direct dollar access and Marble, our proprietary bank core, built around intelligence and made of code.

If you’re looking to build on the dollar - message me directly or check us out at https://t.co/jz3rVcCu7H.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

The Fellows have been active this year

[John McElhone @Johnmcelhone]

From stealth, privileged to introduce American Turbines.

We're building a new class of small, highly manufacturable gas turbines for rapid-to-deploy energy generation.

​Abundant energy is the soil from which everything else grows: intelligence, industry, the next century of work.

​The only way forward is energy generation we can scale by orders of magnitude. We're building that here at American Turbines.

Hyper manufacturable, by design.

@amturbines

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

Time to burn some tokens

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is back.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

I'm blown away. This was made in 10 minutes with Seedance 2.0

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

If you know anyone spending hours learning @higgsfield_ai I want to hire them ASAP.

[Adil Alimzhanov @adilinthewild]

Adil here from @higgsfield_ai 🫡

first tweet ever so i'm not wasting it

made this commercial with AI - here's every prompt, every skill

all of it

[Open Opportunity Fund @OpportunityFund]

repost: @forbes At the Forbes Self-Made 250 Celebration, @pauljudge, managing partner of Open Opportunity Fund and a serial entrepreneur, told Forbes senior editor Alex Knapp that a deeper understanding of any industry will become more valuable as artificial intelligence transforms how companies are built.⁣⁣
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[Growth Sync @growthsynchq]

“The best software starts by understanding the operation underneath it.”

Tanner Siciliano, our Founding Engineer at GrowthSync, shares why he joined the team and how operator-first thinking shapes the way we build.

An amazing read for anyone building products in messy, real-world operating environments.

Read the full blog:
https://t.co/5FgtXWPUIO

[Growth Sync @growthsynchq]

Every brand wants more engagement.

Very few have a system for what happens after the DM, comment, or mention.

That’s the gap Growth Sync is building for:

Turning social interactions into remembered customer relationships that brands can actually learn from.

[Growth Sync @growthsynchq]

Social commerce is shifting.

The brands that win won’t just post more. They’ll remember who engaged, respond with context, and turn every interaction into a relationship.

That’s what we’re building at Growth Sync.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

Once a year I get the same cryptic text:

“Thiel Fellows. Miami. Be there.”

Feels like a Batman signal.

150+ fellows in one room, talking AI infra, fintech, data centers, Ripple vs. the SEC, and what everyone is building next.

Inspiring, but mostly humbling.

High-caliber rooms don’t just make you feel smart.

They raise your standards.

Think bigger. Move faster. Build things that matter.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

Let's gooo!

[Ananya Chadha @AnanyaChadha]

It's official — I'm excited to announce Quander and our $3M pre-seed led by Accel.

Quander is the optimists' AI Product lab, to turn
ideas -> businesses.

We’re building AI tools for a "company factory" with 3 core products to:
- Validate
- Build and
- Distribute businesses.

To allow people around the world, no matter their backgrounds, to build real wealth for themselves and their families.

Check out our thesis at https://t.co/goyD5Y2TKK and tag your friends, we're hiring!

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

I have cool friends

[Ali Debow @ali_debow]

We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others.

A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern.

After every event, people asked the same questions:

Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met?

https://t.co/hxhuPkNM3O

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

@growthsynchq Amazing event!

[Growth Sync @growthsynchq]

New York Tech Week gave us the clearest signal yet: social commerce is becoming one of the most important operating layers for modern brands.

Growth Sync hosted a Tech Week event with Cruva around the future of commerce, creators, and customer relationships. The best part was how practical the conversation felt.

Creators are becoming trusted storefronts.
Comments are becoming customer signals.
DMs are becoming revenue moments.
Events are becoming real relationship infrastructure.

The brands winning this next phase are not thinking in isolated channels. They are thinking about trust, speed, conversation, and memory.

A customer might discover a product through a creator, ask a question in the comments, follow up in DMs, meet the brand offline, and buy later through a completely different surface.

Most brands still have to connect those moments manually.
That is the world Growth Sync is building for.

Every social interaction should help a brand understand its customers better, respond faster, and make the next conversation smarter.

Huge thank you to Cruva for partnering with us, to Carlton J. Charles and Shashi Srikantan for joining us and supporting the conversation, and to everyone who came out during a packed Tech Week to talk about where commerce is going.

We left more certain that tomorrow's ecommerce infrastructure will be defined by relationships, not mere transactions.

Appreciate Cruva, Shashi Srikantan, Fulton Browne, Reid Moncada, Andrew Quach, Jonah Platovsky, Marielle Miller, Kurt Marcinkiewicz, Guillaume Faure, Wesley Jackson, Christina Chalmers, Chirag Goel, Michael Broughton, Roderick Henley II, and everyone who joined us during Tech Week.

#NYTechWeek #SocialCommerce #Ecommerce #AI #GrowthSync

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

What if we waited til we had a year of revenue data before we claim ARR $$

[Markie Wagner @markiewagner]

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

My best investments have always been in my friends and close circle. Blessed to be connected to such amazing folks

[Michael Broughton 🧃 @mikejbroughton]

I have the coolest friends

[Cathy Tie @CathyTie]

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