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[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[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.

[Finn Mallery @fin465]

everyone's sleeping on how absurdly good 2026 is to start a company (even compared to 2024)

one person can now:

- ship full apps without engineers (cursor, replit)
- design without being a designer (v0, Claude Design)
- turn one video into 10 clips (opus, descript)
- push those clips to millions (X, Linkedin, TikTok)
- replace a support team (chatbase, intercom)
- literally watch exactly what their users do (Posthog)
- find + target perfect leads on autopilot (origami)

This is such a rare window. I just can’t imagine it being this easy ever again

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Guido van Rossum @gvanrossum]

I think I finally understand what an agent is. It's a prompt (or several), skills, and tools. Did I get this right?

[外汇交易员 @fxtrader]

#图表 Anthropic在最新发布的《AI对劳动力市场的影响》报告中列出十项受影响最大的职业，其中计算机程序员位居榜首，其次是客服代表（主要工作内容在API流量中出现的频率越来越高）。

另外，受影响风险更高的从业者画像为：年龄较大、女性、受教育程度较高且收入较高。

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

1999: Small, lean, quick, fit, profitable.
2026: Small, lean, quick, fit, profitable.

The fundamentals are the fundamentals.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@WyattHarper1 Not shot her.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

enterprise AI is going to be a huge theme of 2026

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

2024: everyone releasing their own Chat
2025: everyone releasing their own Code

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Phillies mascots recreated the viral moment of the CEO caught cheating at the Coldplay concert 😭

[Chen @mitchelllc]

Make something people want, always.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Sometimes you don’t raise money and your startup dies

Sometimes you raise too much money and your startup dies

It’s just one more way to die. There are 1001 ways.

It’s not the most important question.

The most important question is: did you make something people want?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The gap between what AI can do vs what we're building with it is MASSIVE right now. That gap is your opportunity to build.⁣
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This might be the best time ever to start an AI company.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)

[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

OpenAI: "Ship a [REDACTED] by 2026"

December 2, 2024

[Chen @mitchelllc]

@yashdulla @ycombinator CRM

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

.@TaxFoundation, a nonpartisan tax research group estimates that Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on China will:

-Increase taxes by $1.2T (2025-2034)

-Reduce GDP by 0.4%

-Reduce employment by 344k jobs

-Result in an average tax increase of $830 per US household (2025)

Stop these reckless trade wars now!

[Chen @mitchelllc]

Time flies! #MyXAnniversary

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.

[Chen @mitchelllc]

不积跬步，无以至千里
Keep building.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You just have to ask "What counts as progress for this company?" and then do that. There is always some answer. And experienced investors (which are the ones you want anyway) know that this is as much as they can expect.