Nate Lorenzen

bootstrapped to acquisition • ex-meta • ex-disney • ai & paid media • California is worth saving.

[Nate Lorenzen @NateLorenzen]

Most creative testing is vibes with a spreadsheet.

I built Brainiac.

It uses peer-reviewed fMRI models (BERG or TRIBE v2) to score thumbnails, landing pages, and videos against predicted neural activation.

Free. Open source. Self-hostable.

https://t.co/FkfIt79rNz

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Should I publish my repo?

I have a private tool that uses BERG or TRIBe and now does YouTube Thumbnails, landing pages, and any static or videos.

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Just an incredible parody.

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One of Pynchon’s best.

The title anagrams to Tiny Death Saga 😂

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there’s a whole chapter at the end of Against the Day where Pynchon talks about planes flying at dangerously low altitudes as a symbol of encroaching fascism

and here the trump era blue angels are just…doing it

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@Dainty_Flowers The title is an anagram of Tiny Death Saga.

Quite on target for Pynchon to sneak in an orgasm joke in the title.

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@utekkare @pmarca .

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The Startup Odyssey

The film opens at a warehouse in SoMa. Ithaca has just completed a triumphant seed round.

There is dry ice, a projection wall, a DJ, and a bartender making cocktails named after machine-learning models.

The founder Ody announces that the company will reach $100 million in revenue within three years.

The party is their Troy. They believe the hard part is over.

The next morning, their largest customer cancels.

Their lead seed investor tells them they need to raise a Series A immediately, before the market “detects weakness.”

They leave their office carrying laptops, branded hoodies, and a pitch deck with 84 slides.

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…@pmarca traps them inside the conference room.

When he asks their name, the founder replies:

“Nobody. We are still in stealth.”

They escape when an EA says it’s time for his 6th podcast of the day.

As they flee, the founder cannot resist shouting the company’s real name “Ithaca” and their website https://t.co/pR54NbsRNm

Marc Andreessen hears him and posts that Ithaca is “deeply unserious.

This follows them for their entire startup odyssey.

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@KFragoulias Yes?

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X likes coffee.

What’s the take on this coffee brewer?

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@x_armand I care more about their coffee maker making skill.

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@ChereneAubert @pmarca Not a bad price after a raise.

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Soccer is a better with more goals.

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@JamieAdStories Some books are brilliant even when you have to pause to absorb what’s been written.

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The Telemundo broadcasters are drinking tea with honey after that game. #FRAENG

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@DrunkRepub @RealJamesWoods could play Aeneas’ father.

Get Mel Gibson to direct.

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@MichaelRogers99 What’s your favorite music video?

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Netflix should reintroduce a channel solely dedicated to music videos.

It’d crush.

[Ulises @UlisesDavid__]

El no estaba deslizándose, las paredes se movían. 30 años después sigue rompiendole la mente a la gente

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@uckema Paul Simon in shambles.

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We’re two goals from making history. #england

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@Variety @grok can you estimate what he made from this show?