Noah Pepper

@stripe, @twitter, @luckysort

Topics: Startups, investing, building

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

Announcing: Multiplier Holdings - a technology company building AI-native professional services firms.

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

My 7yo just got home from a "Taylor Swift Slime Birthday Party" - what?

[Economist Enterprise @econ_enterprise]

Ambition is moving east. An ex-Stripe executive shares why he’s building a global company across Silicon Valley and Asia.

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Full post here https://t.co/cbgUSRLLSK

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Folks navigating their early career stages have never had more challenge or opportunity. We want to hire a lot more early career folks at Multiplier Holdings - and I think the idea that AI will decimate junior roles is wrong.

AI will be a massive accelerant for those with the curiosity, optimism, and drive to achieve.

That said - we live in a wild time where paths in front of young people have never represented more opportunity or more peril.

The internet provides nearly infinite free knowledge to learn how to create or do anything. The internet also provides nearly infinite cheap dopamine to waste your time, ruin your motivation, and become cynical.

Similarly: Those who are able to leverage this new breed of AI tools are having faster career advancement than ever before and those who are looking for "old style" entry level jobs are struggling.

The question is: how do you allocate your most valuable asset—time—when the range of outcomes has never been wider?

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

I know a lot of people who did exceptionally well by getting into mobile development or data analytics in 2008 or 2009—right at the dawn of that era.

There was a strong tailwind that meant decent skill in that domain would accrete to job opportunities or business success.

There is a huge advantage to catching the wave early.

Coming in late and you risk the "Oompa Loompa problem" that @arampell points out here https://t.co/kNRhvNTzLc

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

@dps The Bicycles for the mind notion is my favorite concept in computing. So thrilled for you, my friend!

[David Singleton @dps]

Jobs called computers "bicycles for the mind" -- tools we could shape to our will.

But they never were. Until now.

Every morning an agent preps me for my day -- calendar, news, last 24hrs of Slack -- in a personal podcast. I made it by asking. Same for hundreds of other things.

Launching @dreamer in beta today.

That 🧠 bicycle, finally.

https://t.co/Ma0KBkEI3F

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

@jeiting We only met a few times but I still get excited seeing you guys making it big / smile every time I see a @RevenueCat reference!

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

I apologize: I made fun of The Matrix in 1999 for envisioning people in the future just staring at walls of scrolling code.

I stand corrected.

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

Corollary: Social engineering will (continue to be | become even more) a vector for attackers as an increasing proportion of targets are controlled by AI

[Arthur B. @ArthurB]

Lots of xeets claim that Clawd is a security risk because people run it on VPSs with open ports, but securing ports is highly feasible.

Not having the AI agent empty all your wallets and bank accounts when it gets a phishing email telling it to do so to save a billion puppies remains, however, an unsolved problem.

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@clairevo I was thinking this was coming when telegram pushed me a notification that you had signed up

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@doodlestein @fordsmith Hahaha yes. Today’s weekend project was Clawd - no points for originality here!

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I constantly feel I'm not quite AI-pilled enough despite using AI tools every day and working on an AI-focused startup.

I blame @doodlestein for making me feel this way.

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But more seriously - it's just crazy how fast the tooling is evolving and how hard it is to keep up.

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@nathanclark_ Great suggestion! Thank you.

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Wrote this for our team as we collaborate on the latest company update memo.

Anything missing? Anything you'd remove?

[Noah Pepper @noahmp]

If someone thinks the main problem with the California government is that the budget isn't big enough...

... I think that person might be the problem with the California government.