Roy Lee got kicked out of Columbia University for posting a video of himself cheating an Amazon interview using his software and raised $5,000,000 in 24 hours
“I record myself using interview coder to cheat on literally the entire process I record it I post it online and it starts going viral”
“an Amazon executive sees the video they’re pissed and they send Columbia a letter saying your kid just cheated on our entire interview process posted online now he’s selling this software you need to expel him or we’re never gonna hire from Columbia anymore”
“by the time I do that I’m posting everything on Twitter and there’s so many VCs in the valley that I raised like $5 million in like 24 hours”
> Became CEO of apple weeks before steve's death
> First openly gay CEO of a fortune 500 company
> Massive doubts in the market about apple's future without jobs
> Took Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion market cap
> Quadrupled yearly revenue from $108 billion to $416 billion
> Launched Apple watch, Airpods, Vision Pro and M series silicon
> Created a $100 billion+ service ecosystem of Apple store, Apple music, iCloud, Apple pay and Apple TV+
Tin Cook, Remember the name
> be John Ternus
> 1997. engineering degree. nobody cares
> first job: VR headsets at a dead startup
> join Apple in 2001. first project: a monitor
> spend 25 years in the shadows
> iPad. AirPods. iPhone 12. Apple Silicon. all him
> never had the corner office. refused it twice
> Tim Cook took Apple from $350B to $4 TRILLION
> today Apple named you CEO
> engineer who made your stuff just became the boss
Tim Cook turned $350B into $4T. now it's Ternus's turn.
what does a guy who actually builds things do with the most valuable company on earth?
We only hire builders (and we’re on a hiring spree)!
Reply with something you've built. I'll read them personally. We’re interviewing the best ones.
You’ll be a good fit if you:
- work best without permission
- default to “how could I automate this”
- had weird teenage hobbies
- spend your sunday making side projects
- have more Claude agents than cousins
- shipped something this week
- make prototypes, not powerpoints
- don’t like hierarchy
- are good at games: chess, monopoly, poker
- would take dinner with Elon over $100k
Good luck,
Eric
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Anthropic CEO:
“50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years."
grad students and junior hires are cooked.
Friendly reminder that AI will never be worse than it is right now.
If you assume any rate of improvement over any reasonable period - learning how to use it becomes your #1 priority.
Google AI Mode just flipped the entire SEO playbook, and most marketers are still playing a game that no longer exists.
The brands winning right now aren't the ones with the best SEO tactics. They're the ones building authority that AI systems recognize and trust across every platform where people search.
Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner.
Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate:
🎨 AI-Native Canvas
🧠 Smarter Design Agent
🎙️ Voice
⚡️ Instant Prototypes
📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md
Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵
2. Durable includes everything you need to make 10k/month.
It doesn’t just make you a website:
It gives you a brand, SEO, Domain, CRM, payments, and revenue plan.
This is INSANE, Anthropic ran its marketing with basically one person.
Austin lau, a non-technical growth lead, was running paid search, paid social, email, and seo solo.
Here’s the workflow:
> export ad CSVs into Claude Code
> AI flags underperforming ads
> agents generate new headlines + descriptions
> Figma auto-swaps copy across 100 ad templates
> MCP server pulls live Meta data
The results:
> ad creation went from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
> total marketing output grew 10×.
> conversion rates landed 41% above industry average.
One person doing what used to take an entire marketing team.
🚨 Perplexity just made every AI company look stupid with one announcement.
They're shipping a Mac mini that never turns off. You plug it in, leave it on, and it works through your files, apps, emails, calendar, 24 hours a day. While you sleep, while you eat, while you're on vacation, it's working.
> A full-time employee with a power cord sitting next to your coffee mug with no salary, no sick days, no meetings about meetings.
> Your company pays you $80K a year to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Perplexity just offered them something that works 24/7 and probably costs less than your monthly health insurance.
But the part that gave me chills is the name. They called it "Personal Computer."
The last time someone used that name was IBM in 1981. That machine killed typewriters, killed secretaries, killed filing clerks, killed an entire generation of office jobs.
They didn't call this an "assistant" or a "copilot." They named it after the thing that already replaced millions of jobs once before.
Same name. Same playbook. Different body count.
And they know exactly what they're doing.