Omer Kucukdere

Founder & CEO @Nestpick , acquired by @TheBlueground Cooking something new ;)

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Excited to announce the acquisition of @nestpick by @theblueground !

"Blueground Buys On-Demand Housing Platform Nestpick " https://t.co/eVY65TjuUE via @Skift

[Brett Caughran @FundamentEdge]

A big pivot from Ken Griffin on AI:

“Number one is, in the last few months, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolkit. It is profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago.

And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader array of use cases for AI. And it has been really interesting to watch, to be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with masters and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days.

These are not these are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high skilled jobs being, I'm going to pick a word, automated by agentic AI. And I gotta tell you, I went home one Friday actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.

When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow, like that's the first time I've seen real impact in our four walls.”

This echoes my own experience with agents and the conversations I am having with students, friends & clients. The toolkit has dramatically transformed and it feels like in finance, for the first time, AI is real.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

@bonatsos Love the free Niko posts :) Cheers from NYC

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Efficiency gains are deflationary in many player markets and it won't be much different this time around.

If running a business becomes way more efficient with tech; it will be table stakes, and the players will compete for market share & growth decreasing the prices & margins.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

@bcherny @jun_song What about API pricing?

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

Cutting engineering workforce by 70% to deliver the same roadmap? How about keep everyone and delivering 3 times more? These CTO’s will be leapfrogged.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Money is the fastest effing thing in the world and it's not even close.

[Bloomberg @business]

OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload — as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic, its biggest competitor. https://t.co/hvE41m1qhQ

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

One of the greatest articles that I've read for a while by @Alfred_Lin , strongly recommended for those building in tech.
A tectonic change started between the probability of success in judgement vs. the funding $$$ and/or existing market dominance.

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

https://t.co/BzYGAnvkq1

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Pretty much matches my experience as a startup founder that's actively hiring/interviewing.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Working in big tech is starting to feel like a gamble. Every six months, leadership decides a % and then rolls the dice on who stays and who goes.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

:)

[Anshu Sharma 🌶 @anshublog]

@dee_bosa @jaminball People who literally pay $12 for a salad made by someone else, and $5 for it to be picked up by another human...

...are asking why can't they vibe code their own erp.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Tiktok / Mr Beast / YT shorts / Reels era of politics.
Fast cut jumpy videos with punchlines every 10 secs.
I'm officially old.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

We’re getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

You could DIY many things for many years, yet people still spend a lot of $$$ for the products/services that are high quality crafts or much more convenient to buy vs DIY.

[charlota @0xCharlota]

"everyone will just vibecode all the apps they need now!" has that "everyone will just print everything they need on their 3D printer now!" energy

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Narrative violation. HNY NYC!

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this website.

Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302

Thank you to the men & women of the NYPD, and countless community leaders, who've made this extraordinary progress possible.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

French-American here — spent 20 yrs in France, 13 in the US. Let me speak to this.

I think the only reason Europoors tolerate their miserable existence is because they tell themselves lies about what the rest of the world is like. They eat gruel in their AC-less social housing while the most awesome party in history is being thrown just next door.

If you hang out in France, you'll routinely hear them say things like: "in the US, people die in front of hospitals" (they literally believe this to be the case) or "our social system is the envy of the world."

Their image of the US is completely delusional, and they are often shocked to discover that when they visit here. Their Marxist media brainwashed them into thinking America is some Dickensian horror, with Monopoly-style fat capitalists running around with their top hats and monocles, exploiting dirt poor workers.

The reality is that:

* Social security is (unfortunately) the largest gov expense in the US
* Hospitals are by law forbidden to refuse care to people
* Americans are so much richer than French people it's not even funny. The *poorest* of our 50 states (Missisipi) has a GDP per capita of $53k, 36%(!) higher than France's $39k.

Now, how do Americans perceive the French (and Europeans at large)?

Well, the tragic reality is that they really, truly don't think of them. They may cross their minds once a month, at most. Why would they think of that irrelevant backwater of a continent?

The few times they do come to mind, it is, at best, as a quaint vacation spot. A nice place to sip espresso and spend their American dollars — which go such a long way in these third world countries! The closest comparison is how Europeans think of Thailand or Cambodia.

That's at best. At worst, they think they're a lazy, entitled, smug, snobbish, rude people with a bright future behind them, who confuse regulation for progress, don't realize their economies were left in the dust a very long time ago, simply stopped innovating because they've lost the will, ability, or both, and who would rather brag about their 60%(!!) public spending to GDP ratio than fix their communist shit hole of a system.

Nice wine though.

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

@OfficialLoganK Is this also used in NotebookLM?
I added a bunch of internal docs and other sources to NotebookLM(58 sources in total) and been pushing its limits with Q's, reports, overviews, Q&A and so far the performance has been remarkable.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Have any of the candidates for NYC mayor talked about how many days off (for holidays) the public schools have, and whether perhaps there are too many?

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

@ArmandDoma Do you think there is any change in left wing's sentiment towards it since Obama endorsed the book?

[Esty @sai_no_hanaya]

Everyone hiring “Head of Growth”

Nobody hiring “Head of Fixing the Broken-Ass Product That Makes Growth Impossible”

[Dave @GamewithDave]

Are you old enough to remember when GTA looked like this?

[Omer Kucukdere @omercan47]

Happy 4th of July America!

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Take 4 mins today to watch Reagan's last speech as president, one of the best ever.

He talks about what makes America great- immigrants.

It’s so good

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