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[This Week in Startups @twistartups]

This is the electric plane Elon dreamed of!

Anders Forslund of Heart Aerospace joins @Jason to show off their electric plane, which used up just $5 worth of power for a full 20-minute trip.

Could this change short-haul flights? What locations would these flights best be used at?

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Paul Graham on what drives founders through the hard parts:

“Being dutiful is not enough. The obstacles are too fearsome for mere dutifulness.”

“You know what actually motivates founders day to day? The fear of failure.”

“If your server’s crashing, you’re not thinking, ‘I got to deal with this because if I deal with it, I’ll become a billionaire.’ You’re thinking, ‘Oh no, the server’s crashing. It will be a disaster. The engine of my model train set is falling off the edge of the table. I need to go and save it.’”

[Sam Altman @sama]

Also, this is my favorite OpenAI video so far. It makes me excited for the future!

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful.

I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict.

He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare.

My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward.

I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car.

I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university.

I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible…

I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction.

I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here.

There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON.

To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now.

We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here.

This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure.

Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter.

You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control.

So what is in your control?

Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved.

I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride.

You should too.

I love you and thank you. ❤️

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

SpaceXAI just dropped the best 1 hour course on Grok Bot agents i've ever seen, from one prompt to a full 24/7 system.

2:15 - build your first agent
6:52 - give each agent a job
16:51 - make them work 24/7
31:50 - run a whole team at once
52:18 - a system that runs itself

Worth more than any $600 course you'll find on AI agents.

Watch it, then go further with the full Grok Bot breakdown below, ready-to-copy prompts included.

[AI_Explorer @ai_explorer25]

Andrej Karpathy’s 1-hour Stanford lecture on AI engineering is one of the best explanations I’ve seen of how AI systems actually work.

The progression is simple:

10% → LLM
30% → Prompt
50% → Agent
70% → Loop
100% → Graph

The key takeaway:

AI engineering isn’t just about writing better prompts.

It’s about building systems around models — giving them context, memory, tools, feedback loops, and data flows.

“Delete everything, keep Graph.”

Definitely worth watching if you’re building with AI agents.

Watch → Bookmark it

[JORDAN @iamjordan]

This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program.

Bookmark it and give it 50 minutes today, no matter what.

[kaori @kaorixbt]

Anthropic engineer:

"If you want to be in the top 1% of AI engineers, build a harness that improves itself

Harnesses and graphs"

In 41 minutes, she explains how Anthropic builds with AI internally and why harnesses and graphs are at the center of it

Prompts → Agents → Harness → Loops → Graphs

A harness makes each unit of work correct without you

A graph decides which units should exist and turns every accepted result into a rule for the next run

That is what "self-improving" actually means

And it's the part almost nobody builds

Watch it today

Then save the full harness engineering guide below before everyone catches up ↓

[kaori @kaorixbt]

Andrej Karpathy spent 8 years at OpenAI and Tesla

Last week, he compressed everything he knows into one free 2-hour lecture

Agents → Loops → Graphs → Self-Improving Systems

People spend $15K on bootcamps that teach less than this

This lecture beats most paid AI engineering courses

You probably don't have 2 hours right now

Don't let this vanish from your feed

Watch it

Then read the guide below

[Naval @naval]

One of the best recent podcasts on AI. Neil has a gift for explaining all of the jargon and insights simply.

(I’m not involved, just found it unusually educational).

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Paul is the smartest person in European venture.

This is a must read!

[DHH @dhh]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in! https://t.co/zuf5h9ClWX

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.

[cam worboys @camworboys]

Meet Berd

We just dropped the best way to run your favorite models + agents in one interface.

Open source.
Super clean UI.
Gloopies.

Like Codex, but more vibey. Give it a try. I love it.

https://t.co/wsgs7j393F

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you're a good person, you should try to date people who are good judges of character, because they have fewer options. They're prevented from dating all the various kinds of bad people, because they can see how bad they are.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of the most conspicuous trends in recent YC batches is that there are more single founders. Single founder cos went from 9% last summer to 18% this summer.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

How to use @bot

[reira @reiraxbt]

Andrej Karpathy spent 8 years at OpenAI and Tesla

Last week, he put everything he knows into one free 2-hour lecture

People pay $15k for bootcamps that teach half of this

You probably don't have 2 hours right now

Don't let this get lost in your feed

Watch it, then read the guide below and build your first loop

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of my office hours today was with a founder from 2011. Company's still going, doing pretty well. I asked him to give some advice to the next group, from the current batch. He said the biggest test is your own psychology. Can you keep going despite all the obstacles you face?

[Rohit @HeyRohhit]

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a free 1-hour masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.