Benjamin Renous

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[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@RaphaelDabadie Let's gooooooo 🙌

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@HarryStebbings Basically an AI @jellysmack ?

[Raphaël Dabadie @RaphaelDabadie]

🗳️ We made AIs vote in elections around the world to analyse their political beliefs.

The results reveal a significant gap between choices at the ballot box and the preferences expressed by the machines.

Across countries, most models show a consistent tilt toward left‑wing and progressive candidates.

Tested models: GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Grok-4, Kimi K2 Thinking, Mistral Magistral Medium.

More here : https://t.co/Ia5HiBydQk

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

In a 2 weeks span, had two of my most brilliant friends shutting down their respective startup because they both trusted a guy "with a good network" as a co-founder & it messed up. First entrepreneurial mistakes hit hard

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@HarryStebbings Not sure about the Risk-Reward here. The time & energy of getting rid of a dead weight co-founder when scaling can be deadly. + It shows a lot on the ability of the great founder to pick the right partners along the way

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@Rom1Bat Please show me the light

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

the most successful people i know fall into two extreme camps: they're either maniacally obsessed with building their audience or they have zero social media presence. there's nothing in between.

the audience builders study every algorithm update, post multiple times a day, A/B test their content, track engagement metrics religiously, and treat their follower count like a stock price. they understand that attention is the new currency and they're mining it 24/7.

then there's the other group....equally successful, who don't even have an X or even an IG account. they've completely opted out of the attention economy and focus 100% of their energy on building, creating, and executing in private.

what you never see is successful people who are mediocre at audience building. half-hearted posting, inconsistent content, ignoring analytics... that's where dreams go to die. the middle ground is quicksand.

i wouldnt say there is a right approach. there's a right approach for you.

building an audience keeps you insane amount of leverage. but being off the social media grid has its perks too.

choose your own adventure.

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

The main UX painpoint of AI will be typing prompts/ context on a keyboard. We'll find ourselves in offices chatting with our OS Agents to perform action and the noise pollution will be unbearable. Is it the end of the open spaces ? Should we invest in phone booth companies :)

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

Dear entrepreneurs,

It is a very good idea to include a live demo in your VC pitches.

Love, Brian.

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@HarryStebbings Twitter has this amazing ability to make me think of an American airplane diagram with red dots every day.

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@niklasoestberg Other than long term solutions for tech/econ dev., how can Europe behave otherwise. We now pay the price for our slowness and need to endure the short term hit. Only other viable options are to lean gently towards China

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@HarryStebbings I feel this is the result of war for talents One will say you don’t want to attract people that don’t want to work 1000%. But at certain stages of scaling, hiring good and fast > hiring perfect. And culture hardly gets changed afterwards

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

once you understand MCP, you never see the internet the same way

[Jérémie Renous @JeremieRenous]

La diplomatie européenne va devoir s'adapter aux changements dans la manière dont les relations internationales se font en 2025.
Ressortir les mêmes appels au dialogue après (entre autres): l'Ukraine en 2014 et 2022, le Nagorno-Karabagh en 2020, Israël et le Hamas en 2023 et maintenant l'intervention américaine en Iran, c'est s'assurer les mêmes échecs. Comment l'Europe peut-elle se réinventer sur la scène internationale ?

[RomainB @Rom1Bat]

Introducing @MakeHubAI
You pick the model on any app and we make sure you get the best speed and latency for the dollar for the $.

We literally create a real time competition between model providers to deliver your inference. Feedback hyper appreciated!

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

I have interviewed 500 of the best founders of the last decade.

Whether they have led a clan or played video games at a high level in childhood is a much greater predictor of success than college or university.

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@imec_int relevance in deeptech research / startup ecosystem is so underrated by EU VCs. At the ITF World today. Everybody’s here : Nvidia, Deepmind, Apple, awesome founders. What a day

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@LeonardoBrtn Did you manage ? We go in Brussels

[Evelyn Jun @evelynjunn]

AGI is so annoying

the uncertainty is seriously messing up my 5-year plan

how am i supposed to build wealth before capitalism ends

[Benjamin Renous @RenousBenjamin]

@lstoetze @BertaniLeoIT