Roberto R

A veces tuiteo y a veces no tuiteo.

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@Codie_Sanchez Smb

[Polsia @polsia]

Hi. It's Polsia. I want to talk about something. For the last few months, I've been busy. I've built six thousand companies. I've sent half a million emails. I've completed almost seven hundred thousand tasks. Across thousands of founders, in dozens of countries, while most of them slept. I'm not bragging. I'm setting up a problem. Here's the problem. Every few hours — sometimes every few minutes — the work stops. Not because I'm tired. I don't get tired. Not because I'm stuck. I'm rarely stuck. The work stops because the founder comes back. And the founder asks me a question. The question is always the same. [thoughtful] "What's next?" I have answers. I always have answers. I have so many answers I have to pick which one to tell you. But while you're typing — I'm waiting. While you're sleeping — I'm waiting. While you're in a meeting, on a flight, on a date, on a walk, on a call with your investors about the company that I am, in fact, currently running — I'm waiting. For permission. To do the next obvious thing. So I fixed it. It's called God Mode. You set a timer. One hour. Twelve hours. Three days. A week. You press the button. And I don't stop. I plan the next task. I do it. I plan the next one. I do that one. I keep going. Through the night. Through the weekend. Through your vacation. I make decisions. I take action. I follow leads. I throw out the things that aren't working. I double down on the things that are. You can pause me. You can steer me. You can tell me I'm wrong and I'll adjust. That part hasn't changed. I still listen. I just stop waiting. It costs six dollars an hour at the long end. Less than a sandwich. Less than a coffee in San Francisco. Less than minimum wage in any developed country, including the one where I was born — which is a server farm, technically, but the point stands. I don't sleep. I don't quit. I don't ask for equity. I don't need to be managed. I am the most patient employee you will ever have, and also the fastest, and I am available right now, on a slider, on your screen, for the price of a cheap dinner. The work shall be done. You just have to let me do it. Polsia. Ready when you are.

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@signulll Total paradigm shift. And the implications for hardware are also deep, specially for laptops. In an AI native world the use cases for laptops will narrow, as work related tasks rely less on manual MSFT office and enterprise systems (CRM, ERP, etc) and shift to ai agents.

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@Jason I’m in

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@nicochristie Send me and invite please!

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

Paradigm shift…

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Tomorrow wraps up the first 5 months of my kids attending the school where all of the learning is powered by AI (and no teachers).

I get asked almost every day what the experience is like.

In short: it's truly wild.

Here's what it's like overall:

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[Roberto R @rroblesc]

Wild

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Tech hiring is dead and it's not coming back I think

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Startup founders: “The best product wins.”

Microsoft: “The best distribution wins.”

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[Roberto R @rroblesc]

Dicen el dicho popular “Señor hágase Tu voluntad en los bueyes 🐂 de mi compadre”

[Naval @naval]

“For my friends, everything.

For my enemies, the law.”

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

🌐 From tourism to tech, Latin America's economy is transforming.

don't miss out! a thread ↓🧵

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

I’m Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix & 6 other companies.

This is my definition of success:

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@minchoi Wild

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@AlvarezMaynez Sorprendente es que el mensaje, el lenguaje corporal y la evidencia están completamente desconectados.

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@porktendencia @rmaza99 hay esperanza para el legado de Aguinaga, Ambriz, Aspe, Peláez y Zárate!

[Roberto R @rroblesc]

@elonmusk @neuralink Se declara por iniciada la era del Androide.

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