Ryan Lelek

Full-Stack/OS/Cybersecurity. Thiel Fellowship

[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

Don't just start a company
Start a cult

[Ryan Lelek @ryanlelek]

@SoveyX @cyantist @TurnerNovak

[Ryan Lelek @ryanlelek]

@Real_Dystopia @chrisman great take. Absences are also tied to funding, so even if you want to take your OWN children to an enriching foreign trip with museums every day, the school still fights it (and smart parents say "pound sand")

Sadly school is glorified "free" daycare in most parents' eyes

[Ryan Lelek @ryanlelek]

@chrisman Many parents have zero idea (and zero care) about what actually goes on in schools. they think it's the same when they were in school with rose colored glasses on top

School was bad in 2010, im sure it's exponentially worse now. Total waste of early/formative years

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

openai․com was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and tiktok․com was the quaint shared homepage of a couple who went from dating to married with a baby (~1998-2001). THREAD!!!

[Ryan Lelek @ryanlelek]

@cyantist agreed. eventually it gets to the point where it's neutral to ask "would you like X?" Green Eggs and Ham style

volunteering to hand out free samples somewhere is a good starting point. much less pressure because "free" and can do it for a couple days without it being a full job

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

We’re so blessed that Trump’s presidency is happening during the dawn of AI video

(from @dilloneckes)

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

It's unbelievable how this level of detail is possible today, let alone 500 years ago.

How do you even fathom building something like this?

Winchester Cathedral, England.

[JER @lifeof_jer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[@goth @goth600]

Anduril = Peter Thiel
Palantir = Peter Thiel
SpaceX = Peter Thiel
Meta = Peter Thiel
Stripe = Peter Thiel
That guy who just incorporated from his garage? Believe it or not, Peter Thiel

[Diwank Singh Tomer @diwanksingh]

exceited to announce that @memorydotstore is part of the @ycombinator P26 batch 🟧 with @kul and @t_blom as our partners

one shared memory for your team's agents!

if you are building agents and think memory, talk to @IshitaJindal17 and I

[Ben Lang @benln]

S-tier founder profile signals:

• IMO / IPhO / IOI / ICPC medalist
• Hudson River Trading intern
• Thiel Fellow
• ex-OpenAI, Ramp
• early Stripe, Palantir

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A terrible incident coming from an infra provider. This is not an outage resulting in downtime, or data lost on the cloud (that is trivial to restore from local git.)

It’s a data integrity issue, which sounds hard and difficult to untangle by anyone hit by it.

A real WTH moment

[AI Slop @AIslop_]

Mogwarts

[TBPN @tbpn]

We interviewed 10 Thiel Fellows from the new 2026 class today. Here's what each one is working on:

[Ryan Lelek @ryanlelek]

@itsdavidalonso it's a feature, not a bug

[impulsive @weezerOSINT]

Lovable has a mass data breach affecting every project created before november 2025.

I made a lovable account today and was able to access another users source code, database credentials, AI chat histories, and customer data are all readable by any free account.

nvidia, microsoft, uber, and spotify employees all have accounts. the bug was reported 48 days ago. its not fixed. They marked it as duplicate and left it open.

[Thiel Fellowship @thielfellowship]

Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows!

WHO ARE THEY?

Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd
Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways.

Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc
Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil.

Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky
EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores.

Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta
Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy.

Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka
Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage.

Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO
Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones.

Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n
Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet.

Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey
Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent.

Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493
Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments.

Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh
The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism.

Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm
Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.

Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang
Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

If you have ever thought/argued about “productivity” but not read the book The Goal by by Eliyahu M. Goldratt: read it!

It’s about a factory where everyone is measurably 100% productive, headed to bankruptcy.

The factory is turned around by… not focusing on productivity!