Ryan M

Founder, YC and Berkeley Econ alum. Make agents people want.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

I am a startup founder who did YC, started, invested in, raised VC, bootstrapped, acquired (cash & SBA loans), and sold multiple companies. If you get enough practice, you eventually get some solid wins.

Nothing makes me happier than to teach folks to avoid mistakes I made along the way. Follow along and I’ll share what I know!

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

If you want to get rich on X, it isn't going to be through creator revenue or meme coins.

Instead, think about one subject matter that you know more about than anyone else in the world. It can be anything: plumbing, menswear, Indian food, furniture, social apps, whatever.

Post one unexpected insight you picked from your experience in that area. Keep it under 5 sentences. Do this every day for 6 months.

If you stick to it, we will promote your account to others.

By the end, you will be recognized as the world's leading expert in that subject area and you can charge whatever you want for endorsements, your time, or whatever. And no one will be able to take that way from you.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@mvanhorn @Variety @nathanfielder If only there was an Amazon affiliate link in there 😂

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@immad @SirvenJose @mercury Seems worth a bonus… if you’re so good people post about you on social, steak dinner on Mercury.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@jayevans813 Those $1 coupons you had in 2020 are now worth 0.70.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

Mercury should be the agent layer on top of all my business financial services.

[Colin Armstrong @colinarms]

I use Mercury for my personal & business banking.

I use Gusto for payroll and it's terrible: UX is bad, I hit 404s and dead ends all the time, and customer support is non-existant

Incredibly excited for Mercury Payroll.

Mercury is like @linear in that they care deeply about product & UX in everything they do

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@dens @yoda End of an era, foursquare was such an inspiration, back in the web 2.0 days. Look forward to being inspired by whatever calls your attention next.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@McConaughey *duopoly challenger, yall knew what i meant.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@McConaughey Worth talking to RFK Jr about how this played out. An independent candidate pays higher fees than major party candidates, and can’t even get on the ballot in every state. The system is rigged against the duopoly candidate and it needs to be fixed.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@mattyp Well that completely broke all my subscriptions

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@ShaneMac @bot So bullish on that team with that kind of response.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

This is just about every food product we buy… make it for $1, wholesale for $2-2.50, stores mark up to $5. The further you get from the actual ingredients, the more you’re paying for cheap filler ingredients like sugar and oils.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

A 13 ounce jar of Nutella has about 40 hazelnuts in it. Every ingredient in that jar costs Ferrero about $1. It sells for $5.

Sunday morning I take the whole jar apart: why Ferrero buys about a quarter of the world's hazelnut crop, why 13% is as high as Ferrero will go, and what it would cost to make the jar people think they're buying.

Get the first issue Sunday at 8am. The first part is free on the website, and the full issue is here on X for subscribers.

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[Ryan M @ryanm]

@immad Seems like we’re headed toward 3. Although my personal agent should have access to everything the vertical agent does. Look forward when they play nice together. What do you think?

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@immad @michaelcutajar Acquire Numeral and handle all the state by state sales tax spaghetti

[Ryan M @ryanm]

It’s already way above everything else. Using it with Grok Bot now, multiple accounts. Everything else requires plaid, which isn’t yet integrated with Grok Bot. Would love to see the ability to send money under a specific limit, by transaction and weekly or monthly total send limits, the ability to add a recipient for wire or ACH, and some way to approve agent actions above limits I set. Exciting times.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@herrmanndigital Have you tried Pact? I tried them out to cut down the number of plastic/poly shirts. They fit like all the high end athletic shirts with better materials.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@adamnash X Money also seems worth a mention even though they are debit with 3% cash back.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

What if Flock encrypted all license plate/video data unless there was a court order to look up a specific criminal vehicle? Otherwise it would be completely inaccessible (to police, agencies, Flock itself). Am I oversimplifying?

[Ryan M @ryanm]

Grok Bot is so good it’s probably melting some hardware right now.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@JonathanDitren

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@Sufiankiyani @elonmusk If you get X premium you can use it. 100% worth it. Like game changing.

[Ryan M @ryanm]

@jamespotter @levelsio That’s crazy. Immad will reach out, give him time to wake up. 😂