sam chan

vp, programs @LaunchAcademyHQ
building @buildrsdotdev

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@jorybraun Sure thing

[sam chan @samdotchan]

but how many credits were consumed during this dance

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸Jensen Huang is out there living his best life, dancing at the NVIDIA all-employee celebration event in Taipei, Taiwan

You'd never guess he's the CEO 😂

[sam chan @samdotchan]

He can almost buy .01 percent of Anthropic!

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Stephen Curry reportedly will earn a MASSIVE $1.19 BILLION in his new 10-year contract with Li-Ning 😱

That is worth almost 4 TIMES more than what he earned in his 12-year contract with Under Armour 😳

This endorsement deal with Li-Ning is tied to brand revenue—meaning the number could grow even higher over time — and it is estimated that he might earn more than $1 Billion over the span of 10 years.💰

The greatest shooter of all time is now getting paid like one of the greatest athletes of all time.

[Sue @suekhim]

AI is making kids dumber.

It should be making them geniuses.

Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

[sam chan @samdotchan]

the streets are more interested in being a founder than building a business

[Ray Walia @raywalia]

The founders we work with don't have a product problem. They have a "we can't seem to grow fast enough" problem.

Since 2012, we've sat across from more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from 100+ countries. Brilliant builders shipping serious products. And the story tends to rhyme.

They found product-market fit. They landed real customers. The early traction is there.

But growth? Growth stalls.

The channels that worked early don't scale, and every new customer takes more effort than the last.

Marketing your product consistently is a job. A whole one. And for most tech founders, it's the job they like least and understand least.

So we built something for them.

Today, we're launching The Revenue Factory.

A self-paced course for founders who'd rather build the product than build the funnel. Video modules + Claude prompts that automate your marketing pipeline end-to-end. No agency. No marketer to recruit. No six-month detour learning a job that isn't yours.

What's inside:

→ A marketing engine that runs on autopilot the day after your last module
→ AI prompts that target the right prospects at the right moment
→ ~20 hours a month back in your calendar to do what you do best: build

This is the course we wish we could've handed every founder who's walked through our doors over the past 14 years. The one that closes the gap between "great product" and "great traction."

Check it out 👉 https://t.co/U4WxRdVgQq

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@aingeth @fellow I’m in Tokyo

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@aingeth I buy 5$ coffee, he buys 150k on suits, 🤷🏻

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@DhaliwalSports @darthchilli Do the twins get 2 saleries or 1

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@shawnbuilds Your m2 has twice the amount of m’s as my m1

[Karm Sumal @KarmSumal]

People really underestimate how much tech expansion is happening in Vancouver right now. Could we do more. Hell yes. And we will.

In just the last year or so:

- Netflix opened a massive 110,000 sq ft animation/VFX campus in Mount Pleasant (450+ staff, Eyeline VFX joining)

- Amazon completed its move into The Post — now fully occupying all 1.1M sq ft

- ILM opened a new 40,000 sq ft studio at The Stack, now 950+ staff, their largest office globally

- Sony Imageworks moved its global HQ into The Post

- Databricks opened a Vancouver R&D centre (a $100B+ AI company)

- Workday signed an anchor lease at 601 West Hastings, their first major Vancouver office

- Asana expanded into 601 West Hastings too

- Boomi opened a 54,000 sq ft Centre of Excellence at Bentall Centre

- Autodesk opened its first permanent West Coast office

- Wayve launched a Vancouver AI/autonomous systems hub

- Gumloop reopened a Vancouver office (after moving HQ to SF)

- Quandri opened a new 15,000 sq ft HQ

- Sanctuary AI continues building humanoid robots here

Vancouver is quietly becoming one of North America's biggest AI, VFX, gaming and creative tech hubs.

[sam chan @samdotchan]

someone pinged me and said @launchacademyhq buildrs tmr night is sold out.

im committed to standing all night so ill give someone my seat and squeeze in a couple more tickets.

dont say I never did anything for yall. https://t.co/q7G4a68edk there won’t be another chance, enjoy.

[Google @Google]

Introducing Googlebook, the first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. It’s crafted for heavyweight performance, built with Gemini at the core and perfectly synced with your Android phone. Coming this fall. 💻✨

#TheAndroidShow

[Sigrid Jin 🌈🙏 @realsigridjin]

clawcon vancouver is happening on this friday, in @websummit week.

rsvp with more than 150+, and now finding last minute f&b sponsors for pizzas and coke. ping me up.

https://t.co/grukLdxelm

[shawn @shawnbuilds]

https://t.co/2LP8kcRySV

[Daniel Green @dgrreen]

The Sam Altman and @miramurati texts from the day he got fired from @OpenAI in 2023 just became evidence in the @elonmusk v. @sama trial.

It felt like a meaningful moment in AI history, so I turned it into a musical.

The lyrics are the texts.

[sam chan @samdotchan]

@KarmSumal https://t.co/y3N0bn1Nqx is step 1 of my plan to target exactly this problem