Elon runs six multi billion-dollar companies simultaneously (SpaceX, Tesla, X, xAI, Neuralink, and Boring Company)
Most founders can’t run one.
Walter Isaacson (who spent a year shadowing Elon and wrote his biography) explains ‘How Elon does it’ on a podcast
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Wild stat: one organic mention from @chamath and @Jason on the @theallinpod drove 2x more pipeline for @athenago in one week than Jude Law drove for Legora in 30 days. 🤯
All-In > Hollywood.
Very amazing email to get:
“Hi JCal, Chamath,
55 days ago you two had a 4 minute conversation about EAs and Athena.
Since then we have:
closed $29M in new revenue 🤯
seen a -53% decrease in blended CaC, placed 683 Athena executive partners ❤️ 683 new jobs!!”
If you are looking for an EA, try Athena - they are excellent, only cost $3k/mo and you are helping some amazing people around the world upgrade their quality of life.
https://t.co/WYgRR4aLBP
The best recruiting signal is often sitting in public GitHub data.
Today, we’re open sourcing the data layer we use to help founders recruit exceptional engineers.
https://t.co/yaZwMUSmkS
Actually, someone should MVP a version of this on top of X
Take top 1000 accounts in tech and use LLMs + prediction markets to score each for accuracy
Then create a list on X of the top 5% most accurate
And once/month refresh the list
the next social network is a prediction market where your feed is ranked by accuracy not engagement. the person who is right 80% of the time gets seen while the person who is loud gets buried
the next social network is a prediction market where your feed is ranked by accuracy not engagement. the person who is right 80% of the time gets seen while the person who is loud gets buried
3/ Angel investing complements company-building. On average, our founders have increased their own valuations by 5x in 2.5 years since joining Powerset. Powerset provides full-stack legal and back office support, so founders stay focused on their companies.
2/ Since Q1’23, our founders have seeded 100+ companies including Deeptune, Braintrust, and OpenCode. In aggregate, investments from our first two cohorts are already marked at ~2x net (ahead of top VCs from this vintage).
1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 4, where top founders get their own $ 1M+ fund for angel investing. Last year, Anton Osika (Lovable) and other elite founders joined Cohort 3. Our founders have deployed $ 20M+ so far and are outperforming top VCs.
Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS.
Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X.
We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Austin Rief, Ryan Delk, Jonathan Swanson and more.
The founding team includes @ChrisJBakke@theojaffee@gbrl_dick , @netcapgirl, among others.
MTS’s initial hosts include the above as well as @MarkHalperin@creatine_cycle@amitisinvesting@labenz@JackFarley96@jessegenet@stevesi , and more experts across tech, finance, politics, and culture.
MTS aims to be the best place in the world to make sense of what’s happening, *right now*, and it’ll be on X.
This was the original vision for CNN by the way. They called it “Randemonium”. The idea was, whatever the Current Thing happening in the world, put it on CNN full time, cover it from every possible angle, and keep it running until a more important Current Thing comes along.
The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening.
Essentially, what the hell is happening and why? The world’s an incredibly complex and erratic place and trying to figure that out is a lifetime occupation.
Figuring that out is the occupation of MTS. To Monitor the Situation is to watch history in the making.
P.S. MTS is looking for hosts, guests, sponsors, teammates, and other monitors to help make sense of what’s happening. Reach out if this is you, and feel free to join the MTS discord.