Jonathan Swanson

Founder/Chairman @thumbtack & @athenago & always dreamed of having 48 hours in a day:

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

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

Thread 🧵

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@ismail_colak @chamath Actually, this thing looks amazing. Can you email me? I'd love to talk. [email protected]

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@ismail_colak @chamath Fun to hear that! Will try using your service :)

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@0xcaosheng_888 @chamath @Jason @theallinpod @athenago 100%

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

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.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Wild stat: the Jude Law campaign Legora ran last month generated $50M in qualified pipe in the subsequent 30 days. 🤯

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@chamath 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@SupBouni @chamath Insane leverage!

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

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

[Powerset Research @PowersetRes]

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

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

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

[good @thenarrator]

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

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

I want this

[good @thenarrator]

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

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@EricJorgenson @Codie_Sanchez Not so subtle height bragging ;)

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@jake_zeller Let's gooo

[Jake Zeller @jake_zeller]

4/ If you’re a top technical founder or open-source creator, apply by June 12th. Investment experience is not required. https://t.co/YrKrdIDedx

[Jake Zeller @jake_zeller]

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.

[Jake Zeller @jake_zeller]

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).

[Jake Zeller @jake_zeller]

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.

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@thetysonchen @kleinerperkins @MeritechCapital @generalcatalyst @Amplify @FortuneMagazine Congrats :)

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@apurvas96 @getavoca @FortuneMagazine Congrats :)

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

Torenberg in his zone of genius. Excited for this!

[Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg]

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.

[Jonathan Swanson @swaaanson]

@eriktorenberg Yeeees