taran

20 | mle @snapchat | @georgiatech | 400k+ tiktok | prev. @pallyai

[taran @taran_tech]

i grew to 400k followers and quit. here’s why:

as a kid, i wanted to be the next mkbhd.
touch id, losing the home button, fortnite at 240 fps was like the coolest thing to me bro.

i started making youtube videos as tarantech.
my mom was my #1 fan, could never win another argument in the gc. regular stuff.

in 2020, i moved to tiktok:
10k followers in a week
100k in less than 2 months

worked with some of the biggest brands in the world. living my childhood dream at 16.

but i realized i didn’t want to just be the “tech guy.”

i wanted to build.

i got into coding and ai in hs, went to my first year of college, landed an internship in defense.

then i got a dm from @wylansford to join @pallyai.
3 days later, i dropped my internship 1 month in and flew to sf.

here we are now.
i’ll never really stop creating content, but i learned that only creating isn’t what made me the happiest.

i need to chase what does, whatever that looks like.

holy chopped who let me have this cut bro

[taran @taran_tech]

@hazhubble so fire

[taran @taran_tech]

been texting pally more than anyone else on my phone for the past month.

literally pinned in my imessage now. try it, genuinely

[Haz Hubble @hazhubble]

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[taran @taran_tech]

@wylansford @Arbys i distinctly remember doordashing with u last summer

[taran @taran_tech]

Started seeing these in south bay too

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

I’ve been in Texas for maybe 10 minutes

[taran @taran_tech]

he truly switched up on his day 1s🥀

[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.

[taran @taran_tech]

@wylansford @grok this guy is lying on my name what do i do

[taran @taran_tech]

what is the point of putting "Building" in your linkedin header without saying what ur building.

[taran @taran_tech]

@hazhubble fire

[taran @taran_tech]

cursor is way better than i remember wth

[taran @taran_tech]

uber one is the most +EV subscription. uber eats bogos, no delivery fee and you get matched to a waymo basically 100% of the time. what more do u need

[taran @taran_tech]

tim cook wasn’t “better” than steve jobs. steve jobs wasn’t “better” than tim cook. and john ternus won’t be “better” than either of them.
people talkin about ceos like they 1v1ing.

steve was a insane visionary. the stuff he did feels obvious now only because he made them first.
tim was genuinely a machine. he took apple from a giant company to one of the most valuable businesses in history. he’s tuff.
but the best part of this is look where apple is rn.
they are losing the ai race by a mile, and consumers wants something new.
and who next?
john ternus. a HARDWARE engineer.
the guy lead the apple silicon transition.
bro if apple was still using intel chips yall would be working on a thinkpad rn.

its not even about who’s better, every era’s so different.

this yet another new era of apple.

i’m so excited.

[taran @taran_tech]

@garrytan Sorry for your loss

[taran @taran_tech]

@samsheffer @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio ur transition into this space is so sick, watched so many of ur videos as a kid. inspirational

[taran @taran_tech]

@ItsVishnuR fire

[taran @taran_tech]

@lucashjin @shayaan_azeem tuff ash

[taran @taran_tech]

@hazhubble genuinely saw this, thought it was in fahrenheit and thought thought u were joking

[taran @taran_tech]

@kanavtwt i feel like there’s like a hundred of em, lowk unless it’s from the big 3 idt anyone is gonna be too inclined to switch

[taran @taran_tech]

@mdnlabs u won’t tell a difference between the 2

[taran @taran_tech]

@oprydai mac mini might be the best price to performance machine u can buy

[taran @taran_tech]

@tobinwtang @Polymarket hugeeee congrats bro