Steven Pham

Leading Payments Eng @mercor | founder @woofyclub, prev. meta, robinhood.
Always a builder and a dreamer.
Opinions are my own.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

Muse will be Meta’s next 1B MAU product.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

One lesson I’ve learned from my time at Facebook: never ever underestimate @finkd. One of the most strategic and ruthless executors in business.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

This is literally from an episode of Black Mirror 🫢

[Muse @Muse]

charmed to meet you!

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@andruyeung It got Mused!

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

Finally!

[Tesla @Tesla]

.@Grok in your Tesla can now do meaningful work for you

With Connectors, you can manage your inbox, clean up your calendar, or talk through existing files/chat/tasks – all hands-free

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

Muse needs voice mode

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

@gabepereyra is the President & Co-Founder of @harvey, the most prominent legal AI startup and an industry leader in owning their own intelligence.

I'm excited to share our conversation, which spans closed & open source, post-training, and how the law profession will evolve.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

Finally, this is what I want

[Noah Shinn @noahrshinn]

Your Instinct can now handle phone calls.

Introducing Instinct Concierge – a white glove service meant to handle high-touch cases, such as making phone calls, high-end service booking, and more. You’ll be able to book the restaurant that doesn’t take online reservations, get on your dentist’s cancellation list, or have that cable bill sorted out.

We’re slowly rolling this out to our early access group today and will be expanding access soon.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

This is how the simulation begins 🫢

[lauren @poteto]

i built an island that visualizes my bots as they work! it's cute watching them work and then go to bed and their little houses when they're resting 🥺

prompt to make this is below!

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

True and handling Payments at that scale and growth is scary and fun at the same time 🫢.

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

Accelerating growth at 10 figure scale is surreal

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@BrendanFoody Or just join Mercor 🚀😄

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@MattWalshBlog I’m no AOC fan but she can do whatever she wants, man. It’s a free country

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

As AI automates every industry throughout the economy, every company will need to build benchmarks, deploy agents, and train models.

The @RampLabs team is leading this transformation across the finance department.

@mercor is proud to be a @tryramp customer and partner.

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@NYCMayor Wow why didn’t anyone think of that before? 😅

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

True! This is the #1 reason why I’ve decided to join @mercor. Plus, @BrendanFoody is very charming in person 😆.
Day 2 on the 🚀. LFG!

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

The top reason people leave our competitors to join @mercor is talent density.

This is the most important thing to get right in building a legendary company.

The team you build is the company you build.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

So apparently after Meta leadership:

- Force reassigned some of the best devs on teams to AI data labelling fulltime

- Laid off another 10%

- Started to record every dev’s screen in the US 24/7

They now realized that it has, indeed started to destroy their eng culture. And are now trying to walk back.

All of the above was unprompted, not forced by anything external or even business reasons (Meta recorded record revenue, record profits)

The biggest self-inflicted eng culture destruction I’ve seen in a matter of weeks

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

This is the reason why nowadays I tell ppl I used to work at “Facebook” and not Meta. You guys screw up the culture so badly it’s hard to feel proud being associated with the brand.
It used to mean something being a FB engineer…

[Lauren Goode @LaurenGoode]

NEW, from me and @peard33: Meta CTO Andrew Bozworth told staffers the company did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks. WIRED has seen the full memo. More below

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

Seems reasonable

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@elonmusk @Keller @farzyness Y L is still not a big enough!

[Steven Pham @tungpham31]

@elonmusk @LeahLibresco Yes!