Yafees Sarwar

Corp 'Murica | NYU Stern MBA | 🇺🇸🗽 | Founder @ /// & more

The best of people are those who benefit others.

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

📊 Income grew for everyone after WWII but stopped doing so after the 1970s.

From 1947–1973, gains were shared widely. The top 5%, middle class, and working class all saw real income rise together.

After that? The 95th percentile pulled away — the middle stagnated — and the bottom barely moved.

When prosperity only lifts the top, frustration builds.

People start turning to anyone promising fairness even if that means electing self-proclaimed socialists.

Wealth creation isn’t the problem. Inequality is.

The economic pie can grow and be shared.

If we don’t fix how it’s divided, history shows the politics will fix it for us, painfully.

#Economy #WealthGap #MiddleClass #Policy #Inequality #GrowthForAll

[steijnpelle @steijnpelle]

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z.

We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices.

Lassie is already trusted by 700+ practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month.

To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves.

Here's how that went.

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

@RecTheRegime @legitgov Get well soon, prof! Godspeed

[Joe Schmidt IV @joeschmidtiv]

https://t.co/i7teOUTWgZ

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

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[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

Thomas Massie represents the best of what our country stands for.

He is carved out of an older America.
The kind built in machine shops, tobacco barns, and back roads.

An America where a man fixes what he owns, questions what he’s told, and trusts his own hands before distant institutions.

He is an inventor before he is a politician.

An engineer before he is a performer.
The sort of man who would rather build a machine than build a brand.

There is something deeply American in that.

He speaks with the stubborn independence of the frontier.
The same spirit that made farmers into mechanics, mechanics into l entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens into inventors. Not because it was fashionable, but because survival demanded ingenuity.

Massie represents the old belief that freedom is tied to competence.
That a free people should know how things work.
How to wire a circuit.
How to grow food.
How to build a home.
How to stand on principle even when the crowd turns hostile.

In another age, he might have been found in a small workshop with sawdust on the floor, blueprints spread across a wooden table, radio humming softly in the background.

Today, he sits in Congress carrying that same craftsman’s mind into a world drowning in slogans and spectacle.

He reminds Americans that intelligence does not need arrogance.
That self-reliance still matters.
That conviction is more valuable than applause.

Whether one agrees with every position he takes or not, there is a rare authenticity about him.
He seems less manufactured than most public figures.
Less assembled by consultants.
More shaped by real labor, real study, and real life.

And perhaps that is why he resonates with so many people across the country.

Because beneath the politics, Thomas Massie symbolizes something older than party lines:

The American tinkerer.
The independent mind.
The citizen who refuses to surrender either his liberty or his ability to think for himself.

Thomas Massie is America First.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.

If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.

If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

Godspeed @RepThomasMassie

[Carrie Prejean Boller @CarriePrejean1]

I STAND WITH MASSIE.
@MassieforKY
@RepThomasMassie

America for Americans only.

[Joshua Park @JoshuaIPark]

Great article that you should read if you're planning a huge launch.

[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

They reinvented the hearing aid by studying the human ear

Normal hearing aid: $4700

Theirs: $20

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

@asabbas98 We send this out every other Sunday - check it out https://t.co/HxuDdNJDfK

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

https://t.co/AFJZ5kH7Ku

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

Pretty sure the papers they are holding are based on the work of a South Asian American - Mr. Khan - who has been called the “Einstein of structural engineering" and the "Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper design and construction”

https://t.co/qy1M0RppXb

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

@BenRichter1972 @mattvanswol His ancestors in 1776 was busy controlling 25% of the world’s GDP according to economic studies done by British economist Angus Maddison, you dumfuck.

[Jil Theo @theo_jil]

I'm 55.

If you're in your 30s or 40s, read this:

1. Marriage won’t fix loneliness. Neither will kids, money, or sex.

[Allen Braden @allen_explains]

🚨 A junior at Jane Street reportedly landed a $220K–$600K role because he used AI to analyze trillions of data points faster than most teams ever could.

In this 1-hour lecture, he breaks down the exact system behind it:

• how he researches massive datasets
• how AI finds patterns humans miss
• how his machine turns raw data into decisions
• how you can apply the same thinking yourself

Skip Netflix tonight.

Watch this instead.

One hour could completely change how you think about research, AI, and opportunity.

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

Great insights as always

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Mom how did we get so rich?

Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list.

[Yafees Sarwar @yafees]

You need to pay attention to this during the age of AI - How Boring Businesses Create Billionaires
https://t.co/LgT7qShbsH