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After months of sending my team progressively more unhinged clips of a man in his underpants, doing music in his bedroom, i finally convinced them to let me host the inimitable, the OG iPhone Fan, the Loop Daddy himself, @marcrebillet at RAGA on October 21st in NYC

New in the Money Assistant beta: standing instructions. Set it once and the assistant follows it until you say stop. Use instructions to track a trip, set rules for specific merchants, or keep an eye on certain purchases.

Bending Spoons got 800,000 job applications last year. They hired fewer than 300. @luke10ferrari, CEO, has built one of the most unusual companies I've studied. @bendingspoons buys iconic companies (@evernote, @WeTransfer, @Vimeo, @AOL), rebuilds them from the ground up, and never sells them. Often with a 25-year-old in charge. 10 things I took away from my conversation with Luca: 1/ A Harvard or Stanford degree predicts performance a lot less than you'd think. Entitlement is usually what cancels the edge. 2/ People should fluidly move between IC and lead. Org charts should be tools, not religions. 3/ Slope > experience. Extreme ownership + raw smarts beats “I’ve seen this movie” experience almost every time. 25 years olds > 45 year olds more often than people admit. 4/ Throw high-talent people into the deep end. Formal training is 10% of it. The other 90% is giving them extreme responsibility and surrounding them with other high caliber people to emulate. 5/ Interviews are the worst predictor in the hiring process, so let's stop pretending. Unless you script every question and grade the answers separately 6/ Default to “no” on complexity. The person who wants to add anything carries the full burden of proof. 7/ Never lie. Never omit something important. Even when it costs you. Be the kind of person you can trust is telling you things as they are. 8/ Teenage political activism that stops in your early 20s is a weirdly strong predictor of agency. 9/ Most serial acquirers keep companies semi-independent. Bending Spoons turns them into products on one operating system. 10/ Org charts should be tools, not religions. People should fluidly move between IC and lead. New episode of Long Strange Trip. Full episode in the comments. 0:00 – Introduction 1:15 – How Bending Spoons works: buy, rebuild, hold forever, and why operating beats picking 8:00 – Building a talent flywheel from nothing: calling hundreds of graduates 13:34 – Hiring signals: why Harvard barely matters and teenage activists do 17:56 – HubSpot's sales role-play and the reference question that gets the truth 21:33 – Strategy beats org charts: management by chaos vs. eight direct reports 25:14 – Good leader, bad manager? Head in the clouds, feet in the trenches 30:06 – Slope over experience: why 25-year-olds run the companies he buys 40:29 – Radical candor, one improvement a year, and no executive team 50:23 – "Approximately mediocre": first principles and relentless simplification 55:42 – Why Milan: building a world-beating company outside Silicon Valley 59:47 – Never lie, never omit: integrity, plus Brian's takeaways

“We qualified for the Olympics. Now we’re going for gold." Why listing on Nasdaq was the starting gun, not the finish line. How lean teams get more done. And who's really replying to Luca's emails... Luca, Matteo, and Rebecca get into this and more. Watch the video: bndspn.com/videocast_part2

A US phone plan built for travelers ✈️

Any video can be open source now ... Tesseract + Opus 5.5 can not only recreate this video but also make it editable in After Effects.

Jordan Watkins @jordanarchivess

5 days ago

i'd love to see AI try and recreate this

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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace got an Olto for his birthday!

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Character Animation is live on Customuse. → Describe a movement to generate a 3D animation. → Turn a reference video into character motion. → Create perfect animations for any Humanoid character → Full support of Roblox R6 and R15 rigs. Game-ready, editable generations. Bring your character creation and animation into the same Customuse workflow.

Paul singlehandedly built @Adjacent Vector which might be the most cutting edge VC dashboard out there All portfolio and fund performance from public and private sources in one place continuously updated:

Paul Michaux @pmchx

4 days ago

Built our fund's internal weekly app as a Claude artifact. Love it. Two asks @AnthropicAI: let me hide the top bar and pick my own icon. When it's an app the team opens every day, it should feel like an app, not a page inside Claude. I'd meet you halfway at a footer...

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Built our fund's internal weekly app as a Claude artifact. Love it. Two asks @AnthropicAI: let me hide the top bar and pick my own icon. When it's an app the team opens every day, it should feel like an app, not a page inside Claude. I'd meet you halfway at a footer...

One week away! Just a few spots left for our LA @Techweek_ event here at Inversion HQ. We’re bringing together leaders from Inversion, Argo, Fortastra, and Turion Space to talk about the future of moving to, from, and through space. Join us inside Inversion’s spacecraft manufacturing facility in Playa Vista on October 14. Speaker lineup: @jcfiaschetti, Co-Founder, CEO, @InversionSpace @CarlisleR_01, CO-Founder, CEO, @argolunarwater @mike_smayda, Founder, CEO, @Fortastra_Corp Rich Minford, CCO, @TurionSpace Attendance is limited. Request to attend → partiful.com/e/8up55w56GOpm…

Now Claude and ChatGPT can natively create Premiere (.PRPROJ) and After Effects (.AEP) files. We've added open-source converters to Tesseract, our creative suite for agents, to make it possible. It works both ways. Bring your existing Adobe projects into Tesseract and let your agent pick up where you left off, or vice versa. This is our first open-source release, and compatibility isn’t perfect yet. Create projects, tell us what breaks, or contribute a fix. Help us make Tesseract better for everyone. Try now for free.

Sizing kits for Stream Ring start shipping this week. The next step: find your fit

We’ve taken over a hilltop village in Italy for the Project Europe cohort. Founder monoculture, la dolce vita and 3 good meals a day does wonders for spirits and companies.

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might fuck around and start a cult

Only 7 ai companies globally are leading on all revenue, mobile and web usage from @a16z study Proud that @Photoroom is among these 7 with @ChatGPT, @claudeai , @canva , @suno , @perplexity_ai @NotionHQ

Olivia Moore @omooretweets

7 days ago

The gap between the power user and the average consumer is so large that 29 of the 50 cos on our new revenue list do not make our web or mobile traffic lists. Just seven companies appear on all three - @ChatGPT, @claudeai, @canva, @suno, @perplexity_ai, @NotionHQ, @Photoroom

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3 of the 12 biggest apps launched this decade are Tangent customers.

5 of the 12 biggest apps launched this decade use RevenueCat

we acquired Airtable 28 days ago started working on the product 21 days ago shipped 15 improvements 7 days ago today: 7 more, including some of the most-requested features in Airtable's history ‼️

Everyone in the office had a hand in this one. A closer look at Stream Ring, coming soon

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