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@TheGeorgePu Avatar @TheGeorgePu George Pu

George Pu posts on X about business, money, math, staff the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance #2134 technology brands XXX% vc firms #132 stocks XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% social networks XXXX%

Social topic influence business #696, money 6.98%, math #1492, staff #1836, ai 4.65%, bank 4.65%, $5m #22, $12m #18, trap 4.65%, y combinator XXXX%

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Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"I applied to Y Combinator X times. Got rejected X times. The last rejection was May X 2022 at 7:56 PM in a Thai restaurant in Toronto. That night I stopped playing their game. X years later: $2.35M X employees no VC. Here's the math they don't want you to see:"
X Link 2025-12-07T01:46Z 32.7K followers, 275.1K engagements

"Seeing a pattern with laid-off tech people: - Month 1: Update resume - Month 3: Still applying - Month 6: Still applying - Month 12: Still applying They have $200K in severance. Burning it on rent while refreshing LinkedIn. The job market is dead. It's not coming back. But they'd rather stay comfortable and broke than uncomfortable and building. Start a business. Buy a boring one. Freelance. Anything. Just stop praying for a W2 that isn't coming"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:02Z 32.7K followers, 94.5K engagements

"@ziyabuilds W2 is absolutely not a cheat code you're right. But raising VC = running a tech business. There are countless founders who ran profitable bootstrapped businesses without ever raising a dollar in VC. See @37signals"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:19Z 32.7K followers, 9307 engagements

"Been building with Opus XXX for two weeks now. New landing page. New apps. Full rewrites. Everything works first try. No debugging marathons. Just. done. I'm not coding anymore. I'm directing. Architect mode. 'Build this' and it builds it. 'Change that' and it changes it. Perfect every time. Weird feeling. The bottleneck isn't code now. It's knowing what to build. For who. Why. That's the whole game. If you're competing on 'I code fast' - you already lost. The model codes faster. Solo founder + Opus XXX beats a 5-person team from last year. Easily. Most people haven't felt this yet. They will"
X Link 2025-12-11T06:03Z 32.7K followers, 2215 engagements

"A VC posted: You sold for $100M what do you buy 500+ founders commented about Lambos. Not one asked: How much do I actually get Here's what actually happens: Mike Farley sold Tile for $205M in 2021. $205M exit -$141M raised (liquidation prefs) -dilution -taxes = $800K/year for XX years Meta E6 (Staff Engineer): $800K/year. With weekends. He built a product millions use daily. Did everything the VC playbook says. And barely beat a job. This is why I stay profitable and own 100%"
X Link 2025-11-27T16:29Z 32.7K followers, 681.1K engagements

"FanDuel sold for $465M in 2018. Founders got $X. Zero. - XX years of 80-hour weeks. - Raised hundreds of millions. - Built a billion-dollar business. Liquidation preferences ate everything. Meanwhile a FAANG principal engineer over that decade: $8-10M in total comp. 40-hour weeks. No board. No fundraising. No risk. The 'big exit' is a lottery ticket. W2 tech is the actual wealth path for most people"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:16Z 32.7K followers, 212.1K engagements

"Someone told me: 'You should start a visa consulting service. Demand is exploding. Easy $500K/year.' No. I don't build businesses that depend on immigration policy. One executive order and it's over. Government policy isn't a moat. It's a landmine"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:04Z 32.7K followers, 1958 engagements

"Mercury surveyed 1500 startups: XX% changed funding strategy. Translation: They're realizing what bootstrap founders knew all along. Your first $100K should come from customers. Not investors"
X Link 2025-10-09T15:46Z 32.6K followers, 1397 engagements

"If no one's told you lately: - Building a company is hard. - Building it alone is harder. - Building it without funding is even harder. And you're still here. Still showing up. Still figuring it out. That's not nothing. That's everything"
X Link 2025-11-26T00:02Z 32.5K followers, 9152 engagements

"One income stream in 2025 is a liability. I run two: - SaaS - scales without me. - Consulting - cash in weeks. They don't compete. They don't depend on each other. If one dies the other keeps me alive. AI will kill entire categories overnight. Already happening. The founders who survive won't have the best product. They'll have income that doesn't correlate. One thing that scales. One thing that pays immediately. What's your second stream"
X Link 2025-11-29T14:06Z 32.5K followers, 1693 engagements

"People ask: 'When's the exit' Never. Built SimpleDirect + ANC to pay me for XX years. Not X years then sell. Exits are for VC-backed founders. Bootstrap founders We compound. Don't exit. Collect dividends forever. That's the real wealth"
X Link 2025-12-01T13:04Z 32.7K followers, 1000 engagements

"I was 'the fintech founder' for X years. Product died. Stayed X months too long because leaving meant admitting I was wrong. To everyone. That's the identity trap. You're not your business. Your business is what you're trying. You are you. Separate them. Or you'll die in a business that's already dead"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:46Z 32.6K followers, 1344 engagements

"I was reading Perplexity this evening and had to re-read this three times. OpenAI just invested in their biggest investor's new company. - Thrive Capital gives OpenAI $6.6B. - Thrive creates 'Thrive Holdings.' - OpenAI invests back into Thrive Holdings. You're recycling your investor's LPs' money back to your investor. Bloomberg TechCrunch CNBC all used the same word: 'circular.' Circular More like WTF. Never seen this structure before. Is this what bubbles look like right before they pop Just weird"
X Link 2025-12-03T02:15Z 32.6K followers, 1620 engagements

"2am. Few years ago. XX people on payroll. Checking the bank account. Again. 'Can we make payroll next month' Not 'how do we scale.' Just: 'Can I pay people who trust me' That's the thought that breaks you. Not competition. The people who depend on you"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:04Z 32.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Switching back from Cursor to VS Code. Claude Code does the job just need a good not noisy IDE"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:02Z 32.6K followers, 1280 engagements

"Burn: $4K/month. Roommate. No office. Cheap groceries. Friends think I'm cheap. But $4K/month bought me: - Turned down wrong partnership - Pivoted twice (4 months) - Sleep through the night - Don't panic when revenue dips Low burn frugal. Low burn = not desperate. Desperation makes terrible decisions"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:16Z 32.7K followers, 1759 engagements

"Found founders who get it. We meet at Starbucks. Not offices. Not events. And talk about: - Ghosting contractors - Payroll anxiety - Failed fundraises - Co-founders quitting Things we can't say anywhere else. No solutions. No advice. Just: 'Yeah me too.' That's what helps. Not networking. Just people who get it"
X Link 2025-12-06T00:02Z 32.6K followers, 1703 engagements

"Stopped checking my bank account X years ago. Before: Daily. Watching negative balances. 'Can I afford this' Now: Monthly. Pay credit card. Done. Not confidence. No more anxiety. Forward looking backward staring"
X Link 2025-12-06T14:06Z 32.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Code Literacy is the new Financial Literacy"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:30Z 32.5K followers, XXX engagements

"3 years ago. 2am thoughts: Not: 'How do I scale' Actually: - Can I make payroll (14 people) - Why'd that contractor ghost me - Should I just get a job Small betrayals keep you up. Not strategy. Still remember those nights"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:12Z 32.7K followers, 1094 engagements

"Revenue in October: $47K November: $32K SimpleDirect pivot = starting over. No VC to smooth this out. No runway extension. No board to explain it to. Just me testing if the model works. Month X of the new model"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:16Z 32.6K followers, 1149 engagements

"Immigrant mentality: When you get opportunities you work 10x harder. Not because you're better. Because you can't afford to fail. - No safety net. - No generational wealth. - No fallback plan. Just work. That's the chip on my shoulder"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:46Z 32.7K followers, 1794 engagements

"@its_MayYang Not raising Series A isn't the problem. Needing Series A is. XX% of companies that raise Seed shouldn't have raised in the first place. They built for investors not customers. The real filter is: can you build something people pay for without someone else's money"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:51Z 32.7K followers, 3153 engagements

"The actual success rate for VC-backed exits Less than 0.05%. YC won't tell you this. a16z won't tell you this. But XXXX% of founders who raise VC are playing a game rigged against them from day one. Wrote the full breakdown:"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:59Z 32.7K followers, 6485 engagements

"The real SaaS shift nobody's talking about: From 'here's a dashboard figure it out' to 'paste your raw data AI handles the rest'. Users want X minutes in and out. Not XX minutes clicking around"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:59Z 32.7K followers, 2473 engagements

"Founder I know just sold his startup for close to $5M. Raised $3.6M seed X years ago. After liquidation preferences: He walked away with $140K. That's $35K/year. Google L3 (entry level): $249K/year. - He would have made 7x more at Google. - With weekends. - With sleep. But the headline says '$5M exit.' Nobody mentions the math. This is why I stay profitable"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:16Z 32.7K followers, 590.9K engagements

"Know a founder who raised $8M in 2021. Valuation: $40M His equity: XX% Paper worth: $12M Today: - Can't raise Series A - Burning $150K/month - X months of runway - Interviewing at Apple The equity $X. He spent X years building someone else's dream on his calendar. That's the VC trap"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:04Z 32.7K followers, 72.1K engagements

"Rejected a founder yesterday. $320K ARR. Growing. Profitable. First question he asked: 'How fast can you get me to $10M' Me: 'Why $10M' Him: 'That's the exit number I need to sell it for 5x.' Building for an exit you don't have is building for no one. I only work with founders who want to own it forever"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:16Z 32.7K followers, 48.9K engagements

"My competitor raised $54M total. 2020-2022: Seed + Series A + Series B Posted about: - Hiring spree - 'Scaling culture' - SF office tours 2025: CEO resigned and left. Chief of staff took over. X years since last raise. No Series C in sight. The equity employees were promised Still just numbers in Carta. This is the startup equity trap: You calculate it when you join. You rarely see it at exit. Be careful what you're actually signing up for"
X Link 2025-12-09T20:46Z 32.7K followers, 1891 engagements

"December X 2025. Call with my team. Me: We're making SimpleDirect free. Silence. Then: How do we make money Me: Different question. How do we become so useful they can't ignore us a week later: Still figuring it out. No regrets"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:16Z 32.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Founder last week: $1.2M ARR profitable growing XX% YoY. Wants to raise $5M. Me: 'Why' Him: 'To grow faster.' Me: 'You're already growing 80%. How much faster' Him: . Me: 'Or do you just feel like you should because everyone else is' Him: 'Yeah.' FOMO kills more businesses than bad ideas"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:46Z 32.7K followers, XXX engagements