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@TheGeorgePu Avatar @TheGeorgePu George Pu

George Pu posts on X about money, business, ai, $205m 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 XXXXX% technology brands XXXX% stocks #2969 vc firms #132 travel destinations XXXX% social networks XXXX%

Social topic influence money 6.12%, business 6.12%, ai #4428, $205m 4.08%, staff 4.08%, $12m #20, $5m #17, math #1423, bank 4.08%, employees XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @its_mayyang @jponsvega @realdiaz123 @itsmayyang @ziyabuilds @37signals @acolytelabs @sweepthelow @jeftovic @aumayeung @kvixiossa @anuragrathor @permitt_io @slikksmith @sadbagillions @nikepig_ada @_tradernico @mcbeniwal @navromedia

Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)

Top Social Posts

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"You're absolutely right thank you. Post-tax to post-tax the founder did make more and he probably had an annual salary as well. The real issue isn't the salary comparison - it's that the founder created $205M of value and captured 4%. Then had to exit and give up all future upside. And this is one of maybe a few thousand companies that exited for $200M since 2010s. The engineering path is way more achievable - work hard have ability you'll get there. That's why I don't raise VC. Own it forever or the math breaks"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:42Z 32.9K followers, 1790 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

"We paid a designer $80K/year. Great person. XX hours of actual work per week. Switched to agency. $15K/year. That's $65K saved. Most founders keep full-time people because firing feels bad. I'd rather feel bad once than waste $65K on something I don't need"
X Link 2025-12-03T14:16Z 32.7K followers, 2444 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 32.7K followers, 1285 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 32.7K followers, 1708 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, 3157 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, 9401 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, 2347 engagements

"I could rent office space downtown. $5000/month. 'Professional.' Big space. Instead: - I work from home. - I keep $60K/year. - I have 6+ months extra runway. - I don't give a damn what anyone thinks. Office aesthetics = insecurity tax. I'd rather have freedom"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:46Z 32.8K followers, 1979 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 32.8K followers, 1626 engagements

"VCs just valued a company with $400K ARR at $415M. They're calling it 'kingmaking'. What it actually is: desperation. Their funds aren't returning. IPOs are dead. They missed the winners. So now they're dumping capital into random AI companies hoping the money itself creates inevitability. It won't. The VC model was built for 2010. We're in 2026. AI makes building cheaper. Companies don't need $50M to scale. Founders don't want to exit. Meanwhile bootstrap founders with X people are printing cash while VCs burn through portfolios. The panic is real. And it's terminal"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:29Z 32.8K followers, 4183 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, 1769 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 32.8K followers, 1816 engagements

"Paused this week and realized: Work I'm doing today work from a month ago. AI made me more productive each month. But my hours went up not down. Why I kept adding more. More features. More ideas. More content. Just because I could. That was the mistake. AI doesn't give you time back. It gives you rope to hang yourself with"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:46Z 32.8K followers, 1000 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 32.8K followers, 2186 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 32.8K followers, 1197 engagements

"Last year I made $480K. This year I'll make $350K. Down 27%. Am I worried No. Last year: 60-hour weeks stressed hated half my clients. This year: 20-40 hour weeks energized only work with people I respect. I traded revenue for freedom. Best decision I ever made"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:16Z 32.8K followers, 1434 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 32.9K followers, 592.5K 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 32.9K followers, XXX engagements

"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 32.9K followers, 275.8K 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 32.9K followers, 72.2K 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 32.9K followers, 95K 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 32.9K followers, 49.1K 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 32.9K followers, 1908 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 32.9K followers, 217.3K engagements

"August 2023. Payroll: $84K Revenue: $62K 2am. Checking bank account. Again. Not thinking about strategy. Not thinking about growth. Just: 'Can I pay people next month' That thought breaks founders. Not competition. Not market shifts. The people who trust you"
X Link 2025-12-12T13:04Z 32.9K followers, 1660 engagements

"2024: Half of all VC dollars went to X firms. Not XXX. Nine. Total pool shrunk 60%. This means VCs are only chasing mega-deals now. If you think the fundraising playbook from 2021 still works you're wrong. You'll waste XX months learning what I just told you. The game changed. Adapt or get left behind"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:46Z 32.9K followers, 1609 engagements

"Sleep debt. Food debt. Health debt. I don't want to pay in my 30s and 40s for what I did in my 20s. So I cook now. Prep meals. Take them to work. Not convenient. Necessary. Health compounds forward or backward. No catch-up round"
X Link 2025-12-13T00:02Z 32.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Founder: 'My company can be the next Uber. The next Airbnb.' Me: That era is over. 2008-2020 was burn billions to win because you couldn't replicate the asset. Uber = drivers Airbnb = houses Your SaaS AI clones it tomorrow. If you're building like it's 2015 you're already dead"
X Link 2025-12-13T13:12Z 32.9K followers, 55.4K engagements

"Advice I got while bootstrapping: 'Hire an EA before $1M' Hit X figures with X people no EA 'You need an office for culture' Remote from day X "Raise a seed to move faster' Profitable from month X 'Can't compete without VC' Funded competitors shut down Pattern: Every piece of advice came from people who never bootstrapped. The worst advice comes from people playing a different game"
X Link 2025-12-14T16:04Z 32.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@AcolyteLabs The worse are the weekly 'any updates' emails from investors who put in $5-10k in the round. But board seats really knee-cap you. I know a friend who paid back their investors $300k - just happened a few weeks ago. The investors were THAT bad that they had to pay them back"
X Link 2025-12-14T17:03Z 32.9K followers, XX engagements