# ![@Founder_Mode_ Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1395663964369952768.png) @Founder_Mode_ Founder Mode

Founder Mode posts on X about ai, how to, the first, elon musk the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  18% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  13% [finance](/list/finance)  11% [stocks](/list/stocks)  9% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  6% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #41 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  2% [countries](/list/countries)  1% [gaming](/list/gaming)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) 20%, [how to](/topic/how-to) 6%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 5%, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) 5%, [business](/topic/business) 5%, [jeff bezos](/topic/jeff-bezos) 5%, [ceo](/topic/ceo) 4%, [company](/topic/company) 4%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 4%, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) 4%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@andrewbolis](/creator/undefined) [@alexgroberman](/creator/undefined) [@bhorowitz](/creator/undefined) [@eriktorenberg](/creator/undefined) [@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@a16z](/creator/undefined) [@airwallex](/creator/undefined) [@packym](/creator/undefined) [@eladgil](/creator/undefined) [@saranormous](/creator/undefined) [@nopriorspod](/creator/undefined) [@awxjack](/creator/undefined) [@googledeepmind](/creator/undefined) [@officiallogank](/creator/undefined) [@googledevs](/creator/undefined) [@googleai](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@wandb](/creator/undefined) [@l2k](/creator/undefined) [@ecomchasedimond](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Marriott International Inc (MAR)](/topic/$mar) [Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"When is it too early to hire a finance leader & when is it too late Hosts and KPs very own @LM_Braswell and @josh_coyne put the question to two experienced finance operators in the first episode of Builders our new series. Adam Swiecicki Chief Financial Officer at @Rippling prioritizes strategic finance favoring the banking private equity background and somebody whos seen another startup before. @themichaelmiao VP of Finance and Business Operations at @glean agrees and outlines what matters most. First there must be an understanding of the economics of the business. Second the person must be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2014339569034883470)  2026-01-22T14:09Z 164.4K followers, 484.2K engagements


"Elon Musk on how he hires: "But what are you looking for that someone else who's good at interviewing and hiring people wants a je ne sais quoi Well at this point I might have more training data on evaluating technical talent especially but talent of all kinds I suppose but technical talent especially given that I've done so many technical interviews and then seen the results technical interviews seen the results. So my training set is enormous and has a very wide range. Generally the thing I ask for are bullet points for evidence of exceptional ability. These things can be pretty off the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2021270220568928411)  2026-02-10T17:09Z 164.4K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Steve Jobs' internal company memo after returning to Apple (1997):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2021718961402904663)  2026-02-11T22:52Z 164.4K followers, 11.6K engagements


""World-class entrepreneurs are polymaths." - Peter Thiel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2000973572248940648)  2025-12-16T16:57Z 164.3K followers, 379.2K engagements


"Naval Ravikant on how to find the right business partner: "So what I usually say is that you should find a great partner no matter what it is that you're doing and you should look for someone who has: very high intelligence very high energy and very high integrity. And you need all three of those and you can't compromise on any one of them. Otherwise you'll end up with either someone who's not smart which does you no good or someone who's not hardworking which also does you no good or the worst case is you end up with a smart hardworking crook who ends up working against your interests. And"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2004954104959787116)  2025-12-27T16:34Z 164.4K followers, 65.3K engagements


"Jack Zhang: I'm taking on $70 million in debt to buy my own stock @airwallex CEO @awxjack is asked on the 20VC podcast about his conviction in the $8 billion fintech he built. His answer: I'm actually in the process of taking a debt of $70 million to buy Airwallex stock because I just have so much confidence in the company. My co-founders are doing the same. We're literally buying our own stock. Host @HarryStebbings was stunned: You're buying from early investors Can I join Jack continues: Of course you can. I thought that was a joke but yes.of course you can."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2010714983022186508)  2026-01-12T14:06Z 164.5K followers, 899.9K engagements


"Steve Jobs on Failure (1994): "I've actually always found something to be very true which is most people don't get those experiences because they never ask. I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I always call them up. I called up this will date me but I called up Bill Hewlett when I was [--] years old and he lived in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book. And he answered the phone himself. He said yes I said hi I'm Steve Jobs. I'm [--] years old. I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. And I was wondering if you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017255456410853877)  2026-01-30T15:15Z 164.4K followers, 105.1K engagements


"Peter Thiel's advice to early-stage startups: "One basic frame is that if you're starting a company you always start small. So how do you get to monopoly when you're small Answer you start with a very small market. And the conventional business thing is always you want to go after really big markets. There are no big markets without lots of competition. You never want to go after big markets. You want to go after small markets. Facebook started with [-----] people at Harvard. It was such a small market it could not have been funded. It would not have been funded by investors if you'd actually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017631180594491578)  2026-01-31T16:08Z 164.4K followers, 40.4K engagements


""Courage is far shorter in supply than genius." - Peter Thiel "One of the challenges in writing a book about entrepreneurship or teaching a class on this is that there is sort of no formula. And I think science always starts with a number two. It starts with experiments you can repeat things you can do over and over again. But there's sort of a sense in which every moment in the history of business every moment in the history of technology happens only once. The next Mark Zuckerberg will not be starting a social networking company. The next Larry Page will not start a search engine. The next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2018385537178939546)  2026-02-02T18:06Z 164.1K followers, 12.7K engagements


""Energy is the root of all economic activity." @ScottNolan of @generalmatter on why the US is playing catch-up in Nuclear. With a bipartisan goal to 4X capacity by [----] its now a $10B+ domestic market. The goal Reclaim the lead from China and Russia and make Nuclear the cheapest baseload on Earth. from @thegeneralistco @mariogabriele https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019045972307800135 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019045972307800135"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2019045972307800135)  2026-02-04T13:50Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Peter Thiel: "Always AIm For A Monopoly." "In some ways my book Zero to One offers a series of different answers I have to this question things that I believe to be true that most people do not agree with me on. I'm going to just maybe share a few of those with you today. The first one this is perhaps the major thematic one takes as its point of departure this idea of uniqueness. Because if you have a unique business that does something nobody else is doing you have something that is a monopoly at least for a while. And my claim is that everybody who is a founder an entrepreneur an investor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2019152354826940599)  2026-02-04T20:53Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


""There's a segment of users who want more more more complexity. and they're very vocal about it." @laparisa and @rosterloh on the "Product Paradox" at @googlechrome: How do you serve the power users who represent the future without alienating the billions of people who just want their email to work Product design at a billion-user scale. from Google AI: Release Notes with @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK @googledevs @GoogleAI A fun conversation with @rosterloh and @laparisa on Gemini in Google Chrome the future of the agentic browser personal intelligence why you should close your chrome tabs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2020527360299167965)  2026-02-08T15:57Z 164.5K followers, [----] engagements


""How many people are actually genuinely creative @a16zs @pmarca on the "original thinking" debate: We hold LLMs to the standard of Beethoven or Van Gogh but how many humans actually clear that bar If AI matches the top 1% of human output it doesn't need "originality" to change the world. @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2020921776243605684)  2026-02-09T18:04Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is what compounding looks like in fintech. [----] was an inflection point for @airwallex. We crossed $1B ARR hit EBITDA profitability and after [--] years of building regulated global infrastructure it finally feels like we've reached the starting line. Some reflections below. https://t.co/TWcBER1c9a [----] was an inflection point for @airwallex. We crossed $1B ARR hit EBITDA profitability and after [--] years of building regulated global infrastructure it finally feels like we've reached the starting line. Some reflections below. https://t.co/TWcBER1c9a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2021211457208082769)  2026-02-10T13:15Z 164.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@awxjack @airwallex Did you always believe @airwallex could get to $1b ARR or did that only start to feel real recently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2021211465772839331)  2026-02-10T13:15Z 164.4K followers, [---] engagements


"AI dev tools right now: "here's your fixed code hope it works. What devs actually need: "here's what I changed you can tweak it." @mirko_novakovic says AI tooling NEEDS to be more interactive than this. The accept/reject model isn't it. "Charts are good for users not good for agents. Agents look at the underlying data and do deep analysis." @mirko_novakovic built Instana sold it to IBM and now he's building @dash0hq rethinking observability for agents not humans. In conversation with @guypod he explains: https://t.co/O47jXz3Aab "Charts are good for users not good for agents. Agents look at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2022010643013161430)  2026-02-12T18:11Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @alexgroberman: The year is [----] and Coursera is hiding prompt injections in their clipboard to trap AI agents. Think about what that m"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2022353040523800756)  2026-02-13T16:51Z 164.4K followers, [--] engagements


""I turned down the opportunity in [----] to implement censorship in the web browser which would've been a completely different and very dystopian world." @pmarca on the "censorship machine" why @elonmusk buying Twitter was a turning point and how @SubstackInc held the line on free speech. from @a16z The Ben & Marc Show with @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg @packyM Full episode here: https://youtu.be/Kdql4I-NJ0Msi=OJJL5MNnm1E0MIv8 https://youtu.be/Kdql4I-NJ0Msi=OJJL5MNnm1E0MIv8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017938482958647673)  2026-02-01T12:30Z 164.4K followers, 625.9K engagements


"Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience." "I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that. Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school. You were very successful. You're top of your class. Obviously you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet. You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations. People with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2018764756283179506)  2026-02-03T19:13Z 164.4K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Patrick Collison (@stripe ceo) on How to Move Fast:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2020197657285931322)  2026-02-07T18:07Z 164.4K followers, 182.1K engagements


""Scientific progress is what makes the world better over time." @sama on why we're underrating the positive side of AI. @bhorowitz counters the "Superintelligence" fear with a legendary Alan Turing quote: AI doesn't have to be smarter than a brilliant mind. Just smarter than a "mediocre" one. from @a16z @eriktorenberg Sam Altman on Sora Energy and Building an AI Empire From GPT-5 to Sora OpenAI has been making a dizzying amount of bets recently. It now acts as a frontier AGI research lab a big tech product company with nearly a billion users and a driver of the largest infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2022369229807182059)  2026-02-13T17:56Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis YouTube"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2022692510330687865)  2026-02-14T15:20Z 164.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Jeff Bezos explains one-way and two-way door decisions:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/1998867243682447614)  2025-12-10T21:27Z 161.6K followers, 11.3K engagements


""Courage is far shorter in supply than genius." - Peter Thiel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/1999525807924941099)  2025-12-12T17:04Z 162.7K followers, 50.2K engagements


"Alex Hormozi's 5-step productivity system that he stole from Elon Musk:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/1999894599842791758)  2025-12-13T17:30Z 163.5K followers, 132.2K engagements


"Jeff Bezos on the No. [--] job of leaders:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2000249818883768829)  2025-12-14T17:01Z 162.7K followers, 15.3K engagements


"We got Sydney Sweeney parody before GTA VI TV Advertising works. One campaign especially crushed it this year. This is our tribute. https://t.co/0kTRBaBCDe TV Advertising works. One campaign especially crushed it this year. This is our tribute. https://t.co/0kTRBaBCDe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2000963139672924227)  2025-12-16T16:16Z 162.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Jeff Bezos on work-life balance:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2001401031746359795)  2025-12-17T21:16Z 162.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Canva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002043444798410804)  2025-12-19T15:48Z 162.3K followers, [---] engagements


"This company answers phone calls for Marriott Caesars and half of Vegas. Their AI is so human-like callers have asked it out on a date. $750M+ valuation. NVIDIA backed. 2274% revenue growth. Here's the voice AI enterprises actually trust: 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002378414594863312)  2025-12-20T13:59Z 163.1K followers, 214.5K engagements


"Most voice AI companies have a few pilots. But PolyAI is already live across 2000+ enterprise deployments including Marriott Caesars PG&E Foot Locker UniCredit Volkswagen OpenTable. These arent demos. These are production systems handling millions of real calls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002378416138457385)  2025-12-20T13:59Z 163.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Under the hood is Raven v3 PolyAIs in-house voice model. Built only for phone calls. 24+ languages 100% language consistency Sub-500ms response times Configured in English responds flawlessly in any supported language General models talk well. Raven works well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002378420127174998)  2025-12-20T13:59Z 162.9K followers, [----] engagements


"This is why enterprises care about resolution not novelty: 391% ROI (Forrester) $10.3M savings over [--] years $1B/year in value created At large deployments agents handle the workload of 1000+ employees Customer service becomes a profit center not a cost sink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002378421880406305)  2025-12-20T13:59Z 162.7K followers, [----] engagements


"My favorite proof point: During wildfires and floods PG&E gets overwhelmed. PolyAI handled 1M+ calls in a single day saving [-----] labor hours and increasing CSAT by 22% under real crisis conditions. This isnt lab AI. This is battle-tested infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002378424032088459)  2025-12-20T13:59Z 162.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexGroberman_ Linkedin Growth Guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002387150680305914)  2025-12-20T14:34Z 162.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Steve Jobs on how to learn business:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2002760719633436747)  2025-12-21T15:18Z 163.1K followers, 33.7K engagements


"Peter Thiels advice to his younger self: "Value substance over status. One of the resolutions I came up with a number of years ago was to always value substance over status substance over prestige. And if I was giving my younger self advice on what to do or how to think about one's life I probably would still go to Stanford might still go to law school. But I'd ask a lot more questions: why I was doing these things Too much of it was driven by prestige and status and not quite enough about really the substance of trying to learn things. I sort of think of it as this sort of crazy rolling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2003103370907619374)  2025-12-22T14:00Z 163.1K followers, 108.3K engagements


"Jeff Bezos on the core principle of Amazon: "We only have a few principles at Amazon kind of core values that we go back to over and over again. And if you looked at each of the things that we do you would see those run straight through everything. So the first one and by far the most important one is customer obsession. And we talk about it as customer obsession as opposed to competitor obsession. And I have seen over and over again companies talk about how they're customer focused but really when I pay close attention to them I believe they are competitor focused. And that's just a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2003478880590422513)  2025-12-23T14:52Z 163.1K followers, 68.4K engagements


"Jack Dorsey on becoming a better storyteller: "I found myself very early on thinking about something like thinking about this early idea for Twitter and saying to myself I could build this awesome. You have those shower-like moments or you're walking at midnight in some town in New York City and you've got these amazing brand ideas. And then you start thinking well I could really start doing this if only X and if I had this person or if this technology existed or if this happened or this happened. And what I realized was that I was constantly making excuses for not working on it. And then the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2003867132069630074)  2025-12-24T16:35Z 163.1K followers, 109.6K engagements


"@AndrewBolis Canva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2004580875464577405)  2025-12-26T15:51Z 162.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Jeff Bezos on Amazon's business strategy: "What we're really focused on is thinking long term putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent it means you're going to experiment. You have to think long-term. So these three ideas customer centricity long term thinking and a passion for invention go together. That's how we do it. And by the way we have a lot of fun doing it that way. . Well I think that if you're straightforward and clear about the way that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2004707209049944327)  2025-12-27T00:13Z 163.1K followers, 20.6K engagements


"@AlexGroberman_ X Growth Guide 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2004917135324410069)  2025-12-27T14:07Z 162.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Founders trying to build a business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2005321377512034394)  2025-12-28T16:54Z 163.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The Onion Theory of Risk by Marc Andreessen: "I think the single biggest thing entrepreneurs are missing both on fundraising and how they run their companies is the relationship between risk and cash. The relationship between risk and raising cash and then the relationship between risk and spending cash. So I've always been a fan of something that Andy Ratcliffe taught me years ago which he called the onion theory of risk. Um which basically is you can think about a startup like on day one um as having every conceivable kind of risk right And you can basically just make a list of the risks."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2005354402182295603)  2025-12-28T19:05Z 163.1K followers, 107.9K engagements


"Jensen Huang on how to structure a company: "Don't worry about how other companies' or charts look. You start from first principles. Remember what an organization is designed to do. The organizations of the past where there was a king you know CEO and then you have all these you know the royal subjects you know the royal court and then e-staff. And then you keep working your way down. Eventually they're employees. But the reason why it was designed that way is because they wanted the employees to have as little information as possible because the fundamental purpose of the soldiers is to die"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2005692057214427596)  2025-12-29T17:27Z 163.3K followers, 91.4K engagements


"Jensen Huang on building a company and its culture: "When a company gets larger you guys are going to learn that as the founder or as the CEO you have to learn new things. And many of the new things that you'll learn has to do with building products at first. I've just talked to you about building products. Soon you'll be talking about and learning about building companies. And building companies means things that are soft and hard to explain like building a company with a culture. What does that mean How does the culture of one company different from a culture of another company And why is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2006408471525122186)  2025-12-31T16:53Z 163.1K followers, 19.2K engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg on how he learned to manage people: Q: "So you start out as a 19-year-old right And you have this website that's just going through the roof. Ron was talking earlier about how very early on the graphs just were going up very steeply. And you had to learn how to create this organization. You had to learn how to be a manager. That's the next phase after you raise money and you have something that's growing. How did you learn how to manage people" A: "Well through a lot of mistakes. I don't think anyone is naturally good at hiring out of the box. You have to learn in each role we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2007521038322807178)  2026-01-03T18:34Z 163.3K followers, 23.5K engagements


"@AndrewBolis Send"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2008204330369978440)  2026-01-05T15:49Z 163.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Elon Musk explains the First Principles Method: "And then I think it's also important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So the normal way that we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. We're doing this because it's like something else that was done or it's like what other people are doing. Me too type ideas. Yeah slight iterations on a theme. And it's kind of mentally easier to reason by analogy rather than from first principles. But first principles are kind of a physics way of looking at the world. And what that really means is you kind of boil things down to the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2008342254121873850)  2026-01-06T00:58Z 163.3K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Throwback to when Mark Zuckerberg was on the hunt to buy Instagram April [--] 2012"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2008696038962721081)  2026-01-07T00:23Z 163.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Canva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2009653685048242402)  2026-01-09T15:49Z 163.3K followers, 12.5K engagements


"@AlexGroberman_ LinkedIn Growth Guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2009995837330604039)  2026-01-10T14:28Z 163.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Jensen Huang argues that the US would have handed its AI revolution to someone else if not for the massive shift in energy policy. "On the first week of President Trump's administration he said "drill baby drill" and he got so much flack for that. If not for this entire change in sentiment about energy growth in our country we can all concede now we would've handed this industrial revolution to somebody else. Without energy there can be no new industry. If not for the fact that President Trump reversed that narrative we would be completely screwed. Without energy you can't have industrial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011106562966708441)  2026-01-13T16:02Z 163.4K followers, 11.8K engagements


"Apple hasn't innovated at all. Airpods and Siri have so much more potential. Let's see if OpenAI + Sweetpea can be THAT THING. John and Jordi react to (alleged) leaks for OpenAI's new device: "Sounds like Johnny Ive's team is pushing for the AirPods form factor. AirPods have insane product market fit last time I checked they are a $20 billion revenue line for Apple." "If you look back to the https://t.co/1UKr6jDX9F John and Jordi react to (alleged) leaks for OpenAI's new device: "Sounds like Johnny Ive's team is pushing for the AirPods form factor. AirPods have insane product market fit last"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011263926307340316)  2026-01-14T02:27Z 163.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Autonomous systems is the clearest thing. Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering US Department of War (DoW) from @NoPriorsPod @Saranormous @EladGil @USWREMichael @DoWCTO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011830996035948968)  2026-01-15T16:01Z 163.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011831560241365258)  2026-01-15T16:03Z 163.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@alexgroberman Shopify guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011844854150807645)  2026-01-15T16:56Z 163.4K followers, [--] engagements


"You just name a problem in the headlines we can solve that. @bhorowitz cofounder of @a16z from The Ben & Marc Show featuring @packyM @pmarca @eriktorenberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2011892401179410755)  2026-01-15T20:05Z 163.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Canva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2012231766757564837)  2026-01-16T18:33Z 163.3K followers, [----] engagements


"You could pretty much encapsulate all medicine in an LLM if it's basically already happened. @MartinShkreli From @wandb Gradient Dissent with Lukas Biewald @l2k"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2012710111018369164)  2026-01-18T02:14Z 163.4K followers, [----] engagements


"We build reputation. Every relationship matters. @bhorowitz cofounder of @a16z from The Ben & Marc Show featuring @packyM @pmarca @eriktorenberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2012899599489396806)  2026-01-18T14:47Z 163.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2012915346106179586)  2026-01-18T15:49Z 163.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@alexgroberman ChatGPT Guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013629561557106775)  2026-01-20T15:07Z 163.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@AndrewBolis Guide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013639929046417635)  2026-01-20T15:49Z 163.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The insight that built $50M ARR: Most AI builders optimize for "wow" moments. Emergent is optimized for "it still works" moments. When everyone demos well but ships poorly the platform that actually deploys production apps wins by default. Reliability became the wedge. Scale became the moat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671777054998789)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 163.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Why the growth is absurd: $25M $50M ARR in [--] days 5M builders in [--] months 6M+ apps shipped This isn't a paid acquisition. This is product-market fit. Founders aren't choosing Emergent for features. They're choosing it because their apps actually work when users show up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671779051426150)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 163.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The technical differentiation: Native backend = no Supabase dependency breaking your stack Agentic framework = full lifecycle automation Testing agent = bugs caught before you see them Pro Mode = 1M+ tokens for complex builds Fork Mode = context preservation on long projects This isn't no-code. This is production infrastructure disguised as conversation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671781999988842)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 163.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Emergent is proving it's them. The three-way race (Lovable Replit Emergent) is on. If you're building build on the platform that ships: 👉 @emergentlabs is rewriting the builder economy. https://app.emergent.sh/via=prs https://app.emergent.sh/via=prs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671787901403463)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 163.4K followers, [---] engagements


""No one remembers if it was late. They only remember if it was great." @davidsenra on why he delayed his most popular @FoundersPodcast episode:How @elonmusk Works. For founders and creators: Quality is the only thing that scales. Don't rush the work that matters. from @myfirstmilpod @thesamparr @ShaanVP https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014416256670028174 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014416256670028174"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2014416256670028174)  2026-01-22T19:13Z 163.6K followers, [----] engagements


""Because of your work I'm able to do my life's work in my lifetime." Jensen Huang on the moment @nvidia realized gaming GPUs + CUDA could outperform IBM supercomputers. They didn't just build chips. They built a time machine for science. from Gradient Dissent by @wandb with @l2k https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014004172564111626 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014004172564111626"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2014004172564111626)  2026-01-21T15:56Z 163.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Marc Andreessen explains the [--] Necessities for Start-up Success: "The general criteria for a successful high-tech startup in my view you see different sort of rules of thumb from different people. But the three big things you always come back to are is there a big market And by the way that comes in two parts. Is there a big existing market that you think you can go after and sort of displace incumbents or do you believe there will be a new market that will be big So big market. Is there a fundamental technology or economic change that causes you to basically justify having a new company And"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2014074464573517864)  2026-01-21T20:35Z 163.6K followers, 39.3K engagements


"@AndrewBolis Send"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2016177016803147821)  2026-01-27T15:50Z 163.6K followers, [---] engagements


"They hyped a lobster that might steal your data. I built real Jarvis: secure hosted and executed across tools 24/7. risk vs. SuperAgent from FlashLabs safe win. Which side are you on http://Clawd.bot 🧑🍳🦞Clawdbot Moltbot chaos: Anthropic C&D forces rebrand over "Clawd" trademark clash with Claude. In the 10-second scramble scammers hijack X/GitHub handles launch fake CLAWD tokenspikes to $16M MC then rugs to zero. Hundreds of exposed gateways leak API keys private https://t.co/cnpfL7ZfJL http://Clawd.bot 🧑🍳🦞Clawdbot Moltbot chaos: Anthropic C&D forces rebrand over "Clawd" trademark clash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2016897833119387990)  2026-01-29T15:34Z 163.7K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @jsaunders_: Chick-fil-A makes more money per store than McDonalds Starbucks and Subway combined. And theyre closed [--] days a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017261453129265317)  2026-01-30T15:39Z 163.6K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @Manu_Sisti: I make $50000/month selling eBooks. But heres the best part: I dont write a single word. AI does. A 7th grader could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017261884207251750)  2026-01-30T15:41Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @ecomchasedimond: Most webinars are a waste of time. This one WON'T be. Here's why: - The [--] flows we build for every client in order -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017264136191959238)  2026-01-30T15:50Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @AndrewBolis: You can make $100/hr to $1000/day if you have: - Smartphone - Internet - [--] to [--] hours per day My AI Money Guide will t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017264259189846246)  2026-01-30T15:50Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @thetripathi58: In [----] your laptop isn't just a workstation; its a high-definition window into your identity finances and private l"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017264900578664595)  2026-01-30T15:53Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @thetripathi58: WATCH THIS 30-MINUTE MASTERCLASS ON BUILDING AN MVP WITH CLAUDE CODE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017264963048681589)  2026-01-30T15:53Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


""If something interesting happened about @Google it'll be in the news anyway." @sundarpichai on his morning ritual: He skips his email to prioritize a "macro" view of the world. On launch days he ditches reports to walk the floor and feel the team's energy. Thats how you lead at scale. from Google AI: Release Notes with @GoogleDeepMind @OfficialLoganK @googledevs @GoogleAI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017268715125940584)  2026-01-30T16:08Z 163.8K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @AIHighlight: This guy literally gave a free lovable Masterclass to ship and build apps 10x faster. If youre starting your journey as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017270331405402134)  2026-01-30T16:15Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @walkerdeibel: Your portfolio strategy is costing you millions. And you don't even know it. Most investors treat their portfolio like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017270465400848470)  2026-01-30T16:15Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @Gccooke: http://x.com/i/article/2016210980443770880 http://x.com/i/article/2016210980443770880"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017271009058095338)  2026-01-30T16:17Z 163.6K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @HighSignal_AI: Jensen Huang on Critical Thinking and How He Uses AI: "But I have to admit I'm using AI literally every single day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017271093036249244)  2026-01-30T16:18Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @BigBrainMkting: This is Tommy Hilfiger. Before anyone had seen his designs he tricked the world into believing he was already a legen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017280553490456656)  2026-01-30T16:55Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @SammyRArmstrong: Dr. Peter Attia & Dr. Rhonda Patrick recently unpacked one of the most misunderstood debates in longevity science. Af"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017288036544090444)  2026-01-30T17:25Z 163.7K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @jonwillbanks: Wild wolves show almost no documented cases of cancer in free-ranging populations. Domestic dogs share nearly identical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017288556348424269)  2026-01-30T17:27Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @Inbarium: This weekend blew my mind. In [--] minutes I built an AI agent that sounds exactly like me. No code. No team. Heres what p"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017288633951441308)  2026-01-30T17:27Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @realPatrickJr: Your favorite snacks don't taste different because you got older. Companies just made them cheaper. Major brands discu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017291554432684259)  2026-01-30T17:39Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @ecomchasedimond: [--] Marketing Rules Worth Remembering:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017297939308384589)  2026-01-30T18:04Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @LemonSliceAI: The world's best model for interactive AI avatars. now with state-of-the-art photorealism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017329036943319137)  2026-01-30T20:08Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @CraigBrockie: Steve Jobs' biggest regret wasn't: Stepping down from Apple fighting Microsoft or refusing cancer treatment. It was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017329174592057371)  2026-01-30T20:08Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @inworld_ai: Hey @openclaw folks: you already did the hard part (building agents that actually work). Now make them sound great without"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2017337256583876862)  2026-01-30T20:40Z 163.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Burbn wasnt working. It was a complicated app with too many featurescheck-ins photo-sharing and gamification. Kevin knew something had to change. But the big question was: What would work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/1871321102942945417)  2024-12-23T22:24Z 164.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Kevin sat across the table from Matt Cohler a partner at Benchmark Capital. Matt didnt hold back: You need to strip it down. Focus on what your users love the most. The feedback hit hardbut it struck a chord"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/1871321105715315017)  2024-12-23T22:24Z 164.4K followers, [----] engagements


"After OpenAI SoftBank bets on Emergent as its second AI investment. $70M Series B. $50M ARR in [--] months. 5M+ builders. This ex-Googler found the exploit in the AI app-builder market. Here's the playbook:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671774471221374)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 164K followers, [----] engagements


"Real founder outcomes that matter: Up Your Bids: [--] hours $150K seed (construction platform) UK energy giant: [--] days 100K saved 2K dev hours eliminated Skillerate: [--] weekends live AI marketplace These founders didn't "learn to code." They didn't hire engineers. They just shipped. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013671784629813617 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013671784629813617"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671784629813617)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 164.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Why top-tier capital moved: SoftBank's AI thesis: [--] investments [--]. OpenAI [--]. Emergent Khosla Prosus Lightspeed Together YC all in. The signal: When software creation becomes a commodity the most reliable platform captures the market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2013671786202767667)  2026-01-20T17:55Z 164.1K followers, [---] engagements


"CJ Desai (@cj_mongodb) shares a lesson from Frank Slootman on why your startup must be a platform to survive. In the AI age being a "tool" is a death sentence. Being a platform is a moat. from @NoPriorsPod @saranormous @eladgil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2014829866982551641)  2026-01-23T22:37Z 164.1K followers, [----] engagements


""We were just trying to pitch everybody." Aaron Levie (@levie) on the early days of @Box: Selling 25% of the company for $80k cold-emailing Mark Cuban (@mcuban) and literally faxing Bill Gates (@BillGates). A masterclass in pure unadulterated founder hustle. (via @digits Between Two Founders with @jeffseibert) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015818053506728314 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015818053506728314"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Founder_Mode_/status/2015818053506728314)  2026-01-26T16:04Z 164.4K followers, 23.1K engagements

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