[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @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. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1382868229765230595/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +2,337% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +18,952% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +8,845% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1382868229765230595/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +118% - X Months XXX +1,208% - X Year XXX +769% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1382868229765230595/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +2.20% - X Month XXXXXX +9.50% - X Months XXXXXX +51% - X Year XXXXXX +87% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1382868229765230595/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #6491 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) #77 [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [business](/topic/business) #1110, [money](/topic/money) 6.98%, [math](/topic/math) #895, [staff](/topic/staff) #757, [$5m](/topic/$5m) 2.33%, [$36m](/topic/$36m) 2.33%, [$140k](/topic/$140k) 2.33%, [$35kyear](/topic/$35kyear) 2.33%, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 2.33%, [level](/topic/level) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@dkshuxcodes](/creator/undefined) [@realdiaz123](/creator/undefined) [@visualsbyram](/creator/undefined) [@nancysimone_](/creator/undefined) [@clascu18](/creator/undefined) [@jponsvega](/creator/undefined) [@saadrbiz](/creator/undefined) [@piernicola](/creator/undefined) [@mcbeniwal](/creator/undefined) [@meth_posting](/creator/undefined) [@metalraise](/creator/undefined) [@harunozceyhan](/creator/undefined) [@jkhandelwal22](/creator/undefined) [@tmamut](/creator/undefined) [@uroonkit](/creator/undefined) [@mhcrecruit](/creator/undefined) [@generaltsoluna](/creator/undefined) [@its_mayyang](/creator/undefined) [@frasureblake](/creator/undefined) [@fasttelecom_s](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1991510863644098712) 2025-11-20T14:16Z 32.5K followers, 588.7K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1994081148230599124) 2025-11-27T16:29Z 32.5K followers, 680.9K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1995957664900083908) 2025-12-02T20:46Z 32.4K followers, 1336 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1997482711674405362) 2025-12-07T01:46Z 32.5K followers, 274.4K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998033852845998585) 2025-12-08T14:16Z 32.5K followers, 1137 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998240981372850227) 2025-12-09T03:59Z 32.5K followers, 2346 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1976313231573479879) 2025-10-09T15:46Z 32.5K followers, 1396 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1993470307210801408) 2025-11-26T00:02Z 32.2K followers, 9138 engagements "@jponsvega You're right Jose - and this is something not talked about enough. The VC-first narrative doesn't just hurt the founders it also hurt the early employees. We all bought into this narrative and many of us lost years and money. So glad you're speaking out about this" [X Link](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1994143801565433938) 2025-11-27T20:38Z 32.1K followers, 3467 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1996040580875362785) 2025-12-03T02:15Z 32.5K followers, 1615 engagements "I ran a business that made great money. ANC Startup School. Profitable. Growing. Every time I thought about working on it: Felt like a job. That was the weirdest part. Most profitable thing I built. Also the thing I dreaded most. Money isn't enough if Sunday night feels like dread. I shut it down. Building something you hate - even if profitable - is still a prison. Just a nicer one" [X Link](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1996946702956220483) 2025-12-05T14:16Z 32.1K followers, XXX engagements "SimpleDirect Financing: X weeks to build SimpleDirect Changelog: XXX days to build Financing: Perfect UI settings profiles Changelog: Bootstrap HTML works Customer complaints about Changelog UI: X Customer complaints about launch timing: "Took too long" They don't care how it looks. They care that it exists. Ship fast" [X Link](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1996984587231039664) 2025-12-05T16:46Z 32.2K followers, XXX engagements "Switching back from Cursor to VS Code. Claude Code does the job just need a good not noisy IDE" [X Link](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1996988677633794277) 2025-12-05T17:02Z 32.3K followers, 1270 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1997306619302981999) 2025-12-06T14:06Z 32.3K followers, XXX engagements "Code Literacy is the new Financial Literacy" [X Link](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1997418293548695940) 2025-12-06T21:30Z 32.3K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998015728373424436) 2025-12-08T13:04Z 32.5K followers, 71.6K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998181326554292439) 2025-12-09T00:02Z 32.5K followers, 45.6K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998456627192578466) 2025-12-09T18:16Z 32.5K followers, 32.8K 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](https://x.com/TheGeorgePu/status/1998494379376337031) 2025-12-09T20:46Z 32.5K followers, 1335 engagements
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@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.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +2,337%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +18,952%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +8,845%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX +118%
- X Months XXX +1,208%
- X Year XXX +769%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +2.20%
- X Month XXXXXX +9.50%
- X Months XXXXXX +51%
- X Year XXXXXX +87%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence finance #6491 technology brands XXX% vc firms #77 stocks XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% social networks XXXX%
Social topic influence business #1110, money 6.98%, math #895, staff #757, $5m 2.33%, $36m 2.33%, $140k 2.33%, $35kyear 2.33%, $googl 2.33%, level XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @dkshuxcodes @realdiaz123 @visualsbyram @nancysimone_ @clascu18 @jponsvega @saadrbiz @piernicola @mcbeniwal @meth_posting @metalraise @harunozceyhan @jkhandelwal22 @tmamut @uroonkit @mhcrecruit @generaltsoluna @its_mayyang @frasureblake @fasttelecom_s
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"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 32.5K followers, 588.7K 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 32.5K followers, 680.9K 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 32.4K followers, 1336 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 32.5K followers, 274.4K 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 32.5K followers, 1137 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 32.5K followers, 2346 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 32.5K followers, 1396 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 32.2K followers, 9138 engagements
"@jponsvega You're right Jose - and this is something not talked about enough. The VC-first narrative doesn't just hurt the founders it also hurt the early employees. We all bought into this narrative and many of us lost years and money. So glad you're speaking out about this"
X Link 2025-11-27T20:38Z 32.1K followers, 3467 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 32.5K followers, 1615 engagements
"I ran a business that made great money. ANC Startup School. Profitable. Growing. Every time I thought about working on it: Felt like a job. That was the weirdest part. Most profitable thing I built. Also the thing I dreaded most. Money isn't enough if Sunday night feels like dread. I shut it down. Building something you hate - even if profitable - is still a prison. Just a nicer one"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:16Z 32.1K followers, XXX engagements
"SimpleDirect Financing: X weeks to build SimpleDirect Changelog: XXX days to build Financing: Perfect UI settings profiles Changelog: Bootstrap HTML works Customer complaints about Changelog UI: X Customer complaints about launch timing: "Took too long" They don't care how it looks. They care that it exists. Ship fast"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:46Z 32.2K 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 32.3K followers, 1270 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 32.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Code Literacy is the new Financial Literacy"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:30Z 32.3K followers, XXX 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 32.5K followers, 71.6K 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 32.5K followers, 45.6K 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 32.5K followers, 32.8K 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 32.5K followers, 1335 engagements