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# ![@WillManidis Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::779497280651071488.png) @WillManidis Will Manidis

Will Manidis posts on X about york, over the, open ai, future of the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::779497280651071488/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  #8002 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #2096 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[york](/topic/york) 1.77%, [over the](/topic/over-the) #2517, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #85, [future of](/topic/future-of) 0.88%, [debt](/topic/debt) 0.88%, [find the](/topic/find-the) 0.88%, [glory](/topic/glory) 0.88%, [$650m](/topic/$650m) 0.88%, [$7b](/topic/$7b) 0.88%, [$53b](/topic/$53b) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Hundred Million (100M)](/topic/$100m) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell) [Lazard Ltd. Class A (LAZ)](/topic/$laz)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::779497280651071488/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"its really hard to imagine a world where the future of capital markets aren't totally controlled by a bunch of signal groupchats at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976032639690879472) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-08T21:11Z 104K followers, 15.3K engagements


"five years ago being the CFO of a venture backed software company meant fumbling through an annual audit and getting ignored by the ceo today it means negotiating debt agreements with sixteen different parties while dealing with pubco level downside crazy shift for that job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976390864726552824) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-09T20:54Z 104K followers, 12.4K engagements


"one of the most important ideas in history is the joint stock company. labor participating in equity appreciation lifted literally billions out of poverty and lead to great flourishing. historians will tell you the VOC invented it but the truth is God did (1 Corinthians 9)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977728599290421636) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T13:30Z 104K followers, 34.7K engagements


"interesting to compare the two most recent public valuations comps we have for venture platforms: industry ventures: $650m for $7b in aum thrive: $5.3b for $25b in aum seems to say that a marginal % of a top decile platform is worth orders of magnitude more than NPV fees alone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977895470669214122) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-14T00:33Z 104K followers, 27.2K engagements


"every downside of new york is solved by taking by citibikes. it is genuinely the only functional transit system available. embrace it force city hall to remove the speed cap go faster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978209424498982956) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-14T21:20Z 104K followers, 79K engagements


"if I had to make a long bet on the forms of religion that keep sane over the next century: I would bet on mercantile faiths (quakerism etc) thrived during the first Industrial Revolution that focused on limited consumption engagement in labor and small isolated communities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1948350672715276762) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-24T11:52Z 104.1K followers, 11.9K engagements


"earnestly going into banking today is as contrarian as going into venture was in 2016 adjust your expectations of both groups accordingly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1970929262669812149) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-24T19:12Z 104.1K followers, 90.1K engagements


"walk into a bookstore today and try to find a book published before the year 2000 outside of the canonical classics or assigned school reading you wont be able to. were watching a complete cultural reset"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978163330477940984) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-14T18:17Z 104.1K followers, 127K engagements


""software investors" were obsessed with the idea of the idea of a tiny team reaching a billion+ run rate in enterprise saas because of "AI" this is a silly idea- gtm sales etc all track linearly with headcount. but it will become common in biology nabla is XX ppl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978441969891217468) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:44Z 104.1K followers, 39.2K engagements


"slop is the defining cultural export of the next decade. the industrialization of writing via LLMs will turn all writing into slop in the same way the industrialization of farming turned our food supply into slop. total slop. your only hope is to find the old the durable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1882824726911045806) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-01-24T16:16Z 104.1K followers, 2.6M engagements


"paul ferri founder of matrix partners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1899457062825796040) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-03-11T13:47Z 104.2K followers, 42.3K engagements


"i've been harping on the idea for years that there's a set of ideas that make incredibly interesting venture-like opportunities but require complexity in structure/capital that venture funds are/were unwilling to underwrite (ie: buyout take private roll up etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977822993087926594) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T19:45Z 104.1K followers, 4399 engagements


"with the exception of museum quality/rareness antique prices have fallen off a cliff over the past XX years. you can decorate your home like a 18th century royal with pieces unthinkable XX% of humans across history but instead you live amongst minimalist ikea slop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1945158602009813263) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-15T16:28Z 104.2K followers, 1.3M engagements


"if you talk to any serious hiker theyre like yes demons are real make sure you dont walk along a stream for too long sometimes a witch trails me for miles avoid wearing bright colors and pray being entering the forest. the ancient is still very much alive along the edges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1960316234324389959) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-08-26T12:19Z 104.2K followers, 17.8M engagements


"i think we will all remember this as one of the obvious high water marks that everyone was too fee-blind to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1970173986660110706) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-22T17:10Z 104.2K followers, 125.8K engagements


"Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devils oldest strategy is of course promising godlike creation without godlike effort.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1971920155996574168) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-09-27T12:49Z 104.2K followers, 402.6K engagements


"the ford foundation is the single greatest office building in america"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1973368220129304757) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-01T12:43Z 104.2K followers, 1.3M engagements


"if you genuinely believed you were 2-4 years away from AGI is Sora slop really the thing you'd release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1973379159071093147) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-01T13:27Z 104.2K followers, 364.9K engagements


"its genuinely nuts that if you get good enough at new york city real estate the only other place where those skills are useful is negotiating world peace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976317581104644191) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-09T16:03Z 104.2K followers, 614.4K engagements


"impossible not to see God in every piece of creation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1976745557281640463) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-10T20:24Z 104.2K followers, 169.2K engagements


"a century ago a small scale industrialist could raise armies annex cities and operate with very little concern for the state no matter how much richer the rich get today they live completely at the whims of an increasingly fickle state. incredible growth in state power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977041425054531822) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-11T15:59Z 104.2K followers, 91.5K engagements


"greatest to ever do it. Michael Dell was XX when Dell Computer crossed $150m in sales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977385846958387470) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-12T14:48Z 104.2K followers, 199.7K engagements


"we are suffering from an epidemic of "cocktail party thought". a huge part of our country can only conceptualize the world through nice little facts and counterintuitive gotchas. they view the world like its all one big atlantic article. not a big mess of blood flesh and souls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977793833401200846) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T17:49Z 104.2K followers, 714.1K engagements


"the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts". the jared kushner "just read XX books and get the guys in the room" is much closer to the Truth Of What's Really Going on Here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977795189344186483) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T17:54Z 104.2K followers, 43.3K engagements


"my rough view of the venture consensus is a certain set of funds have fallen head over heals for 90s wall street and is introducing catastrophic amounts of low iq structuring/finacialization into deals that don't need it. right idea horrible execution. going to nuke cash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1977822690955461115) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-13T19:44Z 104.2K followers, 10.3K engagements


"openai allowing erotic content on platform is a huge own goal for tech in politics rising power bills will be a key issue in 2028 and now you need to defend those power bills increasing such that your kids can cheat on their homework and get wire headed by ai pornography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978464299598139777) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T14:13Z 104.2K followers, 20.1K engagements


"as the world gets increasingly short term oriented the returns you get from being oriented towards the long term increase exponentially"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978551502462394725) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T20:00Z 104.2K followers, 23.4K engagements


"interesting cultural indicator that Volvo quietly rolled out armored versions of their family cars direct to consumer over the summer probably nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978578966970552688) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T21:49Z 104.2K followers, 99.9K engagements


"all successful human societies are built around a belief in *SOMETHING* the perversion of secular modernity is that its a social belief based in the absence of a thing not the existence of it. this is literally a black hole that warps and destroys all of society around it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978621201464303731) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T00:37Z 104.2K followers, 16.3K engagements


"on bubbles from "A Taste for Happiness" by Michel David-Weill the chair of and heir to Lazard for many years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978805135519170737) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T12:48Z 104.2K followers, 6051 engagements


"more photos from norway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978866295866003545) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-16T16:51Z 104.2K followers, 12.7K engagements


"we spend so much time thinking about GPUs or electricity or talented engineers as the substrate of technological progress and not nearly enough about the fast and efficient formation of risk capital as the real enabling technology. we would not have the last XX years without vc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978976877529182499) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-17T00:10Z 104.2K followers, 14.7K engagements


"if youre a young person interested going deep on weird things basically the only good advice is you should be 1000x more commercial. someone will get very rich by monetizing the things you figure out theres no reason that person shouldnt be you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1979191707599053066) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-17T14:24Z 104.2K followers, 114K engagements


"would love to fund a bloomberg terminal for private markets twitter timeline + dms signal messages unified inbox for each person text message based cal invites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1979946263261950038) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-19T16:22Z 104.2K followers, 133.9K engagements


"@garybasin we dont have nearly enough luxury software. superhuman was close but should have priced at 30k a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1979992670266163585) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-19T19:26Z 104.2K followers, 2513 engagements


"the argument against the repatriation of artifacts from northern european museums has always been these countries are stable enough to prevent the looting/destruction of such priceless cultural artifacts. we're very quickly entering a world where that is no longer true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980278750521507933) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 104.2K followers, 20.8K engagements


"the modern "private equity investor" has thousands of tools historical data digital dashboard public stock reporting even slack let alone account for being able to email text call signal etc and still cannot operate at the level these guys could. nuts level of agency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980322759243886970) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:18Z 104.2K followers, 8709 engagements


"@DavidSacks its very funny that "reid hoffman" endorsing anthropic is about the worst possible thing that could happen to the company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980324449640735098) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:25Z 104.2K followers, 19.8K engagements


"@1001ai_ @generalcatalyst @civ @Lux_Capital missed opportunity to not call it wallah dot ai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980363404452983254) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T20:00Z 104.2K followers, XXX engagements


"replying "congratulations" to someones job announcement: heard mentality conformist played out everyone else is doing it implies no degree of intimacy consider: "i think you're making a mistake" "what are they paying you" "how could you" "you will answer for this""  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980365861119812095) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T20:09Z 104.2K followers, 14.5K engagements


"the modern deal guy has no permanent capital no permanent loyalty and no permanent location. the modern deal guy is playing a repeated game he doesn't care who he pisses off there's going to be another hand. the modern deal guy is much more a broker than a principal. he has an ecosystem around him that identify as "his guys" the modern deal guy has XX% of his chips on the table at any given moment the next hand will always be bigger. the modern deal guy is reticent to monetize any given opportunity early but when he decides its time to sell he does so savagely and without concern for fallout."  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980644725427433546) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-21T14:37Z 104.2K followers, 56K engagements


"what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1947293334952685797) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-07-21T13:51Z 104.2K followers, 715.4K engagements


"the reason is simple: biology is used to a development/commercialization split. it is totally expected that a tiny company will develop a new technology (before: drug technology now technology that finds the drug technology) and license/partner its way to market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978441971573092358) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:44Z 104.2K followers, 3772 engagements


"software distribution in legacy/regulated verticals is probably the worlds most underpriced asset right now in both public and private markets. buying this distribution/install base and offering as a channel for new software is an obvious and gulfstream-bearing trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1978442528442445909) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-15T12:47Z 104.2K followers, 3490 engagements


"the sin of mass production is that it shifts the onus of quality from the producer to the consumer. it is your job to find to food products and newly ideas and text that don't poison you. we've lowered the cost of creation only to increase the cost of consumption much more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980252147049509056) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T12:37Z 104.2K followers, 10.2K engagements


"whenever you read the history of the corporate raiders in the 70s and 80s its even more nuts to imagine how little coordination infrastructure they had. these guys had span of control over 1000s of people in distant locations with no text no email only fax and calls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980322502204354653) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-20T17:17Z 104.2K followers, 49.6K engagements


"browser company for $610m to Atlassian closing on the day openai announces their browers has to be a top five timed m&a event ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1980693185790898352) [@WillManidis](/creator/x/WillManidis) 2025-10-21T17:50Z 104.2K followers, 174K engagements