#  @sarthakgh Sar Haribhakti Sar Haribhakti posts on X about ai, money, ipo, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1021817359/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +24% - [--] Month [---------] +2,427% - [--] Months [---------] +563% - [--] Year [---------] -72% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1021817359/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +133% - [--] Month [--] +267% - [--] Months [---] +14% - [--] Year [---] +20% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1021817359/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.64% - [--] Month [------] +1.60% - [--] Months [------] +5.50% - [--] Year [------] +12% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1021817359/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #3926 [stocks](/list/stocks) #1727 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 12.74% [countries](/list/countries) 10.19% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 5.1% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) #13 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 2.55% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) 2.55% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 1.27% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 0.64% **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) #3983, [money](/topic/money) 3.82%, [ipo](/topic/ipo) 3.18%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 2.55%, [vibe coding](/topic/vibe-coding) 2.55%, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 2.55%, [china](/topic/china) 2.55%, [$hood](/topic/$hood) 2.55%, [investment](/topic/investment) 1.91%, [llm](/topic/llm) 1.91% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@zapataptap](/creator/undefined) [@flashtoso](/creator/undefined) [@earnieadams](/creator/undefined) [@a16z](/creator/undefined) [@adavis4me](/creator/undefined) [@lbelle212](/creator/undefined) [@dlsmith55898295](/creator/undefined) [@noahpinion](/creator/undefined) [@dkthomp](/creator/undefined) [@thestalwart](/creator/undefined) [@longstcc](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@brsgr4049](/creator/undefined) [@ryxcommar](/creator/undefined) [@scottthomasm](/creator/undefined) [@dzmanliberty](/creator/undefined) [@eriktorenberg](/creator/undefined) [@kroetscha](/creator/undefined) [@kellypeeler](/creator/undefined) [@geysergod_](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD)](/topic/$hood) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive goes so hard https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021722468277191092) 2026-02-11T23:06Z 95.3K followers, 53.1K engagements "The top-20 per cent of consumers account for around [--] per cent of sales of products like cookies and ice cream. If those super users end up on GLP-1 drugs you get a non-linear reduction in sales. Power law distribution rules everything and everywhere Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats in favour of protein. https://t.co/sgjoxw20wS https://t.co/NTeJSKC7uK Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022318510563844402) 2026-02-13T14:34Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Uber CEO: "The uniqueness of San Francisco is already clear from public reporting and spending dataeven within California itself. For example the average number of trips an AV does per day in Los Angeles is an estimated 50% lower than in San Francisco. Thats despite the fact that average AV prices in Los Angeles are 20% lower than an equivalent UberX trip; on the other hand San Francisco AV trips are generally 15%+ more expensive." "In Austin and Atlanta where hundreds of AVs are operating on the Uber network our overall (AV and non-AV) trip growth has significantly accelerated. In fact the" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019170782350393604) 2026-02-04T22:06Z 95.2K followers, 26.9K engagements "Predictably excellent chat between @tylercowen and @andrewrsorkin: https://pca.st/episode/a1ad0edb-0607-4c3f-97e0-c44621a6e77b https://pca.st/episode/a1ad0edb-0607-4c3f-97e0-c44621a6e77b" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019435900661547126) 2026-02-05T15:40Z 94.7K followers, 12.6K engagements "Bragging about allocating a fraction of Series A round in the AI era in America every week for a multi year national investment is so funny and tone deaf In France we believe in science. That is why on May [--] I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science choose France. I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly. https://t.co/Vnkz9mCG0h In France we believe in science. That is why on May [--] I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science choose France. I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly. https://t.co/Vnkz9mCG0h" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019519330128658704) 2026-02-05T21:11Z 95.2K followers, 11.7K engagements "If profits rise we may get more drugs in the long run. But try telling the American voter that higher pharma profits are good. If countries respond like Switzerlandand Trumps unpopularity abroad doesnt helpthe pharma sector ends up less profitable and innovation slows. Voters may feel less ripped off but theyll be buying that feeling with fewer drugs and sicker bodies. https://t.co/4XmIcGGwM3 If countries respond like Switzerlandand Trumps unpopularity abroad doesnt helpthe pharma sector ends up less profitable and innovation slows. Voters may feel less ripped off but theyll be buying that" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019553840958439487) 2026-02-05T23:28Z 94.6K followers, [----] engagements "Fascinating via @a16z" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019573669354246262) 2026-02-06T00:47Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements ".@benedictevans: ".you think Well have a small wedding well have [--] people and then you start making a list and its like Well Ive got a brother and my brothers married and shes got two sisters and then theres an aunt and the aunt has children and you realize you can have [--] people or [---] people and its kind of nothing in between its kind of the same with enterprise software." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019594072185332035 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019594072185332035" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019594072185332035) 2026-02-06T02:08Z 94.7K followers, 14K engagements "Cool story bro Whats happening now is exactly what Marx predicted. Capital is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands the middle-class is becoming nonexistent while the worst people in the world - not even enough people to fill a stadium - currently own absolutely everything of consequence. Whats happening now is exactly what Marx predicted. Capital is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands the middle-class is becoming nonexistent while the worst people in the world - not even enough people to fill a stadium - currently own absolutely everything of consequence" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019756365426618695) 2026-02-06T12:53Z 95.2K followers, 51.6K engagements "Elon Musk on Cheeky Pint: "Nvidias output is FTPing files to Taiwan. Its digital. Now those are very very difficult. Theyre the only ones that can make files that good but that is literally their output. They FTP files to Taiwan."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019789035317723435) 2026-02-06T15:03Z 95.2K followers, 43.5K engagements "Every mobile app that touches our money should copy this Simple but useful UX: When you open the Mercury app while on a phone call it tells you the call didnt come from them to prevent scams. https://t.co/qZW7Xapksl Simple but useful UX: When you open the Mercury app while on a phone call it tells you the call didnt come from them to prevent scams. https://t.co/qZW7Xapksl" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020170581325521386) 2026-02-07T16:19Z 94.7K followers, [----] engagements "It is almost like customers directly paying for goods creates competitive pressure for companies to reduce prices Fascinating: Eager GLP-1 consumers bypassed the traditional employer-based insurance system and instead turned to cash/direct-payments (+ telehealth scrips) leading to a Big Pharma price war and now cheap brand-name drugs: https://t.co/MjvZHaLKhg https://t.co/jXoleEu5h3 Fascinating: Eager GLP-1 consumers bypassed the traditional employer-based insurance system and instead turned to cash/direct-payments (+ telehealth scrips) leading to a Big Pharma price war and now cheap" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020500243905921474) 2026-02-08T14:09Z 95K followers, 16.2K engagements "Local and national political movement against data centers is a tailwind for both companies that build their own power plants next to their data centers and putting data centers in.space" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020538893112676827) 2026-02-08T16:43Z 94.6K followers, [--] engagements "Uber is stunningly diversified 75% of US profits from outside of top [--] cities and 60% of ride bookings outside of the US $UBER CFO @_balaji_km: Uber's profit engine lies in smaller U.S. markets not top cities "this is a very very common misconception. We've heard many times that Uber's profit pools are concentrated in the top cities and it could not be further from the truth." https://t.co/KvEaIn4beM $UBER CFO @_balaji_km: Uber's profit engine lies in smaller U.S. markets not top cities "this is a very very common misconception. We've heard many times that Uber's profit pools are" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020850592566956144) 2026-02-09T13:21Z 95.2K followers, 39.8K engagements "This is happening at the same time theres a growing unhinged movement to take advanced classes out of public schools in the name of equity So the smart hard working poor students will suffer All of this is a tailwind for AI adoption in learning for the motivated ones ๐ NYC private school tuition hits $70k/year Per Bloomberg "Prices have risen dramatically in the past decade up from a median of $39900 in 2014." https://t.co/n41A7jHPhP ๐ NYC private school tuition hits $70k/year Per Bloomberg "Prices have risen dramatically in the past decade up from a median of $39900 in 2014."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020956115086057831) 2026-02-09T20:21Z 95K followers, [----] engagements ""The only people truly working "in person" at any of these companies are the [--] or [--] sitting within earshot. Past a certain size every company is already remote." https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020986859606696271) 2026-02-09T22:23Z 95.2K followers, 65K engagements "Excellent @Noahpinion + @eriktorenberg chat with @glangley on state of crime in America statistics debate use of cameras cultural trade offs in crime-fighting deterrence effect policies and more: https://pca.st/episode/cccd4dad-d2fb-4cfa-9abe-84f8a24bafb6 https://pca.st/episode/cccd4dad-d2fb-4cfa-9abe-84f8a24bafb6" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021039576052269184) 2026-02-10T01:52Z 95.1K followers, [----] engagements ".@kroetscha: "Unfortunately todays approach to clinical trials looks much more like NASAs Big Space approach than SpaceXs iterative approach." "Less expensive more abundant trials would lead to more treatments and cures." 25-40% of clinical trial costs come from an excessive quality-check process that the FDA itself has recommended against for over a decade. Great piece from a former FDA official on why the whole system is stuck in a "too big to fail" loop. https://t.co/yX4gNVy04k https://t.co/sjbdVhioMF 25-40% of clinical trial costs come from an excessive quality-check process that the FDA" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021210949999284331) 2026-02-10T13:13Z 94.7K followers, [---] engagements ".@kroetscha: "Unfortunately todays approach to clinical trials looks much more like NASAs Big Space approach than SpaceXs iterative approach." "Less expensive more abundant trials would lead to more treatments and cures." https://learninghealthadam.substack.com/p/why-clinical-trials-are-inefficient https://learninghealthadam.substack.com/p/why-clinical-trials-are-inefficient" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021236971532673358) 2026-02-10T14:57Z 95K followers, [---] engagements "Minions are Stripes homegrown coding agents. Theyre fully unattended and built to one-shot tasks. Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced and while theyre human-reviewed they contain no human-written code. At Stripe we have a tool called "minions" -- it lets us kick off async agents built right in our dev environment to one-shot bugs features and more e2e. I have team project and personal channels dedicated just to working with minions. I like to think of it as a new type of At Stripe we have a tool called "minions" -- it lets us kick off async" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021239468523462798) 2026-02-10T15:06Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements ".@eriktorenberg: People have been predicting the death of YC for the last [--] years. But its just not happening. They replaced their entire partnership over that time and it still isnt happening. A moat is a moat is a moat" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021307189265150399) 2026-02-10T19:36Z 95K followers, [----] engagements "Lease signed. Moving to Austin end of next month. Who should I meet" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021608267256856746) 2026-02-11T15:32Z 95.2K followers, 12.7K engagements "LLM traffic to Stripe docs was up 10x in [----] 60% of folks coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean in this new era https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021628316168728873) 2026-02-11T16:52Z 94.9K followers, [---] engagements "We saw LLM traffic to Stripe docs go up 10x in [----] 60% of people coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean when both the types of users and the modalities of interactions are rapidly evolving https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021630111292768471) 2026-02-11T16:59Z 94.9K followers, [----] engagements "We saw LLM traffic to Stripe docs go up 10x in [----] 60% of people coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean when both the types of users and the modalities of interactions are rapidly evolving https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021690107959337096) 2026-02-11T20:57Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements "Theres a dedicated project called @PessimistsArc refuting this comically ignorant read of history. You can also just use one of AI chatbots to ask the question and be less arrogantly wrong AI is still the only tech in modern human history where people have to talk you into it. No one had to make a hard sell on indoor plumbing electricity air travel or even the smartphone. Humans happily bought in. How many Americans *want* to pay hundreds a month for AI tools AI is still the only tech in modern human history where people have to talk you into it. No one had to make a hard sell on indoor" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021888505589510274) 2026-02-12T10:05Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Ben Thompson on Cheeky Pint: Season two off to a great start https://pca.st/episode/4f98e2ee-2872-4835-854d-85b65596aca9 https://pca.st/episode/4f98e2ee-2872-4835-854d-85b65596aca9" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021952834108002785) 2026-02-12T14:21Z 95.3K followers, [---] engagements "The vibe coding boom is reinforcing a flawed perception that organizations are unique creatures needing perfectly customized tooling The reality is organizations are more alike than not and are always better off focusing on things that really matter that are unique to the biz Trend I'm seeing in the Valley: the latest AI-native startup teams are all building their own internal tools 100% customized for their needs instead of buying SaaS. Do not dismiss these as vibe coded slop. They are built by professional internal developers dedicated to Trend I'm seeing in the Valley: the latest AI-native" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022554749858648522) 2026-02-14T06:13Z 95.2K followers, [---] engagements "The Dutch will surely figure it out this time History of wealth taxes in Europe: https://t.co/A7dG6T29C2 History of wealth taxes in Europe: https://t.co/A7dG6T29C2" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022281249155637383) 2026-02-13T12:06Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Brian Chesky: We have [---] million verified IDs which is more than US passports in circulation.what we see is that traffic that comes from chatbots converts at a higher rate than traffic that comes from Google Im yet to go to Airbnb via LLMs or traditional search" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022673012995289461) 2026-02-14T14:03Z 95.3K followers, 10.8K engagements "Every major city has now tried to set high hourly wages for gig workers and misunderstood the value of on-demand jobs The predictable result has been higher prices lower demand fewer jobs lower revenue That hasnt stopped them from trying this over and over Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened: DoorDash added a $5 fee Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out." [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022855604067323981) 2026-02-15T02:08Z 95.3K followers, 12.4K engagements ".@bhorowitz: What's happening in AI is.an extension of the Kobe Bryant effect.No matter what government or anything tries to do it's not going to be fair.if you create a system that tries to correct that it doesn't make things more fair. It just transfers all the power" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021281932533756192) 2026-02-10T17:55Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements ".@DKThomp is back from pat leave and his first newsletter issue is predictably a banger So much interesting stuff across everything from AI and health to food and home ownership https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-11-most-interesting-ideas-i-read https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-11-most-interesting-ideas-i-read" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021284892051403072) 2026-02-10T18:07Z 95.3K followers, 15.6K engagements "Businesses on Stripe can now accept stablecoin payments from agents doing things on the internet The programmable financial infra built for human buyers is now getting optimized for autonomous blocks of code paying for things Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for and increasingly to sell to. Today were launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripea way for developers to directly charge agents with a few lines of code. ๐ค๐ธ $ Lets start tinkering Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for and increasingly to sell to. Today were" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021350586583744889) 2026-02-10T22:28Z 95.2K followers, 27.5K engagements "John Collison and Meta CFO Susan Lee on Grimes on Cheeky Pint last year: https://t.co/BKrzTZ3Shs https://t.co/BKrzTZ3Shs" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021374786820051446) 2026-02-11T00:04Z 95.2K followers, 211.4K engagements "A business can now choose what product or market they want to be the merchant of record in and have Stripe handle all complexity with a single line of code Today we're launching a public preview of our new merchant of record solution: @stripe Managed Payments. Everyone can try it. https://t.co/dTzGKYsqmv Today we're launching a public preview of our new merchant of record solution: @stripe Managed Payments. Everyone can try it. https://t.co/dTzGKYsqmv" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022077650689552568) 2026-02-12T22:37Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements "Bubbles are about finality. Balloons are about transfer. In this cycle the excess didnt disappear. It just movedfrom everything growth to everything AI. A close investor friend of mine said: it feels like its [----]. But its like [----] forever. new short post Bubbles and Balloons: https://t.co/03VQ01IPUT new short post Bubbles and Balloons: https://t.co/03VQ01IPUT" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022148264762782071) 2026-02-13T03:18Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Oregon reduced graduation requirements and San Francisco for a time stopped teaching algebra to eighth graders. Some schools embraced equitable grading practices such as refusing to give zeros ending penalties for turning in assignments late and allowing repeated retakes of tests.These strike me as examples of what President George W. Bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations.The Southern surge states take an approach that is closer to the opposite. Disadvantaged students get extra help but are pushed to succeed on the same terms as everyone else for that is what the adult job market" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020967588788867256) 2026-02-09T21:06Z 95.3K followers, 56.1K engagements "Matt Levine: .knowledge-industry companies are simultaneously saying to their employees you are all worthless and we will replace you with machines and saying to their customers oooh our employees are amazing and could never be replaced by machines" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021009514074349858) 2026-02-09T23:53Z 95.3K followers, 37.9K engagements "Excellent chat with Alex Behring and Daniel Schwartz about how 3G Capital operates on @patrick_oshag pod I particularly liked the behind the scenes stories of their deals of Burger King Tim Hortons and Skechers https://pca.st/episode/0940b712-e3d8-40b5-822c-0b39f58e621e https://pca.st/episode/0940b712-e3d8-40b5-822c-0b39f58e621e" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021390338733269283) 2026-02-11T01:06Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "@TheStalwart solid bait joe everyone knows podcasting is the hardest job that ai can take over" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021589518294327500) 2026-02-11T14:17Z 95.3K followers, 17.3K engagements ".@ATabarrok: mRNA is a general-purpose platform with spillovers across infectious disease and vaccines for cancer; if the U.S. turns mRNA into a political third rail the investment talent and manufacturing will migrate elsewhere. What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU Canada and Australia have all accepted Modernas application for review. https://t.co/B3JEHFwZIQ What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU Canada and Australia have all" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022074526402773367) 2026-02-12T22:25Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements ".@Noahpinion: Progressives often argue against measures like fare gates labeling them carceral and racist. This demonstrates a principle that I call anarchyfare the idea that eliminating societys rules serves as a kind of welfare benefit for marginalized people" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022298058558779815) 2026-02-13T13:13Z 95.3K followers, 24.1K engagements "This is the UX version of Jim Barksdales theres only two ways of making money in business: bundling and unbundling seeing more consumer preferences shift from convenience over experience to experience over convenience where people crave the tactile crafted more story-enriched version of something that could otherwise be done cheaper or easier. the pendulum never stops swinging seeing more consumer preferences shift from convenience over experience to experience over convenience where people crave the tactile crafted more story-enriched version of something that could otherwise be done cheaper" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022317008701050891) 2026-02-13T14:28Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "The risk isnt that someone will vibe code a internal CRM replacementThe risk is that [--] companies could now create a new CRM from the ground up built for a new end user in mind (agents vs people) with a business model for the AI world (consumption / usage vs seats) https://t.co/O925sNg3G2 https://t.co/O925sNg3G2" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022555465809637469) 2026-02-14T06:16Z 95.3K followers, 24.3K engagements "I did not realize housing shortage in any major metro could be meaningfully worse than than in NYC and SF but here we are:" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022633688316645771) 2026-02-14T11:27Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Optimistic explanation is he changes his mind and is capable of pragmatism and moderation Cynical explanation is he has no beliefs and manipulated his base to win power Life comes at you fast when you actually are responsible for running things https://t.co/Zq33fYBP8W Life comes at you fast when you actually are responsible for running things https://t.co/Zq33fYBP8W" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022896611471626299) 2026-02-15T04:51Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "This is spot on: "If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app theyll probably say Cool Now I need to think of an idea. Then they will forget about it and never build a thing. The problem is not that your friend is horribly uncreative. Its that most peoples problems are not software-shaped and most wont notice even when they are." I wrote about using Claude Code as a stupid person https://t.co/Oi4LireexF I wrote about using Claude Code as a stupid person https://t.co/Oi4LireexF" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2015459799882731635) 2026-01-25T16:20Z 95.3K followers, 319.7K engagements "4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of [----]. The cost of Claude Pro or ChatGPT is $20 dollars a month while a Max subscription is $200 dollars respectively. The median US knowledge worker costs 350-500 dollars a day fully loaded. An agent that handles even a fraction of their workflow a day at 6-7 dollars is a 10-30x ROI not including improvement in intelligence. In our view anything that has a human click buttons gather information reformat it into another" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2019512871051489396) 2026-02-05T20:46Z 95.3K followers, 198.7K engagements ""A Black Mississippi child is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in reading by fourth grade as a Black California child." ".states with large increases in school test scores enjoyed rising incomes and drops in teen motherhood incarceration and arrest rates."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2020964984906449357) 2026-02-09T20:56Z 95.3K followers, 1.6M engagements "Japanese firms were vertically integrated giants or keiretsu. They made the chips the vacuum cleaners the nuclear power plants and the heavy machinery. When the market shifted from DRAM (a commodity manufacturing game) to Logic (a design and software game) in the 1990s Japan kept optimizing for manufacturing yield. They perfected the hardware while Silicon Valley (Intel) and Taiwan (TSMC) rewrote the software of the industry. The foundry model of separating design from manufacturing was heresy to the Japanese mindset. Why would you design something you didnt build As Chris Miller notes in" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2021877537992061128) 2026-02-12T09:22Z 95.3K followers, 12.8K engagements "Spotify says its best developers havent written a single line of code since December Its co-CEO on earnings call:" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022145859996254630) 2026-02-13T03:08Z 95.3K followers, 663.2K engagements "Airbnb has generated [--] billion in cash flow since going public ๐ณ @Airbnb just reported Q4 earnings. GBV up 16% our strongest growth in over two years. But the numbers arent the most interesting part. How we got here is. A THREAD @Airbnb just reported Q4 earnings. GBV up 16% our strongest growth in over two years. But the numbers arent the most interesting part. How we got here is. A THREAD" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022159851225518281) 2026-02-13T04:04Z 95.3K followers, 21.9K engagements "This is very cool Square is making its proprietary credit score available to other lenders we've *been* helping millions of access credit with @CashApp Borrow and @AfterpayUSA next - we'll help customers access credit outside of our products with CASH APP CREDIT SCORE more to build. https://t.co/RTarUwFqzz we've *been* helping millions of access credit with @CashApp Borrow and @AfterpayUSA next - we'll help customers access credit outside of our products with CASH APP CREDIT SCORE more to build. https://t.co/RTarUwFqzz" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022233540625375692) 2026-02-13T08:57Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Really great visuals showing how new technologies create new jobs over time Over half of net-new jobs since [----] are in occupations that did not even exist in [----] via @a16z" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022631968844967970) 2026-02-14T11:20Z 95.3K followers, 24.4K engagements "Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt. As generative and agentic AI reshape how software is built understanding and managing cognitive debt may be one of the most important challenges our field faces. https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022908565208346850) 2026-02-15T05:39Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "Indias AI lab is now bringing its frontier models and multi-media capabilities to devices for offline always-available low-cost usage Jio moment for LLMs The crazy demos keep coming The power of @SarvamAI now on your MacBook on edge Here someone is trying to make a stock purchase using sarvam's agentic stack with a gpt like interface. The crazy demos keep coming The power of @SarvamAI now on your MacBook on edge Here someone is trying to make a stock purchase using sarvam's agentic stack with a gpt like interface" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/2022915136516751532) 2026-02-15T06:05Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements "No one says web3 anymore" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1945647008091705406) 2025-07-17T00:49Z 89.2K followers, [--] engagements "@TurnerNovak @artie_tech good twete" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1945876334816690204) 2025-07-17T16:00Z 89.3K followers, [---] engagements ".@MohapatraHemant: "If you are a government who's not proud of your country you're not going to improve the country." "It feels like a more tightly put together European Union with less cultural memory of individual states that create that union." Indian founders should not think of themselves as Indian founders but as Internet founders. When you sit on a Chinese chair you don't think of it as a culturally Chinese object. It's not like dim sum or red envelopes. It is just a globally competitive chair that happens to be Indian founders should not think of themselves as Indian founders but as" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1946550554240356449) 2025-07-19T12:39Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements "WSJ on UK killing the non-dom status: "Wealthy Britons have been trying to escape the U.K.s high tax rates for decades. In the 1970s the Rolling Stones moved to France to avoid taxes while David Bowie went to Switzerland. The lucrative non-dom loophole had the opposite effect drawing rich foreigners to London. The system dates back to [----] when the countrys first income tax was imposed to fund the war against Napoleon. One challenge of taxing the wealthy is that they are highly mobile with houses around the world private jets and an army of advisers who can sort out visas and bureaucratic" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1946555713913835575) 2025-07-19T13:00Z 89.3K followers, [----] engagements "Metas AI capex for [----] is equivalent to one-third of the federal governments R&D budget" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1946683981425946703) 2025-07-19T21:30Z 89.3K followers, [---] engagements "California's $20 fast food minimum wage that went into effect last year resulted in loss of [-----] jobs No one could have seen this coming" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1946687379164569775) 2025-07-19T21:43Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements "We will know we have AGI / ASI when the consumer AI demos are about something other than travel booking It's not even a common scenario. An average person doesn't have this problem at all" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1946714397818163207) 2025-07-19T23:30Z 89.3K followers, [----] engagements "China announced a new hydroelectric plant that will generate 3x more power than world's largest plant today (also in China) At [---] billion kWh a year it would generate more electricity than every hydroelectric plant in the US combined: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3318875/chinas-li-qiang-announces-launch-tibet-mega-dam-project-has-worried-india https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3318875/chinas-li-qiang-announces-launch-tibet-mega-dam-project-has-worried-india" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1947019489788264922) 2025-07-20T19:43Z 89.4K followers, [----] engagements "@WTjern @pitdesi coreweave windsurf cursor lovable et al were all pivots in some way" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1947042546330251582) 2025-07-20T21:14Z 89.4K followers, [---] engagements "Real city run groceries have never been tried" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1947267982171771347) 2025-07-21T12:10Z 89.4K followers, [----] engagements "Apple is launching a bundled insurance plan for [--] bucks a month covering [--] devices for drops spills and theft" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948000782994788600) 2025-07-23T12:42Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements "We are so back Struggling coffee sales and bitcoin treasuries are perfect synergies" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948004347058548782) 2025-07-23T12:56Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements ""Singapore is the worlds most expensive place to buy a car.Policymakers in the land-scarce city aim to curb congestion and encourage the use of public transport through a quota system where people bid for the right to own and use a vehicle for [--] years. The price for such a right has doubled in the past decade exceeding $80000 in some categories."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948073893308051900) 2025-07-23T17:33Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "Late night tv shows with [---] million annual budget and still losing millions while there are podcasts today with 10x reach and 1/10th costs" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948130624818278535) 2025-07-23T21:18Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "Walmart hired an Instacart exec as the head of AI reporting to McMillon "John Furner CEO of Walmarts U.S. division said it is critical to stay ahead of the technology curve in an area like retail where the top [--] retailers can change dramatically decade to decade."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948354051801792864) 2025-07-24T12:06Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@Noahpinion: "How can big grocery stores raise the price of eggs by charging lower prices for eggs It seems obviously nonsensical." "It turns out that even the biggest grocery stores make almost no profit."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948364715698037110) 2025-07-24T12:48Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "The Economist: "Like countless technologies the stablecoin revolution could yet come to nothing. But it is better for entrepreneurs to try and fail than for regulators to set todays system in stone and stop promising innovations from being pursued at all."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948371386109427724) 2025-07-24T13:15Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "Struggling stocks can announce an AI agents strategy or just partner with Sydney Sweeney" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1948402329578848416) 2025-07-24T15:18Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "Who knew banning Airbnb and making it harder to construct new hotels in one of the most famous cities for business and tourism can cause this" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949114585690112353) 2025-07-26T14:28Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements "The way to go viral is to have Sydney Sweeney do your ad campaign for your brand or cast Taylor Swifts boyfriend in your movie for [--] mins" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949170411645849669) 2025-07-26T18:10Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements "China's Starlink competitors have only [---] satellites in low orbit compared to Starlink's [----] China regards Starlink as a military threat and is alarmed by its success" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949531089116012707) 2025-07-27T18:03Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements "Classic luxury belief to be anti ads Its always the rich people living in rich countries making an ideological case against ads and for turning everything into subscriptions I would bet my entire net worth that: [--]. We will have ads in AI [--]. If they take the form of highly-relevant offers users will welcome them theyll have sky-high conversion rate and Web shopping will die [--]. They will be necessary to pay for the compute in many consumer AI apps I would bet my entire net worth that: [--]. We will have ads in AI [--]. If they take the form of highly-relevant offers users will welcome them theyll" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949563928528196027) 2025-07-27T20:13Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements "A new study shows diminishing marginal returns to health outcomes of going over 7K steps a day The 10K steps a day was a marketing meme created during [----] Tokyo Olympics" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949608400838336591) 2025-07-27T23:10Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements "Theres something so disorienting about how the country widely associated with a strong top down censorship regime is also leading in open source models of most frontier technology today The dominance of Chinese open models is undersold in this post. Top four open models being Chinese is one thing but also is the full top [--] of models were pre and post train is done in house and [--] of the top [--]. https://t.co/KG39DrrDZi The dominance of Chinese open models is undersold in this post. Top four open models being Chinese is one thing but also is the full top [--] of models were pre and post train is" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949627314603458602) 2025-07-28T00:25Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements ""Twenty years ago Finland appeared to have it all.world class maternity care; generous parental leave; a right to pre-school childcare. But maybe they got it wrong. Despite all the support offered to parents Finlands fertility rate has fallen nearly a third since 2010." Fertility crisis is not that mysterious. Everywhere in the world young adults are uncertain they can maintain a job and decent lifestyles long term as theyre constantly reminded their livelihood is provisional to the market and finance and you expect them to think about kids Fertility crisis is not that mysterious. Everywhere" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949635370343428312) 2025-07-28T00:57Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements "@jonathanmiller: ".existing home sales are down but prices are up.New home sales are up but new home prices are down.The number of renters in the suburbshas doubled over the past five years.Mortgage applicationshave been increasing yet cash sales are also rising."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949808261261054286) 2025-07-28T12:24Z 89.6K followers, [--] engagements "@_alice_evans @DouthatNYT i actually had a question for you how do you respond to this https://x.com/pmarca/status/1949721600422486308 Every claim of its the smartphones or its the Internet is easily falsified by the 1960s-1970s. https://x.com/pmarca/status/1949721600422486308 Every claim of its the smartphones or its the Internet is easily falsified by the 1960s-1970s" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1949863158811591153) 2025-07-28T16:02Z 89.6K followers, [---] engagements ""Were building what Goldman Sachs would have looked like if it was built today in 2025." This is great Glad someone is trying to build this vs just trying to sell copilots to bankers Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the worlds first AI-native investment bank less than [--] months after our Seed. This year we already launched over [--] M&A sell-sides and delivered numerous multi-million $ exits to our clients. A quick ๐งต https://t.co/QNExbOlFst Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the worlds first AI-native investment bank less" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950263614499401842) 2025-07-29T18:34Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements "Ramp is so good at these funding announcements The quality of writing + data about impact + vision of where its all headed is chef's kiss every time they announce Today @tryramp raised $500M at a $22.5B valuation. Finance is at an inflection point. How does an industry change Gradually then suddenly. Decades where nothing happens; months where decades happen. Now were teaching software to think like people. Exciting times https://t.co/oZpkuixXaH Today @tryramp raised $500M at a $22.5B valuation. Finance is at an inflection point. How does an industry change Gradually then suddenly. Decades" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950539695420805376) 2025-07-30T12:51Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements ""So in a way the sub-optimal immigration system in the U.S. contributed to the creation of Ethereum." Ethereum. Fun fact: I met @VitalikButerin in [----] at the San Jose Bitcoin conference when he was writing for Bitcoin Magazine (his writing was great). A few months later I invited him to come by Coinbase's first office in San Francisco for a visit and he showed us some cool Ethereum. Fun fact: I met @VitalikButerin in [----] at the San Jose Bitcoin conference when he was writing for Bitcoin Magazine (his writing was great). A few months later I invited him to come by Coinbase's first office in" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950606154356170974) 2025-07-30T17:15Z 89.6K followers, [---] engagements ""At Figma's IPO roadshow last week two developer advocates (great job Jake and Tom) spent the first thirty-five minutes of the presentation doing a comprehensive live demo. Its something I'm convinced had never been done before to a room full of bankers mutual fund managers and hedge fund investors. Afterward Dylan turned to me with that familiar slightly nutty gleam in his eye: "I want them to understand the product they're investing in. They're all going to be designers eventually." https://t.co/TePEx8noZh https://t.co/TePEx8noZh" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950971834440048788) 2025-07-31T17:28Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements ".@sriramk Well there is no plan B. We're going to get this done. On @eladgil @saranormous pod: https://pca.st/episode/5d80db1f-fbea-4300-ae56-593f1f7c43db https://pca.st/episode/5d80db1f-fbea-4300-ae56-593f1f7c43db" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950982871138836549) 2025-07-31T18:12Z 89.8K followers, [---] engagements "Excited about IPO pop debate again. My complaint is I didn't as many shares as I wanted via Robinhood's IPO Access offering due to this" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1950990169089171948) 2025-07-31T18:41Z 89.7K followers, [---] engagements "Heres my Figma story I was SPECTACULARLY wrong about this back in 2019: @zoink read it DMed me invited me to SF office and had a long chat to understand my views with no ego Couldnt get my IPO allocation via Robinhood but bought a ton today https://open.substack.com/pub/sarharibhakti/p/bechmark-x-sketchr=alhs&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/sarharibhakti/p/bechmark-x-sketchr=alhs&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1951073577526047099) 2025-08-01T00:12Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements ""Figmas pop is the biggest for a billion-dollar I.P.O. in at least [--] years."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1951261588557595022) 2025-08-01T12:39Z 89.7K followers, [---] engagements "The AI talent wars reveal the most precious asset of Silicon Valley aka non competes The fact that you could be reporting to one major lab CEO today and the competing CEO tomorrow is what drives unprecedented consumer benefits we are seeing today" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1951438618335256893) 2025-08-02T00:23Z 89.8K followers, [----] engagements ""The hot centre of the ai boom is moving from stockmarkets to debt markets. That is surprising since the attitude of the biggest tech firms to debt has been essentially German."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952019629200593231) 2025-08-03T14:52Z 89.8K followers, [----] engagements "This is the level of dedication required to the craft of podcasting to bring in more revenue than all other Bloomberg shows" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952022634633326959) 2025-08-03T15:03Z 89.8K followers, [---] engagements ".@Lucas_Shaw: "Regal the second-largest movie theater chain in the US is hoping Dude Perfect can be the next Taylor Swift."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952140005943505340) 2025-08-03T22:50Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements "The decline in dollar has reduced the incentive for US tourists to "live out their Emily in Paris fantasies with spending sprees" Chinese tourists in Japan are also spending less That's hitting luxury brands hard" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952341664086761804) 2025-08-04T12:11Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements "One of my favorite odd lots genre is @TheStalwart and @tracyalloway talking to local business owners and going deep into how they view the world https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-money-selling-pizza-in-new-york-city/id1056200096i=1000720305861 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-money-selling-pizza-in-new-york-city/id1056200096i=1000720305861" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952753840366727547) 2025-08-05T15:29Z 89.9K followers, [---] engagements "AMD Groq Cerebras" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1952795868307894654) 2025-08-05T18:16Z 90K followers, [----] engagements "Reddit's shareholder letter: "Platforms like Reddit where people discuss every aspect of lifefrom the trivial to the transformativeare the backbone of building AI that actually works. Thats why Reddit is the #1 most cited domain for AI across all models."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1953082802062180773) 2025-08-06T13:16Z 89.9K followers, [---] engagements "So much what's great about Perplexity is they are making widely used ugly things look and feel better The new Perplexity Finance charts are a piece of art. Team has cooked. Basically cant ever go to another finance product anymore. https://t.co/fckJ9VkqCu The new Perplexity Finance charts are a piece of art. Team has cooked. Basically cant ever go to another finance product anymore. https://t.co/fckJ9VkqCu" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1953181572368077026) 2025-08-06T19:49Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements "Airlines lose money on flying passengers. Real business is cash flows from loyalty programs" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1953638224494268837) 2025-08-08T02:03Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements "@Alex_Danco @a16z wow congratulations" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1955306425661395124) 2025-08-12T16:32Z 90.1K followers, [---] engagements "This is great but when will Trader Joe's start to deliver is the only question I care about for this market" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1955706047886188667) 2025-08-13T19:00Z 90.1K followers, [----] engagements "Stripe & Robinhood founders on tokenization of Stripe shares on Cheeky Pint:" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1955791839975628873) 2025-08-14T00:41Z 90.2K followers, 19.2K engagements "Robinhood CEO on remote work: .if you're an individual contributor and you're doing work it's very nice to know that your manager is going through more pain than you" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1955808928639472064) 2025-08-14T01:49Z 90.1K followers, [----] engagements ""The overall result of the study shows after adopting ChatGPT users increased their Google Search sessions from [----] to [----] per week while also adding about [--] ChatGPT sessions weekly suggesting ChatGPT use complemented rather than replaced Google searches." Beyond the "Search" Box $GOOGL https://t.co/koLPHAC2VC Beyond the "Search" Box $GOOGL https://t.co/koLPHAC2VC" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1955993583414034674) 2025-08-14T14:03Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements "WSJ: Amsterdam and London pioneered the creation of public-stock trading centuries ago raising money for voyages to Asia Africa and the Caribbean that forged Europes colonial empires. Now Europes stock markets face a crisis of inactivity" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1957222877436297282) 2025-08-17T23:27Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements "The hot new ground for fintech is.telecom" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1957411221361119602) 2025-08-18T11:56Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements ""To give you a sense of my social groups pickleball-playing habits consider that one friend requested that his bachelor party be a long weekend at an Airbnb with a pickleball court in the backyard where we proceeded to play for at least five hours a day for four consecutive days." "When I think about the history of racket sports rising and falling in popularity in the U.S. over the last half century I imagine a dialogue among players across time: Table tennis is fun; But isnt real tennis better; Except now I want to play inside: racquetball; Actually squash is more fun; But pickleball is less" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1957424320285712507) 2025-08-18T12:48Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements "OpenAI just launched a new sub in India for less than [--] bucks a month We just launched ChatGPT Go in India a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits 10x more image generations 10x more file uploads and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All for Rs. [---]. We just launched ChatGPT Go in India a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits 10x more image generations 10x more file uploads and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1957620059586847071) 2025-08-19T01:46Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is why they can charge millions in consulting engagements No amount of intelligence in AI chatbots can solve for this level of insights and human touch of MBAs to help the biggest corporations thrive by increasing efficiencies and cutting costs McKinsey just saved banks from Fintech disruptors. Banks just need to blend the best of digital and AI with the personal touch of an advisor. Easy https://t.co/3SetxNSuYl McKinsey just saved banks from Fintech disruptors. Banks just need to blend the best of digital and AI with the personal touch of an advisor. Easy https://t.co/3SetxNSuYl" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1958529799489503377) 2025-08-21T14:01Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements "Every time I log in Im amazed by how beautifully AI-native Workday is I've never seen so many words that mean absolutely nothing https://t.co/mA7fnnOlSV I've never seen so many words that mean absolutely nothing https://t.co/mA7fnnOlSV" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1960322615588913276) 2025-08-26T12:45Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Google is losing in AI" was a common take of smart people not too long ago Of course this would and should be much higher if only they made it easier to discover their products and consolidated the user interface: Via @a16z top [---] AI apps analysis:" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1961057315513061461) 2025-08-28T13:24Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements "WSJ: "Like the U.S. much of Europe has experienced two things at the same time since the pandemic: record levels of immigration that have caused a voter backlash and a surge in inflation.Unlike the U.S. however much of Europe has almost no economic growth."" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1962182879238049864) 2025-08-31T15:57Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements "Federal and state lawmakers in the United States have pushed to enact similar age-verification laws not just for porn but for social networks and video sites too arguing that protecting children online warrants government-mandated ID or face scans for all users. John Scott-Railton a researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto who studies surveillance and digital rights called the U.K. case a textbook illustration of the law of unintended consequences. NEW: after the UK's age verification rollout traffic non-compliant adult sites is exploding. Which penalizes compliant ones." [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1962257213864747039) 2025-08-31T20:52Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements "a16zs speedrun accelerator got 14K applications for its 5th cohort It has invested $180 million in [---] speedrun companies over the last [--] months via @KateClarkTweets:" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1962860435046088891) 2025-09-02T12:49Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements "Amazon uses SpaceX rockets to built up its satellite internet network that competes with Starlink Not something that a lot of anti monopoly activists Musk haters and tech critics would point out" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1964943505807307224) 2025-09-08T06:46Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements "For China dollar-backed stablecoins are more than an economic challenge they are also a political threat" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1965337989636341985) 2025-09-09T08:54Z 90.6K followers, [---] engagements "Excellent @DKThomp pod ep on pathologizing common symptoms and symptoms and over-diagnosing sickness: https://pca.st/episode/5972e513-a958-4b01-8fe4-d1a64630ab7a https://pca.st/episode/5972e513-a958-4b01-8fe4-d1a64630ab7a" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1965858395673735342) 2025-09-10T19:22Z 90.8K followers, [----] engagements ""A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirks project." Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the eras most Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: You can dislike much of" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1966191595101077913) 2025-09-11T17:26Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements ""Nine months after taking office with instructions to shake-up merger control to make way for European champions the Spanish socialist has yet to indicate whether she will break significantly from the EUs traditional antitrust approach" Maybe don't put socialists in charge" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1966907378994909305) 2025-09-13T16:50Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements "Goldman CEO: This week we will do more IPOs and have more IPO activity at Goldman Sachs than we've had since July 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1967227474640810045) 2025-09-14T14:02Z 91K followers, [----] engagements "Weight loss injections are quickly becoming pills" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1968461954495754645) 2025-09-17T23:47Z 91K followers, [----] engagements "This 100K fee on H1 is extremely badly announced and worded. Theres wholesale panic right now. The administration needs to clarify who it applies to how and when" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1969194664445071582) 2025-09-20T00:19Z 91.1K followers, 10.7K engagements "The funniest outcome of H1 fees are intended as a negotiating play with India or to reduce Indian immigrants to help with local job market theory is that it will likely expedite outsourcing tochecks notesIndia So we lose talent taxes innovation and productivity 3/ When the H1B cap was reimposed in [----] firms that relied on H1Bs grew FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT about 27% more than similar firms. Where did those jobs go Mostly India and China 3/ When the H1B cap was reimposed in [----] firms that relied on H1Bs grew FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT about 27% more than similar firms. Where did those jobs go Mostly India" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1969409444111851701) 2025-09-20T14:32Z 91K followers, [----] engagements "Its influence has only grown since his death. Turning Point has received [-----] inquiries from people looking to get involved or start new chapters You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife the widowed mother of two children aged [--] and [--] said after her husbands death. Ill make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/erika-kirk-charlie-widow-turning-point-usa-9030afff https://www.wsj.com/us-news/erika-kirk-charlie-widow-turning-point-usa-9030afff" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1969483828323340292) 2025-09-20T19:28Z 91K followers, [----] engagements "Look. Most corporate executives have perfected the art of not answering questions by saying a lot of words. Im really bad at that. My rule is this: I will answer questions honestly and bluntly or if I cant I will say why I cant. @CanadaKazs Reddit response up He consolidated in the interest of spending time w/ his fam. Some good new insights some rehashed from interviews. His full unedited statement to us: Thanks for the questions I went through the post. Lots of great questions. Rather than @CanadaKazs Reddit response up He consolidated in the interest of spending time w/ his fam. Some good" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1969804855184121886) 2025-09-21T16:44Z 91K followers, [----] engagements "In 2016-2017 I worked on conversational commerce. It never broke out. Now we are all discovering products while talking to AI. Today Stripe is announcing three big things to pull agentic commerce into the mainstream: (most exciting launch day in my two years at Stripe)" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972719390610075805) 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements "1) Buy where you prompt: ChatGPT users in the US can now buy through ChatGPT (from Etsy sellers today Shopify soon) powered by Stripe. This was built using the two other things we're launching today" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972719391897731535) 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.3K followers, [---] engagements "2) Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP): An open standard we codeveloped with OpenAI to make commerce between buyers AI agents and businesses simple. 3) Shared Payment Tokens (SPT): A new payment provider agnostic API to pass credentials securely between AI agents and businesses" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972719393328042437) 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements "Docs Protocol Stripe blog OpenAI blog https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ http://stripe.com/blog/developing-an-open-standard-for-agentic-commerce http://agenticcommerce.dev http://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ http://stripe.com/blog/developing-an-open-standard-for-agentic-commerce http://agenticcommerce.dev http://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972719394531787095) 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements "The most exciting launch I have worked on at Stripe my in [--] years here" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972735678976020525) 2025-09-29T18:50Z 91.4K followers, 40.6K engagements "Been a Wealthfront user for a decade They are going public" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1972788338420817931) 2025-09-29T22:19Z 91.6K followers, [----] engagements "My team (product comms) is hiring at Stripe. If you are interested reach out at sarthak@stripe.com with one thing you think we should have done differently for a recent product launch" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1973712375028355307) 2025-10-02T11:31Z 91.3K followers, [----] engagements "He will finally make NYC affordable by punishing smart hardworking kids pushing rich families to opt more for private schools and making public schools worse Just trust the process" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1974122824332947738) 2025-10-03T14:42Z 91.3K followers, [---] engagements "Moving to Austin in a few months" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1974144377175093474) 2025-10-03T16:07Z 91.4K followers, [----] engagements "@jrichlive i do both ๐ฌ but more in wealthfront than robinhood" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1974533048961277967) 2025-10-04T17:52Z 91.4K followers, [----] engagements ".@tobi: I think the Meta/Shopify alley-oop has created more businesses than any government policy in history. We just dropped the latest ep: https://pca.st/episode/1565214b-2223-4ce9-98f8-a7af5ab405e2 https://pca.st/episode/1565214b-2223-4ce9-98f8-a7af5ab405e2" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1975253168163344489) 2025-10-06T17:33Z 91.5K followers, [----] engagements "It is incredible how different so many founders of the AI wave are The idea of founders of buzzy startups leaving for jobs at competitors was unthinkable not too long ago" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1977094727351910745) 2025-10-11T19:31Z 91.6K followers, [----] engagements "So AI the industry with investments that account for 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025.only make up 16% of the user base is using 0.008% of Americas total freshwater. This 0.008% is approximately [--------] gallons of water per day. New post as a round-up of the last few things on this that I've written to hammer the point home plus some new national statistics https://t.co/fhgEnHmcUd New post as a round-up of the last few things on this that I've written to hammer the point home plus some new national statistics https://t.co/fhgEnHmcUd" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/1978463287265141112) 2025-10-15T14:09Z 91.7K followers, [----] engagements "Great TED talk @kellypeeler Very noble use of Snapchat. "They dont Google for information or read blogs". I do ๐๐ https://x.com/peterpham/status/692462502492262400 One of my favorite ceo's in nyc.@kellypeeler solving a real problem helping real people & building a trusted brand https://t.co/uqP6i2uPwU https://x.com/peterpham/status/692462502492262400 One of my favorite ceo's in nyc.@kellypeeler solving a real problem helping real people & building a trusted brand https://t.co/uqP6i2uPwU" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/692550924766703616) 2016-01-28T03:33Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements "@kellypeeler Hey Kelly Glad you liked my piece. Have some suggestions/resources. Best way to connect ๐ค" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/692838685234974720) 2016-01-28T22:36Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements "All the cool things like Nintendo Mobile @ROBLOX and now this Marvel game came around after I outgrew games. ๐ https://x.com/marvel/status/695287871540834304 Welcome to @AvengersAcademy Begin your adventure on iOS and Android today: https://t.co/8zIq2qG4Ke #AvengersAcademy https://t.co/Cu6G7V5iK6 https://x.com/marvel/status/695287871540834304 Welcome to @AvengersAcademy Begin your adventure on iOS and Android today: https://t.co/8zIq2qG4Ke #AvengersAcademy https://t.co/Cu6G7V5iK6" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/695738312640872449) 2016-02-05T22:38Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "Wow. Just wow. Congratulations @a16z on funding this eccentric genius. cc @pmarca http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/03/14/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz/ http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/03/14/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz/" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/709705469904994305) 2016-03-15T11:39Z 78.7K followers, [--] engagements "Founders do not always start a co out of passion. Like who is really passionate abt sales lead softwares or website analytics or workflow" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/712845568482152449) 2016-03-24T03:36Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements "Andrew Stranton Pixar Director who created Finding Nemo on Pixar's Braintrust -" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/790182353217921025) 2016-10-23T13:25Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "".this is the first time in memory that the markets seemed to prefer the Democratic Party candidate" Trump = loser http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/investors-think-president-trump-would-make-them-poorer http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/investors-think-president-trump-would-make-them-poorer" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/790900549633859586) 2016-10-25T12:59Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "@token_ai Congrats on the launch" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/857374879892611072) 2017-04-26T23:24Z 86.3K followers, [--] engagements ""I like that Uber Technologies Inc. is applying the principles of the "sharing economy" to the job of its chief executive officer" - Levine" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/875497002657882113) 2017-06-15T23:35Z 79.3K followers, [--] engagements "Money [---] is so important & yet we dont teach it in our school clasrooms. Great effort & post by @ATeachMoment http://tonyisola.com/2017/10/the-money-people/ http://tonyisola.com/2017/10/the-money-people/" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/923539276612231169) 2017-10-26T13:18Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements ""I think a lot of medicine will become like dentistry." @vijaypande of @a16z on intersection of tech & biology. http://fortune.com/2017/10/25/andreessen-horowitz-artificial-intelligence/ http://fortune.com/2017/10/25/andreessen-horowitz-artificial-intelligence/" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/923900739629604865) 2017-10-27T13:14Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "Very insightful @a16z podcast episode on the evolution of the payments processing landscape through the lens of one of the most consequential startups. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711mt=2&i=1000401973837 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711mt=2&i=1000401973837" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/963116408673587200) 2018-02-12T18:23Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements "As always Twitter played a role in getting this role. A @peterpham tweet started the convo with the team. I'm grateful to @design4innov8 @MattHartman @jasonwstein @HeatherHartnett @ShaneMac & @Borthwick for taking a chance on me over the years & help build my career portfolio" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/971548064438767617) 2018-03-08T00:48Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements ""Appcoins are a terrible idea.They are clearly just a needless complexity. Why would I want to use different money for my gas food and rent This defeats the whole purpose of having a money economy." - @DanielKrawisz http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/appcoins-are-snake-oil/#selection-137.0-137.273 http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/appcoins-are-snake-oil/#selection-137.0-137.273" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/978073012971941889) 2018-03-26T00:55Z 79.3K followers, [--] engagements "@crypto_bobby @airswap @CityBlockCap Competition seems to be heating up :) https://medium.com/@openfinance/announcement-harbor-partners-with-ofn-to-list-tokenized-private-securities-67d930aba192source=linkShare-65629d68a395-1526914472 https://medium.com/@openfinance/announcement-harbor-partners-with-ofn-to-list-tokenized-private-securities-67d930aba192source=linkShare-65629d68a395-1526914472" [X Link](https://x.com/sarthakgh/status/998577850994319360) 2018-05-21T14:54Z 88.6K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. 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@sarthakgh Sar HaribhaktiSar Haribhakti posts on X about ai, money, ipo, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence finance #3926 stocks #1727 technology brands 12.74% countries 10.19% travel destinations 5.1% vc firms #13 celebrities 2.55% cryptocurrencies 2.55% social networks 1.27% fashion brands 0.64%
Social topic influence ai #3983, money 3.82%, ipo 3.18%, in the 2.55%, vibe coding 2.55%, $googl 2.55%, china 2.55%, $hood 2.55%, investment 1.91%, llm 1.91%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @zapataptap @flashtoso @earnieadams @a16z @adavis4me @lbelle212 @dlsmith55898295 @noahpinion @dkthomp @thestalwart @longstcc @grok @brsgr4049 @ryxcommar @scottthomasm @dzmanliberty @eriktorenberg @kroetscha @kellypeeler @geysergod_
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) Bitcoin (BTC) Goldman Sachs (GS) DoorDash Inc. (DASH)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive goes so hard https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:06Z 95.3K followers, 53.1K engagements
"The top-20 per cent of consumers account for around [--] per cent of sales of products like cookies and ice cream. If those super users end up on GLP-1 drugs you get a non-linear reduction in sales. Power law distribution rules everything and everywhere Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats in favour of protein. https://t.co/sgjoxw20wS https://t.co/NTeJSKC7uK Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:34Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Uber CEO: "The uniqueness of San Francisco is already clear from public reporting and spending dataeven within California itself. For example the average number of trips an AV does per day in Los Angeles is an estimated 50% lower than in San Francisco. Thats despite the fact that average AV prices in Los Angeles are 20% lower than an equivalent UberX trip; on the other hand San Francisco AV trips are generally 15%+ more expensive." "In Austin and Atlanta where hundreds of AVs are operating on the Uber network our overall (AV and non-AV) trip growth has significantly accelerated. In fact the"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:06Z 95.2K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Predictably excellent chat between @tylercowen and @andrewrsorkin: https://pca.st/episode/a1ad0edb-0607-4c3f-97e0-c44621a6e77b https://pca.st/episode/a1ad0edb-0607-4c3f-97e0-c44621a6e77b"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:40Z 94.7K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Bragging about allocating a fraction of Series A round in the AI era in America every week for a multi year national investment is so funny and tone deaf In France we believe in science. That is why on May [--] I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science choose France. I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly. https://t.co/Vnkz9mCG0h In France we believe in science. That is why on May [--] I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science choose France. I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly. https://t.co/Vnkz9mCG0h"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:11Z 95.2K followers, 11.7K engagements
"If profits rise we may get more drugs in the long run. But try telling the American voter that higher pharma profits are good. If countries respond like Switzerlandand Trumps unpopularity abroad doesnt helpthe pharma sector ends up less profitable and innovation slows. Voters may feel less ripped off but theyll be buying that feeling with fewer drugs and sicker bodies. https://t.co/4XmIcGGwM3 If countries respond like Switzerlandand Trumps unpopularity abroad doesnt helpthe pharma sector ends up less profitable and innovation slows. Voters may feel less ripped off but theyll be buying that"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:28Z 94.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating via @a16z"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:47Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements
".@benedictevans: ".you think Well have a small wedding well have [--] people and then you start making a list and its like Well Ive got a brother and my brothers married and shes got two sisters and then theres an aunt and the aunt has children and you realize you can have [--] people or [---] people and its kind of nothing in between its kind of the same with enterprise software." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019594072185332035 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019594072185332035"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:08Z 94.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Cool story bro Whats happening now is exactly what Marx predicted. Capital is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands the middle-class is becoming nonexistent while the worst people in the world - not even enough people to fill a stadium - currently own absolutely everything of consequence. Whats happening now is exactly what Marx predicted. Capital is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands the middle-class is becoming nonexistent while the worst people in the world - not even enough people to fill a stadium - currently own absolutely everything of consequence"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:53Z 95.2K followers, 51.6K engagements
"Elon Musk on Cheeky Pint: "Nvidias output is FTPing files to Taiwan. Its digital. Now those are very very difficult. Theyre the only ones that can make files that good but that is literally their output. They FTP files to Taiwan.""
X Link 2026-02-06T15:03Z 95.2K followers, 43.5K engagements
"Every mobile app that touches our money should copy this Simple but useful UX: When you open the Mercury app while on a phone call it tells you the call didnt come from them to prevent scams. https://t.co/qZW7Xapksl Simple but useful UX: When you open the Mercury app while on a phone call it tells you the call didnt come from them to prevent scams. https://t.co/qZW7Xapksl"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:19Z 94.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It is almost like customers directly paying for goods creates competitive pressure for companies to reduce prices Fascinating: Eager GLP-1 consumers bypassed the traditional employer-based insurance system and instead turned to cash/direct-payments (+ telehealth scrips) leading to a Big Pharma price war and now cheap brand-name drugs: https://t.co/MjvZHaLKhg https://t.co/jXoleEu5h3 Fascinating: Eager GLP-1 consumers bypassed the traditional employer-based insurance system and instead turned to cash/direct-payments (+ telehealth scrips) leading to a Big Pharma price war and now cheap"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:09Z 95K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Local and national political movement against data centers is a tailwind for both companies that build their own power plants next to their data centers and putting data centers in.space"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:43Z 94.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Uber is stunningly diversified 75% of US profits from outside of top [--] cities and 60% of ride bookings outside of the US $UBER CFO @_balaji_km: Uber's profit engine lies in smaller U.S. markets not top cities "this is a very very common misconception. We've heard many times that Uber's profit pools are concentrated in the top cities and it could not be further from the truth." https://t.co/KvEaIn4beM $UBER CFO @_balaji_km: Uber's profit engine lies in smaller U.S. markets not top cities "this is a very very common misconception. We've heard many times that Uber's profit pools are"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:21Z 95.2K followers, 39.8K engagements
"This is happening at the same time theres a growing unhinged movement to take advanced classes out of public schools in the name of equity So the smart hard working poor students will suffer All of this is a tailwind for AI adoption in learning for the motivated ones ๐ NYC private school tuition hits $70k/year Per Bloomberg "Prices have risen dramatically in the past decade up from a median of $39900 in 2014." https://t.co/n41A7jHPhP ๐ NYC private school tuition hits $70k/year Per Bloomberg "Prices have risen dramatically in the past decade up from a median of $39900 in 2014.""
X Link 2026-02-09T20:21Z 95K followers, [----] engagements
""The only people truly working "in person" at any of these companies are the [--] or [--] sitting within earshot. Past a certain size every company is already remote." https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:23Z 95.2K followers, 65K engagements
"Excellent @Noahpinion + @eriktorenberg chat with @glangley on state of crime in America statistics debate use of cameras cultural trade offs in crime-fighting deterrence effect policies and more: https://pca.st/episode/cccd4dad-d2fb-4cfa-9abe-84f8a24bafb6 https://pca.st/episode/cccd4dad-d2fb-4cfa-9abe-84f8a24bafb6"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:52Z 95.1K followers, [----] engagements
".@kroetscha: "Unfortunately todays approach to clinical trials looks much more like NASAs Big Space approach than SpaceXs iterative approach." "Less expensive more abundant trials would lead to more treatments and cures." 25-40% of clinical trial costs come from an excessive quality-check process that the FDA itself has recommended against for over a decade. Great piece from a former FDA official on why the whole system is stuck in a "too big to fail" loop. https://t.co/yX4gNVy04k https://t.co/sjbdVhioMF 25-40% of clinical trial costs come from an excessive quality-check process that the FDA"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:13Z 94.7K followers, [---] engagements
".@kroetscha: "Unfortunately todays approach to clinical trials looks much more like NASAs Big Space approach than SpaceXs iterative approach." "Less expensive more abundant trials would lead to more treatments and cures." https://learninghealthadam.substack.com/p/why-clinical-trials-are-inefficient https://learninghealthadam.substack.com/p/why-clinical-trials-are-inefficient"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:57Z 95K followers, [---] engagements
"Minions are Stripes homegrown coding agents. Theyre fully unattended and built to one-shot tasks. Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced and while theyre human-reviewed they contain no human-written code. At Stripe we have a tool called "minions" -- it lets us kick off async agents built right in our dev environment to one-shot bugs features and more e2e. I have team project and personal channels dedicated just to working with minions. I like to think of it as a new type of At Stripe we have a tool called "minions" -- it lets us kick off async"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:06Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements
".@eriktorenberg: People have been predicting the death of YC for the last [--] years. But its just not happening. They replaced their entire partnership over that time and it still isnt happening. A moat is a moat is a moat"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:36Z 95K followers, [----] engagements
"Lease signed. Moving to Austin end of next month. Who should I meet"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:32Z 95.2K followers, 12.7K engagements
"LLM traffic to Stripe docs was up 10x in [----] 60% of folks coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean in this new era https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:52Z 94.9K followers, [---] engagements
"We saw LLM traffic to Stripe docs go up 10x in [----] 60% of people coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean when both the types of users and the modalities of interactions are rapidly evolving https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:59Z 94.9K followers, [----] engagements
"We saw LLM traffic to Stripe docs go up 10x in [----] 60% of people coming to Stripe from vibe coding plats are creating new Stripe accounts What does developer experience even mean when both the types of users and the modalities of interactions are rapidly evolving https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV https://t.co/tvgAo08nvV"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:57Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a dedicated project called @PessimistsArc refuting this comically ignorant read of history. You can also just use one of AI chatbots to ask the question and be less arrogantly wrong AI is still the only tech in modern human history where people have to talk you into it. No one had to make a hard sell on indoor plumbing electricity air travel or even the smartphone. Humans happily bought in. How many Americans want to pay hundreds a month for AI tools AI is still the only tech in modern human history where people have to talk you into it. No one had to make a hard sell on indoor"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:05Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Ben Thompson on Cheeky Pint: Season two off to a great start https://pca.st/episode/4f98e2ee-2872-4835-854d-85b65596aca9 https://pca.st/episode/4f98e2ee-2872-4835-854d-85b65596aca9"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:21Z 95.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The vibe coding boom is reinforcing a flawed perception that organizations are unique creatures needing perfectly customized tooling The reality is organizations are more alike than not and are always better off focusing on things that really matter that are unique to the biz Trend I'm seeing in the Valley: the latest AI-native startup teams are all building their own internal tools 100% customized for their needs instead of buying SaaS. Do not dismiss these as vibe coded slop. They are built by professional internal developers dedicated to Trend I'm seeing in the Valley: the latest AI-native"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:13Z 95.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The Dutch will surely figure it out this time History of wealth taxes in Europe: https://t.co/A7dG6T29C2 History of wealth taxes in Europe: https://t.co/A7dG6T29C2"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:06Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Brian Chesky: We have [---] million verified IDs which is more than US passports in circulation.what we see is that traffic that comes from chatbots converts at a higher rate than traffic that comes from Google Im yet to go to Airbnb via LLMs or traditional search"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:03Z 95.3K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Every major city has now tried to set high hourly wages for gig workers and misunderstood the value of on-demand jobs The predictable result has been higher prices lower demand fewer jobs lower revenue That hasnt stopped them from trying this over and over Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened: DoorDash added a $5 fee Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out."
X Link 2026-02-15T02:08Z 95.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
".@bhorowitz: What's happening in AI is.an extension of the Kobe Bryant effect.No matter what government or anything tries to do it's not going to be fair.if you create a system that tries to correct that it doesn't make things more fair. It just transfers all the power"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:55Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
".@DKThomp is back from pat leave and his first newsletter issue is predictably a banger So much interesting stuff across everything from AI and health to food and home ownership https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-11-most-interesting-ideas-i-read https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-11-most-interesting-ideas-i-read"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:07Z 95.3K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Businesses on Stripe can now accept stablecoin payments from agents doing things on the internet The programmable financial infra built for human buyers is now getting optimized for autonomous blocks of code paying for things Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for and increasingly to sell to. Today were launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripea way for developers to directly charge agents with a few lines of code. ๐ค๐ธ $ Lets start tinkering Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for and increasingly to sell to. Today were"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:28Z 95.2K followers, 27.5K engagements
"John Collison and Meta CFO Susan Lee on Grimes on Cheeky Pint last year: https://t.co/BKrzTZ3Shs https://t.co/BKrzTZ3Shs"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:04Z 95.2K followers, 211.4K engagements
"A business can now choose what product or market they want to be the merchant of record in and have Stripe handle all complexity with a single line of code Today we're launching a public preview of our new merchant of record solution: @stripe Managed Payments. Everyone can try it. https://t.co/dTzGKYsqmv Today we're launching a public preview of our new merchant of record solution: @stripe Managed Payments. Everyone can try it. https://t.co/dTzGKYsqmv"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:37Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Bubbles are about finality. Balloons are about transfer. In this cycle the excess didnt disappear. It just movedfrom everything growth to everything AI. A close investor friend of mine said: it feels like its [----]. But its like [----] forever. new short post Bubbles and Balloons: https://t.co/03VQ01IPUT new short post Bubbles and Balloons: https://t.co/03VQ01IPUT"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:18Z 95.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Oregon reduced graduation requirements and San Francisco for a time stopped teaching algebra to eighth graders. Some schools embraced equitable grading practices such as refusing to give zeros ending penalties for turning in assignments late and allowing repeated retakes of tests.These strike me as examples of what President George W. Bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations.The Southern surge states take an approach that is closer to the opposite. Disadvantaged students get extra help but are pushed to succeed on the same terms as everyone else for that is what the adult job market"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:06Z 95.3K followers, 56.1K engagements
"Matt Levine: .knowledge-industry companies are simultaneously saying to their employees you are all worthless and we will replace you with machines and saying to their customers oooh our employees are amazing and could never be replaced by machines"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:53Z 95.3K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Excellent chat with Alex Behring and Daniel Schwartz about how 3G Capital operates on @patrick_oshag pod I particularly liked the behind the scenes stories of their deals of Burger King Tim Hortons and Skechers https://pca.st/episode/0940b712-e3d8-40b5-822c-0b39f58e621e https://pca.st/episode/0940b712-e3d8-40b5-822c-0b39f58e621e"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:06Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheStalwart solid bait joe everyone knows podcasting is the hardest job that ai can take over"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:17Z 95.3K followers, 17.3K engagements
".@ATabarrok: mRNA is a general-purpose platform with spillovers across infectious disease and vaccines for cancer; if the U.S. turns mRNA into a political third rail the investment talent and manufacturing will migrate elsewhere. What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU Canada and Australia have all accepted Modernas application for review. https://t.co/B3JEHFwZIQ What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU Canada and Australia have all"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:25Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
".@Noahpinion: Progressives often argue against measures like fare gates labeling them carceral and racist. This demonstrates a principle that I call anarchyfare the idea that eliminating societys rules serves as a kind of welfare benefit for marginalized people"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:13Z 95.3K followers, 24.1K engagements
"This is the UX version of Jim Barksdales theres only two ways of making money in business: bundling and unbundling seeing more consumer preferences shift from convenience over experience to experience over convenience where people crave the tactile crafted more story-enriched version of something that could otherwise be done cheaper or easier. the pendulum never stops swinging seeing more consumer preferences shift from convenience over experience to experience over convenience where people crave the tactile crafted more story-enriched version of something that could otherwise be done cheaper"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:28Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The risk isnt that someone will vibe code a internal CRM replacementThe risk is that [--] companies could now create a new CRM from the ground up built for a new end user in mind (agents vs people) with a business model for the AI world (consumption / usage vs seats) https://t.co/O925sNg3G2 https://t.co/O925sNg3G2"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:16Z 95.3K followers, 24.3K engagements
"I did not realize housing shortage in any major metro could be meaningfully worse than than in NYC and SF but here we are:"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:27Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Optimistic explanation is he changes his mind and is capable of pragmatism and moderation Cynical explanation is he has no beliefs and manipulated his base to win power Life comes at you fast when you actually are responsible for running things https://t.co/Zq33fYBP8W Life comes at you fast when you actually are responsible for running things https://t.co/Zq33fYBP8W"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:51Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This is spot on: "If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app theyll probably say Cool Now I need to think of an idea. Then they will forget about it and never build a thing. The problem is not that your friend is horribly uncreative. Its that most peoples problems are not software-shaped and most wont notice even when they are." I wrote about using Claude Code as a stupid person https://t.co/Oi4LireexF I wrote about using Claude Code as a stupid person https://t.co/Oi4LireexF"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:20Z 95.3K followers, 319.7K engagements
"4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of [----]. The cost of Claude Pro or ChatGPT is $20 dollars a month while a Max subscription is $200 dollars respectively. The median US knowledge worker costs 350-500 dollars a day fully loaded. An agent that handles even a fraction of their workflow a day at 6-7 dollars is a 10-30x ROI not including improvement in intelligence. In our view anything that has a human click buttons gather information reformat it into another"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:46Z 95.3K followers, 198.7K engagements
""A Black Mississippi child is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in reading by fourth grade as a Black California child." ".states with large increases in school test scores enjoyed rising incomes and drops in teen motherhood incarceration and arrest rates.""
X Link 2026-02-09T20:56Z 95.3K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Japanese firms were vertically integrated giants or keiretsu. They made the chips the vacuum cleaners the nuclear power plants and the heavy machinery. When the market shifted from DRAM (a commodity manufacturing game) to Logic (a design and software game) in the 1990s Japan kept optimizing for manufacturing yield. They perfected the hardware while Silicon Valley (Intel) and Taiwan (TSMC) rewrote the software of the industry. The foundry model of separating design from manufacturing was heresy to the Japanese mindset. Why would you design something you didnt build As Chris Miller notes in"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:22Z 95.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Spotify says its best developers havent written a single line of code since December Its co-CEO on earnings call:"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:08Z 95.3K followers, 663.2K engagements
"Airbnb has generated [--] billion in cash flow since going public ๐ณ @Airbnb just reported Q4 earnings. GBV up 16% our strongest growth in over two years. But the numbers arent the most interesting part. How we got here is. A THREAD @Airbnb just reported Q4 earnings. GBV up 16% our strongest growth in over two years. But the numbers arent the most interesting part. How we got here is. A THREAD"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:04Z 95.3K followers, 21.9K engagements
"This is very cool Square is making its proprietary credit score available to other lenders we've been helping millions of access credit with @CashApp Borrow and @AfterpayUSA next - we'll help customers access credit outside of our products with CASH APP CREDIT SCORE more to build. https://t.co/RTarUwFqzz we've been helping millions of access credit with @CashApp Borrow and @AfterpayUSA next - we'll help customers access credit outside of our products with CASH APP CREDIT SCORE more to build. https://t.co/RTarUwFqzz"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:57Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Really great visuals showing how new technologies create new jobs over time Over half of net-new jobs since [----] are in occupations that did not even exist in [----] via @a16z"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:20Z 95.3K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt. As generative and agentic AI reshape how software is built understanding and managing cognitive debt may be one of the most important challenges our field faces. https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:39Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Indias AI lab is now bringing its frontier models and multi-media capabilities to devices for offline always-available low-cost usage Jio moment for LLMs The crazy demos keep coming The power of @SarvamAI now on your MacBook on edge Here someone is trying to make a stock purchase using sarvam's agentic stack with a gpt like interface. The crazy demos keep coming The power of @SarvamAI now on your MacBook on edge Here someone is trying to make a stock purchase using sarvam's agentic stack with a gpt like interface"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:05Z 95.3K followers, [----] engagements
"No one says web3 anymore"
X Link 2025-07-17T00:49Z 89.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@TurnerNovak @artie_tech good twete"
X Link 2025-07-17T16:00Z 89.3K followers, [---] engagements
".@MohapatraHemant: "If you are a government who's not proud of your country you're not going to improve the country." "It feels like a more tightly put together European Union with less cultural memory of individual states that create that union." Indian founders should not think of themselves as Indian founders but as Internet founders. When you sit on a Chinese chair you don't think of it as a culturally Chinese object. It's not like dim sum or red envelopes. It is just a globally competitive chair that happens to be Indian founders should not think of themselves as Indian founders but as"
X Link 2025-07-19T12:39Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements
"WSJ on UK killing the non-dom status: "Wealthy Britons have been trying to escape the U.K.s high tax rates for decades. In the 1970s the Rolling Stones moved to France to avoid taxes while David Bowie went to Switzerland. The lucrative non-dom loophole had the opposite effect drawing rich foreigners to London. The system dates back to [----] when the countrys first income tax was imposed to fund the war against Napoleon. One challenge of taxing the wealthy is that they are highly mobile with houses around the world private jets and an army of advisers who can sort out visas and bureaucratic"
X Link 2025-07-19T13:00Z 89.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Metas AI capex for [----] is equivalent to one-third of the federal governments R&D budget"
X Link 2025-07-19T21:30Z 89.3K followers, [---] engagements
"California's $20 fast food minimum wage that went into effect last year resulted in loss of [-----] jobs No one could have seen this coming"
X Link 2025-07-19T21:43Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements
"We will know we have AGI / ASI when the consumer AI demos are about something other than travel booking It's not even a common scenario. An average person doesn't have this problem at all"
X Link 2025-07-19T23:30Z 89.3K followers, [----] engagements
"China announced a new hydroelectric plant that will generate 3x more power than world's largest plant today (also in China) At [---] billion kWh a year it would generate more electricity than every hydroelectric plant in the US combined: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3318875/chinas-li-qiang-announces-launch-tibet-mega-dam-project-has-worried-india https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3318875/chinas-li-qiang-announces-launch-tibet-mega-dam-project-has-worried-india"
X Link 2025-07-20T19:43Z 89.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@WTjern @pitdesi coreweave windsurf cursor lovable et al were all pivots in some way"
X Link 2025-07-20T21:14Z 89.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Real city run groceries have never been tried"
X Link 2025-07-21T12:10Z 89.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Apple is launching a bundled insurance plan for [--] bucks a month covering [--] devices for drops spills and theft"
X Link 2025-07-23T12:42Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements
"We are so back Struggling coffee sales and bitcoin treasuries are perfect synergies"
X Link 2025-07-23T12:56Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements
""Singapore is the worlds most expensive place to buy a car.Policymakers in the land-scarce city aim to curb congestion and encourage the use of public transport through a quota system where people bid for the right to own and use a vehicle for [--] years. The price for such a right has doubled in the past decade exceeding $80000 in some categories.""
X Link 2025-07-23T17:33Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Late night tv shows with [---] million annual budget and still losing millions while there are podcasts today with 10x reach and 1/10th costs"
X Link 2025-07-23T21:18Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Walmart hired an Instacart exec as the head of AI reporting to McMillon "John Furner CEO of Walmarts U.S. division said it is critical to stay ahead of the technology curve in an area like retail where the top [--] retailers can change dramatically decade to decade.""
X Link 2025-07-24T12:06Z 89.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@Noahpinion: "How can big grocery stores raise the price of eggs by charging lower prices for eggs It seems obviously nonsensical." "It turns out that even the biggest grocery stores make almost no profit.""
X Link 2025-07-24T12:48Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The Economist: "Like countless technologies the stablecoin revolution could yet come to nothing. But it is better for entrepreneurs to try and fail than for regulators to set todays system in stone and stop promising innovations from being pursued at all.""
X Link 2025-07-24T13:15Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Struggling stocks can announce an AI agents strategy or just partner with Sydney Sweeney"
X Link 2025-07-24T15:18Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Who knew banning Airbnb and making it harder to construct new hotels in one of the most famous cities for business and tourism can cause this"
X Link 2025-07-26T14:28Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The way to go viral is to have Sydney Sweeney do your ad campaign for your brand or cast Taylor Swifts boyfriend in your movie for [--] mins"
X Link 2025-07-26T18:10Z 89.5K followers, [---] engagements
"China's Starlink competitors have only [---] satellites in low orbit compared to Starlink's [----] China regards Starlink as a military threat and is alarmed by its success"
X Link 2025-07-27T18:03Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Classic luxury belief to be anti ads Its always the rich people living in rich countries making an ideological case against ads and for turning everything into subscriptions I would bet my entire net worth that: [--]. We will have ads in AI [--]. If they take the form of highly-relevant offers users will welcome them theyll have sky-high conversion rate and Web shopping will die [--]. They will be necessary to pay for the compute in many consumer AI apps I would bet my entire net worth that: [--]. We will have ads in AI [--]. If they take the form of highly-relevant offers users will welcome them theyll"
X Link 2025-07-27T20:13Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements
"A new study shows diminishing marginal returns to health outcomes of going over 7K steps a day The 10K steps a day was a marketing meme created during [----] Tokyo Olympics"
X Link 2025-07-27T23:10Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres something so disorienting about how the country widely associated with a strong top down censorship regime is also leading in open source models of most frontier technology today The dominance of Chinese open models is undersold in this post. Top four open models being Chinese is one thing but also is the full top [--] of models were pre and post train is done in house and [--] of the top [--]. https://t.co/KG39DrrDZi The dominance of Chinese open models is undersold in this post. Top four open models being Chinese is one thing but also is the full top [--] of models were pre and post train is"
X Link 2025-07-28T00:25Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements
""Twenty years ago Finland appeared to have it all.world class maternity care; generous parental leave; a right to pre-school childcare. But maybe they got it wrong. Despite all the support offered to parents Finlands fertility rate has fallen nearly a third since 2010." Fertility crisis is not that mysterious. Everywhere in the world young adults are uncertain they can maintain a job and decent lifestyles long term as theyre constantly reminded their livelihood is provisional to the market and finance and you expect them to think about kids Fertility crisis is not that mysterious. Everywhere"
X Link 2025-07-28T00:57Z 89.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@jonathanmiller: ".existing home sales are down but prices are up.New home sales are up but new home prices are down.The number of renters in the suburbshas doubled over the past five years.Mortgage applicationshave been increasing yet cash sales are also rising.""
X Link 2025-07-28T12:24Z 89.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@_alice_evans @DouthatNYT i actually had a question for you how do you respond to this https://x.com/pmarca/status/1949721600422486308 Every claim of its the smartphones or its the Internet is easily falsified by the 1960s-1970s. https://x.com/pmarca/status/1949721600422486308 Every claim of its the smartphones or its the Internet is easily falsified by the 1960s-1970s"
X Link 2025-07-28T16:02Z 89.6K followers, [---] engagements
""Were building what Goldman Sachs would have looked like if it was built today in 2025." This is great Glad someone is trying to build this vs just trying to sell copilots to bankers Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the worlds first AI-native investment bank less than [--] months after our Seed. This year we already launched over [--] M&A sell-sides and delivered numerous multi-million $ exits to our clients. A quick ๐งต https://t.co/QNExbOlFst Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the worlds first AI-native investment bank less"
X Link 2025-07-29T18:34Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Ramp is so good at these funding announcements The quality of writing + data about impact + vision of where its all headed is chef's kiss every time they announce Today @tryramp raised $500M at a $22.5B valuation. Finance is at an inflection point. How does an industry change Gradually then suddenly. Decades where nothing happens; months where decades happen. Now were teaching software to think like people. Exciting times https://t.co/oZpkuixXaH Today @tryramp raised $500M at a $22.5B valuation. Finance is at an inflection point. How does an industry change Gradually then suddenly. Decades"
X Link 2025-07-30T12:51Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements
""So in a way the sub-optimal immigration system in the U.S. contributed to the creation of Ethereum." Ethereum. Fun fact: I met @VitalikButerin in [----] at the San Jose Bitcoin conference when he was writing for Bitcoin Magazine (his writing was great). A few months later I invited him to come by Coinbase's first office in San Francisco for a visit and he showed us some cool Ethereum. Fun fact: I met @VitalikButerin in [----] at the San Jose Bitcoin conference when he was writing for Bitcoin Magazine (his writing was great). A few months later I invited him to come by Coinbase's first office in"
X Link 2025-07-30T17:15Z 89.6K followers, [---] engagements
""At Figma's IPO roadshow last week two developer advocates (great job Jake and Tom) spent the first thirty-five minutes of the presentation doing a comprehensive live demo. Its something I'm convinced had never been done before to a room full of bankers mutual fund managers and hedge fund investors. Afterward Dylan turned to me with that familiar slightly nutty gleam in his eye: "I want them to understand the product they're investing in. They're all going to be designers eventually." https://t.co/TePEx8noZh https://t.co/TePEx8noZh"
X Link 2025-07-31T17:28Z 89.7K followers, [----] engagements
".@sriramk Well there is no plan B. We're going to get this done. On @eladgil @saranormous pod: https://pca.st/episode/5d80db1f-fbea-4300-ae56-593f1f7c43db https://pca.st/episode/5d80db1f-fbea-4300-ae56-593f1f7c43db"
X Link 2025-07-31T18:12Z 89.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Excited about IPO pop debate again. My complaint is I didn't as many shares as I wanted via Robinhood's IPO Access offering due to this"
X Link 2025-07-31T18:41Z 89.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Heres my Figma story I was SPECTACULARLY wrong about this back in 2019: @zoink read it DMed me invited me to SF office and had a long chat to understand my views with no ego Couldnt get my IPO allocation via Robinhood but bought a ton today https://open.substack.com/pub/sarharibhakti/p/bechmark-x-sketchr=alhs&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/sarharibhakti/p/bechmark-x-sketchr=alhs&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-08-01T00:12Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Figmas pop is the biggest for a billion-dollar I.P.O. in at least [--] years.""
X Link 2025-08-01T12:39Z 89.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The AI talent wars reveal the most precious asset of Silicon Valley aka non competes The fact that you could be reporting to one major lab CEO today and the competing CEO tomorrow is what drives unprecedented consumer benefits we are seeing today"
X Link 2025-08-02T00:23Z 89.8K followers, [----] engagements
""The hot centre of the ai boom is moving from stockmarkets to debt markets. That is surprising since the attitude of the biggest tech firms to debt has been essentially German.""
X Link 2025-08-03T14:52Z 89.8K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the level of dedication required to the craft of podcasting to bring in more revenue than all other Bloomberg shows"
X Link 2025-08-03T15:03Z 89.8K followers, [---] engagements
".@Lucas_Shaw: "Regal the second-largest movie theater chain in the US is hoping Dude Perfect can be the next Taylor Swift.""
X Link 2025-08-03T22:50Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The decline in dollar has reduced the incentive for US tourists to "live out their Emily in Paris fantasies with spending sprees" Chinese tourists in Japan are also spending less That's hitting luxury brands hard"
X Link 2025-08-04T12:11Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements
"One of my favorite odd lots genre is @TheStalwart and @tracyalloway talking to local business owners and going deep into how they view the world https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-money-selling-pizza-in-new-york-city/id1056200096i=1000720305861 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-money-selling-pizza-in-new-york-city/id1056200096i=1000720305861"
X Link 2025-08-05T15:29Z 89.9K followers, [---] engagements
"AMD Groq Cerebras"
X Link 2025-08-05T18:16Z 90K followers, [----] engagements
"Reddit's shareholder letter: "Platforms like Reddit where people discuss every aspect of lifefrom the trivial to the transformativeare the backbone of building AI that actually works. Thats why Reddit is the #1 most cited domain for AI across all models.""
X Link 2025-08-06T13:16Z 89.9K followers, [---] engagements
"So much what's great about Perplexity is they are making widely used ugly things look and feel better The new Perplexity Finance charts are a piece of art. Team has cooked. Basically cant ever go to another finance product anymore. https://t.co/fckJ9VkqCu The new Perplexity Finance charts are a piece of art. Team has cooked. Basically cant ever go to another finance product anymore. https://t.co/fckJ9VkqCu"
X Link 2025-08-06T19:49Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Airlines lose money on flying passengers. Real business is cash flows from loyalty programs"
X Link 2025-08-08T02:03Z 89.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@Alex_Danco @a16z wow congratulations"
X Link 2025-08-12T16:32Z 90.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This is great but when will Trader Joe's start to deliver is the only question I care about for this market"
X Link 2025-08-13T19:00Z 90.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Stripe & Robinhood founders on tokenization of Stripe shares on Cheeky Pint:"
X Link 2025-08-14T00:41Z 90.2K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Robinhood CEO on remote work: .if you're an individual contributor and you're doing work it's very nice to know that your manager is going through more pain than you"
X Link 2025-08-14T01:49Z 90.1K followers, [----] engagements
""The overall result of the study shows after adopting ChatGPT users increased their Google Search sessions from [----] to [----] per week while also adding about [--] ChatGPT sessions weekly suggesting ChatGPT use complemented rather than replaced Google searches." Beyond the "Search" Box $GOOGL https://t.co/koLPHAC2VC Beyond the "Search" Box $GOOGL https://t.co/koLPHAC2VC"
X Link 2025-08-14T14:03Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements
"WSJ: Amsterdam and London pioneered the creation of public-stock trading centuries ago raising money for voyages to Asia Africa and the Caribbean that forged Europes colonial empires. Now Europes stock markets face a crisis of inactivity"
X Link 2025-08-17T23:27Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The hot new ground for fintech is.telecom"
X Link 2025-08-18T11:56Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements
""To give you a sense of my social groups pickleball-playing habits consider that one friend requested that his bachelor party be a long weekend at an Airbnb with a pickleball court in the backyard where we proceeded to play for at least five hours a day for four consecutive days." "When I think about the history of racket sports rising and falling in popularity in the U.S. over the last half century I imagine a dialogue among players across time: Table tennis is fun; But isnt real tennis better; Except now I want to play inside: racquetball; Actually squash is more fun; But pickleball is less"
X Link 2025-08-18T12:48Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements
"OpenAI just launched a new sub in India for less than [--] bucks a month We just launched ChatGPT Go in India a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits 10x more image generations 10x more file uploads and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All for Rs. [---]. We just launched ChatGPT Go in India a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits 10x more image generations 10x more file uploads and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All"
X Link 2025-08-19T01:46Z 90.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is why they can charge millions in consulting engagements No amount of intelligence in AI chatbots can solve for this level of insights and human touch of MBAs to help the biggest corporations thrive by increasing efficiencies and cutting costs McKinsey just saved banks from Fintech disruptors. Banks just need to blend the best of digital and AI with the personal touch of an advisor. Easy https://t.co/3SetxNSuYl McKinsey just saved banks from Fintech disruptors. Banks just need to blend the best of digital and AI with the personal touch of an advisor. Easy https://t.co/3SetxNSuYl"
X Link 2025-08-21T14:01Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Every time I log in Im amazed by how beautifully AI-native Workday is I've never seen so many words that mean absolutely nothing https://t.co/mA7fnnOlSV I've never seen so many words that mean absolutely nothing https://t.co/mA7fnnOlSV"
X Link 2025-08-26T12:45Z 90.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Google is losing in AI" was a common take of smart people not too long ago Of course this would and should be much higher if only they made it easier to discover their products and consolidated the user interface: Via @a16z top [---] AI apps analysis:"
X Link 2025-08-28T13:24Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements
"WSJ: "Like the U.S. much of Europe has experienced two things at the same time since the pandemic: record levels of immigration that have caused a voter backlash and a surge in inflation.Unlike the U.S. however much of Europe has almost no economic growth.""
X Link 2025-08-31T15:57Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Federal and state lawmakers in the United States have pushed to enact similar age-verification laws not just for porn but for social networks and video sites too arguing that protecting children online warrants government-mandated ID or face scans for all users. John Scott-Railton a researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto who studies surveillance and digital rights called the U.K. case a textbook illustration of the law of unintended consequences. NEW: after the UK's age verification rollout traffic non-compliant adult sites is exploding. Which penalizes compliant ones."
X Link 2025-08-31T20:52Z 90.4K followers, [----] engagements
"a16zs speedrun accelerator got 14K applications for its 5th cohort It has invested $180 million in [---] speedrun companies over the last [--] months via @KateClarkTweets:"
X Link 2025-09-02T12:49Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Amazon uses SpaceX rockets to built up its satellite internet network that competes with Starlink Not something that a lot of anti monopoly activists Musk haters and tech critics would point out"
X Link 2025-09-08T06:46Z 90.6K followers, [----] engagements
"For China dollar-backed stablecoins are more than an economic challenge they are also a political threat"
X Link 2025-09-09T08:54Z 90.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Excellent @DKThomp pod ep on pathologizing common symptoms and symptoms and over-diagnosing sickness: https://pca.st/episode/5972e513-a958-4b01-8fe4-d1a64630ab7a https://pca.st/episode/5972e513-a958-4b01-8fe4-d1a64630ab7a"
X Link 2025-09-10T19:22Z 90.8K followers, [----] engagements
""A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirks project." Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the eras most Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: You can dislike much of"
X Link 2025-09-11T17:26Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Nine months after taking office with instructions to shake-up merger control to make way for European champions the Spanish socialist has yet to indicate whether she will break significantly from the EUs traditional antitrust approach" Maybe don't put socialists in charge"
X Link 2025-09-13T16:50Z 90.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Goldman CEO: This week we will do more IPOs and have more IPO activity at Goldman Sachs than we've had since July 2021"
X Link 2025-09-14T14:02Z 91K followers, [----] engagements
"Weight loss injections are quickly becoming pills"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:47Z 91K followers, [----] engagements
"This 100K fee on H1 is extremely badly announced and worded. Theres wholesale panic right now. The administration needs to clarify who it applies to how and when"
X Link 2025-09-20T00:19Z 91.1K followers, 10.7K engagements
"The funniest outcome of H1 fees are intended as a negotiating play with India or to reduce Indian immigrants to help with local job market theory is that it will likely expedite outsourcing tochecks notesIndia So we lose talent taxes innovation and productivity 3/ When the H1B cap was reimposed in [----] firms that relied on H1Bs grew FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT about 27% more than similar firms. Where did those jobs go Mostly India and China 3/ When the H1B cap was reimposed in [----] firms that relied on H1Bs grew FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT about 27% more than similar firms. Where did those jobs go Mostly India"
X Link 2025-09-20T14:32Z 91K followers, [----] engagements
"Its influence has only grown since his death. Turning Point has received [-----] inquiries from people looking to get involved or start new chapters You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife the widowed mother of two children aged [--] and [--] said after her husbands death. Ill make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/erika-kirk-charlie-widow-turning-point-usa-9030afff https://www.wsj.com/us-news/erika-kirk-charlie-widow-turning-point-usa-9030afff"
X Link 2025-09-20T19:28Z 91K followers, [----] engagements
"Look. Most corporate executives have perfected the art of not answering questions by saying a lot of words. Im really bad at that. My rule is this: I will answer questions honestly and bluntly or if I cant I will say why I cant. @CanadaKazs Reddit response up He consolidated in the interest of spending time w/ his fam. Some good new insights some rehashed from interviews. His full unedited statement to us: Thanks for the questions I went through the post. Lots of great questions. Rather than @CanadaKazs Reddit response up He consolidated in the interest of spending time w/ his fam. Some good"
X Link 2025-09-21T16:44Z 91K followers, [----] engagements
"In 2016-2017 I worked on conversational commerce. It never broke out. Now we are all discovering products while talking to AI. Today Stripe is announcing three big things to pull agentic commerce into the mainstream: (most exciting launch day in my two years at Stripe)"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements
"1) Buy where you prompt: ChatGPT users in the US can now buy through ChatGPT (from Etsy sellers today Shopify soon) powered by Stripe. This was built using the two other things we're launching today"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.3K followers, [---] engagements
"2) Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP): An open standard we codeveloped with OpenAI to make commerce between buyers AI agents and businesses simple. 3) Shared Payment Tokens (SPT): A new payment provider agnostic API to pass credentials securely between AI agents and businesses"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Docs Protocol Stripe blog OpenAI blog https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ http://stripe.com/blog/developing-an-open-standard-for-agentic-commerce http://agenticcommerce.dev http://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ http://stripe.com/blog/developing-an-open-standard-for-agentic-commerce http://agenticcommerce.dev http://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:45Z 91.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The most exciting launch I have worked on at Stripe my in [--] years here"
X Link 2025-09-29T18:50Z 91.4K followers, 40.6K engagements
"Been a Wealthfront user for a decade They are going public"
X Link 2025-09-29T22:19Z 91.6K followers, [----] engagements
"My team (product comms) is hiring at Stripe. If you are interested reach out at sarthak@stripe.com with one thing you think we should have done differently for a recent product launch"
X Link 2025-10-02T11:31Z 91.3K followers, [----] engagements
"He will finally make NYC affordable by punishing smart hardworking kids pushing rich families to opt more for private schools and making public schools worse Just trust the process"
X Link 2025-10-03T14:42Z 91.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Moving to Austin in a few months"
X Link 2025-10-03T16:07Z 91.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@jrichlive i do both ๐ฌ but more in wealthfront than robinhood"
X Link 2025-10-04T17:52Z 91.4K followers, [----] engagements
".@tobi: I think the Meta/Shopify alley-oop has created more businesses than any government policy in history. We just dropped the latest ep: https://pca.st/episode/1565214b-2223-4ce9-98f8-a7af5ab405e2 https://pca.st/episode/1565214b-2223-4ce9-98f8-a7af5ab405e2"
X Link 2025-10-06T17:33Z 91.5K followers, [----] engagements
"It is incredible how different so many founders of the AI wave are The idea of founders of buzzy startups leaving for jobs at competitors was unthinkable not too long ago"
X Link 2025-10-11T19:31Z 91.6K followers, [----] engagements
"So AI the industry with investments that account for 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025.only make up 16% of the user base is using 0.008% of Americas total freshwater. This 0.008% is approximately [--------] gallons of water per day. New post as a round-up of the last few things on this that I've written to hammer the point home plus some new national statistics https://t.co/fhgEnHmcUd New post as a round-up of the last few things on this that I've written to hammer the point home plus some new national statistics https://t.co/fhgEnHmcUd"
X Link 2025-10-15T14:09Z 91.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Great TED talk @kellypeeler Very noble use of Snapchat. "They dont Google for information or read blogs". I do ๐๐ https://x.com/peterpham/status/692462502492262400 One of my favorite ceo's in nyc.@kellypeeler solving a real problem helping real people & building a trusted brand https://t.co/uqP6i2uPwU https://x.com/peterpham/status/692462502492262400 One of my favorite ceo's in nyc.@kellypeeler solving a real problem helping real people & building a trusted brand https://t.co/uqP6i2uPwU"
X Link 2016-01-28T03:33Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@kellypeeler Hey Kelly Glad you liked my piece. Have some suggestions/resources. Best way to connect ๐ค"
X Link 2016-01-28T22:36Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements
"All the cool things like Nintendo Mobile @ROBLOX and now this Marvel game came around after I outgrew games. ๐ https://x.com/marvel/status/695287871540834304 Welcome to @AvengersAcademy Begin your adventure on iOS and Android today: https://t.co/8zIq2qG4Ke #AvengersAcademy https://t.co/Cu6G7V5iK6 https://x.com/marvel/status/695287871540834304 Welcome to @AvengersAcademy Begin your adventure on iOS and Android today: https://t.co/8zIq2qG4Ke #AvengersAcademy https://t.co/Cu6G7V5iK6"
X Link 2016-02-05T22:38Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Wow. Just wow. Congratulations @a16z on funding this eccentric genius. cc @pmarca http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/03/14/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz/ http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/03/14/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz/"
X Link 2016-03-15T11:39Z 78.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Founders do not always start a co out of passion. Like who is really passionate abt sales lead softwares or website analytics or workflow"
X Link 2016-03-24T03:36Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Andrew Stranton Pixar Director who created Finding Nemo on Pixar's Braintrust -"
X Link 2016-10-23T13:25Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"".this is the first time in memory that the markets seemed to prefer the Democratic Party candidate" Trump = loser http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/investors-think-president-trump-would-make-them-poorer http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/investors-think-president-trump-would-make-them-poorer"
X Link 2016-10-25T12:59Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@token_ai Congrats on the launch"
X Link 2017-04-26T23:24Z 86.3K followers, [--] engagements
""I like that Uber Technologies Inc. is applying the principles of the "sharing economy" to the job of its chief executive officer" - Levine"
X Link 2017-06-15T23:35Z 79.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Money [---] is so important & yet we dont teach it in our school clasrooms. Great effort & post by @ATeachMoment http://tonyisola.com/2017/10/the-money-people/ http://tonyisola.com/2017/10/the-money-people/"
X Link 2017-10-26T13:18Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements
""I think a lot of medicine will become like dentistry." @vijaypande of @a16z on intersection of tech & biology. http://fortune.com/2017/10/25/andreessen-horowitz-artificial-intelligence/ http://fortune.com/2017/10/25/andreessen-horowitz-artificial-intelligence/"
X Link 2017-10-27T13:14Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Very insightful @a16z podcast episode on the evolution of the payments processing landscape through the lens of one of the most consequential startups. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711mt=2&i=1000401973837 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711mt=2&i=1000401973837"
X Link 2018-02-12T18:23Z 79.1K followers, [--] engagements
"As always Twitter played a role in getting this role. A @peterpham tweet started the convo with the team. I'm grateful to @design4innov8 @MattHartman @jasonwstein @HeatherHartnett @ShaneMac & @Borthwick for taking a chance on me over the years & help build my career portfolio"
X Link 2018-03-08T00:48Z 90.4K followers, [--] engagements
""Appcoins are a terrible idea.They are clearly just a needless complexity. Why would I want to use different money for my gas food and rent This defeats the whole purpose of having a money economy." - @DanielKrawisz http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/appcoins-are-snake-oil/#selection-137.0-137.273 http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/appcoins-are-snake-oil/#selection-137.0-137.273"
X Link 2018-03-26T00:55Z 79.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@crypto_bobby @airswap @CityBlockCap Competition seems to be heating up :) https://medium.com/@openfinance/announcement-harbor-partners-with-ofn-to-list-tokenized-private-securities-67d930aba192source=linkShare-65629d68a395-1526914472 https://medium.com/@openfinance/announcement-harbor-partners-with-ofn-to-list-tokenized-private-securities-67d930aba192source=linkShare-65629d68a395-1526914472"
X Link 2018-05-21T14:54Z 88.6K followers, [--] engagements
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