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[@TurnerNovak](/creator/twitter/TurnerNovak)
"Biggest takeaway from App Mafia debacle is $3.6m MRR doesnt go very far when youre renting an audience. Owning your own distribution is more valuable than ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1959610448166420631) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-08-24T13:35Z 192.7K followers, 568.8K engagements


"For anyone curious on learning more about @gen_intuition and co-founder @PimDeWitte heres a XXX minute conversation we had in on the 10th episode of @ThePeelPod August of 2023 We talk about how they scaled Medal to 10M+ users organically and the beginnings of what is now a $40M revenue run rate (up 4x YoY) business with more daily uploads than YouTube"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979537477976141856) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T13:18Z 192.7K followers, 18.3K engagements


"@nikitabier Wow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980030121059745836) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-19T21:55Z 192.7K followers, 2218 engagements


"are you ready for the Sep-Dec lock-in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1964495750177706327) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-09-07T01:07Z 192.7K followers, 243.4K engagements


"@nikitabier @APompliano Main Character for a day badge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1977059115617923080) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-11T17:09Z 192.7K followers, 16.8K engagements


"the last thing you see before your CIO signs a 5-year 50000 seat Salesforce contract"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1978172818287132968) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-14T18:55Z 192.7K followers, 3908 engagements


"@mattparlmer Whats the tl;dr I dont know Chinese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979354652778053927) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T01:11Z 192.7K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Super interesting - Uber continues evolving into a platform for people to make money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979657041632460846) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T21:13Z 192.7K followers, 381.5K engagements


"dont worry babe your launch video is perfect. the ones with a working product scare me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980252438016778495) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-20T12:39Z 192.7K followers, 7606 engagements


"@ruslanjabari @a16z @GreylockVC @Accel @kleinerperkins @SOSV @OpenAI @HummingbirdVC @eladgil @khoslaventures @lightspeedvp @BessemerVP @rootvc @naval @foundersfund @IndexVentures @BatteryVentures @MenloVentures @sparkcapital Honored to be included alongside so many great firms and individuals 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1955787844490027157) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-08-14T00:25Z 192.6K followers, 1337 engagements


"dressing up as OpenAI's gross margins for Halloween"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1978878335926116417) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-16T17:38Z 192.6K followers, 6005 engagements


"$2m ARR is only $5479 per day. You can hit that just on rev share payouts from posting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979573476861325758) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T15:41Z 192.7K followers, 6384 engagements


"dropping out of YC to code in Kyoto Japan for two years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1978546330424184908) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-15T19:39Z 192.7K followers, 4551 engagements


"New favorite co-investor just dropped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979577364070990014) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T15:56Z 192.7K followers, 87.3K engagements


"Churchill was day trading an inflation-adjusted $37m per week in order to escape the permanent underclass Bro would have loved launching NFTs and memecoins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980326424981688419) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-20T17:33Z 192.7K followers, 85.6K engagements


"everything is just an AWS wrapper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980378637586296964) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-20T21:00Z 192.7K followers, 4190 engagements


"OpenAI should acquire ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979222162406887735) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-17T16:25Z 192.7K followers, 12.6K engagements


"VCs be like we back the best founders in the world and their entire portfolio is from two high schools in Palo Alto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979211130976268677) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-17T15:41Z 192.7K followers, 179.2K engagements


"@WillManidis The only investor I know who's put up triple-digit IRR this cycle works from a Motorola flip phone and is a Western Union power user"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980333154947985716) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-20T17:59Z 192.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@destraynor I did hear theres some folks doing this in Dublin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980389829847445738) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-20T21:45Z 192.7K followers, XXX engagements


"I'd love to see a study on the correlation between startup catering and the slopification of tech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1971969993232589228) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-09-27T16:07Z 192.6K followers, 27.5K engagements


"Back in 2019 when Eric and Karim started Ramp AI had not been invented yet. To customers the product was automated. On the backend they stayed up until 2am verifying every receipt themselves. Three years later AI came out. The rest is history. Do things that don't scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1978897989679620522) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-16T18:57Z 192.7K followers, 31.3K engagements


"how to raise a $11m Seed from a16z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979198152738500873) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-17T14:49Z 192.6K followers, 12.1K engagements


"VCs who finally pivoted to AI this summer when Karpathy pops the bubble"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1979576159139721666) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-18T15:51Z 192.6K followers, 3820 engagements


"One of my buddies works on the backend teams for a major crypto company. Said that the AWS outage didnt affect them. Not because they have good infra but because no one was using the product anyways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TurnerNovak/status/1980428455721538018) [@TurnerNovak](/creator/x/TurnerNovak) 2025-10-21T00:18Z 192.6K followers, XXX engagements