# ![@thekevinqi Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1954651032148979712.png) @thekevinqi Kevin Qi

Kevin Qi posts on X about ai, money, if you, kalshi the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1954651032148979712/interactions)
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### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1954651032148979712/posts_active)
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### Followers: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1954651032148979712/followers)
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- [--] Month [---] +19%
- [--] Months [---] +4,195%

### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1954651032148979712/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [countries](/list/countries)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai), [money](/topic/money), [if you](/topic/if-you), [kalshi](/topic/kalshi), [$googl](/topic/$googl), [tiktok](/topic/tiktok), [vibe coding](/topic/vibe-coding), [in the](/topic/in-the), [llm](/topic/llm) #509, [events](/topic/events)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Vibe coding does not make a large impact to engineering solid scalable systems. Instead its the efficiency gain from LLMs that make a significant difference. Its like having the worlds most knowledgeable junior engineer with a pedantic memory at your beck and call. And who doesnt complain or get distracted by TikTok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1957159047968280751)  2025-08-17T19:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@vasumanmoza So the plan is everyones basically on a Soylent-style diet except instead of nutrient shakes its Chipotle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1957631768476909808)  2025-08-19T02:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nizzyabi It's a matter of perception. You wouldn't have the same expectations of excellence on human being so why hold LLM Models to such perfectionist standards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1957871483356631303)  2025-08-19T18:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Spent $1250 on ads. ROI = $0. Founders whove cracked paid spend how did you pair ads with other channels to actually get conversions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1958275502344376594)  2025-08-20T21:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Brink_Thinker If you mean by forceful obligation I can point to numerous examples such as law enforcement firefighting or military during points of emergency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1959104862274080792)  2025-08-23T04:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nikitabier Palo Alto is just regular suburban food with a 100% up charge. I recommend going up to Burlingame or San Francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1959799102444544345)  2025-08-25T02:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@chartstswift Travis Kelce: engaged. Taylor Swift: in charge. The rest of us: you guys get me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1960556364607926716)  2025-08-27T04:13Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@_devJNS In Javascript back in 2015"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1963026871748100148)  2025-09-02T23:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I spent [--] years at Amazon leading LLM adoption on vital teams. Now Im building Festa from scratch while training for a 500lb deadlift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1964067961099968831)  2025-09-05T20:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@n0w00j deploying rizz in production without testing in staging first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1964516694497567174)  2025-09-07T02:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@s_chiriac AI coordination for events. https://www.usefesta.com/weddings https://www.usefesta.com/weddings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1965105075862589779)  2025-09-08T17:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheDanielJeong But can you bench [---] Really curious though how are you gonna get past SEC regulations I don't think the government will trust AI to be a sound financial advisor to people. After all there is no body to sue if shit hits the fan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1965228893608312981)  2025-09-09T01:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ionleu Hi I used to be in big tech leading things at Alexa. Now Im building AI coordination for events. Gonna disrupt the events industry starting with weddings. https://www.usefesta.com/weddings https://www.usefesta.com/weddings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1967247118697169126)  2025-09-14T15:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@TJkrusinski @jasminecoded_ Oh wow. Thats news to me. I havent been in Palo Alto since around March"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1967809207308284167)  2025-09-16T04:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Prathkum At our startup we currently use Trello. It's pretty common for small teams with limited budget to use the free-tier of Trello which offers 90% of the functionality we would want at our current stage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1968040259662516389)  2025-09-16T19:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@marvellousbh Just ask an LLM Model to give you some suggestions. They are very good at naming things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1968115581133132135)  2025-09-17T00:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@original_ngv Why do they need to know when they can just Google or ask GPT about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1968421704926962108)  2025-09-17T21:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@signulll You should also overlay the price growth over the years and how it correlates with inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969442508032688452)  2025-09-20T16:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Anybody else play clash of clans as an adult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969852896352342039)  2025-09-21T19:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@notoscarpaul Guess I don't fit the mold since I play clash of clans instead of royale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969855402209923080)  2025-09-21T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@hahnbeeIee if you gotta car you can just hope on the [---] and get stuff down in South San Francisco Colma or San Bruno"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969925101882642446)  2025-09-22T00:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@amritwt I mean if you get a new grad job paying 200K a year it's just a matter of not getting laid off before the year ends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969925929624560125)  2025-09-22T00:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@zebriez Live like Monkey D Luffy. No matter what the situation or your status in life dont take life so seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1970689340696064109)  2025-09-24T03:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Hey thanks for getting back to me. Sorry about the later responses. I'm on EST time. Anyhow the grand vision for Alexa has always been to become equivalent to the AI computer seen on Star Trek. However when I left Alexa Plus had the value proposition rounded down further. At it's core they basically want to create a product that is equivalent to an executive assistant. Unfortunately that means that integration with email calendar your internal documents is one of the core futures being refined. (For example for calendar integration there is actually [--] teams [--] ppl on it)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1971220603785867464)  2025-09-25T14:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@aarondotdev elon did software before he had money. it's like a stepping stone before harder stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1971286510931739061)  2025-09-25T18:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ionleu Alarm bells start ringing. 🔥"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1971672504847814785)  2025-09-26T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This wraps up Act [--] of the Festa journey. In Act [--] we dive into how we met weekly brainstormed [---] ideas and found our direction. Stay tuned 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972126285033099315)  2025-09-28T02:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LeilaHormozi Nike got something right: Just do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972129255158174043)  2025-09-28T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FitFounder Forget [--]. Ive seen 22-year-olds hit their first 9-5 and age like milk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972129689356718446)  2025-09-28T02:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@blakeaburge Luffy. iShowSpeed. Zero polish. 100% real. People can smell it and its addictive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972130794421604659)  2025-09-28T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Nikola_BG011 @lizwessel Usually when an institutional investor agrees to invest they do a week or two of due diligence where they check your financials before you get the money deposited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972315553621836279)  2025-09-28T15:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@svpino Why argue the semantics of different languages when we live in this LLM era. We got the privilege of being language agnostic now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972504417745420717)  2025-09-29T03:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"As someone who has been in the thick of things. I think the financial bubble will pop and stocks like Nvidia and Palantir will go back down to realistic valuations. However you cannot deny the productivity gains that LLM models unlock. One senior engineer can do the work of 5-6 mediocre ones. I doubt the jobs will come back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972506710892777589)  2025-09-29T03:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@abruzuc having a gf is great because you can give them your credit card when they ask for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972844142041698634)  2025-09-30T02:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@birdabo404 I don't understand what's stopping people from doing both Most top developers I've worked with have some kind of passion behind their craft. So they have usually done projects from a young age as well as gone through the classical training of college"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972847225501045001)  2025-09-30T02:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ajhodls Is that standard lingo for a rejection Or naw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972856966394658915)  2025-09-30T02:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@HankCouture As a gen Zer I have to say that I don't even use Google anymore. It's much more convenient for the information to come to you directly via ChatGPT then having to do the digging yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973086391752859659)  2025-09-30T18:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@julianweisser Genuine question: why are so many people obsessed with being solo Is it actual conviction or just narcissism / social anxiety dressed up as independence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973223847995515339)  2025-10-01T03:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@mephXBT @_opencv_ The average ivy graduate barely makes [--] figs [--] years outta college. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/ivy-league-students-mid-career-median-salary.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/ivy-league-students-mid-career-median-salary.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973509848278130923)  2025-10-01T22:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@henloitsjoyce let me tell you a secret. Your stocks are always gonna be at an ATH. A deviation from that is simply a temporary blip in the system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973512876385247254)  2025-10-01T22:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@alexinexxx how much are they paying you wink wink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973541070765252999)  2025-10-02T00:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I just learned today that there is a concept called warming up your TikTok so that the app doesn't think you are a robot. I cannot be the only [--] year old who's never scrolled TikTok like that. My [--] minute warming up session today was very tedious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973547219962716238)  2025-10-02T00:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@alpaysh @grok thank you. What about versus scrooge mcduck @grok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973582645943738577)  2025-10-02T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@KocKaanKarakas @ycombinator @arlanrakh @nozomioai Im just asking a question about the tech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973608075358847008)  2025-10-02T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@arlanrakh @ycombinator @nozomioai I use cursor as my ide. Just read your docs and it looks like a plugin I can connect to the cursor agent. And my guess is your api response gets plugged into cursor context window. How did you arrive at the 27% accuracy improvement number quoted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973611136915575106)  2025-10-02T04:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@askwhykartik Quit my job Nah. I maxed my earnings at work bought the M4 (equivalent) cash and still had runway to start my business. Stability isnt always the villain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973843888956977535)  2025-10-02T20:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@craigzLiszt This statement is easy to say. But in practice it's more complex. As a hiring manager if I have [----] candidates I don't have the time to look at everybody's side project in depth. Therefore it would be an unfair process if I just looked at a few"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1973917395749142612)  2025-10-03T01:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@kacemmmmmm @MGSimard @dhirajnambiar @craigzLiszt But if it becomes known that your filter looks for side projects the majority of candidates will game this by vibe coding some to do app or something like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974141666178343243)  2025-10-03T15:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@signulll Diddy's after-parties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974271352845603282)  2025-10-04T00:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pmitu I think for most people if they are rich enough to bootstrap (pre-seed let's say 500K) they may not have the risk tolerance to have their net-worth go down to [--]. ppl like elon are a rare breed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974271762331472119)  2025-10-04T00:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JesseTinsley With what source material I gave up on the Winds of Winter back in 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974280633204527292)  2025-10-04T01:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@brycent_ Agreed. AI leveled the playing field for prototyping. It didnt level the playing field for customer acquisition retention or economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974290933152649304)  2025-10-04T01:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_devJNS I thought they own WindSurf now Anybody use it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974292814759612733)  2025-10-04T01:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@alexcooldev AI has been a huge accelerator for me too. But do you think vibe coding works long-term without intentional design"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1974596487633137972)  2025-10-04T22:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Nothing against the kid and his dreams. I feel like perhaps some people were rubbed the wrong way by the apparent cockiness of his statement. What inner belief does he have that he can build AGI when the smartest minds of our generation are all trying to do the same thing. (Classically trained MIT PHDs)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975017435582418960)  2025-10-06T01:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@deedydas I've always been deeply curious on the ROI of such billboard campaigns. Only a teeny fraction of people who drive by probably even knows what Redis is.Even fewer have purchasing decision at their respective place of work. CAC must be enormous. (I'm guessing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975018367536005347)  2025-10-06T02:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Everyones romanticising the aesthetic - coding at bars 16yo AGI threads. Cool for engagement useless for traction. The unsexy truth: great software + happy customers performative hustle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975022860465999885)  2025-10-06T02:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@irfahm @usefesta @hthieblot My vision is a future without apps. Why do people need to download something separately on their phones when the best ux is simply conversational"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975049815185874986)  2025-10-06T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lulumeservey Facts. Age is an origin story not a moat. Users dont grade on a curve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975371825388593292)  2025-10-07T01:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@rutu_3 Early 9-9-6 adopter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975372304650805657)  2025-10-07T01:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@HarryStebbings Does taking a selfie at the office count as work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975405269480845733)  2025-10-07T03:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Yeah totally. I went to hackathons around [--------] and it was a completely different vibe. Most demos barely worked half the time your backend crashed during the pitch or your UI didnt render properly. But that was the point. You learned by struggling through the stack wiring things together and debugging until [--] AM with strangers who eventually became friends. There wasnt a ChatGPT or pre-built API for everything. You actually had to figure stuff out read docs and make tradeoffs. You didnt always leave with a polished project but you always left better. The community was very tight-knit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975755334628053306)  2025-10-08T02:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Act [--] of the Festa journey: the prototype worked. But what came next Applying to Y Combinator 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975758910226116741)  2025-10-08T03:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Wed grown up hearing about Y Combinator. Friends from our hometown had gone through it as founders or early engineers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1975759763993428299)  2025-10-08T03:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Leveraged AI for the emails: researched each lead fed context into ChatGPT asked it to craft tailored messages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976130026018943272)  2025-10-09T03:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Early Festa marketing strategy: ✅ Flyers ✅ Tape ✅ Y Combinators front door Call it outbound. Call it delusion. I call it belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976134373708562457)  2025-10-09T03:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@jasminewsun Lived near Palo Alto for a bit. Beautiful houses quiet streets everyone in bed by [--]. The only nightlife was the glow of laptop screens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976409954274947468)  2025-10-09T22:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nur_daulet_ On a gaming computer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976452366401675273)  2025-10-10T00:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kvnchandra @im_roy_lee @cluely @promptingco He doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would work for you long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976837553958666412)  2025-10-11T02:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Yuchenj_UW Could you confront him directly "Dude are you using Cluely" Maybe he'll piss his pants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1976840831379394993)  2025-10-11T02:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheDanielJeong @ycombinator Good for you not falling for the hype and prestige. At the end of the day you should be looking out for #1. Yourself. Being selfish is your right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977179400388198614)  2025-10-12T01:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Henrik_wes don't understand why people don't understand the concept of diversification. it's just like buying multiple lottery tickets. expected value goes up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977188313749680338)  2025-10-12T01:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@UncoverSakti @rasmickyy Thanks thats the project that earned my salary progression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977200063500976440)  2025-10-12T02:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TechWithLucy Trading in the 9-5 for the 24/7 grind. Love it. I did the same. Except leaving a 400-500K a year job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977471521837977725)  2025-10-12T20:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@jia_seed At the end of the day it's your life to live. Not other's not you families. It's your own path to carve. Being a disappointment is a myth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977565700349989229)  2025-10-13T02:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@atullchaurasia WTF is an AI engineer It seems like the value prop is 99% the AI and 1% the engineer. Let's just get rid of the engineer freeloader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977566611243683976)  2025-10-13T02:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_devJNS rome wasn't built overnight after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977571888550543470)  2025-10-13T03:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jonahseguin This why college is awesome and I caution kids who want to grow up too quickly. I had some of the best times in my life in College. No job. No money. Tons of women. Not a care in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977937722359636479)  2025-10-14T03:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@rak_garg Out of the loop people unite. What is a vector database In my times it was only SQL and no-SQL options"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977942288773837197)  2025-10-14T03:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Day [--] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 Todays highlights: ✅ Posted the next parts of Festas Story on Instagram & TikTok 🎥 Our wedding guest comedy skit went live on a major wedding page 🤝 Finalized outreach plans to partner with bridal stores in NYC & SF 📞 Prepping cold calls and flyer drops for local collaborations Mixing digital traction with on-the-ground hustle one week at a time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1977945168947900425)  2025-10-14T03:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Overall from what I've heard so far. I'm bearish on the entire vector DB sector. With larger context windows you don't need some complex data struct. Just have more generic keywords and feed a larger context blob into the LLM. Models are getting much better at dealing with larger amounts of tokens. It's honestly an anti-pattern to spoon-feed only a small bit of possible info in their each time. Much higher risk of losing out on valuable information that wasn't provided in the context for that given search"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978184618034483642)  2025-10-14T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@alexkehr How much is your rent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978227840232337735)  2025-10-14T22:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@aditabrm @reductoai @a16z Anybody else wonder how much dilution is going on with these raises"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978230115315109903)  2025-10-14T22:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@kirbyman01 Wrappers only sound simple if youve never built multi-inference architectures at scale. At Alexa we chained reasoning planning and execution inferences to execute user requests in 2s across hundreds of possible actions. Thats not prompt hacking. Thats orchestration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978231576136765948)  2025-10-14T22:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"There are usually two buckets of founders that they fund. [--]. Those that got in with pedigree (ivy league prior-exits) but no PMF [--]. Those without pedigree but PMF (paying users scalable acquisition strategy CAC LTV) I wonder which category ends up winning more in the end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978233623112503801)  2025-10-14T22:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I've been doing the AI reviewing code thing for a while now but to save money I just ask Cursor to "review the implementation that I just wrote" Works pretty well. Compared to when I was working at Amazon the AI models nowadays are like better reviewers than 70% of L5 engineers and probably 95% of L4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978237236177932676)  2025-10-14T23:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pilatesdev @Oracle The main thing that stands out here is that remote work is still a thing at Oracle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978299512834740672)  2025-10-15T03:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Prathkum Better yet CC the CEO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978300493337071984)  2025-10-15T03:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@lingodotdev Only time when LLMs didn't work was when doing Vision Pro development in [----]. The models had been trained on documentation from before the Vision Pro. To be fair StackOverflow as useless too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978301642240877047)  2025-10-15T03:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pranavbedi @Shopify Unfortunately it's freezing cold in the winter. ❄❄"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978656091027243389)  2025-10-16T02:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pranavbedi @Shopify trust me I know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978657429198901736)  2025-10-16T03:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@shaun_on_x Life isn't fair. It's not like a video game. We all learn that lesson at some point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978670009170682163)  2025-10-16T03:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Day [--] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 🍎 Took the day off cider mill trip out in rural New Jersey (founder recovery mode) 📱 Posted some backlog content from the content bank to keep the socials warm Even on off-days the machine keeps running. Heres a little tease 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978999442121376129)  2025-10-17T01:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@withkynam https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/s/v8kf9PK9v5 https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/s/v8kf9PK9v5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979309974900617504)  2025-10-17T22:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"100 followers 🚀 The first milestone of many to come. As promised here is the special drop: my intro video. Who I am why I left Amazon and what I'm building now with Festa. This is just the start. Excited to have you all on the journey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1969552341150933025)  2025-09-21T00:00Z [---] followers, 11.4K engagements


"6 months ago I left big tech to build Festa. [--] years ago I didnt even have an idea. Heres the unfiltered story of how it all started 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1972121862898373119)  2025-09-28T02:11Z [---] followers, 17.3K engagements


"From our recent social media campaigns on Instagram (collabs + content creation) we found our CAC to be $1500. Basically from spending 3K we generated around 255K views. How does this compare to what other founders have experienced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1978307987513970782)  2025-10-15T03:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@withkynam Avoid .us domains like a plague. They don't let you hide your information. So you get bombarded by spammers. I made this mistake last year and I had to change my phone number. Literally. http://who.is http://who.is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979300058483900508)  2025-10-17T21:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@yasser_elsaid_ [--] years in corporate only matters if you actually did something real. Designing and shipping something that touched 100M+ users teaches you more about product than [---] hackathons ever could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979301559813931415)  2025-10-17T21:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ImSh4yy I've never met a single Perplexity user. They are like what Bing is to Google. Why the heck wouldn't I just use my ChatGPT subscription"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979307700862488807)  2025-10-17T22:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"We had a proof of concept a real prospective customer and conviction. Festa deserved full-time focus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979382531452506594)  2025-10-18T03:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@yongfook Is due diligence still a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979728059369730298)  2025-10-19T01:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@0xEthanDG They only lost the money if they sell. How do you know that in [---] years it's not gonna be worth a billion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1979737694940119433)  2025-10-19T02:33Z [---] followers, 69.1K engagements


"@FacelessPrinter Now how did the 30K number get chosen Why not an arbitrary [--] million dollars a month and live like Dan Blizerian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980079766796370096)  2025-10-20T01:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Hey @X algorithm 👋 Was in SF now based in NYC. Building Festa an AI layer for event coordination (think: your invisible day-of assistant that shields you from your guests). Ex-Amazon engineer (LLM orchestration on Alexa) now a founder & hybrid athlete dunking between workouts and product launches. Looking to connect with: 🧠 Founders & builders ⚙ Engineers & AI devs 💍 Event planners / venue owners 📰 Reporters covering tech & startups Always down to swap ideas stories or training tips"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980089671037153422)  2025-10-20T01:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@thedulab Leave the 9-5 to free yourself from capitalism only to fall in to the 24-7 lifestyle of the grindset. Very ironic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980092729733284133)  2025-10-20T02:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"We spent $1.7K on Google Ads for Festa. Got [---] wedding leads. [--] were real. Heres everything we learned: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176684598 https://substack.com/home/post/p-176684598"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980381738179391714)  2025-10-20T21:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@tekbog LLMs and junior engineers are pretty much the same thing. We've never trusted a junior to build the whole stack so why trust an LLM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980463274220220599)  2025-10-21T02:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Guess one day we should exhibit there I said half-jokingly. Its the Super Bowl for wedding pros"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980489145882734679)  2025-10-21T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Jbm_dev [--] months in. MVP completed. [--] paying customers. 1K in revenue. Looking for our next [--] customers. Exciting times though. Our first wedding client to have their actual wedding is this week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980762221723435439)  2025-10-21T22:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Yeah thats the vision. Technically we can already support an event like tech crunch. I build a generalized solution for all events. But our focus currently is on conquering the wedding industry. Prove that it works there and we think we can handle any other vertical. Weddings are high trust emotional events. So its a high bar you have to operate at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980764487088009622)  2025-10-21T22:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_boemare @Cookiesarefunnn @_TheResidency Then a week later that same founding engineer is on pip for "being remote""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980837311522001219)  2025-10-22T03:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@desmondhth What's more important than pure vanity impressions is resonating with your ICP. Chase who is actually gonna give you money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1980840131381821622)  2025-10-22T03:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_chenglou This is the problem with today's generation. Not using any brain cells. A true engineer would go through the affected code line by line until they recognize what the heck is going on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981086354076213369)  2025-10-22T19:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@kwharrison13 The smartest people I met at Amazon barely posted online. They were too busy making systems that 100M people use every day. Real impact is usually invisible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981181812673245456)  2025-10-23T02:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Were running our biggest giveaway yet 🎁 If youre planning a wedding (or know someone who is): Follow Festa on Instagram + tag [--] bridesmaids on our latest post and you could win a $500 Airbnb gift card 💍 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQIlxMKiPPD/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DQIlxMKiPPD/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981191803375407573)  2025-10-23T02:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Everyone on here posts wins. Lets talk about a loss. For the past two months our TikTok content was being shown to the wrong country We hired an amazing influencer to be Festas spokesperson (super experienced great content but she lives in London). Turns out TikToks algorithm heavily weights the posters location. So instead of hitting NYC brides weve been getting views in the UK A country we dont even support (yet). 💀 Lesson learned: marketing ops need debugging too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981209430814273725)  2025-10-23T04:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Giving away free money is surprisingly hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981459291526582489)  2025-10-23T20:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CaptMorganFX @justalexoki I think we are the actual mainstream opinion. Most people just don't give a damn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981565085001605371)  2025-10-24T03:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Distribution is tougher than product. Although that persona probably won't contribute to som e intrinsic network effect marketing. What about selling to governments Like my original example I'm sure a bunch of non-profits or health agencies in Japan may be looking for such solutions. Obviously it won't solve it on it's own but the product could be like a first step to a [--] step process of re-socialization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981565744690184638)  2025-10-24T03:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@bakwasbandkrein I mean imagine the gender reveal: Its a Dragon 🐉🔥"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981569247798313330)  2025-10-24T03:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@lottsnomad Festa has both moats. Tech that runs sub-2s Agentic AI Actions over SMS. And distribution so strong a real wedding runs on us tomorrow. Who else gets that level of trust"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981892838016299019)  2025-10-25T01:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Austen College is funny in this way. Maybe it's not worth it for the "education". But it's a cheat code for finding the one. In College generally everybody is broke and poor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981935055502295232)  2025-10-25T04:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@buildwithDB Congrats. What's the Beta launch strategy if you don't mind me asking Are you blasting an announcement on socials In person acquisition An existing waitlist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981940121898193124)  2025-10-25T04:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Day [--] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 🎉 Big milestone: tomorrow the worlds first AI-coordinated wedding happens in Colorado. 💬 Sent the bride a full summary of every question her guests have messaged Festa since 10/20 the AIs been handling it all in real time. 📸 Secured the photographer to capture dedicated Festa shots during the wedding. This will become our first real video case study proving the vision works. 🧵 Story of Festa Part [--] drops tonight. Tomorrows the day it all goes live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981943963863924800)  2025-10-25T04:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Meanwhile Hrishi was grinding free marketing channels Luma Eventbrite and Reddit for backlinks + conversions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981946455892857343)  2025-10-25T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Most importantly I met the team behind Scorecard an LLM prompt evaluation platform. https://www.scorecard.io/ https://www.scorecard.io/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1981947044508921877)  2025-10-25T04:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The cracks in the AI gold rush are starting to show. This piece on @cluely nails what a lot of people in the industry are quietly worried about: inflated metrics shallow integrations and hype honesty. https://medium.com/@thesummitai/is-cluely-the-next-ai-bubble-transparency-issues-and-defects-raise-red-flags-09dc231cac20 https://medium.com/@thesummitai/is-cluely-the-next-ai-bubble-transparency-issues-and-defects-raise-red-flags-09dc231cac20"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982181022633537945)  2025-10-25T20:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@cluely Interesting long-form piece I stumbled upon on Reddit. Highly recommend giving it a read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982181211502952812)  2025-10-25T20:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jonathanzliu How do they coerce you into pivoting I thought you get to do what you want at the end of the day and they are supposed to be hands off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982221142443114754)  2025-10-25T23:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@thesummit_ai @cluely Thanks for the piece it's very detailed and obviously high effort. I think it deserves more distribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982280703791239459)  2025-10-26T02:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nizzyabi VC is a numbers game. They don't but all their eggs in one basket. They may produce a unicorn so the EV of investing in them is greater than not investing in them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982296961639194646)  2025-10-26T04:03Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@forgebitz Y'all really do live in an echo chamber if this is news. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/10k6vro/til_130_million_american_adults_have_low_literacy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/10k6vro/til_130_million_american_adults_have_low_literacy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982639330133979574)  2025-10-27T02:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@tszzl The only thing they really got going for them down there is the weather. San Francisco summers are cold af"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982640147406729409)  2025-10-27T02:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Mainly I have some honest questions on the moat in this space. Cursor Windsurf Claude Code are all at it's core the same thing. It's a commodity at this point relying on the raw intelligence of the model. In this ecosystem the economics simply indicate that it'll be a race to the bottom on price. Since as a developer as long as I have access to the latest models why do I care what IDE I use What is your unique pitch that can convince someone that they should be a chad instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982641402136625360)  2025-10-27T02:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@camiinthisthang I guess back then there was no Waymo option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983019525902659995)  2025-10-28T03:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nostalgicfuturz @miyuselene aka crock pot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983284475800015054)  2025-10-28T21:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Erwin_AI People are really gaming the system. Where is the due diligence. Another sign of the bubble"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983297826550632686)  2025-10-28T22:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"April and May became pure grind mode. Build test fix repeat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983300927399289305)  2025-10-28T22:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Midway through we moved from Industrious to Werqwise half the price more sunlight and better vibes 🌤"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983301249954169017)  2025-10-28T22:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@yazcaleb One man's slop today may be another man's treasure a year from now. Only time will tell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983609414860075166)  2025-10-29T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It's cause the big companies are able to subsidize their consumer facing applications with b2b cloud computing revenue. They basically give 100$ a month of value to the consumer for free. (Youtube Chrome Gmail Drive) Google example. In turn consumers are trained to have sky high expectations for software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983739065603068282)  2025-10-30T03:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Prathkum Legislation is unfortunately not a feasible solution. If a company is going bankrupt (of course not Amazon but think Kohls) the layoff would still happen despite the law. No money to pay people after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983740524910764539)  2025-10-30T03:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@original_ngv I see you've not seen the "Stop hiring sales people" billboards in San Francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983741679841706067)  2025-10-30T03:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Last year I made an app for the Apple Vision Pro. Discovered the drop off from free to paid is hella steep. When I had it free got almost [---] downloads. When it was paid got like [--]. And my price was literally only 1$. Think about it. The audience here were people who had dropped 4K for a vision pro. Good luck man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983744309187809552)  2025-10-30T03:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_openeconomy Rejected by YC [--] times in a row. Currently scaling Festa. The next big thing in tech. AI applied to real-world events. https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982308327888450030 Two years in the making. In [----] I started building Festa with a simple idea: what if an AI could coordinate an entire event from start to finish answering every question managing every guest just like a real person Today that idea became reality. The worlds first https://t.co/Pc7SkpDfde https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1982308327888450030 Two years in the making. In [----] I started building Festa with a simple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983745314369790417)  2025-10-30T03:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Loop_and_lift No job is "stable". We trade our time for money and in return the business expects positive ROI for their investment in us. In no part of this equation was there a guarantee of permanence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983745906509017107)  2025-10-30T04:00Z [---] followers, 82.6K engagements


"My time at Amazon taught me something the layoffs this week make glaringly obvious: the strongest employer brand wont save you from automation AI shifts or internal reorgs. If your career strategy is Ill just ride the Big Tech ship until retirement todays news says otherwise. As founders and tech leaders: Build leverage inside what you own not just what your job gives you. Adopt a mindset of Im the asset not I am the employee. The world will pay for your payload (what you ship) not your job title"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1983746935040135624)  2025-10-30T04:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TechCrunch Virality is tough. But I think it's a problem that money easily solves. Just hire some creator talent. Lots of people who are hella skilled at virality. (any influencer with 100K-1000K followers with high engagement rates). Just throw money at them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984002512589091109)  2025-10-30T21:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@tobi I've also heard that there are some employees who pretend to show up to meetings nowadays and instead have the AI impersonate them. While they watch TV or play video games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984048713296441814)  2025-10-31T00:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@max_glik College is the best. Also a great place to find a partner. Kudos to you for choosing your own path and not going along with the hype on here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984057829129646145)  2025-10-31T00:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@sethsetse @sama Kalshi doesn't make sense to me. If you hypothetically collude with Sam Altman in this case by telling him to make a 6-7 joke it's automatically rigged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984059567253373373)  2025-10-31T00:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@bryan_johnson This is what Holmes wished she had been able to create"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984061286838394911)  2025-10-31T00:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In big tech the general process for shipping code into production is. [--]. Individual engineer works on ticket creates pull request. (after unit tests integration tests pass locally) [--]. Sets up code review (automated systems run checking security bugs syntax bugs LLM first wave analysis). Assign 2+ people on your team to review. [--]. Senior engineer usually looks at code review line by line expect 5-10 nitpick comments. [--]. Individual engineer addresses comments re-initializes code review process. [--]. Reviewers finally approve the code. [--]. Pull request is merged into main branch and deployed into"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984062565370995149)  2025-10-31T00:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Day [--] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 📋 Continued reviewing UGC creator applicants narrowing down the final list. ⚙ Reviewed new UGC operational process designs from my co-founder. 📈 Twitter growth picking up had a reply go semi-viral yesterday. 🙏 Appreciate all the support from everyone following the journey. 🧵 Story of Festa Part [--] drops tonight. Building in public one day at a time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984063583064617003)  2025-10-31T01:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Act [--] of the Festa journey: our biggest test yet - Hrishis brothers 100-person birthday in NYC 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984105599563657720)  2025-10-31T03:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Three 12-hour days. Built new DB schema backend endpoints + frontend UI from scratch. No sleep just code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984106020055216529)  2025-10-31T03:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It worked. Invites sent on time to [---] guests. Festa was about to face its largest real-world test"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984106069086576752)  2025-10-31T03:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"That was Act [--] of the Festa story: a successful stress test and a new focus on real clients. Next up: our first wedding (with a twist) 👰👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984106822760906954)  2025-10-31T03:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@hanzpo @sethsetse @sama Oh thanks for clarifying. Makes sense why Kalshi isn't shutdown by the government then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984361879263682953)  2025-10-31T20:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@simonecanciello If they are a house of cards they need something to legitimize themselves. Same concept as people decked out in designer clothing with eye balls up in debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984369334559654371)  2025-10-31T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ennycodes Well people will look deeper. It's not just gonna be a surface level review"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984379151718011093)  2025-10-31T21:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"People in tech really have [--] creativity. Not everything is about ROI. In return we get this avalanche of copy-pasta. Only in SF kinda story. Saw a beautiful girl at this cafe I was working from well dressed waiting for someone for over [--] mins & visibly distressed. Spoke to her she was waiting for an investor who didn't show up (her MVP was NGMI). We spoke more. Told her what Only in SF kinda story. Saw a beautiful girl at this cafe I was working from well dressed waiting for someone for over [--] mins & visibly distressed. Spoke to her she was waiting for an investor who didn't show up (her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984846057038078045)  2025-11-02T04:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@GergelyOrosz At it's core you need to figure out only [--] things about who you are hiring. [--]. Are they smart (At least as smart as yourself) [--]. Are they diligent (Cannot be hiring freeloaders) Simple as that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984851122557743205)  2025-11-02T05:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The San Francisco experience is waking up in a $6k apartment to build features for people who will never leave their own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1984861126350283068)  2025-11-02T05:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RichardHanania Communism may be just like the "Newton". Something ahead of it's time. Who's to say Technological innovation may lead to a version of society where abundance doesn't rely on labor. (Personally I'm more on the capitalist side of the economic spectrum)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985189669936500882)  2025-11-03T03:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@aryanlabde Real Talk Everyone. Doing the same thing everyday and expecting different results is just lunacy. If you are getting crickets Ask yourself why Go out into the real world and sell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985190676292923418)  2025-11-03T03:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ankurnagpal If it gives me a return I don't care if the fund manager makes 1$ or [--] billion $"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985212722775048493)  2025-11-03T05:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@andreaonchain Did you get into Bitcoin early"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985213612508565832)  2025-11-03T05:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@YoniSmolyar Why not optimize to get performance bonuses at your day job instead of side hustlin The bands for staff are usually 200-400K wide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985214718676742408)  2025-11-03T05:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Not exactly a feature we had but with some creative prompt engineering I made it work. They loved it. 💘"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985217762680050116)  2025-11-03T05:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@hunterjisaacson UX is great but if nobody ever lands on your page why does it matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985480068060365227)  2025-11-03T22:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Feralfairy13 I wholeheartedly agree. When the basics are taken care of humans still want a sense a purpose. Without that meaning in their life they become listless and lost. You can only slam narcotics and play video games for so long before being depressed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985848300981858709)  2025-11-04T23:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"With product ready and monetization proven the next frontier was clear: Go-To-Market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1985850001226936666)  2025-11-04T23:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eliana_jordan Being able to make a launch video that's engaging and potentially viral is a high skill endeavor. I would just invest some of the budget into hiring a professional. Maybe 10K USD for the video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986253791650603163)  2025-11-06T02:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@celsmanz @rebolthq @jvrsanch @srmanuelangel Was the Acquisition your YC backed company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986256339694461008)  2025-11-06T02:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@magic__aura Depression is a medical condition. I don't think true depression can be cured by some simply lifestyle changes. Or hospital treatments wouldn't be a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986570442061349082)  2025-11-06T23:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@danielaaasexy @magic__aura A lot of people dont have empathy sadly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986601777320603906)  2025-11-07T01:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zephyr_z9 Funding Kalshi doesn't seem to be something you should brag about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986611020303863865)  2025-11-07T01:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@dibbaa_code @garrytan @ycombinator Didn't know there was still a top 5% rejection. Isn't that right at the threshold for getting interviewed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986620303359758796)  2025-11-07T02:22Z [---] followers, 25K engagements


"@ChrisJBakke How does this work When a VC funds a round doesn't the due diligence stage explicitly work to expose potential fraud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986636324204368342)  2025-11-07T03:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Day [--] of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 ✅ Hit [---] followers on X ✅ Got my first slow muscle-up ever ✅ Finalized our UGC creator hiring - onboarding [--] creators on Monday ✅ Our $500 Airbnb raffle wraps tonight (35 entrants) ✅ Customer support + monitoring [--] active weddings all systems stable Festa feels locked in. Now its time to scale this thing like a rocket"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986643300229533847)  2025-11-07T03:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Then Festa would text them instantly. Letting them converse with the AI just like a real wedding guest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1986646180659364276)  2025-11-07T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@viraj_sheth Never understood the point of generational wealth. You would be dead anyways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987006911536046449)  2025-11-08T03:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Hey everyone Im Kevin. I went from building high-scale LLM systems at Amazon leading the Alexa Timers team quitting to build my own AI company from scratch. In [--] years Ive done: FAANG engineering mentorship + hiring startup engineering in the real trenches If you want honest career guidance from someone whos lived both worlds AMA 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987018416788558008)  2025-11-08T04:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Show me another founder who can ship product and hit [--] muscle-ups in the same week. Ill wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987019415607533835)  2025-11-08T04:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@dev_11217 Which disqualifies most straight out of the gate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987051810553536735)  2025-11-08T06:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Steele_Jared If all these allegations exist and these accusations of fraud are around. It doesn't make sense to me why people would pour [--] million dollars into this company. These VCs aren't stupid. Some evidence of something going right must also be in the data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987380898044489819)  2025-11-09T04:45Z [---] followers, 20.5K engagements


"My base salary in SF used to be 185K a year. After maxing out 401K contributions from base salary you can live a luxury life without worry. [--]. Luxury [---] sq ft [--] bedroom apartment [--] min walking distance from work. [--]. 1000$ a month on groceries (whole foods) and eating out 2-3 times a week. [--]. [--] International vacations a year (10K budget each) [--]. Premium Car Lease 50-70K car. [--]. Massive splurge (1-2 year) Bottle Service throw huge party with venue [--]. Go out drinking/clubbing (no bottle service) almost every weekend [--]. Spend 300$ a month on health and fitness Was also able to support a partner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987382608930517224)  2025-11-09T04:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_agarner How were you able to tailor your facebook ads to your ICP We've been having issues where paid advertising shows our product to completely irrelevant audiences or bots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987384826874253661)  2025-11-09T05:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Steele_Jared Im talking about the due diligence process. After signaling that they want to invest usually theres a week or two where they look at the data you prepare in your data room. (Shared folder)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987561033620132101)  2025-11-09T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@brian_lovin lmao. SF is like sunny only 40% of the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987715033426522605)  2025-11-10T02:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"As somebody who has been programming since the age of [--] building real applications used by 10s of thousands of users at a young age. The productivity gains from LLMs are undeniable. [--] years ago if I wanted to adopt a new framework or use a new stack I would have to first self-learn some basic syntax using Google and StackOverflow. That's almost 40-100 hours of pre-work that now gets eliminated because LLMs directly convert my logic to syntax. No pre-learning required. Devs are now language and framework agnostic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987715734856708594)  2025-11-10T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elijahmuraoka_ @mikelong107 @soshiapp @X Doesn't mean that the owner wouldn't want to cap access. Like what happened with Reddit APIs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1987987471905550754)  2025-11-10T20:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eliana_jordan Love the conviction. Hope you end up succeeding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988016843261702620)  2025-11-10T22:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@minordissent Not every man can gain power. But they can gain control of their own life. Something that we really need to get back to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988036671733199015)  2025-11-11T00:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@itsCathyDi I can prove you wrong right away. In two years I bet you the Pyramids of Giza will still be around. There refuted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988428364479390009)  2025-11-12T02:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"At Festa we've been doing things that don't scale since day one. Instead of investing in expensive engineering we as founders hand hold our first customers personally to learn about what the best onboarding experience will be. As well as to achieve top customer service marks. (building that real relationship is hella important) https://paulgraham.com/ds.html https://paulgraham.com/ds.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988430231409987624)  2025-11-12T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"To mark it Hrishi and I hosted a final hurrah event a celebration for everyone wed met on the journey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988434983384490098)  2025-11-12T02:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MrBeast What percentage of that is from your direct contribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thekevinqi/status/1988737821969117456)  2025-11-12T22:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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