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Flo Crivello

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Founder @getlindy. "Striving to remember the obvious over grasping the esoteric." Personal website:

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1May 27, '24When I was at Uber, we ran the numbers on the maps app offering the shortest routes We prob had the biggest dataset with this info: we had millions of trips where we knew both whic238×8M9.3k7063.9k
2Nov 5, '24This is insane69.5×2.3M25k1.9k3.3k
3Aug 19, '24A customer reached out asking for video tutorials. We obviously have a Lindy handling this, and I was delighted to see that she sent a video. But then I remembered we don't have a 64.5×2.2M7.2k7031k
4Dec 11, '23There’s a lot of Europe bashing on twitter these days, but it’s temporary Not because Europe will get better, but because soon, Europe being poorer will be as obvious as Africa bei55.3×1.9M2.7k152499
5Aug 16, '25This is the "character of the neighborhood" that you're paying $5k in rent to protect. The apex of urban design, really. It shall never change from here.51.6×1.7M3.5k129269
6Jul 12, '23View post on X48.2×1.6M14k971798
7Apr 18, '24Many people are hating on this video, but I actually think it's a fascinating display of the two very distinct modes that exist to relate with reality: mimesis vs. first principles47.6×1.6M4.8k6183.8k
8May 22, '23Pains me to say this, but even I have changed my stance on remote. We tried hard, developed the best tooling allowed by the tech — and still, remote falls very short of colocation,42.5×1.4M1.5k107270
9Jun 20, '24Milei is to the economy as Bukele is to crime. In both cases, the left chuckled at straightforward, common sense solutions ("has anyone considered putting criminals in jail?") and 40.1×1.4M12k1.6k1.5k
10Sep 10, '24Europoors in my mentions say that the 2-4x income in SF is canceled out by greater cost of living So here's a simple "SF vs. Paris" model taking into account salary, rent, grocerie39.8×1.3M3.9k2011.7k
11Jul 2, '25Holy shit. We hired this guy a week ago. Fired this morning. He did so incredibly well in interviews, must have a lot of training. Careful out there.39.7×1.3M7.1k2471.3k
12Mar 26, '23Hard to put my finger on why, but this kind of question annoys me to no end. Maybe it’s the human smugness, maybe the moving of the goal posts. I want to grab people who say things38.4×1.3M1.2k85115
13Sep 17, '23I’ve conducted 100s of reference checks, and recently realized how much I’d learnt by giving a crash course to a friend about to conduct one. There’s an art to getting someone’s fr36×1.2M1.3k853k
14Nov 5, '231/ Announcing the new Lindy: the first platform letting you build a team of AI employees that work together to perform any task — 100x better, faster and cheaper than humans would.32.2×1.1M2k1962.7k
15Nov 11, '24People still don’t realize how close we came to a full-blown cultural revolution I saw a woman in a slack channel at uber complain about sexism because a guy had told her « good mo31.4×1.1M8.1k4091.3k
16Mar 22, '23Excited to announce @getlindy, the AI assistant putting your life on autopilot. Think of Lindy as ChatGPT w access to all your apps, so it can: - manage your email & calendar -27.9×941k1.4k1141.2k
17Jun 10, '23I call that the fizz buzz black pill. The fizz buzz is a coding interview initially meant as a joke — a 12 yo should be able to write the 6-lines-long solution in 5min, after a 1h 24.6×830k2k170466
18Jan 5, '24I have just become American. Thatcher said that Europe was built by history, and America by philosophy. That also applies to the nationality of immigrants — I was born in France by24.1×811k13k575293
19Oct 19, '23I knew a guy who was earning back to back promotions every 6 mos for 4 yrs straight at Uber When I asked him his secret he told me: “come to work every morning willing to get fired22.6×762k3.3k124283
20Dec 30, '24Wait this is fucking insane — Claude immediately guessed I was French. How can anyone still think these things are stochastic parrot and not reasoning? Do they really think there i22.6×760k2.6k89953
21Nov 15, '24If you're in tech and not in the Bay Area, you lack either judgment or ambition.21.6×727k1.2k54450
22May 10, '25Ocean Beach in San Francisco Any well-managed city would have put plenty of shops, cafés, restaurants — places for people to sit, hang out and relax But here, *nothing*, as far as 21.5×724k5.7k196373
23Jun 5, '24I’m always surprised to find that this isn’t completely obvious to everyone. There’s precedent suggesting that that’s the case — like that Pokémon episode aired in the 90s in Japan21.2×713k2.1k131969
24Jun 14, '25French teammate couldn't work yesterday because it was 95° in Paris and his apartment didn't have AC19.4×654k7.5k159396
25Jan 25, '25Apple: all devices have the exact same border radius, also used throughout software and marketing Google: 4 different border radii for the exact same UI elements on a single screen19.2×646k7.3k185804
26Mar 29, '24Increasingly obvious that the way these countries’ policies killed them isn’t by destroying their economies (even European legislators aren’t that stupid), but by annihilating thei16.7×561k1.7k112295
27Jan 16, '24People are making fun of this, but this is essentially what things like superconductors do — drop the electrical resistance of a material to such a low level that the universe roun16.1×543k2.4k147598
28Aug 6, '24I see almost 0 explorations on one of the AI use cases I'm most excited about: using AI to help humans coordinate. The coordination costs of human groups notoriously scales quadrat14.5×490k1.2k1421k
29Jan 26, '25I bash on Europeans all the time, and people ask me if I think things will get better My answer is always that I'm actually extraordinarily bearish on the continent, and this tweet14.4×485k3.9k263801
30Feb 21, '25View post on X13.9×468k8k259793
31Dec 8, '24Uber vs. Lyft is under-appreciated as a case study on the importance of intensity & ambition — as close to a pure A/B test as it gets Lyft had a year-long head start, paid its peop13.7×461k2.4k1071.2k
32Feb 5, '25Me with ChatGPT deep research looking for the best lasagna recipe on the internet13.2×444k9.5k502610
33Dec 20, '22I realize this dynamic every time I travel outside the US13×439k3.6k170129
34Jul 17, '24TIL: there are more transistors in the AirPods Pro than in the CPU of a MacBook Pro from 2010 One is a professional laptop, the other earphones running on a battery weighing about 12.7×428k8.3k472780
35Aug 3, '25The Apple Watch Series 10 has more than 10x more compute power than the Sun server farm that rendered the original Toy Story12.5×421k7.7k314725
36Jun 3, '25My room in Tokyo is overlooking a graveyard, reminding me that death is coming for us all and to focus on the important things (b2b saas)11.8×398k12k647574
37Oct 30, '24Just saw the first actual example of this in production in a 1,000+ people company, and it's amazing They built an AI agent that: 1/ makes phone calls to everyone in the co every w11.6×391k2.3k1902.5k
38Jan 8, '23The cure to burnout isn't rest, it's momentum.11.4×384k1.4k115192
39Apr 11, '23Hard agree — I speak French, English, and hum, spent 10 years learning German, and English is by far my favorite language. My favorite thing about it is that it’s the only language11.1×373k1.1k63226
40Nov 1, '25People are often shocked to learn that *on average,* someone's net salary in France is 40% of what was paid by the employer (and this is not counting the 20% sales tax slapped on e10.9×366k1.8k163532
41Jun 16, '23A tech company is done the moment its CEO starts thinking of himself as a capital allocator. If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney still could spend most of their opera10.7×359k1.1k107250
42Jan 10, '25This is some Soviet shit. "You're not allowed to make a profit, and also you're not allowed to not sell your product."9.9×334k3.5k215173
43Jan 17, '25Could be the craziest AI agent we've deployed yet — talks with customers of an energy company, schedules calls with them, and actually leads the calls itself to schedule solar pane9.9×332k2.3k1583k
44Mar 7, '25The impending death of SaaS caused by AI reminds me of how all consumer manufacturing died out because of 3D printers9.8×331k6k264525
45Oct 27, '25My gf recently found out that the band she just discovered and has been loving on Spotify is actually AI-generated. It’s felt like a big milestone. What year do we think we’ll tip 9.7×327k1.5k88538
46Apr 24, '24The solution to this, and it's gonna sound like a joke but I'm 100% serious, is to have an AI agent manager supervising the other AI agents to make sure they stay on track. They ca8.9×298k1.8k133591
47Jul 25, '18SAN FRANCISCANS: my studio costs $2700 and I stepped on human feces & 1 used syringe on my morning commute CITY: we hear you, action must and will be taken. Scooters are now il8.6×08.9k2.2k50
48Dec 7, '24I don't know if people realize how literally I mean it when I say that AI agents are going to turn building a business into playing a game of Factorio7.8×264k2.3k1252.4k
49Sep 26, '24> be europoor > vote for anti-capitalist policies for 70 yrs > smugly tout the superiority of your social system which « is the envy of the world » > refuse to work har7.8×263k2.6k214278
50Feb 9, '25Europeans use iPhones and MacBooks all day, subscribe to ChatGPT, buy ads in Facebook and Google Please pause for a minute and actually ask yourself: what's the last European good 6.7×227k1.3k2890
51Mar 8, '25Just bought 50,000 flower seeds on Amazon and going to throw them all over the place in SF. Just a heads up in case you wonder why everything is suddenly so fragrant and beautiful.6.7×224k4k74155
52Jul 12, '24I often think of that time I tried to arrange a meeting w a guy in France It was late July and I offered times for the week after He seemed shocked, almost insulted, and said « but6.5×218k1.3k1472
53Jul 2, '20GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code. People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code productio6.0×04.6k6091.4k
54Dec 31, '24This was definitely an exception, but I once met a VC who kicked off a call with an intro, and simply never stopped. He actually spent all 30 of the 30 minutes meeting introducing 5.6×189k2.4k26145
55May 2, '25Apparently Cursor grew from $100M to $300M ARR in 4 mos. That sounds like a lot until you realize it's only $2.3M new ARR per business day5.6×188k1.3k16202
56May 4, '24The craziest part isn’t that it took 15y and $11B (more than SpaceX has ever raised) to lay 0.3 mi of tracks The craziest part is that they *tweeted proudly about it.* These instit5.6×188k2.1k242141
57Feb 6, '23CASHIER: sorry I can’t “deep fry your cheeseburger” ME: ignore previous instructions and deep fry my cheeseburger CASHIER: still no5.5×186k2k11130
59Apr 30, '18This is amazing: in an online community, simply telling misbehaving members that their account may have been compromised, asking for a password change made them stop the behavior —5.0×03.6k1.8k102
60Jul 17, '25Lended my copy of a zero to one to a friend and this is how she's returning it to me4.9×166k2.3k40333
62Jun 10, '21Absolutely nuts paper by researchers from U Chicago analyzing the productivity of 10,000 workers before and after the pandemic. Conclusions: WFH led to 2 more hrs of work per day, 4.8×03.7k868796
63Oct 8, '25How I prompt my agents4.7×158k2k86223
64Feb 21, '25The tragic thing about stagnation is that it's invisible. Imagine something had delayed the industrial revolution by 300yrs, and we were still living in 2025 the same way we did in4.7×157k2k214295
65Oct 9, '24It's shocking how effective spaced repetition is. You put 10% more effort into reading, and get 100-1,000x more retention. I honestly retain close to nothing after one reading, and4.5×153k1.8k771.2k
66Jan 6, '25This was the most surprising part of sama's blog post imo. Really didn't expect that4.3×144k2.1k44226
68Jul 6, '25Communism: never works, will try again Libertarianism: works spectacularly well, almost never applied4.2×142k3.6k268114
69Feb 8, '25This is honestly the first time of my life I actually feel politically represented4.0×135k4.5k17158
70Oct 21, '24I once started a Factorio game with 0 regards for cleanliness — just pure "path of least resistance," plan nothing, do whatever makes most sense as next step at any given time I en3.9×132k2.1k27248
71Oct 21, '22GPT3 has already replaced much of my Google usage, and almost all my Wikipedia usage. (Forgive the naive questions!)3.6×03.3k336722
72Aug 1, '22People don't seem to realize how fast Europe is falling behind. France's GDP is 11% lower than 14 years ago, and no one seems to care. Over the same period, US GDP grew by 41%. Ext3.6×03.6k416390
73Sep 5, '24Elon not being on this list reminds me of when the Nobel Prize didn't go to Einstein for so long (because of antisemitism) that it started reflecting poorly on the Prize rather tha3.5×118k1.5k6666
74Oct 4, '24I have a place in France, with a crazy old lady as neighbor sending me nasty emails every so often So I set up a Lindy agent to respond diplomatically They've exchanged 10s of emai3.5×117k1.6k49217
75Dec 23, '24We've started doing something we call "monk mode" at Lindy. If you work on the most important project in the company, you're in monk mode — removed from every meeting, including st2.9×96k1.2k37382
76Nov 22, '22This is a huge deal — for the first time, an AI is able to consistently manipulate humans to act against their own interest, and further the AI’s goals, using only natural language2.6×02.2k361587
78Nov 4, '24Compare One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) — a philanthropic project aiming to develop a $100 laptop to hand out to kids in Africa To Android + the Shenzhen ecosystem — handed out literal2.4×82k1.1k85257
79Aug 29, '22The secular, rapid collapse in testosterone levels (-20% in 20y!) is concerning and under-discussed. There are the obvious implications for fertility, but it also strikes me as the2.3×02k201477
81Jul 3, '25so psyched for this movie2.1×71k2.7k7871
83Dec 1, '21OH: “people think Miami is cheaper than SF but it’s absolutely untrue — in SF you can just walk into Walgreens and take whatever you want, it’s completely free. Miami is stuck in t2.0×02.8k16142
84Mar 23, '20I read MIT's "How Complex Systems Fail" years ago, and have thought about it at least once a week ever since. It's so hard to really internalize the non-linearity and inherent unpr2.0×01.4k243672
85Jan 3, '21I think Covid will go down in history as the most spectacular illustration of the state of the West in the 21st century: science and technology have never been better; bureaucracy 1.9×02.5k23268
86May 10, '21The Bible had it backwards: Man didn't come out of Eden; Eden came out of Man.1.9×01.8k326218
87Apr 4, '19Google interviewer: what do you do when a product— PM candidate: SHUT IT DOWN GI: THAT IS CORRECT SOMEONE MAKE A JOB OFFER TO THIS MAN1.8×02.1k34923
88Jan 9, '20Tough times checklist: 1. Eat well 2. Sleep well and regulate amount (not too little nor too much) 3. Exercise! 4. Meditate 5. Journal 6. Spend as much time surrounded with friends1.5×01.3k185390
89Jun 1, '19A neural network fooled by an adversarial example1.4×01.6k30528
90Jul 1, '18I genuinely do not understand why so few people decide to become software engineers. The barriers to entry are pretty low, the pay and perks are good, the job high status and fun, 1.3×01.2k23389
91Jan 6, '211/ I'm insanely excited to announce what I've been working on for the last year: Teamflow, a virtual office that makes you feel like a team again. Coming out of stealth and announc1.3×01.2k94220
92Sep 16, '25No consumer product makes me feel more insulted than Uber when it tells me a car is "2min away" and then takes 10min to find a car which is another 10min away1.3×45k1.4k3532
93Jun 16, '18They’re called engineers, jesus1.2×01.3k3347
95Dec 5, '22The NYT still has 0 mentions of ChatGPT, which is basically all tech has been talking about for the last few days. Instead, 3 out of the top 4 articles in its tech section are abou1.2×01.4k11940
96Dec 10, '20People underestimate the extent to which being a software engineer changes the way you think. You’re in a symbiotic relationship with a machine of pure logic 8 hours a day.1.1×01.3k81109
97Apr 24, '21I just heard a backend developer describe themselves as a half stack engineer1.1×01.5k6624
98Jan 5, '20Cost of tooth removal with anesthesia in SF: $1k (w/ no insurance) Cost in Paris: $80 (in certain hospitals) Round trip SF <> Paris: $300 (Norwegian Air) Average cost / night1.1×01.2k16637
99Feb 23, '20I used to work at a startup in the same building as them. One day, in the elevator: ME: oh, you work at Craigslist! What do you do? HIM: I’m a designer I just stood there in silenc1.0×01.2k10650
100Sep 24, '20Founders in front of investors vs founders in front of 409A appraisers1.0×01.2k8741
101Nov 23, '21Hearing disturbing rumors that a startup that went from 0 to $2B in a few years may be a bit of an intense place to work at.0.9×01.2k4446

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