| 1 | Jul 2, '25 | PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week | 357× | 23.1M | 25k | 2.3k | 8.5k |
| 2 | Jul 2, '25 | Not a joke. This is happening real time. This is the 3rd DM today about someone firing him. soham-gate | 91.2× | 5.9M | 19k | 954 | 3.1k |
| 3 | Jul 2, '25 | Probably 90% fake and most links are gone. | 33× | 2.1M | 4.1k | 191 | 2.5k |
| 4 | Nov 7, '23 | The Google AI team is in such a tough place: the targets will keep moving as their competitors advance. Any launch will hurt the brand that doesn’t live up to expectations which ar | 30.7× | 2M | 2.5k | 148 | 383 |
| 5 | Jul 3, '25 | Soham has reached out. His primary question: “Asking this as genuine advice since I do really love what I do, have I completely sabotaged my career? What can I do to improve my sit | 28.3× | 1.8M | 8.5k | 240 | 1.5k |
| 6 | Aug 29, '24 | 1/ I am excited to announce the new Playground: Design graphics like a Pro. You can make T-shirts, Logos, Social Media Posts, and even invent new kinds of memes. Powered by our nex | 26× | 1.7M | 3.6k | 318 | 4.1k |
| 7 | Nov 6, '23 | Where. Is. Google. | 25.8× | 1.7M | 3.1k | 124 | 133 |
| 8 | Nov 26, '23 | What are some foundational ML/AI books? I'd like to invest in my fundamentals more. Ideally something students might read during their PhD. | 24× | 1.6M | 2.5k | 178 | 6.8k |
| 9 | Jul 25, '23 | There's a full blown run on GPU compute on a level I think people do not fully comprehend right now. Holy cow. | 21.7× | 1.4M | 2.4k | 190 | 484 |
| 10 | Jan 7, '24 | I am done with this "news" organization for life. | 17.4× | 1.1M | 2.3k | 106 | 87 |
| 11 | Jan 23, '23 | 1/ Introducing AI-first image editing to Playground—a way to instruct an AI to synthesize spectacular yet subtle edits Try it here: We are blown away by the creative possibilities | 15.9× | 1M | 3.3k | 536 | 1.8k |
| 12 | May 2, '23 | A graphics revolution is occurring in AI. Incredible research from NVIDIA. | 14.9× | 965k | 7.1k | 1.1k | 761 |
| 13 | Feb 5, '23 | I hope Sundar calls theirs ChaatGPT. | 14.6× | 945k | 3.6k | 159 | 45 |
| 14 | Jun 25, '25 | I don't really get Claude Code. Why do you guys want to sit in a terminal to look over changes vs the multi-tasking capability and UX of the whole IDE? I must be missing something! | 14.4× | 933k | 3.9k | 79 | 1.4k |
| 15 | Mar 17, '23 | It’s quite frustrating to feel so behind in software right now after so intensely being a student of it since 8th grade. I am not sure how to catch up other than just continuing to | 14.3× | 927k | 3.3k | 210 | 671 |
| 16 | Jul 2, '25 | I want to also say that I tried to talk sense into this guy, explain the impact, and give him a chance to turn a new leaf because sometimes that’s what a person needs. But it clear | 14.2× | 922k | 4.2k | 80 | 160 |
| 17 | Jul 8, '24 | Having a prototype is 10x more valuable than a design. Having a design is 10x more valuable than having a little doc. Having a doc is 10x more valuable than having an idea in your | 13.5× | 878k | 3.8k | 526 | 1.3k |
| 18 | Dec 18, '22 | .@elonmusk just take the night. Too many impulsive calls today. Tomorrow is a new day. | 13× | 846k | 2.6k | 49 | 30 |
| 19 | Jan 22, '25 | Excel is invincible. Nothing will ever take it out, not even superhuman AI. | 12.7× | 826k | 15k | 877 | 6.1k |
| 20 | Nov 14, '24 | .@gwern I will do it. Please DM me. Let's get you out to the worlds most ambitious city. I will help you get completely set up, relocated, and living next to whatever inspires you | 12.6× | 817k | 4.8k | 143 | 737 |
| 21 | Nov 28, '23 | Internet is gonna be wild next year because of AI and it's only just begun: | 12.6× | 815k | 3.8k | 452 | 437 |
| 22 | Dec 26, '24 | The open racism of Indians is a gift from the weak minded to us that we need to plan for the future. This is just the beginning. | 12.5× | 812k | 8.8k | 507 | 736 |
| 23 | May 25, '23 | I once emailed Jensen cold last year and he got a driver bug fixed in 12 hours. 30 years after its founding, this guy still acts like a hardcore founder. Jensen is the best tech CE | 12.2× | 789k | 3.8k | 175 | 348 |
| 24 | Apr 14, '21 | 1/ The first 18 months of a startup: After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned | 11.7× | 0 | 13k | 2.8k | 8.8k |
| 25 | Dec 20, '24 | Every. Single. Week. There's. A. Breakthrough. Do you realize this has been going on for 2 years straight? | 11.6× | 755k | 4.6k | 246 | 409 |
| 26 | Jul 25, '23 | The PMs have arrived. | 11.5× | 744k | 5.7k | 215 | 127 |
| 27 | Nov 18, '23 | Brian probably *actually* knows what happened. And if he's going to bat, it's probably not a great reason. | 11.4× | 740k | 2.4k | 80 | 164 |
| 28 | Sep 2, '25 | You cannot force highly skilled people to work a set number of hours. They will just pretend to which is easy to do. They’ll read Reddit, make easy tasks stretch in time, have a lo | 10.4× | 673k | 12k | 710 | 2.6k |
| 29 | Sep 28, '22 | There's no doubt in my mind that making AI art is real art. I spent about 1.5 hours tweaking things to produce these visuals. The hair, perfect red lipstick color, focus, eyes, wri | 9.8× | 0 | 5.1k | 351 | 1.3k |
| 30 | Jan 1, '24 | When I was 20, I coded through new years eve because I felt stuck in life. I launched Mixpanel on Jan 1. Nobody noticed but I had a deadline to hit. I salute you hackers tonight 🫡 | 9.7× | 631k | 3.9k | 132 | 366 |
| 31 | Dec 27, '24 | In honor of great Indian people, I signed an offer letter of an Indian who requires an H1B to work in America today. Long live skilled immigration! | 8.1× | 523k | 7.2k | 296 | 352 |
| 32 | May 21, '18 | 1/ I became "CEO" at 20. I dropped out of college. I had only interned somewhere prev. Looking back, I couldn't imagine the journey that would occur from writing code all day to sc | 7.9× | 0 | 11k | 3k | 3.1k |
| 33 | Aug 2, '23 | In a stunning plot twist, the west has determined that Indian-style bio data might be better. 😂🤣 | 7.9× | 511k | 3.7k | 275 | 311 |
| 34 | Jul 2, '25 | I am going to get canceled once this hits the socialists who will ignore the fraud part to defend having multiple jobs. It was good knowing you all. 🫡 Didn’t expect it to leave te | 7.6× | 494k | 3.1k | 48 | 211 |
| 35 | Jan 1, '24 | Today is day 1 to start this: | 7.2× | 468k | 3.9k | 489 | 2k |
| 36 | Jul 2, '25 | @asharoraa Gets nothing done. Made up constant lies. Corroborated by 6+ other companies. The tweet will surface 10+ more - you’ll see. | 6.3× | 410k | 3.1k | 43 | 130 |
| 37 | Nov 1, '24 | It took 26 years for the search engine wars to begin again. I always wondered when things would shake up Google. | 5.6× | 365k | 4.5k | 202 | 290 |
| 38 | Aug 23, '25 | I don't understand what is wrong with writers like this. How can you not be blown away by the progress of SpaceX? How can you doubt them at this point? What does discouraging them | 5.6× | 363k | 5.5k | 165 | 141 |
| 39 | Aug 26, '24 | Practically every CEO that runs a social network or messaging app can go to jail in France. | 5.4× | 351k | 3.2k | 331 | 195 |
| 40 | Nov 5, '25 | My favorite way to learn is now uploading a bunch of source material to AI and then doing this: “Help me understand this paper step by step. Go from high level (simple explanations | 5.3× | 343k | 4.9k | 456 | 6.8k |
| 41 | Jun 24, '25 | "Startups" | 4.7× | 306k | 3k | 254 | 723 |
| 42 | Apr 19, '25 | This is the most inspiring thing I’ve read in AI in the last two years: What a beautiful future ahead, just happy to take part in it. | 4.7× | 305k | 3.1k | 410 | 5.7k |
| 43 | May 16, '18 | 1/ Let's talk about fundraising: In 2009, Y Combinator only gave us $15K, half our YC batch died after demo day, 11 firms told us no, 2 firms wanted to find us a CEO, 1 VC told me, | 4.7× | 0 | 6.4k | 2k | 1.3k |
| 44 | Dec 18, '22 | I do not fear failure. I fear spending many long years pursuing something that never mattered. | 4.6× | 299k | 2.4k | 334 | 211 |
| 45 | Jun 27, '22 | 1/ Starting my road to learning about AI. I’ve done some courses here and there but I am planning a more consistent effort over the next few years. Mostly documenting my path for o | 4.6× | 0 | 3.6k | 387 | 4.9k |
| 46 | Feb 24, '22 | 1/ Cyber attack thread of the ongoing invasion: | 4.5× | 0 | 7.2k | 1.5k | 1.8k |
| 47 | Jan 9, '25 | It is time to vote Gavin Newsom out of office. He has failed our state on numerous levels. Enough is enough. | ⚡ 4.4× | 37.1M | 10k | 1.1k | 100 |
| 48 | Jan 24, '25 | Never underestimate two ~20-year old engineers with no responsibilities and a few million bucks. | 4.4× | 283k | 6k | 247 | 470 |
| 49 | Sep 29, '22 | They say it's "soulless" | 3.6× | 0 | 2.9k | 192 | 249 |
| 50 | May 25, '21 | Be Mighty: a fast browser that lets you have more tabs with less memory. Watch to feel joy! We put a lot of love into this. | 3.3× | 0 | 6.7k | 488 | 659 |
| 51 | Nov 13, '24 | The ex-PayPal mafia is still the most insanely talented group of people we’ve ever seen. It just astounds me how ambitious and good at execution they all are after two decades. The | 3.1× | 202k | 3k | 153 | 335 |
| 52 | Jun 17, '20 | You don't need to pick anyone's brain anymore about startups. This is 10x more information than I had when I started out: The onus is on you! You got this. 💪 | 3.1× | 0 | 3.9k | 850 | 2k |
| 53 | Feb 17, '22 | I think I’ve done 2,000 interviews. I've seen things. AMA | 3.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 334 | 2.6k |
| 54 | Dec 25, '24 | I don’t know what happened with Indian people today but we are gonna rule the whole world soon. Better learn to eat spicy food, not laugh at our accents, and get your head wobble r | 2.9× | 185k | 2.3k | 89 | 154 |
| 55 | Jan 16, '22 | Apparently Google has released a ton of new ML/AI datasets in the last year or so. If I was going to start a new company, I’d start experimenting with these for inspiration. This i | 2.6× | 0 | 3.4k | 429 | 1.9k |
| 56 | Nov 13, '22 | 1/ A bit of news: last week I decided to stop working on Mighty after 3.5 years 😓. If anyone is interested in buying the IP, please reach out. This week our team will begin work o | 2.4× | 0 | 4.7k | 163 | 846 |
| 57 | Nov 14, '22 | I failed. It’s ok. I will try my hardest again. Because that’s what it takes. | 2.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 372 | 229 |
| 58 | Jan 1, '22 | Today is day 1 to start this: | 2.3× | 0 | 4.3k | 527 | 934 |
| 59 | Jul 15, '24 | Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearl | 2.3× | 151k | 2.9k | 451 | 912 |
| 60 | May 8, '22 | Imagine VCs take 80% of your company for funding, make you payback the funding through your first profits, and all they mostly do is help you find some hosting for your website. Th | 2.2× | 0 | 4.8k | 488 | 394 |
| 61 | Jun 3 | 1/ it all started w 2 8xB200s excited to be back in the game again | 2.2× | 142k | 307 | 8 | 60 |
| 62 | Nov 2, '21 | Microsoft does not hold back. A full Notion clone: | 2.1× | 0 | 3.8k | 464 | 433 |
| 63 | Jun 5, '18 | 1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured ou | 2.1× | 0 | 3k | 988 | 578 |
| 64 | Feb 12, '21 | Craft like Apple, dream like SpaceX, communicate like Gitlab, ship quickly like Cloudflare, focus like Stripe, commit like Amazon. | 2.0× | 0 | 4.1k | 505 | 516 |
| 65 | Apr 27, '21 | 1/ Today we're unveiling Mighty: a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud. Demo in the next tweet 👇 New website: | 2.0× | 0 | 3k | 326 | 529 |
| 66 | Jan 12, '22 | I think people do not fully grasp how competitive the global talent market will become with remote work soon. It is going to become irrelevant to migrate to the US. SV hacked aroun | 1.9× | 0 | 3.8k | 493 | 383 |
| 67 | Nov 10, '22 | JUST IN: Elon Musk is programming at Twitter. Ships first PR. | 1.9× | 0 | 4.7k | 209 | 130 |
| 68 | Dec 2, '19 | In year one you likely don’t need: - A fancy office - A full-time assistant - An office / ops mgr - 2000+ sqft of office space - Fancy furniture - Lots of employees (> 10) - Per | 1.8× | 0 | 3.7k | 676 | 295 |
| 69 | Jun 9, '21 | Twitter Spaces > Clubhouse. It just works. 23K+ people in a space listening to the President of El Salvador. Well done @jack - you beat the odds, well. | 1.8× | 0 | 4.6k | 398 | 83 |
| 70 | May 28, '21 | I am fairly certain most people cannot have their best ideas if they are in back to back meetings every day. You need time to question things and then research it. So, if you wonde | 1.8× | 0 | 3.8k | 534 | 233 |
| 71 | Oct 12, '22 | I applaud Zuck and Meta for trying something so bold and ambitious in the face of what it risks. It’s easy to be a critic but much harder to build. | 1.7× | 0 | 4.1k | 242 | 82 |
| 72 | Sep 8, '19 | Startup vanity: Valuation, Press, Funding, # of Employees, Offices, Meetings w/ famous people, Meeting to give lots of advice Success: Revenue, Users, Word of mouth, Retention, Ser | 1.7× | 0 | 3k | 770 | 298 |
| 73 | Jan 3, '21 | I am still willing to bet that Ethereum will significantly eclipse Bitcoin long-term. It's one of very few things that makes the Internet feel exciting again. | 1.6× | 0 | 3.4k | 274 | 371 |
| 74 | Jul 7, '18 | FanDuel raised $416M at a $1.3B valuation & got acquired for $465M. The founders will get nothing after nearly 10 years--can't really beat pref stack. Maybe they took something | 1.5× | 0 | 2.8k | 783 | 94 |
| 75 | Feb 20, '22 | Kanye West documentary is excellent. If you're a founder, it'll hit you right in the chest. Made me want to work even harder. | 1.5× | 0 | 3.3k | 299 | 359 |
| 76 | Sep 12, '19 | Things I’ve used to start a new company: - Discord instead of Slack - Google domains - Still using G-Suite - Still using Github - More Node & TypeScript vs Python - Typeform is | 1.5× | 0 | 2.7k | 327 | 631 |
| 77 | Feb 27, '20 | Problems remote work has that need to be solved: - Loneliness - Pairing quickly on problems - Whiteboard brainstorm sessions - Team comrade - Quick drive-by conversations (sometime | 1.5× | 0 | 2.8k | 361 | 435 |
| 78 | Jul 22, '21 | "'Cause it's next" | 1.5× | 0 | 3.3k | 405 | 150 |
| 79 | Dec 11, '21 | Startups are the best way to meet all your heroes in an industry. People who get shit done are almost always willing to meet, dream, and give away secrets about the future—so long | 1.5× | 0 | 3.4k | 317 | 280 |
| 80 | Jul 20, '20 | The highest honor while building a startup is when people put your product in their resume as a skill. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.5k | 339 | 101 |
| 81 | Apr 9, '19 | Founders: we need the best engineers to work on our hardest problems! Engineers: I want to work on AI, interesting hardware problems, and scaling! Reality: hey, so can you make a l | 1.4× | 0 | 3k | 566 | 54 |
| 82 | Feb 12, '19 | 'The hardest part in a startup is that you wake up one morning, and you feel great about the day, and you think, "We're kicking ass." And then you wake up the next morning, and you | 1.3× | 0 | 2.7k | 565 | 74 |
| 83 | Jan 30, '19 | One of the less talked about realities of achieving something great is the sheer amount of time you have to be alone, toiling until the thing you’re creating is great. Much of one’ | 1.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 544 | 163 |
| 84 | Jul 18, '18 | There's no upside in hating on someone's idea. You come off as non-believer or ruin their confidence. Instead, just ask the questions that make you hesitate & let them come to | 1.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 560 | 146 |
| 85 | Feb 25, '21 | If you really want to test user retention, log all your users out and then see if they care enough to log back in. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.1k | 217 | 143 |
| 86 | Nov 19, '21 | Ambitious billionaires are insurance against incompetent politicians. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 255 | 83 |
| 87 | Aug 17, '18 | In summary, 600+ comments later: Excercise Eat healthier Guard your time Start a family sooner Work on sleeping better Care less about what people think Don't buy stainless steel f | 1.2× | 0 | 2.5k | 476 | 151 |
| 88 | Nov 30, '22 | The ultimate sign that the product managers have arrived: | 1.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 146 | 190 |
| 89 | Jan 9, '25 | He has failed us on drugs, homelessness, housing, prostitution, debt, expediency on critical infrastructure, entrepreneurship, and now protecting us from these fires. This is not a | 1.2× | 79k | 2.4k | 251 | 32 |
| 90 | Feb 23, '22 | The easiest way I've found to determine how good of a manager you are is to take a 2-week vacation and see what happens while you're out. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.7k | 162 | 268 |
| 91 | Jan 3, '21 | “SpaceX is talking about churning out Starships at a rate of one every 72 hours for a cost of $5 million each.” Wow. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.5k | 332 | 104 |
| 92 | Jan 5, '21 | Momentum is oxygen for a startup. Without momentum, you let fear, uncertainty, and doubt cause your demise. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.5k | 326 | 241 |
| 93 | Sep 25, '20 | You can make someone a 20% better engineer but you can't make someone genuinely care about the product you're making. That's why I'd rather work with someone worse technically that | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 283 | 173 |
| 94 | Nov 13, '22 | Burned the boat. All in on AI. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 106 | 126 |
| 95 | Jan 25, '21 | At long last, we finally reached a milestone we set out to hit 18 months ago: 10 happy users who don't want to go back to Chrome, use the product for hours every day, and pay for i | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 105 | 248 |
| 96 | Feb 27, '22 | Hacker groups are now dropping ransomware but not requesting money. They're requesting a withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukraine to add pressure. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 237 | 55 |
| 97 | Aug 6, '22 | I wish AI researchers wrote highly readable blog posts (not research papers) with code (instead of math formulas) and gifs showing demos. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 161 | 240 |
| 98 | Dec 21, '21 | I am day 2 into a vacation and I pitched my wife a new startup idea. 😖 | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 87 | 50 |
| 99 | Jun 2, '22 | Who has at least 40 open tabs open right now? | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 71 | 42 |
| 100 | Apr 14, '22 | There’s nothing hostile about this Twitter takeover. It’s hostile to not be shipping and improving the product at the rate it could for its users. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.7k | 145 | 29 |
| 101 | Jul 3, '21 | The first 10 paid users took 18 mo. Getting to 50 took 6 mo. I think we will be at 100 in less than 2 mo. This all takes a lot of time, iteration, and grit. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.4k | 149 | 193 |
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