| 1 | Jul 23, '25 | Whether it's Steph Curry talking about his shot, or Tiger Woods talking about his stroke, I get chills hearing experts talking about their craft | 187× | 4.7M | 91k | 6.9k | 7.2k |
| 2 | Jul 30, '25 | Nothing has worked in fixing birth rates. Financial incentives didn’t work (Hungary), Nordic socialism didn’t work (Scandinavia), restricting women’s rights didn’t work (Iran), tot | 133× | 3.3M | 16k | 736 | 3.5k |
| 3 | Sep 25 | Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: Our goal is to create the following: - A comprehensive startup directory of investors, com | 66.9× | 1.7M | 3.1k | 207 | 2.5k |
| 4 | Jan 3, '25 | What’s the most credible theory for why there’s been a global shift to the right? Rejection of post-History globalism, open borders, Davos man? Falling birth rates? | 60× | 1.5M | 4.3k | 137 | 633 |
| 5 | Oct 7, '25 | AGI has been achieved internally. Episode dropping tomorrow. | 53× | 1.3M | 5k | 240 | 1.4k |
| 6 | Jan 2, '23 | There should be something like a Wikipedia for careers: Lists of career paths, how & what skills you'll need to break-in & rise up, how much $ you’d earn over time, lifesty | 45.3× | 1.1M | 6.2k | 388 | 1.3k |
| 7 | Jan 12, '25 | Stop texting me this | 36× | 899k | 13k | 758 | 1.7k |
| 8 | Nov 6, '25 | I'm excited to announce the a16z New Media Fellowship. Or as many people are saying, the Thiel Fellowship for the terminally online. Finding highly functional people who are also v | 32.4× | 811k | 1.9k | 120 | 1.1k |
| 9 | Apr 21, '25 | I’m excited to share that: 1. I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. 2. a16z has acquired Turpentine. Everything I’ve worked on over my career has been around in | 29.3× | 733k | 4k | 100 | 628 |
| 10 | Aug 13, '23 | A friend told me that if he has a bad experience or is in a bad mood, he attributes it to a biological need (e.g. hunger, tiredness) rather than psychological one (some complex). E | 27.2× | 680k | 2.2k | 153 | 885 |
| 11 | Oct 9, '25 | I’m hiring someone to convene quality conversations with experts across sectors in group chats & IRL. They need to be online enough to know the memes/discourse but also functio | 27× | 676k | 2.3k | 54 | 764 |
| 12 | Oct 30, '25 | Even my favorite thinkers are often retarded on at least one topic. So when I see someone who’s completely irrational in one area, I don’t discount their expertise elsewhere or the | 24.1× | 603k | 1.9k | 117 | 319 |
| 13 | Nov 21, '23 | Why is the OpenAI board not saying anything? Nearly all of Silicon Valley is defending the other side, and barely anyone one is speaking up for the individual board members because | 19.7× | 494k | 1.1k | 57 | 207 |
| 14 | Nov 2, '25 | Dropping tomorrow | 19.3× | 482k | 1.3k | 25 | 123 |
| 15 | Jul 10, '24 | Clooney thinking he’s the man to finally get through to Biden is a plot straight out of South Park | 18.5× | 464k | 10k | 531 | 140 |
| 16 | Jun 8, '23 | I’m excited to (finally) announce the launch of my newest incubated venture: @TurpentineMedia, a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more covering tech, business, and culture, fr | 18.4× | 459k | 892 | 77 | 299 |
| 17 | Mar 25, '24 | This is a clip worth watching because it explains much of how some establishment journalists attribute value to society versus how producers/builders think about it. “Just because | 18.2× | 456k | 2.1k | 158 | 240 |
| 18 | Jan 4, '24 | It’s funny that plagiarism is the final boss battle for the systemic collapse of academic research. Sure, the studies may be p-hacked and fake, the outcomes may be useless, the fie | 16.3× | 407k | 2.9k | 394 | 243 |
| 19 | May 27, '25 | This is the part of the new job at @a16z that I’m most excited about: Building an incredible team. I’ve been deeply impressed by the level of talent and ambition here and I’m pumpe | 15.6× | 390k | 931 | 53 | 574 |
| 20 | Oct 17, '25 | You can just read 25 books | 15.1× | 378k | 1.5k | 46 | 201 |
| 21 | Sep 30, '25 | I used to think I could only be professionally happy if I were the founder of my own company or firm. I thought working for someone else would stifle my autonomy and creative spiri | 14.4× | 359k | 1.4k | 39 | 409 |
| 22 | Aug 27, '24 | Excited to finally launch the Turpentine Network: a social network for top founders, including CEOs of companies like Databricks, Perplexity, & 400 others totaling over $200B i | 13× | 325k | 877 | 88 | 438 |
| 23 | Jan 23, '25 | The biggest psyop was that DEI leads to better business outcomes. If that were true, we wouldn’t need cultural and legal pressure to do what’s in our own self-interest. It was neve | 12.1× | 303k | 3.4k | 211 | 223 |
| 24 | Jul 26, '25 | Who architected this strategy? I want a behind the scenes video of how this whole thing was conceived, from last week until now. Genius. | 11.9× | 299k | 5.1k | 235 | 315 |
| 25 | Aug 18, '25 | New podcast episode: @dylan522p's hot takes on NVIDIA, OpenAI, Intel, Meta, Apple, and more. (1:11) Reactions to GPT-5 (7:34) The Economics of AI (12:30) Advice for Sam Altman (14: | 11.8× | 296k | 957 | 117 | 1.4k |
| 26 | Jun 19, '24 | Request for startup: Automated performance reviews for engineers using AI. Give it access to a GitHub repository, out comes a stack ranked score of engineers who’ve contributed to | 11.8× | 296k | 1.2k | 166 | 54 |
| 27 | Jun 12, '25 | Excited to release our episode with Adam Neumann, @pmarca and @bhorowitz. I'm inspired by Adam tripling down on Flow by putting hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money int | 10.9× | 272k | 1.1k | 64 | 1.4k |
| 28 | Oct 13, '25 | Classic Hitler move, getting Jewish hostages released and achieving peace. | 10.7× | 269k | 7.7k | 285 | 266 |
| 29 | Jul 27, '25 | My favorite relationship advice is to do whatever it takes to become more secure and positive-sum. When you’re secure, you don’t let the fear of rejection hold you back from pursui | 9.5× | 238k | 1.9k | 148 | 1.3k |
| 30 | Jan 12, '24 | Fiver exists, but someone should make 'Grander' - a site where you can pay $1,000 or more for anyone to do a high-value task. Where's the button you can press on the internet for a | 9.3× | 233k | 984 | 31 | 380 |
| 31 | Jul 22, '24 | I thought I imagined it but I just remembered that the 80-something sitting President who is in physical decline and has COVID and is sequestered where nobody can see him and there | 8.9× | 223k | 871 | 30 | 149 |
| 32 | Jan 3, '24 | Career update: After ~7 great years at Village Global and now that we've closed our third fund, I’m transitioning to a venture partner role where I’ll continue supporting our portf | 8.5× | 213k | 1.1k | 12 | 214 |
| 33 | Jul 30, '25 | @MollySOShea This is the obvious truth no one wants to admit | 8.3× | 207k | 2.1k | 4 | 18 |
| 34 | Nov 19, '19 | A Facebook employee who blocks FB for their kid. An Ivy League professor who has their kid homeschooled / not attend university. A VC who tells their friends to bootstrap and not t | 8.2× | 0 | 5.9k | 1k | 395 |
| 35 | Dec 22, '23 | A major financier is now saying *in public* that the President of Harvard is not only incompetent & a plagiarist, but that she only still has her job b/c the board is scared of | 7.8× | 196k | 1.4k | 122 | 85 |
| 36 | Jul 30, '25 | @AnonaGotta Hard set of circumstances to recreate | 6.8× | 170k | 1.9k | 1 | 33 |
| 37 | Feb 29, '20 | Some of my favorite Naval Ravikant takeaways & quotes from his interviews 👇 "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody else" "Desire | 5.8× | 0 | 3.6k | 749 | 1.3k |
| 38 | Sep 5, '25 | There should be more IRL communal experiences for adults that feel like the best parts of college (in and outside the classroom) | 5.7× | 142k | 1.2k | 53 | 248 |
| 39 | Sep 1, '19 | Underrated skill: taking young people seriously. Treating them w/ similar respect others will give them in a few years--or not immediately discounting them because of their age. La | 5.6× | 0 | 4.7k | 1.1k | 163 |
| 40 | Jul 21, '25 | In my early 30s, as I was hitting a wall, I started asking myself questions like "Why am I working so hard?" "What's it all for?" "Am I climbing the wrong hill?" Now, with more wis | 5.2× | 131k | 1.6k | 18 | 341 |
| 41 | Mar 23, '25 | I love this relationship advice | 4.2× | 104k | 1.4k | 90 | 1.5k |
| 42 | Jul 17, '22 | The hypocrisy of elites: They recommend average outcomes for everyone else, but seek the best for themselves. They recommend harmful behaviors and counterproductive policies for no | 3.9× | 0 | 2.6k | 498 | 685 |
| 43 | Oct 2, '20 | Found a new favorite philosophy podcast, went to look up where the host did his PhD, & instead found this. I'm endlessly inspired by the idea that people can gain world-class e | 3.8× | 0 | 3.4k | 407 | 337 |
| 44 | Jul 30, '19 | Who are the ppl in your career who took a chance on you? Who either put their time, reputation, or even money on the line to open doors for you? I'm inspired by ppl who cosign othe | 3.6× | 0 | 2.3k | 332 | 250 |
| 45 | Aug 17, '20 | I prefer phone to Zoom so I can pace around like a crazy person. | 3.2× | 0 | 3.5k | 280 | 26 |
| 46 | Jan 1, '21 | Here are some of the most interesting books that changed my mind in 2020: Thread👇 | 3.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 123 | 1.1k |
| 47 | Nov 5, '25 | Dropping tomorrow | 2.9× | 71k | 982 | 23 | 117 |
| 48 | Jun 2, '19 | A common trope in VC is to ask whether the most important thing is the product, market, or team. @pmarca @eladgil @arachleff agree: Markets are most important But how to evaluate a | 2.8× | 0 | 1.6k | 307 | 690 |
| 49 | Apr 15, '20 | Here's a meta thread of some of my favorite twitter threads, updated edition 👇 | 2.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 154 | 1.1k |
| 50 | Feb 4, '20 | Underrated skill for founders: Altitude shifting. People are often either good at high-level strategy or atomic-level execution, but rarely both. It's the ability to zoom out & | 2.8× | 0 | 2.2k | 402 | 271 |
| 51 | Mar 28, '20 | Frameworks for coming up with startup ideas 👇 "The best way to come up with startup ideas is to lead an interesting life & be curious. If you put yourself in a position to hav | 2.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 239 | 884 |
| 52 | Apr 17, '19 | Uber and Airbnb are marketplaces that figured out how utilize an idle asset. Airbnb turns spare bedroom into extra cash, Uber turns your car into extra income. However, the most va | 2.7× | 0 | 2k | 481 | 204 |
| 53 | Jan 24, '20 | What’s the best term for the phenomenon by which people create additional complexity in order to preserve their role & importance? | 2.6× | 0 | 1.8k | 208 | 153 |
| 54 | Jun 5, '18 | 1/ Below is my perception/(limited) understanding of Peter Thiel's worldview: People don’t understand how important economic growth is. It’s the only thing sustaining the planet. W | 2.6× | 0 | 1.7k | 400 | 400 |
| 55 | Nov 22, '18 | I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers. Moats should be: - Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you) - Skills that ar | 2.5× | 0 | 1.8k | 303 | 439 |
| 56 | Nov 10, '24 | When Elon hid likes on X, he saved politics but killed romance. | 2.5× | 62k | 1k | 26 | 29 |
| 57 | Dec 26, '19 | Here are some of the most interesting books, ideas, and thinkers I explored, went deep on — and that, as a result, changed my mind — in 2019: Thread 👇 | 2.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 177 | 802 |
| 58 | Aug 19, '20 | What's the best online course you've ever taken? | 2.3× | 0 | 951 | 117 | 830 |
| 59 | May 14, '20 | Michael Jordan, like Steve Jobs, wouldn't be as revered if he came up today A ruthless desire to win / be great is no longer as aspirational as self-acceptance We prefer contentmen | 2.2× | 0 | 1.9k | 245 | 162 |
| 60 | Mar 28, '21 | When you find a person with a high slope/growth rate—invest in them, hire them, find ways to work with them. They’re often insatiably curious, relentlessly resourceful, and either | 2.2× | 0 | 1.9k | 262 | 209 |
| 61 | Oct 29, '19 | Rough summary/takeaways of "Sovereign Individual" (written in 90s): The thesis is that the internet is going to lead to unbundling & modularizing of government. We'll transitio | 2.2× | 0 | 1.2k | 312 | 486 |
| 62 | Mar 15, '20 | Deep Dive into Marketplaces: - Vertical marketplaces - B2B marketplaces - Unit economics - Case studies - Understanding liquidity - Mistakes founders make High-level overview 👇 | 2.1× | 0 | 1k | 170 | 666 |
| 63 | Dec 16, '18 | What are some non-obvious ideas or habits that can change your life—that once you know about them, you don’t want to live without them again? | 1.9× | 0 | 1.1k | 176 | 377 |
| 64 | Mar 2, '18 | Shoutout to everybody who’s — expressing gratitude — refraining from unnecessary judgements, gossip, blame, passive-aggressiveness, etc — forgiving others & themselves — practi | 1.9× | 0 | 1.6k | 436 | 18 |
| 65 | Dec 4, '18 | 1/ Here’s a list of conversational frameworks I’ve picked up that have been helpful. Please add your own. | 1.8× | 0 | 956 | 164 | 524 |
| 66 | Feb 27, '20 | Here are favorite takeaways & quotes from Sam Altman interviews It takes 10yrs to create a great startup. If you don’t love & believe it, you’ll likely give up at some poin | 1.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 221 | 418 |
| 67 | Jan 3, '25 | @rabois | 1.8× | 45k | 1.1k | 21 | 61 |
| 68 | Apr 5, '18 | Some signs of intellectual maturity: — No heroes or villains (ppl are complicated) — Not needing apologies from anyone (e.g. see flaws/mistakes w/ compassion instead of taking it p | 1.8× | 0 | 1.5k | 369 | 64 |
| 69 | Apr 5, '19 | If you started a new co tomorrow, what would you start? "Give away your ideas" - @kevin2kelly e.g. - Kickstarter for ppl - Duolingo for math/science - Mattermark for talent - Airbn | 1.8× | 0 | 1.2k | 137 | 303 |
| 70 | Mar 6, '21 | Personal trainer, but for intellectual growth: You identify what you want to learn and the trainer tells you what to read, who to follow, & assembles domain specific tutors &am | 1.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 83 | 299 |
| 71 | Feb 26, '19 | Underrated skill: managing expectations. More precisely: selling while *also* underpromising—and then overdelivering. | 1.8× | 0 | 1.5k | 254 | 109 |
| 72 | Jan 4, '19 | Invest in friendships only if you plan to have them for the next 50 years. Use your job to build skill-sets you’re going to use for the next 50 years. Pick up hobbies only if you’l | 1.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 250 | 124 |
| 73 | Sep 26, '18 | 1/ In the literature of growth & marketing, there is this concept called “loops” I’m curious to explore “loops” in the context of how people make career decisions and think abo | 1.7× | 0 | 904 | 181 | 427 |
| 74 | Mar 31, '20 | The average ambitious person spends too much time accumulating optionality & too little time taking actual risk. They compete insanely hard to accumulate options for the future | 1.7× | 0 | 1.1k | 168 | 324 |
| 75 | Dec 28, '21 | It's staggering how many talented ppl w/ $ are working jobs they dislike b/c they're scared of the perceived reputational consequences of not having another job lined up but then a | 1.6× | 0 | 1.4k | 55 | 222 |
| 76 | Dec 26, '18 | Invest in your friend’s companies. Even 1k if you can. They’ll appreciate it and you’ll minimize potential regret. Except your dumb friends. Be their advisor. | 1.5× | 0 | 1.5k | 190 | 39 |
| 77 | Jan 15, '20 | The credential is the last element to be unbundled from college: - education (MOOCs) - networks (accelerators) - credentials (stay tuned) My bet: P2P credentials If I trust you &am | 1.5× | 0 | 1.1k | 157 | 169 |
| 78 | Jul 13, '20 | Unbundling the university: Education - YouTube, Masterclass Accountability - Lambda Network/Alumni - Village Global, On Deck Credential - Github for X, P2P Flirting w/ Marxism - Re | 1.5× | 0 | 913 | 127 | 346 |
| 79 | Jan 15, '20 | People look at high valuations in early-stage venture and conclude there’s too much capital. Another explanation for high valuations is we’re suffering a scarcity of (great) founde | 1.5× | 0 | 954 | 126 | 290 |
| 80 | May 23, '19 | If you are trying to sell yourself, and you don’t have world class credentials, sell your rate of growth instead. “Don’t look at what college I went to or companies I’ve worked at, | 1.4× | 0 | 1.1k | 234 | 146 |
| 81 | May 19, '21 | Ever day, 138,000 people are lifted out of poverty. That's been the trend for the last 25 years. That could have been the headline of every newspaper for the last 25 years. But it | 1.4× | 0 | 1.3k | 220 | 57 |
| 82 | Sep 5, '18 | “In my 20's, I worried about what people were thinking about me. In my 30's, I stopping caring what people were thinking about me. In my 40's, I realized no one was really thinking | 1.4× | 0 | 1.3k | 229 | 33 |
| 83 | Feb 12, '20 | Many young ppl feel constrained by lack of big network, but IMO they're constrained by the value they can provide a network They think they need to get coffee w/ X IMO they need to | 1.4× | 0 | 1.1k | 116 | 217 |
| 84 | Jan 6, '19 | What goes around comes around, not because of karma, but b/c game theory Life is infinite game: If you co-operate, ppl will co-operate w/ you. If you defect, ppl will defect. To ge | 1.3× | 0 | 1.1k | 219 | 72 |
| 85 | Aug 16, '19 | There will be many more multi-billion dollar businesses in the people search & matchmaking spaces. “People Search Engines”: - Career - Dating - Friendship - Interests / hobbies | 1.3× | 0 | 949 | 121 | 200 |
| 86 | Dec 21, '19 | in 2005, @paulg discovered an arbitrage opportunity by identifying that young technical founders were being overlooked in 2019, with the rise of no-code & the intense focus on | 1.3× | 0 | 1.1k | 97 | 150 |
| 87 | Mar 2, '19 | One of my favorite things is finding people who are great and unknown -- high aptitude, low credential -- and amplifying, connecting, and working with them. | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 103 | 96 |
| 88 | Dec 25, '18 | Highly underrated skill: Transforming an idea into a meme. You have to capture the essence of an idea such that it’s so crisp & compelling the reader immediately gets it + shar | 1.2× | 0 | 1.1k | 159 | 57 |
| 89 | Feb 21, '20 | Difference btw West & East Coast mentality re: money East: Conflict of interest. If you have an investment in something, your word is less credible West: Put your money where y | 1.2× | 0 | 1.1k | 117 | 82 |
| 90 | Aug 16, '19 | Underrated skill: Not taking it personally when someone you reach out to doesn’t respond or even rebuffs you Some of my closest working dynamics are with folks who were once either | 1.2× | 0 | 1k | 149 | 92 |
| 91 | Jan 14, '21 | Sometimes you meet someone when they’re scattered and then they start a company and ask you to invest and you’re like “nah, they’re too scattered” and then they become a unicorn an | 1.2× | 0 | 1.1k | 93 | 75 |
| 92 | Oct 21, '21 | Sharing some big news today: - We’ve launched a $100M community-backed accelerator to fund people as early as pre-company - We provide $25K advances for people to quit their job an | 1.1× | 0 | 915 | 82 | 140 |
| 93 | Jan 18, '18 | OH: “How do you retain employees who became crypto rich?” “Wait three days.” Cc @rabois @jaltma | 1.1× | 0 | 999 | 201 | 0 |
| 94 | Mar 3, '19 | Spoke to three people this week who wanted to leave their job / start a company but couldn’t because of visa issues. Such a deadweight loss to society. | 1.1× | 0 | 1.1k | 83 | 24 |
| 95 | Mar 2, '19 | Underrated skill: Not taking rejection personally. Paradoxically, people sometimes want to know that they can reject you without penalty (that they don’t "owe" you anything) before | 1.1× | 0 | 903 | 140 | 97 |
| 96 | Mar 29, '20 | If college students are forced to stay at home for significantly longer, it'll be harder to obfuscate how overpriced many colleges are. Why are students paying so much for online e | 1.0× | 0 | 977 | 138 | 22 |
| 97 | Aug 13, '19 | There’s an arbitrage opportunity in discovering people who are great at what they do but weak at selling themselves, describing their career ambitions, or even finding the right ro | 1.0× | 0 | 930 | 96 | 74 |
| 98 | Oct 14, '21 | Tfw you chat with someone so ambitious you realize you could think bigger. Like an order of magnitude bigger. | 1.0× | 0 | 994 | 72 | 81 |
| 99 | Sep 4, '19 | "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?" I like this Q because it also attacks the deeper idea some ppl have that cynicism/bitterness/pessimism is somehow a cooler aesthetic or | 1.0× | 0 | 871 | 122 | 65 |
| 100 | Sep 6, '19 | The first fund idea I had was "backing founders for life." Founders often take a few swings before hitting their home run. Someone should do this: Identify founders you want to be | 1.0× | 0 | 879 | 84 | 50 |
| 101 | Jan 29, '21 | 2011: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy 2021: The next big thing will start out looking like a meme | 0.9× | 0 | 913 | 82 | 32 |
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