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1	Jan 25, '25	I’m three weeks into only eating red meat and eggs. I’ve lost weight without feeling hungry, various body aches and pains have gone and I feel very alert all the time. I presume I	108×	1.3M	5.9k	146	1.9k
2	Mar 24, '25	Autists had a great run, the AI future belongs to ADHD	80.1×	940k	9.3k	714	1.7k
3	Nov 30, '24	Learning Not To Trust the All In Podcast in Ten Minutes:	75.8×	889k	3k	162	855
4	Nov 6, '25	Something that stunned me about @gigaai is they've moved away from the FDE playbook that's become the default for fast growing AI startups. Instead they've built AI to covert plain	55.8×	655k	1.5k	93	1.3k
5	Jan 29, '25	Had a lot of fun going on the Social Radars! It's my first time talking publicly about customers threatening to boycott and employees threatening to quit because I didn't ban James	45.7×	537k	1.1k	55	234
6	Oct 13, '25	Those who can, do; those who can’t, get really into AI safety.	35.8×	420k	1.6k	68	301
7	Nov 4, '25	Giga is quietly growing faster than any company I've ever seen. Doordash chose them for customer support because only their AI agents can handle extremely complex edge cases. Giga	29.3×	344k	656	31	374
8	May 30, '25	Prompting AI agents to consistently do what you want is becoming the most important skill for founders to learn and build their companies around. We share some of the more advanced	28.6×	335k	823	95	1.3k
9	Jul 30, '25	Being the CEO inevitably becomes lonelier as your company grows because trying to be a peer just breeds conflict via mimetic desire. It's an especially hard lesson for agreeable pe	27.2×	319k	2.6k	127	827
10	Apr 21, '23	Today a founder working on personalized customer support emails using LLMs told me they saw increased response rates when they changed the email signature from “Assisted by AI” to	25×	293k	566	43	150
11	May 15, '23	Some rich people keep working hard because they love doing what made them rich. I've found three other types (not mutually excl): the ambitious who keep moving the goalposts, the c	22.4×	263k	859	80	315
12	Oct 3, '25	No database company has grown this fast before. That makes it hard to predict by analogy how big @supabase could end up being and is probably a sign they might be more than just a	21.6×	253k	835	42	125
13	Jul 25, '24	Actually, I think he spent the last decade building a $13.5 billion company.	20.9×	245k	1.3k	24	53
14	Apr 28, '23	Talking fast is a tactic used by some people to sound smarter than they are. It's also how some extremely smart people talk naturally. The difference is the output of ideas. Extrem	20.7×	243k	742	52	90
15	Apr 19, '25	AI will be the greatest engine of social mobility in our lifetime. My parents barely graduated high school and worked minimum wage jobs their whole lives. Many of my successful fri	17.6×	206k	1.6k	154	409
16	Sep 13, '24	AI to build customized enterprise software is an idea we're very interested in funding at YC ().	16.5×	194k	551	39	533
17	Apr 9, '24	Tesla Full Self-Driving drove me to and from work this morning (Palo Alto -> SF). It worked amazingly well and still blows my mind it was an over the air software update. What a	15.9×	187k	594	40	37
18	Dec 21, '24	Caught up with some AI startups recently. A two founder team that reached 1.5m ARR and has only hired one person. Another single founder at 1m ARR and will 3x within a few months.	15.7×	184k	1.5k	90	644
19	Aug 9, '25	We’ll know AGI is postponed once the labs start building features to choose our own background colors and fonts.	15.6×	183k	3k	103	127
20	Nov 12, '25	Congratulations @_groww (YC Winter '18) on going public!	15.2×	178k	527	15	39
21	Jan 27, '25	What a great moment to be a technical founder seeking an idea. Godspeed 🫡	14.4×	169k	612	25	107
22	Jun 18, '25	@BennettSiegel @ColeRotman Sadly we have a history of missing the early fundraising winners. We missed HomeAway and had to settle for Airbnb. Didn't get GrubHub and had to be ok wi	13.2×	154k	682	10	77
23	Dec 29, '23	One theme of this year has been seeing companies start moving faster after reducing headcount. Literally doing more with less.	12.7×	149k	417	54	57
24	Jun 14, '25	If you’re not laughing, you’re working with the wrong people.	12.6×	148k	2k	175	259
25	Aug 25, '25	If you asked for your money back when a startup pivots, don't be an asshole and demand your pro-rata when the pivot works. Especially if you subtweeted it being unethical to not gi	11.9×	139k	813	13	133
26	Aug 26, '23	Startups struggle to raise a Series A because they're not growing fast enough, not because they raised their seed round at a 20m SAFE	11.8×	139k	446	29	58
27	Sep 4, '23	Going to a good college changed my life by recalibrating my ambition. My parents left school at 16 and emigrated to work (multiple) minimum wage jobs. Realizing I was at least as s	11.5×	135k	653	35	65
28	Feb 17, '25	If you're a computer science or engineering student and want to spend the summer working on your own technical project, apply for a YC Summer Fellows Grant ($20k cash and $90k comp	11.2×	131k	386	52	175
29	Nov 15, '24	Some products are so much better than the current way of doing something that you start doing a lot more of the thing. Uber made me pay people to drive me around a lot more. Now Pe	11.2×	131k	754	47	161
30	Sep 20, '25	View post on X	10.9×	127k	1.7k	139	459
31	Dec 28, '24	Some AI products I'd personally love to use, hopefully in 2025: Babel Fish — Airpods that translate any language fast enough for a real conversation. 3Blue1Brown for everything — g	10.6×	125k	728	44	1k
32	May 2, '25	Optimizing AI agents requires writing down the valuable institutional knowledge in your company. Big co’s will struggle with this: middle managers worry about becoming replaceable	10.6×	125k	905	99	490
33	Dec 22, '23	Except the people working longer hours also tend to be the ones delivering excellence	10.5×	123k	426	23	70
34	Jul 31, '23	View post on X	10.5×	123k	854	72	106
35	Oct 17, '25	I've noticed in office hours recently that it's not as easy to come up with pivot ideas as it was even six months ago. The obvious ideas are crowded and new model releases haven't	10.3×	121k	317	15	195
36	Oct 8, '25	Neobanks built on stablecoins in emerging markets (especially India and Latin America) are turning out to be the only startups founded in the past few years that didn't need to cat	10.3×	121k	931	75	298
37	Sep 7, '25	You can’t beat doing important work with people you like.	9.4×	111k	1.1k	113	145
38	Oct 2, '25	Big companies are filled with people lacking intrinsic motivation so they have to quantify inputs as performance metrics: meetings attended, emails sent (preferably late at night),	9.1×	107k	1.2k	64	265
39	Oct 18, '25	AI startups are growing so fast because they’re winning big enterprise contracts that usually would automatically go to their established competitors. But the competitors are fille	9.1×	107k	951	73	261
40	Jun 21, '25	Beware hiring execs with fancy resumes who aren’t able or willing to do the work themselves (also known as administrators). We’ve learned this lesson the hard way.	8.9×	104k	529	64	166
41	Jan 30, '25	I did this with a group of YC founders yesterday with the same result.	8.7×	102k	320	13	87
42	Sep 30, '25	This from @natfriedman's (brilliant) personal website is a great explanation for why telling founders to go slow and take their time is terrible advice. There's no tradeoff between	8.5×	99k	1.1k	92	587
43	Sep 20, '25	Startups should feel like an external grind where you’re always fighting to get customers, not an internal grind where you’re always fighting with your co-founders.	8.3×	97k	1.5k	73	234
44	Mar 30, '25	The good news is there’s never been a better time to learn how to think.	8.2×	96k	1.8k	138	269
45	Jul 27, '23	I’ve had so many great spontaneous conversations since going back to an in-person office culture, it’s hard to believe there was a period during Covid that I believed remote work w	8.1×	95k	384	28	24
46	Apr 11, '25	Art of the Deal works better for one-shot games than iterated games.	7.9×	93k	901	40	103
47	Aug 17, '25	Gemini Pro 2.5 is my favorite model but man the software around it sucks so much. Several times it’s switched to research mode on me and lost the chat history. Google continues to	7.7×	90k	800	30	58
48	Sep 1, '24	Founder mode requires pushing back on the desire of your employees to tell you how great everything is going and resisting your own desire to hear it. Whether that trait is innate	7.6×	89k	632	38	144
49	Jul 6, '19	Years ago, some advice from my sister helped me become happier - you can't expect to get everything you need from a single relationship or person. Find people who give you a part o	7.5×	0	2k	347	178
50	May 3, '25	You can feel here how @_mohansolo, Windsurf CEO, shifts from pride in his AIME math competition score of 14 (which is nuts) to being a little unsettled by how chatGPT's score has g	7.5×	87k	361	20	165
51	Aug 15, '23	Messages like this from a founder in the current YC batch soften the blow of Triplebyte not growing to the size I'd hoped it would when founding it ♥️	7.1×	83k	354	4	19
52	Mar 29, '22	Younger founders especially fear the threat of bigger companies because they’ve never worked at one.	6.9×	0	2.2k	161	118
53	Sep 27, '25	Someone asked me recently why I keep working when I don’t have to and this photo is basically the answer. It’s hard to beat working with people you respect and have fun with. (h/t	6.6×	78k	417	10	39
54	Sep 13, '25	The most important job of a great early stage investor is to genuinely believe in you and help you articulate a vision for how you become huge, so everyone else believes in you too	6.5×	77k	926	89	217
55	Aug 9, '19	1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it	6.5×	0	1.1k	280	465
56	Jun 29, '24	This is what passes as journalism at TechCrunch these days 😐	6.1×	72k	309	14	18
57	Aug 5, '23	One technique for helping pivoting startups find a new idea is telling them since they're failing anyway, they may as well go out with a bang by being self-indulgent and picking so	5.9×	69k	292	15	55
58	Feb 25, '21	That's pretty baller	5.8×	0	1.8k	173	63
59	Sep 23, '25	We think stablecoins are just the start of what’s possible with programmable money and we’re excited to fund teams building what comes next. Thanks @jessepollak for talking with me	5.7×	67k	290	36	70
60	Apr 3, '25	Boarding a long international flight with a toddler and 6 month old. Pls help. @garrytan	5.7×	66k	895	4	27
61	Nov 5, '25	Giga is a special company with founders who are both elite engineers and relentless at sales. This is going to be one of the case studies in how the AI revolution favored extremely	5.6×	66k	387	24	115
62	Nov 5, '25	Voice AI startup Giga raises $61 million to take on customer service automation	5.3×	63k	384	25	90
63	Aug 5, '23	You want confidence to be one of your attributes but not the first one people pick to describe you	5.3×	62k	342	31	39
64	Sep 27, '25	Most culture problems can be solved by explicitly and precisely defining what it means to be good at the job and firing the people who aren’t.	5.0×	58k	720	43	191
65	Jun 19, '25	"Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work."	4.9×	58k	579	57	137
66	Sep 8, '24	One reason companies switch into manager mode is they go multi-product and the founder can’t be in the details on everything and becomes a bottleneck. Managers sell manager mode as	4.8×	56k	465	28	106
67	Sep 28, '22	It’s not just that B players hire C players. It’s that they want to hire a lot of C players.	4.8×	0	1.5k	91	128
68	Apr 8, '25	Managing AI agents by writing evals is so much less awkward than those coffee walks where you figure out the right amount of small talk before telling someone why you're disappoint	4.5×	52k	607	29	170
69	Jun 22, '25	The more I prompt the worse my speling gets as I just asume the LLM will figure out what I meant.	4.4×	52k	562	25	16
70	Jun 16, '25	Thank you @elonmusk for talking to 2,000 technical college students at YC’s AI Startup School. It’s the biggest event we’ve ever done and the energy has been unlike anything I’ve e	4.2×	49k	1k	85	37
71	Dec 2, '24	Let’s regulate leaf blowers. Make America Quiet Again.	4.1×	48k	500	13	15
72	Dec 28, '24	Low performers are a tax on everyone and your best performers won’t be willing to pay it for long	3.8×	44k	586	39	99
73	Jul 12, '25	Commuting in a Tesla with FSD while talking to Grok on voice mode is going to be hard for any other car company to beat.	3.7×	44k	558	14	27
74	Jun 29, '19	Personally, I’d avoid investors who feel the need to tweet this about a startup they passed on.	3.7×	0	1.3k	64	23
75	Jul 5, '19	When I have kids someday, I think the most valuable thing I could teach them is being comfortable around people and opinions they disagree with.	3.7×	0	1.1k	155	36
76	Sep 10, '25	You can now apply for a Series A with two of the smartest investors to have on your side: @daltonc and @paultoo.	3.7×	43k	294	17	57
77	Dec 28, '24	If the right expunge their crazies and the left have to follow suit, then maybe we could dream of a center left vs center right election in 2028.	3.5×	41k	286	11	22
78	May 1, '24	He who labels the data controls the narrative	3.5×	41k	386	40	60
79	Jun 10, '19	Having a vision for your startup doesn't mean predicting the future, it means having a framework for making decisions quickly. Without this, you move too slowly and die through ind	3.4×	0	881	178	90
80	Mar 30, '19	I shared the Lyft company history timeline at our all hands today because it's amazing to remember the founders worked on zimride for 5 years before launching Lyft and then 7 mor	3.3×	0	991	131	40
81	Dec 7, '24	Feels like Bernie is one Joe Rogan appearance away from switching sides	3.0×	36k	430	4	16
82	Sep 26, '24	I think he's the new Bill Gates.	2.9×	34k	297	4	9
83	Jan 27, '25	Suddenly, we’re all feeling the AGI.	2.9×	34k	338	16	17
84	Feb 1, '19	The best habit I've formed this year is waking up and meditating for 15 minutes firs thing. Not even sure it's technically meditation, just sitting still in silence, transforms the	2.8×	0	874	75	41
85	Sep 29, '17	Having a useful skill and using it to help people pro bono is by far the best way of "networking"	2.7×	0	759	185	0
86	Mar 10, '25	Vibe coding is the Diet Coke of programming	2.6×	31k	308	16	14
87	May 11, '19	Yes, the fall from an $80 billion market cap to only $76 billion on the first day of trading must be existentially devastating	2.2×	0	744	65	3
88	May 19, '16	We were skeptical of bootcamps at first. Now I think they should exist for every subject. 3 month sabbaticals for intense learning = future.	2.0×	0	483	160	7
89	Apr 1, '19	In the first three months of 2018, 18% of bay area engineers on @triple_byte expressed interested in relocating elsewhere. In the first three months of 2019 it was 34%.	2.0×	0	539	83	15
90	Apr 16, '25	You mostly manage people by giving them feedback on the output of their work. With agents you can read through their reasoning line by line and give them more precise instructions	1.9×	22k	306	18	112
91	Jan 7, '19	I wrote a post on how to choose a startup to work at by thinking like an investor. I believe advice to ignore value of equity and focus on learning is wrong. How likely you think a	1.8×	0	417	82	78
92	Jun 24, '16	Watching Nigel Farage preemptively declare victory just now for "real, decent people" is one of the most chilling things I've ever seen	1.6×	0	293	169	0
93	Feb 7, '19	1/ I’ve lost a lot of weight over the past couple of years and been asked a lot about the story. Here goes, tl;dr - starting a company was bad for my health and took me a while to	1.5×	0	378	33	77
94	May 18, '21	If you think of "growth stocks" as companies built around a product, they'll always appear overvalued. If you see the company itself as the product and it's led by an ambitious fou	1.4×	0	384	40	58
95	Feb 10, '19	Fitness companies using tech + incentive alignment + social dynamics (Barry's, Soulcycle, Peloton, etc) are obv disrupting gyms. Curious what else they will disrupt as exercise bec	1.3×	0	344	34	40
96	Mar 26, '25	View post on X	1.3×	15k	318	2	13
97	Apr 7, '20	I'm very excited to be back at YC! YC changed the trajectory of my life when I left England to take part in the 2007 winter batch and it will do the same for the hundreds of founde	1.2×	0	376	18	11
98	Mar 30, '19	One reason transparency scales as your company grows is reducing CEO workload. You can just share the same data (literally the same slides) with board, investors and team. The same	1.2×	0	348	56	13
99	Sep 1, '21	Congratulations to the @ycombinator S21 companies! It's been a privilege working with you 🙏	1.1×	0	401	18	5
100	May 10, '19	Anyone writing about daily stock price fluctuations should get free passes to astrology conferences so they can swap techniques, knowledge share, cross pollination of ideas, etc.	1.0×	0	340	40	4

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