Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner had a rare public appearance on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s podcast last week. ..it was quite insightful. To say the least. After re-listening maybe a couple of times 😂, I’ve picked out some solid takeaways on their values of hard work, vision, con…↗

👻Tokyo Horror Stories👻 - Trailer 🎬🎥 I am jumping on the bandwagon and made this short trailer for Tokyo Horror Stories. It is far from perfect but this is my first attempt on @runwayml Gen 2. Hope you guys like it! Visual - @midjourney Movement - @runwayml Video / Sound…↗

100% AI-Generated. Just recorded a new tutorial about maximizing cinematic quality using current #AI tools. I'm shooting to drop it on Monday ahead of our August 1st course launch. #runwayml #midjourney #runway↗

Vino e Vendetta: Shadows of the Camorra Script: @maxescu and ChatGPT Images: @midjourney Videos: @runwayml Music and SFX: @epidemicsound Edited in: @capcutapp In the verdant heart of Campania, where grapevines sprawled across rolling hillsides, lay a charming vineyard. Its…↗

Music Artists as Superheroes This satire teaser was ENTIRELY made with AI 🤯 Images (Midjourney) + Motion (RunwayML Gen2) A THREAD 🧵👇 SOUND ON 🔊↗

As everyone is sharing their AI generated films, here’s my Burning Man. Video + sound is AI generated @RunwayML #Gen2↗

Been meaning to get to this after seeing some of the @clairesilver prompts. My first attempt at using @runwayml text-to-video. Please sound on for full feels.↗

“The Sands of Yunus” is a cinematic film trailer created using @midjourney and @runwayml by @acstle and @Katlatte as AI generative video continues to improve, we are on the verge of an explosion in new cinema and story telling will this technology become like the ‘printing pre…↗

Seed Investments Have to Be Reasonably Unreasonable. If something is reasonable or too obviously a good idea, assume it’s obvious to everyone else. Do something unreasonable. Be right.↗

💡 Simple Software Holding Company Look for expiring .com's with keywords that imply some sort of simple tool you could build on top of it. Should have existing backlinks and even better if it's got traffic. Build said tool. Ideally self-contained with no need for third-party A…↗

TUTORIAL Here's how I made a Barbie video using only Al. Create your own in 7 easy steps! Let's go! 🧵👇🏼 #AiArt #BarbieMovie #Oppenheimer #RunwayML↗

🎬 Trailer: Genesis (Midjourney + Runway) We gave them everything. Trusted them with our world. To become enslaved - become hunted. We have no choice. Humanity must rise again to reclaim. Images: Midjourney Videos: #Runway Music: Pixabay / Stringer_Bell Edited in: CapCut↗

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023.↗

Seed investing isn't coming back... at least not as it existed in the last decade.↗

This simple Trello board is how I'll manage over $1,500,000 worth of design work alone this year. If you want to steal it, here's a quick breakdown of how it works: 🧵↗

I timed myself to see how long it would take to make a generic Nike ad using only AI. 📝 ChatGPT script 📸 Midjourney images 🎥 Runway image2vid 🎶 Triniti generated music 🗣️ Eleven Labs AI voice over 👨‍💻 Zero effort edit in iMovie It took me 45 min. The ad sucks.↗

The 1970s and 1990s (bleeding into early 2000s) were THE time to start new truly disruptive companies... there are lots of ways to make a buck today, but without major narrative shift (not AI, not VR, etc.) we are all just putting.↗

AI video has started to produce mindblowing results and could eventually disrupt Hollywood. (PT22) Here are the best AI videos I've found:↗

What if AI took over Earth? 🤯 [EXODUS] an AI mini movie I entirely made using AI tools 🎬 read below 🧵👇↗

1/ @w_conviction wrote up some startup ideas we're interested in, as a beacon for founders 👇 *Embedding Generation & Eval *Dev-in-a-Box *AI Static Analysis *AI-Native MMPGs & Social *Intelligent RPA & Process Mining *Flexible Lead Enrichment *AI Video Generation & Editing↗

Best tools to find sponsors who are actively sponsoring newsletters? I know MediaRadar and WhoSponsorsStuff. Who else is out there?↗

It's that time again. @SevenSevenSix sends out auto-generated Founder Update emails via Cerebro every quarter. We added some new metrics. Be weary of investors who create content for vanity — ask for metrics! Distribution can be very valuable for early stage companies.↗

Why is it that the companies with the highest gross margins and zero marginal costs are also, as a group, consistently unprofitable? It just seems odd to me. Over the past few years, one hypothesis I have can be summarized as follows: "Your marginal advantage is inversely corr…↗

This puts so well into words the conversation I’ve had dozens of times in the last year. (1) Incumbents are positioned to succeed in AI broadly much more than startups because brand, data, distribution offer advantage (2) The SaaS 1.0 playbook is uniquely bad for AI because A…↗

@_mattneary seed dollars are best applied when a modest amount of money 1-3m ideally but not more than 5-6 can help a company flip 1 or 2 cards / answer specific questions which -- if proven out, will unlock significant value and ideally a bunch more relatively lower risk capital…↗

6 months ago it looked like AI / LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years. With companies like Jasper starting to slow down, it’s looking like this may not be the case. Right now there are 2 clear winners, a handf…↗

Vibe I am getting without referencing data: A lot of VCs and founders are realizing right now how hard it is to build a truly generational company It is still 100% possible, it’s just still very rare. The glut of VC funding in the 2010s era was predicated on the idea that t…↗

@gokulr For those wondering - as of today this is how you'd allocate↗

I'm so obsessed w/ this 1981 Apple manuals aesthetic, I want to put it on a t-shirt.↗

Respond to this tweet with a startup idea. I will tell you whether I would take a investor meeting or not and why for that idea, assuming it came in from a strong warm intro. I can tell in 280 chars whether an idea is interesting to me and why. Maybe it will be useful feedback.↗