Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.↗

Breaking news on Pulley and public IOI / offer to acquire them: Before you shut down your startup, hand your customers to your biggest competitor, and accept a fraction of the preference stack back as an earn-out… Meessage me first. Pulley had roughly $50M of preferred capital…↗

I tried asking myself what I'd learned after 40, and it turned out to be a lot of the most important stuff I know. At least 90% of what I know about startups, because I was 40 when we started YC. Plus everything I know about parenting and most of what I know about writing.↗

.@tylercowen says the future belongs to teenage “AI maniacs.” “They spend their spare time mastering AI. They know way more than their so-called teachers. They’re starting companies and building models. They realize this is the future.” Cowen expects these young builders to cre…↗

My first interview with @sama, Co-Founder of @OpenAI. 0:04 How to start a startup 3:30 Trusting exponentials 4:57 Operating in chaotic environments 6:12 Learning to enjoy painful experiences 8:03 Creating abundant intelligence 11:15 Keeping core suppliers on OpenAI’s timelines 1…↗

I've started a new company called @tacitlabsco, an applied research lab at the intersection of AI and biology. 1/n↗

The most AI proof job in the world is entrepreneurship Use it to make products and services. Build more companies. On Shopify or otherwise.↗

Atoms. atoms.co/vision↗

yes, I crossed $1,000,000 / month was trying to keep it quiet but it got leaked on a pod so... let's go quick backstory: I sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio for $8m in 2024 then got back to work and honestly, I was terrified when you set a standard for yourself, you have to live…↗

you've heard of fractional CFOs, but now you can have a fractional co-founder who's an expert in AI. hire me to embed w/ your team, find where AI creates real leverage, and ship it. not in months, in weeks. 22 years. 80+ products. millions in sales. initialcommit.co↗

We just raised $7.2M USD to make insurance feel magical. Nobody has ever said "my insurer was so easy to deal with." We're changing that. @generalmagic_ai builds AI agents that text your customers and complete insurance workflows end to end. 30 minute quotes now take 3.↗

There’s never been a better time to start a company. If you’re a founder, this is an opportunity to have access to the Vercel team, investors and $6M in credits. A new class of companies is emerging. Smaller, flatter, faster growing, autonomous. Agentic. I encourage you to appl…↗

Figured out a better way how to share multiple agent files with codex. Tell it to read files on startup.↗

How do you get leverage as a seed investor? Repeatable Theme(s), Repeatable Network(s), and Repeatable Deal Structures…↗

If you’re new to Cursor, this will help you get started right. Here are a few lessons I wish I knew earlier while building MVPs with Cursor, Bolt, and MCP. Not everything I know, but enough to save you weeks of trial and error ↓↗

Never underestimate the power of One Good Tweet. Rork’s founders were $15k in credit card debt and sleeping on a friend’s mattress when Matt’s post went viral. 15 mins later, Austen Allred wired $100k. By end of day they closed $350k, leading to a $2.8M seed round led by a16z.↗

good read for those building out early teams↗

I’ve scaled Base44 bootstrapped, solo, and mostly organically. Once things started clicking - it took 3 weeks to go from $0 to $1M ARR, and 7 weeks to cross 140k users But before that, I failed miserably at marketing. Here’s a long thread of what worked and what didn’t 🧵↗

I just heard of @Jacobsklug’s Lovable Agency: - Builds MVPs and internal tools for companies with @lovable - Made $173k last month - Built ~12 production-ready apps for clients last month Love it.↗

Learn how to code a SaaS from 0 using AI. I made this free course for beginners to build an internet startup: 1. Learn the coding fundamentals 2. Build a SaaS with a modern tech stack 3. Code and design 10x faster with AI (the video is 3 hours long, bookmark this)↗

@pritika_mehta All you need is nerds, rich people, a government that doesn't get in the way, and time.↗

Ten Things That Matter Right Now in Seed VC…↗

I retired at 32. Went from being CEO of 3 companies to 0 companies in a span of months. This is an honest experience of retirement at 32. After building several successful companies in my 20s, I decided to sell two of them and hand over the CEO role of the remaining company to…↗

100% spot on take I don't take sponsorship money personally But I sell my own stuff: - my startups sell services - I now sell merch - X pays for my shitposting Same strategy as @MrBeast with his chocolate Better to make and control what you sell, because 1) more honest, 2) yo…↗

Sam Altman says AI will make it possible for one person to build a billion dollar company very soon.↗

How we added $100,000 MRR with influencer marketing step-by-step: 1. Find out who your audience watches - To find the first influencer to get you started, just go to your users' Instagram and see which influencers they are following - When you see an influencer that is followed…↗

These 2 Michigan University students founded one of the most popular business newsletter companies. Alex & Austin made the news look cool with Morning Brew. In just 7 years, Morning Brew got: - $50M in annual revenue - 4M+ subscribers Breakdown of how they did it🧵↗

"it takes us three months to build all the AI stuff and it might take Mailchimp 30 months. The question is, is 27 months enough for me and you to go and build every other feature in Mailchimp to the same standard. And if it's not, then we're goosed, we don't really have a play"↗

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.↗

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.↗