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This lets us build our own Salesforce, which means we get a user interface that is highly personalized and much easier to use than the old one.

Same for SAP, Workday, or any of the enterprise apps people are stuck using at work.

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026

Get well soon.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2026

Stop what you’re doing. This is worth 18 minutes.

https://t.co/033UgU9Gm1

— Tak 🦞 (@cherry_mx_reds) April 17, 2026

Hello @vkhosla Raising 2M at a 20M valuation. To be the leading newstech startup in the world: News: The Most Consumed Product Online https://t.co/JKZ7rTcoxq

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

पढ़ना जरूरी नहीं।

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

We're introducing a new Search experience in Chrome in the U.S. today that makes it easier to access and engage with content and dive deeper into what you find, all without switching tabs. Now, when you click on a webpage from AI Mode in Chrome desktop, it opens side-by-side with… pic.twitter.com/h25WAKZa9x

— News from Google (@NewsFromGoogle) April 16, 2026

I'm a slow learner. And a minor in economics.

I interviewed @VitalikButerin back when he was just starting. He developed Ethereum. If I was fast I would have bought some. When I interviewed him an Ethereum cost $2. Today it costs a LOT more.

Same with understanding the new… pic.twitter.com/lKYCwLoghb

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026

Loved this video mashup.

Good luck to all the entrepreneurs doing the hard, meaningful work of building!

1. Value is everything
Build something people genuinely want, not something clever.
A business only works if it creates value and can capture it.

2. Solve real, painful… https://t.co/Y8vefoKdSi

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 17, 2026

Thank u @TheAcademy for sending me down memory lane with Om’s speech… now I truly feel like the King of the world. Ha ha https://t.co/14QeUlPij9

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 17, 2026

Hottest hire in Silicon Valley? Not a Stanford CS grad.

It's the person who can look at 5 AI drafts and say "this one feels right."

AI solved math, code, logic. But it can't tell if your ad makes people cry or cringe.

Taste is the new tech skill. 🧑‍🎓

Welcome to the revenge of… pic.twitter.com/15x5kgMZS6

— Xiaoyin Qu (@quxiaoyin) April 17, 2026

I shared with Jensen Huang @nvidia at @Stanford that what gives America a comparative advantage is that we have the most talented people from around the world come here, work together, and innovate, including at the world's best research universities. pic.twitter.com/ZIdUBVJapN

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) April 17, 2026

For a while now I have been writing in English on X - and I have recently started doing the same on my biggest platform Facebook.

Not because I have abandoned my Danish voice. But because what is happening in Europe is not a Danish problem. It is not a French problem. It is not… pic.twitter.com/uTfktrESPw

— Krisztina Maria (@KrisztinaMaria) April 17, 2026

If AI lives up to the hype, it will erode the traditional long term moats of technology companies. As a result, no one with a brain wants to pay for cashflows far in the future.

These multiples cannot come back unless AI turns out to be a toy. https://t.co/FtECAkA4ta

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April 17, 2026

Tomorrow. YC Startup School India. pic.twitter.com/8JvxWEWiVs

— Jared Friedman (@snowmaker) April 17, 2026

The watchmaker hands a watch back to me, having determined that it can't be repaired:

Watchmaker: My advice is to sell it at auction.

Me: I bought it in an auction.

Watchmaker: You and seventeen other people. That's what happens with these watches.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 17, 2026

Do hard things….. https://t.co/Hzf7WbGQGH

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) April 17, 2026

Jensen on the famous story about Larry Ellison and Elon Musk begging him for GPUs over dinner:

"That never happened. We absolutely had dinner, and it was a wonderful dinner. At no time did they beg for GPUs. They just had to place an order."

Jensen says Nvidia's allocation… pic.twitter.com/wZWi2KudvZ

— Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) April 17, 2026

I need a Starlink phone.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

Correct https://t.co/UX9bjx0yf9

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2026

Lot of catching up to do.

xAI is half the age or less of competitors. https://t.co/umdy5qD8Fw

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2026

He is also soft spoken, well behaved and extremely sweet. His mom makes food and brings it to the hotel ( Best Kadi Chawal & Bhartha among other things ) for the entire team every IPL ❤️I never heard him complain or come late when he sat on the bench. Watching him shine fills me…

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) April 17, 2026

After 3 incredible years, I am leaving OpenAI at the end of next week.

I shared my decision with the OpenAI leadership team at the start of the month and here is a shorter version of what I shared with my team earlier this week.

===
Hi Team,
I have decided to leave OpenAI. The…

— Srinivas Narayanan (@snsf) April 17, 2026

How would you like to work from India?

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

The antidote to slop and entropy is giving an agent symbolic context that is language, hardware and database independent. A lot of that valuable content is in Slack.

This is great. https://t.co/ivwRP5i4dW

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April 17, 2026

Oil matters a lot less than it used to

More charts: https://t.co/vvpPUV7FqY pic.twitter.com/YAYaP5mrnT

— a16z (@a16z) April 17, 2026

India is called the Pharmacy of the world, yet the whole pharma sector in India combined makes less money than global giants like Pfizer or Merck

India’s entire pharma market was about $55 billion in 2025

Compare this to Merck that did $65 billion and Pfizer that did $62.6…

— Aakanksha (@aakancvedi) April 17, 2026

Actually, unless you are Elon Musk you can't read all of X. But if you use the right lists you can get the high value stuff without spending a ton on X API.

The secret is lists.

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026

What happened in Parliament today is a betrayal, plain and simple.

When the moment came to stand for India’s women, some chose disruption over duty, politics over principle, and power over progress. This was not dissent. This was a calculated attempt to block women from their…

— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) April 17, 2026

IT and AI efforts will have highest ROI for Nepal! 💪💪 pic.twitter.com/IOyGd3FS4A

— CG (@chandangoopta) April 17, 2026

“If you ask the wrong question,
the right answer is impossible.”

— Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/EvDhxrywrA

— Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) April 17, 2026

Iconic NYC songs are about how great the city is (Empire State of Mind, New York New York). Iconic London songs are all about how the city is falling apart (London Calling, Streets of London, and uh, London Bridge is Falling Down).

Maybe says something about civic self-image.

— Henry Shevlin (@dioscuri) April 17, 2026

Stop chasing VCs with big names. Look for angels and micro VCs who operate in your stage. They’re hungry for deals and less distracted. Get out there. Network in your niche. Real investors are in the trenches, not the boardrooms.

— Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) (@MartinGTobias) April 17, 2026

We bring in $5 trillion. We spend $7 trillion. We borrow the difference. The Fed prints money to cover it.

That's inflation. And inflation is making you poorer. pic.twitter.com/QR1n0ZguoE

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 17, 2026

One week has passed since Artemis II returned to Earth after a historic mission around the Moon. We laughed, we cried, and we pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, setting the stage for future innovation and exploration.

We’re just getting started. pic.twitter.com/uTOEefrHSt

— NASA (@NASA) April 17, 2026

India is open.
India is ready.

Through #SamudraManthan, we are turning uncertainty into opportunity and data into discovery to power India’s energy future and our quest towards energy aatmanirbharta under the leadership of PM Sh @narendramodi Ji.

At today’s Data-Led… pic.twitter.com/OGUxujEpKf

— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) April 17, 2026

Turn it into a global company.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

I recently completed a Registration for a Land in Punjab.

The amount of bribe we had to pay to the Teshsildar and + 28 other people was insane. The lawyer said everyone has their rate fixed. Even one miss step? Your file will be stuck. The Land I bought was WHITE. For something…

— Pulkit Sharma (@Pulkits77) April 17, 2026

Now that the Strait of Hormuz has fully returned to normal navigation…
A proud reminder:
The UAE stood tall and never bowed even an inch to the Iranian regime’s threats and bullying — exactly as His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed affirmed:
“We will never allow ourselves to… pic.twitter.com/Iy59xK39jW

— سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei (@saif_aldareei) April 17, 2026

I have seen intelligent people destroy their careers by never learning to play dumb strategically. And game theory explains why: in most high-stakes hierarchies, influence is perceived as a zero-sum game. If you appear "too intelligent," you are perceived as a threat. That locks…

— Incentivising (@incentivising) April 17, 2026

Tech earnings expectations keep going up

More charts: https://t.co/vvpPUV7FqY pic.twitter.com/MJfctaF1Vw

— a16z (@a16z) April 17, 2026

I was pleased to be at the Italian Chamber of Deputies to meet with a cross-party delegation of MPs.

We discussed the moral responsibility Italy and Europe have to back Iranians' demand for human rights, religious freedom, Internet access, and an end to the Islamic Republic. pic.twitter.com/zT4HhDMy4X

— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) April 17, 2026

https://t.co/20b1VnWcUn

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April 17, 2026

Looks like @chamath is going into mining.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

Still an early beta, but promising https://t.co/W2M4eUObcN

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2026

I think CSPs, neoscalers and hyperscalers are a big class to be disrupted as the population realizes that a) AI is too powerful to be gatekept by a handful of model makers and b) that energy, permitting and construction isn’t actually a moat. https://t.co/j9vxeeiQY0

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April 17, 2026

This device lets you control machines with just your thoughts.

Without drilling a hole into your skull.

And it was built right here by this Indian startup - @anthriq.

This is not science fiction or a prototype - this is a real product.

They did it with a team of less than 50… pic.twitter.com/GbyWp5C6Tp

— Varun Guru (@iamvarunguru) April 17, 2026

I don't see me wearing it, though. https://t.co/pp0IRHM7hA

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026

आज लोकसभा में बहुत अजीब दृश्य दिखा।

नारी शक्ति वंदन अधिनियम के लिए जरूरी संविधान संशोधन बिल को कांग्रेस, TMC, DMK और समाजवादी पार्टी ने पारित नहीं होने दिया। महिलाओं को 33% आरक्षण देने के बिल को गिरा देना, उसका उत्साह मनाना और जयनाद करना सचमुच निंदनीय और कल्पना से परे है।

अब…

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) April 17, 2026

NYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers

More charts: https://t.co/vvpPUV7FqY pic.twitter.com/7mDBsGeOJV

— a16z (@a16z) April 17, 2026