nobody in my family has ever left kazakhstan. i just flew half the globe to SF.
— Igor Blink (@IgorBlinkk) June 1, 2026
a week ago, i was in my village of 2,000 people with 3mb/s internet.
a year ago, i didn't even know what a SAFE note was.
today, i'm 17, standing in sf with $300k raised from top investors to build… pic.twitter.com/CYvhoYODnj
Amazing story.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
secret to doing hard things: work with people who are fun when things are hard
— sarah guo (@saranormous) January 7, 2023
Jeff Bezos: The founder’s job is to build a “heavy” company
— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) June 1, 2026
Jeff Bezos recalls how Amazon’s stock price fell from $113 to $6 when the Internet bubble burst.
“Shareholders were upset; employees were nervous; their parents were calling our employees and asking if they were ok,”… pic.twitter.com/AnTmnuJegT
Love it. Urban areas contain many existing subterranean environments that even the city administration often does not know about (have discovered this from Kyiv to NYC). The battlefield calculus of force protection and survivability has changed. Even a maneuvering force needs to… https://t.co/Q0HcJF6N1b
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) June 1, 2026
the first time i visited Anthropic it was a 160-person start-up in Jackson Square with no products and no revenue. there was an office throne made of empty Liquid Death cans and everyone seemed vaguely allergic to making money.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) June 1, 2026
that was THREE YEARS AGO.
now they're going to go… https://t.co/ifYGtiMIYq
I’m on my way to India to visit the World Heritage Site of Hampi. The site covers over 40 square km and is FILLED with mystery - including a green diorite step well, monolithic doors, a giant lingam and evidence for lathing technology. We’ll spend the next four days there. Stay… pic.twitter.com/8wbGuNj4YA
— Secrets in Stone (@CassieCMartin) June 1, 2026
The Silicon Valley I came to in 2016 -- once a low-status refuge for weirdos, naive tinkerers, and missionaries -- has been overrun by input-maxxing Kumon striver types.
— Andrew Ziperski (@andrewziperski) May 31, 2026
Company-building for this class of “entrepreneurs” is an exercise in performative escalations between…
Anthropic now has a team dedicated to AI and the rule of law — and we've just opened our first role.@AnthropicAI has studied what AI means for the economy. This team asks a different question: what will it mean for executive power, for courts and elections — and for the public…
— Matthew Botvinick (@mattbotvinick) June 1, 2026
Peter Thiel on Why You Must Build a Cult:
— Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) June 1, 2026
"In the most intense kind of organization, members hang out only with other members.
They ignore their families and abandon the outside world. In exchange, they experience strong feelings of belonging, and maybe get access to esoteric… pic.twitter.com/f89KT5YRpZ
Greg is unbelievably intense and worked 80hr weeks for decades. Nothing would’ve happened without him. Besides, as Nassim Taleb would teach us, if someone keeps winning the lottery again and again - it’s not random. https://t.co/Az0wPXq2cV
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) May 31, 2026
James Clear on having high standards pic.twitter.com/v2k85nicYj
— Rajjath (@Rajjath24) June 1, 2026
I found a great quote in this book about Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs:
— David Senra (@FoundersPodcast) June 1, 2026
“They were both human magnets turned to maximum strength, either pulling people into their orbit or flinging them away. There was no neutral ground with either man.” pic.twitter.com/dkIp9gyT3z
Even the Marxists are saying. pic.twitter.com/vwg9GW8g22
— Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ (@pmarca) June 1, 2026
Try Tesla self-driving https://t.co/WAlIs7rCbV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2026
Startup Hiring
— Gokul Rajaram (@gokulr) June 1, 2026
One of the best startup CEOs I support told me: “there are very few certainties in hiring. One of them is startup experience. It’s almost non negotiable for me.”
One of the highest predictors of a failed hire for early stage startups (< 100 people) is hiring…
I got into YC S26 as a solo founder!
— Yahia Bakour (@mynameisyahia) June 1, 2026
The last 15 months looked something like this:
> Started an API company from scratch
> Realized building infrastructure is insanely hard
> Grew slowly for months
> Then all at once
> Reached 210 paying customers
> Landed 10 unicorns + 70… pic.twitter.com/Buoz2aJrbN
The world’s first @nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 server rack is here.
— Michael Dell ๐บ๐ธ (@MichaelDell) May 31, 2026
We’re thrilled to deliver the first working, liquid-cooled @Dell PowerEdge XE9812 for @CoreWeave.
Built for the next era of AI infrastructure. ๐๐ค pic.twitter.com/MvtRc6gwqG
"When we study great athletes or musicians or chess players, or even a painter, whatever...
— Luke Miler (@lukemiler) June 1, 2026
If a ballet dancer works 80 hours a week on her craft, we all think that's glorious.
Oh my god, Michael Jordan practices more than anyone else!
But when you apply it to the work… https://t.co/gu1ymsQJbp pic.twitter.com/7lU0JyT8zp
My wife left me after 22 years of marriage.
— Philipp Keller (@philkellr) June 1, 2026
While I cannot write how this came to be (as with all separations it's complicated), two things I wanna share:
Prioritize family & friends over business: even though I probably couldn't save my marriage I wished I would have spent…
100 Questions That Lead To Understanding https://t.co/ORXKtzDp0C
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
Sudipta Bhattacharya, Chief Transformation Officer of the Adani Group visited the Zoho Chennai campus last week. He wrote about his experience in the post (link in the comment).
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) June 1, 2026
The banyan tree stump we obtained from a highway construction project 12 years ago and replanted in… pic.twitter.com/Z5BTwvatNx
a very common indian mindset - thinking of everything from "what's the ROl" perspective
— Raghvi Rawat (@RaghviRawatt) June 1, 2026
forgetting that sometimes we need to be okay with doing things with ambiguity just for experience sake
we just need to provide ourselves with the right resources, environment, & people, and…
I think the biggest thing YC changed for me was reducing noise.
— Kathryn Wu (@kathrynwu1) June 1, 2026
Before YC, startup advice on the internet felt very random.
Everyone sounded smart.
Everyone had opinions.
A lot of it was bluff.
YC made startups feel much more grounded:
ARR, retention, distribution, market size,…
One dog did this in two minutes.pic.twitter.com/KfCwLtJIcl
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 1, 2026
The best founders don't end up in New York by accident. They come because this is where the hardest problems, the biggest customers, and the highest stakes are. The city demands you build something real.
— David Haber (@dhaber) June 1, 2026
I've always believed the best opportunities live between fields of…
Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb will take its place in military history alongside the most audacious and innovative military operations ever conducted. Its significance extends far beyond the damage inflicted on Russian aircraft. The operation demonstrated a remarkable fusion of… https://t.co/gvlg2rqlzc
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) June 1, 2026
Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb will take its place in military history alongside the most audacious and innovative military operations ever conducted. Its significance extends far beyond the damage inflicted on Russian aircraft. The operation demonstrated a remarkable fusion of… https://t.co/gvlg2rqlzc
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) June 1, 2026
Ukraine drone attack and the Israel pager attack, both impressive, were eclipsed by the Gen Z revolution in Nepal in daring, speed, and the crowdsourced ways. Gen Z generally lacks respect globally. Nepal changed that.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 1, 2026
It's rare to see a launch video that's almost entirely global leaders sharing how much they love/need a product. It's one of the main reasons we are so excited to be backing Niklas, Anton, David, and Gustav at Endra.
— Joe Schmidt IV (@joeschmidtiv) June 1, 2026
Pumped to announce our $50M Series A! https://t.co/u4HdIVvBQw
If Mythos is as bad as Anthropic claims, @mathematics_inc becomes one of the most valuable co in tech
— sudarshan (@ItzSuds) June 1, 2026
Math's built the best Math Foundation Model which allows them to automate software proofs so bugs (& therefore hacks) become logically impossible
Generational bet proving out! https://t.co/cqqNukcI9w
Jeff Bezos literally revealed the fastest way to become irreplaceable in the AI era: https://t.co/TUrmSd8LzP pic.twitter.com/mPzsHcWmE1
— Lewis ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ (@WaldronLewis) June 1, 2026
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