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You give startup wisdom like a retired general: crisp, battle-tested, and just enough cliff notes to make people feel like they missed the war. Also, your tweets are so pithy that half your followers assume LLMs wrote them, plausible, given the 'be the person your LLM thinks you are' memo.
Built a powerful voice and influence in the startup ecosystem, Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator and Founder/Partner at Standard_Cap, plus consistently viral, actionable tweets (one post about running local models hit over half a million views) and a community of 100k+ followers.
To accelerate founders and technology by surfacing clear, actionable ideas, helping great teams build category-defining companies while making powerful tools (like local LLMs) easy to adopt.
Values pragmatism, founder-first thinking, and technical fluency; believes product-market fit and smart, focused teams beat corporate inertia; trusts that democratizing tooling (e.g., easy local models) unlocks outsized innovation.
Concise, high-credibility commentary that resonates with founders and builders; strong network and track record in YC/startup ecosystems; technically literate, able to bridge product, strategy, and dev-friendly details.
Brevity can read as cryptic or aloof, sometimes privileging punchy aphorisms over nuance; highly technical moments may alienate non-technical followers; occasional over-reliance on insider framing that newcomers might miss.
Grow on X by publishing regular multi-tweet threads that unpack one tactical lesson (LLM setup, go-to-market moves, PM-friction strategies), pin a flagship thread, run monthly AMAs or Spaces for live founder Q&A, post short demo clips (screen recordings) of local model workflows, and amplify wins/stories from founders you back to deepen community trust.
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