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1. Elon says Epstein list runs US gov, Out of pure coincidence, there is one new lawsuit a day against him, fired by gov agencies. EU found a genius solution to their decline: - fine Elon by including revenue from all his businesses.
2. Indie hacker scene turned into a paradise hotel show. Highlights:
air fryers & steak
a dude cloned my listingbott.com, even the name.
losers dont know how to create value & go viral by hate tweets against successful makers
someone made a presale & disappeared
3. X user “GrowingDaniel” entertained us all here for years with sh*tposting, then logged out for a week and came back:
Entered into YC batch
raised VC round
launched a game
changer tool for police to stream their fun moments at work straight to Tiktok
5. Elon built the biggest GPU cluster in 14 days (usually takes more than a year) while awaiting regulatory approval for his rocket launch. The Shark Safety Bureau required him to prove that a rocket wouldn't kill a shark. Also, it won't cause hearing damage for whales.
6. Harry 20VC raised $900B to fund EU startups, as if the problem in EU was the money, but not the fact that it's 4 day work week and every office is empty after 4PM. Also @andreasklinger launched a petition for a pan-european legal entity, which is a real deal I think.
7. Matt from WordPress took "any PR is a good PR" too close to his heart, sending this to DHH. His PR methods will be studied in marketing schools years from now. Either as the most genius or the dumbest PR campaign ever, as it'll destroy WP or put it back on the map.
8. Everyone wanna be a monopoly
Webflow Acquires Greensock so that it only works for them & stops serving their competitors
Semrush Acquires Third Door Media. Startups are playing real games now, buying news media to control the narrative
stripe acquired crypt0 startup
9. Bitc0in was hot
bricks ditch the dollar to use their own digicurrency backed by the heavy balls of their dictators.
tesla bought almost a billion in bitcoin
Italy increased capital gain tax on it so that people move to El Salvador who removed the tax
10. US has taken most of the drama scene
JD Vance doesn't know what VC is
Trump activated planB in case he lost the election and sell a sh*tc0in for real
US companies invest in Nuclear, while spending billions to convince EU that nuclear is bad.
11. AI is out of steam, nobody really cares until we see real scynet or at least terminator
Nvidia dropped a new model that outperforms gpt40
OpenAI is trying to get rid of Microsoft
Tesla Optimus is on fire. If I were their PR team, I’d prompt it to hurt a human by "accident"
12. YC startups are the place of love, hate, jealousy, and controversy.
My own stand: YC isn't "a must" anymore. Earning 20k followers on X brings a similar moat as being in YC batch cuz u can
DM successful founders and they answer
get huge inbound interest from VCs
13. SEO is living its chatgpt moment
Ahrefs and Semrush are doing public trashtalking
both engage in dickmeasuring game, buying other firms and firing at each other
While they do their job, I published my lazy seo playbook
Click here See full tweet on “Lazy SEO”
14. Microsoft and OpenAI launched a Windows app. I forwarded this news to my grandma right away.
15. Economy:
US Banks' Unrealized Losses 7x Higher than 2008.
The Number of Active VCs is Down 62% From Peak
SAP hits an all-time high
I'm still at a loss with all my stock market, crypt0 and startup investments. I buy the highs and sell on lows, idk what I am doing wrong
16. A dude entered the YouTube scene and grabbed 65 million subscribers in 2 months. What stops you from doing the same? What's your excuse? Just keep showing up for 2 months and u win.
17. A maker disappeared after the presale of his boilerplate. The early backers, who bought 143 LTDs on Appsumo in August alone, have paid $9 for their order to this maker and are suing their bank to get the chargeback.
18. That netscape hiring manager just saved western civilization from collapse.
19. After cloning successful products, Zuck cloned a successful look and won again. the dude is like water, adapts to any surface, and floats on it fluidly.
My best tweets this week
Last year, I had no followers. Today, I hit 40k →
Indie Hacking will dominate the world.
My lazy SEO!
My Startup Playbook for Ideation, Execution & Growth
From a Failed App to a Successful Vertical SaaS.
This maker mafia is gonna take over the directory world!
I feel like I'm SO close to understanding what you're say in these posts, but I don't. I have to look up something in almost every sentence to fully understand it which would turn a 10 minute missive into a 3 hr research rabbit hole. I've never heard of 99% of the software / companies / people you reference which are often so oblique that I gotta look up what the abbreviation / initials stand for before I can then look up what that actually is. It's like getting a message from a different decade and a different country. It's still English, but it's not understandable.
Like these summaries. However, when you get one ”unlinked to source” update wrong like the Harry Stebbings one (he raised 400M), kind of makes me doubt all the rest of the stuff you make a point out of, but don’t link to why you’d say that 😌
The call for pan-eurpean thing is warranted if we are to compete with the U.S. Along with better more easy to understand equity incentived regardless where you are from, combined with AI completely breaking down the language barriers, and hopefully not being a war front someday will make things a bit more competitive between the continents.