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💚er of products and parties | product at @ArrowMarkets | finops at @hexshapeshifter | vegan king @ethbushwick | previously @Cornell & @JetTechnology
@telegram has infinite cloud storage (unlike @WhatsApp & @Apple iMessage) and the best performance (unlike @messenger and @instagram) This is HUGE for AI voice message UX!
Voice notes are supported for Perplexity on Telegram and WhatsApp now!
IC3 Co-Director & Cornell Tech Prof. @AriJuels opened the 2025 IC3 Blockchain Camp by tipping his hat to a decade of IC3 research. He previewed what attendees can expect this week, including a packed agenda for IC3's 10th Anniversary Day (Weds, June 11th)
2 magic 4 me
literally, as in a magician showed up to do tricks no one asked for
"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup can get the distribution before the incumbent can build the innovation."
We're cooked
The solution isn't to ban AI. It's to use it strategically. The choice is yours: Build cognitive debt and become an AI dependent. Or build cognitive strength and become an AI multiplier. The first brain scan study of AI users just showed us the stakes. Choose wisely.
ask your team: "what happens to our product when models get 10x better?" if the answer isn't "we become 10x more valuable" you built for today's failures instead of tomorrow's capabilities time to pivot or die
my friend & i were discussing how early belief is the rarest currency. not because people are stupid, but because most are biologically & socially trained to need external validation before they trust their own instincts. it’s fear of being wrong alone. you can pretty much…
I tested @lovable_dev, @boltdotnew, and @v0 with the same product prompt. Thought I knew which AI design tool would win Let’s just say, I was very wrong.👇🧵
Announcing The AI Showdown OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are partnering with Lovable to host The AI Showdown this weekend: a public comparison of the world’s leading AI models. During the weekend everyone will have unlimited free access to Lovable (with occasional rate limiting…
I ditched “vibe coding.” And suddenly, building with Cursor felt calm again. Here’s how I ship faster without burning out ↓
i was just talking to my friend (we were on a walk through madison square park) about how a ton of products today don’t struggle because they’re bad (they’re in fact really good). they struggle because no one can understand why they matter. what’s missing isn’t code or design.…
That's a wrap on Day 1! Tomorrow's theme is TradFi adoption - we'll share more highlights then In the meantime, you can access the full Camp schedule on our website: initc3.org/events/2025-06…
The Windows Vista update with aero glass was a huge part of my childhood, so I'm getting serious flashbacks
From a16z’s latest report: Startups in consumer gen AI are outpacing enterprise gen AI in revenue. My theory: Big budget enterprise is often slower to adopt new tech. We’ll see this flip next year.
Our team at @a16z spends all day studying the future of consumer AI. We just dropped an hour-long podcast with our learnings so far and what we hope to see from startups. Takeaways, clips, and link 👇
granola is more of a social company than a b2b company. it punctured a norm. no big player would’ve taken the risk of recording without permission but granola beautifully reframed it as productivity. intimacy, even. once the social acceptability shifted, it was inevitable that…