Jon Wu

Today we're humbled to announce @asylumventures, a $55 million fund focused on early-stage founders:

Starting to think many great entrepreneurs pass through some Great Filter of their age: - 1970s: direct mail - 1990s: eBay - 2000s: dropshipping, clickfunnels - 2010s: Minecraft, sneaker flipping - 2020s: Roblox, crypto What's the defining teenage hustle of 2025?

Men don't need therapy they need purpose.

Fantastic work from Astronomer. Recognize the elephant in the room, address it with humor, actually tell people what you do. If your brand ever gets gifted with household name recognition your only job is to convert that into "Here's wtf do we actually do." They nailed it.

In crypto BD or marketing? Exciting portco looking to fill 8-week contract marketing partnerships role that transitions into full-time. You'll manage: - Tier-1 CEX's - Tier-1 MM's - Institutions - Protocols - Media $20K contract. DM or reply w/ an announcement you've done.

Pace and Browser Co / Dia just did the best piece of VC x portco marketing I've ever seen: - perfect filters, editing, and camera work - usable and compelling public demo - user is showcasing an example ICP 10/10

🧲 Meet Magnet — the AI workspace for agentic coding. Build software with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & co. → Write a ticket → Magnet assembles context → Fires to Claude Code, Deep Research, and other agent sessions in parallel Git worktree sandboxes → PRs appear → Use…

Perhaps obvious in retrospect but pressure from synthetics is actually driving diamond values to 0.

I am unironically looking to hire an infinite number of people with this profile. DM me.

This one is personal. If you’re in the midst of a big transition, I hope it resonates. If you’re not, fair warning: some of this might sound a little strange! lola.substack.com/p/splash

There's no way to rationally justify the expense of living in New York. I wouldn't even try to clip enough culture coupons to make living here worth it, because it will never be worth it. Just appreciate the extravagant privilege of existing in this weird, special place.

URGENT: seeking a seed-stage founder in NYC who needs help recruiting their first few engineers. Tomorrow. 3:30pm. Williamsburg. You'll spend a full hour with us and a 7-year veteran who placed the first eng hire at Brex and get hands-on help crafting your search. DM me.

your soul is built for labor, that there's a reason god required the garden to be tended to and that by removing that labor we've made everyone genuinely insane. no physical activity, no meaningful labor, is a one way path to mass violence and we're about to pay the cost

90% of my replies are AI generated and this is an unfixable problem digital connection is going to be EV- soon (if not already) and will be the exclusive domain of bots engagement-farming each other offboard your friends to IRL asap

there's only one right answer to this soham situation and it's working for cluely

Young entrepreneurs want the college experience: immersive community, fun, exposure to new types of people. But without the slow-paced faux-educational wrapper. I want to build this. DM me.

I think about this often. I have an exit metric for every meaningful position in my book.

Day A: no nicotine; 13g of pourover coffee Day B: no coffee; ~1mg of nicotine via @noat_future Then once a quarter, do a 1 week reset--no stimulants at all. Thank me later.