Luther Lowe
@lutherlowe
Fighting for little tech. Head of Public Policy, @YCombinator. @Weijia wife guy.
Big Tech wants Trump to kill Europe's antitrust law before it really bites. That would be a huge mistake — and betray his own pro-startup agenda. My take in @FinancialTimes on why America shouldn't save Apple and Google from real competition:
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 @AAGSlater is reshaping conservative antitrust enforcement from the ground up. In our new episode, she discusses how a vigorous enforcement approach protects free markets for forgotten Americans.
.@whca President @weijia on the Trump White House decision to bar the Wall Street Journal from the travel press pool for his upcoming Scotland trip. Context: POTUS is suing their parent company, Rupert Murdoch & 2 WSJ reporters for a story he claims is defamatory.
9 years to get to $10M ARR; 9 months to $100M+. Replit is a story of a founder with a vision finally unlocked by AI.
Amjad Massad (@amasad) started Replit to make programming accessible to anyone, anywhere. What began as a tool for learning to code has grown into a platform pushing the limits of AI-assisted software creation and recently surpassed $100M in ARR. On The Breakdown with @t_blom…
There is a very big opportunity for a Democrat to run a presidential campaign explicitly against the Master Plan that legalized corruption. MasterPlanPodcast.com This from @Ossoff is an example of what such a campaign could sound like. This is the message.
AWS is announcing a direct competitor to Browserbase tomorrow. We're not worried. It's lacking everything that makes Browserbase great. But three months ago AWS ambushed us with a "partnership meeting" to try steal our secrets. We saw right through it. Keep your guard up.
AWS is announcing a direct competitor to Browserbase tomorrow. We're not worried. It's lacking everything that makes Browserbase great. But three months ago AWS ambushed us with a "partnership meeting" to try steal our secrets. We saw right through it. Keep your guard up.
Excited that @paultoo will be participating in this 🇺🇸
Hill & Valley x All-In are hosting President @realDonaldTrump next week in DC for a day-long AI policy event He will be giving a keynote speech on how AI will be delivering growth, jobs, and prosperity for our great nation!!
Into my veins, @AravSrinivas
"The world needs little tech to win" Why Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas says no to big tech buyouts
Today, @Weijia officially ascends to President of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Could not be prouder!!! ❤️
This is ahistorical Lina Khan Derangement Syndrome. Trump 1 was intent on bringing cases against G & FB early on, finally quashing a turf beef in 2019 so FTC could proceed w/FB & DOJ w/G (in 2020). Biden admin cont'd G case under @JKBustertruster, who won. @AAGSlater oversaw…
Lina Khan began the FTC attacks, but the new admin hasn't fully reversed it. They are pro-crypto and somewhat sympathetic to Little Tech, but they are still adversarial to Big Tech. After all, Big Tech donated to blues and censored Trump. x.com/gabrielayuso/s…
I'm a San Francisco Democrat I got involved in local politics because of my mentor Nancy Tung, the chairwoman of the SF Democratic Party. I support public transit, I support building market-rate and affordable housing (YIMBY), and our work building the world's best new tech…
This guy thinks cutting MUNI, building luxury housing, and empowering people like Elon Musk are going to save everyday people. One of the techno fascists making SF that much more unaffordable for everyday people
Always enjoy talking to @dflieb on and off camera about everything: search, AI, product. In this video, we discuss why the next big bet is to nail agents and the browser. Thanks to @garrytan for inviting me.
Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) on the race to build the AI browser of the future. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:48 - Perplexity's Current Status and Challenges 01:16 - Future Plans: The Browser Bet 03:18 - Competition and Market…
At YC, we bet on the underdogs.
History was made by the underdogs.
When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart that liberal regulations ruined Biden's broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing. New @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the…
Huge win for US startups 🚀! Section 174 is officially reversed, no more amortizing R&D expenses. Thanks to @garrytan, @lutherlowe and @ycombinator for championing this fight, your advocacy made it happen!
Kash Patel getting into government and finding that there’s no Epstein conspiracy reminds me of this joke
This is one of those lightcone episodes where we will look back at it and go "Oh wow, they said exactly what was going to happen. Why didn't I listen?"
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months. In…