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@prestonattebery
Helping founders make hit apps. Past: CEO, @smirkgames
I built a messaging app where you can only send photos: The camera is hidden behind a blurred background so it comes up instantly Ft: @viaaaaron
In a way this is true But if you build with this perspective you will never build anything great The Instagram founders were dismayed to have created the thirst trap app
Every great consumer app is just a slot machine in disguise.
To this day, the Snap bros are the only live players in consumer / social
Now seems like a good time to annouce I’ve joined Microsoft AI to help lead Product, Design, and Growth As you’ve seen over the last few days, we’re recruiting an insane team If you’re ready to grind and want to build frontier AI for 1.6 billion devices, pls reach out
Stated vs Revealed strikes again
I feel like there's a huge opportunity for a "no algorithm" social media platform
Also acquired this. If we want to achieve great design here and now we must look to the great history of Japan
I hate to say it but... @v0 is better than Cursor + claude + deploying to Vercel
The are only two real ways to work with someone: - work with specialists and let them do their thing - become one
This is always the case Leave the cool stuff for Twitter demos
new runway website just dropped! the old website was legendary for its time but a lot of people couldn't figure out what we actually did, so we made it a lot more boring because we're grown up now proud of the team's work on this! runway.com
If someone wanted to hire me I'd start the bidding at $500k
A true world class (rare) founding designer should be no less than $350K 1-2%. They can make so much more on their own. Raise that equity and you’ll see world class designers come out of the woodwork to say hello as an investment. $250K .01% is very low for world class.
Mixy has proven this and still no one believes it
Most people have been tricked into thinking distribution comes from growth and marketing hacks I was there after building apps for 3 years at a startup with no traction But lasting distribution comes from the product. If you don’t have this, start over
It's actually crazy watching every investor you've admired lose their mind or their self-respect in realtime. Cluely, Geoff... There are very few in the capital class that you can actually trust
AI is giving new life to social apps
Two new apps to make things: Gizmo -> software and games Indigo -> games and puzzles
No one tells you this but can build a whole hardware startup with 2 people + a 3rd guy in Xixiang Subdistrict, Bao’an District, Shenzhen
You guys are jokes
Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 theinformation.com/briefings/anth…