Raj Vir

Eric Adams is pumping for the general

Evan sensing an opportunity to flip his turd for $100B to an AI company

The Claude Code command line tool is now at over 3M weekly downloads - more than the monthly downloads of the Claude iOS app

There's a "stolen valor" epidemic in tech. For every great creation, there's like 10 people claiming credit for it. It's even worse with algorithmic feeds. - Huge algorithmic incentive to claim credit, even if false - Many actual builders don't care to claim credit, and don't…

Anthropic is ~40% as big as OpenAI, despite having only ~1% of the consumer mindshare

Sam is right. Paying $100M+ for top talent destroys your culture, it's not how you attract the best people.

The masculine urge to cosplay as a deeptech AI founder

There's ~0 profit in being a 1:1 copycat All value comes from creating a 10x better product that births an entirely new category that everyone else wants to copy

You may not like it, but this is the guy who created the iPhone And he's much cheaper than $6.5 billion Jony Ive had a minimal role in iOS design in the early days. When Ive took over 5 years after the iPhone launched, his primary contribution was to make all the icons flat

Steve Jobs downloaded Siri off the App Store in 2010 and was obsessed. He saw it as the future of Apple. He called the Siri founder 24 days in a row until they agreed to an acquisition. I wonder how Apple AI would look if Steve was still around

what autistic 20yo's think will happen when they add "$100k mrr" to their bio

For Mother's Day, my mom asked me if I could retire her. I did something even better - I sent her an inspirational profile of Mark Zuckerberg's dad, who is still a practicing dentist. If he doesn't need to retire, she doesn't need to either. The grind never stops 💪

Anthropic is running paid influencer ads on Instagram They must be desperate to boost Claude’s growth Monthly downloads per SensorTower: - ChatGPT: 125 million - Deepseek: 18 million - Grok: 15 million - Gemini: 15 million - Claude: 1 million

i make an educated guess with my mouth and brain and then use their extensive database with, if anything, too many nuanced variations on every food from both verified and crowdsourced sources. i accept the small amount of variance since it averages out (unlike sending a call to…

The Snapchat/Facebook tragedy of 2013: > Evan turns down $4B acquisition offer > Zuck asks for a counter > Evan doesn't respond, and moves to close a fundraise at $3B valuation > Zuck loses hope, but makes one last ditch call > Evan hints at wanting $1B liquid post-tax >…

The US government’s current strategy appears to be: “Destroy Meta, protect TikTok”