scott belsky
@scottbelsky
helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder of @Behance, bod @atlassian, author, angel investor, product obsessive.
You know that iconic scene, at the end of The Matrix when Neo suddenly “gets it” and picks bullets out of thin air as if they are cute and curious little things? Been thinking: what’s the equivalent of “seeing the matrix” for product leaders? 10+ Realizations that come to mind:
Where are all the consumer AI apps??? This is the question I posed to s-tier consumer investors @scottbelsky (Uber, Pinterest) and @stevejang (Coinbase, Postmates). We're almost 3 years into the AI hype the we're still all mostly just talking about ChatGPT, Perplexity, and…
everytime I play with Felt I am blown away by the power this app packs and leave wishing I had a hobby or job that involved daily mapping and geographic analysis - it’s mind blowing
Congrats to designer founder Sam Hashemi and team on launching @felt AI and their new $15M round. Creating complex maps just got a whole lot easier :) If you need to do anything map/spatial related no other tool comes close now...
“The creative adult is the child who survived." -Ursula Leguin
Regarding leadership through periods of disruption: Always be willing to bet the company. If you’re no longer willing to do so, either because of where you are in your career or fear of ruining your legacy, you’re no longer the right leader. Stewards can sustain momentum, but…
I am beta user #1 for Casa and I can attest: it’s one of my favorite consumer products ever. makes home ownership way less painful.
My absolute favorite new startup as a homeowner: My.Casa For $199/month, you get: - 90 minutes of handyman every month - Weekly package/return pickups - Scheduled maintenance of your air filters, washer/dryer, garage door, etc. - 3D model and inventory of your…
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Kind of obsessed with Switzerland’s postage stamp made with cement pigments that’s a tribute to concrete.
we’re ready to bring on another team member - full-stack eng w/ a love for reimagining + building new ways of operating, empowering creative minds, defining what modern product dev is, and working in a flat “collapsed talent stack” team to help unforgettable stories get made. DM!
building a small, nimble engineering and technical exploration team with taste - and with as much of a “collapsed talent stack” as possible. nyc based. want to help the best storytellers take more creative risk (fewer sequels)? see storytelling as the ultimate delivery…
cool to see @patrick_oshag - whose deep dives and research i’ve always respected - chronicle @ramtinnaimi, one of my favorite collaborators on the seed investing side of my life. Ramtin is a “founder favorite” and this is a much deserved profile of his approach.
We’ve been quietly building Abstract for 9 years. Thank you to @patrick_oshag and @domcooke @joincolossus for giving us the opportunity to share our story. We’re just getting started! joincolossus.com/article/ramtin…
Reading @scottbelsky 's latest post on a late night A good reminder that some of the greatest innovators across all dimensions regardless of where they work are contrarian
a poetic moment to kickstart the monday (via @SahilBloom’s on point newsletter)
I have been using @diabrowser for a couple of weeks now, and it's amazing how quickly you take for granted how its real-time context from open tabs supercharges your productivity and sparks creativity. Here are my top 5 Dia skills I've been using daily 👇
the anticipation of “data wars” is proving out here - alongside the realization that memory will be the ultimate moat for the AI era. Seeing companies cutting off access to APIs/MCPs right and left, and yet end users will want portability of memory and data. will customer win? 🤞
few learnings for builders: - if you’re building foundational models, you better move up the stack fast. - you must capture and leverage first-party data to drive personalization. - you must build connectors to further personalize with third-party data, but that won’t be…
thinking: friction will remain in so many parts of our lives, but not the web. what started as disparate websites with inconsistent interfaces and redundant workflows to do things is becoming an action machine that knows us, meets us where we are, and does every task on our…
Insightful take from @scottbelsky: "When it comes to consumer products like social media, the dirty little secret is that we login more frequently AFTER we post content, so we can see who liked our content. In other words, we think we use Instagram to see what other people post,…
Reading @scottbelsky's latest newsletter and all I can think is
diligence by proxy - investing in something or someone because someone else did - is at the root of most investor rookie mistakes. obvious and yet takes a career to realize why this is true: it’s a chain event and most people do it.
First step here would be Manhattan project type program to figure out why China & South Korea can land new fission at 1/4th the cost of the US. Thats a solvable problem but the current open market isn’t unlocking it. Likely requires regulatory changes & IP sharing (Navy?).
China is building 150+ nuclear reactors … going live with all of them by 2035. The US is building … ZERO nuclear reactors. We have 95~, they have 70~. We are going to he left n the dust very rapidly if we just sit back and watch it happen. Around 20 gigawatts of power will be…
reminder that the product features we love the most from big companies often had to be fought for, because they were either cross-functional or replaced antiquated thinking in ways that were initially resisted. these are the unsung heroes in product.
Excited to team up with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to the enterprise. Now every team member—not just engineers—can turn ideas into software with Replit Agent, no code required. We’re aligned with Microsoft on a shared mission: empowering every person and organization to…