Alex Lieberman on X: "This guy is the definition of a wrecking ball. He's a 20yo at UCLA, currently studying abroad in China. He wanted to work with me, so he posted a thread pitching ideas he had for my company @storyarb. The thread ended up getting 50k views. We didn't end up having a need" / X
Siya 🍯 (@siyabuilt) on X
Ritchie Wong on X: "the future is bright https://t.co/H6tMzKmdCa" / X
abhay shenoy on X: "i'm abhay, and this video is my one shot at making it to san francisco to work with @FarzaTV — so we can make videos that take over the world. help me get to sf. https://t.co/1razrkxwPQ" / X
Meet the teenage AI company founder who secured a $1m investment | New Money
shydev.base.eth (@shydev69) on X
Harley Finkelstein (@harleyf) on X
just make
Chris Hladczuk on X: "Why Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a winner https://t.co/OzCktKmled" / X
what'd you fix? fix that
Abhi on X: "On Jan 6, 2010, Travis Kalanick (then an advisor to UberCab) posted this tweet: “Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a location-based service.. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS??” Graves replied minutes later: “Here’s a tip. Email me :) https://t.co/wgdM0qYvSJ" / X
“Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a location-based service.. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS??” Graves replied minutes later: “Here’s a tip. Email me :) graves.ryan@gmail.com”
Within weeks, Ryan Graves became Uber’s first official hire. He was handed the title of General Manager in March 2010. Uber had no drivers, no app in the App Store & no brand.
Graves handled early operations, built the launch playbook, and recruited drivers from scratch.
Abhi on X: "The man who made $1 Billion from one tweet. This is Ryan Graves. • Replied to Travis Kalanick's tweet in 2010. • Became Uber’s first employee. • Got 5% equity—now worth $1.4 billion. Here’s how a single tweet turned him into a billionaire: https://t.co/4NhQJmO0N5" / X
This is Ryan Graves. • Replied to Travis Kalanick's tweet in 2010. • Became Uber’s first employee. • Got 5% equity—now worth $1.4 billion.
Colin and Samir ✌🏼✌🏾 on X: "YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director in history to set up a movie at a major studio https://t.co/HWF1rgeXvU" / X
Aaron Levie on X: "Guaranteed we’re watching the origin story for a $100B robotics company play out. https://t.co/PY5Y9Dasrl" / X
9to5Mac (@9to5mac) on X
How I got to work with Naval
For most things in general that turned out to be great in my life, I didn’t ask anyone, “Shall I do this?”, “Is it a good idea to pursue this?”, “Would it work?”
We didn’t optimise anything, we just posted consistently, we didn’t seek anyone’s help, no paid promotions, no gimmicks to make people like or follow the account more. We never asked anyone to follow us.
Authenticity with consistency will beat every algorithm every time
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Ritchie Wong (@ritchiewlc) on X
Ritchie Wong on X: "How my best friend got to take BTS pictures and conduct exclusive interview with his favourite band by sending 40+ cold emails https://t.co/5AiO13mTns" / X
Ritchie Wong (@ritchiewlc) on X
Ritchie Wong (@ritchiewlc) on X
Ritchie Wong (@ritchiewlc) on X
Xchool on X: "How to Succeed Permissionlessly, ft. Joe Lonsdale Joe Lonsdale, from a Paypal intern to co-founding Palantir with Peter Thiel, shared how he would make his first million today: 1. Learn to build things and be useful to other people "These days there’re so many places you can https://t.co/hbOdD0blHl" / X
Xchool on X: "How a 14-year-old made that Lego scene in the Spider-Verse film https://t.co/tVmooTRB1u" / X
Xchool (@xchoolhq) on X
How Garry Tan, the current Y Combinator (YC) President, got into YC in the first placehttps://t.co/pKaF9X8fFc— Xchool (@xchoolhq) August 8, 2024
A cold email to @gdb of @OpenAI: pic.twitter.com/mEZizALbDD— Sonith (@sonith_sunku1) February 21, 2025
beautiful
Kids, don't underestimate the power of a cold email. (From @Microsoft's YouTube channel - link below) pic.twitter.com/TyqXMiTjZk— Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) February 19, 2025
beautiful
good shit to use newsletter to attract people