Permissionless
Examples
Xchool on X: "How a 14-year-old made that Lego scene in the Spider-Verse film https://t.co/tVmooTRB1u" / 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
"You don’t need anyone’s permission to do them" I was brought up to seek permission from my parents, teachers or bosses before going after things I was curious, interested or excited Many untaken steps. Many ignored opportunities. Many unfinished projects If there's one big… pic.twitter.com/jJoaSXGdxy— Xchool (@xchoolhq) August 8, 2024
Nobody on X: "Most people go to their deathbed waiting for permission." / X
yeah pic.twitter.com/QpRH8mcJjz— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) March 8, 2025
the process to build an AI startup: find painful workflow → build tiny audience in niche → release daily tweets + videos → spot patterns in engagement → discover massive problem → validate with mini-experiments → hack v1 fast with gpt/claude/grok + replit/bolt/v0/etc →…— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) February 22, 2025
How-to
A cold email to @gdb of @OpenAI: pic.twitter.com/mEZizALbDD— Sonith (@sonith_sunku1) February 21, 2025
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
How to Cold E-mail Angel Investors
Elon Musk on X: "If you’re a hardcore software engineer and want to build the everything app, please join us by sending your best work to code@x.com. We don’t care where you went to school or even whether you went to school or what “big name” company you worked at. Just show us your code." / X
RFS