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Building the future of health @makina | Prev b2b AI founder (exited) | O1 Recipient

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River - Makina is a visionary entrepreneur passionately building the future of health with AI innovations. A former B2B AI founder who successfully exited, River unites cutting-edge technology with real-world impact, embodying resilience and a deep commitment to bettering communities worldwide. Their journey is fueled by meaningful ventures, strategic moves, and a heart for service that rallies others to a greater cause.

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For someone who's moved continents chasing innovation, River might need a GPS for their social media strategy too — sometimes it feels like their tweets are on a world tour without a clear destination. But hey, at least their follower count isn’t as lost as their luggage in SF.

Successfully exited a B2B AI startup and transitioned to launching groundbreaking AI health initiatives, all while turning a personal crisis into a powerful movement for justice and safety.

To revolutionize healthcare through AI-driven solutions, empowering people to live healthier, longer lives while fostering global collaboration and innovation that overcomes complex challenges.

River believes that technology must create tangible positive change, innovation thrives on community and collaboration, and that perseverance through adversity is key to making a real difference in the world.

Strategic vision combined with the agility to pivot between regions and industries, plus a strong ability to engage high-level stakeholders and build impactful networks that accelerate growth and justice.

Tendency to shoulder heavy emotional burdens publicly, which might divert focus and energy, and potential overextension from juggling intense personal campaigns alongside entrepreneurial ventures.

To grow their audience on X, River should leverage storytelling that highlights both their entrepreneurial wins and humanitarian efforts, using threads and live Q&As to deepen real-time engagement and build trust as an authentic thought leader in AI and health tech.

River demonstrated extraordinary commitment by offering a $40,000 reward to help bring justice for his wife’s drugging and robbery, showcasing a fearless approach combining personal stakes with community mobilization.

Top tweets of River - Makina

so 2 nights ago i found out that my wife was drugged and robbed in the philippines she was on a volunteer trip helping local charities be better prepared to deal for future natural disasters (i.e. preventing floods and typhoons from causing so much damage across the country) whilst at a local market, 4 elderly filipinos befriended her. they took her to a restaurant and then karaoke bar. we believe whilst at the bar, they slipped a date rape drug in her drink. she doesnt remember anything apart from getting in a cab and then waking up in her hotel room several hours later. she was incredibly dizzy, had a lot of stomach pain, and was unable to move out of bed. it was only after several minutes did she recall what happened. turns out they had stolen several of her credit cards. cctv footage shows there's a 6 hour gap between them drugging her and her getting back to her hotel. we're not sure if they did anything else, my wife is currently undergoing further tests to double check she wasnt raped. the thieves thought they were smart by deleting videos she took during the karaoke. i've managed to recover them. whilst every country has their fair share of criminals, it’s crazy to see locals scamming someone who’s literally there to HELP the country. my wife has literally helped raise and deploy millions of dollars to help local areas deal with disasters - all out of her own goodwill. the fucking thieves even knew this and yet still decided to ahead with their plan. in what planet do you rob someone who’s their to do nothing other than help make people’s lives safer?????? i know the people of the Philippines are not all like that. there are a lot of honest hardworking filipinos on ct. some of the best CMs, artists, and buildors I know are Filipino. the place is bursting with talent. I’m hoping the same people can help me find those who are responsible. i'm offering a $10,000 USDC reward to anyone that can help me identify and arrest each of these individuals. so thats $10,000 USDC PER PERSON. $40,000 in total. I need names and some form of confirmation of who they are - so I can go to the police with this information. if you know anything or anyone that could help, plz feel free to DM me. plz RT this + share in your alpha groups for more exposure. thank you all and god bless

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Our team won the Solana UK Hackathon and the Solana London Hacker House. Here’s how we did it and how you can do the same 👇 Most of this insight is related to the pitch itself that projects do during the @superteam regional hackathons. So keep this context in mind! 1. First Impressions Count Chances are, the judges are going to be giga-tired by the time they hear your pitch. For us, we had 35 teams pitching at the UK Hackathon. The judges had to listen to 35 3-6 minute pitches. Just put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel if you literally had to listen to 3+ hours of pitches in one day? Exactly. You're either going to win them or lose them in the first 10 seconds. In the first 10 seconds you need to give them reason to be hyper-focused on you for the next 3-4 minutes. So what you have to do is reset their attention span. At the start of our pitch I ended up doing 5 push ups out of nowhere. The judges were super confused, they had no idea why I was doing them. BUT, it got their attention. They were all up straight, ready to l earn more. I'm not saying do some jumping jacks or sit ups now. Just do something unique to get their focus—whether it's through an engaging intro, humor, or something unexpected. Make magic. 2. Involve Your Audience Engage your audience during the pitch. We asked the audience a question, prompting them to raise their hands, which helped them relate to the problem we were solving. Figure out how you can leverage the audience during your pitch. TRIGGER their emotions, make them agree/laugh/smile/whatever—emotions makes you more memorable. 3. Keep Your Pitch SHORT Your pitch + the deck should be simple and visually striking. Use MINIMAL text and make sure data/charts are easy to understand at a glance. Keep your slides between 9-12, covering key areas: introduction, problem, solution, product, market, business model, team, and your ask. YOU DON'T NEED 4-5 SLIDES ABOUT YOUR PRODUCT. You don't want walls and walls of text explaining how your product works. The judges and audience should be focusing ON YOU during the pitch, not your deck. Use your deck as a complimentary item to yourself, not the other way around. 4. Focus on the story, not the tech. You need to understand, the best pitch IS NOT the pitch that has most complicated technology. The best pitch is the one that tells a story that others can follow and get behind. By story I don't mean tell a story about 1 person's journey in relation to the problem you're solving (i.e. Doug keeps buying memecoins late, we're going to help him buy earlier), what I mean is the whole pitch end to end has to flow and make sense. Don't get caught up in the tech and how it works. Nobody really cares how it works. They care about what it does. So focus on explaining the value + the outcome. 5. Leverage the mentors The superteam members are super damn helpful. I spoke to the mentors several times throughout the buildstation. Actually I lie, I SPOKE TO THE MENTORS WELL OVER 20+ TIMES during buildstation. Don't just waste their time though by speaking to them and not adapting. If you're the type of person that takes several days to digest feedback and adapt you're going to lose. Someone else is going to speak to the mentor, adapt the same day, and have a better pitch. You want to incorporate their feedback as quick as humanly possible so you're able to test the changes and iterate on them. Teams that improve their pitch daily are more likely to succeed than those that take too long to adapt because they can TEST more. 6. Have a Memorable Hook Create a one-liner that makes your project stand out. For us, it was “the world’s first voice-activated smart contract.” Sounds cool right? Yeah, that's because it was. So what have you got that's going to beat that? Don't beat the competition. Beat the previous winners. Figure out 1 statement that everyone remembers. 1 statement that's so easy to say, so powerful to hear that it's undeniable. 7. Practice Relentlessly We practiced for 1 hour every day and then for 4-5 hours on the day itself. If you just do the above, you're automatically ahead of 90% of the teams. You'll be shocked how much of an edge you can get by just SHOWING UP AND PRACTISING Get your co-founders in a room, have one of them use a timer, and pitch pitch pitch until it's clear, concise, and on-time. 8. SLEEP Don't stay up working until 5am the night before. Set a code freeze for 1-2 days before the deadline and then focus entirely on your presentation. Make sure you get 6-8 hours of sleep the day before pitching. You need to be fresh, aware, and sharp af on pitch day! The only way you can do that is if you get a good nights sleep! Anyways, hope the above helps. I've started a TG group for early stage founders in crypto to share insights and leverage each others network. DM me if you want an invite 🫡

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pulse was the first ever on-chain merit based fundraise in partnership with @legiondotcc together we made history by launching a 2-way process allowing perspective investors to apply to join the cap table of high growth startups we've just closed our applications and are now reviewing who to select. im going to do live commentary for the reviews if you're a founder who's curious about the platform or a capital allocator who wants to know how to get into deals follow this thread for the alpha

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what did we get done this week? edition 1 been a v. busy week for the @PulseNoLimits + @gainzdotxyz team - hired 6 new team members across engineering + design + marketing | expecting app + ai development velocity will increase significantly - revealed our midnight variant for the pulse series one - got a major platform integration complete for @RippedRibbit | revealing v. soon - almost broke a magical sales number | pretty much makes us top 1% in crypto protocol revenue (startups only) - launched our first community campaign that did 100+ entries in 24-hours - oh, and there's more to reveal tomorrow 🫡 x.com/PulseNoLimits/…

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Most engaged tweets of River - Makina

so 2 nights ago i found out that my wife was drugged and robbed in the philippines she was on a volunteer trip helping local charities be better prepared to deal for future natural disasters (i.e. preventing floods and typhoons from causing so much damage across the country) whilst at a local market, 4 elderly filipinos befriended her. they took her to a restaurant and then karaoke bar. we believe whilst at the bar, they slipped a date rape drug in her drink. she doesnt remember anything apart from getting in a cab and then waking up in her hotel room several hours later. she was incredibly dizzy, had a lot of stomach pain, and was unable to move out of bed. it was only after several minutes did she recall what happened. turns out they had stolen several of her credit cards. cctv footage shows there's a 6 hour gap between them drugging her and her getting back to her hotel. we're not sure if they did anything else, my wife is currently undergoing further tests to double check she wasnt raped. the thieves thought they were smart by deleting videos she took during the karaoke. i've managed to recover them. whilst every country has their fair share of criminals, it’s crazy to see locals scamming someone who’s literally there to HELP the country. my wife has literally helped raise and deploy millions of dollars to help local areas deal with disasters - all out of her own goodwill. the fucking thieves even knew this and yet still decided to ahead with their plan. in what planet do you rob someone who’s their to do nothing other than help make people’s lives safer?????? i know the people of the Philippines are not all like that. there are a lot of honest hardworking filipinos on ct. some of the best CMs, artists, and buildors I know are Filipino. the place is bursting with talent. I’m hoping the same people can help me find those who are responsible. i'm offering a $10,000 USDC reward to anyone that can help me identify and arrest each of these individuals. so thats $10,000 USDC PER PERSON. $40,000 in total. I need names and some form of confirmation of who they are - so I can go to the police with this information. if you know anything or anyone that could help, plz feel free to DM me. plz RT this + share in your alpha groups for more exposure. thank you all and god bless

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yo @grok pick one reply in the comments. They'll get a free Pulse Founder Edition. They must follow @PulseNoLimits Ends in 24 hours👊

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Our team won the Solana UK Hackathon and the Solana London Hacker House. Here’s how we did it and how you can do the same 👇 Most of this insight is related to the pitch itself that projects do during the @superteam regional hackathons. So keep this context in mind! 1. First Impressions Count Chances are, the judges are going to be giga-tired by the time they hear your pitch. For us, we had 35 teams pitching at the UK Hackathon. The judges had to listen to 35 3-6 minute pitches. Just put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel if you literally had to listen to 3+ hours of pitches in one day? Exactly. You're either going to win them or lose them in the first 10 seconds. In the first 10 seconds you need to give them reason to be hyper-focused on you for the next 3-4 minutes. So what you have to do is reset their attention span. At the start of our pitch I ended up doing 5 push ups out of nowhere. The judges were super confused, they had no idea why I was doing them. BUT, it got their attention. They were all up straight, ready to l earn more. I'm not saying do some jumping jacks or sit ups now. Just do something unique to get their focus—whether it's through an engaging intro, humor, or something unexpected. Make magic. 2. Involve Your Audience Engage your audience during the pitch. We asked the audience a question, prompting them to raise their hands, which helped them relate to the problem we were solving. Figure out how you can leverage the audience during your pitch. TRIGGER their emotions, make them agree/laugh/smile/whatever—emotions makes you more memorable. 3. Keep Your Pitch SHORT Your pitch + the deck should be simple and visually striking. Use MINIMAL text and make sure data/charts are easy to understand at a glance. Keep your slides between 9-12, covering key areas: introduction, problem, solution, product, market, business model, team, and your ask. YOU DON'T NEED 4-5 SLIDES ABOUT YOUR PRODUCT. You don't want walls and walls of text explaining how your product works. The judges and audience should be focusing ON YOU during the pitch, not your deck. Use your deck as a complimentary item to yourself, not the other way around. 4. Focus on the story, not the tech. You need to understand, the best pitch IS NOT the pitch that has most complicated technology. The best pitch is the one that tells a story that others can follow and get behind. By story I don't mean tell a story about 1 person's journey in relation to the problem you're solving (i.e. Doug keeps buying memecoins late, we're going to help him buy earlier), what I mean is the whole pitch end to end has to flow and make sense. Don't get caught up in the tech and how it works. Nobody really cares how it works. They care about what it does. So focus on explaining the value + the outcome. 5. Leverage the mentors The superteam members are super damn helpful. I spoke to the mentors several times throughout the buildstation. Actually I lie, I SPOKE TO THE MENTORS WELL OVER 20+ TIMES during buildstation. Don't just waste their time though by speaking to them and not adapting. If you're the type of person that takes several days to digest feedback and adapt you're going to lose. Someone else is going to speak to the mentor, adapt the same day, and have a better pitch. You want to incorporate their feedback as quick as humanly possible so you're able to test the changes and iterate on them. Teams that improve their pitch daily are more likely to succeed than those that take too long to adapt because they can TEST more. 6. Have a Memorable Hook Create a one-liner that makes your project stand out. For us, it was “the world’s first voice-activated smart contract.” Sounds cool right? Yeah, that's because it was. So what have you got that's going to beat that? Don't beat the competition. Beat the previous winners. Figure out 1 statement that everyone remembers. 1 statement that's so easy to say, so powerful to hear that it's undeniable. 7. Practice Relentlessly We practiced for 1 hour every day and then for 4-5 hours on the day itself. If you just do the above, you're automatically ahead of 90% of the teams. You'll be shocked how much of an edge you can get by just SHOWING UP AND PRACTISING Get your co-founders in a room, have one of them use a timer, and pitch pitch pitch until it's clear, concise, and on-time. 8. SLEEP Don't stay up working until 5am the night before. Set a code freeze for 1-2 days before the deadline and then focus entirely on your presentation. Make sure you get 6-8 hours of sleep the day before pitching. You need to be fresh, aware, and sharp af on pitch day! The only way you can do that is if you get a good nights sleep! Anyways, hope the above helps. I've started a TG group for early stage founders in crypto to share insights and leverage each others network. DM me if you want an invite 🫡

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Excited to announce I'll be speaking at the @solana consumer day next week at devcon Will be delivering 🌶️ takes on why HEALTH not defi will onboard the masses onto crypto rails

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