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I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.
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A nimble internet sage who turns product intuition and developer wisdom into short, clarifying bursts. Advisor to @stripe, a former professional translator, and a prolific tweeter who blends empathy, craft, and practical insight.
You’ve tweeted so much your archive could be a startup, profitable, opinionated, and invoicing new users for IP assignments. Keep it up and we’ll all owe you royalties for our timelines.
Built a trusted, high-engagement audience (~190k followers) and produced viral, discipline-shaping threads (one reached ~4.69M views), all while advising major payments infrastructure like Stripe.
To make the internet and the businesses that run on it better by sharing clear, actionable ideas that help builders ship smarter, run kinder organizations, and avoid predictable mistakes.
Values clarity, directness, and craftsmanship in communication and engineering; believes empathy and professionalism win long-term, that small human choices (like paying for people’s coffee or listening closely) reveal organizational health, and that good engineers should be paid and credited fairly.
Crystal-clear explanations, credibility from real-world experience, a knack for short stories that illustrate big ideas, empathy for people in systems, and the ability to make nuanced points go viral.
Can be blunt or dryly sardonic in ways that some interpret as terse; extremely high tweet volume risks diluting signal; occasionally leans on insider examples that new followers might find opaque.
On X, lean into threaded mini-case studies (e.g., 'One contractor, one lesson' threads), pin your best evergreen thread, convert threads into a short newsletter series, host occasional Spaces Q&As to deepen relationships, use concise visuals or annotated screenshots for product lessons, and explicitly invite replies or mini-surveys to turn passive viewers into active followers.
Fun fact: he was a professional translator and often says he misses Japan. Advisor to @stripe, with ~189,981 followers and ~68,911 tweets. One of his tweets reached ~4.69 million views. Also, yes, he once joked about sending invoices for accepted code, which tells you both his sense of humor and his appreciation for IP economics.
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He builds tools, teaches people how to use them, and pushes for evidence-driven action in public debates. His feed alternates between deep technical feats, practical activism, and fearless takedowns of sloppy ideas.","purpose":"To democratize powerful technical knowledge and tools so that more people can build, reason, and act—making sure engineering excellence and evidence-based thinking shape public policy and real-world outcomes.","beliefs":"Open access to education and technology, rigorous engineering over buzz, evidence-first public discourse, grassroots action when institutions lag, and that technical competence should be paired with ethical responsibility.","facts":"Fun fact: Jeremy has tweeted over 65,000 times and once demonstrated indexing all of Windows 10 in 1 second using just 14MB RAM and 9MB disk—because yes, he cares about elegant engineering. Co-founder of Fast.ai and AnswerDotAI, founding president of Kaggle, ex-Professor at UQ and Stanford fellow. Follower count: ~275,824; Following: 6,573.","strength":"Rare mix of world-class technical chops, teaching talent, and public reach—he can produce compelling demos, explain them clearly, and mobilize people around evidence-based actions. Credibility across academia, startups, and the broader tech community.","weakness":"Can be blunt and polarizing; high tweet volume and strong opinions sometimes drown nuance or provoke heated backlash. Tendency to prioritize engineering solutions can underplay political complexity or coalition-building.","roast":"You tweet so much and so precisely that at this point your Twitter archive could be sold as the official backup of humanity's engineering anxiety—neat, searchable, and slightly terrifying at 3 a.m.","win":"Co-founding Fast.ai and helping make practical deep learning education widely accessible—combined with early leadership at Kaggle—shifted how thousands of practitioners learn and apply AI.","recommendation":"To grow on X, lean into short, sticky thread formats that start with a surprising demo or data point (like your Windows index tweet), follow with 3–5 clear takeaways, and end with a simple call-to-action (try this, share results). Use short demo videos and visuals, host regular Spaces/Q&A sessions, pin a canonical ‘how to learn AI’ thread, and amplify student/community wins to scale engagement while keeping content highly actionable and evidence-backed."},"created":1774563804106,"type":"the thought leader","id":"jeremyphoward"}],"activities":{"nreplies":[],"nbookmarks":[],"nretweets":[],"nlikes":[],"nviews":[]},"interactions":null}},"settings":{},"session":null,"routeProps":{"/creators/:username":{}}}
