A quietly brilliant builder who turned a simple idea about payments into a global platform and now backs ambitious science and software projects. Mostly measured, often insightful, and unafraid to celebrate others' wins. Tweets range from crisp industry takes to unexpectedly viral personal moments (yes, running photos).
You built a payments empire used by millions but follow 33 people, congratulations, youâve mastered global infrastructure and curated the worldâs tiniest VIP list. Also, you tweet 10k times and still make it look like minimalism.
Coâfounded Stripe and scaled it into a global payments platform that fundamentally changed online commerce, then parlayed that success into founding the Arc Institute to push scientific progress, an entrepreneur-to-philanthropist arc with enormous impact.
To build durable infrastructure and institutions that reduce friction for makers and accelerate progress, whether that's making commerce seamless, funding scientific work, or nudging the tech ecosystem toward long-term thinking.
Believes in pragmatic optimism, meritocratic opportunity (especially the opportunities America offers immigrants), data-informed decision making, the outsized impact of small dedicated teams, and that long-term, well-executed bets beat short-term noise.
Exceptional at product-led thinking and execution, credibility in tech and finance, disciplined long-term perspective, concise clarity in public commentary, and the ability to turn nuanced ideas into widely resonant posts.
Can come across as reserved or aloof on a platform built for chatter; low follower-to-following engagement suggests missed two-way opportunities; tendency toward brevity means fewer narrative threads that build deeper community.
Post 1, 2 substantive threads per week that unpack product lessons, strategy, or scientific ideas (start with a hook, use numbered points and visuals). Share more short authentic media (the running video proved you can go viral with simple moments). Host monthly Spaces or AMAs with founders and scientists to drive live engagement. Pick a high-value tweet and pin a flagship thread or newsletter to convert casual viewers into subscribers. Increase selective following and reply thoughtfully to high-impact conversations, trade a bit of aloofness for a lot more reciprocity. Finally, track what formats get lift (video, threads, replies) and double down.
Coâfounder and CEO of Stripe and coâfounder of the Arc Institute; 716,696 followers but follows only 33 accounts; ~10,108 tweets; one casual running post reached ~12.9M views, he can be quietly viral.
I recently drove a @Tesla for the first time (yes, late to the party), and it is truly an amazing car. So many details are *years* ahead of everyone else. Genuinely inspiring to see how much improvement can be conjured by a small group of dedicated outsiders.
While @elonmusk is in the headlines for many reasons these days, this particular chart probably doesnât get enough attention. 10 years after founding, SpaceX had ~0% market share. 16 years: >50%.
This morning, Nature published two papers on bridge editing, the new genome engineering technology from @ArcInstitute: nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ, nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ. I'm quite excited about its potential!
Since the whole thing is pretty arcane, I fed the blog post (arcinstitute.org/news/blog/bridâŚ) to Claude 3.5, and asked it to write an introduction. Below is the rather impressive (unedited) result.
Genome Design: The Bridge to Our Biological Future
I.
Imagine you're trying to edit a document, but instead of a cursor, you have a pair of scissors. You can cut out words you don't like, maybe paste in a few new ones, but precise editing? Forget about it. Now imagine someone hands you a pen. Suddenly, you can write whatever you want, wherever you want. This is the kind of leap we're seeing in the world of genome editing.
For the past few decades, we've been snipping away at genomes with tools like CRISPR, making impressive progress but always constrained by the fundamental nature of our tools: they cut DNA. But what if we could write directly into the genome, inserting whatever we want, wherever we want, without ever making a single cut?
This isn't just a "wouldn't it be nice" daydream anymore. Researchers at the Arc Institute have discovered a new system that does exactly that. They're calling it "bridge recombination," and it might just be the biggest revolution in genetic engineering since CRISPR.
II.
To understand why this is such a big deal, we need to take a quick tour through the history of genetic manipulation.
In the late 1990s, we discovered RNA interference (RNAi). This was our first real taste of programmable biology. We could use short RNA sequences to target and shut down specific genes. It was like having a universal remote control for gene expression. Cool, right?
Then came CRISPR in the early 2010s. Suddenly, we could not just turn genes off, but edit them directly. It was like upgrading from a remote control to a basic text editor. We could cut out bad genes and paste in good ones. But there was always a catch: CRISPR works by cutting DNA, and cells don't always repair those cuts exactly the way we want them to.
Both of these systems were revolutionary, but they shared a common limitation: they were destructive. They worked by breaking things â either the RNA transcripts of genes (in the case of RNAi) or the DNA itself (in the case of CRISPR).
III.
Enter the bridge recombination system.
The researchers at Arc Institute, led by Dr. Patrick Hsu, were poking around in the genomes of bacteria, looking at transposable elements. These are sometimes called "jumping genes" because they can cut themselves out of one part of a genome and paste themselves into another.
They were particularly interested in a group called IS110 elements. These are about as minimalist as you can get while still being functional â just a gene for the enzyme that does the cutting and pasting, plus some mysterious flanking DNA segments.
What they found was surprising. When an IS110 element cuts itself out of a genome, those mysterious flanking segments join up to form an RNA molecule. This RNA folds into two loops, one that binds to the IS110 element itself, and another that binds to the target DNA where the element will insert itself.
This RNA â which they've dubbed "bridge RNA" â is the key to the whole system. It's like a set of instructions, telling the enzyme exactly where to insert the DNA and what DNA to insert.
IV.
Now, you might be thinking, "Okay, that's neat, but how is this different from CRISPR?" The key is in how the insertion happens.
CRISPR works by making a cut in the DNA and then relying on the cell's repair mechanisms to insert the new DNA. It's effective, but it's also a bit like performing surgery with a chainsaw. Sometimes you get exactly what you want, but often you end up with small errors or unwanted insertions or deletions.
The bridge recombination system, on the other hand, doesn't cut the DNA at all. It unzips a small section, inserts the new DNA, and zips it back up again. No broken DNA strands, no relying on error-prone repair mechanisms. It's precise in a way that CRISPR can only dream of.
But the real magic is in the programmability. Remember those two loops in the bridge RNA? They can be programmed to recognize any DNA sequence. This means you can tell the system to insert any piece of DNA into any location in the genome. It's like having a word processor for DNA.
V.
The implications of this are staggering. Here are just a few possibilities:
â˘Â Gene Therapy 2.0: Current gene therapy approaches often rely on somewhat random insertion of therapeutic genes. With bridge recombination, we could insert corrective genes exactly where they need to go, without risking disruption of other important genes.
â˘Â Synthetic Biology: Want to give an organism a completely new capability? Just design the gene and insert it precisely where you want it.
â˘Â Evolutionary Biology: We could insert reporter genes at specific locations across the genome, allowing us to watch evolution happen in real time.
â˘Â Agricultural Improvements: We could insert beneficial genes into crops with unprecedented precision, potentially revolutionizing our ability to create drought-resistant or nutrient-enhanced plants.
â˘Â Bioengineering: Imagine being able to design and build entire genetic circuits, inserting each component exactly where it needs to be for optimal function.
VI.
In the grand scheme of things, the discovery of bridge recombination feels like a pivotal moment. It's as if we've been trying to write the book of life with a typewriter, and someone just handed us a word processor.
The researchers at Arc Institute have opened a door to a new era of genome design. As with any breakthrough of this magnitude, it's hard to predict exactly where it will lead. But one thing is certain: the future of biology just got a lot more interesting.
As we stand on the brink of this new frontier, I'm reminded of a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." With bridge recombination, we're not just editing the genome anymore. We're writing it. And that, my friends, is pretty close to magic.
Reviewing @Stripe's roadmap for 2021 and, even compressed, it is *11 pages* of phenomenal material. (By a significant margin our most ambitious to date.)
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Europeâs households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000.\"\n\n\"First â and most importantly â Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling.\"\n\n\"There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. 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Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power â a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and âgold platingâ of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies â which are often non-EU based â have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. 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London, Paris, and Amsterdam are all excellent these days. (As are many other European cities.) Made even better by easy-to-rent e-bikesânow almost always the fastest way to get around.\nâ˘Â The urban walking experience generally. Partly for density reasons, and partly because of...\nâ˘Â Late-night cafe, brasserie culture. Is there an economic reason for this or is it just climate and contingent zoning?\nâ˘Â Architecture. Around 1920, we forgot how to make nice buildings. European cities tend to have more construction from before the Great Forgetting, and it makes the built environment much more pleasant.\nâ˘Â Pedestrianized streets. Often with cobblestones.\n⢠In general, European cities are just more pleasant. Given how hard it is to build a good city (or indeed to retrofit one), this feels like a big deal.\nâ˘Â Cured and pickled food.\nâ˘Â Bread. Obviously varies by country, but itâs generally true.\nâ˘Â Voltage. What are Americans doing waiting so long to boil kettles?\nâ˘Â Beauty in the mundane. I find that youâre more likely to find tasteful touches in prosaic places in Europe.\nâ˘Â Motorway design and signage. Standardized, clear, and easy-to-use. The US is a mess by comparison.\nâ˘Â Bathroom doors. That is, in Europe, theyâre proper doors. Why does America make us see othersâ feet?\nâ˘Â The clangor of church bells on Sunday.\nâ˘Â Trains. Enough said.\nâ˘Â Pharmacies. I'd love to understand why they're so much nicer in Europe.\nâ˘Â Cheese. Again, lots of cross-country variation, but true in general.\n⢠I'm not sure why, but European regulation on many everyday items seems better. Sunscreens in Europe are better, as are bike helmets.\nâ˘Â Wine.\n⢠Languor, joie de vivre, hygge, gemĂźtlichkeit, craic. I think Europeans are better at unwinding. Drawing contrast with what he found in the US, De Tocqueville observed that in Europe \"idleness is still held in honor\". This difference remains apparent.\nâ˘Â Road density. Europe generally has many more roads per square mile, which makes it easier to find nice places to run, walk, and cycle.\n\nBetter in the US\nâ˘Â Air conditioning. Consistently bad in Europe. (Partly for silly degrowth-related reasons?)\nâ˘Â Coffee. Opinions will differ, naturally, but third wave coffee has seen much more enthusiastic adoption in the US.\nâ˘Â Cookie banners. That is, the lack of them. (Well, there are some, but itâs not as bad as the fusillade one is subjected to in Europe.)\nâ˘Â Internet speeds. European wifi often reminds me of my dialup youth.\nâ˘Â Capital markets. If you need money (as a consumer, a small business, or a startup), itâs much easier to get it in the US.\nâ˘Â Being able to buy groceries on Sunday. Inexplicably challenging on the continent.\nâ˘Â Showers. Like the tepid air conditioning, daily ablutions in Europe are conducted beneath parsimonious trickles.\nâ˘Â Urban air quality. Maybe surprisingly, it is, on average, better in the US. The unpleasant whiffs of diesel exhaust is part of the reminder that one is back in Europe.\nâ˘Â Government efficiency. In general, things happen faster in the US.\nâ˘Â Labor laws. As covered in Stripe's annual letter this year, people are more likely to work in high productivity sectors in the US (and thus to earn more). Rigid rules impede this reallocation in Europe.\n⢠Culture of general aviation with many thousands of small airports. There are around 700,000 pilots in the USâfar more than there are in Europe.\nâ˘Â Hospitals. A controversial claim, perhaps, but I find that those who have received care in Europe and the US prefer the US.\nâ˘Â Beer. 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What happened to that? Better treatment? 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When it opened on 2 March 1929, it stretched 7.1 miles, making it longer than any other bridge on Earth at the time.\"\n\nI've driven over the bridge many times, but never thought to look into its origins until today.","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":null,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"bookmarked":false,"display_text_range":[0,256],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[{"display_url":"arcinstitute.org","expanded_url":"http://arcinstitute.org","url":"https://t.co/NAOHTwFKuH","indices":[232,255]}],"user_mentions":[{"id_str":"18036441","name":"Stanford University","screen_name":"Stanford","indices":[124,133]},{"id_str":"176932593","name":"UC Berkeley","screen_name":"UCBerkeley","indices":[135,146]},{"id_str":"15458277","name":"UC San Francisco","screen_name":"UCSF","indices":[152,157]}]},"favorited":false,"lang":"en","possibly_sensitive":false,"possibly_sensitive_editable":true,"retweeted":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1471156220425871360","view_count":0,"bookmark_count":900,"created_at":1639585950000,"favorite_count":7388,"quote_count":326,"reply_count":615,"retweet_count":2360,"user_id_str":"4939401","conversation_id_str":"1471156220425871360","full_text":"I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today, in partnership with @Stanford, @UCBerkeley, and @UCSF, we're excited to announce Arc Institute, a new undertaking in this vein: https://t.co/NAOHTwFKuH.","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":null,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"bookmarked":false,"display_text_range":[0,274],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[],"user_mentions":[]},"favorited":false,"lang":"en","retweeted":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1955246810718503080","view_count":948428,"bookmark_count":960,"created_at":1755002141000,"favorite_count":4403,"quote_count":186,"reply_count":581,"retweet_count":395,"user_id_str":"4939401","conversation_id_str":"1955246810718503080","full_text":"Opinion polling for the next election:\n\nUK: Reform leading by 7pp\nFrance: RN leading by 10pp\nGermany: AfD leading by 2pp\nItaly: FdI leading by 7pp\nNetherlands: PVV leading by 1pp\nSwitzerland: SVP leading by 12pp\nAustria: FPĂ leading by 13pp\n\n(Most data from Wikipedia.)\n\nThe degree to which the non-traditional right is ascendant across the western world is very striking. Which are the best pieces that attempt to explain this in international rather than merely domestic terms?","in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"is_quote_status":0,"is_ai":null,"ai_score":null,"source":"scraping","fetched_at":null,"edit_history_tweet_ids":null,"poll_10min_at":null,"poll_3day_at":null,"poll_count":0,"poll_complete":0},{"bookmarked":false,"display_text_range":[0,268],"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"timestamps":[],"urls":[{"display_url":"nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ","expanded_url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07552-4","url":"https://t.co/gxaeSiDfJr","indices":[119,142]},{"display_url":"nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ","expanded_url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07570-2","url":"https://t.co/uQu05rFrmN","indices":[144,167]},{"display_url":"nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ","expanded_url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07552-4","url":"https://t.co/IL23V7nYoW","indices":[119,142]},{"display_url":"nature.com/articles/s4158âŚ","expanded_url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07570-2","url":"https://t.co/tOE10YZakn","indices":[144,167]},{"display_url":"arcinstitute.org/news/blog/bridâŚ","expanded_url":"https://arcinstitute.org/news/blog/bridge","url":"https://t.co/tZZWNRUBdU","indices":[270,293]}],"user_mentions":[{"id_str":"1455964430760431622","name":"Arc Institute","screen_name":"arcinstitute","indices":[104,117]},{"id_str":"1455964430760431622","name":"Arc Institute","screen_name":"ArcInstitute","indices":[104,117]}]},"favorited":false,"lang":"en","possibly_sensitive":false,"possibly_sensitive_editable":true,"retweeted":false,"fact_check":null,"id":"1805996143228375263","view_count":2287478,"bookmark_count":3568,"created_at":1719418008000,"favorite_count":8182,"quote_count":344,"reply_count":546,"retweet_count":1891,"user_id_str":"4939401","conversation_id_str":"1805996143228375263","full_text":"This morning, Nature published two papers on bridge editing, the new genome engineering technology from @ArcInstitute: https://t.co/IL23V7nYoW, https://t.co/tOE10YZakn. I'm quite excited about its potential!\n\nSince the whole thing is pretty arcane, I fed the blog post (https://t.co/tZZWNRUBdU) to Claude 3.5, and asked it to write an introduction. Below is the rather impressive (unedited) result.\n\nGenome Design: The Bridge to Our Biological Future\n\nI.\n\nImagine you're trying to edit a document, but instead of a cursor, you have a pair of scissors. You can cut out words you don't like, maybe paste in a few new ones, but precise editing? Forget about it. Now imagine someone hands you a pen. Suddenly, you can write whatever you want, wherever you want. This is the kind of leap we're seeing in the world of genome editing.\n\nFor the past few decades, we've been snipping away at genomes with tools like CRISPR, making impressive progress but always constrained by the fundamental nature of our tools: they cut DNA. But what if we could write directly into the genome, inserting whatever we want, wherever we want, without ever making a single cut?\n\nThis isn't just a \"wouldn't it be nice\" daydream anymore. Researchers at the Arc Institute have discovered a new system that does exactly that. They're calling it \"bridge recombination,\" and it might just be the biggest revolution in genetic engineering since CRISPR.\n\nII.\n\nTo understand why this is such a big deal, we need to take a quick tour through the history of genetic manipulation.\n\nIn the late 1990s, we discovered RNA interference (RNAi). This was our first real taste of programmable biology. We could use short RNA sequences to target and shut down specific genes. It was like having a universal remote control for gene expression. Cool, right?\n\nThen came CRISPR in the early 2010s. Suddenly, we could not just turn genes off, but edit them directly. It was like upgrading from a remote control to a basic text editor. We could cut out bad genes and paste in good ones. But there was always a catch: CRISPR works by cutting DNA, and cells don't always repair those cuts exactly the way we want them to.\n\nBoth of these systems were revolutionary, but they shared a common limitation: they were destructive. They worked by breaking things â either the RNA transcripts of genes (in the case of RNAi) or the DNA itself (in the case of CRISPR).\n\nIII.\n\nEnter the bridge recombination system.\n\nThe researchers at Arc Institute, led by Dr. Patrick Hsu, were poking around in the genomes of bacteria, looking at transposable elements. These are sometimes called \"jumping genes\" because they can cut themselves out of one part of a genome and paste themselves into another.\n\nThey were particularly interested in a group called IS110 elements. These are about as minimalist as you can get while still being functional â just a gene for the enzyme that does the cutting and pasting, plus some mysterious flanking DNA segments.\n\nWhat they found was surprising. When an IS110 element cuts itself out of a genome, those mysterious flanking segments join up to form an RNA molecule. This RNA folds into two loops, one that binds to the IS110 element itself, and another that binds to the target DNA where the element will insert itself.\n\nThis RNA â which they've dubbed \"bridge RNA\" â is the key to the whole system. It's like a set of instructions, telling the enzyme exactly where to insert the DNA and what DNA to insert.\n\nIV.\n\nNow, you might be thinking, \"Okay, that's neat, but how is this different from CRISPR?\" The key is in how the insertion happens.\n\nCRISPR works by making a cut in the DNA and then relying on the cell's repair mechanisms to insert the new DNA. It's effective, but it's also a bit like performing surgery with a chainsaw. Sometimes you get exactly what you want, but often you end up with small errors or unwanted insertions or deletions.\n\nThe bridge recombination system, on the other hand, doesn't cut the DNA at all. It unzips a small section, inserts the new DNA, and zips it back up again. No broken DNA strands, no relying on error-prone repair mechanisms. It's precise in a way that CRISPR can only dream of.\n\nBut the real magic is in the programmability. Remember those two loops in the bridge RNA? They can be programmed to recognize any DNA sequence. This means you can tell the system to insert any piece of DNA into any location in the genome. It's like having a word processor for DNA.\n\nV.\n\nThe implications of this are staggering. Here are just a few possibilities:\n\nâ˘Â Gene Therapy 2.0: Current gene therapy approaches often rely on somewhat random insertion of therapeutic genes. With bridge recombination, we could insert corrective genes exactly where they need to go, without risking disruption of other important genes.\nâ˘Â Synthetic Biology: Want to give an organism a completely new capability? Just design the gene and insert it precisely where you want it.\nâ˘Â Evolutionary Biology: We could insert reporter genes at specific locations across the genome, allowing us to watch evolution happen in real time.\nâ˘Â Agricultural Improvements: We could insert beneficial genes into crops with unprecedented precision, potentially revolutionizing our ability to create drought-resistant or nutrient-enhanced plants.\nâ˘Â Bioengineering: Imagine being able to design and build entire genetic circuits, inserting each component exactly where it needs to be for optimal function.\n\nVI.\n\nIn the grand scheme of things, the discovery of bridge recombination feels like a pivotal moment. It's as if we've been trying to write the book of life with a typewriter, and someone just handed us a word processor.\n\nThe researchers at Arc Institute have opened a door to a new era of genome design. As with any breakthrough of this magnitude, it's hard to predict exactly where it will lead. But one thing is certain: the future of biology just got a lot more interesting.\n\nAs we stand on the brink of this new frontier, I'm reminded of a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: \"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\" With bridge recombination, we're not just editing the genome anymore. We're writing it. 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His top posts routinely draw hundreds of thousands of views (one link hit ~573k views and the Believe API demo ~438k), showing serious reach for a hands-on builder.","strength":"Visionary product thinking combined with execution: can demo working APIs, create safety systems, mobilize founders, and communicate a clear roadmapâplus a knack for aligning token mechanics with product KPIs.","weakness":"Can be selective to the point of exclusivity (pausing new projects may frustrate eager builders), risks polarizing debate on X, and faces the scaling challenge of converting momentum into sustained, well-supported growth.","roast":"You keep telling people \"I believe in you,\" which is adorableâalmost like the club bouncer who built the nightclub and now only lets in people who can code a smart contract in their sleep and pass a 24-hour vetting hug.","win":"Built undeniable momentum for Believe: shipping a public demo of the Believe API, rallying a large builder community, and instituting concrete anti-scam protections that set a new standard for launchpads.","recommendation":"Double down on product-led storytelling: publish short demo threads and 60â90s videos showing concrete builder wins; host regular X Spaces AMAs with featured projects; pin a public transparency dashboard and roadmap; highlight case studies showing KPI-token integrations; engage top replies early and convert interested followers into a builders' waiting list via clear CTAs and weekly update threads."},"created":1774570002940,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"pasternak"},{"user":{"id":"1243691528540663808","name":null,"description":"Founder, Maker School | The straight line path to growing an AI agency.\n\nLearn: https://t.co/rXs9sV4cUK\nContact: nick@leftclick.ai (no DMs)","followers_count":7232,"friends_count":278,"statuses_count":3985,"profile_image_url_https":null,"screen_name":null,"location":null,"entities":{"description":{"urls":[{"display_url":"youtube.com/@nicksaraev","expanded_url":"http://youtube.com/@nicksaraev","url":"https://t.co/rXs9sV4cUK","indices":[80,103]}]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"skool.com/makerschool","expanded_url":"https://skool.com/makerschool","url":"https://t.co/UtC2uDkQV6","indices":[0,23]}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"A no-fluff founder who turns disciplined habits into scalable revenue â builder of AI businesses and a maker of repeatable growth systems. He documents the straight-line path to scaling an agency, proving that routine + content = leverage. Practical, numbers-first, and relentlessly consistent.","purpose":"To build high-leverage AI products and agencies while teaching other makers and founders the repeatable systems that shortcut growth. He wants to show that small daily habits compound into outsized business outcomes and to create playbooks others can copy.","beliefs":"Efficiency, measurable outcomes, and compounding wins beat flashy ideas. Health and cognitive routines (sleep, cardio, supplements, mindfulness) are non-negotiable productivity tools. Community and content are the best leverage for audience and business growth.","facts":"Fun fact: he claims ~ $400,000/month in profit yet still does inbox-zero every morning, checks transactions, and creates one piece of contentâone hour that reportedly nets him ~$4K. Follower count: 7,232; Following: 278; Tweets: ~3,985; YouTube: 20,000 subscribers in 6 months.","strength":"Relentless execution and clarity about what actually moves the needle; credibility backed by real revenue; disciplined content cadence; science-friendly, actionable advice that blends health, workflow, and growth.","weakness":"Can come off preachy or hyper-optimizedâadvice sometimes assumes everyone has the same starting line. Boundary-setting (âno DMsâ) protects time but can feel distant. Tendency to favor individual execution over delegation/community nuance.","recommendation":"Turn revenue credibility into shareable X assets: pin a deep-thread case study that breaks down how you scaled to ~$400K/mo, and clip that into short videos for X. Post daily micro-updates of your morning 1-hour routine as a streak (text + 30s clip), host a weekly X Live 'work with me' stream, and repurpose YouTube highlights into tweet threads. Engage top replies, ask one clear CTA per thread (subscribe, join list, watch clip), and amplify high-performing posts with small paid boosts. Use screenshots of real P&L or before/after metrics to convert skeptics.","roast":"Youâll lecture people on unlocking their peak cognition while refusing to take DMsâconvenient way to stay brilliant and unbothered, like a productivity monk who only responds via newsletter and riveting tweet threads.","win":"Built a profitable AI operation that reportedly nets ~ $400K per month in profit, plus grew a new YouTube channel to 20K subscribers in just six months â proof his 'straight-line' playbook actually works."},"created":1774569774201,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"nicksaraev"},{"user":{"id":"13737","name":"Noah Kagan","description":"Chief Sumo at @appsumo. #30 at Facebook. 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His feed feels like a startup growth playbook with a megaphone.","purpose":"To help entrepreneurs win by building platforms, deals, and playbooks that lower the barrier to starting and growing a business â using bold experiments and community-driven momentum to turn ideas into income and impact.","beliefs":"Believes in action over theory, viral experiments as learning tools, community-powered growth, and that entrepreneurship should be practical, joyful, and accessible. Values transparency (even when messy), giving back, and learning fast from failures.","facts":"Fun fact: Noah is Chief Sumo at AppSumo, was employee #30 at Facebook, has ~173,050 followers, follows 163 people, and has tweeted ~27,855 times â and he once pledged $1 per like to charity in a viral tweet.","strength":"Relentless experimentation and growth instincts, enormous audience reach, high social proof that drives viral engagement, and a reputation for practical, actionable advice that entrepreneurs trust.","weakness":"Prone to impulsive, provocative posts that can oversimplify sensitive topics; high-frequency posting can dilute signal and occasionally alienate parts of the audience. Stunts/giveaways can create expectations that are hard to sustain.","roast":"Chief Sumo of deals and threads â youâve turned entrepreneurship into a subscription box: full of value, a little loud, and somehow you always ship the thing people didnât know they needed (but also definitely woke everyone up at 3 a.m. with a midnight tweetstorm).","win":"Built AppSumo into a go-to platform for entrepreneurs and makers while converting personal credibility (Facebook early hire and a massive engaged audience) into a business that helps thousands of small companies grow.","recommendation":"Lean into threaded case studies and repeatable playbooks (people love step-by-step takeaways). Use pinned, evergreen threads for onboarding new followers, host regular X Spaces for live Q&A, and convert high-engagement stunts into planned experiments with clear follow-ups. Keep charity and giveaways transparent (rules + results). Reduce noise by batching tweets into few high-value threads per day, use polls to spark constructive conversation, and amplify user success stories from AppSumo customers to turn followers into evangelists."},"created":1774565267167,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"noahkagan"},{"user":{"id":"126101752","name":"Nick Theriot","description":"Growth Marketer | Founder Theriot Solutions, LLC | YouTuber | Passionate about human psychology | Boxing đĽ","followers_count":28177,"friends_count":370,"statuses_count":49760,"profile_image_url_https":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1536724430470119425/yhcNbGM8_normal.jpg","screen_name":"nicktheriot_","location":"Lafayette, LA","entities":{"description":{"urls":[]},"url":{"urls":[{"display_url":"youtube.com/c/NickTheriot","expanded_url":"https://youtube.com/c/NickTheriot","indices":[0,23],"url":"https://t.co/7fwbQADFnT"}]}}},"details":{"type":"The Entrepreneur","description":"Nick Theriot is a growth marketer and founder who weaponizes human psychology, creative ad systems, and relentless testing to scale brands. He mixes viral curiosity hooks with high-value freebies and YouTube content to turn attention into revenue. Also: he boxes â so his content lands with punctuation and power.","purpose":"To build repeatable, psychology-driven growth systems that turn attention into predictable revenue for brands and creators, while teaching others how to do the same through accessible tools, frameworks, and high-impact content.","beliefs":"Speed over perfection, test-first then theorize, give real value freely to build trust, creative that converts beats creative that only looks pretty, and that human psychology is the cheat code for better ads and stronger communities.","facts":"Fun fact: Nick has tweeted nearly 50,000 times and has multiple viral posts that hit millions of views â and heâs just as comfortable in the boxing gym as he is iterating ad creative. He also publicly gave away the exact system his agency charges $10k/mo for.","strength":"Relentless experimentation and high-velocity content creation; excellent at crafting curiosity hooks, packaging actionable systems, and turning viral attention into paid revenue. Strong blend of psychology + ads + operations.","weakness":"Can lean into clickbait and cliffhangers that invite skepticism, sometimes sacrifices clarity for virality, and risks audience fatigue with very high tweet volume. Occasional overpromise or vague product mentions can leave followers confused.","roast":"Nick tweets like he sparred with the internet â 49,760 punches thrown, every one designed to make you DM \"NICK\" before you realize youâve been baited into a masterclass. He trains for the ring but clearly missed the lesson on subtlety.","win":"Built an ELITE ad-creative system that helped multiple brands hit $10M+/year and produced several viral tweets that reached millions â turning free playbooks into high-value client engagements.","recommendation":"Turn viral hooks into consistent threads and a pinned lead-magnet; post short, punchy video clips from your YouTube masterclass; run a weekly thread series (case study â teardown â results) to build habit; use reply funnelsâreply to top commenters with extra mini-value and a CTA; host Twitter Spaces with clients/partners to showcase outcomes live; leverage GPT to batch prompt ideas but always layer in real results and screenshots; and optimize your pinned link to convert attention into email signups so viral views compound into a durable audience."},"created":1774565212002,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"nicktheriot_"},{"user":{"id":"14041792","name":"Moses Kagan","description":"Owns many apartment buildings w investors. 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Moses turns day-to-day landlording into content that both teaches and entertains.","purpose":"To build scalable, investor-backed real-estate businesses while demystifying the industry for partners and the public â using humor and hard-earned lessons to educate, attract capital, and grow a loyal audience.","beliefs":"Practicality over theory: property performance and common-sense rules beat ideology. Transparency with investors, hustle in operations, and a dry sense of humor are essential. He values efficiency, accountability (especially with contractors), and calling out regulatory absurdities when they conflict with common sense.","facts":"Fun fact: His wife literally covered a year of mortgage payments by renting their house for two TV commercials (4.5 days total). Also, he once learned the hard way that planting bamboo is a mistake you only make once â and then tweet about it to 180k people.","strength":"Massive reach and relentless content output (117k tweets), real-world credibility as a hands-on operator and co-founder, sharp, relatable humor that turns niche experience into viral lessons, and strong investor/industry networks.","weakness":"Blunt takes and contrarian humor can polarize; high-volume posting risks diluting signal; a tendency to lean on anecdotes means nuance can get lost in punchy tweets â and yes, occasionally nature (like bamboo) gets the worst of it.","roast":"Youâve amassed so many followers and properties that you treat Twitter like a rent ledger â everyoneâs providing value, you collect the likes on the 1st of the month, and your DMs are the maintenance requests you never fully answer.","win":"Built a substantial multifamily portfolio managed for investors, co-founded two companies in the real-estate space, and cultivated a seven-figure-reach voice on X that turns everyday landlord mishaps into viral lessons.","recommendation":"Pin and promote a clear call-to-action to your mailing list, run regular short thread series like âWeekly Deal Lessonsâ or âContractor Horror Storiesâ to drive saves/retweets, use short video tours + explainer clips to diversify content, host monthly Twitter Spaces AMAs with investors and operators, and collaborate with complementary creators (finance, legal, construction) to cross-pollinate audiences."},"created":1774565052588,"type":"the entrepreneur","id":"moseskagan"}],"activities":{"nreplies":[],"nbookmarks":[],"nretweets":[],"nlikes":[],"nviews":[]},"interactions":null}},"settings":{},"session":null,"routeProps":{"/creators/:username":{}}}
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