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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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I used to want the corner office in a big building. Now I just want to build an online empire from home in my sweats, with my wife and kids around me. That’s success to me!
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Advice is about to get very, very cheap
It should be obvious to everyone that information is now fully commoditized.
Advice is next, and it’s coming fast. The generic stuff — “Do I need an NDA before I show someone my idea?”
“C-corp or LLC?”
“How much equity does employee number three get?” — those kinds of answers are going to become instantly available to a founder in Lagos who doesn’t know a single other entrepreneur.
And I think that’s fantastic.
Throwing it out into the universe, the NYR are going to go out and trade for Hellebuyck. #NHL
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Three SpaceXAI engineers turned GrokBot into a money-making business
I collected 10 prompts from each - to build it from scratch:
10 GROKBOT PROMPTS - @poteto
1. Turn one general assistant into a meta-bot. Ask me 5 questions about the company, then create the first 3 specialist bots with memory, skills and initial tasks.
2. Install a rigorous engineering skill pack: tests, PR hygiene and issue-to-ship loops. Remove everything unnecessary for a 3-day build.
3. Turn a general bot into a Chief of Staff that triages Slack, delegates work and only interrupts you for money or product decisions.
4. Create a prototype engineer that ships a simple landing page with email signup today - no database or unnecessary infrastructure.
5. Transform a generic bot into a specialist through chat alone: define its role, tone, tools, workflow and success metric.
6. Use GrokBot for research and disposable prototypes, then create a clear handoff protocol for production engineering.
7. Create a "cracked engineer" bot that owns the repository, ships directly to main, writes minimal tests and never bikesheds.
8. Find the best marketplace bots for research, outbound, inbox, engineering and design. Define the first task for each and remove any that create friction.
9. Generate the complete visual direction for the product: brand voice, hero copy, CTAs, colors and an implementation-ready design brief.
10. Design the thinnest technical stack that can accept payment by Day 3. Separate what must be built from what can be faked.
10 GROKBOT PROMPTS - @mattyp
1. Turn Slack into the company's control plane with dedicated channels for building, bots, prospecting and customer signups.
2. Name the company around its shipping deadline, create the GitHub organization and write the initial product README.
3. Start with zero employees and 72 hours. Design a minimal bot organization covering research, prospecting, engineering, operations and creative.
4. Create a prospecting bot that finds and ranks potential customers, identifies the best contact path and flags feasibility risks.
5. Generate 15 company names, then evaluate the best 5 by domain, email format and ability to work as both a company and product brand.
6. Connect the landing-page signup form to a Notion database and define its fields, workflow and customer confirmation message.
7. Create separate Operations and Creative Director bots, each with a standing routine and a rule for escalating decisions to a human.
8. Write a five-line shipping policy that lets humans and bots move fast, deploy directly and recover quickly from mistakes.
9. Connect the product repository to Vercel and create the complete deployment path from first preview to custom domain.
10. Find the fastest path from the company's current assets to its first $1: define the offer, price, first buyer and payment method.
10 GROKBOT PROMPTS - @roshan_s
1. Mine public posts for problems people want AI agents to solve, then rank the ideas by willingness to pay and speed to launch.
2. Analyze the last 48 hours of customer conversations and identify demand signals with a clearly identifiable buyer.
3. Force all research into one company thesis: customer, painful problem, wedge product and why it must exist now.
4. Write the product thesis, including who pays, the first job to be done and how the team can test it on itself.
5. Map the two strongest customer segments by ICP, pain, offer, price range and Day 1 interview questions.
6. Write the outreach and onboarding flow for the first design partner, including the information needed to define measurable success.
7. Divide the next 24 hours across three humans and their bots, with one owner and a clear definition of "done" for every workstream.
8. Create a designer bot that delivers the company name, logo directions and landing-page hero within 60 minutes.
9. Find the fastest revenue wedge and design the smallest MVP that can presell the product before building the complete platform.
10. Create the path from waitlist to first paid customer to recurring subscription, with daily metrics for signups, calls, sales and revenue.
If you missed 3 days of SpaceXAI courses on GrokBot, these are all the prompts the team used for start - copy them and start making money with a $20 subscription
Day 3 of building a company with Grok Bot.
Live now, plus sessions for marketing and customer success.
xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbXEe…
Clinton Senkow retweeted
fully remote over mandatory in-office is still a hill I will absolutely die on:
> if we only hired people from LA, we probably would have failed years ago
> we find THE most talented person for the job - I don’t care where they’re located
> it’s archaic to expect people to move their families to expensive cities just for a job
> we don't pay for an office (usually one of the biggest items on the P&L)
> I hate commuting. you hate commuting. everyone hates commuting.
> colleagues will often spend 3 months in Europe / Bangkok / wherever over the summer
> plus, there's a lot of baggage that comes with 130 bodies in one location that we just don't deal with
I can count on two hands how many people have voluntarily left the company in 5 years, & remote culture is a big part of that
Clinton Senkow retweeted
The biggest opportunities right now:
1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)
2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)
3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)
4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)
5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)
6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)
7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)
8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)
9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)
10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)
11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)
12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)
13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)
14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)
15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)
16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)
17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)
18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)
19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)
20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)
21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)
note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)
22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)
23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.
24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)
25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)
26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)
KEEP BUILDING
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Wake up, brainstorm with AI, figure out a product people want, talk about it online, gather feedback, build it, ship it, talk to users, repeat.
@cursor_ai my cursor app on M1 Mac with the latest Apple update has now since not been working…pls help. Not able to ship new updates to my app and Cursor is my engine. Who can help? Anyone else experiencing this trouble? I got updates to do…. #cursor
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.
Almost nobody understood what he said.
Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”
Not tech startups.
The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.
The businesses that actually run the physical economy.
They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.
Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”
Software is dead.
The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.
AI ends the contract.
The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.
But customized by whom.
The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.
Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”
That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.
Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.
Let them fight.
Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.
Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.
It collects where the brain meets the business.
Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.
Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.
Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.
That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.
You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.
The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.
33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.
Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Instead of watching Netflix tonight, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture.
You’ll learn more about how ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs are built than most people at top AI companies learn in years.
We live in wild times….I just a built my own CMS within my app in basically 5 minutes with prompts and no knowledge of coding. The opportunity we all have at our fingertips is astonishing. The future belongs to the builders.
Clinton Senkow retweeted
7 places to launch your product:
@ProductHunt - You know this one
@hackernews - Close knit community
@LaunchedIO - Early adopters
@startupbaseio - Early adopters
@beta_page - For tech lovers
@TechPluto - Tech news
@NotionPlaza - Notion marketplace
Did you know any of these?
Clinton Senkow retweeted
here is a list of all startup accelerators you can apply to right now:
- a16z Speedrun ($750k–$1M for ~7–10%)
- Y Combinator ($500k for ~7%)
- Pioneer ($20k for 1%)
- LAUNCH ($125k for 6–7%)
- The Mint ($500k for 10%)
- AngelPad ($120k for 7%)
- Techstars ($220k for ~5–7%)
- 500 Global ($112.5k for 6%)
- Entrepreneur First ($250k for ~9%)
- South Park Commons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
- HFO Residency ($1M uncapped for 5% or $500k uncapped + 3%)
- NEO ($600k via uncapped SAFE with $10M floor valuation)
- Sequoia Arc ($1M)
- PearX ($250k–$2M)
- Betaworks AI Camp ($500k)
- Greylock Edge (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits)
- Conviction Embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
- OpenAI Converge ($1M equity investment)
- Startup Wise Guys (up to €65k for equity)
- APX (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%)
- Founders Fellowship ($150k for 5–10%)
- Seedcamp (€100k–€200k for 7–7.5%)
- Antler (€100k for 10% + stipend)
- Google for Startups (up to $100k)Accel Atoms (up to $500k–$1M)
- AI Grant ($250k uncapped)
- AI2 Incubator ($50k–$150k)Afore Capital ($100k–$500k)
- Berkeley SkyDeck ($200k)
- Soma Capital ($100k)
- Founder Institute (equity-based program with undisclosed funding)
- Boost VC (up to $500k for 15%)
- Antler ($200k–$250k for 8–9%)
Clinton Senkow retweeted
Welcome (back) to Oil Country, Tristan! 👊 #LetsGoOilers
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