Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Married to @SandyBKwon. Hi! 👋🏼
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Announcing Weekend Fund IV, backed by operators and founders (and maybe you).
When we raised Weekend Fund III, we did something different.
Toward the end of our raise, we announced the fund in public and accepted applications from LPs.
Our goal was to make early-stage venture more accessible and align ourselves with an army of operators and founders to help us and the startups we back.
Over 1,000 people expressed interest to join and hundreds did, but there was a problem. Legally, only accredited investors could participate as an LP. Accreditation laws are well-meaning but limit access to the majority of consumers.
With WF IV, @vedikaja_in and I are doing something different.
Like before, we’re onboarding engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, salespeople, and other domain experts as LPs in the fund. But this time at a larger scale with USVC.
AngelList recently announced USVC, a new kind of fund that’s accessible to everyone, including the non-accredited. It holds positions in private late-stage companies like xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, and Vercel. I personally invested.
Today, they just announced their investment in Weekend Fund IV, one of the first early-stage funds added to their portfolio.
If you’re interested in being a part of Weekend Fund and getting exposure to generational startups mentioned above, visit usvc [dot] com.
Of course, don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.
Investing in startups is risky and you may lose all your money. USVC shares are illiquid with no guarantee of repurchase.
Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Read the prospectus: usvc [dot] com/prospectus.
Also, USVC is currently limited to US citizens. They’re working to open the fund to other geographies.
Lastly, my DMs are open. :)
The thing nearly *every* founder wrestles with: substack.com/inbox/post/2233…
Ryan Hoover retweeted
Can a 13-year-old company be a startup again?
Product Hunt changed my life, and 3y ago I stepped in as CEO. Now it's more vibrant than ever. Here's how I did it:
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team. team. team. team. team.
@jakecrump: OG head of moderation, builder, experimenter.
@aaronoleary IS the newsletter and X presence.
@gabe__perez, Juan, Aine: Leaderboard, content, moderation, mod systems
@cieSielkySmooth, Alex, Raj - triple threat builders - eng/product/design
@kerzhner - CTO who operates like a true cofounder
@joujouvin - ops, partnerships, special projects
cory - ad partnerships
Also i have so much gratitude to the people who came before:
The CTOs: @rstankov @andreasklinger
The people that bet on me: @ahiggz (who brought me in and set the bar high for succession) + @joshbuckley (formidable investor) + @rrhoover + @kerzhner who took the leap with me
A small fraction of other people I have loved working with here, and who I've learned from:
@DeVladinci @metaversehell @seriousken @askyruler @howtfdouquitvim @cristinaibunea
Not team, but still critical:
Also thanks to @ycombinator for funding both Product Hunt and my last startup Tandem, for building a community of founders and friends.
And thanks to the countless founders who have launched on Product Hunt over the years. @NotionHQ @figma @Lovable @WisprFlow @loom [@ivanhzhao @zoink @antonosika @tankots @vhmth] to name a few.
You give us all something to aspire to, and remind us that big things start small.
It’s Product Hunt’s 13th bday.
Today, it’s used by more makers and founders than ever before.
• 3x as many makers are launching as a year ago
• ~25% of all unicorn founders are on the site
• $1B+ startups in this AI era launched early on PH, including Cursor, Lovable, Perplexity, Mercor, micro1, & many others
But tbh, it delights me more to see high-agency young builders use it to introduce their first product to the world.
Now kids younger than Product Hunt launch on Product Hunt.
From the beginning, I wanted it to be a welcoming place for people to be a little vulnerable and inspire others to build.
Appreciate @rajivayyangar and team for all the hard work to maintain that. And shoutout to @jakecrump for pulling this data. :)
Ryan Hoover retweeted
13 years of @ProductHunt 🎉 And I got to spend 6 of them on the team 🙀
PH has changed so many lives, including mine.
I started out launching my own products on PH from India & it opened up a whole world of people I would’ve never met otherwise.
Then I joined PH and it changed my life all over again ❤️
And I got this from Quest today :)
It’s Product Hunt’s 13th bday.
Today, it’s used by more makers and founders than ever before.
• 3x as many makers are launching as a year ago
• ~25% of all unicorn founders are on the site
• $1B+ startups in this AI era launched early on PH, including Cursor, Lovable, Perplexity, Mercor, micro1, & many others
But tbh, it delights me more to see high-agency young builders use it to introduce their first product to the world.
Now kids younger than Product Hunt launch on Product Hunt.
From the beginning, I wanted it to be a welcoming place for people to be a little vulnerable and inspire others to build.
Appreciate @rajivayyangar and team for all the hard work to maintain that. And shoutout to @jakecrump for pulling this data. :)
It’s Product Hunt’s 13th bday.
Today, it’s used by more makers and founders than ever before.
• 3x as many makers are launching as a year ago
• ~25% of all unicorn founders are on the site
• $1B+ startups in this AI era launched early on PH, including Cursor, Lovable, Perplexity, Mercor, micro1, & many others
But tbh, it delights me more to see high-agency young builders use it to introduce their first product to the world.
Now kids younger than Product Hunt launch on Product Hunt.
From the beginning, I wanted it to be a welcoming place for people to be a little vulnerable and inspire others to build.
Appreciate @rajivayyangar and team for all the hard work to maintain that. And shoutout to @jakecrump for pulling this data. :)
Snap has nearly 1B MAU with a $8.5B market cap
Today, we announced our Q3 2026 earnings results. This quarter demonstrated the growing earnings power of Snap's business as we invest for the long-term.
We saw strong engagement across @Snapchat, with monthly active users growing to 977M.
Thank you to our community and partners for your amazing support in making all of this possible 🙏🏻
First time I’ve seen a fund publicly offer this
(I invested in USVC a while back)
Perhaps SoundCloud's revival is in its full embrace of AI
ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models (@indianidle / TechCrunch)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
The decline of new funds is *steep* but we'll see a flood of angels soon.
Anthropic's IPO is estimated to bring $10M+ liquidity to over 1,000 employees.
h/t @kwharrison13
My buddy, @atlasberry008, went all in on tech content last year and already has over 400K IG followers.
He has a new weekly YouTube show. I joined him last week.
youtube.com/watch?v=z7K8-Y8q…
I built a little music app.
Only I can use it unless Spotify approves extended API permissions.
Can any Spotify folks help?
Recently listened to this. Fascinating convo about self-reliance, love, and Crisco.
I think we did the last interview of John McAfee before he died.
The first interview we had set up with him failed. We had a technical issue with our equipment and he gave us 60 seconds to fix it or he was hanging up.
The second interview, audio worked but not video, so we decided to move forward. This isn't a professional podcast - we were just having fun during the pandemic.
I'm so glad it didn't work out because he would have seen us clutching our sides at his amazing stories.
I wanted to ask him questions nobody has ever asked him.
Well, let's just say.. don't listen to this around kids. Don't listen to it out loud if you might get embarrassed, but you'll never see one cooking ingredient the same ever again.
I'd love for someone to turn some of it into songs, but we don't have the original recording anymore. I don't think so anyway.
open.spotify.com/episode/4dI…
Thanks @rrhoover for finding the link for me.
Modern-day Bezos “working backwards” press release:
“[When building something new] we work backwards from the launch… What’s the copy on the Instagram caption?”
There’s a misconception that a successful launch video needs to cost tens of thousands of dollars and feel like a high production commercial. But @FarzaTV has a different approach.
Farza is the founder of @heyclicky and previously built Buildspace, one of the largest online schools for people working on their own ideas. He’s been making videos for over a decade, and today his posts regularly get millions of views. Rather than treating launches as rare, high-stakes moments, he’s made them part of the everyday process of building a company.
Farza sat down with YC’s @aaron_epstein to share his playbook for turning demos into stories people actually want to watch. He breaks down how he scripts videos that still feel off the cuff, why founders should launch constantly, and and how to figure out which channels actually convert.
01:44 — Launch Constantly
03:38 — Start Shipping Demos
05:02 — Show the Process
06:07 — The Clicky Launch
07:43 — Write a Hook That Stops the Scroll
10:30 — Why Farza Scripts Every Video
12:04 — Designing the First 10 Seconds
15:15 — Demo-Driven Development
17:25 — You Have to Take a Thousand Shots
20:48 — Farza’s Formula for Videos That Convert
23:01 — Turning Demos Into Stories
24:53 — Show What You're Actually Building
29:11 — Finding Customers on Social Media
31:02 — Which Platforms Actually Convert?
39:01 — Why Farza’s First Hire Was a Filmmaker
40:49 — The Video Stack
45:41 — The 30-Day Launch Challenge
I would assume every SMB website is compromised rn.
Just encountered this fake Cloudflare prompt (ClickFix).
I don’t trade public stocks but if I did I would bet on this thesis:
As consumers adopt agents to make purchase decisions, we’ll see significant growth among the *quantifiably best* products and services.
This is the best voice demo I've heard.
True human-level voice convos will unlock many more consumer use cases.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
What’s it called when the Uber driver isn’t moving for 20 minutes and you’re both playing chicken to see who cancels first?
