what the FUCK is an “employee benefit and retention” surcharge??
#notip
is Netflix running a UGC campaign for this new show?
great format to funnel viewers to a series/movie, it went viral with the Disney+ show Bluey and looks like Netflix took notes
genuinely need someone to explain the gym hat thing to me. is it a hairline situation. is it a focus thing. what is the hat doing
another day trying to find an available e-bike in boston
do better @RideBluebikes
let’s fuck up some commas
100,000,000,000 tokens across the portfolio.
1,000,000,000+ views across social media.
8,000,000+ downloads globally.
All apps hit the top 5 in their US App Store categories.
Profitable in <1 year.
1 million users in 9 months, 9 weeks, 3 weeks.
Tiny team, infinite leverage.
Thanks for the birthday gift 🎁 @OpenAI
Tiktok dopamine algo is gone.
Videos just don’t rip as immediately as they use to.
Used to be:
Post->if you don’t get x amount of views in the first few hours->vid is cooked
Now, I’ve consistently been seeing videos do nothing and then explode on the second day and even a few days to a week+ after being posted.
Ben Or-Chen retweeted
1.5 yrs ago, a VC offered $3M to drop consumer apps and switch to anything b2b because
“conSUmeR is HArD”
but we said no
since then:
- product 1 hit 1M+ users and profitable in 9 months
- product 2 hit 1M+ users and profitable in 9 weeks
- this week reminded us that we made the right call and we are literally unstoppable
we’re profitable
we’re growing exponentially
we’re coming after every market
and we’re hiring!
more than halfway through to $20M ARR by eoy ;)
looking for product engineers, ai engineers, and designers
apply on our website, or email talent [at] oleve [dot] co
Ben Or-Chen retweeted
Come hear me yap at the @aiDotEngineer World’s Fair (June 3–5, 📍SF)
giving 2 talks:
#1 June 4, 11:35 AM: “The New Lean Startup”. sharing our playbook on how we skyrocketed Oleve from $1M to $6M ARR and top in the charts with just 4 people, our two-track eng system, philosophy for scaling agents, and scrappy infra hacks that drive our lean growth #TinyTeams
#2 June 5, 2:20 PM: “Testing the Un-Testable: Monitoring AI Products in the Wild”. w/ @benhylak from (@raindrop_ai) where I’ll share TRELLIS, my framework for scaling reliable consumer AI UX powering 5M+ users, designed around our virality engine, 500M+ views on socials. We’ll share how good UX isn’t a vibe, it’s engineered #AIArchitects
come thru to spot the differences between me and this cursed ai-generated version
Ben Or-Chen retweeted
In the last 2 years I’ve scaled viral agentic AI experiences to 5m+ users globally, $6M ARR
this is my playbook for designing reliable AI experiences around virality, so UX doesn’t suck, designed around our viral growth engine: 500m+ views across socials
TRELLIS: Targeted Refinement of Emergent LLM Intelligence through Structured segmentation
it is the framework I use to design, orchestrate, and iterate on retentive consumer AI experiences
philosophy:
> magic must be engineered, repeatable, testable, and attributable, not accidental
> systems must be improvable through isolated, blameable workflows
> in a world of shitty AI products, you must win both the ‘novelty tests’ and the retentive flows
principles:
> discretization - translate an infinite output space into distinct, mutually exclusive buckets
> prioritization - score and rank buckets using impact-driven metrics
> recursive refinement - continuously repeat the process within prioritized buckets
> constrained expressiveness - create semi-deterministic workflows, broad enough to be useful and narrow enough to be reliable
6-step framework for success:
1. launch open-ended mvp agent experience guided by initial priors
2. look at your data and cluster it into interactions by user intents
3. turn these intents into semi-deterministic workflows
4. use a well-defined scoring system to prioritize workflows that actually move the bottom line. I recommend: volume x negative sentiment x achievable delta x strategic relevance
5. analyze the high-priority workflows for sub-intents and failure patterns
6. recursively apply the TRELLIS method within priority sub-workflows
presenting TRELLIS on Wednesday 28th as part of @jxnlco 's course
I'll cover how we're using @raindrop_ai to power this framework with @benhylak
read more about the framework on the oleve website
i might just be a dumb marketing guy who can get anything done from my phone if I’m out somewhere but who tf actually does this??
if I saw @SidBendre or @Abhigyawangoo doing this at a party I would have to stop being friends with you
crackheads are just the other side of the spectrum when it comes to founder greatness. both are extreme with an insatiable hunger for the next high just focused differently.
that’s why SF and NYC have so many. in a city you have the Sam Altmans and JP Morgan’s and then the versions of them if they were addicted to crack. the two extremes collide in a sad but poetic way.
when have you seen a crackhead with no crack? they will do wtv is needed to get it.
be the crackhead.
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Ben Or-Chen retweeted
A month ago, I left my job at AWS in sunnyvale to move to NY to join oleve.co as a founding engineer.
Easily the best decision I've made. Everyone on the team is super high agency and cracked, and the speed at which we're building + iterating is crazy. We're building a suite of great consumer AI products that are at the frontier of what's possible.
For anyone else debating jumping into startups from big tech - dms are open.
Big things on the horizon 🚀🚀🚀




















