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🚀 Head of content @ Stack 🧘🏼‍♂️ Mastering marketing and AI, not necessarily in that order 🤙🏼 Make life an adventure

Austin, TX
Joined September 2021
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"The Founders ETF" I analyzed every publicly traded company covered by David Senra (@FoundersPodcast) on Founders. If you put $100 into every stock on the day its episode came out (as opposed to the S&P500), you'd: - Beat the S&P500 by 74.3% - Be up 149.6% since Founders first aired in Sep. 2016 - Have invested $12,500 and have made $31,203.77
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Which tech podcast books the most impressive guests for its size? 🧵 I scored 4,233 guests across 19 shows. TBPN came in at #1. It books like a show 15x its size. Conversations with Tyler and No Priors are close behind at 12-13x. My personal favorite came in at 4th. Pound for pound rankings:
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Everything else is in the write-up: all 19 shows ranked, the one person who's been on 13 of the 19 shows, the show that booked Musk, Jensen and Zuckerberg but still landed below the line, and every caveat. xitter.cf/thebenstevenson/status…
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Which show did I miss?
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Everyone I know who walks super fast is a high achiever.
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What’s promised vs what’s delivered:
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If you want money, promise a lot and deliver a lot. If you want love, promise little and deliver a lot. If you want hate, promise a lot and deliver little. If you want to be forgettable, promise little and deliver little.
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A lot of people on X have an active interest in this being silenced, but here goes anyways... Many of the viral AI launches you see on X are being faked, and lots of these companies are directly breaking @X's terms of service in order to manufacture virality. It’s my belief that even the ones that don’t break the rules are still misleading people, and I think the public should be more aware of it.
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Opus 5.5 is amazing for animations + storytelling. e.g. this is the story of how GLP-1 was discovered:
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Just talked to a guy who has an AI agent reading all his chats, then sending summaries to Suno (AI music maker), so when he gets in his Tesla, it starts playing him songs about his most recent chat conversation topics.
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You open X. Everyone is talking about local AI models. People are saying they canceled their $200 Claude sub People are saying local models are EVERYTHING. People are saying the government is going to restrict all of our AI. Is it really true? Are they really that good? If I’m not running GLM 5.2 locally on my airpods, am I relegated to the permanent underclass?? I went on a deep dive and made a video about it:
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Time from founding → world's most valuable company
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Everyone on X is obsessed with loops right now. But they’re still really confusing, especially if you’re non-technical (like me). So I made a video explaining loops (aka loop engineering) with real world examples, and a quiz at the end so you can test yourself.
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Super excited for this team, and glad I could help on the video!
Parrot’s (@tryparrotai) OS provides full context on estimates, parts, customers, insurers, suppliers, and payments, so their agents can physically call and communicate with real people to run the shop on autopilot. Congrats on the launch, @pbaek5699 & @Parrot_Liam! ycombinator.com/launches/QdR…
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