Tweets on marketing & startups. Building @northhouseee. Investing @loiventure. Training Founders @loiaccelerator. Writing https://xitter.cf/t.co/ABNXQrxSH3

Vancouver, Canada
Joined August 2016
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What's a product under $250 that has genuinely improved your life?
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introducing muse wonder our new frontier model. state-of-the-art at personal agents and professional agents. our largest and most capable model yet—rivals the big bois
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Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder. 00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases 00:07:28 The model is the product 00:14:35 Muse Wonder 00:24:56 How frontier models are built 00:48:26 Betting $100B 01:07:21 Agentic commerce 01:19:34 OpenRouter 01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone 01:27:00 Funding 01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all 01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) 02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
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Cheeky Pint returns Monday in our new pub! Lots of great guests lined up for this season.
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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe's advice to ambitious people:
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hype up your friends who are chasing their dreams > comment on their post > support their business > tell them you’re proud support them just like you support celebrities who don’t even know you exist
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Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co Our goal is to create the following: - A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with. - Cosign graph: Who shaped your career? Who were you actually in the trenches with? Who would work with you again? Who thinks you’re someone to watch? - Durable reputation: Great endorsements happen every day on X and disappear into the feed. Cosign attaches those signals permanently to people and companies. - Discovery: Who are the best fintech angels? Which AI companies should I watch? Who are the best designers? - Intent network: Privately signal “I’d invest in them,” “I’d hire them,” “I’d work with them,” or eventually even “I’d acquire this company.” Match people when interest exists on both sides. Imagine if Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and OG AngelList had a baby. Though Cosign is a community, not a business. In order to join, you need to be cosigned. Or you can apply directly. David Booth and I started this idea 7 years ago but didn’t have the firepower to make it work. Now we do. No one has really touched LinkedIn in 20 years. Excited to take a swing. cosign.co
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Joel Hansen retweeted
My lord, three IPOs are worth more than… all IPOs in the last 45 years of tech 🤯
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Our house in Toronto had this fancy glassed wine cellar, but we are not big wine drinkers. Anyways, it had good climate control so here is my rack cellar.
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Apple just reinvented the book.
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Joel Hansen retweeted
vancouver is on a serious run rn somehow, @spacexai, @cerebras, @OpenAI and @cognition are all hosting community events in vancouver within the next few weeks
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we just raised $1.5M for @the_wellnessco today we’re introducing Tempo, an AI health companion built to help you live longer. v1 is out now, try it here 📲 jointempo.app/hello
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Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations. His exact words: "If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works." His personal example: He was terrified of public speaking. For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking." A week later the fear was gone. "It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment." Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.
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Joel Hansen retweeted
I’d love a little office like this
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Legends @JensenHuang @bcherny @sdianahu Startup School is so special
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Thank you to the 1000+ folks who joined Ben, David, and me to discuss AI and Sierra in NYC. Amazing venue and amazing discussion
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Garry Tan (@garrytan) said the best founders have a “specific weird earned insight, not just AI for X.” I asked @joelshansen what his was. His answer…
The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth. The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.
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Nobody does it like Toronto. Homecoming 2026. – at Toronto, Ontario
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