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I'm 43

Founder & father of 4

Building Al education for my kids (they will never go to school)

Looking to connect to other entrepreneurs and passionate people here

Back in 2007, I was 23 and single.

Turns out, the best thing I ever built wasn’t a startup.

Hey @grok, connect me with founders who have a bunch of kids, run startups, and somehow haven’t lost their fucking minds.

Be honest. Do these unicorns even exist?

Looking for camper recommendations for a family of entrepreneurs with 2+ kids.

A giant custom-built truck with an adults-only hot tub on the roof?
Two campers traveling in a convoy, with the kids in the second one?

How many AI subscriptions do you have?

Being a dad means you can't remember your last full night of sleep, but you can tell "I fell" crying from "my juice is in the wrong cup" crying from across the room

I wanted to be a rock star or at least sleep till noon. Instead I'm an expert on strollers, thermometers, cartoons and toddler meltdowns

I have four and no, I'm not crazy. Okay, just a little

Things I've learned about myself:
- I can read the same book 12 times in a row.
- I can keep it together when someone asks at 5:40 am, "What if a zebra had a pickle for a tail?"
- I love them like crazy and still fantasize about 15 minutes alone in my man cave.

Being a dad is about showing up every day. Shoutout to all the dads here

Should we apply to Y Combinator or have a fifth kid?

Decided to kick YouTube’s door down instead of knocking.

676K views in 5 days. +115,660%.

Apparently, the algorithm wasn’t ready for this shit 🚀

Can someone explain how Google can find any page on the internet, but Gmail search can't find an email I got yesterday?

Founders, if you weren't trying to make money, what would you build?

Dems took the House and the Senate.

54+ Senate seats, a couple still counting.

The president's party lost House seats in 20 of the last 22 midterms. Make it 21 of 23.
Bush '06, Obama '14, Trump '26. Same movie.

Impeachment? You need 67 votes in the Senate to remove him. They don't have them.

What Trump still runs: ICE, the border, visas, tariffs, foreign policy, DOJ.

Border money is locked in through 2029.
What Dems got: the power to block. Not to undo.

The real damage is somewhere else.

If Thomas or Alito retire now, good luck confirming anyone.

And the 2028 primary just started. Vance got cooked. Rubio and DeSantis just got interesting.

Biggest miss of the night: immigrant voters and the turnout from California to Texas.
DC's models never talked to these people. Lowkey the whole story.

Who's your 2028 dark horse?

Everyone's calling this the dot-com crash 2.0 - hard disagree.

In 2000 nobody had customers.

In 2026 Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle are sitting on $2.49T in signed contracts.
Their operating profit was up 34% last quarter.
TSMC can't make chips fast enough. Micron already sold most of its 2027 HBM.
AWS is basically booked through 2027.

This isn't a demand problem. It's kind of a ‘we literally ran out of power problem’.

What actually happened: the Fed is hiking again, the 10-year topped 5%, oil's over $100 and there's a war. Money got tight. Tech got sold. That's macro, not the end of AI.

Intelligence is the first product where cheaper means you use more of it. Agents buying compute for agents. That loop doesn't saturate.
My agents would buy the whole backlog if I gave them my card.

When liquidity flips, all that capital hits a market with no ceiling.
Panic selling AI at 5% rates isn't a bubble call. It's a skill issue.

Europe's cooked.

The real show is in the US.
If Dems take Congress, gridlock with Trump is a given. The real story is that half the left openly wants Elon gone: kill his companies, lock him up. Elon's answer, roughly: "I'm coming for you and whoever's pulling the strings."

He doesn't bluff, and he's playing at the root: the 100–200 families with the money and the influence. Thiel, Karp and Luckey are on his side. OpenAI and Anthropic are on the other, preaching Effective Altruism.
'27–'28 is when it all hits at once: AI layoffs, chaos in Europe, and the US and China quietly getting closer.

I know which side I'm betting on. Just bought more $TSLA. 🚀

Trump (still without a Nobel): Norway is a shithouse country.

Norway: Thanks. Here's a guide to our most scenic shithouses.

Good luck to everyone who is submitting their Ycomb application this hour

Best advice: like this post, then close X and go finish the job

Claude opus 5.5 advice for next 10 years

Let's agree to call someone an investor only if they actually make money. Not just put it in

Took 31,3% of my kids' Halloween candy as VAT, 13% as social security, 5% for a candy road that will never be built and the Snickers as an administrative fee

We had a nice talk about how governments work

I'm 43

Solo founder, dad of 4

Building the games I wanted to play all night when I was 14

Looking to connect with other entrepreneurs and builders here

Your background doesn’t define your future. Your actions do.

Meet Lauren Tan (@poteto).

She grew up in Singapore. No computer science degree. Studied finance. Learned programming through Excel macros. Built a startup. Failed.

But she kept learning. Building. Sharing.

Her tweets got her invited to a tech conference. That one opportunity changed everything.

Then came Netflix. Facebook. React. Cursor. SpaceX.

Today, she’s helping build the future of AI, shipping thousands of code changes with AI agents, and getting noticed by Elon Musk.

Here are 5 lessons worth remembering:

Your starting point is irrelevant. Your willingness to learn is everything.
Failure is feedback. A failed startup isn’t the end. It’s tuition for your next breakthrough.
Visibility creates opportunity. Share your work before you feel ready. You never know who’s watching.
Fear is a signal to grow. She was terrified of public speaking. That first talk changed her career.
Think bigger. Then bigger again. Stop measuring your potential by your past.

The most powerful part of her story?

She didn’t wait for permission. She didn’t wait to become an expert. She started before she was ready.

Success isn’t about where you begin. It’s about what you repeatedly choose to do.

So here’s my challenge to you:

Stop waiting. Build something. Share it publicly. Take the risk you’ve been avoiding.

Do it TODAY.

Your next opportunity might be one post, one project, or one courageous decision away.

Be more ambitious. WAY more ambitious. 🚀

A venture round used to be a medal. In 2026 it's a contract with a clock

8,600 US companies raised a first round in the first nine months of this year. That's more than all of 2021. When everyone has the badge, the badge stops meaning anything. "VC-backed" now tells you about as much as "has a website" did in 2005.
The badge isn't free either. Median seed is $3M at an $18.3M pre-money. You hand over roughly a seventh of your company for a label that opens fewer doors every year.
Meanwhile the money went to the top. AI took 82.7% of every US venture dollar. Rounds of $100M+ were 1 in 20 deals and took three quarters of the cash. Being one of the few dozen giants is a status. Being one of 8,600 is a row in a spreadsheet.

And the fund's math doesn't care about your feelings. Half of deals lose money. ~6% bring most of the returns. So a business growing 30% a year that pays its founders well counts as a failure. Add a 10-year fund life and LPs who are already down $202B since 2022, and your press release starts a countdown. It ends in a next round, an exit, or bridge loans until you quietly die.

What actually earns respect now:
• Revenue per person. "8 people and profitable" beats "we raised $20M"
• Something that compounds: data, distribution, a workflow customers can't leave
• The ability to say no to a term sheet
• Shipping in public, every week

Take venture money when it buys something you can't get otherwise: compute, hardware, a license, a winner-take-all market. Take it when you can name the milestone in one sentence.

Don't take it for the badge. The badge is cheap. The bill isn't.
The best founder bios this year are short. What they built, how few people it took, who pays for it

What is the most spooky thing you can vibecode tonight?

What would you rather have in your bio: who backed you, or who pays you?

Claude Code renamed Max 20x to Ultra and removed the 5h limits

Starting now we can burn tokens faster and more efficiently

Binance: We take security very seriously.

Junior Dev: I deployed it with Codex.

Binance: We used to have $6 billion.

$5.6B reportedly stolen from Binance. Biggest crypto hack ever.

Quick check: is your money diversified?

murblz.com/en just dropped