Founder @StartupDevKit, building vertical AI for startup execution & venture intelligence for early-stage founders. 19 yr startup vet.
New York
Joined November 2010
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I've been quiet here, but I've spent the past 20 months heads-down transforming StartupDevKit for the AI era.
I went from never building software to building interconnected AI-powered systems for founders to go from 0 ➔ 1.
I've kept a lot close to the vest. That's changing. 😄
Carl Potak retweeted
Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
Carl Potak retweeted
@nicksortor @bennyjohnson @nickshirleyy @BoLoudon @EricLDaugh @catturd2 @LauraLoomer @MAGAVoice @johnnymaga
Come on cowards - where are your MAGA voices now?
ICE are cunts with badges
You’re all big & brave posting your BS but go quiet when serious shit gets raised…
Carl Potak retweeted
Jon Stewart on the Supreme Court: “They have single-handedly made it impossible for us to reform and save our democracy. The way they have made it that corporations are people and money is speech. There has to be a process of amending the Constitution. This idea that Citizens United stands as the law of the land is the biggest bunch of shit. The Constitution is in a suicide pact and money in elections is killing this country”
Every Star Trek title on @paramountplus is freezing on the first frame with a 6000 error on my Amzn Fire TV. Other titles play. I unplugged the tv, cleared cache, data. Not working. Can't get in touch with cust. serv. I just wanna watch the latest SNW episode!
@StarTrekOnPPlus
Carl Potak retweeted
People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
Carl Potak retweeted
Distinguished Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeff Sachs on Trump's 35-person cabinet:
“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We're led by grifters and fools.”
Founders make expensive decisions based on assumptions they’ve never questioned. Learn how first principles thinking can help you challenge assumptions, reason from fundamentals, test uncertainty, and make better decisions. #startup
Founders waste a lot of time solving the wrong version of a problem.
First-principles thinking helps you strip away assumptions, identify what’s actually true, and reason from there. Here’s how to use it:
startupdevkit.com/first-prin…
#Startups #FirstPrinciples #Founders
Carl Potak retweeted
FELLOWSHIP‼️: @a16z will give you $250K to start a company before you even have an idea, a team, or a diploma.
The Alpha Fellowship, built by @speedrun, a16z's startup program.
8 weeks in San Francisco.
Founder Track:
- up to $250K investment
- $1M+ in cloud and AI credits
- interview for speedrun, up to $1M
- no board seat, founders keep control
Speakers include @pmarca, @chrisbest, @andrewchen, and @nrol_ling. Past speedrun sessions featured @sama, @zoink, and @bhorowitz.
Pre-entity, pre-idea, pre-team. Apply as an individual, no cofounder needed.
🖇️Apply before Oct 11→ speedrun.a16z.com/alpha
P.S. A folder is not a story. @ThePageform AI agent turns your materials into a ready data room in minutes → pageform.io/?utm_source=x&ut…
Carl Potak retweeted
Over and over again, we hear that Medicare for All is just “too expensive.” That is demonstrably false.
Not only would my legislation save lives, it would save money.
This isn't just me talking. Hear it from leading healthcare experts at the Yale School of Public Health.
Carl Potak retweeted
Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.
Carl Potak retweeted
Top 10 Spreaders of Disinformation in the US according to ChatGPT:
1. Donald Trump
2. Fox News
3. Elon Musk
4. Robert F. Kennedy
5. Alex Jones
6. Tucker Carlson
7. Sean Hannity
8. Newsmax
9. The Gateway Pundit
10. Breitbart
Carl Potak retweeted
ICE is about to drop up to $20 million of your tax dollars on gloves that zap people with electric shocks to force compliance. Gloves that deliver pain on contact. In a nation that claims to stand for human dignity and the rule of law. This is inhumane. America is better than this.
op:@jesscraven
Carl Potak retweeted
$900 million for White House vanity projects? Approved.
$1 trillion tax cut for the 1%? Approved.
$1 trillion for war with Iran? Approved.
Lower grocery, housing or gas prices? Sorry, you're on your own.
Money for billionaires. Money for war. Nothing for working people.
Carl Potak retweeted
Today we’re launching 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, the deep-dive research and playbook on agentic development. ⭐
20+ AI-pilled engineering teams → 63-pages of insights and frameworks to guide a company’s transformation.
Developer teams want to know:
"How are we measuring up? 🧵
theagenticawakening.com/
