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Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Here's a 45-second TL;DR on Jev.
I find the core idea beautifully simple, but the video made it really hard to understand.
Hope you find it helpful.
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
POV: the company you work for @huggingface is getting acquired by @nvidia 🤯
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Fable 5 for making specs and plans
Grok 4.6 medium for implementing it
Absolute golden combo
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
The biggest exit in our history. This is HUGE.
What makes us proudest: Hugging Face has always been one of those teams that gives back - supporting other founders, showing up for campus events, contributing to programs like Meta and F/AI, and even acquiring another STATION F startup, Pollen Robotics, to build out their robotics division.
They’ve never forgotten where they came from.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Europe can have an amazing next few decades. I hope we can play a small role in making that more likely.
An announcement: Under the leadership of Mario Draghi and @patrickc we have set up the Rhine Group: policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs and business people pushing European reforms and the Draghi agenda.
rhinegroup.eu/
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.
Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada.
In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
The most alarming thing about this graph is not just the amount of change, but the smooth consistency of the curve. If this were a startup I'd be really confident about their future growth. Unfortunately it is instead the planet we live on.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Why only French people travel to random countries like Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Oman, Namibia, Rwanda, etc...
Go to any of them and you’ll notice that a disproportionate share of the tourists are French: a 25yo couple travelling after one TikTok convinced them the country was underrated. A family of five in a campervan. Four friends crossing the desert for a challenge nobody asked them to do.
There’s no obvious reason for it. Those countries aren’t closer to France. French people aren’t richer than Americans, Dutch, Germans or Brits. Yes, they have loads of holidays, but not much more than others, and anyway everyone has time for a 7-day road trip.
My theory is that travelling to obscure places carries a particular type of status in France. Being a “voyageur” is culturally superior to being a tourist. The less obvious and convenient the destination, the more the trip says about your curiosity, openness and sense of adventure. Kazakhstan says something about who you are. A week in Greece or Spain just says you wanted a holiday.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
I feel this.
Every opportunity crowded with AI slop apps.
Every channel saturated with AI slop marketing.
You can't make slop to compete with slop.
I think the way to win is to be as human as possible.
Think about building long term. Be opinionated about code. Take a bit of extra time over the UI. Build something you're really proud of. Market your app without AI; write your newsletters yourself, make video diaries, interview real life customers, etc.
I could be wrong, but at least I won't be part of the slop-race.
I’ve been thinking about this for the past day
And it’s like.. what are we even doing?
Right now there’s this EXTREME urgency to build now or there won’t be any new opportunities left in the future
I feel it
But that’s what everyone else is doing right now.
So yeah, you can create something amazing. But now what? You gotta get people using the thing
So everyone jumps onto ASO
Surprise. 10,000 new apps per day are doing that too
Now we jump onto TikTok to find the perfect hook. Gotta grab that attention somehow
Surprise. Millions of others are doing the same now. And now you can generate an AI actor to do it for you
Ok. Now it’s time to do paid marketing
Surprise! Everyone else is doing that too. Now the marketing costs reach their limits and just breaking even isn’t even guaranteed.
This can’t be an endless game of trying to find the next distribution channel every other week
What are we even doing man?
I’ve been thinking:
Our paradigm has changed.
I think it changed even more with Fable 5.
Productivity != success
Time put it != success
So what is the key?
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Pour rappel Olise a quand même pris un carton jaune parce qu’un joueur Paraguayen s’est volontairement mis un coup de coude dans la gueule pour simuler devant lui.
Fin de la blague.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Remember in Age of Empires you could type in BIGDADDY and you’d have fun for 5-15 minutes then stop playing cause you got a taste of cheating.
Same thing btw.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Exercise frequency generally correlates with how often people want sex
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Benefits of drinking:
-hilarious situational laughs that add years to your life
-being 7 beers deep in the Sun with your friends realizing you almost forgot the point of life is to have fun with people who make you happy
-3 bottles of wine with your wife then smashing all night without a condom (lasting 975% longer)
-heartwarming couples dinners hugging goodnight thinking ‘I’m so glad we did this’
-concerts with your girlfriend and friends making lifelong memories favorite songs slapping mythologically
-backyard party watching your girlfriend hit it off with your Aunt while your friends and Uncles plan a road trip to a Big 10 football game “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse jamming in the background wanting to freeze time and live this day every day the rest of your life realizing ‘wow life is a miracle I’m so lucky to be alive’
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
Il me met un ace à 228. J’étais là : Fuck, je fais devoir servir.
- Pas le mot en F s’il te plaît.
- Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
- Nos excuses pour le langage. Corentin, je vais te poser une dernière question, s’il te plaît, reste poli […]
- Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
sry but indiehackers who are also parents and family ppl are in a different league
fuck outta here with your unlimited free time, 8hrs of sleep and empty calendars
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
🇫🇷 Calvin est un robot humanoïde développé en seulement 40 jours par la startup française Wandercraft en partenariat avec le groupe Renault.
🛞 Il est déjà déployé dans l’usine Renault de Douai pour effectuer des tâches pénibles comme le port de pneus et de bacs lourds.
🦾 Conçu sans tête et capable de soulever jusqu’à 40 kg, Calvin soulage les opérateurs en améliorant l’ergonomie et la productivité sur les lignes de montage.
📈 Renault prévoit d’installer 350 robots Calvin dans ses usines d’ici fin 2026 afin d’accélérer sa transformation industrielle.
🇫🇷 Cette collaboration franco-française positionne la France parmi les pionniers européens du déploiement de robots humanoïdes dans la production réelle.
📼 Pour voir la vidéo complète :
youtube.com/watch?v=kxhAXFFb…
Phil 🇫🇷🍼 (French SaaS-dad) retweeted
We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:
1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.
2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.
3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.
4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free
5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.
6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.
7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.
8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.
9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.
10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?
11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.
12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.
13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again
14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own
15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy
Good luck !
