Alex Immerman
@aleximm
Software is eating the world, but I’m eating @saltandstraw. My initials were AI before it was cool. GP @a16z growth fund.
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Flock saves children. Every single day.
This story is not even close to an outlier.
Flock is used daily to save Americans, including many children, from horrific horrific crimes. Americans deserve to be safe.
"Humans just became cheaper than software.
Someone still has to tell them both what to do."
Amazing piece from @gsivulka
The source of truth for what’s going on today
ChatGPT x Kalshi
Uber the upstart: regulators shouldn’t protect incumbents from better products
Uber the incumbent: please require 85% of rides to use the old product
The issue is that people fail to understand privacy in this context and make broad generalizations while carrying around a phone that tracks their every movement / sells that data to 3rd parties.
Last night, a 3-month-old that was kidnapped in Marshall county was located with a Flock camera in a totally different county.
Crimes solved, missing people found. Every. Single. Day.
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We will see this at 90%+, barring catastrophic policy choices.
It is unbelievable how much America has contributed to society in the span of just 250 years
My son turns 2 today. Being with him is a reminder that happiness is our default setting. He is filled with joy and awe 98% of the time.
Ashton Kutcher has great taste in women. @beller is 🐐
BREAKING: LeBron James will be taking his talents to @a16z
Breaking: LeBron James will continue his NBA career for the 2026-27 season and has informed the Lakers that the franchise can move on without him because he will play elsewhere, his agent told @ShamsCharania.
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"It's better to be right than consistent" - @bhorowitz
BREAKING: Mark Pincus (@markpinc) on How to Build Billion-Dollar Products
"Your # 1 job as a founder is to be right."
"F*ck scale."
"Don't be a fake CEO."
Mark founded Zynga in 2007, grew FarmVille + Words With Friends to 1B+ users in 4 years, & sold the company to Take-Two for $12.7B. Before that he was an early investor in Facebook & Twitter. Across 10 companies, he's spent 30 years learning how to build products people love.
Now he's put it into "Life at the Speed of Play," aka the "Product Maker Bible"
His goal: something you can reread in 10 years & still use, the way he rereads Peter Thiel's Zero to One.
We went deep on the framework:
- Your product instinct is right ~95% of the time, but your specific idea is wrong at least 75% of the time. The whole job is separating the two & k*lling your B+ idea to find the A.
- Proven Better New: copy what already works, make it objectively better, then add one new bet.
- 40,000 games launched in the App Store last year. 0% held a top 25 spot. Why products win on day 365 retention, not virality.. lessons from @nikitabier & more
- Why he's an AI maximalist who still calls consumer AI un-investable, & thinks today's $2-5T companies become $10-20T companies.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Mark Pincus, Chairman & Founder at Zynga
(01:07) Why it took so long to write the book
(01:52) Why the book starts with Elon
(07:29) How frustration becomes market research
(08:16) The gap between Airbnb and hotels
(09:14) Why people don't want flight attendants on private jets
(13:13) The goal behind Life at the Speed of Play
(15:07) The instincts vs. ideas framework
(21:01) Do instincts improve with experience?
(22:49) A framework for building winning products
(29:38) Becoming a student of yourself
(31:16) Finding great ideas in overlooked products
(34:39) Why AI makes building easier & winning harder
(39:17) Cracking Zynga's record-setting retention
(44:59) What Mark looks for in startups
(50:42) Jeff Bezos' boldest decision
(53:03) What happens when founders realize they're wrong
(59:37) How Mark found talent others overlooked
(1:06:58) Don't be a fake CEO
(1:12:15) Inside Silicon Valley's early days
(1:14:58) Why he funded Friendster & Napster as "experiments"
(1:17:00) The 'think weekend' with Thiel, Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman & Sean Parker
(1:18:58) Launching Zynga when nobody believed him
(1:21:42) Why Mark is an AI maximalist
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yesterday, we lost out on Giannis Antetokounmpo.
so today, we needed a bigger splash. welcome @joshelman to @a16z.
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Robinhood, Musically (now TikTok), Discord, Apple. future Hall of Famer.
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1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @a16z as a partner to help find and support building the next generation of great consumer companies. Let me talk a little about why.
Every day I see something I am convinced I hallucinated.
every company is a new media company.
Happy new media summit day @a16z
Happy birthday @gaby_goldberg
Happy wear your Knicks jacket day @eriktorenberg
Improbable Knicks title stats 🧡💙
22-to-1 to win the title before the playoffs started, worst odds ever among eventual champion.
3 of the 6 largest comebacks in Finals history - including largest ever at 29 points in Game 4, which they led for only 54 seconds.
Only held lead for 24% of Finals minutes, despite winning 4 of 5 games.
2-0 in playoff games when trailing by 20+ in the fourth quarter. The rest of the NBA: 3-751.
Best playoff point differential ever: +283 (+14.9 per game), shattering prior record of +230.
16-3 record including a 13-game win streak. Their three loses were by a combined 6 points. 12 of their wins were by double digits.
KAT finished +258 for the playoffs, the best single-postseason plus-minus ever. Brunson finished with third best all-time.
Three Knicks starters - Brunson, Bridges and Hart - are the first trio to win both an NCAA title and an NBA title together, 10 years apart. The Knicks are first team to win NBA Cup and Finals in the same season.
And never forget Jalen Brunson took $113M less so the Knicks could build this team around him.
Go NY, go NY, go!
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