This was the @Steam deck's perception at GDC in 2023. Sadly, I think nothing has still changed. There's so much @valvesoftware could do, but clearly just DOESN'T.

YOUR BEST SOCIAL MEDIA IS ALL CAPS / ONE BLOCK OF TEXT / ONE PHOTO your best email will be one subject / one line best text 🤓 things that took me 3yrs to learn from @andrewchen

Thx for playing folks - yes it's a cohort graph (sort of) @ikirigin @sinasanm It's the weekly views of most watched Netflix films in the first 90 days. We're witnessing #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS becoming Netflix's Frozen. It's rare to see this happen and this is pretty special

Whoa. Not something you see every day. Any guesses as to what the purple line is?

🚨NOW HIRING a Lifecycle Marketing Partner at @a16z @speedrun 🚨 Come work for the best venture capital firm in the world. You'll lead our early-stage investor-focused marketing and be the best partner for the full lifecycle of an investor You’ll work directly with me @andrewchen @JoshLu @DougMcCracken @SamiraBehrouzan and more to ensure the right investors see the right startups at the right time. We're looking for someone who: 🏎️ thrives in fast-paced environments and biases toward action across content, campaigns, and data, 🤖 open to innovating on new tools (AI, anyone?), 📚 brings sharp storytelling instincts, and 🧐 has (or is willing to quickly get) deep empathy for early-stage investors Oh did I mention you get competitive salary + carry (that's right, skin in the game!). Thanks for the love and follow as I answer more questions about the role 🚀

All @united flights are grounded right now. Luckily everyone on LAX-SFO pulled out their devices - but this won't last long before it becomes a battle arena

Excited to be interviewing @gstrompolos for @speedrun - it's not every day you meet the guy who launched the @YouTube Partner Program that fundamentally reshaped media

Excellent mental model by @davidu on filter vs selection applied to one of the most important decisions one makes in their life - who you partner with. This same model can be applied for the other big decision you make in your life - what you do for your job.

@speedrun REQUEST FOR STARTUPS: TRICKLE-DOWN TECH ADOPTION Let's talk about the REAL reason why technology gets adopted. Some of the most powerful distribution waves in tech weren’t user-led — they were enterprise-subsidized. 📞 The telephone didn’t take off because consumers wanted one. It took off because businesses first had it and were listed in the phone book. 🐱🖥️ YouTube didn’t grow because people loved buffering cat videos—it grew because telecom giants footed the bill for broadband. 📱Same with smartphones: Apple didn’t sell the iPhone alone—carriers like AT&T subsidized the hardware to lock in customers to multi-year data plans. Millions got cutting-edge devices for $199 instead of $599. Telecoms paid; startups reaped the usage. I like to call this TRICKLE-DOWN TECH ADOPTION: when one company bears the cost so another can reap the benefit. And right now, we’re seeing early signs of it again— 🤖 AI infrastructure pushing users into new workflows, 👓 VR headsets/Meta Ray-Bans subsidized by vision insurance and headset manufacturers, 🗄️ Fortune 500s upgrading backend systems that startups can piggyback on. I don't know where all of the trickle-down is happening, but we're interested if your startup is benefitting from TRICKLE-DOWN TECH ADOPTION. If Peter is paying Paul, and you’re aligned with Paul—we want to talk. It’s one of the most underrated paths to explosive, low-CAC adoption. Let the big guys break the dam 🌊. You build the village downstream 🏘️