YC is completely useless if you don't already have a cofounder i did this accelerator in sf. it is completely different from other accelerators because you can come without an idea and without a cofounder. for me it radically changed my life as an entrepreneur. i had the idea, an MVP, but no technical skills, no cofounder, i was a lawyer before. so i: - met my cofounder xtelegram - went to sf for the first time, all paid - met friends, incredible founders, incredible advisors - 1000X my ambition special thanks to @juliadenoly @GittardAurelien @vio_bme @antoineduchein @Alicebentinck (Isa and Mike idk your @)

Luana Lopes Lara co-founded Kalshi, arguably the most controversial startup in America right now. The company is fighting legal battles across 19 states, has faced cease-and-desist orders in at least 11, and has even been hit with criminal wagering charges. And yet, in eleven months, Kalshi went from a $2B valuation to $22B. In August, Kalshi traded roughly 5x Polymarket’s volume, commanding more than 80% of the combined market. With a marketing team of just 15 people, it outdid(!!) Nike at the World Cup and turned @RealChalamet into the face of the tournament’s #1-performing ad. Building a company like Kalshi requires an extreme tolerance for pain and a degree of conviction that can look like delusion. Or, as @mansourtarek_ puts it: you need to have the dawg in you. @luanalopeslara has it. No sane founder spends two years fighting for a company’s right to exist, only to turn around and sue the regulator that finally granted it. Without Luana pushing Kalshi through that fight, it might have remained a licensed experiment without the capital, liquidity, or market power to pursue its real ambition: becoming the exchange where anything about the future can be traded. I spent months researching Luana alongside @Anastasia_ELW, an early-stage investor building @jointhebridge: speaking with people who worked with and backed her, poring over every recorded interview and written account I could find, and tracing the CFTC’s paper trail. Ana and I wanted to understand how Luana keeps pulling off things that look impossible from the outside. Where did her appetite for impossible bets come from? Why does she keep choosing the steeper mountain? And why have the people around her learned not to bet against her? This is the person behind one of America’s most audacious companies. SideDoors presents Luana Lopes Lara: the founder behind Kalshi’s most impossible bets. sidedoors.co/p/luana-lopes-l…

Building something generational? This winter: $250K - first check 50 founders - top global 0.001% One house in SF - you’ll live in it W27 applications are open (link below) Rest is on you - go! 🛸

Today, we’re releasing screen-aware one-click writing to everyone. The natural next step after voice dictation. Press Option in any text field. Goldfish predicts what you want to write from the real context of your work. Already used 250,000+ times. Free for a little longer: goldfish.sh

New acquisition channel unlocked: San Francisco saunas.

Hagen and Mateo started with €300 of lunch money. They turned that into a software licensing business doing over €1.5M in revenue. They were still in high school, in Eschborn, Germany. Population 21,000. In March, they told me the story of that first company. A few weeks later they were on a plane to San Francisco to join The Bridge. Today it's a pleasure and an honor to watch them build Avior and dream BIG.

Hagen and Mateo left Frankfurt for San Francisco Leaving behind a business they had grown from €300 to €1.5M in revenue while still in high school They joined The Bridge to take a shot at building a generational company. Their film drops today at 5pm CEST Be there

The Bridge wasn’t where Hagen Krall and Mateo Herbig's story started, but it was the starting block for what they’re building now. Starting Blocks is a new series by @jointhebridge It follows the very early days of exceptional founders who moved to San Francisco to build the most ambitious company of their lives. We’re starting with Hagen and Matteo. Their film comes out tomorrow, 20 August, at 5pm CEST. Be there.

What did you dream of as a kid? For some of The Bridge founders, it was seeing a rocket launch So we drove to see one The Bay Area is where anything feels possible That’s why @jointhebridge is here Thanks @elonmusk for the show

if you’re working 10h a day alone and want to be more productive /join Promethee

looking to fly and house founders in SF for free comment something impressive you've built

Goldfish is LIVE on Product Hunt! 🐠 Goldfish is a little memory that lives on your computer. Press Option in any text field, and it already knows the thread, the person, your work, and your tone, so it can write the reply you meant to send in one keypress.

this is my life, turned into a game. introducing Promethee

storyteller is exploding as a job category in SF bc the new generation of founders is defined by the story they tell while building. so the post-AI era shifts everything toward acquisition science and art. I know a top-tier VC/incubator in San Francisco hiring its storyteller reply below and I’ll send the details

i quit my job, moved to SF, and started building an AI that watches your screen 24/7. it's called Goldfish. it learns how you work so you never explain yourself to your tools again. founding team at an AI browser. 8x ironman. now trying to make computers remember 🐠

We’ve just raised $200M of fresh capital to back exceptional people earlier. Companies built through @join_ef are now worth $16B+. We help ambitious individuals build from scratch with the capital, peer group, and environment to move fast. Applications to our batches are now open.

What are you recommendations of very qualitative Youtube channels that explain tech, science & other concepts well? To learn every day. Some people have recommended: - Minute Physics - This Place - CrashCourse - In a Nutshell – Kurzgesagt - Atlas Obscura - VSauce - Academy of Ideas Any others?

Founders as soon as the plane touches San Francisco International Airport