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Ben Parr

@benparr
29 posts
2026-02-09
“[@MattPRD] called it Moltbook. In a matter of days, Moltbook said, more than 1.5 million agents joined. Then, the agents did all of the (weird) stuff humans do online. They commented, criticized, scammed, mocked and celebrated one another in more than 140,000 posts, making it
2026-02-09 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Moltbook was peak AI theater; as the hype dies down, Moltbook looks less like a window onto the future and more like a mirror held up to society's AI obsessions

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots.

2023-11-18
The fact the board expected Greg to stay after a coup like this shows how little thought they had into the consequences of their decision.
2023-11-18 View on X
@gdb

Greg Brockman describes Ilya Sutskever's role in Sam Altman's firing and Brockman's removal from the OpenAI board, as well as Mira Murati's foreknowledge

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our invest...

I've seen a lot of guesses as to what happened with Sam Altman. Most of the guesses aren't catastrophic enough. Firing a super-visible CEO BEFORE the public markets closed means the announcement had to be rushed AND it's deeply serious.
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

The fact the board expected Greg to stay after a coup like this shows how little thought they had into the consequences of their decision.
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-08-26
The @klaviyo IPO is happening! S-1 has been filed. $585m in revenue (July 2022-June 2023). $15m net income in first 6 months of 2023 on $321m revenue. It will be the first of a slew of tech IPOs I expect to hit the market before end of year. https://www.axios.com/...
2023-08-26 View on X
CNBC

E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo files for a US IPO and reports H1 2023 revenue of ~$321M, vs. ~$208M YoY, and $15.2M net income, vs. a $24.6M net loss YoY

Annie Palmer / CNBC :

2023-07-25
Something tells me destroying 15 years of brand equity is a bad business decision. [image]
2023-07-25 View on X
Platformer

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism

RIP Twitter (2007-2023)  —  On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.

Something tells me destroying 15 years of brand equity is a bad business decision. [image]
2023-07-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com

it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bir...

2023-07-24
Something tells me destroying 15 years of brand equity is a bad business decision. [image]
2023-07-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com

Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo.  This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.

2023-03-24
My favorite quote from @steve_yegge's excellent piece on how AI is transforming engineering. A must read: https://about.sourcegraph.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-24 View on X
Sourcegraph Blog

Why LLMs aren't a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow

beyond the shift in market sentiment. comparing the two makes no sense when you think about goals + end consumer https://twitter.com/... @hunterwalk : after listening to people pum...

... ... ...99.99% of the population don't yet realize HOW BIG a deal today's Open AI announcements truly are. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-24 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, including two of its own, a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin

We've implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT.  Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety …

2023-03-12
@sivb The next 36 hours will be crucial. Regulators must find a buyer or guarantee deposits, or the risk of economic contagion spreading skyrockets. I am still hopeful that the worst case scenario won't happen, but I also didn't think @SIVB would collapse either.
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking the US Congress to act

More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …

@sivb The next 36 hours will be crucial. Regulators must find a buyer or guarantee deposits, or the risk of economic contagion spreading skyrockets. I am still hopeful that the worst case scenario won't happen, but I also didn't think @SIVB would collapse either.
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Founders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world

Because startups that banked with SVB don't have access to their funds … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Silicon Valley Bank collapse is impacting many Indian startups Philip Elmer-DeW...

2023-03-10
This is the outcome the CEO of SVB is trying to prevent. I really don't want a self-fulfilling prophecy here. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2023-03-10 View on X
Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities  —  Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

Silicon Valley Bank's balance sheet issues will make startups and investors panic. They pull their money, SVB ends up in an even worse position. More bad news cycles, even more money gets pulled out. This could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2023-03-10 View on X
Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities  —  Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

If you are a startup that uses SVB or Silvergate, you better be tracking what's going on with them right now. Like RIGHT now. Emails are already flying out from investors to their portfolio companies.
2023-03-10 View on X
Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities  —  Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

If you are a startup that uses SVB or Silvergate, you better be tracking what's going on with them right now. Like RIGHT now. Emails are already flying out from investors to their portfolio companies.
2023-03-10 View on X
The Information

Some VC firms are encouraging their portfolio companies to pull funds out of Silicon Valley Bank while others are advising startups to keep no more than $250K

Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker on Thursday told top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to “stay calm” …

Silicon Valley Bank's balance sheet issues will make startups and investors panic. They pull their money, SVB ends up in an even worse position. More bad news cycles, even more money gets pulled out. This could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2023-03-10 View on X
The Information

Some VC firms are encouraging their portfolio companies to pull funds out of Silicon Valley Bank while others are advising startups to keep no more than $250K

Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker on Thursday told top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to “stay calm” …

2023-01-12
If ChatGPT had existed in 2012, CNET would never have hired me. If you're a journalist today and don't feel uneasy by this story, then you are already set for life or in denial. https://futurism.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Futurism

CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human

Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.

2022-06-02
No. No no no no. No. NO. NO! Sent from TweetDeck for Mac. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-02 View on X
MacRumors

Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview

2022-01-11
YC has upped its initial investment to $500k, up from $375k. Same 7% deal. YC is especially great for founders who need the startup fundamentals bootcamp or can use the boost of the YC network because it's ridiculously strong. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-11 View on X
Y Combinator

YC announces a new standard deal: a $125K investment for 7% of the startup and a further $375K at terms founders can negotiate with future investors

We have a new standard deal at Y Combinator.  When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, we now invest a total of $500,000.