Twitter

“We have about twenty million visitors per month. Ah, we're the second largest driver of social commerce traffic on the web. Ah, so first is, ah, Facebook, then Polyvore, then Pinterest, and then Twitter.”

“If you get mad, I win. If you know, like if you take it seriously and you apply, I win. Like it's, I win. I win no matter what. As long as I don't get completely canceled, I win.”

“Dude, that's the way that Twitter works though, is like, you think it goes against like all the conventional good advice, which is just like, you know, be consistent, put up content all the time and like, you know, try to hit, like hit a bunch of singles. And …”

“So, like, it's, I, it's prestigious, but it's definitely not nearly as impactful as just the actual tweet that you're coming on to talk about it was.”

“So I was surprised when he blocked me, he, him and Mark Andreessen blocked me. So both of whom, you know, followed before and then went straight to block without like, you know, anything in between I'm cool with that.”

“For the top 15,000 influencers on Twitter, it's preloaded into the platform.”

“Last, last week, what he did was he wrote he did an NFT and it says, here's the difference between a J, a JPEG and an NFT. And it just had a verified, it, he basically made a tweet And then he sold that tweet for like, a 150,000 dollars.”

“We literally were like, we tweeted it out as like an afterthought and we raised it in like four hours.”

“I don't hire actually from Stanford or Harvard or MIT or whatever anymore. You know where I hire from? Twitter.”

“If you go and look at Hacker News, for example, or Twitter, there's something that you can't unsee once it's been pointed out, which is those 30 links are like a Jackson Pollock blah on, on, on, on the page, right? It's just, it's like guaranteed to just fragm…”

“Instagram is for people who go outside. Twitter is for depressed intellectuals.”

“There's zero creator monetization for the most part in these major social networks. I'm not saying, okay, not totally zero. You can put link in bio at Instagram and there's some stuff, but it has lagged, right?”

“Her brand of self-promoting herself as a journalist is confrontation. She gets in confrontations with Keith Raboi, with Balaji, with Naval, with whoever, right? She just goes and picks fights on Twitter with Marc Andreessen. And so she goes to the biggest name…”

“They took the top 10,000 Twitter accounts and they had raised, I think, a hundred and fifty million dollars from VCs here in Silicon Valley. And they used it to basically pre-buy and invest in all those accounts.”

“On one side, you have a baller trying to act like trying to counter signal that he's a regular guy. And on the other side, you have a regular guy trying to signal that he's a baller. And you know, this is the paradox of Twitter. The harder you try, the more yo…”

“90% of your profits come from things that started out different, and so my theory on that is the way to succeed is to realize that a startup isn't a company at all, and that it's the insights and the founders, and you're, you make fun of your ability to predic…”

“It's like Elon can run Tesla and SpaceX and everyone's like, wow, he's amazing. And those businesses are amazing. And then Jack does the same thing with Twitter and square. And if Twitter's misses its earnings, it's like off with his head. How dare he, you kno…”

“Consistency, I think is the number one thing that people forget. I have not missed tweeting a day in three years. If you do, you lose your spot in the relevancy engine with Twitter.”

“And that seems to be flipping where, where either new platforms are going to come out where the creators own it, or the value is going to accrue off platform in a bigger way than it did originally when it was like, I think the value accrued like 99, one 99% to…”

“This is what the next Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebooks are going to look like in either one or 10 years.”

“I think longer form blog posts are going to be coming. Cause everyone's like, I want to start a newsletter. I want to get popular on Twitter. I'm like, all right, great. Do that. I actually think that there could be a bigger opportunity to create a more in-dep…”

“Basically, Otis, the elevator companies, worth almost as much as Twitter.”

“So the second part of this is, it's not just why they should follow, but also what is the minimal amount of social proof to justify why you talking about the topics you're saying you'll talk about. You actually are qualified to do so.”

“Like if you look at like my Twitter account, I think I got to like 200,000 Twitter followers and I tweet once every 14 days, like twice a month. I literally send two tweets a month.”

“Write your bio to justify why people should follow you. By the way, let's just stick with Twitter for now. That's what we're talking about here. So write your Twitter bio. That justifies why you're differentiated and worth following. What do people get from fo…”

“Your pin tweet can reinforce what your bio said to further qualify why you talk about that. Why you should talk about it rather. And it gives an example of it. So they get the quick dopamine hit off the bat that your pin tweet is delivering on.”

“His name is Moses Kagan. He currently has two hundred million dollars through AU on under management, and he's deployed thirty million dollars of sorry, he's had forty million dollars come from Twitter.”

“By the way, he's at 22,000 followers now. He's at I bet you he's at a hundred in less than six months.”

“Keith currently has close to two billion dollars in assets under management for his real estate deal. And he said that he's, so he's got a thousand investors, he said, and Twitter five X his fund.”

“So like with Twitter, I have a one-way Twitter client that I'm using, so I don't actually see the results of my tweets, right? Although in this case, I'll admit I did I did go and look, but my goal is actually fully screen time on every device so I can't acces…”

“The way to figure out who your models are as well is actually to ask kind of an odd question. You say, who do I not want to succeed, right? And maybe it's deep within you, right? But it might be that guy on Twitter who, you know, you're friendly with and every…”

“Us, the dancing monkeys that go sit on Twitter all day, coming up with interesting ideas, giving them the interesting content. We get zero, right? So like if I go check my Twitter ad split or my Facebook ad split, and Facebook made, I don't know how many tens …”

“Today, you know, Facebook, Twitter you know, they're really about monopolizing content. Like you said, keeping it under lock and key so that they can show ads on it. And if they allow anyone else to build an app, like if they allow another company to build an …”

“I got 25 minutes to kill and I just watched this thing and I just tweeted it out. And I like, to me, it was like a throwaway thing. It wasn't like a planned, Drafted, edited thing.”

“Like it's not unreasonable that like most of the content you read on the internet is just going to be written by computers. Like you're going to go on Twitter. It's just going to be auto-generated content from brands and people that are, you know, just pluggin…”

“I think a lot of people don't enjoy social media because they don't treat it like a game. You enjoy games. You don't enjoy things that are ultra serious.”

“My business is almost entirely dependent on YouTube. And I can, frankly, I care more about Instagram than I do about Twitter. I think I have much higher quality engagement. Just from what I've seen, my ability to sell either my subscription tickets any of thos…”

“I grew my personal Twitter from like 10 or 20,000 followers to It's at 300,000 in like a year, basically, a year and a half. In a year, we got to 200,000, then it just trickled up.”

“Timeliness is number one. It has to be timely. Number two, it has to be the most viral stuff, I believe, has to be able to resonate with somebody and not tell them how to think. Just give them the ability to then form something. And then three, I think it's al…”

“He told every engineer to print out all the code that they've committed and they've written in the last three or six months and have it ready for review.”

“That's the core problem with Twitter is that the core needed addresses is only for like people like us. And like, it doesn't address the need for a whole bunch of other people on the planet. And if they wanted it to be more valuable, then they would need to do…”

“I am ready to invest in his things as like stealth startups. I'm like, I'm ready to invest in whatever he's doing. Any valuation.”

“I sold a little bit of my dig stock enough to give me the ammo to go and do small C checks, you know, and put, you know, 25 K into, you know, Twitter's seed round and put, you know, 25 K and, or it was more into Facebook, but they're a little bit later stage.”

“If it's Twitter, but the database is different, I'm out. I don't care about that. That's not what draws people in. I don't, that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Great. Do it differently under the hood, but it has to result in something different that the pe…”

“I'm actually starting to talk to Twitter. I'm still leaving. My old Twitter account is at Morton Shkreli. It's in the process, hopefully being on band”

“The school earns more revenue than both Twitter and Snapchat. Twitter's at five billion, Snapchat's 4.6 billion. Harvard has more revenue than both of them.”

“We've seen billion dollar companies start on Facebook. We've seen that on Instagram. No one's done it on Twitter, but it will happen.”

“I basically had like six viral tweets that grew me to like almost 400,000 followers. It was literally just six tweets, basically. The bulk of the growth. It's like the clubhouse one, the metaverse one, this one about Elon Musk, this other one.”

“I think a lot of it is just like holding the line on like when he sees something that's like not true, he doesn't want it to spread, and so he just like shuts it down like really aggressively.”

“Now that Elon bought Twitter and kind of just like caused enough chaos, like you can just say whatever you want. And there's like, no, I, I've been telling every, every founder I know, like cancel culture is over.”

“In general, I think that creating businesses based off your, or like getting popular on Twitter and Instagram and things like that, I think it's incredibly empty feeling for most people. And I think it's complete nonsense and your time would be spent building …”

“When you see that weird behavior that you don't understand, The thing is not to, the thing not to do is label it and write it off. It's to lean in and try to understand it. He's like, so I saw that people were like, why would you text out what you're eating ri…”

“I would say don't never get in between a venture capitalist and their second million, because they will take to Twitter and call you a plagiarist or accuse you of having done terrible things at NYU, which you've never Ever been accused of, much less people hav…”

“He was the board member that basically forced Elon to stick to his offer. He stood up to Elon and basically forced Elon to buy and got an amazing deal for the Twitter shareholders.”

“Whether it's Twitter, whether it's podcasts, whatever, the people who tend to be good at it, don't think of it and like sit down and like create a marketing calendar. Like, I dunno, they're like taking a poop and they pull out their phone and they start tweeti…”

“It's more popular than Yahoo and Wikipedia and Twitter.”

“I think literally have a meeting today where I'm going to post my hundred most successful YouTube videos on Twitter here over the course of the next couple months. Try to stagger it a little bit, because it's just very clear that Twitter is going to push it, r…”

“Most business tech Twitter writing goes, is it, it's an intelligence contest. And I was telling a story.”

“I think if I had been more consistent and I had defined my niche, I would be at a million followers instead of 400,000.”

“The reason this thread got like, twenty million people to read it, was because I told, I wrote almost like a screenplay.”

“This giant filing cabinet is worth more than Snapchat. It's worth more than Pinterest. It's worth more than Twitter as a company. Isn't that crazy? The thirty billion dollar company.”

“And as far as Ev knew, Jack had come up with the idea himself, you know, when he was a little kid listening to fire trucks. That was a story that was added later.”

“Jack, Who is best friends with Noah goes into Ev's office one day and he says, either you get rid of Noah or I quit.”

“Jack is worth twelve billion dollars, give or take. Noah Glass is worth about a zero dollars, ok? He never got anything. Ev gave him something, and he had to live off that and whatnot. If you're worth twelve billion dollars, give the guy ten million.”

“That's what it becomes, and if you, if Jack Dorsey had told the real story about Twitter, that his best friend Noah Glass really was the one that came up with most of it, and he stole it, you know, from him, and like, and that, that place was a shit show, and …”

“For example, I, for some reason, my Twitter was a thousand dollars last payment, and, ah, like the month before, it was like 600 dollars, and I was like, man, this is crazy, I just got paid 600 dollars for tweeting, which is insane.”

“And Jack Dorsey, I knew him when it was Odeo and spent time with him, and Twitter was failing, and we were, I was trying to buy it for nineteen million dollars at Yahoo, like, so we've met all these people.”