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Opinion
Cluely secured enterprise contracts entirely through Lee's Twitter presence
“The only reason I have the contracts that I do right now is cuz the decision makers at these enterprise companies have seen my Twitter and think I'm funny and are rooting for me.”
Roy Lee Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 30:08 Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Leading Square HR while Jack Dorsey ran Twitter was Reses's worst job
“Like, honestly, the worst job I ever had was being the head of HR at Square. So I ran these financial services products, and I ran HR. And the HR job at Square Could have been okay, but for the fact that Jack is running Twitter, and any time that there was dra…”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 36:18 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Das: Growing on X requires enduring public hate and cancellations
“Because you can't do Twitter without getting canceled a few times. You can't do Twitter without getting hate a few times, without people saying the meanest things about you for the world to see. You can't, you just can't do it without it. And no, most people d…”
Didi Das Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 10:36 How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
X users are two years behind TikTok on humor and content tolerance
“I think the first step of the pyramid is Twitter or people on Twitter are about two years behind when it comes to humor compared to people on Instagram, TikTok.”
Roy Lee Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 22:02 Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Zuckerberg: Building an audience on Twitter to raise an investor profile is overrated
“So I think, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, I want to like raise my profile. And I think I'm going to like just tweet a bunch and build my audience on Twitter. And I mean, I personally think that that's a little overrated.”
Arielle Zuckerberg Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 9:36 Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Arielle Zuckerberg: Best content and hottest takes are in group chats, not Twitter
“All the best content is in group chats. It's not in blogs. It's not on Twitter. The most like unhinged, best, hottest takes and interesting info is all on group chats.”
Arielle Zuckerberg Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 40:38 Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Zhao: Mainstream AI perception centers on skepticism and job loss fears
“When I talk about AI or when I conceive information about AI on tech Twitter, it's obviously very techno-optimist. We're excited about it. With anything being blasted to mainstream, there's Always a lot of skepticism around big tech, a lot of skepticism around…”
Claire Zhao Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 11:09 $40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Whop hired over 50% to 60% of its team directly from the internet
“And our team actually, company-wide, I would say over 50, 60% of our team, we found on the internet. We found them on Discord servers. They were early users. They were, we DM'd them on Twitter and said, hey, move across the country.”
Jack Sharky May 23, 2025 ▶ 25:18 How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Josephs: Twitter content lacks the algorithmic lifespan of Instagram and TikTok
“One of the downsides of creating content on Twitter is it has a lifespan on it. So when you tweet about it, you're not gonna go on the For You page and see a tweet from Nancy Pelosi Tracker six months ago, but on Instagram and TikTok you can.”
Chris Josephs Apr 18, 2025 ▶ 5:10 Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Mansoor: Twitter crowdsources the past, but prediction markets crowdsource the future
“Twitter is like the best way to get Aggregate, like, use the wisdom of the crowds for where the news, like, the past for what just happened or what happened, and prediction markets are the way to use the wisdom of the crowds for what is going to happen.”
Tarek Mansoor Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 2:41 How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amoruso secured TechCrunch coverage for portfolio companies via Twitter DMs
“You know, two of my companies, I did cold outreach to TechCrunch editors, and I was like, hey, you know, on a Twitter DM, and was like, there's a company fundraising, let me know if you want to talk to them about a fundraise announcement. They don't even do a …”
Sophia Amoruso Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 23:44 Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Josephs: Autopilot's Instagram account generates more impressions than its Twitter
“We run an Instagram account with a million followers. It's called the Politician Trade Tracker. And that thing gets, if not more impressions than Pelosi Tracker on Twitter.”
Chris Josephs Apr 18, 2025 ▶ 4:50 Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Josephs: Top creators on Autopilot generate over six figures annually
“Our, one of the businesses on our platform makes over like, easily over six figures a year, and it's just like, they're putting stuff up, we don't want to be too public with the numbers, but these guys are doing well, and like, there's random people on Twitter…”
Chris Josephs Apr 18, 2025 ▶ 1:05:31 Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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