American kids want to be youtubers, and the Chinese kids want to be astronauts.
andrew chen
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andrew chen
@andrewchen
🇺🇸 a16z speedrun
Joined April 2007
- Can anyone explain why this is happening? I assume there’s a rational reason…
- I am sick of chatGPT’s standard responses which are way too verbose, full of repetition and apologies for being an AI 😂 Turns out you can alleviate some of this setting up chatGPT’s custom instructions feature and googled to see the top setup on Reddit Lo and behold, there
- Lol. “Fortnite: the anti-weed, anti-sex, anti-TV, anti-alcohol, anti-smoking solution parents have been seeking for decades.” Via @Reddit
- Is it just me or is twitter really really fun rn?
- TIL that craigslist is generating $1B in annual revenue, employs 50 people, and is wholly owned by two people. Insane. (And yes, it's a for-profit even with the .org domain name) Who would have thought this single website would destroy the economics of the newspaper industry?
- 👇Thread. Published a new essay: The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!
- The Dumb Idea Paradox. Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. Thread 👇
- this is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavior change. This is in Peter Attia's book Outlive tldr: if you want to be able to climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness. With this, you
- 1/ Many of the biggest implosions in recent history - especially ecommerce - have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. As spend scales, it always gets more expensive and harder to track - never less.
- Here's my thread about why you should: - quit whatever it is you're doing - build the startup you've wanted to build - work with me and the a16z team 1:1 - And yes, I'll invest $1M via a16z speedrun (and the earlier your startup, the better. apply here: sr.a16z.com)
- The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I've been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I've seen.
