just rented a $40M house on Lake Michigan
i'm bringing together 20 exceptional builders
an all-expenses-paid retreat:
- no devices
- no drinking
- 72 hours
if you're an engineer, researcher, or founder— DM me to come
tommy potter
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- Today is my first day moving OUT of SF My hometown: Moline, IL Rent: $800 Founder Population: N/A Ranking in America’s Best Cities to Build a Tech Startup: #18291 Bullish
- was baffled this girl at socratica could trade a paper clip up to airpods in a few hours give her a growth role now… that’s talent
- if i can help founders: - raise a round - hire phenomenal people - land customers - or even realize they *are* a founder that’s the kind of fulfillment i live for nothing hits harder than seeing hardworking talent get life-changing value from total strangers
- this mansion is about to host people who… – smuggled rocket parts through TSA, then launched it supersonic the next day – inspired Anthropic’s LLM biology paper last week – hacked government systems in elementary school – solo traveled the world with stories you wouldn’t
- 90-seconds of footage from the Lake Michigan mansion retreat dm me to come on the next thanks to a16z @speedrun, @kamjamshidian, and @asylumventures 📸@johnvfxofficial
00:00 - i'm touring the country to find the most cracked builders last week was stanford📍 just landed in boston so dm if you’re around
- this ghibli mansion is about to host 20 exceptional builders @ a founder/researcher/engineer who should come
- landing in sf in 12 hrs would love to grab coffee with folks dm me :)
- this week i’m having a small, highly-curated gathering in an NYC penthouse if interested— DM me with a link to your work or share a unique story i’ll be inviting engineers, researchers, founders, and designers
- just got my first DM on Luma… didn’t even know that was a thing but i read it! made me realize if you wanna connect with someone, hit them on the platform they’d least expect the more random, the more likely they’ll actually see it
- recently started doing this thing— if someone connects with me and they work/intern at FAANG i DM them without context: “get out while you can” they prob think i’m weird as hell, but at least i’m bettering humanity










