Eric Button @ericjacobbutton Twitter profile

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Eric Button

11 months

whenever the lux capital letter to LP's comes out I ask chatgpt to rewrite it like a normal person and it turns into something pretty insightful and readable

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2 years

"that startup is just a wrapper on top of GPT" - guy who is just a wrapper on top of the all-in pod

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3 years

Macbook covered in stickers 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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1 year

if you use the google maps app to track your location, request your data from google and code interpreter will create a heatmap with one prompt

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2 years

Wow, crisis averted, but it was 36 hours for people to: massively solidify their reputation ( @vkhosla , @sama ) or damage theirs ( @VivekGRamaswamy , @Jason )

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3 years

Increasingly convinced burnout is impossible when u get 6+ hours of sleep and also exercise daily

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1 year

jason calacanis's mental image when he's coming up with policy ideas

@jason

@Jason

1 year

We have no idea what’s happening at the border; as President here is what I will do: 💡🎥 a lamppost with cameras & AI every 1/4 mile. 8k lampposts 2k agents patrolling w/iPads to hot spots $10k per lamppost = $80m Government price of $100k per lamppost = $800m Done ✅

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3 years

I just wanna start a startup, launch the top seed-stage accelerator and move to England and tweet about my 9 and 12 year old. Is that too much to ask?

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3 years

@paulg new flavor just dropped

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1 year

can't wait for someone to start a startup and raise from Jason Calacanis and NATO

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1 year

New essay up: Technology Is Deflationary and This Shouldn’t Be Controversial

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3 years

@pmarca @jack Love you but you need to outsource your meme creation

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3 years

great crowd and good vibes last night at the @developer_dao event 🙌🥂

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3 years

@ChrisJBakke @nikitabier Private-jet-mock-up-as-a-service for startups

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2 years

@antoniogm and how fast we went from 'toxic culture' to 'unconventional living situation in the bahamas'

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1 year

@RealTimeWWII my guess is Chamberlain will be replaced soon

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2 years

@paulg Yup

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4 years

Validating demand for a DTC product? Here’s how to get a winning landing page FAST. 1. Go to @mrsharma ’s blog. find his post re: his landing page formula 2. Find his landing page samples 3. Use the “HTML <-> Figma” plugin to import the web pages into Figma (cont’d👇🏻)

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3 years

@noampomsky Unpopular opinion: it’s actually not cringe and a good thing to cover before considering a 2nd date

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2 years

@ken_wheeler chief prompt officer

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Eric Button

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3 years

@justindross Yes. Alternative formula: Take something even poor ppl have access to, Layer on some value, raise price to make it exclusive and sell as a status item

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3 years

Nothing reminds you you’re an introvert like @MiamiHackWeek 🤪

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2 years

Imagine what the Wright Brothers could have done if they had attended a founder happy hour each Friday

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Eric Button

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1 year

another visualization after a bit of finessing in code interpreter

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Eric Button

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2 years

just putting this here...

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3 years

@Pavel_Asparagus Most NFT artists right now are Web3’s analog to the Web1 ppl that put hit counters on their websites

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3 years

If you’re at @MiamiHackWeek let’s hang out 🙌🏻

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2 years

if you extrapolate the concept behind @replit for a decade it's pretty insane

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3 years

we need to get back to a world where countries randomly gift each other huge statues

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3 years

Figma, Framer, Webflow, Adobe (all of it)

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Eric Button

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11 months

my brother in christ, a "design tool monopoly" is not the thing holding back the british design industry

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Eric Button

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2 years

if this interface gave me the mf secrets of the universe i'd prob still use something else

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2 years

weekend read

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2 years

Who is building at the intersection of Sweetgreen and Waffle House?

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3 years

Finding that VC advice follows a serious power law The advice from the bottom 50% is just bad And the input/clarity of thought from the top 5% is incredible Some in the 5% I’ve talked with: @jackabraham @rabois @conradev @zebulgar

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2 years

Starbucks makes $181M each year in unused gift cards 🤯

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Eric Button

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4 years

Here's how Duncan Hines earned 48% of America's cake-mix market in 19 days 👇🏻 The lesson: "Distribution-first thinking always wins" ( @mrsharma ) Duncan Hines was an actual guy. He wrote "Adventures in Good Eating" which became a wildly popular annual restaurant review book.

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2 years

Invited a VC to a party said he couldn’t make it but would be “cheering us on from the sidelines” wtf

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3 years

@emmalsalinas 1. Sign up for Western Governor’s U 2. Get to the point where they give u an email address 3. Tell them you’ll actually start *a year from now* 4. Profit (def didn’t do this)

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Eric Button

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1 year

Funny how zuck built a word app for the picture people and the picture people just wanted a picture app and not a word app

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Eric Button

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2 years

you KNOW they'll be 4-5 points hotter in the miniseries

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Eric Button

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3 years

@darylginn rt if ur over this guy

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Eric Button

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1 year

softbank presentation slides have only two settings

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1 year

@KyleKashuv sit down at my desk

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2 years

We need to erect a statue of paulg and jessica somewhere. power couple basically added $500B to the U.S. GDP and dipped to some island to raise their kids

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@ericjacobbutton

2 years

there are shockingly few books that chronicle the dot com era and *zero* books that chronicle the mobile revolution properly seems like a big hole in business literature

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

3 years

@swoph replying “no way Long Island is the best” when ppl say they live in Brooklyn

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

3 years

Miami Tech Week has self-selected for the most interesting people in tech, and I’m here for it And 400+ ppl having fun for a week is a huge effort, thanks organizers @davefontenot @jdanjohnson @lucy_guo @rabois @FrancisSuarez

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3 years

@edshrag @fast Haha for sure 😅

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3 years

@lucy_guo Gotta give them credit for the play-by-play recap of the evening

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Eric Button

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3 years

Best question i've ever been asked: If your life was a book, what would the readers be screaming at you to do next?

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

2 years

Hot take: asking someone what they do for +50% of their waking lives is not a silly question to ask

Steve Schlafman 🐌

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2 years

“What do you do (for work)?” has to be the shallowest question you can ask another human being.

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1 year

if i was president i'd simply identify the country's blockers and circle back until they're dealt with

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2 years

@soren_iverson Now do hinge with comments and reviews

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1 year

Never thought I’d say this, but My president

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3 years

@micsolana "fuck the moon landing," they write, as they open another tab and browse amazon dot com

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2 years

Even old-fashioned Europe can elect 40-something’s what are we doing

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2 years

if you have to keep your startup idea secret you might not have the founder-market fit you should have

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

3 years

@tszzl Ppl should also investigate their hatred for centralization in tech Like Google offering free email and SSO and then owning some of your data is not a tragedy

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2 years

Twitter Gold - $50/mo - see who’s seen your tweets - see who’s visited your profile - turn badge on and off - incognito mode

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Eric Button

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2 years

*at thanksgiving dinner* "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"

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1 year

weekend book run

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

3 years

Ben Franklin is somewhere with a big smile on his face right now He worked to shift responsibility and rewards *to the people* (Bill of Rights, public library, volunteer fire department) @ConstitutionDAO is an extension of this same philosophy 🤝

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

2 years

Just published my notes on the Dec 5 joint US/EU report on the future impact of AI on labor markets I explain why the report is disappointing and then take notes on the document, which paints a picture how Western governments are anticipating challenges and considering policy

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

3 years

Not enough people are talking about the transformation of @pmarca ’s twitter He went from a decidedly mid account to a competent shitposter and enlarger of the overton window in roughly 12 weeks

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Eric Button

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3 years

They promised us flying cars and instead we got digital rocks

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2 years

FB, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL and AMZN spend a combined $100B on R&D annually (the budget equivalent of 100 OpenAI's or 20 SpaceX's) What's the coolest thing we've seen from them in the last 5 years? Dynamic Island? Makes you hope they're working on things we have no clue about...

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Eric Button

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2 years

The Empire State Building was built in 14 months partly because there was a massive labor glut post-1929 and every construction worker knew he needed to overdeliver to keep his job 2023 shaping up to be the tech version of this

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

2 years

@darrenmarble you actually should prioritize *increasing your odds of success* over maximizing ownership and there are many ways in which raising from VCs helps with that

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

1 year

both of these can be correct at the same time

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

2 years

In a world with rapidly-evolving software (AI, etc), hardware (e.g. AAPL) becomes a safe index distribution/pricing power accrues to the platform closest to the consumer (read: hardware), and this power isn't diminished—often strengthened—as new software is introduced

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Eric Button

@ericjacobbutton

2 years

anyhow, have a friend with access to gpt-5, can't say too much but wow

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