Barackface: 9: Bihar

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The timing is perfect! The next phase of Bytras is live.https://t.co/l3EwvFc0YW

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— Satyaprakash Bhat (@satya_bhat_) November 8, 2025

Startup founders who aren't irrationally obsessed with their startup are just rationally employed people with worse health insurance and lower pay.
— Niko Bonatsos (@bonatsos) November 8, 2025

India is changing and even though regulated, the flood gates of massive Indian economy will open towards stablecoins!

Few! https://t.co/cJ63SWoFdy
— Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) November 8, 2025

Ben Horowitz literally explains how he differentiates between mediocre CEOs & great CEOs. pic.twitter.com/LPnf7TTXnv
— Yasmine Khosrowshahi (@yasminekho) November 7, 2025

What is a Solara?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 8, 2025

If you're a woman in your 30s, unmarried, and still obsessed with traveling, it's time for a reality check.

No amount of traveling if going to fill your soul. You deep down inside know what you need: a loving husband and children.

Traveling is nothing but procrastination and…
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) November 8, 2025

My co-founder @afwcole finally moved to SF, both of us arriving tonight. Two Ghanaians went to the same school, worked for the same company, and have discussed cofounding over the last 3 years. We moved to sf to build our dreams.

We took this shot for out own memory but also… pic.twitter.com/mGDjmhGJxu
— CHAPO (@Kwabena_OS) November 8, 2025

coming to sf made me realize how out of touch the startup world is

ppl will raise 2M, hire 10 people, get an office, and have 0 revenue

meanwhile there are founders making 50k MRR solo with no funding

one of these is sustainable.

the other is playing with someone else's…
— mal (@mal_shaik) November 7, 2025

Higher paychecks. Higher youth literacy. Higher quality of life.

Lower property taxes. Lower electricity bills. Lower healthcare costs.

Coming soon to Ohio. 💪🏼
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 8, 2025

Met a potential cofounder for lunch today, having someone to bounce ideas with feels so refreshing
— Avery (@averycode) November 8, 2025

Hot take: crypto has mostly lost the plot

We were promised the future of finance and what we got was mostly asymmetric gambling games

The ironic part is TradFi sees the value of blockchain and is about to commandeer it all

“Thanks kids, we’ll take it from here”
— Kevin Simback 🍷 (@KSimback) November 7, 2025

just saw an ad in chatgpt
— jason liu (@jxnlco) November 7, 2025

Peter Thiel today:
“Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt… pic.twitter.com/nQWVkPKUXf
— Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) November 7, 2025

Drop your project in the comments

Let's drive some eyeballs to what you're building 👀
— Blake Emal (@heyblake) November 8, 2025

Many startup founders claim they are building something nobody else sees yet, but their pitch deck comp landscape slide has 7 companies doing the exact same thing. Easy fix: remove this slide from your pitch deck.
— Niko Bonatsos (@bonatsos) November 8, 2025

feels like the era of hype is over.

signups, views, free users, github stars.. all meaningless vanity metrics

what matters now is revenue, margin, retention, and the sound of cash hitting your bank account

the tide is changing. and we're about to see who’s been swimming naked
— Michael Grinich (@grinich) November 8, 2025

Any vc who turns down a company i invested in is an absolute idiot

Any vc who marks it up is Midas List bound

Simple
— tyler hogge (@thogge) November 8, 2025

🧬 You know you’ve made it when your discovery becomes an emoji
— David Sinclair (@davidasinclair) November 8, 2025

in india:

> perplexity pro is free
> ChatGPT go is free
> gemini pro is free

we are the product. everyone wants our data!
— Open Letter (@openletteryt) November 8, 2025

Pre-seed at $11M and seed at $20M? That’s today’s market.

Worth noting that median time between seed and A sits at just over 2 years. But the cohort doing it in less than 18 months has grown a bit of late. pic.twitter.com/NKOBFp0xga
— Peter Walker (@PeterJ_Walker) November 8, 2025

The Vande Bharat trains to be flagged off in a short while will boost connectivity and comfort! https://t.co/vwTHyQow7Z
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 8, 2025

Tornyol (@tornyolsystems) is building micro-drones that kill mosquitoes.

They use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors, and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers. pic.twitter.com/SBqWueq7h7
— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) November 7, 2025

This is just not true
In the last few months we invested at sub-$5M valuation into a company with revenue, sub-$10M valuation into experienced team with product, etc.
We passed on about a hundred companies with under-$10M valuation.
Even hot companies out of Speedrun and YC… https://t.co/FB3RgXZNA5
— Ihar Mahaniok (@mahaniok) November 8, 2025

Some insights from watching founders build vertical AI SaaS companies:

- distribution beats technology every time

- domain expertise is your moat not the ai

- go deep in one vertical before expanding

- build for ai being wrong

- compliance takes 40% of your roadmap

- the…
— Rohit Mittal (@rohitdotmittal) November 7, 2025

Building a startup today is wild.
You can do it after your 9–5.
You can do it over the weekend.
You can share your journey on X and LinkedIn.

You can build small apps.
You can build games.
You can build websites.
You can even sell them.

And now with tools like @Lovable,… pic.twitter.com/SU72TR5ZCm
— sandra djajic (@TakoTreba) November 8, 2025

Upon returning to Google, Noam Shazeer fixed a bug in Gemini that alone was worth the $2.5B they paid for him.
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) November 8, 2025

you can launch the same app 17 times until it works

no one keeps track
— Lotanna Ezeike 💳 (@lottsnomad) November 8, 2025

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