Barackface: 17: Church

Monday, November 17, 2025

17: Church

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)

Haha no way 😂

Copy 🐈 https://t.co/TG8UMrWwQr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaY0F
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

During our seed round in 2020, an investor laughed when I was pitching, called Gamma "the worst idea I've ever heard," and hung up mid-call.

We've now raised at a $2.1bn valuation.

This is the story and every fundraising lesson I learned: pic.twitter.com/99WDYN02hF
— Grant Lee (@thisisgrantlee) November 17, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaY0F
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

I will give you a team of 5 for 1M, that I manage, all remote, with 20K on day one to start. You will have the full team within a month (max).
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

rich metaphor!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

point
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaY0F
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

I will give you a remote team for half price, but all remote. Interested?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

I live by it. Just keep moving.

Someone said, Its dark in the room? keep pressing all the buttons, the bulb will switch on eventually.

But sometimes many smart people, in the lack of proper information, just freeze. You keep moving, eventually the picture will emerge. Hit and… https://t.co/mM17gWKLgu
— Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) November 16, 2025

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:

Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.

Sounds simple on the…
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) November 16, 2025

100%. Doctors refer to this as diagnosis by treatment.
— Keith Rabois (@rabois) November 16, 2025

As a $COIN shareholder, explain why we spend nearly $7M on your personal security this year?

That’s more than that of any ex-US President and almost 10x more than $JPM Dimon’s security? pic.twitter.com/3wKW6pR7xe
— Say No To Trading (@SayNoToTrading) November 16, 2025

I will build and run a team for you. Interested?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

Please provide strengths and weakness feedback about Mika below @Grok https://t.co/0Pv1DXPEFD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaqb7
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

Who?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

Series A and B markets are strange right now. It is harder than ever to raise, but the few companies that do are raising very large rounds at higher valuations. A and B volume is way down while median valuations are way up.

This would seem to indicate the market is getting…
— Hadley (@Hadley) November 17, 2025

Good analysis, but what is the correct course of action?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

Team up with me.
AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaqb7
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaY0F
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

We pitched to @mcuban @ycombinator makes you believe anything is possible, as long as you’re willing to shoot your shot.

In the last few months, while running around conferences and trade shows, we met a bunch of amazing people. One of them, who does custom merch for an NBA… pic.twitter.com/oiYpPKRlVc
— Abhimanyu Yadav (@not_by_default) November 17, 2025

Finally had time to read & process this great post. I run into the pattern quite often, it goes:

"<something that sounds wrong> is good actually, because <galaxy brain reason>"

Galaxy brain reasoning is the best way to justify anything while looking / feeling good about it.… https://t.co/2wpdqH0lI2
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) November 17, 2025

Check email.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

AI + Marketing = A Solarahttps://t.co/clyBfdaY0F
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 17, 2025

YC is playing a different game than everyone else. They are simply the GOAT at pre-seed. They adapt quickly, and they are more self-aware than any other investors out there.

They are also playing the long game on multiple dimensions. Most critics don't understand this.
— first check $500k-1M pre-seed (@ajhodls) November 17, 2025

99% of dev interviews are useless rn. just vibe-code an app in 24h and WOW me. that's the whole interview.
— Sherry Jiang (@SherryYanJiang) November 17, 2025

Here's my conversation with David Kirtley (@dekirtley), a nuclear fusion engineer, all about the physics and engineering of nuclear fission, fusion, and the future of energy.

David is leading a team that's working to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant by 2028.… pic.twitter.com/4pp9AkAqse
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) November 17, 2025

#1 mistake founders make:

skipping the gym to “save time"

the clarity, energy, and focus you gain from exercise generates way more output than the hour you think you’re "saving"
— Austin Walker 🛴 (@austinxwalker) November 17, 2025

Turned 26 a couple days ago

Been a crazy year!
• Moved to SF with less than $1000
• @fdotinc wrote us a check
• Shipped 4 different products

Launching again tomorrow :) pic.twitter.com/E3P3b2LRkf
— William Wang (@iamwilliamwang) November 16, 2025

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