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"I had my OpenClaw install on the Mac Studio, a way to rip videos... I just ship the link to the video and my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I want them to fire up Claude code and have it build them an app and then run it because I think if you once you discover that that's possible then AI does feel like the old bicycle for your mind thing."
"I love the Grok button because a lot of times I don't understand the context and then it takes one to five minutes to understand what gooning and look maxing all this stuff... I just hit that Grok button. Boom. I'm up to speed."
"I've been trying to get Slack to play nice with OpenClaw and I want my agent to have like root access."
"Anyone can buy Tao on Coinbase. You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet. On Coinbase, you can. So, I got a Coinbase set up"
"I just moved mine Dave to a Mac Studio. the reason I got the Mac Studio is because I wanted to run Qwen 2.5 locally"
"my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google Drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I am a bookmark guy. I have a bookmark list on TikTok, on X, on Instagram."
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"We have our OpenClaw agents running in an AWS EC2 instance and I feel like it's holding me back."
"Anthropic is terrible at DevRel. They are the worst company I've ever seen do developer relations."
"They shut down their self-driving car. They would be neck and neck right behind Tesla."
"They're slogging it out with these AR glasses that weigh 12 lbs that nobody uses and then puts on a shelf."
"I'm incredibly frustrated with this Bank of America. The worst bank ever."
"What do we get instead? We get Apple Play in our cars."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Literally, their entire marketing strategy is illegal undisclosed advertising. They pay influencers to go say Higgsfield's incredible."
"this started as an IPFS network and we basically pushed IPFS to its limits especially in terms of what developers needed in terms of absolute latency immediate availability"
"Oh, they're just giving Intel 10 billion dollars because Intel's a disaster and they can't make a real business."
"I've tried MyFitnessPal in the past and I'm not going to log my food. I just have learned that about myself. The answer is I won't do it"
"the trust in the New York Times and media is at an all-time low"
"Siri would work. It's garbage. It doesn't know how to spell my last name. It doesn't know how to play music."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Not a fan of UBI cuz it takes away purpose. But I am for taking a look at the disparity in wealth."
"So there's the YouTube downloader and that gets shut down all the time and then you have to deal with like all these like popups or whatever."
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"Grasshopper is a real federally chartered digital bank, not some fintech wrapper sitting at top some mystery institution. You want fast? You want easy? Open an account in just minutes and start earning yields that can top 5%."
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"Every.io might be the exception because Every.io is working with every new startup. It's the all-in-one finance, banking, and HR app."
"Every will take care of all of your incorporation needs, your banking, your credit cards, your payroll, your HR, your bookkeeping, and even your taxes."
"Render is the all-in-one cloud platform for developers that allows you to deploy, scale, and secure your apps and agents with zero ops."
"Render is the all-in-one cloud platform for developers that allows you to deploy, scale, and secure your apps and agents with zero ops."
"The best partner you can have is LinkedIn Hiring Pro. Why? There's a billion people using LinkedIn. All the great talent are there. If you're proud of your work, you build a LinkedIn page and you update it."
"LinkedIn Hiring Pro is going to streamline and simplify the entire process for you. We found our next great hire, LinkedIn."
"LinkedIn Hiring Pro is going to streamline and simplify the entire hiring process. There's a billion people using LinkedIn. All the great talent are there."
"But thankfully, there's LinkedIn hiring pro. Our friends at LinkedIn are going to help you hire with confidence faster than ever before"
"I hear you got one for your mom, huh? I did. My mom watches our show and she's like, you know, they should be advertising these to seniors, not executives, because I'm forgetting stuff constantly. So, she's hitting it like all during the day."
"I have the Plaud pin here. It records what I'm doing. Obviously, you know, you want to do this with disclosing to people you're doing it. And when you're in a meeting, instead of like fumbling with your phone and trying to find a recording app, you put this on the back. See this? This is the Pro. And when you press the button, hold it down, it gives you a nice haptic"
"Athena, I'm the first investor. They are the greatest assistants in the world. For a great price, $3,000 a month. You get an awesome full-time assistant to work with you on your scheduling, on research projects."
"You want to use Squarespace. That's the easiest and fastest way to turn your idea into a real business because the team at Squarespace cares deeply about design and functionality."
"Pilot is the largest accounting firm that was built just with startups in mind. You're not just getting your taxes done. No, you're getting CFO level guidance for your startup."
"Shopify is the e-commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world. They're powering 10% of all e-commerce in the United States."
"That's why Founder University and I recommend startups work with Vanta. They're the leading security compliance solution."
"That's why you need Gusto. We use it, we love it. Take it from your boy JCal. Gusto's built-in tools are going to save you so much time."
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel. They're going to take care of all the annoying human resources tasks that you don't have time for."
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel"
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel. They're going to take care of all the annoying human resources tasks."
"It's changed my life. It's privacy first. It's not just recording, but it understands the context."
"More than 90,000 businesses rely on Quo to stay connected and consistently reachable. Plus, Quo has AI that automatically logs, generates summaries."
"Eru endpoint management is going to automate your device management end to end. Without Eru system, my team would be wasting hours policing everybody's hard drives."
"When you're launching a brand new company and designing your first product, you don't want to hire just any developer. You want the best, the best of the best, the crème de la crème. And that's why you got to turn to our friends at Lemon.io."
"They're going to save you time, money, and headaches by doing all the time consuming leg work for you. Go to lemon.io/twist"
"There's Lemon.io. They're going to save you time, money, and headaches by doing all the time-consuming leg work for you. They've got an experienced lineup of pre-vetted developers working for competitive rates."
"Building out your team is one of the most crucial things you have to get right in your startup. But now there's Lemon.io. They're going to save you time, money, and headaches."
"Luma is going to 10x your creativity, not try and replace it. Text to image was just a demo, but reasoning to image, that's the real product in the future."
"You've heard me talk many times about Luma AI. They're the innovators leading the charge toward multimodal AGI."
"Sentry's AI powered debugging agent isn't just guessing about what might have gone wrong with your system. Join the millions of devs and companies like Claude and Disney Plus who use Sentry to move faster."
"Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix that can then be applied to your codebase and sent to a human team member for review, end-to-end automation."
"Take the guesswork out and trust our friends at Iru Endpoint Management. Iru is going to automate your device management end to end"
"Iru is going to automate your device management end to end. This is going to cut down all the time it takes you to deploy new devices from hours to just minutes."