> be Google in 2017 > small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv > execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks > let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby > be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard > quits, builds AI-boyfriend app “https://t.co/KRAcLptABl” > millions of lonely hearts pay $9.99 to e-date 2B from Nier > Google HR: “any chance you wanna come back?” > Shazeer: “busy, my e-gf is calling” > 2022, OpenAI drops ChatGPT > world loses its mind, Google stock does bungee jump > Sundar holds all-hands: “guys, we need a response by Q2” > team ships Bard in 3 weeks using 12 interns, 2000 TPUv4s, and pure panic > Bard hallucinates that the earth is flat > Wall Street: “sell sell sell” > Sergey hears the screams from his yacht > flies back on a carbon-negative jet, reclaims unofficial crown > merges GoogleBrain + DeepMind like Dragon Ball fusion > axes Bard, slaps Gemini sticker on everything > Gemini launches, immediately generate a black Abraham Lincoln > Twitter dubs them “Bing’s woke cousin” > Shazeer finally answers HR’s 47th email >“fine, but I want my own parking spot and unlimited LaCroix” > returns, waves wand, Gemini 2 & 2.5 drop > context window so big it can summarise the Bible + your group chat > Google processing 980T tokens/month, equal to 40 % of human SMS traffic > someone sneezes “Nano Banana” into the Play Store > overnight it’s #1 app, turns ur selfie into big-tiddy anime waifu

8 young men repented of their sins in the County Jail today—all under age 18. What an honor, to bow on my knees and pray with them, as they responded to the Gospel of Jesus. It was a blessed day! - The Gospel proclaimed. - 500 Bibles delivered. - Lives changed, in Jesus name! I need your help. - Consider following me on X. - Send some Bibles (NOT money) - Visit my website in my profile. Christ be glorified! — Testimony & PR —— Pray for “Jimmy” “Jimmy” is 15 years old, and already the father of two kids. Crushed by the weight of his sin, Jimmy repented and called out the Lord today. Pray for Jimmy as begins his new life in Christ. To God be all the glory, for everything done today.

Claude + Facebook Ads MCP is absolutely WILD 🤯 This AI system turns Claude into your personal ads analyst using MCP integration. And generates full client reports in seconds. Perfect for agencies & ecomm operators who hate wrestling with Ads Manager. But instead of manually pulling data, building charts, and formatting reports... Just give Claude one natural language prompt and get a complete visual storytelling report with insights. Each report includes account performance, campaign breakdowns, demographics, and actionable recommendations. All with a single prompt. Here's what it does: → Connects directly to your Facebook Ads account → Pulls all performance data automatically → Calculates ROAS, CPA, conversion rates on demand → Creates interactive charts and visualizations → Generates beautiful reports → Builds everything from scratch in real-time Built with Claude MCP. Zero manual work. Want the complete MCP setup? Comment "MCP" + like and I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

we grew from zero to $50M ARR in <2 years, profitably i've never publicly shared our tactics before it's cost us over $5M to learn what I'm about to share 800-word long post on every growth hack that printed money for us I'll cover: 1. Influencer Marketing 2. Performance Marketing vs Brand 3. User Testing 4. Dogfooding 0-10M was nearly 100% word of mouth and organic content 10-50M was still >50% word of mouth but influencer, affiliate, and referral made up the other half But the foundation we set from 0-$10M is what allowed us to blaze past $50M 1. Influencer Marketing 101: 90% of your reach comes from <10% of content that goes viral. Your job: go broad with influencers and spend enough to find that 10% of content and formats that work. Virality is no accident - test and discover hooks, visuals, formats for each platform, understand why they work, and replicate 100x across your influencer roster. Most startups get three things wrong: 1 - Too small budget 2 - Overly selective on creators and messaging 3 - Give up too early Start with $10-20k/month, commit to 6 months minimum. This lets you experiment with many micro influencers and lets you test many concepts. - List creator personas with audiences that care about your product. Be exhaustive. Influencer outreach is time-consuming. Work with a freelancer or agency if you don't have a team. DM me for recommendations. - Offer base + viral bonus. For TikTok, have them start new accounts. New accounts can get as many views as established ones. But on new accounts creators are unburdened by their brand and can try any format. - Test across all platforms (TikTok, IG, X, LinkedIn work for most B2B/prosumer apps). - Track specific creators and hooks that outperform, not just channels. - Add 'How did you hear about us' to onboarding. Calculate which channels drive leads vs just views. - Compile every asset, video or hook that works into a guide. Once you have 20-30 winning formats, hire your top creators as consultants to train all other influencers on what angles go viral for you and why. - Never write scripts - it becomes an ad no one watches. Creators know their audience best. 2. Invest in brand before performance marketing Most startups are not prepared to scale their spend because their brand and creative sucks. We had to go through an extremely expensive rebrand (both in terms of time and dollars spent) to land on something we loved. But it would have been much more expensive to skip this step. Be relentless about testing a wide range of creatives. Whatever number of creatives you're thinking of testing, 10x it. Be bold. See what moves the needle (CAC payback, conversion rates, LTV and retention). Once you see a particular use case resonating, build a whole funnel around it with symmetric messaging. You don’t want to confuse visitors by showing them an ad with one value prop and then drop them on to a landing page with a completely different message. 3. Get users to test prototypes before you ship. This seems trivial, but saves you from the worst startup mistake - misdirected product development. Most startups think experimentation is for mature companies improving their funnel by 1% through a/b testing. But Gamma's founding team is early Optimizely folks. Experimentation is in our DNA. We ran extensive user testing on platforms like voicepanel and usertesting a. Recruited random people who make slide decks for work. They have no skin in the game and won't lie to be nice. b. Showed them prototypes with minimal instructions and let them spend a few minutes trying things out. c. Asked them to think out loud. The words they use to navigate, their expectations, where they get confused is gold. Combining their voice + screen actions amplifies things 10x. You really feel the pain of poor UX and overcomplicated copy. Did this for everything - landing pages, onboarding, new features, moonshot concepts. Always test your biggest assumptions about what people will get or like. Identify major blind spots in your prototype stage, not at the end. Ship once you have hours of testing proof that ordinary people find it easy and useful. 4. Dogfood the hell out of your product Either you build something that's 100x better than alternatives, or you build something else. Dogfooding makes it painfully obvious if your product isn't a 100x better. Storytime: When we started Gamma, we had two competing ideas - Idea 1: a virtual office to capture in-person magic Idea 2: reimagining PowerPoint from the ground up (This became Gamma) After 6 months of building and dogfooding both of them in parallel, we had a clear winner. It wasn't about metrics or hard data. With a virtual office, we were always competing against IRL and could never replace the magic of being together in person. With the reimagined PowerPoint, we could imagine a product 100x better than the alternative. Any startup can learn from our playbook. I really hope they do.

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The City of York Human Relations Commission is now attacking me & recklessly calling me violent — which is false & absurd — on its public page for exposing York County teachers. This is an actual governmental organization. You will be hearing from my lawyer (peacefully). https://t.co/c1YAJt9T8o

STUDY SAYS: BOYS WITH ZERO GIRLFRIENDS END UP MARRYING BEAUTIFUL WIVES 💍✨ A light-hearted study suggests that boys who spend their younger years without girlfriends often get rewarded later in life — by marrying very beautiful wives. 💕 Why? 📌 Patience: Instead of rushing into flings, they wait for the right person. 📌 Focus: They invest their energy into growth, studies, and career — making them more attractive long-term. 📌 Loyalty: Their lack of “dating history” is sometimes seen as a sign of seriousness and commitment. Researchers call this the “late bloomer advantage”: men who skip casual dating often form deeper, more stable, and more lasting marriages later. ⚖️ While the claim is not a strict scientific rule, lifestyle experts agree it highlights a timeless truth: good things come to those who wait. Source: Multiple Lifestyle & Social Behavior Reports #relationships #engagement #girlfriend #wife #marriage #patience #study

We cracked the code for on-chain performance tracking on @solana. Soon every dApp will be able to spin up their own perk campaign in the Solana ID portal with integrated conversion tracking for data driven marketing decisions. Check out . https://t.co/5Lrn7lTWot