filmmaker & founder @ponderstudioai (hiring)

New York, NY
Joined July 2022
The strongest sign of product-market fit: your customers are fixing your bugs on a Sunday.
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founders don’t deserve social events pre-launch
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my founding designer is locked in
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who are the best web designers? @PonderStudioAI needs a landing page upgrade (framer)
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Gemini 3.0 is hyped up to be ASI
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a 10x engineer in nyc = a 3x engineer in sf
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it's been a wild 5 months since our demo got 10M+ views Ponder needs more hands on deck. we’re the only team in the world that's close to achieving true ai video editing we work 14-hour days, 6 days a week hiring: • product engineer (full-time contractor, remote ok) • founding product engineer • ml research engineer dm me
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your ai is as smart as you
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let your friends invest small 1-5k in your startup and make them millionaires
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Replying to @MrBeast
Here's how I'd break this down: Every major shift in content creation has had doomsayers predicting the death of human creators: - Photography would kill painting (it didn't) - Video would kill radio (it didn't) - Digital music would kill musicians (it didn't) - Social media would kill traditional media (it adapted) What actually happens: The tools get democratized, the bar raises, and the winners are those who understand this truth... People don't follow content. They follow PEOPLE. AI can generate a perfect video. But it can't generate: - Your unique perspective - Your lived experience - Your personality - Your community connection - Trust built over time The real question isn't "Will AI replace creators?" It's "Which creators will use AI to 10x their output while maintaining their authentic voice?" The creators who'll struggle are the ones making generic, templated content that's already soulless. AI will just expose that they were never adding real value. The creators who'll thrive are the ones who: 1. Use AI as a production assistant - Let it handle editing, thumbnails, scripts drafts 2. Double down on authenticity - Their stories, their takes, their community 3. Focus on connection over perfection - People want real, not polished 4. Leverage AI to test and iterate faster - More experiments = more winners Bottom line: AI doesn't kill creators. It kills lazy content. And that's a good thing for everyone building real businesses. The opportunity isn't scary. It's massive.
it’s never been about video editing, it’s always been about story orchestration
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film is the most useful degree you can get right now -learn to work with other people -develop taste -build agency more young people should go to film school
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be right be best be fast
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cinematic launch videos are no longer cool
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timothy retweeted
Democratizing creativity isn’t optional.
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the main job of a startup CEO is to doomscroll X and share interesting posts in “#eng-resources” on slack
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way too easy to raise a few million in VC lately curious to see which founders actually have substance a few years from now
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