Netizen: 19: Marketing

Thursday, February 19, 2026

19: Marketing

Nothing brings a VC inner peace quite like an LP distribution day. 😊
— nihal (@nihalmehta) February 19, 2026

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2026

There is only one Silicon Valley!! let’s hope California does not chase out its most promising wealth creators, the startup founders. California’s proposed “asset seizure tax” is nothing short of a criminal idea to punish wealth creators. pic.twitter.com/rVw5jUwzov
— Asha Jadeja Motwani (@ashajadeja325) February 19, 2026

I have built the future

I'm now running 3 of the most powerful AI models in the world on my desk, completely privately, for just the cost of power.

3rd 512gb Mac Studio is in (Apple reached out and lent me the third one! Thanks Apple!)

Here are the models I'll be running:

•… pic.twitter.com/ICX1XtvDOr
— Alex Finn (@AlexFinn) February 19, 2026

European VC is cooked.
So we’re flying 40 European founders to SF and turning this house into a pressure cooker:

- builders only
- live here 24/7
- ship daily
- weekly demos
- office hours + warm intros
- we can be your first check

Reply w/ what you’re building. pic.twitter.com/xxcq6BVmcz
— Tancrede (@Tancrededib) February 19, 2026

https://t.co/qpkk81Lpml
— Yaniv Tal (@yanivgraph) February 18, 2026

everyone's debating whether AI will take their job while quietly using AI to do their job better. the disruption already happened, you just didn't notice because you were the one doing it
— andrew chen (@andrewchen) February 19, 2026

I guess you are expanding to San Fran.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 20, 2026

Riding with the AI OG @vkhosla today. His words: you have a differentiated portfolio than most VC firms in India. Glad to him as a follow on investor in one of our portfolio companies which is bringing auto formalization to the world. pic.twitter.com/EvSoJvUoEg
— Sathya (@sathyanellore) February 18, 2026

Across Iran, something profound is happening at funerals and memorials.

Families of the fallen are refusing the state-imposed script. No forced recitations. No staged rituals. No performative displays of official mourning or Islamic elements.

Instead, they turn these gatherings… pic.twitter.com/Ty4yRyohYx
— ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi (@__Injaneb96) February 19, 2026

Once you hit PMF, things get weird.

One hand hand, you can't finish the day. Work is endless. Customer demand is overwhelming. Everything is breaking from scale. Your CTO sleeps 4 hours. And everyone's running on fumes.

All the problems became good problems. Can you get enough…
— Ivan Burazin (@ivanburazin) February 18, 2026

One of the strongest predictors of startup success is the ability to attract exceptional talent. At @Conviction, our Talent Team helps the next gen of category-defining companies build the talent density that wins markets.

Excited for @niki4conviction to launch "Good Company" --… https://t.co/s3IYL8idWo
— sarah guo (@saranormous) February 19, 2026

Scientists found a way to use AI to reverse aging.

We can now reprogram cells back to age 20. Heart, brain, and skin cells reset to their prime.

This tech won a Nobel Prize in 2012, but it was too slow to work well. In 2025, they supercharged it with AI.

It's a wild story: pic.twitter.com/gLJntUvT6Q
— 🧬Craig Brockie (@CraigBrockie) February 19, 2026

Very excited for the India - U.S. partnership on Pax Silica to help ensure supply chain security. https://t.co/WngR7JmYTc
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) February 19, 2026

This is what I’m currently giving FT employees:

4k/mo AI budget for ICs, $700/mo for everyone else, including sales.

This doesn’t include our OpenClaw stipend (unlimited)

If this is too little you need to use your brain more and code less. https://t.co/bHjqRP5o5B
— Michael (@michael_chomsky) February 19, 2026

Something colossal is going to happen in the next 6 months

Right now every broccoli hair headed 18 year old is working on OpenClaw for corporate

One of them will actually finish their project and make a billion dollars

When that happens, OpenClaw will make it to the workplace,… pic.twitter.com/906YTX7lU3
— Alex Finn (@AlexFinn) February 19, 2026

Last Christmas at brunch, my friend Peter showed me the latest version of his little bot he built. A crazy side project. Just for fun.

This Monday he announced he's joining OpenAI. Sam Altman called him a genius.

In between? OpenClaw went from a hobby project to the most… pic.twitter.com/5WuW8nOOhp
— Andreas Klinger 🦾 (@andreasklinger) February 19, 2026

I finally understood the real cheat code for finding killer engineers.

In the past 48 hours I've had 5 insanely strong interviews. No exaggeration - real A-players.

I planned to go remote and global from day 1 for a bunch of reasons. What I didn't fully grasp is how…
— Alon Gubkin (@alongubkin) February 19, 2026

I will build and run the teams for you. What is your budget? How many engineers do you need?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 20, 2026

Sharing my remarks during the Leaders’ Plenary session at the India AI Impact Summit. https://t.co/kJhDidUlMM
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 19, 2026