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After meeting with 500 exited founders. I can tell you this:
Being an entrepreneur can be lonely. You don’t always connect with people the same way—you’re absorbed in your product, your ideas. Sometimes it feels like only other founders truly understand you on that level. And h fellow founders, the exchange is different—sharing ideas, challenges, and insights accelerates your learning in a way nothing else does.
Lovie.co/formation
Being an entrepreneur can be lonely. You don’t always connect with people the same way—you’re absorbed in your product, your ideas. Sometimes it feels like only other founders truly understand you on that level. And h fellow founders, the exchange is different—sharing ideas, challenges, and insights accelerates your learning in a way nothing else does.
Lovie.co/formation
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
saas is becoming free
give away the crm
give away the dashboard
give away the app
and charge for the agent that does the work
give away the crm
give away the dashboard
give away the app
and charge for the agent that does the work
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Tesla should start Roadster races, and they can be more fun than F1
Roadster event livestream x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Lovie now fills out your accelerator applications for you.
40+ programs. 1 profile. You answer once, and every form gets filled in your own words. No more retyping the same founder story.
Head to lovie.co/freetools/acce… to try it.
40+ programs. 1 profile. You answer once, and every form gets filled in your own words. No more retyping the same founder story.
Head to lovie.co/freetools/acce… to try it.
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
As I posted before, I've cancelled almost all of the SaaS subscriptions for my business
The only thing I still pay for as a business:
- AI inference
- Hetzner server hosting
- Cloudflare storage
- Backblaze backups
- Taxes
Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself
All I still pay for personally is:
- Claude Code
- YouTube (content)
- Spotify (content)
- Starlink (internet)
- Phone eSIM
- Personal cloud storage
- Electricity and water (utility)
- Taxes
So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for:
- AI inference
- Content
- Cloud storage & hosting
- Connectivity
- Electricity & water
- Taxes
So to summarize all my money now goes to:
- Content
- Data centers
- Power plants + water
- Governments
I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save
It's just how the economy works
The only thing I still pay for as a business:
- AI inference
- Hetzner server hosting
- Cloudflare storage
- Backblaze backups
- Taxes
Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself
All I still pay for personally is:
- Claude Code
- YouTube (content)
- Spotify (content)
- Starlink (internet)
- Phone eSIM
- Personal cloud storage
- Electricity and water (utility)
- Taxes
So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for:
- AI inference
- Content
- Cloud storage & hosting
- Connectivity
- Electricity & water
- Taxes
So to summarize all my money now goes to:
- Content
- Data centers
- Power plants + water
- Governments
I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save
It's just how the economy works
the fundamental basic economics misunderstanding that ppl have esp on here is that they think normal ppl need to use models to build their own software to be disrupted. they obviously don't & they obviously won’t.
but even if just 1% of the population can build software, that's enough to flood the entire supply side with millions of new products collapsing the cost to near zero.
you absolutely don't need universal adoption to destroy scarcity. you just need enough producers to overwhelm demand. you can feel this now already. i never pay for software because i just ask claude to point to something like a chrome extension or a mac app & it’s just there. at some point your agents will also auto update & maintain your software automatically too.
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Top CEO Priorities
1) Productivity or (should be and) Profitability
2) AI and Technology Modernization
3) Customer Experience (should be #1 with the others as enablers for delivery and relationship management)🫶
Source: @IBM Rewiring the C-suite, The fast track to 2030
1) Productivity or (should be and) Profitability
2) AI and Technology Modernization
3) Customer Experience (should be #1 with the others as enablers for delivery and relationship management)🫶
Source: @IBM Rewiring the C-suite, The fast track to 2030
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
We’re going to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Lovie is a Silver Partner this year, which means we’ll be on the floor at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, October 13–15, with a booth, a live demo, and a table of merch.
Here’s what we’re showing at Booth F10.
The whole founder ormation is where most people meet us: a US LLC or C-Corp in any states, filed for you, with a registered agent.
By Disrupt the rest of the stack ships with it, a business bank account, a cap table and fundraising.
Four tools, one agent-native platform, one chat.Answering the questions founders actually ask.
Which state. LLC or C-Corp. What a non-US founder needs. Whether you can form before you have something worth forming.
Giving things away. Everyone who stops by the booth leaves with a Lovie merch pack, while we still have them.
Find us at Booth F10 in the Expo Hall, October 13–15. If you’re building something, come and tell us about it, we’d rather hear about it than talk about ourselves.
Lovie is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Increase Bank, Member FDIC. Lovie is not a law firm and does not provide legal, tax or financial advice.
Lovie is a Silver Partner this year, which means we’ll be on the floor at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, October 13–15, with a booth, a live demo, and a table of merch.
Here’s what we’re showing at Booth F10.
The whole founder ormation is where most people meet us: a US LLC or C-Corp in any states, filed for you, with a registered agent.
By Disrupt the rest of the stack ships with it, a business bank account, a cap table and fundraising.
Four tools, one agent-native platform, one chat.Answering the questions founders actually ask.
Which state. LLC or C-Corp. What a non-US founder needs. Whether you can form before you have something worth forming.
Giving things away. Everyone who stops by the booth leaves with a Lovie merch pack, while we still have them.
Find us at Booth F10 in the Expo Hall, October 13–15. If you’re building something, come and tell us about it, we’d rather hear about it than talk about ourselves.
Lovie is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Increase Bank, Member FDIC. Lovie is not a law firm and does not provide legal, tax or financial advice.
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Co-founded 6 startups and raised 6 seed rounds from thousands of pitches. All of that knowledge is now 121 agents, and you can find them at lovie.co/fundraising/
Part one of ten.
Little money and no network
In 2011 I landed in San Francisco with little money, a laptop, and one bag. I knew no investors and no founders, and the network that makes Silicon Valley work was closed to me.
The rejections
On my first raise I heard no many times. I pitched with my runway low, though founders need six months. I skipped the twelve-month relationship building and pitched the wrong investors.
After reviewing hundreds of pitches, the pattern is clear: the ideas are fine, the process is the problem.
The sentence I heard forty times
The partner is polite. Then, in the last ten minutes:
"This is interesting, but it's not really a category for us."
That space exists. It just isn't hot, so no one is investing in it yet.
They all mean the same thing. I cannot defend this to my partners today.
4 not hot companies
MovieLaLa raised $3 million from 37 investors. MojiLaLa and Leo raised $2.44 million from 26.
Claros Farm raised $2 million from 25. CompanyDNA raised $1 million from 5.
The two that were hot
RemoteTeam raised $2.2 million from 26 investors, then Gusto acquired it 580 days after incorporation. Contractor payments was hot: the narrative existed before I walked in.
Lovie raised from 27 investors in three weeks. Hot, and faster. But three weeks was not luck: the method from five cold raises was already running as 121 agents.
A cold raise costs five times the meetings
In a hot category, about five meetings can produce one investor, because the narrative is already in the room.
In a cold category, it takes 25 to 50. Same rooms, same questions, but every meeting has to build the frame a hot category starts with.
Founders report 30 to 60 meetings to close a round at a 5 to 10% conversion rate.
Five cold companies, about 25 targeted investors each, is about 125 conversations, each needing its own frame.
What investing taught me, and what it became
I've backed 222 companies, including 31 early unicorns, 5 IPOs, and 11 exits.
I wrote the method as 121 agents built from 329 shared skills, organized around the nine stages of a raise, with 1,000+ hours of training.
Now AI changes what is possible. Work that used to take hours per investor runs in minutes, and the quality holds on the twentieth conversation as well as the first.
Lovie is live at lovie.co/fundraising.
Part one of ten.
Little money and no network
In 2011 I landed in San Francisco with little money, a laptop, and one bag. I knew no investors and no founders, and the network that makes Silicon Valley work was closed to me.
The rejections
On my first raise I heard no many times. I pitched with my runway low, though founders need six months. I skipped the twelve-month relationship building and pitched the wrong investors.
After reviewing hundreds of pitches, the pattern is clear: the ideas are fine, the process is the problem.
The sentence I heard forty times
The partner is polite. Then, in the last ten minutes:
"This is interesting, but it's not really a category for us."
That space exists. It just isn't hot, so no one is investing in it yet.
They all mean the same thing. I cannot defend this to my partners today.
4 not hot companies
MovieLaLa raised $3 million from 37 investors. MojiLaLa and Leo raised $2.44 million from 26.
Claros Farm raised $2 million from 25. CompanyDNA raised $1 million from 5.
The two that were hot
RemoteTeam raised $2.2 million from 26 investors, then Gusto acquired it 580 days after incorporation. Contractor payments was hot: the narrative existed before I walked in.
Lovie raised from 27 investors in three weeks. Hot, and faster. But three weeks was not luck: the method from five cold raises was already running as 121 agents.
A cold raise costs five times the meetings
In a hot category, about five meetings can produce one investor, because the narrative is already in the room.
In a cold category, it takes 25 to 50. Same rooms, same questions, but every meeting has to build the frame a hot category starts with.
Founders report 30 to 60 meetings to close a round at a 5 to 10% conversion rate.
Five cold companies, about 25 targeted investors each, is about 125 conversations, each needing its own frame.
What investing taught me, and what it became
I've backed 222 companies, including 31 early unicorns, 5 IPOs, and 11 exits.
I wrote the method as 121 agents built from 329 shared skills, organized around the nine stages of a raise, with 1,000+ hours of training.
Now AI changes what is possible. Work that used to take hours per investor runs in minutes, and the quality holds on the twentieth conversation as well as the first.
Lovie is live at lovie.co/fundraising.
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Regulatory Documents are great for AI. Regulatory Documents are a great spec doc for AI.
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I wanted to build a great HQ for @lovieco . I called it @sfvibehouse
In just 6 months, we brought together 300 exited founders, 50 events, and 100 AI researchers at SF Vibe House for some of the best deep conversations about what comes next.
In the AI era, I believe creativity is becoming the most important human advantage.
AI can write code, analyze data, and execute faster than any of us. But the ideas we choose to pursue, the connections we make, and the things we imagine still start with the human mind.
And I don’t think classical offices are designed for that.
I’ve actually never had an office.
So when I started thinking about building @lovieco HQ, I didn’t want to create another place with desks, meeting rooms, fluorescent lights, and people staring at screens all day.
I wanted to build a place designed around the human mind — a place where people could be more creative, think differently, feel better, and still do some of the best work of their lives.
That became SF Vibe House.
We started combining things that normally live in completely different worlds: art, biohacking, frequency machines, sound baths, meditation and healing, organic food, good music, community, and work.
Not as perks. As part of the architecture.
Most hacker houses are designed to squeeze more hours out of founders.
Vibe House is designed to give them their years back.
Our manifesto asks a simple question:
If we’re building AI to advance humanity, shouldn’t we begin by advancing ourselves?
Six months in, Vibe House has grown into a community of more than 300 exited founders.
We’ve hosted more than 50 events, and this week is our 28th Friday demo night.
Founders come here to share what they’re building, help each other raise, exchange ideas, and hopefully leave with more energy than they walked in with.
People who met as strangers on the couch have become co-founders. Some are now living in the house and building their next companies entirely in this rhythm.
I think the future of work isn’t just about better AI models or better tools.
It’s also about designing better environments for the humans using them.
Thank you to Zara Stone and The SF Standard for spending time with us and telling the story.
If you’ve built, exited, and still feel the pull to build again, come build the next one in a place designed for creativity — and designed to help you last.
SF Standard - Midlife hacker house
sfstandard.com/2026/10/04/mid…
In just 6 months, we brought together 300 exited founders, 50 events, and 100 AI researchers at SF Vibe House for some of the best deep conversations about what comes next.
In the AI era, I believe creativity is becoming the most important human advantage.
AI can write code, analyze data, and execute faster than any of us. But the ideas we choose to pursue, the connections we make, and the things we imagine still start with the human mind.
And I don’t think classical offices are designed for that.
I’ve actually never had an office.
So when I started thinking about building @lovieco HQ, I didn’t want to create another place with desks, meeting rooms, fluorescent lights, and people staring at screens all day.
I wanted to build a place designed around the human mind — a place where people could be more creative, think differently, feel better, and still do some of the best work of their lives.
That became SF Vibe House.
We started combining things that normally live in completely different worlds: art, biohacking, frequency machines, sound baths, meditation and healing, organic food, good music, community, and work.
Not as perks. As part of the architecture.
Most hacker houses are designed to squeeze more hours out of founders.
Vibe House is designed to give them their years back.
Our manifesto asks a simple question:
If we’re building AI to advance humanity, shouldn’t we begin by advancing ourselves?
Six months in, Vibe House has grown into a community of more than 300 exited founders.
We’ve hosted more than 50 events, and this week is our 28th Friday demo night.
Founders come here to share what they’re building, help each other raise, exchange ideas, and hopefully leave with more energy than they walked in with.
People who met as strangers on the couch have become co-founders. Some are now living in the house and building their next companies entirely in this rhythm.
I think the future of work isn’t just about better AI models or better tools.
It’s also about designing better environments for the humans using them.
Thank you to Zara Stone and The SF Standard for spending time with us and telling the story.
If you’ve built, exited, and still feel the pull to build again, come build the next one in a place designed for creativity — and designed to help you last.
SF Standard - Midlife hacker house
sfstandard.com/2026/10/04/mid…
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
The limit on software used to be engineering and now it's mostly imagination.
I'd spend a lot more time on the version of my idea that makes people say "wait, what is that?"
Most software looks the same, so anything that looks different gets noticed, shared and remembered.
I'd spend a lot more time on the version of my idea that makes people say "wait, what is that?"
Most software looks the same, so anything that looks different gets noticed, shared and remembered.
Industrial software doesn’t have to feel like industrial software
Manage warehouses like you’re playing a strategy game
Built with Opus 5.5
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Another great night! Went to an event hosted by @sahin and heard from a bunch of founders about how they’re building company 🧠s.
Also met @contextconor IRL! Thank you @amansk for the invite 🙏
Also met @contextconor IRL! Thank you @amansk for the invite 🙏
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Apple was the 15th smartphone maker
Spotify was the 10th music platform
Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market
Facebook was the 10th social network
Netflix was the 7th streaming provider
Uber was the 4th ride sharing service
TikTok was the 8th short-video app
Zoom was the 11th video-calling app
Being first doesn't mean winning
Spotify was the 10th music platform
Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market
Facebook was the 10th social network
Netflix was the 7th streaming provider
Uber was the 4th ride sharing service
TikTok was the 8th short-video app
Zoom was the 11th video-calling app
Being first doesn't mean winning
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Sahin Boydas retweeted
Today, Lovie is giving away ~160m tokens/month from top ai labs for 0. Renewed every month.
20 providers. ~400 models. 1 key. These tokens are enough to ship your v1 without ever touching a credit card.
Head to lovie.co/freetools/free… to claim yours.
20 providers. ~400 models. 1 key. These tokens are enough to ship your v1 without ever touching a credit card.
Head to lovie.co/freetools/free… to claim yours.
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