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May 6 2 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Seeing a wave of growth-stage companies quietly acquiring small technical teams for $10–25M.

For acquirers, it’s a smart way to pick up top-tier talent that’s otherwise locked up.

For founders without PMF, it’s often the cleanest path to a soft landing—with a strong narrative and a next chapter worth building.

Sometimes the smartest move is knowing when to stop digging.
If this sounds like you, just know—it happens more often than you think.

Feel free to DM me. I’m happy to help you think through next steps.

I also know a few high-growth startups actively looking to bring on sharp, technical teams with founder DNA.

Being a founder is a superpower—even (and especially) when you decide to build inside someone else’s rocketship.

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More from @andrewztan

Feb 19
It's been another crazy few weeks in AI 👀

- Mistral le Chat
- Pika Video Editing
- OpenAI Intelligence Age
- France’s $112B AI Investment
- Elon Musk’s $97.4B offer for OpenAI
- Apple partners with Alibaba
- OpenAI’s GPT-5 Roadmap
- Adobe Firefly

Everything you need to know ⬇️
1/ The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work

Blazingly fast new 1,000 words per second chat assistant from Mistral.

It uses Mistral's powerful state-of-the-art coding models and a lovely canvas to assist in many tasks

2/ Pika Labs unveiled Pikadditions, a video-to-video AI tool that seamlessly integrates objects and characters into videos while preserving realism.

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Jan 30, 2023
Unpopular (gen z) opinion: I wish everyone still used Facebook

Where else can you find a single platform for all your friends, photos, events, groups, life updates, messages, birthday reminders, free & for sale, memes, etc. Social media peaked in 2011-2016 /-:
Can someone explain why people stopped using facebook despite the enormous utility?? Feels like the "fake news" era and Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016-2018 really set things back for Facebook. Or maybe cannibalization from Instagram.
Peak Facebook (2009-2016):
- friends shared photo albums
- people posted on your wall on your birthday
- meme groups, college groups, roommate finding groups, free & for sale groups, overheard groups
- anonymous compliment pages
- poke wars
- farmville, zynga poker
- KONY 2012
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