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Blake Robbins
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Blake Robbins
@blakeir
hanging out on the edges of the internet @hiddencap
co-host @gamecraftpod
prev. @benchmark @ludlowventures
Joined September 2010
the highest amount of “wisdom per word” in a book, and i’m not sure it’s even close.
- Francois Bourgeois (the trainspotter on TikTok) is the face of the Gucci x North Face collab 200iq move highsnobiety.com/p/gucci-tnf-fr…
- There is a mobile developer doing $30m+/year in revenue by building the same app in 10+ different niches. A camera identifier app for rocks, mushrooms, insects, coins, birds, fish, etc. “Rock Identifier” did $700k last month…
- A gym that only charges you when you don't go.
- outside of em dashes, “this is not X, it’s Y” might be the clearest sign of LLM writing.
- I am excited to share that I am joining @benchmark as a Principal alongside @sarahtavel, @peterfenton, @milesgrimshaw, @ericvishria, @chetanp, and the rest of the Benchmark team. blake.substack.com/p/joining-benc…
- I recently created a new YouTube account where I only watch educational content. It's amazing how great the YouTube homepage can be when you have clean inputs and signals. It's a fascinating example of how you can leverage algorithms for 'good.'
- this is still the craziest ad I've ever seen. there is a fake hair on the image to get you to swipe up
- Once you start watching YouTube videos at 2x, you never go back.
- TikTok, Reddit, Twitter are all much better search engines than Google
