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jacob

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jacob

@jsnnsa

building the last way humans create @spawn prev Pluto (acq by Robinhood)

Joined October 2018

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jacob
@jsnnsa
May 15
you can ship a great novel without knowing music. you can ship a great song without writing code. you can ship a great film without owning a server. games are the only thing humans make that requires all of it: code, art, music, performance, multiplayer presence, all working in
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Feb 6, 2025
Ah! I see the issue now. Let me just fix that Ah! I see the issue now. Let me just fix that Ah! I see the issue now. Let me just fix that Ah! I see the issue now. Let me just fix that Ah! I see the issue now. Let me just fix that
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 16, 2025
twice i've walked away from generational wealth nvidia: left $5M on the table robinhood: left $20M of $18/share options (broke $70/share this week) current net worth: $1.2M current obsession: spawn either i'm the dumbest founder alive or i see something you don't
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Dec 11, 2024
having kids in the next 5 years might be a tragic mistake every smart bio founder/scientist i’ve talked to seems to think embryo editing for things like short sleeper, reduced cancer risk, etc is possible on a near term horizon imagine having two kids a couple years apart, one
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 16, 2025
cursor is a $100M business that will be worth $0 in 24 months not because they built wrong - they built perfectly but they built a sail for a race that's about to end when AI just writes entire codebases, even the best IDE becomes irrelevant
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 4, 2025
traded cursor for claude code +427% output
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 20, 2025
jacob lore: 2018: fired. electricity cut. car repo'd. the day after repo, got bridgewater offer. 2019: moved to SF. called CEO a moron. fired. spent 8 months grinding CS. got offers from google, facebook, snapchat, tesla. covid hit. all rescinded. 2020: lived on $400/month.
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jacob
@jsnnsa
May 18, 2025
spawn is my second startup — I sold the first to Robinhood last year and made enough money that I never need to work again I also left $20mm+ on the table to build my vision for spawn is 1000x larger and extremely durable.. even in a post AGI world
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Sep 29, 2025
early in my career i thought being a "cool boss" meant no rules, no hierarchy, endless patience. i'd pour months into people who couldn't ship or would break prod and leave the cleanup for others. meanwhile my best engineers were burning out carrying the weight. ROI on that
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 22, 2025
Spent $48,952.95 on Claude this month and we're still in alpha. Thousands of games created and zero code written by humans. This is what the future costs. And it's beautiful.
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Sep 5, 2024
$15k in payroll was due the day we closed our seed round we went to sleep with $20 in our Brex account woke up with $1.98m we made payroll by 10 seconds
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 22, 2025
I spent $3.2k on Claude Code today AMA
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 21, 2025
Every successful founder over 40 has a Steve Jobs story it seems. Younger founders don't have anyone like that. 'Steve Jobs called me to Menlo Park in 2009. I thought our pricing was perfect. He looked at our demo for 30 seconds and said 'You're solving the wrong problem.' That
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jacob
@jsnnsa
Jun 4, 2025
i’m hiring opus herders pay is $300k/year you must have taste
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