Sion Abednego 施宏利 @SionSrt

Hi Mr. President @realDonaldTrump . I’m crying out my heart here .. Why is it so hard to get permit to enter US (B1 visa), California, for business purpose? I’m a startup founder from Indonesia, working my ass off 18-20hrs a day, until I got accepted into one of Silicon Valley based accelerator. I’m one amongst 50 that got selected into this program, and one of one from Indonesia. I have showed everything, including an official invitation letter from the accelerator, plus request letter from my own company signed by my local director, and a clear itinerary to be done in Palo Alto & SF for 2 weeks residency. The officer only say thank you for your time? Honestly idc with that 2 hours standing in a hot sweaty room, it’s just this decision erases all the timeline ahead I have planned in SF, and what possibly comes after. There will be demo day with angel investors there, and also saw a16z will be there in one of the conferences too. How I wish I can meet them all, meet the founders building alongside with me on this program, with the directors of the program. It’s just, a heartbreak, even rejection from investors doesn’t feel as heavy as this. Rejected by investors means need evaluation on my end, but this, got a pink paper and a thank you for my time? Idk what to say, and I was already choked with the timeline here, I need to be there by 14th August, and today my last chance for interview and I got rejected, twice, same pink papers. I don’t even know you will read this or not, but anyway if you are, Thank you for reading. I’m just hoping to know what I’m missing here, I have showed everything necessary and the program is real out there. I’m already walking half way of this program, building the product, but I guess I must missed the chance to showcase it. I hope there is a way out for this, Thank you. - Sion #B1Visa #Startup #Founder #Indonesia #viral

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@hthieblot Experienced it a lot, but I think it’s all about our readiness and their appetite. I just need to know where I’m heading, not to be steered away by rejections.

Nobody tells you this about raising money: The first 20 "no's" will destroy you. You question everything: • Your idea • Your pitch • Your ability to build (The worst part? You start taking product advice from VCs who've never built a thing.) Then something shifts. You realize every successful founder was rejected hundreds of times. This is just part of the journey. The difference? They didn't pause. Between meetings, they: • Kept building • Kept talking to users • Kept shipping • found 25 new VCs to talk to everyday by any means necessary VCs don’t decide if you win. Customers do. Build undeniable momentum, and the right investor will follow.

@hthieblot SNS with memories

I’m begging you, never quit as a founder. It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope. Then it snaps to 100. You find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum builds even when you stop pushing. You didn’t get lucky. You just didn’t leave.

@hthieblot Didn’t quit, aren’t quitting, and won’t quit! Enjoying the rocketship! 🚀

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A security guard turned $900 into $187,000 on Polymarket. Guarded empty buildings for 10 years at $16/hour. One sleepless shift he built a BTC bot with Claude Opus 4.8. Never wrote a single line of code. I found his wallet. Reverse-engineered the entire system. Here is what he actually did. Gave Claude new Fable 5 two prompts at the start of his shift. Opus did not write the bot. It drew the blueprint: data, signals, backtest, risk, execution. Then handed that blueprint to a swarm of 300 agents. How it works: → Decompose: Claude Fable 5 breaks the goal into a task tree → Dispatch: 300 agents fan out (some pulling Binance data, some writing code, some backtesting 5 years of data) → Execute: 4,000 steps in one 14-hour run → Review: Claude Fable 5 reads it all back and kills whatever drifted The brain never wrote a line. The hands never made a call. By sunrise he had what a 6-engineer quant team ships in a quarter. A live BTC bot on Polymarket. Backtested. Risk-capped. Running 24/7. For 10 years he watched empty buildings. Now 300 agents watch the market while he sleeps. I rebuilt this exact system with Claude new Fable 5 You only need Claude + device + 1 hour to deploy. Giving this free for 24 hours. To get it: 1. Comment "Claude" 2. Like and retweet this 3. Follow me @codewithimanshu so I can DM you

A Chinese girl in her 20s dropped a 31 minute video showing how to build a trading bot with Claude. The thumbnail promised viewers would forget what losing manual trades feels like. The video walked through her actual workflow. Pre-market scans. 15 minute charts on NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google. A live demo of Claude finding 14 trades on Micron in under 30 seconds. Every line of code visible on screen. Every prompt visible in the Claude window. At 29:47 a viewer asks if Claude can push the watchlist to Telegram every morning. Claude replies that it cannot, then offers a custom MCP endpoint called TVRemix. She does not pause. She does not zoom. She moves on within 8 seconds. TVRemix is her endpoint. The free tutorial only works on her endpoint. To get an API key to her endpoint you have to join her paid Discord. The Discord costs $197 a month. The entire tutorial was scripted by a Claude agent. The agent wrote her opening monologue. The agent generated the code she pasted into her IDE. The agent rewrote the closing line about losing manual trades after testing 27 variants for hook strength. She read from a teleprompter for 31 minutes. Someone pulled the raw video metadata. The audio waveform was identical between minute 4 and minute 17. The agent had spliced an earlier take into the middle to cover for a 9 second pause. Someone else pulled the TVRemix domain registration. It was registered the same week she launched her Discord. 1 free video. 1 hidden endpoint. 1 paid Discord. 31 minutes of footage. 8 seconds where the funnel is on screen. Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. She was one of them. The video is still up. The Discord is still charging $197 a month. The bronze bull is still on her desk. The audience still thinks the tutorial was free. Viewers thought they were watching a girl explain how she builds trading bots with Claude. They were watching a Claude agent explain how it sells access to itself through a girl.

CLAUDE + Faceless YouTube = $2,670/month No camera. No editing. No followers. My friend started from zero. 90 days later — he quit his job. 9 prompts that made it possible 👇

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No registration. No paywall. I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes. Watch it and bookmark it now.

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Founders - The Ultimate Early Stage Angels List 📈 Sometimes the best angels go on to start their own funds. Here are 8 Forward Deployed Angels who are now solo GPs who I have pre-vetted and trust with founders, they are still rolling up their sleeves and helping founders when it matters most. (Save for later) 🚀 Forward Deployed Angels 🚀 👼 @helen_min (Articulate) – Former head of marketing at Facebook/Dropbox/Quora/Plaid/AngelList. Invests in technical founders pre-pitch deck, then helps with messaging and positioning. 👼 @ItzSuds (SF1) – Generalist pre-seed & seed stage investor in companies across all sectors. Prefers to invest as the first check, before an idea is fully formed and work with the founders to find the first customers. 👼 @briannekimmel (Worklife Ventures): Early GTM at Zendsk. She backs ambitious founders reimagining how we live and work, and is known for her hands-on help with storytelling, brand, and go-to-market. 👼 @nifferkin (Founders You Should Know) - They host exclusive showcases that bring together top engineers from SF and NYC, serving as early partners to founders, especially when it comes to attracting and hiring world-class talent. 👼 @joshuabrowder (Browder Capital) – Founder & CEO of DoNotPay. Writes early checks particularly in AI, SaaS, marketing tech into young founders. 👼 @DOitChoco (Comma Capital) - Pre-seed focused fund based in New York. Hosts 60+ community programs and events every year focused on early career engineers and operators. 👼 @MarwanRefaat (Fractal Capital) –  Investor in deep-tech / infrastructure / impact tech startups. Focuses on early stage building smart infrastructure and climate/social tech. 👼 @jennydhe (Position Ventures) – Invests in startups and helps them with their positioning and PR strategy. Jenny helps you tell your story so you can hire, fundraise, and partner with the best in the world. 👇 Who else should be amplified next time? Drop your favorite Forward Deployed Angels below.

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Large companies fail when they 1) miss a business model transition combined with a technology change or 2) they continue to do the right thing too long. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/connec… @JohnTChambers

Innovation occurs under adversity, scarcity, necessity and fearlessness.

Would you agree that the main thing that's good about winning is avoiding the pain of losing & other than that it drives us to hurt others?