Ryan Merket
Early Facebook & Reddit. Now I mentor and invest in startups.
When a country slips into authoritarianism, centralized social media transforms from a platform of connection into a weaponized tool of surveillance. No longer active on FB, IG, X, or Threads.
- Uh, so this just happened. 😲 "This book is so much better than the usual ghost written, co authored Silicon Valley first person BS books. If you want to learn what Silicon Valley and tech is like for the rest of us, you need to read it." – @guykawasaki.bsky.social, legendary investor and operator.
- drain the swamp
- How often do you change the favorite contacts on your phone?
- Come hangout with me and my buddy Nick Laning while he edit photographs! www.twitch.tv/nicklaning
- Love this. Small creators just trying to make it. www.reddit.com/r/videos/com...
- Reposted by Ryan MerketIn the first edition of Netmaker, I talk a bit about my creative marketing history with Twitter and take a closer look at the viability of developing similar concepts on Bluesky. open.substack.com/pub/netmaker...
- Please make it make sense.
- Amazon takes control of James Bond rights...
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- So I launched/err stole a meme coin: BLS pump.fun/coin/EN4XMiY...
- "The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs." fly.io/blog/wrong-a...
- Back in 2009 when I worked at Facebook, I told a friend not to use Messenger as it was like chatting with your friends in a courtroom, mic’d up for the jury to hear. Turns out, I underestimated just how many people were listening.
- Find me on Signal: merket.01
- Reposted by Ryan MerketOnly the best tech toddlers www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
- We defunded the CFPB while Trump launched a scam coin to rob his own followers. The message is clear: fraud isn’t a bug in America — it’s the operating system.
- 'Anything At All’—The new album from Denison Witmer produced by and featuring Sufjan Stevens is out now. #music #idie #folk cc: @denisonwitmer.bsky.social & @sufjanstevens.bsky.social
- One of the best emails one can get as an angel investor. Too bad it was for $243
- So cool to see how far we've come. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psIb...
- Reposted by Ryan MerketDo you now or have you ever received social security, medicare, medicaid, SNAP, disability, unemployment benefits, or tax credits such as Child Tax Credits? Congratulations! You’re part of the Parasite Class!! (A group over 70% Americans are part of.) Your new president HATES you!
- Kelly and I were hired together for the same team, on the same day, and went through training together. I believe her. She's incredibly brave for sticking her neck out like this.
- Go follow her journey: @kellystonelake.bsky.social
- Men, order the flowers and buy the chocolates now. Don’t wait until the last second!
- “Be afraid and do it anyway!”
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- How to stop using Meta and X. 1) Delete apps off phone. 2) Install redirector app on your browser. 3) Create rules that redirect you to alternative (like BlueSky!) anytime you click or type in one of the domains.
- No way!?
- Reposted by Ryan MerketJust got in the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 @asusrog.bsky.social ASUS TUF Series model, and it's a bit larger than the Founders Edition version... GTX 1080 for scale. 🤣
- vulture cat? im sorry.
- My first feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Well this is interesting... #agiprop
- My favorite early Reddit office mural. By the legendary @knucklefat.bsky.social (Dante Orpilla). Learn Dante's story here: youtu.be/S-7n5qNCams
- If you need me I’ll be watching the game from my house with 30 friends, brisket, and a bartender. If you know the address come over.
- Reposted by Ryan MerketThe team bottom of the Championship beat the Premier League leaders in the FA Cup. It's Plymouth Argyle who will be in tomorrow's fifth round draw — Liverpool are out. #PLYLIV | #PAFC | #LFC | #FACup
- Reposted by Ryan MerketThis is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
- UNPOPULAR OPINION: GOOOOOO CHIEEEEEFFFFS
- Reposted by Ryan Merketi know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become
- "Santa, a Miami mobster, is giving his crew of mafioso elves a pep talk" - Sora AI
- Off a cliff…
