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John Luttig
Personal blog · luttig.substack.comstartupsbusinessai
John Luttig writes luttig's learnings, a personal blog at luttig.substack.com about startups, business and ai. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Rippling and the Return of Ambition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
i occasionally write about what i've been learning, at founders fund and personally. you can also find me on twitter: https://twitter.com/absoluttig. Click to read luttig's learnings, by John Luttig, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Rippling and the Return of Ambition6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-04-06
- When Tailwinds Vanish3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-23
- Hallucinations in AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-30
- Finance as Culture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-01
- Don't forget Microsoft2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-30
- The Index Mindset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-15
- Is AI the New Crypto?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-20
What Hacker News says?
I'm not surprised. The complete company doesn't provide any actually required product or value, just aggregating "users". And the company has the worst imaginable reputation (closed-source, awkward and stupid censorship, clear name enforcement, advertisement, users are not customers but a resource, and much more). Interestingly this article was featured here recently: https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-micros…
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on “Facebook loses users for the first time”Submitted Don't forget Microsoft as a story · 429 points
HN discussionI'm reading this to imply that as a general rule of thumb, in recent times SPACs have been a better deal for the company going public than for the SPAC investors. That outsized returns exist but are not the norm. There was a good resource linked in one of the footnotes that is a much more concise summary: "SPAC Attack: everything a founder or investor should know" https://luttig.substack.com/p/spac-attack-everything…
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on “A Sober Look at SPACs (2020)”Submitted When Tailwinds Vanish as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finance as Culture as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and the Return of Ambition as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech's Reversion to the Mean as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and the Return of Ambition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and the Return of Ambition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How timeless is timeless advice? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AI the New Crypto? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Tailwinds Vanish (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Luttig on narratives currently prevalent in AI discourse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hallucinations in AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hallucinations in AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finance as Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AI the New Crypto? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Tailwinds Vanish as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and Return of Ambition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Index Mindset as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and the Return of Ambition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rippling and the Return of Ambition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Index Mindset as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How timeless is timeless advice? as a story · 1 points
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