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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 30/09/2026

It's only based on my prompts. It doesn't change plans without me telling to do it

Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 26/09/2026

Officially switching from RunKeeper to Strava to record my runs. I've been with RunKeeper for 15+ years, but the lack of an API and an MCP sealed the deal.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 26/09/2026

Yes, it decides for me. I only scan the plan, but mostly trust it to decide my training schedule.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 24/09/2026

Yes, e-ink. They are very cheap.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 24/09/2026

I built my personal fitness display, a website to manage my training plan, and an MCP to let Claude control everything and adjust my plan according to my races, weather, etc. I believe that in the next decade we'll see a renaissance for the arts, science, technology, industry, and humanity.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 23/09/2026

At this point, I don't want better frontier models. I want faster (!!!), cheaper, and less-error prone models.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 17/09/2026

I'm looking forward to an AI agent that can organize and consolidate the decades of notes and files we have on OneNote, Notion, Google Docs, Dropbox, OneDrive, Notes App, and everywhere else. To answer your question, no, I won't use Muse, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini. It has to be a local LLM.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 14/09/2026

People are handing full access to their emails, documents, and calendars to "unknown" AI agent startups and to corporations with a checkered past of privacy violations.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 03/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when GPT-3.5 launched, and people said when GPT-5 launches the entire world is cooked. The jobs would be gone, society would collapse, Skynet would be here…Now LLMs struggle to have two-9s of availability.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 03/09/2026

I'm going to make many tech solopreneurs upset when I say this, but you don't need Linear, branches, PRs, CI/CD, or staging until your product has meaningful traction.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 02/09/2026

Folks, I'm not sure Amazon offers the best prices. I bought a product directly from the manufacturer, paid $8 for shipping, and the total came out to $35. On Amazon, with free Prime shipping, it was $47.49.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 31/08/2026

What happens when this president decides to rename countries?

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 22/07/2026

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 19/07/2026

Haaland, Vozinha, and Bellingham are the super heroes of this World Cup. It's not even a contest.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 14/07/2026

BREAKING: Company led by a leader with low morals does a bad thing.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 10/07/2026

With Claude Code, you are on the edge of your seat. You don't know if it'll crash, the API will error out, if you hit the usage limit for the period, or if it'll build an amazing feature.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 30/06/2026

This is the first World Cup that you learn about a team scoring in the group chat before you see it on TV.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 25/06/2026

LinkedIn Games is what happens when your strategy gets disconnected from your customer. Games -> Attention -> Ads -> Revenue. How does this align with their vision of "creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce"? This is what Eric Ries calls "corruption" in his new book.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 17/06/2026

This is the first World Cup with mass TikTok use, prediction markets, and AI.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 16/06/2026

Someday I'll tell my kids the fable of the three days of Fable.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 14/06/2026

Not enough people know the expression "Bread and circuses."

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 26/05/2026

Five 8s is the new five 9s.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 16/05/2026

The new Spotify app icon is dystopian.

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Jeremiah Chronister @jeremiahchronister.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Love this. Unfreezing founder energy is the real multiplier. Those connections compound over years.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 28/04/2026

The conference is sector-agnostic. The goal is to connect people, help them learn from others, see what's possible. I'm doing my part to unfreeze founder energy.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 28/04/2026

Fair point on Seattle leaning bigco/safe. But the speakers aren't that. Rand Fishkin, Patrick Thompson, David Shim, Ambika Singh, Aaron Bird, Marius Ciocirlan. All operators who took great risks.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 27/04/2026

If you work at Microsoft, and you're a tech person or innovator, consider the other possibilities out there. --> seattleflow.org/startupday

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 27/04/2026

If you work at Microsoft, May 7 is a big day. I worked there for 7 years. Built Startup Day for people sitting where you are now. Stay or go? Found or join? 16 founders sharing what actually worked. Startup isn't for everyone. Is it for you? May 15. Seattle. Prices go up Friday. Link below.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 23/04/2026

I worked for 2 years in Benefits/HRTech, and 5 years in HealthTech. My superpower was to be an idiot in understanding insurance, benefits, and healthcare. h/t @morningbrew.bsky.social

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 22/04/2026

UNBREAKING: PRDs are not dead. It has a new shape, but still is a PRD.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

If you take the blip from the pandemic, Seattle has had the lowest # of investment deals in a decade (since 2016 Q4). The situation is worse than it appears because the total number of deals in the US has grown 40% since 2016. I have several theories, but I want to hear what you think is going on.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Software engineers, PMs, designers, and CS / ML / MBA students: We're doing a Startup Fair @ Startup Day 2026. Builders from Clarify, Yoodli, Clearly AI, Predictable Machines, and more will talk product, tech, and their roles. No recruiters. May 15. Free 👉 seattleflow.org/fair

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Scott Case (Recurrent): tracked 1B+ miles of EV driving data from 50K+ vehicles. Co-founded Ada Developers Academy, 1,100+ engineers graduated. Varun Puri (Yoodli): Yoodli at $300M+ valuation. At Google X, Sergey Brin hand-picked him to run special projects.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Ambika Singh (Armoire): built Armoire to 85 employees and $12.7M raised. Was second hire at Rover.com (now NASDAQ). Chet Kittleson (Tin Can): $12M from Greylock for screen-free phones for kids. Fast Company Most Innovative 2026. Co-founded Far Homes after 6 years at Redfin.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Nikesh Parekh (Provn): sold Suplari to Microsoft. Was VP of New Ventures at Trulia, acquired by Zillow for $2.5B. Reinventing recruiting with AI portfolios. Marius Ciocirlan (Mark OS): ran Techstars Seattle, invested in 36 startups. Sold ShareGrid. $4M pre-seed for Mark OS.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Patrick Thompson (Clarify): sold Iteratively to Amplitude, led Jira design at Atlassian. Now $22.5M Series A for an AI-native CRM (I use it). Emily Choi-Greene (Clearly AI): YC S24, raised $8.4M. Customers include Rivian, Okta, Affirm. Led Amazon Alexa AI Security for 5 years.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Maria Colacurcio (Syndio): co-founded Smartsheet (NYSE IPO 2018). Now runs the workplace equity platform Salesforce, Walmart, and American Airlines use. Rand Fishkin (SparkToro): founded Moz, scaled to 200+ employees and $45M+ ARR. Bootstrapping SparkToro to 1,000+ paying customers.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

David Shim (Read AI): founded Placed (sold to Snap). Read AI now $50M Series B at $450M valuation, 1M+ weekly active users. Was CEO of Foursquare. Aaron Bird (Inflection.io): sold Bizible to Marketo, then SVP of Product through Adobe's $4.75B Marketo acquisition.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

Ian Wong (Summation): co-founded Opendoor, CTO through its 2020 NASDAQ IPO. Now $35M into Summation from Benchmark + Kleiner Perkins. Ian Swanson (Palo Alto Networks): sold Protect AI for $500M+ last year. Plus DataScience to Oracle. Plus Sometrics to AmEx.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

@ericries.bsky.social, author of The Lean Startup. Every time you say "MVP" or "pivot" you're using his vocabulary. New book Incorruptible drops May 26. Terry Myerson, co-founder of Truveta. Raised $500M+. Led Windows, Xbox, Office 365 at Microsoft.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 21/04/2026

The Startup Day 2026 speaker lineup is live. 16 founders. 30+ startups built between them. Over $1B raised. Products used by billions. Seattle, May 15. Here's who's on stage. 👇

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 12/04/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a time that so clearly separates people with a growth mindset vs. fixed mindset.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 09/04/2026

The current conversations about AI remind me of when we first controlled fire, 400,000 years ago. “Do we really understand fire?” “Will fire take our jobs?” “Can fire be trusted? What if it burns us?” “What if fire is just hype?”

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 07/04/2026

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Directory of trusted investors, vendors, and service providers reviewed to serve Seattle's startup community.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 07/04/2026

In 2010/2011, I printed a book called the Startup Guide. A directory of vendors and service providers for anyone building a startup in Seattle. Today we're launching the Startup Kit. Same idea, different format. A directory to help founders find the resources they need to build+grow their startups.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 06/04/2026

6,000+ tech layoffs in Seattle. Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta. You don't need permission to start a company. You don't need all the answers either. You need to learn from founders who've done it recently. That's why I'm putting together @seattleflow.org Startup Day!

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 06/04/2026

The only reason Claude Code doesn't cost $2,000/month on the Max plan is Codex.

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Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com · 04/04/2026

Even if doctors don't adopt AI, medicine has changed forever already. Patients are more empowered than ever before by using AI to analyze labs and scans, to help them better describe symptoms, by challenging diagnostics, and to think about treatments that are right for them.

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