Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
About Sequoia closing their London office:
No US firm has ever deeply cared about Europe on a firm level. There are people in charge (for a time) who might, there are people on the team who do.
Prices go high in SF, people expand their reach to Europe. Market contracts, people are ‘back to the essence’. There are other reasons, mostly personal for individual partners, that wax and wane similarly.
It doesn’t matter.
Just keep building in Europe. If you make this event a watershed moment about our continent and ecosystem, you never really had the conviction.
This place is hundred times better than it was 20 years ago, and it will be hundred times better 20 years from now.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Ukraine attacks Russian resources to stop death.
Russia attacks Ukrainian people to stop life.
That’s the difference.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.
JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?
ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.
JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?
ZELENSKYY: I love you.
JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?
ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.
JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?
ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.
And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.
JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?
ZELENSKYY: No.
JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?
ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Every B2B software company is (or should be) building a "headless" version of their product. One that can be used by agents.
But "headless" doesn't mean "brainless".
You don't just wrap your existing APIs into an MCP server and call it a day.
The companies that succeed in the agentic era are those that take a thoughtful approach to *designing* an agentic user experience (AUX).
Yes, that will likely involve APIs, MCPs and CLIs.
But the difference will be in the *ergonomics* of the interface. We need to figure out *how* agents actually want to use our products/platforms. Because if all they wanted to do was use them like humans do, we have "computer use" for that.
I'm personally very excited about this new agentic world when it comes to B2B software.
HubSpot is all-in on building the #1 agentic customer platform.
Just posted this in a private Slack thread with the HubSpot exec team:
Being agentic is not just about agents running *on* our platform, it's about agents *running* our platform (being able to operate it). That's how you take AI from being a simple tool to a savvy teammate.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Spectacular image.
That's us! 🌍
The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
This is an epic piece of writing by @om om.co/2026/01/16/our-algorit…
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Europeans with 0% annual GDP growth watching America become a 3rd World Country
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end.
We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely.
If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t.
Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office.
Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren’t poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe.
Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
This is not a peace plan for Ukraine
virgin.com/branson-family/ri…
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
we are moving from a knowledge economy to an allocation economy
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
Most people think AI content is just "slop."
I think it's the future of hyper-local media.
Here's why: Traditional local news is dying because the economics don't work. Small markets can't support full newsroom teams.
But what if you could serve every city with zero labor costs?
I just built an AI automation that creates daily local news podcasts:
→ Automatically scrapes Google News and local event feeds
→ Generates professional scripts with emotion and pacing controls
→ Produces broadcast-quality audio using ElevenLabs V3
→ Operates completely hands-free once deployed
The result? A business model that wasn't economically viable before AI.
No hosts. No editors. No research team.
Just smart automation and a few API subscriptions.
This isn't about flooding the internet with crappy AI content. It's about solving real problems - like news deserts in underserved markets.
The system I built in hours could theoretically power thousands of hyper-local podcasts simultaneously.
When you start thinking in terms of "what can I automate," entire industries now become accessible.
Want me to send you the full system for you to clone for your small town or city?
1. Like & RT
2. Follow me (so I can dm you)
3. Comment "BLUEPRINT" below
I'll send you the complete n8n template, all the prompting, and a full setup video that you can use to spin up your own local news podcast.
Heiko Scherer 📲🇺🇦 - tchop.io retweeted
🇪🇺💸 @n8n_io just raised 180 million on a 2.5 billion USD valuation!!!
And all of that:
- As a solo founder (Jan Oberhauser)
- With a German entity (No US holding, have a look below at the cap table)
Maybe an exception to the rule.
Potentially a proof that all the propaganda you are hearing is wrong.
You can choose yourself.
🚀 Important proof that you can build a globally relevant company out of Europe, out of Berlin. If you think and build global from day 1.
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