Ethan Pierse
@ethanpierse.com
Author of The AI Solopreneur Economy.
Emerging Tech Investment Syndicate at Borderless Ventures.
GenAI, Agentic AI, Creator Economy, Web3, Sustainability, Solo/Multipreneurship.
Professional keynote speaker and MC
LinkedIn and elsewhere: EthanPierse
🦙🤖
Emerging Tech Investment Syndicate at Borderless Ventures.
GenAI, Agentic AI, Creator Economy, Web3, Sustainability, Solo/Multipreneurship.
Professional keynote speaker and MC
LinkedIn and elsewhere: EthanPierse
🦙🤖
In Lisbon early for @websummit.bsky.social? Join us Sunday and Monday afternoons on my Startup Walk around Lisbon and network with some lovely people building the next big things.
My continuing mission to justify my Whoop and my ON Cloudrunners with my 15-20k steps each day.
My continuing mission to justify my Whoop and my ON Cloudrunners with my 15-20k steps each day.
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
In Lisbon early for @websummit.bsky.social? Join us Sunday and Monday afternoons on my Startup Walk around Lisbon and network with some lovely people building the next big things.
My continuing mission to justify my Whoop and my ON Cloudrunners with my 15-20k steps each day.
My continuing mission to justify my Whoop and my ON Cloudrunners with my 15-20k steps each day.
It’s been a long, um, September, with having to head back to the US for several weeks to deal with my dad’s funeral arrangements and affairs. Self-care October officially begins this Thursday with one of my “soundtrack of my life” bands @countingcrows.bsky.social at @olympiahall.bsky.social Paris.
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It’s been a long, um, September, with having to head back to the US for several weeks to deal with my dad’s funeral arrangements and affairs. Self-care October officially begins this Thursday with one of my “soundtrack of my life” bands @countingcrows.bsky.social at @olympiahall.bsky.social Paris.
1. Gun violence is 100% unacceptable...against anyone.
2. Charlie Kirk was evil. He promoted hatred, discrimination, and division. Blatantly racist and misogynist. He does not deserve celebration or memorialization. His murder is a direct and predictable result of his inciting violence.
2. Charlie Kirk was evil. He promoted hatred, discrimination, and division. Blatantly racist and misogynist. He does not deserve celebration or memorialization. His murder is a direct and predictable result of his inciting violence.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
1. Gun violence is 100% unacceptable...against anyone.
2. Charlie Kirk was evil. He promoted hatred, discrimination, and division. Blatantly racist and misogynist. He does not deserve celebration or memorialization. His murder is a direct and predictable result of his inciting violence.
2. Charlie Kirk was evil. He promoted hatred, discrimination, and division. Blatantly racist and misogynist. He does not deserve celebration or memorialization. His murder is a direct and predictable result of his inciting violence.
I value empathy
I value kindness
I value curiosity
I value intelligence
I value education
I value integrity
I value resilience
I value authenticity
I value generosity
I value personal responsibility
I value courage
I value gratitude
And I value hope
Share those values? Say hi
I value kindness
I value curiosity
I value intelligence
I value education
I value integrity
I value resilience
I value authenticity
I value generosity
I value personal responsibility
I value courage
I value gratitude
And I value hope
Share those values? Say hi
August 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I value empathy
I value kindness
I value curiosity
I value intelligence
I value education
I value integrity
I value resilience
I value authenticity
I value generosity
I value personal responsibility
I value courage
I value gratitude
And I value hope
Share those values? Say hi
I value kindness
I value curiosity
I value intelligence
I value education
I value integrity
I value resilience
I value authenticity
I value generosity
I value personal responsibility
I value courage
I value gratitude
And I value hope
Share those values? Say hi
FOMO Alert! It's 22° in Paris, 🌞, and you just finished a great day at #RAISE Summit, hanging out with all of your favorite AI-friendly fam. What next?
Grabbing a beer (at least one) at Place de la République starting at 6:30 for @llamapreneurs.com AI founders and builders networking meetup 🦙🤖
Grabbing a beer (at least one) at Place de la République starting at 6:30 for @llamapreneurs.com AI founders and builders networking meetup 🦙🤖
July 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
FOMO Alert! It's 22° in Paris, 🌞, and you just finished a great day at #RAISE Summit, hanging out with all of your favorite AI-friendly fam. What next?
Grabbing a beer (at least one) at Place de la République starting at 6:30 for @llamapreneurs.com AI founders and builders networking meetup 🦙🤖
Grabbing a beer (at least one) at Place de la République starting at 6:30 for @llamapreneurs.com AI founders and builders networking meetup 🦙🤖
Born on July 4th
Died on July 3rd
Died on July 3rd
July 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Born on July 4th
Died on July 3rd
Died on July 3rd
Old playbook: “I’m launching a startup.”
New reality: “I’m building agentic workflows.”
Your founding team? A chat box.
Code? A commodity.
Developers? Optional.
The new moat = Community + distribution.
Build that or be replaceable
New reality: “I’m building agentic workflows.”
Your founding team? A chat box.
Code? A commodity.
Developers? Optional.
The new moat = Community + distribution.
Build that or be replaceable
June 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Old playbook: “I’m launching a startup.”
New reality: “I’m building agentic workflows.”
Your founding team? A chat box.
Code? A commodity.
Developers? Optional.
The new moat = Community + distribution.
Build that or be replaceable
New reality: “I’m building agentic workflows.”
Your founding team? A chat box.
Code? A commodity.
Developers? Optional.
The new moat = Community + distribution.
Build that or be replaceable
Oh @duolingo, why you do me like this?
"Duolingo Challenges are currently unavailable
You seem to be offline. Check your connection or try a lesson on your home screen!"
"Duolingo Challenges are currently unavailable
You seem to be offline. Check your connection or try a lesson on your home screen!"
June 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh @duolingo, why you do me like this?
"Duolingo Challenges are currently unavailable
You seem to be offline. Check your connection or try a lesson on your home screen!"
"Duolingo Challenges are currently unavailable
You seem to be offline. Check your connection or try a lesson on your home screen!"
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What is this—Make Asbestos Great Again? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
June 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What is this—Make Asbestos Great Again? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
Time to kick off Nexus Luxembourg here on a massive main stage. Always a pleasure to MC well-organized events like this.
I'm looking forward to all of our brilliant speakers today. Who's coming to #NexusLuxembourg?
I'm looking forward to all of our brilliant speakers today. Who's coming to #NexusLuxembourg?
June 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Time to kick off Nexus Luxembourg here on a massive main stage. Always a pleasure to MC well-organized events like this.
I'm looking forward to all of our brilliant speakers today. Who's coming to #NexusLuxembourg?
I'm looking forward to all of our brilliant speakers today. Who's coming to #NexusLuxembourg?
I'm excited to head to Luxembourg tomorrow to MC Nexus
An incredible lineup of rockstar speakers awaits, including:
→ Prime Minister Luc Frieden
→ Mayor Lydie Polfer @villedeluxembourg.bsky.social
→ @brianarmstrong.bsky.social, CEO Coinbase
→ @arthurmensch.bsky.social, CEO @mistralai.bsky.social
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An incredible lineup of rockstar speakers awaits, including:
→ Prime Minister Luc Frieden
→ Mayor Lydie Polfer @villedeluxembourg.bsky.social
→ @brianarmstrong.bsky.social, CEO Coinbase
→ @arthurmensch.bsky.social, CEO @mistralai.bsky.social
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June 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm excited to head to Luxembourg tomorrow to MC Nexus
An incredible lineup of rockstar speakers awaits, including:
→ Prime Minister Luc Frieden
→ Mayor Lydie Polfer @villedeluxembourg.bsky.social
→ @brianarmstrong.bsky.social, CEO Coinbase
→ @arthurmensch.bsky.social, CEO @mistralai.bsky.social
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An incredible lineup of rockstar speakers awaits, including:
→ Prime Minister Luc Frieden
→ Mayor Lydie Polfer @villedeluxembourg.bsky.social
→ @brianarmstrong.bsky.social, CEO Coinbase
→ @arthurmensch.bsky.social, CEO @mistralai.bsky.social
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Coming to Nexus 2025 this week?
Join us for @llamapreneurs Luxembourg on Tuesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI startups
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
Join us for @llamapreneurs Luxembourg on Tuesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI startups
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Coming to Nexus 2025 this week?
Join us for @llamapreneurs Luxembourg on Tuesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI startups
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
Join us for @llamapreneurs Luxembourg on Tuesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI startups
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
June 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The #VivaTech AI FOMO is real. Join a few hundred AI-First founders, startups, builders, and solopreneurs in 1 hour in the center of Paris for:
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
@llamapreneurs.com AI startup networking meetup
details at luma link in comments
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
👉🏻 rt, comment, spread the word 🫡
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
@llamapreneurs.com AI startup networking meetup
details at luma link in comments
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
👉🏻 rt, comment, spread the word 🫡
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June 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The #VivaTech AI FOMO is real. Join a few hundred AI-First founders, startups, builders, and solopreneurs in 1 hour in the center of Paris for:
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
@llamapreneurs.com AI startup networking meetup
details at luma link in comments
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
👉🏻 rt, comment, spread the word 🫡
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
@llamapreneurs.com AI startup networking meetup
details at luma link in comments
🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙
👉🏻 rt, comment, spread the word 🫡
Yay 🙌🏻🦙 Tonight's AI Startup Networking Meetup has been featured on Luma's Paris Things To Do.
Whether you are in town for #VivaTech or a local, don't miss THE AI founders, entrepreneurs, builders, hackers, and solopreneurs networking event from @llamapreneurs.com 🦙🤖
Whether you are in town for #VivaTech or a local, don't miss THE AI founders, entrepreneurs, builders, hackers, and solopreneurs networking event from @llamapreneurs.com 🦙🤖
June 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Yay 🙌🏻🦙 Tonight's AI Startup Networking Meetup has been featured on Luma's Paris Things To Do.
Whether you are in town for #VivaTech or a local, don't miss THE AI founders, entrepreneurs, builders, hackers, and solopreneurs networking event from @llamapreneurs.com 🦙🤖
Whether you are in town for #VivaTech or a local, don't miss THE AI founders, entrepreneurs, builders, hackers, and solopreneurs networking event from @llamapreneurs.com 🦙🤖
It's time for the 4th Edition of France Quantum today at Station F. I am proud, as always, to be the Master of Ceremony for all of today's English and French content on the main stage.
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June 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It's time for the 4th Edition of France Quantum today at Station F. I am proud, as always, to be the Master of Ceremony for all of today's English and French content on the main stage.
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The real risk isn’t losing your job directly to AI, it’s that your job might never be refilled by a human again.
Companies adopting generative and agentic AI aren’t necessarily planning mass layoffs. But every open role is now scrutinized to determine if AI can fill it better, faster, or cheaper.
Companies adopting generative and agentic AI aren’t necessarily planning mass layoffs. But every open role is now scrutinized to determine if AI can fill it better, faster, or cheaper.
June 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The real risk isn’t losing your job directly to AI, it’s that your job might never be refilled by a human again.
Companies adopting generative and agentic AI aren’t necessarily planning mass layoffs. But every open role is now scrutinized to determine if AI can fill it better, faster, or cheaper.
Companies adopting generative and agentic AI aren’t necessarily planning mass layoffs. But every open role is now scrutinized to determine if AI can fill it better, faster, or cheaper.
Hi all. Great meeting new people last week at Web Summit Vancouver. I'm in Lisbon today to MC Non-Fungible Conference. If you will be in Paris next week, I'm MCing France Quantum and then I'll be around at Viva Technology all three days. The week after that is Nexus Luxembourg.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hi all. Great meeting new people last week at Web Summit Vancouver. I'm in Lisbon today to MC Non-Fungible Conference. If you will be in Paris next week, I'm MCing France Quantum and then I'll be around at Viva Technology all three days. The week after that is Nexus Luxembourg.
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June is pride month
June is now also veterans month, according to maga
Soooo... June is @petebuttigieg.bsky.social appreciation month 🙌🏻🫡🏳🌈🇺🇸
June is now also veterans month, according to maga
Soooo... June is @petebuttigieg.bsky.social appreciation month 🙌🏻🫡🏳🌈🇺🇸
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June 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
June is pride month
June is now also veterans month, according to maga
Soooo... June is @petebuttigieg.bsky.social appreciation month 🙌🏻🫡🏳🌈🇺🇸
June is now also veterans month, according to maga
Soooo... June is @petebuttigieg.bsky.social appreciation month 🙌🏻🫡🏳🌈🇺🇸
Coming to NFC Summit in Lisbon this week?
Join us for @llamapreneurs.com Lisbon on Wednesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs 🦙 Indie hackers and builders 🦙 Solopreneurs 🦙 AI startups
Join us for @llamapreneurs.com Lisbon on Wednesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs 🦙 Indie hackers and builders 🦙 Solopreneurs 🦙 AI startups
June 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Coming to NFC Summit in Lisbon this week?
Join us for @llamapreneurs.com Lisbon on Wednesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs 🦙 Indie hackers and builders 🦙 Solopreneurs 🦙 AI startups
Join us for @llamapreneurs.com Lisbon on Wednesday evening for good people and a good beer 🍻
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs 🦙 Indie hackers and builders 🦙 Solopreneurs 🦙 AI startups
At #WebSummit today? Join us at 6pm for our Llamapreneurs Vancouver AI ecosystem meetup just next door to the main venue. Details on luma 👀⏬
Calling all:
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
May 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
At #WebSummit today? Join us at 6pm for our Llamapreneurs Vancouver AI ecosystem meetup just next door to the main venue. Details on luma 👀⏬
The incomparable @pascalcondamine.bsky.social from Craft AI, MCing the startup PITCH competition at @websummit.bsky.social Vancouver 🙌🏻
May 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The incomparable @pascalcondamine.bsky.social from Craft AI, MCing the startup PITCH competition at @websummit.bsky.social Vancouver 🙌🏻
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Calling all:
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
May 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Calling all:
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
🦙 AI-First founders and entrepreneurs
🦙 Indie hackers and builders
🦙 Solopreneurs
🦙 AI startups
It's time to kick off Llamapreneurs Vancouver during Web Summit, this Thursday, May 29th, from 6-8pm. Come join the global AI ecosystem community and network with other AI-friendly people
Time to make some Web Summit magic happen in Vancouver with Paddy Cosgrave and Casey Lau.
May 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Time to make some Web Summit magic happen in Vancouver with Paddy Cosgrave and Casey Lau.