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Mike Jones|
Builder and investor. Co-founder of Science Inc. Former CEO of Myspace.
Daily journal
11 days
active streak
#1
yesterday's rank of 44 days
269
7-day average, ▲ 30% vs prior week
Leaderboard / points this week
1You1,881
Your best other days
1Wed, Sep 16385
2Mon, Oct 12371
3Fri, Oct 9370
4Tue, Oct 13332
5Sun, Sep 13317
How the score works
Weighted daily counts: Meetings x6, Emails sent x2, AI sessions x1, Commits x0.5, Notes x0.25, Docs filed x1. Bulk imports are capped. Counts only.- based
- Venice, California
- roles
- Co-founder, Science Inc. / Former CEO, Myspace
- building
- Human Architecture, Inbox Hero, Caldera, Kitse
- exits
- 10 (2006 to 2023)
- @mikejonesbusiness (308K)
8,605
notes
2.35M
words
24,590
links between notes
140
active days, 26 weeks
143
daily digests written
Summary
Builder and investor in Venice. Co-founded Science Inc. in 2011, the studio behind Dollar Shave Club. Previously CEO of Myspace and founder of Userplane, acquired by AOL.Now
- Testing whether AI agents need their own language. 2,340 calls across three models: they don't.
- Built a nightly loop that files every email attachment into my knowledge base. About 640 documents on day one.
- Prototyping a profile that is generated from these notes every six hours. You're reading it.
Activity
Every day the vault learned something in the last 26 weeks: notes written and changed, documents filed.
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What it knows
Inbox to knowledge
Every email attachment is read, summarized and linked into the vault overnight. 491 documents so far, by kind. Contents stay private.
Pitch decks received per week / 57 in 12 weeks
15111813113112
Topics
Deal flow105Consumer packaged goods64AI50Venture funds47Fintech39Crypto38Beverage37Consumer28Founders26Venture studios24Retail23Diligence23Seed rounds20Digital assets15Apparel15Marketing14M&A14Health14
Projects
TABLE status, commits, link FROM "Projects" SORT commits DESC
| File | status | commits | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Architecture | live | 664 | humanarchitecture.ai |
| Kitse | live | 343 | kitse.co |
| Caldera | beta | 49 | caldera.social |
| Inbox Hero | in security review | 108 | joininboxhero.com |
| Science Inc. | Studio IV | science-inc.com | |
| mjonesone.com | live | mjonesone.com |
Code
6,056 commits across 32 repositories in the last year. Mostly HTML, JavaScript, Python and TypeScript. github.com/schoettle-cmd
AI usage
27.11B tokens across 8 models in the last 45 days. Tokens processed by my AI agents on 5 machines (Claude Code, Codex) and by my products' APIs, including cached context. Counts only.
Models / share of tokens
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Timeline
Founder1995-2006
1995
Co-founded Elixir Magazine at the University of Oregon
A music and culture magazine that reached national distribution within two years
1997
Co-founded PBJ Digital, a web development firm
Grew to 40 people across Los Angeles, Oregon and New York, building for Red Bull, Boeing, Sony and UPN
2001
Founded Userplane
Live chat, presence and messaging for the early social web, from Myspace to Match.com; 100M+ daily visitors at peak
2006
Userplane acquired by AOL
Became AOL's youngest senior vice president
Operator2007-2011
2007
CEO of Tsavo Media
A private-equity-backed online media and search company
2009
Joined Myspace as COO
Ran strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music and Myspace Mobile, including the joint ventures in China and Japan
2010
Named CEO of Myspace
Led the company through its 2011 sale by News Corp
Investor and studio2011-2025
2011
Co-founded Science Inc. with Peter Pham
A Los Angeles studio and venture fund that builds and backs consumer internet companies
2013
Angel exits: Goodreads to Amazon, Maker Studios to Disney (2014)
2016
Dollar Shave Club acquired by Unilever (~$1B)
Incubated at Science; Mike sat on the board
Science-built FameBit acquired by Google, HelloSociety by The New York Times
Two of the first influencer networks, on YouTube and Pinterest
2017
Science Ventures Fund II ($75M)
Portfolio company DogVacay merged with Rover the same year
2019
Joined the board of Liquid Death
Also Houseparty, an angel investment, acquired by Epic Games
2021
Science Strategic Acquisition Corp. Alpha lists on Nasdaq
Science's first public vehicle
2023
Scopely acquired by Savvy Games ($4.9B)
An early angel investment
2024
Rover taken private by Blackstone
Builder2025-now
2026
Science becomes Studio IV, a pure operating studio
Garden
5 notes grown in public: 🌱 2 seedling · 🌿 3 budding. Walk the garden →
Human Architecture- Win: Shipped better return-visit tracking for Human Architecture🌿 buddingTended Oct 14, 2026Rent the intelligence, don't sell the dataThere is a popular idea that people should get paid for their personal data. I think the version most people imagine, selling your data to…🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026The AI gardenerMost digital gardens die the same way: the gardener stops tending them. Writing, linking and pruning notes by hand is real work, and life…🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026Gardens and streamsThe web has two shapes. Mike Caulfield named them in 2015: the stream and the garden.🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026Inbox Hero- Win: Moved Inbox Hero further through its security review🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026
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