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Mike Jones|
Builder and investor. Co-founder of Science Inc. Former CEO of Myspace.
Daily journal
8 days
active streak
#27
yesterday's rank of 44 days
207
7-day average, ▲ 22% vs prior week
Leaderboard / points this week
1You1,452
Your best other days
1Wed, Sep 16378
2Fri, Oct 9357
3Sun, Sep 13317
4Tue, Sep 15273
5Fri, Oct 2272
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)
4,056
notes
1.76M
words
22,120
links between notes
140
active days, 26 weeks
140
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. 463 documents so far, by kind. Contents stay private.
Pitch decks received per week / 55 in 12 weeks
1511181311311
Topics
Deal flow100Consumer packaged goods64AI49Venture funds47Crypto38Fintech37Beverage35Founders25Venture studios24Consumer23Retail23Diligence23Seed rounds20Digital assets15Apparel15M&A14Health14Marketing13
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 | caldera.social | |
| Inbox Hero | in security review | 108 | joininboxhero.com |
| Science Inc. | Studio IV | science-inc.com | |
| mjonesone.com | live | mjonesone.com |
Code
3,482 commits across 32 repositories in the last year. Mostly HTML, JavaScript, Python and TypeScript. github.com/schoettle-cmd
AI usage
26.82B 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
Providers
Where the tokens come from
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
11 notes grown in public: 🌱 5 seedling · 🌿 6 budding. Walk the garden →
Crypto strategies on US equitiesQuestion: do strategies that find an edge in crypto keep it on US stocks? Most of my library is pure technical analysis, so it's…🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026Data sources I use and wantThis is the note I most want people to link to.🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026Fees decide everything"Fees always killed this" is the most expensive lesson in short-timeframe trading.🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026The regime gateWhen I sorted my losing trades by why they closed, the biggest bucket wasn't stop-losses. It was strategies closing themselves on their own…🌱 seedlingTended Oct 12, 2026Scouts and winnersThe method behind my Trading with an agent fleet setup, in one line: seed everything as a scout, promote only what survives.🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026Trading with an agent fleetI run systematic trading as an experiment in what a fleet of AI agents can do on its own. The agents run on Cerberus, my agent platform…🌿 buddingTended Oct 12, 2026
Help exchange
I could use help with
Unusual data sources for systematic trading: order flow, liquidations, on-chain, options flow+20
I can help with
Compare notes on systematic crypto and equity strategies run by AI agents
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