Dan Hightower
@DanHightowerJr
Building @RollupsHQ - fintech for startups to run their own SPVs (RUVs). Small angel investor. Dad. Prior Special Forces.
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The problem I have with 996 is I've never seen a single human being sustain 996 for the time needed to build a startup. Reminds me of a cocky new guy in the Army who said he didn't need to sleep much, and that he would take the night watches for the first few nights. Wanted to…
Hot take: that thing where vendors give founders/execs expensive stuff for choosing them is low-grade embezzlement.
Can OpenAI build a data center under my house so I don't have to pay a heating bill this winter?
Home mortgage bank logic is wild to me • W-2 employee at company 3 mos from bankruptcy: APPROVED • Business owner w < 2 years operating history: DENIED • W-2 employee of the same business owner: APPROVED
Pre-seed VC fund idea that might work: Unlikable Ventures Thesis: --Founder 🚩: everyone likes them --> invest here <-- --Founder 🚩🚩: utterly hated As in, "Introducing Unlikable Ventures, backing largely unlikable people who aren't like... way too unlikable."
The #1 worst habit a PM can have? I'll go first. When you ask the PM a question, and they just link to their precious docs instead of answering the question, forcing you to dig for the answer. If that shit happened in the Army, their leadership would have them print out the…
What's something first time founders spend money on that repeat founders would not?
RUVs are so good in fact that you'd need to raise a $1B+ VC fund to catch up with the pace of capital deployment into startups.
RUVs are a great invention and a great accompaniment to raising SAFEs for smaller checks from many people. I think rollups.com is a particularly good version of this.
If you are taking small checks, do not do individual SAFEs. Use an @AngelList RUV Creates a single entity on the cap table for all small investors and assigns voting rights to the founder. No need to chase people down when raising subsequent rounds, selling the co, etc.
Atlas founders can now fundraise with @ycombinator SAFEs. Create, sign, and track SAFEs from the Dashboard.
Quick reminder that if you don't hit $47M revenue in 3 weeks then you should go ahead and shut down.
A "seed-stage founder" is a zygote. You meant to say "seed-stage startup, with a fully-developed founder".
Founders, before you spend a bunch of time in Slides/Figma building your pitch deck, take a step back. Just write in Slack what you want the deck to eventually say - then schedule it to send to yourself 1 hour later. Then when the Slack message arrives, go on a walk and…
Trying to find good growth ppl makes me think the whole industry overindexed on becoming technical and now there are only like 4 cracked growth people left who can take a new product from $0 to 1M ARR in any reasonable amount of time.
The correct length of a fundraising press release is zero characters.
If OpenAI buys enough Oracle who then invests enough in OpenAI who then buys enough Oracle again who then invests enough in OpenAI again, a Stargate wormhole opens up where Sam and Larry can travel into the future together.
Excited for the Stubhub IPO on Robinhood where you apply for 1,000 shares but only get 1 ticket to an Oasis concert.
My 11 month old son just crawled up on my lap to watch football and actually sat there for a while, watching the game. Just...chilling. I have a little buddy now. So worth it. Have kids.
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