Anand Engineer
@Project_Anand
Investor @ScrumVentures / @UCBerkeley alum / @Lakers enthusiast
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It's a mistake for startups to treat fundraises as a series of milestones. There's something even more impressive than raising a series whatever: to be making so much that you don't need to. Eventually all companies have to reach this point. The sooner you do, the better.
Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way…
At some point you will get an urge to vibe code an app. It’s very important that you listen to that urge and just get started.
AI doesn’t reduce the value of money. It reduces the value of labor. Big difference.
This guy literally dropped the coldest truth about success
When you’re not sure what to do, doing more is always a great default. Action creates insights. Insights creates new actions.
Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.
funny how every growth PM in tech decided to ship a recap feature this year :)
Heard from a VC partner that, despite Harvey’s strong topline numbers (100+ mil ARR), actual usage within firms appears low… Harvey clearly has strong GTM and brand-driven adoption, helped by enterprises scrambling to look AI-native. 🤔My concerns: We’ve seen this movie…
Real confidence tends to come from seeing something you built work in the real world
There will be 2 types of companies in the future. Those that are great at AI, and those that used to be in business
This is absolutely one of the craziest things that we have ever shipped. You can use rollouts to A/B test your new idea and wait some weeks for results… or just use SimGym to simulate your customer and get results right now
Today we started rolling out SimGym — a system that creates “digital customers” that behave like real ones. They browse your site, complete tasks, and reveal optimization opportunities. You can even run A/B tests with *zero* live traffic! Spent a year developing it.
Elon Musk: “Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect” Elon is asked for his advice for entrepreneurs, to which he responds: “I’m a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That’s the main thing you…
it still blows my mind you can open a podcast app today and listen to satya from microsoft, jensen from nvidia, brian chesky from airbnb, tobi from shopify, and the indie builders making $100k MRR. they tell you exactly how they build their products, the mistakes they made, and…
In the last two weeks, I've been ruminating on this post from @sama. It's a simple observation, but one that cuts to the heart of entrepreneurship and venture capital. While most of the world minimizes risk, every great enterprise exists because someone once chose to make a…
A thing often in common among great startup investors, founders, and researchers: Trading making a lot of small mistakes in exchange for getting a few giant wins. (Surprisingly many people seem to prefer a few big mistakes in exchange for a lot of small wins.)
the weird anti a16z / anti yc energy on here is low iq cope. venture is the art of underwriting uncertainty… that’s hard af. calling something slop in retrospect is trivial. the reality is that a lot of things in venture simply *do not* work out, but that’s also what makes the…
Charlie Munger: "If you just get up every morning and keep plugging [away] and have some discipline and keep learning, it's amazing how it works out okay." "I did not intend to get rich — I wanted to get independent — and just overshot."
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the…
Bootstrapping: you mostly just have to build a good business and you’ll be fine Raising venture: you have to build an incredible business and also play an underlying game where the rules change every 6 months Nothing wrong with either path, but picking the incorrect path…
A comment from a founder this week that stuck in my mind: "We're going to wait to announce this round until we're ready to raise the next one."
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