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designing for virality: bragmaxxing is the real product-market fit took @nikitabier virality thinking and ran it through a weird (fintech analytics) b2c use case for the first time - some reflections👇 the biggest mistake probably isn't building a bad product. it's building a…

don’t stop uploading on TikTok until this becomes your new notification bar after 10 minutes. and now, back to work.

the smartest creators don’t just post more atm but they exploit information latency arbitrage between platforms. every network operates on its own time axis. x moves in minutes, linkedin moves in days. what dies fast on x can live long on linkedin because attention decays…

why is nobody talking about @OpenAI being barely usable since a few weeks? - even small file uploads crash the app - responses take ages (not on automode) - chats lose context frequently - switching tabs while waiting for a response crashes the app - chat skips my messages and…

hiring an engineering intern👇 fully remote. fully paid. ideally part-time. your job = fix inefficiencies with code, ai, and workflows across tech, marketing, sales, and legal. if you're interested, please DM me a short loom about something impressive you've built in the…

since working with hft systems, i see how quant finance looks like a giant race for faster systems and bigger machines. everyone thinks speed is everything. but the real edge isn’t only in milliseconds, but too often in productization. turning models into tools, workflows, and…

i started to trade prediction markets almost daily. what I’ve learned: you either win by out-mathing the average degen with quant methods, or by having such deep knowledge in a niche market that machines can’t process enough context. most people fail because they’re stuck in…

if discord goes public without having their mac app fixed, my short position will be out of this world

hot take: if you get 0.5% as a founding engineer, they either gave you a fancy title and you're not as early as you think, or you're bad at negotiating.

tech always wins when it stops feeling like tech. glasses that happen to be AR. Not AR that happens to be glasses.

most onboarding flows optimize for quick hits. fast activations, nice checkmarks, a little reaction of "you did it." but for b2b, I had to learn to shift the focus of the selling point. your "user" just wants to look good in front of their team. can they show progress in the…

the problem with most hiring processes is that they punish outliers. exceptional people aren’t balanced. they’re obsessively good at one thing and mediocre at most others. if you’re looking for reasons to disqualify them, you’ll always find some. wrong cv. messy background. bad…

the line between startup and summer camp for overachievers is getting very blurry😭

how to actually find product-market fit (without lying to yourself): i’ve grown both consumer and b2b products. after hitting pmf a few times, and missing it way more often, here’s what i’ve learned: pmf isn’t when people use your product. it’s when they get mad if you take it…

people don’t share your (b2c) app because it’s only useful - not emotional🫵 when we started growth for a prev. project, we had a product that delivered real value, but no one talked about it. it worked. it solved pain. but it was invisible in public. no shares, no pride, no…

the best demo doesn’t show everything, especially when you're working in an industry with hardly any product moat. it shows the one thing that makes the rest super obvious. too often, junior reps overshare. they walk through every shiny feature. but instead, they should anchor…

most viral saas products don’t have product–market fit. they have platform-algorithm fit. tiktok will show anything once. product–market fit is when users come back without being asked. and this is the ARR you should brag about🫵

if no one’s sharing your app, you don’t have a distribution problem, you have a desire deficit. people share what makes them look good, feel something, or say something about who they are. if your product doesn’t do that, no channel can save you. build your app around core…

your app growth fails because you likely optimize for impressions instead of impact👇 impressions are a byproduct. desire is the engine. if users don’t: → screenshot it → send it to a group chat → mention it IRL the next day → feel status for sharing it …it’s not growth.…

why your 100m views don’t mean shit: the growth formula and questions to ask yourself🫵 when i first started working on growth, we pulled tens of millions of impressions with almost no effort. it looked incredible on paper. charts going parabolic. posts going viral. people…

one of the biggest learnings i had when leading growth teams: to become a senior [], learn how to be more brutally honest with yourself and others. too often, seniority depends on just being far more honest & ruthless than junior team members to relentlessly drive ev growth.…