Waley
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🇨🇦🇺🇸🌅🧑💻 Those who cling to death, live. Those who cling to life, die.
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To my younger self, 14 things I wish I understood before starting a company (chronological advice): 1. Find your obsession. If it doesn't feel like your life's work, don't do it. Tinker until you find a problem, concept or product that you are obsessed with. Don't raise capital…
> be Grant Lee > born in NYC, raised in SF > crack engineering at Stanford > grind in investment banking > join Optimizely as interim CFO > scale the company; get acquired > experience the pain of PowerPoint users 2018 > join ClearBrain as COO > more last-minute decks, more pain…
>be Alfred Lin >Taiwanese kid, Harvard applied math >drop out of Stanford PhD >sell LinkExchange to Microsoft: $265M >run Zappos, sell to Amazon: $1.2B >join Sequoia, become Midas List #1 >back Airbnb, DoorDash, Reddit >everything I touch gets acquired >2022: fund Kalshi…
I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right…
Company spent $18k/month on Datadog. Leadership loved the dashboards. I dug into what we actually used: - 12 people logged in per month - 89% of metrics never viewed - Alerts had 97% false positive rate (team ignored them) - We were ingesting 2.4TB of logs daily - Retention: 180…
i had a mentor once. not some guru mf. a legit psychopath who’d built and lost two empires by 40. i asked him for the secret to winning... he just looked at me with dead eyes, the kind of eyes that have seen real fucking war, and said: "i hope you fail. i hope you lose it all.…
Doing a little thank you Pokemon giveaway, Charmander & Charmeleon from Japanese 151 1) Like & RT 2) Follow Winner announced first week of October
Underrated life advice: Preparation always beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.
The older I get, the more I realize some people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them. Nobody is thinking about you. Everybody is too busy thinking about themselves. That thing you’ve always wanted to do? Go do it.
this is one of the most remarkable technical blog posts I’ve ever read
Refreshing to see a startup post the equity range upfront — and it’s generous: 3–5% for a founding product engineer. ycombinator.com/companies/type…
im 17 years and built an ai saas grew it to $1.5M in 3 months but im not telling anyone what the product is because I don’t want copycats follow me bc trust me
45 days, $36M ARR! 🚀 We may become the fastest-growing startup ever in terms of ARR. 20-ish people team, entirely word of mouth, and zero dollars spent on paid distribution. In the past weeks, we’ve launched Genspark AI Sheet, Agentic Download Agent, and AI Drive. There’s…
trying something new with a video essay. things i learned after interviewing with 46 ai startups:
How to Be a Terrible but Valuable PM One of the top voted r/ProductManagement posts of all time. It's incredible.
Thiel values substance over status. Status and prestige are zero-sum games. In a world where real value can be created, substance and true knowers are the people to look for. To assess winners before anyone else, he came up with 4 questions...
The difference between the best and average is not 20%, it's 50x. Working with the best people is overwhelmingly better. Productivity and efficiency skyrocket, and the gap widens as compounding takes effect. Steve Jobs' mission at Apple was only to let A players in.
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