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Yasin Ehsan

@yasinbuilds

CEO of Headstarter. A16z SR Scout. SF.

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every entrepreneur needs to read the story of Jeff Bezos being humbled

zfellows's tweet image. every entrepreneur needs to read the story of Jeff Bezos being humbled

😂 Every Bay Area VC stereotype right now (w/o carry/AUM): Sequoia: just promoted another 28-year-old to partner. "We passed on OpenAI seed but led the Series B so basically we were early." a16z: recorded 47 podcasts this quarter, wrote 1 check. "We're a media company."…


so tesla just whipped Waymos a*** Waymo just paused its robotaxi service in San Francisco after last night’s citywide blackout while Tesla’s service was unaffected - the sf power outage affected ~130,000 customers. - multiple Waymo cars stalled mid-street with no human backup.…

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Waymo just paused its robotaxi service in San Francisco after last night’s citywide blackout while Tesla’s service was unaffected

- the sf power outage affected ~130,000 customers. 
- multiple Waymo cars stalled mid-street with no human backup.…

The strand of engineer who sold prev company for >$100k or raised before fail is awesome


The clean ui and “taste” of a product probably does not mean higher expected value of a startup. Workday is crap but still bills billions. Ev of a startup better measured as does it solve a problem and how badly is it needed. The taste is important but marginal gain not…


Typical recruiting motion: Spam 30 people hope to get 1-2 good interview. Better recruiting motion: track progress of core people, measure diffs and ask questions. Seek slope, not y-intercept.


Uber wrapped is cool. 800 rides Rating took a ding for missing 1 in 20 rides? Rip


Curious what the stat is for party seed round to series A vs having a lead vc hold the bag to series A. Thoughts?


Discomfort is good. Makes you break local-min after local-min.


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Wrote the first line of code 72 hours ago. Today: 5.1M views. 5 pilots. 650+ GitHub stars Everyone's burning cash on Vision Models. We parsed the Android accessibility tree instead. It's 95% cheaper and faster. The agent future isn't pixels, it's structure. I'm in SF.…

Meet Android Use - an open source library that gives AI agents hands to control native Android apps. It bypasses expensive vision models to run on cheap hardware, automating field ops in places laptops can't go. Watch Android Use in action:



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The person in the hoodie next to you at the coffee shop is either unemployed or worth $500M. There is absolutely no in-between.


Recruiting today optimizes for y-intercept. The best people are slope. Recruiting today indexes for "Standford/MIT," "OpenAI/Janestreet," "IB-->PE/VC" or some other heuristic. heuristics are good but often not data driven and can miss out on few crucial moments and approaches.…

yasinbuilds's tweet image. Recruiting today optimizes for y-intercept.
The best people are slope.

Recruiting today indexes for "Standford/MIT," "OpenAI/Janestreet," "IB-->PE/VC" or some other heuristic.

heuristics are good but often not data driven and can miss out on few crucial moments and approaches.…

Someone needs to make a “superhuman” email but for messages.


So this is what @pmarca made? ipo $355mn? This was hot stuff just 30yrs ago Cant believe. Progress.

yasinbuilds's tweet image. So this is what @pmarca made? ipo $355mn?

This was hot stuff just 30yrs ago

Cant believe. Progress.

SF is goated. Like all my life I felt I didn’t relate with most people. Until I came here. To be specific. Its the 2x2mile grid in northeast sf which is goated. If you ever felt you are smart, if you had a dose of hustle and some sense of ambition. The sf tide will rise…

yasinbuilds's tweet image. SF is goated. 

Like all my life I felt I didn’t relate with most people. 

Until I came here. 

To be specific. Its the 2x2mile grid in northeast sf which is goated. 

If you ever felt you are smart, if you had a dose of hustle and some sense of ambition.

The sf tide will rise…

Yasin Ehsan reposteó

Thanks @ForbesUnder30 for nominating me! Growing up, Forbes was the one thing my family of Asian immigrants (especially my grandma) read and to be selected is an honor. I love startups & venture with all of my heart and am grateful for the Forbes team for recognizing that.…

thechangj's tweet image. Thanks @ForbesUnder30 for nominating me!

Growing up, Forbes was the one thing my family of Asian immigrants (especially my grandma) read and to be selected is an honor.   

I love startups & venture with all of my heart and am grateful for the Forbes team for recognizing that.…
thechangj's tweet image. Thanks @ForbesUnder30 for nominating me!

Growing up, Forbes was the one thing my family of Asian immigrants (especially my grandma) read and to be selected is an honor.   

I love startups & venture with all of my heart and am grateful for the Forbes team for recognizing that.…
thechangj's tweet image. Thanks @ForbesUnder30 for nominating me!

Growing up, Forbes was the one thing my family of Asian immigrants (especially my grandma) read and to be selected is an honor.   

I love startups & venture with all of my heart and am grateful for the Forbes team for recognizing that.…

Wild elevenlabs first link had the react thumbnail. Thats how they were introduced to angels. Now on forbes.

yasinbuilds's tweet image. Wild elevenlabs first link had the react thumbnail. 

Thats how they were introduced to angels. 

Now on forbes.

Skill + AI > skill without AI. Skill + AI > AI without skill. No skills + AI = useless I dont believe in replit + lovable vibe coders. Real product is built on genius not guesses. Claude + whispr + cursor + 2yrs of side quests + 1yr full-time getting paid as swe Will cook…


In order to be ballin, you have to b-all-in


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