recruiting @ turbopuffer 🐡 whimsy-maxxing ✨ prev: Shopify ('17-'26) 🛍️ chasing early internet nostalgia 💾
Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2012
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i spent a lot of time considering the perfect time to share that in 10 days i'm joining @turbopuffer 🐡💨
i did not have 'being-outshone-by-a-grazing-cow' on my bingo card for possible considerations when sharing this news 🐄
not even mad tho
authentic, hardcore, whimsical 🐡✨
it's rare (even unheard of), to get to such an unfiltered view into a company
it completely reflects what i saw when i was making the decision to join
what you see is really what you get (except it's better)
The people of Silicon Valley are unwell.
If you work at a frontier lab or decacorn, you’ve got it bad. You haven’t seen your kids, your girlfriend’s annoyed, invites from friends to hang out are waning, even weddings are on hold. This is the time to make your mark and make your money, after all.
If you’re building a startup that’s trying to compete with or be one of these companies, you’ve got it bad. Maybe you passed up a job offer at one a couple years back, which means you left $100M on the table, you fucking idiot. Being an underdog isn't as fun as you thought.
If you’re working on a pre-AI startup, you’ve got it bad. Not too long ago you were the belle of the ball, but now your 30% year-on-year growth doesn’t feel like growth at all. It feels like death.
"Too many of my friends are spiraling," Brie Wolfson writes. "I don’t know how we’re supposed to live and work like this."
It’s all too much, too fast. Too much money, too much growth, too much power, too much change. Every month, a new frontier model is released. Every day, a new unicorn is minted. Seriously. 300 days into the year 2026, and 311 unicorns have been minted so far.
So what’s left for the sane ones? Brie went looking for teams playing a different game. She found one in Ottawa: a search infrastructure company that many of the AI darlings rely on.
It's growing fast, and its people are well.
Read @zebriez’s latest company dispatch from inside the sane asylum of turbopuffer.
colossus.com/article/sane-as…
Allie Speers retweeted
I was drawn to Silicon Valley because of people's healthy relationship to work.
connection to mission. friends. ambition. financial security. hard work. but also free time. positive sum vibes. pride in being a part of it. joy.
this is no longer the case. my friends have gone mad. and there's almost nowhere to hide.
refusing to accept this fate, I went searching for safe havens.
I found (at least) one in ottawa and spent the last 6 months with @turbopuffer where they've got silicon valley chops, canadian kindness, and danish sense of humor. it's been the perfect medicine.
I wrote about it in @colossusmag
The people of Silicon Valley are unwell.
If you work at a frontier lab or decacorn, you’ve got it bad. You haven’t seen your kids, your girlfriend’s annoyed, invites from friends to hang out are waning, even weddings are on hold. This is the time to make your mark and make your money, after all.
If you’re building a startup that’s trying to compete with or be one of these companies, you’ve got it bad. Maybe you passed up a job offer at one a couple years back, which means you left $100M on the table, you fucking idiot. Being an underdog isn't as fun as you thought.
If you’re working on a pre-AI startup, you’ve got it bad. Not too long ago you were the belle of the ball, but now your 30% year-on-year growth doesn’t feel like growth at all. It feels like death.
"Too many of my friends are spiraling," Brie Wolfson writes. "I don’t know how we’re supposed to live and work like this."
It’s all too much, too fast. Too much money, too much growth, too much power, too much change. Every month, a new frontier model is released. Every day, a new unicorn is minted. Seriously. 300 days into the year 2026, and 311 unicorns have been minted so far.
So what’s left for the sane ones? Brie went looking for teams playing a different game. She found one in Ottawa: a search infrastructure company that many of the AI darlings rely on.
It's growing fast, and its people are well.
Read @zebriez’s latest company dispatch from inside the sane asylum of turbopuffer.
colossus.com/article/sane-as…
imposter syndrome is crazy bc my brain will be all: "you can't do this, you tricked everyone !!!"
and i gotta respond all calm, like: "buddy, tricking ppl is one of things i'm worst at"
i love ai, because now every break at a pro sports game is full of absurd “bowling alley-esque” animations
tonight was one of those nights that i think we’ll look back on at @turbopuffer, and remember every detail.
how you do one,thing is how you do everything.
i voted today!
2 more days of advanced polls in case you aren't around on the 26th (like me)
do it. don't be a weenie.
this scratched something in my brain. thank you 😭
the interactions are so fun
you can bump the pieces into each other
you can pull a piece into the centre and it sproings out
you can throw them around and they glide and boing so wonderfully!!!
I cannot offer an actual bite, but you CAN tear one apart on my 404 page 🍬 meliketurgut.com/404
i was really brave and just demo’ed a v1 of something we’ve been working on during the weekly @turbopuffer team all hands!
i cannot stress enough the importance of joining a team where their cultural norms + rituals = how you want to grow