Co-Founder @fundersclub. Seed investor @coinbase @Instacart @geckorobotics @eightsleep @Rippling @EquipmentShare @gitlab @flexport @Substack.
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For anyone in Pittsburgh, Houston, or Austin, these guys are doing important work, and hiring!
Congrats @geckorobotics on closing $40M! Gecko's robots save lives, stop billions of $ of damage & disruption, & are creating a data platform for safety & infrastructure monitoring.
Welcome aboard @mdkmoto & @drivecapital!
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Had a friend I respect tell me they passed on a startup b/c the founder was weird.
Send me your weird founders.
This is not a subtweet, I still respect my friend, they're a legend.
Just a RFW, Request for Weird.
If you are a dreamer, never stop dreaming.
If you are a realist, never stop getting real.
Dreamers tend to judge realists for lacking foresight.
Realists tend to judge dreamers for lacking precedent.
Yet when we listen to each other, we can make dreams reality.
The personality of a startup often reflects the personality of the founders, and can change over time.
Be thoughtful about you, because you set the company tone.
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There's long form story to be written about how India flipped over last few years from place that had very bearish startup ecosystem to very bullish one
Lots of discussions privately about causes. But surprised hasn't been picked up yet by publications
Early in my founder career I felt stabbed in the back every time a team member left.
Now I feel happiness and pride.
Your startup is a better university.
Bet on people ahead of resume; leapfrog careers; impart skills, network, purpose; build alumni mafia.
So many soul-less products out there.
Nourishment of the soul is a universal human need.
Free startup idea:
An app that helps users believe in a higher purpose, make meaning of life, feel belonging, feel love, the way they want. Their own religion, not anyone else's.
Google Trends, “low carb”
Peaks every Jan, drops like clockwork every year.
PSA: August is when we really stop caring.
There is an optimal degree of remembering.
Complete memory loss is terrible.
Complete memory retention (hyperthymesia) is terrible. Imagine heartbreak never going away.
There must be a happy medium. Has implications for AI. Also, for investing in startups.
Enlightenment can come from both failure and success.
Failure seems to breed its own introspection. The thoughtful among us linger on our failures.
Yet we rarely ask, “Why did we succeed?”.
E.G. See @webflow.
$2.9M Seed round (initially less, but got topped up later).
Got to profitably, kept doubling Y/Y, "suddenly" at >$20M ARR.
Raised $72M "Series A" led by @Accel, one of the world's best VCs, at a growth round valuation.
We are entering the age of no-code visual development. The #nocode movement is unstoppable. Proud of @webflow on democratizing building great product experiences!
Congrats @callmevlad @thesergie @bryantchou & team!!
Congrats to @webflow, the platform that lets businesses design & build production-ready experiences without coding, on the $72M round!
Welcome aboard @Accel & @SilversmithCap!
They're hiring! webflow.com/jobs
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Most people pick poor markets. If you have to ask yourself whether you have product market fit, you don't.
Society is optimized in the present for the past. When you build the new, societal pressure nudges you down paths of consensus & external validation.
Yet that’s not how you’ll build the future. Follow the paths of truth, even if you must initially move forward alone.