@shadab
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anti-fragile builder & operator. https://nitter.cf/t.co/kiMWzLLzEJ -- CalAI for grocery shopping https://nitter.cf/t.co/yTta3akYcd -- Partiful for millennials Love the outdoors ⛰️
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2008
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Instagram still has the “I saw that post, how do I find it” problem.
Business challenge is that fixing that problem likely has an inverse relationship with ad revenue.
Lists UX feel off-brand and generally unmanageable.
Funny not funny that if my phone dies, I cannot access or drive my electric car.
(I don’t usually keep the card key on me)
Something about that experience feels rushed and broken.
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On My First Million, Mark Pincus laid out the whole Zynga thesis. Find a mature market that's dead and played out, that VCs won't touch, but that still has a lot of money in it.
For him that was video games. In 2007 it was a $23b industry, barely growing, not fundable. Today it's $283b and still not fundable. His line: we're living in 2007 again, consumer isn't investable, so go do consumer.
Should the doctors be paid for their knowledge and judgement if models are trained with their input?
Added a concierge that is like your event planning assistant. So far so good.
Tracks all the moving pieces, and will even execute a logistical task for you.
Surprising that FDE bootcamps haven’t popped up yet.
Every company says they have Forward-Deployed Engineers now.
ElevenLabs CEO and former Palantir Deployment Strategist @mati gives one of the best explanations of what an FDE is—and says companies are missing the key piece of what actually makes FDEs valuable:
“In our case, FDEs are part of the product team. They are not part of the go-to-market team. They are deeply embedded in understanding what the roadmap of the product is.”
“You want all the FDEs to actually solve the customer problem and stretch your product in that direction. But the second thing you want them to do is bring any of that knowledge back to the product, so the product becomes better for the next generation of companies building on top of it. I feel like the second part is frequently missed.”
“The beauty of that is—everybody benefits because you work with one customer, learn, and you bring that into the product experience. Both of those customers benefited from having their product optimized for better work.”
“The domain expertise they have is still theirs. They can win based on their domain expertise. But the product experience of how you build based on that domain expertise can be abstracted, and can be reusable.”
Impressed with FB Marketplace buyer and seller experiences.
Who’s building human-assisted seller automation? I don’t do Facebook much and could use a mediator. Might even consider to share a % of revenue.
Whipped up a simple invite and rsvp tool for a personal event which is live with users in < 24hrs.
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Shadab Farooqui retweeted
you should generally optimize your career to always be working with people you admire
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If you’re building something people will still care about five years from now, I want to see it. Drop it in the comments.
Founders and brand owners, DM me. I’m showing a few people what we’ve been building.
40% of an Uber Eats order total are in fees.
Service and convenience is worth at least 40% of the bill by this account.
Im guessing ~90% of the messages on YC founder matching are written with the help of AI.
It sucks because many of them sound the same, and get archived by me.
Shadab Farooqui retweeted
Travis Kalanick: “I was running a $70 billion company the way somebody who thought he was going to starve next week would run it."
"Every decision I made at Uber, I defend to this day. Never had chalk on my shoe.“
“The problem was I ran too close to the line in too many situations. When you're big and important, the scrutiny and expectation is that you don't run that close to the line, even if it's correct. That is a thing I definitely did not understand.”
“It comes from what I did before Uber. First four years, no salary, ran out of money several times, super grind, lose all friends. The non-luckiest entrepreneur journey of all time.”
“It was so hard that I had to be epically precise and hardcore just to pay the bills and go to the grocery store next week. And that precision and intensity made Uber what it was.”
What is your objective test & threshold for “my startup idea isn’t working”?
