hackitup7

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by hackitup7 1y ago
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." This line is especially silly when making B2B products, especially very expensive enterprise ones. It's often used to justify building "great
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by hackitup7 2y ago
I've had the exact same experience. I'd add that Substack will give you some mildly helpful distribution at times as well.
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by hackitup7 2y ago
If you look at the companies that went public from 2018-2021 (boom/tail end of the latest "bubble"), you should assume that all of those generated somewhere in the range of 25-500+ non-founders who cleared $1m+ worth of stock
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by hackitup7 2y ago
No, the VCs tell the founder/CEO to hire people who've done it before to help pay down the risks of unknown unknowns (which are real – this advice is overly simplistic but isn't conceptually wrong). This translates into them
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by hackitup7 2y ago
Having spent ~15 years in enterprise software I doubt that this works at higher price points but holy hell is this guy living the dream
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by hackitup7 2y ago
I couldn't care less about their structure but the level of effort to put a positive spin on it makes the whole thing look more sketchy rather than less.
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by hackitup7 2y ago
I find the experience of watching these SpaceX videos very emotional. There's something really inspiring both from an "exploring the universe" perspective and also just from the human side of all of the effort that went into
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by hackitup7 2y ago
I had a similar negative reaction to the grandiose title but in this case it was totally deserved and I am pretty blown away.
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by hackitup7 2y ago
That's not quite how it works. Certain people are required (or strongly encouraged) to sell on a 10b5-1 plan. These plans can trade outside of open trading windows, but they have a meaningful cooldown period before they go into effect
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by hackitup7 2y ago
For job searching, not being on it won't hurt you in any way, but you're missing out on potential upside in terms of recruiting. You can have a LinkedIn, use it only for job searching, and not read the bizarre cringe content. If y
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by hackitup7 2y ago
The content is pretty accurate
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by hackitup7 3y ago
He came out of retirement for this job, so the market certainly knew that his retirement was possible (although maybe not imminent). These sorts of transitions take time, when you're the CEO of a $75B public company you typically don&#
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by hackitup7 3y ago
From what I've seen, think of it as greatly amplifying the variance of the friendship. I've seen it break friendships in rare cases, and in the median case I've seen it build friendships to the point where people are often as
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Sometimes, although working with focused M&A bankers is the typical strategy for large transactions
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I believe that Twilio owns Authy fwiw
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Just write, and remember that it's your choice whether you want to read the comments. We have a blog and while we get all sorts of commentary, I've found that the overwhelming majority of commenters are positive. For direct mail c
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by hackitup7 3y ago
That was a weird dream!
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Hi, I'm the author. This is a personal blog, it says "we" because there are two of us that write as a team. Thanks for reading!
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I'd take the even stronger stance that additional technical cofounders seems to deliver increasing rather than diminishing returns.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Agreed, it's very common to see. In many cases you're talking about people who worked together very closely for years and are verging on as close as family. Also, in higher-level roles you often get fired due to a very specific
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I'm also neither a Sam Altman booster or detractor, but the types of activities described here (and honestly, sometimes much much worse) are very common at startups.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I've been really impressed at how much better weather forecasting has become already. I remember weather forecasts feeling like a total crapshoot as recently as 15 years ago or so.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I've never met an executive at a well known tech company who didn't know the basics of how VC works (e.g. incentivized to seek home runs).
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by hackitup7 3y ago
The problem that I've observed is that far too many bosses made their decisions about remote based on emotion, despite the fact that it is incredibly obviously a decision that should be made based on logic. Not saying that one answer w
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by hackitup7 3y ago
It's not even good PE. Like unironically Vista and Thoma Bravo are too smart to do stuff like this. This is like MBA search funds rebranding the trash disposal company they purchased.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Dude your face is falling off!
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by hackitup7 3y ago
The greatest instance like this that I've seen on the internet: https://youtu.be/TjVOWOKa-lY
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by hackitup7 3y ago
I love when they're pulling him off of the printer. Like no bro, it's not worth it, he's already down bro, you're gonna catch a charge.
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by hackitup7 3y ago
Damn it feels good to be a gangster
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by hackitup7 3y ago
These people migrated to AI because their goal is to get rich quick. Whether or not it's a scam is orthogonal. It's the same people got excited about metaverse, producing online courses, and weed startups. If they aren't in t

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