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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Yeah honestly I’m not sure what someone is meant to take out of this. The experience is really useful. But if me and Gus worked this out after 3 months, we could have cofounded our own thing!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Absolutely - I mention this at the end. This experience was a springboard into my first “real” startup, and I’ve been working my way up fast since then!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
“This will be a great differentiator when looking for funding!”
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Hahah it was probably just about worth it. Wouldn't if I had kids or it wasn't mostly in COVID time
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
I hope @paulg asks me to give this talk at demo day I can make it funnier!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Same, I saw it on Twitter and just wanted to use it :D
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Bingo. Tbh I have done personal projects where I am guilty of this.
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
AuDHD represent :ok:
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Bingo. It's why using SeedLegals (boilerplate contracts with simple customisation) was such a breath of fresh air. I've even worked at bigger places with very scummy equity contracts, like a lawyer drafted it specifically to obfus
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Many such cases!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Eh, it gets better. I've gone from (this) to my own preseed, to a seed, now in a series A. It's always fun and there's always lots to learn.
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
The only person you have to convince is yourself!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
So much time could be saved by listening to 10 hours of YC podcasts ...
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
I would even say it was a worthwhile experience. I've built my career off the startup I landed in, I probably wouldn't have got there without being burned here.
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
I'm an entrepreneur, bitch. Ideas + delegation!
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Do you think a million monkeys with a million typewriters could come up with Oracle Database 11?
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
It's easy to be naive as a dev in your mid 20s. It's easy to sell a vision of billionaire startup success to a naive person. Often we sell it to ourselves.
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
It's the classic case of believing that ideas at 90% of the value and execution is something you can delegate. Think Kendall from Succession.
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Haha to be fair I have been adjacent to lots of startups like this. I also spent a few months attending weekly zoom calls for a side hustle that was effectively some mid level bored corporate people blowing off steam. They were a few steps
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Right? I literally can't even call it a proper warning because of how much I took out of it. My whole career was jumpstarted by my second startup (we only got to preseed but it was a great two years) and there's no way I'd ha
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Lol I have had one promotion in my life and it was mid-Junior That said, I have only moved jobs 2x in 9 years (my second startup failing doesn't count)
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by jakey_bakey 1y ago
Amazing analysis. To be fair, I think there were a lot of reasons I was passed for promotion at Deloitte. I can grind like a mofo but am a terrible fit for client-facing roles (AuDHD).
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The side hustle from hell(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
349 points by jakey_bakey 1y ago|143 comments
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The Crash Is a Lie(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
1 points by jakey_bakey 1y ago|0 comments
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Handle iOS Deep Links with Async Algorithms(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
1 points by jakey_bakey 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakey_bakey 2y ago
Honestly that last sentence about Substack hit me hard. I just want them to import a syntax highlighting library but instead they are pushing video content into my face
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My Release Strategies for App Startups(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
1 points by jakey_bakey 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakey_bakey 2y ago
This is an interesting way of thinking about it compared to the common definition that uses "scope" (which outside IC roles is a synonym for to headcount)
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A Tool to Automatically Detect Memory Leaks(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
1 points by jakey_bakey 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakey_bakey 2y ago
This was 100% the most fun I’ve ever had coding anything. I was missing my tube stop levels of engaged

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