Very cool that my realtor is now roasting me over text

It’s a bad day to be me:

2020-2023 will be so hard to explain even 10 years from now.

'The banks basically gave you mortgages for free, you didn't have to take a test to get into Harvard, everyone got canceled, then uncanceled, then canceled again, and dad made $21M buying NFTs and lost it betting on…

Just had my web developer add my Notion template for recently divorced PMs to my site.

It's available for free at chrisbakke.com

Check it out before I put it on Gumroad for $1,000!

BREAKING: Divorce rate in San Francisco surpasses 70% after tens of thousands of Bay Area product managers shared a popular Notion template with their wives this weekend

Anyone else hit the FAANG 5-leg parlay?

Chief drug dealer to the VP Sales
VP Sales
CEO
CTO
Chief of Staff (CEO’s 2nd cousin)

A rite of passage for every founder who just raised a $3M seed round is trying to recruit a L9 FAANG engineer, only to be politely told

“My 2023 TC was $3.2M so I’m not sure this is going to work out”

Government: “you need to post salary ranges on all of your job openings”

Companies: “okay, the typical salary range for this role is usually between $17,000 and $2,500,000 per year”

When I worked at SoftBank in 2021, I’d download market maps like this, tell our analysts “wire $10M on an uncapped SAFE to every company on this list” and call it an early day at 11am.

From working in several big “middle man” industries (recruiting, real estate, advertising):

The founders who start with an attitude of, “we’re going to put brokers out of business!” always last 1 year.

And the founders who build tools for the middle men make the most money.

Happy National “tell your boss you quit to try to get them to counter with a pay raise to retain you, and if they don’t counter you just say ‘hahaha April Fools! I got you! I’m not actually quitting!’ and then you keep your job” Day to all those who celebrate.

I take my role as a father very seriously:

1. I motivate my kids
2. I encourage my kids
3. I have fun with my kids
4. I run around the house lowering thermostats and turning off lights so that the electric company doesn't bankrupt us
5. I protect my kids

Hi sharks, I’m seeking $25M to install 500 fountains around the world to create a $500M/year business