"Last call! My Anthropic SPV MUST CLOSE TODAY so that it can close into the SPV that's closing next week into the SPV that's closing in two weeks into the SPV that's closing in a month into the SPV that's closing in a year into the SPV that's closing just before IPO."

Is it at a certain net worth that you begin to believe others would benefit from reading your political views, or what's the trigger?

GM to everyone except board members that replace founders with "their guy" and expect it to work.

If you think about it, hitting $100M revenue in 6 months by selling $1 in AI tokens for $0.50 is pretty mediocre performance.

I keep coming back to this. The amount of retroactive-revisionist storytelling in tech is wild.

The chillest investor update: "Hi all, - Default: alive - $17M annualized - $500k earnings this month - Asks: bomber jacket size & address

VC: "We're asking you to reset your vesting with this round, we see it usually takes 4-6 years for founders to create substantial value." Founder: "We just generated more ARR than your fund's AUM in less time than it took you to raise that fund."

My 11 month old son just crawled up on my lap to watch football and actually sat there for a while, watching the game. Just...chilling. I have a little buddy now. So worth it. Have kids.

Excited for the Stubhub IPO on Robinhood where you apply for 1,000 shares but only get 1 ticket to an Oasis concert.

If OpenAI buys enough Oracle who then invests enough in OpenAI who then buys enough Oracle again who then invests enough in OpenAI again, a Stargate wormhole opens up where Sam and Larry can travel into the future together.

The correct length of a fundraising press release is zero characters.

Build products so easy it feels criminal:

Trying to find good growth ppl makes me think the whole industry overindexed on becoming technical and now there are only like 4 cracked growth people left who can take a new product from $0 to 1M ARR in any reasonable amount of time.

Founders, before you spend a bunch of time in Slides/Figma building your pitch deck, take a step back. Just write in Slack what you want the deck to eventually say - then schedule it to send to yourself 1 hour later. Then when the Slack message arrives, go on a walk and

My small rental car got smoked by a Suburban this wknd, tossed my fam like a toy. No one hurt, but no more cheap small rentals. Renting absolute tanks from now on.

A "seed-stage founder" is a zygote. You meant to say "seed-stage startup, with a fully-developed founder".

Why place export controls on SAP software to China? We should be giving China all kinds of antiquated software as a form of economic sabotage lol.

Raising capital from customers is 'retention insurance'. The time to buy insurance is before you need it. When the growth chart is hockey sticking.

This tone-deaf X user experiment where they hit you with a full-page X ad asking you to pay to boost your post right after you hit Post is so weird. I'm just posting my own thoughts. I don't want to place media buys on them.