The ads that Instagram pushes onto you is what the internet thinks you are. ...it was trying to sell me jaw muscle exercise enhancer thingy. 🤦‍♂️

Martijn Scheijbeler martin_casado saastr.com/i-hired-my-vp-…

Investors I admire invest in theses, rather than asset classes. They come with a data-backed view of the future they want to build. Then they happen to find companies that fit the thesis rather than finding random assortment of “early stage startups” that are promising.

One way to build wealth is by using leverage to juice your returns (on time and capital). Only problem for the average American is that the only leverage available to them in a reliably good asset class is real estate through their mortgage.

If I don’t cringe at my past content or writing, I haven’t grown fast enough.

Reading through 160+ applications for Romulus Fellowship. I love learning from ppl, who have clearly been thinking about tech/startups obsessively for a long time. I’ll know this program succeeded when it serves as an outlet for the curious rather than a stamp on a resume.

True ownership mindset begins with realizing that everything was built by people, so why not you? As a Korean immigrant, it’s easier to slip into subconsciously thinking in terms of best playing inside structure and hierarchy when I should be building it.

Not all moments are created equal. Hypothesis: successful ppl have a keen sense of when “the moment” arrives.

Whenever 2 people share diff baseline definitions of what happiness looks like, it leads to a relationship (spouse, friends, family) full of friction & resentment from compromise. Same applies to VCs & founders with baseline definition of what successful outcome looks like.

For ordinary people, reaching for extraordinary outcomes requires extraordinary allocation of time.

“At-scale” The way I greet & talk to someone I love for 10 min everyday quickly scales to become the defining nature of that relationship. Those 10 min scales an hour+ over a week. That hour+ scales to a workweek over a year.

Giving confronting feedback is one of the hardest things founders go through. Delivery is just as important as the feedback itself. Here's how to not sound like an asshole:

This was the biggest adjustment for me when I got into investing, for sure

Lessons you learn the hard way as 1st gen immigrant: Privilege comes from not only resources/network but just inter-generational know-how of how access works.

Obsessive founders come from all personality spectrum but seem to have one thing in common: Texting reply rate under 20ish min

Developing your early team members: ✅ More about giving them opportunities to become more of who they are 🛑 Less about helping them reverse their weaknesses

Joey Kim Yep, you need to build your team out of stones, not bricks! Never cut someone back to make them fit into a well defined spot.

Rly good guide to when to take on tech debt vs get it done right the first time

If I'm not into crypto should I add ".usd" to my twitter name?

Tech investors need to stop investing at tech multiples for non-tech companies. Actually, tech investors maybe should not invest in non-tech companies.