11 years of friendship. Happy birthday Shahed Khan. Love you brother.

Heading to Barcelona for a few days later this week.

My last trip was in 2018 — so if you have any newer & memorable places in the city, please send them my way.

I'm no longer at Loom, but I still am amazed to see people's reactions when I bring up the company. They immediately light up and smile and exclaim nearly involuntarily: 'Oh my gosh I *love* Loom !'

That's the gold standard of a great product experience.

Request for Product:

Converts your e-signature into a 'wet' ink signature for all the tax documents that still require this crap in 2024.

Project idea:

An AI tool that formats and in some cases rewrites your writing based on your previous tweets, Linkedin posts, etc.

I often find myself writing a draft and rewriting it to match my style of formatting.

The latter part in most cases takes longer than the draft…

How 9 months of building without success, 2 difficult pivots, and dozens of rejections resulted in Loom:

In reflecting back on the last 8 years, and investing in 40+ companies, I've become convinced that the most common pitfall for founders is investing too much time on finding…

The unspoken truth I admire about our industry is not recruiting talent from your friends startups.

Especially as companies mature and talent grows, this only becomes more important.

And for those that do, you're a terrible person.

Unfortunately this will likely be the case for a majority of these inventions.

Anything that 'sticks' with the consumer will deliberately be copied by incumbents and implemented on device.

They may be slow to adopt, but first to market doesn't guarantee you'll be the winner…

We're in a tough spot and could really use some help finding a new home for our young dog, Tango.

He's 1.5 years old and isn't getting along with our older dog. Tango has a paw that's deformed, which means he's in pain sometimes and needs a bit of extra care. We're looking for a…

Looking to change jobs?

I asked 50 of the best investors in the world to pick *one* startup to join this year.

Submissions from Reid Hoffman, Chris Sacca, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, General Catalyst, and more.

Check it out: early.guide

What everyone's actually working on

Has anyone built an PDF GPT that can not just summarize and reason text, but images as well?