It regularly baffles me how little everyone understands how much growth is required to successfully exit a company. Even supposed tier 1 VCs and their funded founders. People need to stop lying to themselves.

Founder mode without being a founder

a holiday government shutdown from the new admin wasn't on my bingo card

disney's anchor songs should be studied as cultural artifacts

Thank you Arc for making a space for the best founders in the city!

the irony

We just grew 400% MoM in Jan 👀 3rd month in row with 3x MoM growth Everyone keeps asking what kind of growth boi magic we use and what kind of chicken is best for the sacrifice But the answer is we just built a really great product that literally saves peoples lives

if you need the money printer to succeed, you don't deserve success

X: You can just do things. Me: Just fixing healthcare Also Me: wtf this is hard

The YC alumni meetup in NYC was awesome yesterday! Shoutout to Kevin Huang for organizing and Arc for sponsoring

Bidenomics Vibecession turned into a Trumponomics Trumpcession

I hate logging in

I love building in Austin, but after interviewing candidates in both Austin and NYC, the difference is insane. 10x the amount of energy and ambition from the people based in NYC

narrative violation $1M-$5M Seed/A rounds the past 6 months 124 in nyc 117 in san francisco

It was a very N(YC) week 🗽 We were thrilled to team up with the NY Y Combinator Alumni group on a series of events last week, bringing the YC founder community together. Shout out to our co-hosts Michael Wang, Aakash Shah 🚀 Wyndly | NYC Founder Guy, and Kevin Huang for making the events a success!

Had a blast @Databricks NYC nerding out about how we solved home care scheduling with multi-turn, long-running AI Agents Thank you to Aakash Shah 🚀 Wyndly | NYC Founder Guy , Adam Alpert (YC W21), Michael, and the Databricks team for hosting

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Telehealth allergy company Wyndly Health landed on this year's Inc. 5000 after growing 1,189% in 3 years. How'd they do it? Co-founders Aakash Shah 🚀 Wyndly | NYC Founder Guy + Manan Shah went on Reddit, and when people asked allergy questions, they started replying. For Inc. inc.com/ali-donaldson/…