I couldn't be more excited about what Tade and team are building at Campus. They're giving students a real alternative to four-year universities and crushing debt, with access to the same professors teaching at top schools. techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/cam…

Huge congrats to the Summer Health team on today's Series A announcement! Every parent deserves radically simple access to pediatric care. summerhealth.com/blog/its-alway…

Life isn't constant suffering, you're just in a bog. experimental-history.com/p/so-you-wanna…

Just got a deal referral where the founders were described as 'above average.' 💀

Fun fact: during Box’s Series B we were in the midst of pivoting to the enterprise, with an untested freemium model, and running out of runway. The strategy was speculative. Every partner we pitched passed, but one associate (Mamoon Hamid) fought to push the deal through, saving us.

Ten totally reasonable perspectives on PR.

I love that we’re all debating the value of PR. I spent the first chapter of my career in comms, and now I get to think about awareness building through the investor lens.

But as with most things in life, I don’t believe an ideological

I love a good list but...'most intriguing'? inc.com/female-founder…

All this debate over the value of PR is great PR for PR!

Big First Round news today!

We’re launching Product-Market Fit Method (a free intensive 14-week experience for early founders building epic B2B SaaS companies) and publishing the first session on our internal framework for all to read (with benchmarks, Looker's real data, and

My hunch is that the secret to life is to focus on maximizing joy versus minimizing pain. (I’ll keep y’all posted.)

ty grok

The guy who is in charge of emergency alerts for earthquakes in nyc was so excited he passed out for 40 minutes.

And remember that a 5 in NYC would be an 8 almost anywhere else in the country

Nice of NYC to make a California girl feel at home with an EARTHQUAKE 😳

one of highest leverage things to do as founder is build your own platform.

1 - you can go direct if you like
2 - you get better traditional press opps (I met WIRED, Jon Stewart on twitter)
3 - gives you leverage (esp when VCs try to fuck w you)

The ideological debate about PR/awareness building is certainly fun and interesting, but largely unhelpful to most early founders. Tempted to use my newly acquired ability to write very long tweets to share a far less spicy, more pragmatic take.

Actually, it's only a SAFE if it comes from the SAFE region of France. Otherwise, it's just a sparkling term sheet x.com/julianweisser/…

Today we’re announcing Journals, the easiest place to collect photos from your favorite people, even if they’re not on Retro. For your next event, trip, project, or anything else.