Finance teams at cloud companies have had it relatively easy for a long time But that’s changing Several things will make things harder: -ARR less recurring -pricing model changes -AI stuff -Potential recession -etc + Q&A on forecasting with Siqi Chen onlycfo.io/p/forecasting-…

i don't agree with ben on trump but this is disgusting on the part of moritz and an embarrassment to journalism at large

"It's a real weakness to want to be liked, a real weakness, and I do not have that." -Elon Musk

founders - did you know? you probably find the spreadsheets you get from your cfo to be pretty overwhelming and confusing. the real reason that happens is because you’re lazy and don’t know anything about business and shouldn’t be running anything you stupid piece of shit.

what i'm telling my board when we miss the quarter

local top signal

i've have stubbornly stuck with my chinese name for 30 years in america but "sticky chad" might just do it for me

i have never enjoyed having a conversation more than this one with garry. left it all in the room with him on this one. would love to know what you all think!

Self recommending. 💪

"Design is still so undervalued" - Siqi Chen The amount of slop design in software products is shocking. (And it's only getting worse with AI and no-code product builders) But this is good news: There's a huge arbitrage opportunity. Those who care about craftsmanship in SaaS

suhail built a generative canva + pinterest on your phone. have been playing around with it and it's incredible - this is a SOTA foundational model wrapped in a SOTA user experience.

founder mode: ben horowitz famously observed that there are war time ceos and peace time ceos. turns out it’s always war time.

the easy counter argument to founder mode is that most founders are actually terrible and that's completely fair. founder mode is for the exceptions. every startup that becomes successful is an exception, by definition.

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