Very cool story about the VP Product at SAP Concur:

Guy just invented Japan.

Big thanks to Neville Medhora for letting me come on his pod and talk about my career, Hiring, AI, and my upcoming side project accelerator. If you are interested in hacking on an AI focused side project with me in October, apply here: timetobuild.dev

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Going to start Blackwater 2.0 to protect VC-backed CEOs around San Francisco. Raising $400M at a $4B valuation.

People used to get an MBA from Harvard because they wanted to rule the world. Now they get an MBA from Harvard to run a $2M search fund that spends 3 years to identify a laundromat in Michigan that they can buy for 7x earnings.

Hey Brian - thanks for meeting with our firm, and sorry for the lengthy delay here. We feel like the opportunity is pretty small, so I’m going to pass on investing $1M for 20% of your little project but best of luck. Rooting for you from the sidelines!

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Police should have 12 months to solve any case, at which point 100% of the evidence should be published to the internet. 75% of crimes would be solved by redditors within 12 days.

Happy Labor Day to the true American heroes: The founders of 1-click-checkout companies who have raised billions. The ones who boldly drive Ferraris and have 3rd homes with $700k revenue. The ones whose products I’ve never once seen in the wild, but who still took out $40M

I think the PMs drinking poolside margaritas at 1PM while bragging about $300K TC didn’t help things

If a founder is spending more time digging in on engineering, design, sales, CS, or operations, they’re in founder mode. If a founder is spending more time digging in on finance and legal, they’re in committing-fraud-mode.

Short guide for your 20s: -Start a startup -Work nights and weekends and sell it for 25x revenue -Buy your dream house -Get married -Work nights and weekends building basically the same company again and sell it for 30x revenue -Buy a lake house -Have kids -Quit and spend your

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If you studied software development it’s time to give up the dream and go back to school to get a real degree in something useful like art history, marketing, or philosophy.

When you’re a solo founder trying to help a customer and they want to speak to your boss:

Was halfway through applying to YC with my new idea: “Mildly sexist, blatantly racist payroll company” but it seems like that idea is already taken. Onto the next one.