
Michael Zhao
@mikeyyyzhao
Dog dad to Tucker the pitbull. Co-founder of @vimcal (YC S'18). Never met a productivity tool that I didn't want to try.
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http://vimcal.com 26-11-2012 04:59:57
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"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems — preferably problems you have yourself." - Paul Graham A few years ago, my cofounder and I were in the middle of a brutal fundraising stretch. Dozens of investor meetings, constant



The book that’s influenced my thinking most in 2025 is "Alchemy" by Rory Sutherland . His core insight is simple but profound: Humans are irrational. So why do we keep designing products using rational frameworks? That idea hit especially hard as I reflected on how we built











One of my favorite Perplexity use cases is dropping a description or even screenshot and asking it to find relevant youtube videos 🤌
