I can't breathe without seeing a tweet from a VC telling me to only use 7 slides in my pitch deck, to 'bring energy' to my Zoom pitch, or to only fart sideways when driving down Sand Hill Road. But it's absolute tumbleweed when it comes to founders returning the favour to VCs.

Thought Twitter had improved a lot. Realised I had clicked the Following tab.

For certain roles - particularly ones that attract a lot of applicants - we ask candidates to submit a short video (<1 minute) introducing themselves. A mobile selfie is totally fine. It gives signal on things that a CV just can't (e.g. communication skills). It also filters

NEW - Product Analytics 📈 One of the first decisions for any software company is - which product analytics software should we use? Mixpanel? Amplitude? PostHog? Hotjar? Or just basic Google Analytics. The truth is that each of these are built for slightly different use-cases.

Slop blog posts Slop music Slop games Slop companies (”Hey Lovable, make me a dating app”). = Tsunami of slop incoming. Never been more alpha in building trusted brands.

ChatGPT is trained on a lot of garbage. - Fake/incentivized reviews (Amazon, G2, Trustpilot) - Reddit comments - Quora answers - Propaganda from the far ends of the political spectrum - Tabloid journalism etc etc As most people know, this means that ChatGPT outputs a lot

In 1764 James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny - and fabric production went from slow & expensive to fast & cheap. = The number of producers exploded = Differentiation got much harder = Trusted brands rose (Hermès - 1837, Levi's - 1853, Louis Vuitton - 1854) Feels like a

I've been thinking about how to explain the distinction between an MCP server and an API, and landed on an analogy I like: the MCP server as an encouraging parent. Basically imagine a parent & child + Lego bricks. The LLM is something like that child - energetic, occasionally

This 👇. Garbage in, garbage out. The great LLMs-will-remain-horrendously-unhelpful-in-fields-where-the-public-data-sucks awakening is upon us.

I watch a lot of Air Crash Investigation, which means I've seen the same pattern play out almost every time: most crashes happen when pilots take over from autopilot, not when the automation fails. Now I'm seeing the same pattern in AI-assisted coding. Aviation is incredibly

What are the best startup hiring platforms or talent networks (for commercial or engineering/design)? Things like: Welcome to the Jungle hackajob Jack&Jill

"Anyone can build anything, technical skill doesn't matter, taste is the moat" This is a fashionable notion that is stupidly reductive. If you've worked on even a moderately complex product, you know that *taste* is more than picking the right feature idea or UX. The finest