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you forget how much real estate impacts what startups are possible in a city live/work space = saas warehouse space = hard tech hangar space = defense/space tech

isn't it annoying that every conversation is about tech in SF? yes, but today I had two conversations with founders that saved my team literally 2 months of work

hot to crazy ratio of products: the most massive the pain point your product uniquely solves (hot) the worse the design and performance can be (crazy)

sf is beautiful during the day but ngl it has very dark demonic energy at night

SF visit recap - ate blue barn salad, the mill avo toast, and bite sandwiches - talked to people about AI/consciousness, fundraising, onClick vs onMouseDown, humanoid robotics, SF dating scene, etc - invested in a health tech startup - hung out with a few founder friends running

tech events being a waste of time is a skill issue went to two tech week events today and - got 2 customers - set up 2 investor calls - got killer advice on marketing, hiring, and more that will save me months of work

new york investors need to fix their reputation have now heard many founders and pre-seed investors advise NOT to raise from NYC investors "they're too timid, too disconnected from what's happening at the frontier, and too metrics focused for early stage startups"

anyone have an extra room in a shared house / apartment in sf?

it’s my birthday here’s my unsolicited rant about life and identity

them: throwing events for tech conferences is a waste of founders time me: 1800 RSVPs, 90% in our target ICP, $0 spent

"release a swarm of AI SDR agents" *runs a bunch of zoominfo api calls*

I used to work on the M&A team at google always knew it was a good team but holy moly my former coworkers are now GPs at top funds, Sr Director at Deep Mind, Heads of Corp Dev at big tech cos, etc

request for waymo feature: pepper spray turret that pops out when people try to vandalize a car

maybe the perfect visualization of what AI is doing to human jobs (we are the horse)

raising a giant round and hiring a big team before PMF is like kamala harris getting the nomination without running a primary we all know how it ends

liquid glass is horrible BUT it's a hint at what's coming ahead of every paradigm shift, apple uses design to transition users to new interfaces liquid glass is the transition to AR

wait wtf hinge

99% of these dribbbble designers on x make this mistake and it drives me nuts they’re like “did i cook?” and alignment is all over the place

obligatory "this was a fun chat" podcast repost claire is one of the most underrated podcasters right now. check her out

personal CRMs haven't worked because they have all focused on creating a better Contacts app, which no one uses great outcome for Clay either way