Most startup founders hate dilution 😠 I used to see it as giving away a piece of my company 🍕 Post dilution - there's less for me to have Now I see it as a relationship, you get to share your joys and sorrows with a family 😊

"You're an insignificant nobody" In our startup's early days I was *desperate* for customers 🥺 We would shower love on ANYONE who'd walk in Until a customer said ☝️ to me I finally got the courage to fire them 💪 Life is too short to tolerate assholes 🚀

In startup land (aka SF) everyone's excited about the next new thing But the world moves so much slower --- Go to a bar with a pool table - most of them are still using quarters Which means in 2023 it's a full time job to go collect quarters 🤯

When we started a startup we wanted to change the world 🌎 We quickly pivoted to solving a problem someone will pay us money for 💰 We realized profit must come before changing the world 😲

Customer support is the biggest competitive advantage B2B startups have over big companies Our guy Lilian ッ likes to say

Being okay with sucking at something and still trying is the highest ROI skill I've found for startup founders

Crypto taught me: I suck at gambling. Making money by solving problems >> speculation. I once spent a summer building an irrigation system for a mushroom farm. Startup paid me 500 bucks. 1000x all my speculative gains combined 😂

Interestingly a rise in crypto interest led to a rise in interest in startups. AI seems to have not had the same effect

My friends launched a dope app! Go check it out 👀

Is it just me or there are too many “online coaches”

This is not tycoons sitting around with private jets. This is founders who work 120 hours a week trying to make a thing that never existed before. They didn't take any undue risk: they had money in one bank they thought was solvent, and that everyone thought was solvent.

What if I owe SVB money? Do I not need to pay anymore?

Bank for VCs might be an interesting startup idea 🤔

Text 10 people in SF, maybe 5 show up Text 10 people in NY, 12 show up

OG NFT

Congrats to Dustin Rosen and the Wonder Ventures team on the new fund! Seriously the best first check ever - hard to find better partners out there

Big Congrats to Christophe Lassuyt! One of the finest crypto entrepreneurs of our time

P2P is back. This time in Thailand. Still off the record. Panels and podcasts are for polished soundbites and marketing fodder, but P2P is for seasoned operators to share unvarnished truths from the war room: from scaling their companies and iterating on mechanism design, to

funny how these stories repeat. this is why we built Cashmere unfort changing people's habits is infinitely harder than building product

my Cursor's autocomplete suggestions are now in Chinese 🤯 -- what model are y'all using?