scott hickle 🚽
@ScottHickle
World’s shittiest founder @ThroneScience • WHOOP for your poop • Building the check engine light for your gut and smoke detector for colon cancer 🔜
My dad is my best friend. We talk every day, often multiple times. Occasionally he says things that are so insightful I write them down. I've got a note on my phone called "Lessons from Dad". These are those lessons, in full color.
David catches a lot of flak from the alt/based/natural health communities for being as hyper-engineered as food can be. The opposite of natural. By dropping boiled frozen cod, they’re cementing themselves as “we are for one thing and one thing only — high protein, whatever that…
David Protein just announced their first expansion outside of protein bars. Frozen cod 🤨
One of the coolest parts of being a founder is seeing how much other founders genuinely want to help you succeed.
To be fair, I don’t know any SaaS founders who talk about mission beyond “make money.” Most are intellectually honest! If you’re lucky enough to have a genuine mission, it doesn’t give you carte blanche to pay less. A mission gives you the ability to attract proven rockstars…
2/ “they should want to work here for our mission!” be fr bro. you're a random b2b saas with 0 traction and ur 7 pivots deep into ur "mission" i don't even believe early airbnb employees were loyal to the mission. but they MIGHT have been loyal to the culture ↓
This stuff is so incredibly cool, and I just cannot see how it becomes practical / safe enough for mass adoption. Growing up sucks.
We are excited to share this raw flight footage including take-off and landing, all with real sound. No special effects, no CGI, no AI, pure engineering. Enjoy the future! A fully functional real-world "speeder bike" that so far only existed in sci-fi movies is finally here.
I am beyond bullish on Evan’s support of young ambition.
I'm hosting a student-only office hours in SF on August 7th. If you're a student building something ambitious or exploring the frontier, let's talk (link in comments) We @PortalVentures are excited about young builders. Between @dotcuriouscat organizing the @PennBlockchain…
I once worked with one of the most prestigious designers at one of these very prestigious firms. They were a nightmare. If you’re a founder, spare yourself the very expensive senior middlemen and approach the mid-career design talent directly. They actually care, and you’ll be…
If you're a designer in your 20s, a couple of years at Pentagram, Wieden and R/GA as head of design will 10x your career more than any degree.
Writing quarterly updates is one of my favorite hobbies
"You may recall from previous updates that we built Pissbot" of course I recall. I'd never forget pissbot
I unironically want to put Thrones on planes.
Concorde did Pepsi. What should Overture do?
Buddy of mine got us kicked out of a Waymo last night Absolutely legendary performance
We are the second generation to eat fast food from birth, and the first to eat seed-oil based fast food from birth Through the 60s, lard and tallow were the standard for frying foods at McDonald’s By 1990, McDonald’s and other chains had moved to vegetable oil, and then to…
If you eat fast food, you’ve lost agency. Regain your power. I hear you. It’s easy and convenient. It’s hard to plan out nutritious food. I understand. Also those fast food companies have used science to addict and manipulate you.
👀 we see it every day, and we’ll see it for the rest of our lives. Everyone pretends not to care but we all look, notice, and pay attention. Sometimes it doesn’t show up. Sometimes, when it does, we worry it looks strange. It’s not something to be ashamed of. It’s one of the…
I’m like 90% sure the next time I post a video of Throne it’s going to be my actual pee stream. Tastefully cropped ofc but the people deserve an action shot
Hey @grok make a list of 25 of my homies
Hey @grok make a list of 25 of my homies
> aren't you worried that hardware is too capital intensive? no > have you thought about switching to a software only product? no
I’ve read Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday. I want to believe.
It’s time.
Sister’s wedding pics just came back This is a parent appreciation post I love them so much 🥹
People generally have awful intuition for thermodynamics & heat transfer. But they’re very confident!
Almost perfect
This is so sick. Glass mosaic map of NYC shower install.
So many of the best startup stories go untold. Recently learned that a multi-billion dollar household name didn’t make payroll for 6 months at one point in its early days. I can’t wait to read the memoirs from this generation of startups in 20+ years.