Tate Hackert
@TateHackert
Inventor of Earned Wage Access. Owner at House 831. Spent 100+ days at sea. Lent $250k on Craigslist at 16. Tweet fintech, Canada tech, and half-baked thoughts
What side quests you pursuing right now?
you need to be side quest maxxing. get your pilots license. get scuba certified. go sky diving. get your coastal cruising certificate. become a sommelier. learn falconry. get forklift certified. motorcycle license. beekeeping certification. lockpicking. become a notary. collect…
Peter Thiel: world-class entrepreneurs are typically polymaths “I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is that they’re not specialists. They’re something closer to polymaths.” Thiel continues: “If you have a conversation with Mark…
I wrote 8 angel checks in 2024 but just 1 in 2025. Will try to do 7 more still this year. I've now invested in 35 startups since 2019. Have had 3 go under, 2 exit for 15 cents on the dollar, and a few with 10x+ markups. Am I doing this right?
The funniest thing about this CEO/HR cheating thing is how everyone is completely shook that cheating happens
There is nothing in this world obtained just from thinking. Rockefeller musings
You grow up thinking your parents have everything figured out, only to eventually realize they're flawed like the rest of us
If you are trying to make the math work on buying a house it won't. And that's ok.
Scarcity creates magic.
Palmer Luckey on Silicon Valley’s shift to working on important things again
Built in a weekend for @build_canada I wish I didn't have this fidelity because it makes me want to cry even more about the taxes I pay.
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Success is simply the ability to make a decision quickly and then make another decision based on the outcomes of the first.
This is why I'd never bet against Austen. Entrepreneurship runs deep.
Where can I find more Travis Kalanick long form content? He's so good.
Justin Bieber returning to X, Elon reposting him, a soon to be big payout from all the views. It has started.
People are learning
45 mins from Calgary you get the most beautiful scenery on this earth. 45 minutes from Toronto you get Scarborough.
Show, don't tell.
I meet a lot of CEOs who are taking over an existing engineering team and are trying to answer a seemingly simple question "How do I measure the effectiveness of my engineering team?" My answer: WEEKLY DEMOS There are lots of activity metrics that can be useful to track, but…