Connor Sweeney
@_ConnorSweeney
Something new | Prev chief of staff at @passes, cofounder @RobigoBio, engineering @mit
I recently started a new company, and I find myself constantly thinking back to the first days of Passes. The first 3 employees all started on the same day, showing up to a Manhattan WeWork with nothing but a Figma mockup, a Notion doc, and an overly caffeinated sense of…
Is this thread satire?? Massive skill issue on your part. Mercor is at $10b and all the founding engineers who weren’t “burnt out after the first week” are worth millions. This is a naive take that is harmful to the entire startup ecosystem.
ok founding engineer i always got burnt out after the first week bc i was working long hours on somebody else’s idea that i didn’t care about
Whoever names their AI therapist company “Melfi” deserves to win the market
As someone who grew up in Delaware, it is hard to overstate the in-state animosity towards the judge who originally ruled against Elon. By attempting to virtue signal, Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick is single-handedly destroying one of the ~only~ industries in Delaware.
We are moving the state of our incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. It used to be a no-brainer to start a company and incorporate in Delaware. That’s no longer the case. We're not the first - Dropbox, Tripadvisor and Tesla have already left. Why we're moving (and why you…
Every company in 2025 is just choosing which episode of Black Mirror to build
Yeah I think we're on the right track (team asking to do 6 days in-person)
The Bezos wedding was tasteful, Lauren Sanchez is beautiful and seems like an incredible person, Watching billionaires celebrate love is motivating
Can’t believe people still fall for the mercenary vs missionary debate. You can count the true missionary founders on a single hand, and most of them started as mercenaries who opportunistically sought thrill and wealth when they were younger. The whole “choose a mission that…
Interstellar (and Iron Man) have done more for American ambition than any other piece of media. Interstellar came out my sophomore year of high school-- saw it 3 times in theaters and started plant biology research bc of the dustbowl scenes. Poll any MIT grad from 2014–2022 and…
EIGHTY-NINE?
Have thrown up from a workout 3 times in my life Did not expect one of them to be a Barry’s lockerroom in the upper west side but here we are Hit 18mph tho, new pr
