Renato Villanueva

You’re not moving as fast as you want not because you’re slow. You’re not moving as fast you want because you’re not moving at all. You have decisions to make and you’re not making them.

Sometimes the thought of running 8 miles to eat 2 Hot n’Spicys seems super worth it.

It’s so hard celebrating wins as a founder because you know the next punch in the balls is around the corner. But this month we beat our target and we did it by the 25th of the month. (Alright, ready for that punch)

So the Tea app that is meant to make online dating safe for women was hacked and all their credentials stolen? The irony. 😭😭😭

The one disservice twitter does to founders is making them feel like it's easy.

Your flight is boarding but you are demoing your product by the gate. You either finish the demo and miss your flight, or only get their info for later. What do you do?

We talk about this a lot.

Such a weird feature to be excited about, but mostly excited because some of our customers have matured to the point where this matters.

Really wish I would’ve known SF was having their coldest summer in 40 years before deciding to wear shorts here.

@_renatov built the tool I wish I had as a first-time founder trying to model burn and runway without breaking Excel. Now he runs his company on @puzzlefin + @ParallelFPA. He calls it the “financial stack of the future” for founders. He said it best: "We went from waiting until…

Isn’t it crazy to think at one point Bird has the world convinced Scooters were the transportation of the future?

The interesting realization as a parent, is that many times it takes till your 3rd to learn what type of parent you want to be. Every child really is a guinea pig and they still love you any way.

First time founder mistake I made during my first raise: Targeting the Tier 1 firms first. - Who you reach out to - When in the process It all matters a lot. Don’t get excited about the meeting. Be strategic about when they happen.

“Stay alive along enough to get lucky” for me in many ways is about gaining more and more conviction in myself.

Founders love taking meetings with VCs when they aren't fundraising and it's the biggest waste of time. Don't do it. (there are exceptions... but super rare)

The biggest thing I see in finance today is tools building agents to write summaries and find insights and TBH... that was my favorite work in finance. Few (... really just us) are building to do the grunt work that finance hates.

Nothing worse than tracking your run and hitting 6.02 miles but then after you click “done” and go back to see it was only 5.98…

The next idea always sounds more exciting than the work sitting on your desk right now. And a lot of times the “next idea” is disguised as a problem. Aka Get good at letting fires burn.