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consumer & marketplace startups. @whatnot @joinpush @umich
TLDR BEATING THE TWITTER COLD START PROBLEM 🧵 - (BOOKMARK FOR LATER) optimize for some form of value (entertainment or insight). if someone doesn't find your content funny, interesting, relatable, or educational, then they won't engage with it. very simple. some good…
complexity first, simplicity second people say “keep it simple,” but most approach it backwards. they start from simple, then add on complexity without seeing the whole. that’s how you end up with frankenstein products: clean-looking components awkwardly stitched together, held…
Every great consumer app is just a slot machine in disguise.
I do wonder whether technology like GenAI will help or hurt originality in the world. On one hand, production of high-quality output will become extremely accessible, and may help people express their individual ideas/emotions/imagination in the ways they want to. On the…
i think we should normalize copy and pasting insightful tweets instead of reposting them #spreadplagiarism
Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
he read my article. no question about it
If you are a technical founder, you do not need a non-technical cofounder.
onboarded a seller onto whatnot and she made my whole paycheck in an hour
no better feeling than when your slack message gets 5+ reactions feeling like the man
every tech executive i’ve met for the first time is overly simplistic about their role
GIF/meme humor is directly proportional to intellect and interviews should optimize for this unspoken intuition
one of the most underrated interpersonal skills is knowing the perfect meme GIF for every possible scenario it requires 1) extreme ball knowledge of all possible GIFS to send/post 2) creative adaptation based on context 3) an unspoken intuition
a16z and cluely
The famous strongman and "Game of Thrones" actor with his wife. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is 206 cm tall and weighs 200 kg, while Kelsey Henson is only 157 cm tall and weighs 49 kg.