immad
@immad
CEO @Mercury. Investor: @RappiColombia, @Airtable, @Rippling, @SubstackInc, @AppliedInt, 300+. Cohost of Founders in Arms Podcast.
Over the years, I have tried to share learnings from my startups and seed investing. Decided to combine my startup tweets+tweetstorms into a tweethurricane. Here are my learnings + advice, from pitching investors to getting through the journey:
As a serial entrepreneur, @immad was frustrated with the lack of services available for new businesses from traditional banks. So, he took action and launched @mercury in 2019 to provide better banking services to businesses. Today, Mercury serves more than 200,000 ambitious…
Mercury Personal is replacing all my personal “cash management”. It’s great!
Put your money to work, without any of the, well, work. 😌 Invest* is now rolling out on Mercury Personal: → Diversified portfolio → Low fees → No lockups → Ease of use → One dashboard Check it out: app.mercury.com/accounts/invest
I can share some of the Mercury lore here, but the tldr is that since almost the very beginning, we've treated support as an element of our overall Product surface. As we grew, the second team that was split off into its own domain was our "Support Product" team. We (Whitney…
All this Windsurf/Scale stuff goes to show you that if FAANG was really unleashed from antitrust, the M&A spree we would see would be truly insane.
One of my favorite passages from The Fish That Ate The Whale (One of my favorite books): “Pretend you're Samuel Zemurray. You're thirty-two. You've been in America less than twenty years. You lived in Russia before that, in a poor farming town filled with rabbis. Now you're…
"Yeah, they're not hardcore enough." That's how Ryan Westerdahl explained the difference between people who thrive at SpaceX versus those who burn out. After nine years there, he's blunt about what it takes. Building something meaningful requires that level of commitment. The…
My iPhone voicemail is 100% full of spam and there is no mass delete. So dumb.
I’ve never shared this publicly before, but here goes: 2.5 yrs ago, I was diagnosed with one of the most painful, life-changing diseases: rheumatoid arthritis The surprising part? I beat it and recovered only when I stopped following my doctors’ advice. Here’s my story 👇
I did a bunch of space investing around 2018-2022. Seen less recently because a lot of the interesting ideas got filled during that period. When I'm looking at space investments, there are three things I care about: Does this person know what they're talking about? How…
The first version of Coinbase launched with just a hot wallet - a risky proposition. We were in beta and the app prominently told people not to store any money there they couldn't afford to lose. But the amounts of deposits kept steadily rising. I realized we needed to build…
Share a piece of lore about yourself
Why is Meta scared of OpenAI? This graph: 1. ChatGPT is not just a productivity app. People are spendings hours on it to talk to AI, write poetry etc. 2. Meta needs attention to drive ads. If this trend line continues AI will eat social app time. Graph source: Coatue
The best products solve problems people actually care about. @adamnash (CEO & Co-Founder, Daffy) explains why he loves building in the charitable giving space. Giving "is a financial task, but it's so much more than that for most people." This applies to any product category…
Soham-gate has so many tech culture war themes: * remote vs in office * US vs international * AI cheating * 10x engineers * difficulty of getting hired * employee vs startup @Suhail really hit an unintentional nerve that the first reading of the post didn’t make obvious.
We (startups) need to create a system that tries to find people who do this: A) KYC everyone B) have some automated AI way of doing reference check C) keep private records of people trying to work multiple jobs. Wondering if Mercury should build this and give it away for free.
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
Google gave back Eric Migicovsky (@ericmigi) the entire Pebble operating system for free. After Pebble was acquired, Eric spent years trying other smartwatches. Nothing worked. Apple Watch, Pixel Watch; none checked his boxes. He wanted to restart Pebble, but rebuilding the…
Why I think learning CS will continue to be useful in the era of vibe coding: To truly be a master at Python/Java/etc it was useful to understand C/assembly and how computers work. I think that analogy stretches to AI. Though, not everyone wants or needs to be a master.
This is sick. Airtable going AI first!
🌠Today, we’re excited to relaunch Airtable as the AI-native app platform, combining the magic of vibe coding business apps with real production-readiness and scalability, and embedding them with an army of agents that automate thousands of hours of work in seconds. Instead of…
Thinking about launching an ecommerce business? Here’s exactly where to start. 🏁 In our new video series, Mango Puzzles founders @k_didic and Svet break down the tactical moves they made to go from idea → launch … and the lessons that made all the difference. Episode 1 is…