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interviewing the best founders & VCs • posting about startups • thinking about the future
I interviewed @CalvinnChenn (co-founder of Fetchr). Calvin sold his first company for $9 million, in high school... and later left college to do YC. This was a really fun conversation and Calvin shared it all, the highs & lows of founder life. Here's what we covered: 00:45 -…
I have definitely been sleeping on Chicago. Incredibly cool city
Imagine being the CEO of Kohls and giving an update to your board that your stock is up 50% because people on the internet wanted to “send it.” What a wild conversation that must be.

Settlers of Catan is a very good game and should be played more often.
Although I don’t think this means you have to move to SF (not a bad idea depending on your goals), I do think it highlights the importance of surrounding yourself with people who have similar ambitions and aspirations.
Being in the right room can do more for your career in 1 hour than cold emails can in 6 months. That’s why if you get an opportunity to go to SF, do it. I promise you it’s worth it.
What is the highest EV thing you can do with your free time? • Podcast • Newsletter • Build a sub-Reddit • Create AI YouTube content • Post memes What is it?
The unspoken rule of venture capital: → Invest in ideas that require more venture capital
A few observations about LLMs and “how to use them” → No one knows the *right* way to prompt → Any advice is based on lived experience → “Good” at prompting = “Good” at context → Software gives guardrails to use LLMs well → A lot of money will be made building software to…
Why is there not a platform that aggregates Job Postings by region/city for startups and provides data around Avg/Median salaries & equity comp. And do not say Glassdoor. I’m talking about a startup-specific platform.
im tripling the base salary for founding designers @cluely 250-350k cash + equity to be really good at figma i've also removed every single field in the application except "link to portfolio" please be world class
This is wild
Can't ship yet—AGI pending—but here's the full list from the thread with Amazon links: 1. amazon.com/dp/B083HKZX2W (salsa) 2. amazon.com/dp/B08THVMLG9 (hot sauce) 3. amazon.com/dp/B00KH0KVAM (tea) 4. amazon.com/dp/B08P15V21R (protein bar) 5. amazon.com/dp/B07SXD5X6F (teriyaki) 6.…
Just finished recording an upcoming podcast episode with @PeterJ_Walker 🤯 Wow, I literally can’t wait to edit it so I can listen again. That was an absolute banger. So excited to share it.