Joe Schmidt IV

The hottest job in Silicon Valley right now is the FDE: forward deployed engineer. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the job board of any top AI application company; OpenAI alone has 22 open recs for this type of role. The race for talent is on.

I’m excited to officially launch Hercules (@UseHercules) Hercules makes it easy to build apps, websites, and prototypes by chatting with AI. We started building this 2 weeks ago. It’s already insanely good. We have a lot more planned. Please try it, give us feedback, and…

For years, we assumed consumers wouldn’t pay for software. Now people are happily paying $200+/mo for products like Claude, Grok 4 Heavy and Gemini. Not because they’re for everyone, but because they’re 100x better for someone. The free tier is the funnel. The real product is…

Since listening to an A+ @FoundersPodcast on Marc Rich, King of Oil has been high on my reading list. Finally got to it during summer travel and it was better than I thought it could be. What a wild ride. How about these first 3 yr financial results? 🤯 Highly recommend

Including date joined on x/twitter profiles makes no sense. Design clutter. No functionality. Would much rather “real human: Y/N”

Extremely proud to share that for the first time in my life I've used an entire stick of burt's bees chapstick Anything is possible

The forward deployed engineer is the hottest job in startups right now, according to @joeschmidtiv. Here’s why: a16z.com/services-led-g…

Celsius is to startups what PEDs were to baseball

100%! We even told Techcrunch that and they ran the lie anyway. As one would expect from a completely dishonest, morally bankrupt operation. We love 11x!!!

One of 11x’s incredible strengths that I believe will compound for many years to come is the breakneck pace at which @hasan_sukkar_ and the team move. That kind of speed brings both opportunity and challenge, especially early on. If you haven’t checked out 11x lately, now’s a…