SG
@sgmagent
Founder & CEO. Previously: Looker (acquired by Google), MIT https://linkedin.com/in/sgmir
That's a horrible way to evaluate a founding role. Founding role - whether in software of design - is about breadth of coverage. Founding X, in some ways like the Founder, is not supposed to be good at all (or even any) of their specialized areas. They are supposed to be good…
i've reviewed ~1,000 portfolio websites so far for founding designers ~3% don't open ~20% of all portfolio website are not responsive ~ 95% of all portfolios have at least one rlly shit project thoughts: if a project is NOT excellent, remove it. 1 good project > 10 shit ones
Used to be the most dangerous hw in California (if not in the USA)
The cofounder of @FactoryAI told me that being a daily customer of @Waymo for almost two years is a super power. I see now what he meant. Once you trust your life to AI running on melted sand you change to wanting to let AI do it all.
Respect this founder. No thrills. No BS. No Social Media stunts. Just business and execution. They don't make them like that anymore.
2000 -> 2025
They are looking for an exit / to be acquired.
9 years to get to $10M ARR; 9 months to $100M+. Replit is a story of a founder with a vision finally unlocked by AI.
It is revealing that while Zuck is playing an evolved founder, who is now a full adult, with adult executive priorities, Patrick's marketing is about trying to look as close to engineers as possible. Both are running giant empires and have made 0 technical decisions for the…
A conversation with @patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life. 00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk 03:35 - LISP chatbots 06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming…