Are you hot or not?

This is a key question to think about if you're raising a venture round.

If you're a 'hot' company or you're a researcher who recently left OpenAI, you probably have hundreds of VCs in your inbox, and you can easily set up a process over a couple of weeks.…

One cheat code on this is to look for companies that recently announced a funding round led by a top fund like Sequoia, Index, Founders Fund, Elad, Nat, etc. These companies are often hiring & doing well.

Great companies are like art projects. Notion is one of those generational companies. forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

If you want to impress investors, you want to have a growing business. This seems obvious, and it's still easy to underestimate the importance of growth.

Some very successful companies now had very engaged founder-led sales from the beginning.

When we were first using Pulley at Fast, Yin Wu was our CS person.

Alex Bouaziz Alex at Deel would ping me personally every quarter to check in and see if I needed anything from them.…

PMF programs generally don’t help you with the Ideation stage, which is figuring out WTF you actually want to build. How do you find the Hairy Pain Point?

Some founders have a problem they’ve faced at a previously company or personally & have a clear line of sight into what’s…

There are quite a few high-impact founders & VCs who spent time at Dropbox in the earlier days.

It's the battle of the PMF frameworks!

I'm very bullish on $RIVN. It's being punished via the broader downturn in stocks related to electric vehicles and isn't being rewarded yet for their demand on the consumer side. The only one so far that has a chance at competing with Tesla in the US.

Creating and maintaining a startup is really challenging, amongst all the tools that I've been using so far Mercury is the most awesome, most beautiful, most practical tool I've used by far. I don't understand how it can be free.

Morocco is an incredible country: people, food, history, colors, smells, sounds…haven’t been that many places that feel as alive. Shukran lak almaghrib!

Tech’ed Up welcomes Jill Hazelbaker, SVP Marketing & Public Affairs at Uber, onto the pod to share lessons learned from her career spanning politics, early Google, and Uber. This is chock full of sage advice - don’t miss it!

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Apparently the reason people didn’t watch women’s sports was because the networks & leagues didn’t invest in them. Not bc people didn’t want to watch them. Caitlin Clark might change women’s sports forever!

If the reviews of Tesla self-driving are accurate, it might be one of the most undervalued AI companies & within 5 years Tesla tech could be powering self-driving in every vehicle (including non-Teslas). Other brands will license the software, similar to how Tesla super-chargers…

Molly is doing awesome work.

Who are your best angels or advisors?

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This is just a massive issue that’s going to continue to get worse & my guess is banks are dramatically underreporting it to protect their brands.

Going undercover is the new PLG