ladies and gentlemen, after a one letter hiatus, i am no longer a one-hit wonder introducing noplace — #1 in the app store

There isn't a single book that reads "Hey, I had this idea. I started it. Everything went great. The end."

We just raised a $10M Series A for Carry! Carry exists to help business owners grow their net worth by saving money on taxes In less than 2 years, we've grown to 1400+ customers, ~$900K in ARR and $35M+ in assets on our platform And we're just getting started... 🧵

The odds of unicorn at YC are literally 2X higher for any company deciding to stay in the Bay Area (jumps from 5% to 10%) It’s the high order bit: who are you surrounded by? If you want to optimize for best possible outcome you maximize your chance of luck by being in SF Bay

Attention everyone: the gas vs electric vs induction flamewar has officially been won permanently by the 10 kilowatt stove

Jerry Seinfeld nailed it, self-control is empathy with your future self.

$100k monthly revenue in 9 months. First-time founder. Sonnet 3.5 changed everything.

This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t: No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.

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By 21, you've lived half your life—perceptually Our brain's internal clock is predominantly dopaminergic: novel experiences slow time, routine accelerates it. This time warp means perceived age outpaces real age(studies prove this) Solution? Just do more cool shit. Blog below!

As a Stanford grad, ex-Stripe engineer and YC backed CTO, I… used to find it so cringe to talk about my accomplishments on socials, but then I realized that humility was getting me nowhere, and it’s probably getting you nowhere too. Guys a quarter as accomplished as me were

Working long hours is not a sufficient condition for doing great things, but it does appear to be a necessary one, especially in the early stages.

I was going to make this into a nicely phrased point about venture debt, but I decided to just give you a screenshot of the DM I sent to a YC founder yesterday.

Ronnie Fieg - Started as a stock boy - Built KITH into a $100M brand - Became a creative partnerships master - Collabed w/ Adidas, Versace, X-Men, & Coke He just announced a collab with Giorgio Armani & Martin Scorsese... His story is wild. And full of lessons.

Europoors in my mentions say that the 2-4x income in SF is canceled out by greater cost of living So here's a simple "SF vs. Paris" model taking into account salary, rent, groceries, taxes, healthcare etc, showing that you end up with $114k / yr of savings in SF, $10k in Paris

Flo Crivello I've had this argument so much with people on TikTok, and in Canada. Rest of the world has no idea of the raw purchasing power provided by a good career in the US. Average tech employee in SF is as wealthy as a successful business owner in most of Europe, if not more.

The new Index Ventures office in London could be mistaken for a museum or art gallery. So tasteful!

Me: Wow, my Tesla just drove me from my house to LAX and I didn’t touch a thing. Moron: Yeah, well Tesla is way behind in self-driving! Have you heard of Waymo or Baidu? They’re the leaders! Me: Can either of the leaders take me from my house to LAX yet? Moron: Well… your

Ok just read Mr Beast memo in full and it just confirms you need an insane obsession with whatever you’re doing to be top 1% in your chosen field. Given this, most people should choose their field more carefully.

Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom is charging up to $200m a year to design new products. Clients include Airbnb (new review system), Ferrari (touchscreen), Christie’s (auction stand) and OpenAI (AI hardware). The most visible product yet is a “reinvented” button for a Moncler