Reading out loud is important to find the dead parts, and to find out how to make things punchier. Highly recommended.

When I was young, all I thought about was Dungeons and Dragons and board games.

Now I'm 36, all I think about is still Dungeons and Dragons

The # of people who don't understand Marc Rebillet is sad

The Duolingo bird kind of used to look anemic

the real MVPs in the tech ecosystem aren't founders nor investors - they are all the early adopter customers willing to try half baked pre product market fit products, slogging through all the pain and wasted time because they believe in the problem and the team that much 🫡

This is such a lesson. Everyone super talented has pointy bits that are obnoxious or difficult.

Are Audis and VWs basically the same car tho

Spend enough time in venture and you're going to find someone that hates literally every fund, no matter how good the fund's reputation is.

If you're a CEO you should always have $50K for a good idea. Don't cop out, don't kill creativity, don't disempower yourself, don't position yourself as a hostage to the budget.

'Hey, I've always got $50K for a good idea, so tell me your idea. If it fixes a key problem, I

I have recently opened a slot for CEO coaching.

I've helped founders I've worked with build teams, find product market fit, and raise over $50m in venture financing.

If you are a venture backed CEO who has been looking for a coach, let's chat. DMs open.

app.practice.do/me/julien/book…

Niches that can support healthy coaching businesses:

-VCs
-Hedge fund managers
-Solo founders
-Co-founders
-Solopreneurs
-Financers in transition
-Bootstrapped founders
-High ambition mothers
-Recovering founders
-Founders as new parents
-Coaches (meta I know)

What else?

When I can't sleep, I put on the audiobook for 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harrari and I'm out within 10 minutes. It's been 4 years and I can't name 1 of the lessons. It’s the only audiobook I own.

Jensen Huang: 'Greatness does not come from intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't isn't formed out of smart people: it's formed out of people who have suffered.'

At 17 I cleaned offices at night, at 22 I worked a night shift customer service job, at 28 I was a NYT bestseller, at 33 I was a CEO... no degree though.

Where do I get good SF stickers, in SF?

I thought Dune 2 was the best movie of 2024 until I watched this masterpiece (sound on).

Some big news to share today!

Vowel: AI-powered meetings ✨ has been acquired by Zapier!

The whole team has joined the Zapier team to keep the Vowel mission alive – to make work easier. And with that, today we’re announcing a new experiment: – Zapier Central automation reimagined for the AI age 🧵

You probably need to let someone go

Appreciate all those customers who really took a shot on you

My number 1 request for the next OSX is to allow us to define audio devices, microphones, and camera devices as a priority list so that it stops switching to random devices every time I move to another desk.

it works that way for wifi, should work for all devices.