Corey Engel 🇺🇸 CTO Guy

I work with US-based owner/CEOs with cash‑flow rich businesses, who want to spin up a parallel B2B/B2G software company… You bring: - A profitable core business - Clear problems your customers will happily pay to solve - Budget to build something real, not an MVP I bring: - Interim/fractional CTO who architects, ships, and sells - 120+ companies across 80+ industries - Ability to sit in the deal room with you and your investors If you want your existing company to be customer #1 of a serious new software business – and you need someone to own the tech end‑to‑end – DM me “CTO”

@gregisenberg Distribution is super easy

now that we all can build anything with ai we're going to all have to figure out distribution the wealthiest people will be marketers over the next 10 years

@StartupArchive_ Majority of VC’s miss “expand the tam“ play. It’s actually really easy to spot.

Tobi Lutke explains what the VCs who passed on Shopify got wrong Tobi recounts pitching Shopify to VCs on Sand Hill Road a few years after founding Shopify. Investors passed because they thought the addressable market was too small. At the time, there were about 40,000-50,000 online stores, and even if Shopify captured 50% of the market, that still wouldn’t be a venture-scale business. When Tobi ran into the VC partner a few years ago, the partner asked Tobi what he missed (Shopify is valued at almost $100 billion today). Tobi explained: “You were actually correct, but what you didn’t realize was that Shopify was the solution to the very problem you identified. The reason there was only 40,000 online stores was because it was hard, expensive, and everyone who tried ran into all these brick walls of complexity, which Shopify, one after another, smoothed over and made simple to do.” Tobi believes this is a common mistake: “What a lot of free-market thinkers don’t understand is that between the demand and eventual supply lies friction. And I actually think that friction is probably the most potent force for shaping the planet that people just generally do not acknowledge… That was my theory when I turned my snowboard store into Shopify: there was a lot more people like me except there was too much friction which we needed to solve. And Shopify has proven out that every time we make the process simpler, there’s more consumption. At this point, we have a million merchants on Shopify, which is a mind-blowing number. So friction is a major component, and it’s something that software is uniquely good at reducing.” Video source: @danmartell (2019)

@brettcalhounn I’m corey

Scaling your company to 100M ARR is not for the faint of the heart. I want to meet more resilient founders. Introduce yourself👇 You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky — Michael Scott.

@SteveLovesAmmo It wouldn’t even be close. The only Achilles heel is the enormous Third World invasion sprinkled throughout these states that would fight from within.

6 in a landslide.

How many people work at Shell? How many contracts does it have with third-party companies? How many people work at those companies? Out of all of the returns that shell makes for its stakeholders, how much new money is underwritten to sustain retirement, benefits, social services, etc.

@JasonrShuman @semil Lol no

Coatue just put a number on what we’ve been seeing at seed for 3 years. Software = $0.2T market. Services-as-software = $5.5T. 25x. The shift is from selling tools (per-seat) to selling work (per-output). This is why the best vertical AI companies don’t compete with software incumbents. They’re compete with expensive service providers, BPOs and high turnover labor. A $2K/month AI agent replacing an $80K/year agency is the new business model.

@MrAnderson055 @SamiraBehrouzan @speedrun It wasn’t an idea. It worked

@realCoreyEngel @SamiraBehrouzan @speedrun Probably because your idea was retarded

if you can reply to this message you can apply to @speedrun.

@SamiraBehrouzan @speedrun Sent.

@realCoreyEngel @speedrun When did you apply? Send us an email at sr-team@a16z.com with all the info we’ll look into it

@andrewchen It’s actually ai trained on lazy human patterns. It’s cringe because it reminds people of themselves

what people call "ai slop" is just AI generated content that's not good enough yet

@SenWarren Define “rich” then explain how

That’s just my two cents.

@SenSanders This is socialism 101 😊 hand all the money to the people and they use to make billionaires rich and demand robots everytime smh

Call me a radical, but NO. We should not be replacing teachers in America with robots. We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve.

@tomosman When everyone is an OpenAI … no one is

Everyone is. building the same thing.

@vileTexan Truth. But democrats would make it 100x worse. It’s a lose lose

Why should I vote for any Republican in the State of Texas? Serious question. Republicans have held Texas for 30 years, and what have we gotten? Taken over by Illegals. Taken over by Indians. Taken over by Muslims. Taken over by Big Tech. Taken over by Californians. We've all but lost the entire DFW metro area. Plano is fucking gone. They're 27% foreign born now. I'm shocked they aren't riding camels at the Stockyards yet. Republicans do just enough to keep everybody placated, meanwhile we're boiling frogs over here. Do we have to start voting in retards to finally wake everybody up enough so we can do something about this? We can't go on like this another 30 years. We need to come up with a plan to Save Texas.

@jackunheard Boomers

🚨BREAKING: Kentucky family rejects a $26 million offer to turn their farmland into a data center, roughly 10x the area’s going rate. “If it’s my way, I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn’t mean anything.”

@BrandNewFeel @mil0theminer lol

Are you kidding me

@zuess05 It’s up to the founders to drop the ball at that point

@realCoreyEngel it does?

What is the absolute ultimate flex as a founder? • Raising $2M from top VCs • Hitting $10k/mo completely solo • Traveling the world while building • Finally quitting the 9-to-5

@RepOgles I stumped Grok on this point. Its biases are pretty deep.

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@NapoleonBonabot @farzyness Hint: they won’t

The Texas Triangle is also about 4.5x the size of Taiwan. The Greater Austin Area alone is about 1/3 the size of Taiwan. As long as Texas can manage its water availability issues, it will become a semiconductor capital.