Derek Hopfner

"The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive."

Sometimes the market for something done very well is 100x the market for something done ok

Canadian filmmaker Sean Menard recently uncovered nearly 100 reels of film chronicling Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope in 1980. This previously unseen footage is coming out later this year in a documentary titled “Run Terry Run”. It looks incredible.

@AndrewArruda @jimohovb @bench_iq @maniacvc Love to see it! Congrats @jimohovb! 👏👏👏

Congrats to my ROSS cofounder @jimohovb, Max and the whole @bench_iq team on their $5.3M seed round! I’m proud to be one of the first checks with @maniacvc into Bench IQ! 🏄‍♂️ Lots of exciting plans and announcements to come! The train doesn’t stop!!! 🚂

@scottastevenson This is so true.

So you will really stand out if you are starting your career and master grunt work

One of the wild things you learn starting a company is that all the most stupid BS floats upwards to people with incredible executional bandwidth, not downwards It’s juniors/intermediates who are “trying to get out of the weeds so that they can focus on strategy”

@ramit Run. The. Numbers.

Thank you for asking. The worst real estate investment idea is buying a single-family home because you were told it's "The American Dream," telling yourself owning a house is a "great investment" without running a single calculation, making the biggest purchase of your life never understanding Phantom/transaction/opportunity costs, telling yourself you'll live there 30 years (few do) and never thinking about what to do if you end up retired with a paid-off house, but very little other money invested. What then?

we underestimate how much you have to break from convention to break through

dark horse contender for favorite video online. can't even think about it without laughing

The Paris Olympics opening ceremony: x.com/i/status/16320…

I beg a lot of you founders to go out and have some real life experiences, have some love for other people, listen to beautiful music I begggggggggg of you

All of this! "Take your work seriously, but yourself less so. Hard work often looks suspiciously like play."

The streaming feed of the Mets game just cut to a mariachi band playing “Higher” by Creed during the commercial. The vibes are wild right now 🤣

@ycwest @BainCapVC Bravo! Love to see it, Yoseph!

Today we’re announcing that Relay has raised a USD $32.2 million Series B, led by @BainCapVC. This brings Relay’s total funding to USD $51.6 million. This raise is a result of two things: our small business customers, whose ambition and ingenuity inspire us to build products that actually help their day-to-day success, and our team, who bring their all to Relay every day. I really feel lucky to work alongside both. Small businesses need financial tools that support them in a meaningful, fundamental way. Since day one, our focus at Relay has been not just to build business banking, but to give SMBs cash flow control and create a material impact on their financial success—and we know it’s working. Just last month, we crossed another milestone by reaching 100,000 customers. These customers include the salon owner who avoided a major financial crisis by combining Relay with Profit First. The marketing agency that stopped missing payroll. The home reno contractor who’s finally getting his business out of debt, and so many more. There are 33 million small businesses in the United States, and 68% of them will experience a cash flow crisis at some point. We have a really audacious mission here at Relay: to bring that number down to zero. A fundraise is an opportunity to accelerate our trajectory—and it’s fun news to announce. But it’s not validation. That’s what comes next, as we double down on building tools that tangibly help our customers. Next for us means deeper credit products to give business owners flexibility, spend management tools, and robust integrations with the entire back-office suite. I’m grateful to the small businesses and advisors who trust us with their everyday banking needs. And I’m proud of the Relay team for what we’ve been able to deliver for business owners to date. Stay tuned as we build this next chapter of business banking with all of you.

@DarrenShaw_ Bravo! 👏👏👏 Such great work!

🚀 Our new website feature is launched! I'm so happy to be able to offer this simple and affordable alternative to the millions of small businesses that are losing their Google Business Profile website. I would love your help to spread the word! #seo #localseo

@scottastevenson @SpellbookLegal @inovia 👏👏👏

We're thrilled to announce that @SpellbookLegal has raised a $20m Series A financing, led by @inovia. In 2014 my musical instrument company got a legal bill that nearly zeroed our bank account. In 2019 we launched Rally to help lawyers draft more efficiently using document automation. In 2022 we launched Spellbook as the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. In 2023 we assisted 1700+ legal teams with nearly 1 million contracts! We're excited to deploy this capital towards building the most trusted AI assistant for transactional lawyers. We have some huge new breakthroughs coming this year—which we'll start to show at @LegalweekShow next week! Thank you to our incredible team, customers and investors for joining our mission to help lawyers escape transaction drudgery—ultimately delivering more value to the end clients of legal services, and helping lawyers focus on doing more of the strategic work they love. Special thanks to our legal counsel at LaBarge Weinstein (@LWConnect) and the opposing counsel team at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (@Osler_Law) and Inovia Capital who helped us close this deal in record time.

Bravo @OmarMouallem 👏👏👏The Lebanese Burger Mafia was so great! And to premiere @HotDocs, no less! 🎬

@Srirachachau I want to know what was the creative process to create a joke like this

Could never hope to distill the breadth of his legacy in tweets, but here's some Sakamoto, since we're thinking of him today ⬇️

@AndrewArruda Couldn't agree more.

founders should seek out former founders who unsuccessfully tried to launch in their space — lots to learn from