Xander Pollock

After 16 years and 10 months -- I'm finally writing my first...X? Also, will start writing more regularly. My first post is, ironically, on why I'm posting. qy.co/new

@PabaniAziz Didn’t know I could do Jira on the treadmill!!!

Super excited to launch Nerve today, the AI Chief of Staff that connects to all your work apps so you never have to do any BS work again Enterprise ready with SOC 2 compliance and SSO support. Sign up for free at usenerve.com

@cleerview I love this so much. I think AI summaries are great. The compendium of research on the Bible is so dense and so thorough, pulling from all of them at once to reach consensus on what a chapter is saying is a decent, ecumenical approach. The alt. is one white guys perspective, no?

Building the Bible app I always wanted, with a hint of AI

@sergeykarayev Fantastic. Cant wait to try.

Superconductor: Manage an entire team of Claude Code agents, right from your phone or laptop. • Write informal tickets • Spin up MANY agents for each ticket • Each agent has its own live app preview • One-click PR the best one! Like this post and request early access👇

@AndrewWarner @holloway Trying to buy Mixergy Premium and getting a spinning wheel of death. Are you guys still offering Mixergy memberships or have you moved to Holloway exclusively?

This clip is from the @Holloway Edition of Stop Asking Questions. 🎙️Audio examples of interviewing techniques 🎥 Video tutorial on my podcasting process 📝 Interviewing course (Spring '22) 🎧 1-year Mixergy Premium subscription Master the craft 👇 holloway.com/b/stop-asking-…

I haven't posted much here, but that's about to change. Let me reintroduce myself properly. I'm not really Andrew Warner. I was born Shuki Khalili. Try cold-calling someone when your name is Shuki – I learned real quick that "Andrew Warner" got calls answered way faster than "Shuki from... uh, that greeting card company." That scrappy name-change hack helped me bootstrap Bradford & Reed to $38 million in annual sales. Then I built Grab•com (Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway backed our billion-dollar jackpot – no big deal). After selling those, I created Mixergy and spent 15 years interviewing 2,000+ entrepreneurs including the founders of Airbnb, Dropbox, and Netflix. Here's what I'm up to now: → CEO of Bootstrapped Giants (partnered with Jesse Pujji) → Generated $277k in the first 2 months with our B2B Sales Accelerator → Moved from San Francisco to Austin (turns out I love manual labor now. Who knew?) → Still hosting Mixergy interviews and learning from founders daily What you can expect from me: Raw stories about building businesses without big funding, lessons from interviewing startup giants, and probably some behind-the-scenes chaos from growing Bootstrapped Giants. I believe the best business advice comes from stories, not lectures. Dale Carnegie taught me that – tell the story first, then draw out the point. Your turn: What's one thing about you that would surprise people here? Drop it in the comments. I'd love to learn about YOU.

On the story of campfire with the amazingly humble @brian_lovin, @benblumenrose reminded us we have to “Build something (5 or more) people want” 😂

@BrettFromDJ Do you communicate with clients outside of Trello?

Hi 👋 I’m Brett, and I run a million dollar, one-person design business. Here’s the full story. 👇

This is gold 🥇

@zendadddy How about @jakek and @jazer of Sprint and Make Time?

Headspace's design team is looking to create an internal speaker series this year. if this is something you'd be excited about (as a speaker), please like/comment this tweet! - 30 mins preso or convo - super flexible on topics (not just health) - you will be compensated 🎉

Designers: "My design process is messy AF, and my files are a dumpster fire of unnamed layers and ideas that went nowhere." Design interviewers: "Show me the step-by-step scientific method you used to make the company more money. Tell it to me like a TED talk. Also, metrics."

@Waymo thank you 🙏 the first ride was scary as hell and the second ride almost felt normal.

✍️ New post: How to give a great product design portfolio presentation • Explain problem discovery and prioritization process • Share specific stories about navigating tradeoffs • Show iterations and outcomes + a few more best practices brianlovin.com/writing/how-to…

@jazer @packyM @chriscantino @andrwwang @mg @valdean @patfives Awesome. I followed everyone.

@helloxander I'm still searching, but so far: - Not Boring by @packyM - @chriscantino - @andrwwang - @mg Plus I have a couple of friends (@valdean @patfives) who I occasionally bother privately with questions 😇

Current information diet

@kathleen_warner This is a great list! Jake and I only run half day sprints now, so there's that.

anyone else finding ways to make sprints less draining, and maybe even recharging?

design sprints a year+ into the pandemic suck. buttttt one nice thing about organizing them is that you may be able to design peoples time for more recharge than they get in their usual week of back to back product meetings here are some things i did for a recent sprint:

@niket @kimocode @icco @mattjoanou @reed 💯

@niket What's going on ? Are they going to pave a new road?

Hi, are you a designer in SF who wishes to keep JFK Drive car-free in Golden Gate Park, and willing to donate your totally overqualified skills to create campaign materials? Please allow me to introduce you to some organizers.

If you weren't doing it Pre-COVID, you aren't gonna be doing it Post-COVID.

RIP Tony Hsieh “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”