John Peña

Spotted on the sidewalk

While we understand these are challenging times for the literally dozens of Americans who were rooting for Duke, we believe we have an obligation to our subscribers to continue updating the Silver Bulletin NCAA tournament model.

@tweethue why are your lightbulbs blinking? You freaked out my daughter. Throwing your piece of junk lightbulbs in the trash.

@RetentionAdam I’d love to hear the day one stories of building the MVP, doing customer discovery, pathfinding, mistakes made, difficult decisions, first hires, etc. Been loving your content!

In 3 years, Retention went from an unknown startup struggling to close a deal to $20 million ARR I'm committed to building this company into a $1 billion business in public I share monthly revenue numbers and our biggest challenges What else do you want to see from me?

@oscrhong @aashaysanghvi_ this is so true it hurts

@aashaysanghvi_ the ones with the bad products are the hardest to kill 😂

Then: compete with incumbents with bad products Now: compete with companies with bad pref stacks

@spikebrehm You've been predicting the bubble will pop since 2010

The President of Stanford had to resign over doctored data Stanford professor Jo Boaler should resign next. Her doctored data removed Algebra from SF public middle schools and will soon do so all over CA Her impact on setting back access to advanced math is devastating to kids

@angrynoah How do you know when you start if you're going to have 'medium' or 'big' data? What happens if you anticipate you'll have medium, and then it turns out to be big?

if you have "medium" data, the future is DuckDB and Clickhouse. As long as you can fit your problem on one machine these tools are ASTOUNDINGLY fast & cheap. Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake are all too big, too expensive, and frankly too slow. Don't even get me started on Spark.

I’ve been reluctant to try ChatGPT. Today I got over that reluctance. Now I understand why I was reluctant. The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x. I need to recalibrate.

AI was able to generate at least two porridge crisis scenarios after being trained only on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are not ready

@zcabrams “Your need to make money to put food on the table is quite uninspiring”

~half of this yc batch is working on (1) ai for sales teams, (2) support ai, or (3) ai analytics. the next great computing platform is here and our best minds are building sales tools. quite uninspiring. not a single company using ai to push forward education, creatives, etc

Dear @SpotifyUSA, as long as you're redesigning the desktop app layout, could you bring back the column for 'artist' in the playlist view? You know, the thing every music app has had since the beginning of time? 🙏

Whenever I ask @pena for a time estimate he sends me the same gif

Today is the biggest day in @CorrelatedLabs history! From the moment we started the company we knew there was a divide between customer data and the GTM teams that rely on that data to do their jobs. 1/

1.7 trillion (spending bill) divided by 200 million (american adults) = 8,500 (dollars, per adult, that none of us will ever see)

Does anything cause more confusion than two boomers with the same ringtone?

@rationalwalk I've taken dozens of road trips with a model Y and they've been awesome, fantastic road trip vehicle

@spikebrehm “Hummus”

Huge quality of life improvement was to change Slack notification sound to something that doesn't trigger sense of impending doom

Every B2B SaaS company has built their own internal CDP

@murf1451 Fun fact: the reason people call me "Peña" is because LastName is a required field on the Lead sobject

@pena Just use Salesforce’s Black Lotus REST API and you’re golden dude

What's more complicated: Salesforce Apex API or Magic the Gathering?