Adam

@jn_jackk Capital

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Mule deer for the win 🤣

@DarrelFrater DM

Any founders interested in pitching my friends at EONXI tomorrow? They’re a builder-operator investment firm backing companies Pre-Seed - Series A across Tech, AI, and emerging sectors. 💰 Check Size: $250K - $750K Comment below or shoot me a DM. Happy to get you connected.

@Phil_Brady_ @GoAheadVC Pitch sent! ✅ via Adam@Ridgerunner.com

@Back40CEO @GoAheadVC Our kind of founder energy 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ Send it through and we’ll keep an eye out

Your fund sponsors tech talks. Ours sponsors rodeos. We are not the same. @GoAheadVC: Funding American Builders 🇺🇸 🐎

@JesseMatchey @Happygilmore776 @WeWillBeFree24 Hey Jesse, stay in the desert bro. KY has got this

@Happygilmore776 @WeWillBeFree24 If you’d like to end up in prison… The individual making the vid could simply file a report, and ask for explanation, rather than upload to tiktok…but that wouldn’t rile up trigger happy lunatics, I suppose

A farmer in Appalachia Kentucky reports this is the second pass of a helicopter over their privately owned homested farmland. They deployed long-line/sling load operations of unknown origin. The tail number comes back to the Department of Interior, and the fleet of contracted aircraft. They made no contact with the owner. Kentucky is the next target for data centers, after Ohio. That's why they want to get rid of Massie.

@ColinGardiner @bgurley @jeff_jordan 🌊

Feel like it was the end of the modern marketplace era for VCs when @bgurley and @jeff_jordan retired. Big shoes to fill but aiming to be at the forefront of the next wave.

@DarrelFrater @peterlony Thank you, Darrel. I’ll pass on this one.

@Back40CEO @peterlony Just sent you a DM as well. We'll find out what they are really about on Friday 👍🏿

Any founders interested in pitching my friends at LvlUp Ventures? They’re a multi-stage venture firm backing startups from Pre-Seed to Growth, helping them access capital and strategic relationships. 💰 Check Size: $100K - $250K Comment “DM” below. Happy to get you connected.

@sarahfim @vercel @openclaw Does it have to be Vercel?

Despite being told no, I'm open-sourcing TrustClaw. You can now deploy a production-ready personal agent service with over 1000+ app integrations in a single command, straight to @vercel with npx @composio/trustclaw deploy I was inspired by @openclaw to build a simple web app where anyone could create their own 24/7 personal assistant and connect it to Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub, HubSpot, Linear… well everything, and securely through OAuth/sandbox execution. It went viral on X, reached over a thousand users in less than 48h, and revenue began pouring in. If you are thinking like a company, you'd probably keep that locked up. But why should I be the reason you spend another year scrolling instead of building? So today, I'm open-sourcing TrustClaw anyway. > 24/7 agents that act across Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Linear, Jira, and 1000+ apps > OAuth and sandboxed execution, so users don't have to hand agents passwords or raw API keys > Supports multiple users and authentication right outside of the box with @better_auth Repo is open, MIT licensed. If I were starting an AI company today, I'd clone this, pick a market, and begin shipping with Claude Code. Honestly so excited to see what comes out of this.

@HustleFundVC @dunkhippo33 The cap is the discount! Dead right. You don’t get both.

One tiny line in a SAFE can make a BIG difference: The 20% discount clause. Sounds boring. Very much is not boring. Here’s why 👇

@peterlony @DarrelFrater Same experience.

@DarrelFrater In my experience LvlUp has been a waste of time, trying to push products on founders and to sign up to many tools… as a condition to maybe “earn” a pitch. Then it’s retracted. Happy to be proven wrong but it happened to me and other people.

@sridharfyi @hthieblot Thank you @sridharfyi - the industry is so fragmented, especially when you look internationally. Interested in learning more?

@Back40CEO @hthieblot quite interesting concept, it will improve the industry going forward

@ founders What are you building this week end?

@hthieblot Mine are 5 & 3 🤪

Young kids + startup = the ultimate hard mode.
If you’re doing both, you’re not human. You’re a beast.

@bilalfarooqui Oof, felt this one

translating vc speak at preseed: - it’s too early (we don’t believe in you as a founder) - get more traction (we don’t believe in you as a founder) - find a lead (we don’t believe in you as a founder) - cap too high (we don’t believe in you as a founder) what else?

@dunkhippo33 @brejofit 🤷‍♂️

@brejofit No, not TAM, but momentum of growth.

Manufacturers who want margin control. Brands who want to own their customers. Distributors trying to survive digital transformation. Factories needing demand visibility. Consumers wanting a better buying experience. Every industry eventually consolidates onto infrastructure. Outdoor hasn’t yet. That’s the opportunity.

@Back40CEO Who is buying this

@ColinGardiner My x account has never opened a door for me irl. Also, my x account

Non-trivial in my experience

@geoffreywoo Facts. Throw in a southern accent and you’re the poster child for “this isn’t a fit for us”

the entire venture capital industry is built on a fundamental lie vcs say they fund exceptional founders before the market sees it reality: most wait for social proof, then cosplay conviction after the round is already safe

@dara_venture You into vertical AI rebuilding an entire legacy industry?

You raise your seed round.....now what? The first thing you do when $1-2M hits the bank account is open the app, look at the number, take the screenshot, smile, send it to your family group chat to make your dickhead brother jealous....then close it. You just got 18-24 months if you're disciplined, 8-10 if you're stupid. Firstly, Don't change your fucking life. Pay yourself enough to not stress about rent. $80-120k depending on city, even lower if you can stomach it. If you pay yourself $350k after a $2M raise.....chances are, you will not last. You're not running a company just yet.....it's an experiment...one that will end quickly if you prioritize short term gains > long term greatness. Same with office. You don't need one. The "we need a real space for the culture" is bullshit. Work from home. Your only job for the first 6 months is to talk to users and ship quickly. If you raised $2M and you're not doing (minimum) 5 customer calls a week as a founder........your priorities are messed up. You need to understand as quickly as possible if the people who use your product, come back without you begging them to do so! Almost everything else is a vanity exercise. Series A timeline in 2026 is 600+ days from seed. Less than 15% of seed-funded startups ever raise an A. So track burn weekly. Know your runway to the day. Every dollar should ship product or facilitates customer feedback . If a tool, hire, or expense doesn't do that, stop it. Conference tickets? No. PR firm? Absolutely fucking not. "Brand consultant" don't be stupid. Logo redesign? GTFOH. 72% of seed stage burn is "people". 74% of startup failures involve premature scaling. You raise, you feel pressure to "build the team," you hire 4 people in 90 days, burn goes from $40k/mo to $180k/mo, the new hires don't have product to work on because there isn't one yet, you spend your time managing them instead of talking to users, runway evaporates, you're back fundraising at month 9 with worse metrics than when you started. Stay 2-3 founders + AI for as long as humanly possible. The teams crushing right now have 4 people doing what 15 used to do just 24 months ago. When/If you do hire.......focus on builders, forget managers. Focus on operators, not "credentials". If you're not using AI for code (Cursor, Claude Code), customer support, sales prospecting, content, ops, brand, recruitment vetting......your competition is winning. Tech is commodity now. GTM and data are the moats. Use AI to compress everything that isn't either of those things. Try to avoid giving advisors equity. An "advisor" (who you mistakenly thought would enhance "credibility optics") who takes 1%, for doing absolutely nothing, is the same prick that costs you seven figures in a future round. Model dilution before signing every SAFE. Don't talk to VCs for 6 months. (forget the "always raising" mindset for now) Keep relationships warm with periodic updates but take the foot of the gas slightly. I know. I'm a VC saying this. But I mean it. The gravitational, distractional pull of the next round, will fuck up your focus harder than anything else. Send your existing investors a 5 line monthly email. Don't go to investor dinners. Don't "build relationships for the A." If you're talking to VCs more than building, again, your priorities are misjudged and it will show up against your development goals. The money will fuck with your head. People will ultimately treat you differently. Nobody really prepares you for that. You'll get DMs from people you haven't talked to since school. You'll feel the urge to announce, to LinkedIn post, to look like a "real founder." You'll also be lonelier than ever. You raised, your "friends" think you've made it, you can't tell them you're scared shitless and don't know if it'll work. I would recommend finding 1-2 founders.....who are 6 months ahead of you, and text them weekly. That's effective therapy (at least from my personal experience). Last thing. The party ended when the money hit. Now you have a shot and a clock.....the only thing that matters is whether you ship something people genuinely want before that timer runs out. Most people who give you advice in the next 6 months are probably going to try selling you something. Filter everything ruthlessly. Trust your user feedback and trust the burn rate. Now go build and say "no"...... consistently. Godspeed.