Carl Casis

Claude, file my taxes, no jail time.

Five years ago, I started Casis Careers. Since then, we've helped startups hire engineers, sales leaders, marketers, operators. The people who actually build the thing. Companies figuring things out. Companies scaling fast. Founders trying to build something real, something they believe in. The work became more than just recruiting along the way. Helping founders structure teams. Talking through what the first sales hire should actually look like. Positioning their company so the right people actually want to join. I've been lucky to work with great people. Help hire some top-tier folks. Help pitch candidates on founders' visions and what they're trying to build. In the early days I didn't even have a website. Just a Google Sheet, a MacBook Air, and a dream. (And rent to pay 😅) To everyone who helped along the way, whether that was as a client, a candidate, a referral, or someone saying good things about me in rooms and Zooms I wasn't in: That stuff matters more than people realize. I appreciate you. Check out the new casiscareers.com

@stevenwhatevr @Toronto Embarrassing amount of times I’ve forgotten to take out the trash only to woken by the roar of the garbage truck 🥲

For the good of the city of @Toronto, I've made Lil' Trash Guy. Never miss garbage day again: trash.supermagicapps.com 😘

your company will drastically become more efficient overnight if start doing spontaneous phone calls instead of 90% of meetings

Shareholdermaxxing

@iamshaanarora @emailoftoday 🙏 congrats brother

This feels surreal to say. Alia has officially been acquired by Dotdigital. There were a lot of nights I pictured writing this post. [more emotional parts below, but I need to first talk to our customers and partners before anything else] NOTHING will change for our partners and customers. We're not asking anyone to move their ESPs to keep working with Alia. If you have Slack channels with us, those channels will remain and you'll still keep your current CSMs with us. Our same commitment to customer support and customer success for our customers and partners will still be there in full force. We're not done building Alia by any means. Our team and product are staying intact. And we're excited to build and move quickly as we've always done, but now with the resources of a much larger company. - I want to first express gratitude to my co-founding team. Cory, Bill, and Jake have challenged me every single second of this journey and I appreciate it more than they'll ever know. I try to read more and listen to more podcasts so that I can understand what they're saying when they're chatting to eachother at work. I'm forever indebted to them, and I'm excited to keep building with them for a very long time. I'm extremely grateful for the broader Alia team as well. I know that we ask a lot and that we're not the most typical company in many respects, but I'm damn proud of you all and your commitment to the company. I'm very grateful to my family for the unwavering support and all the thoughts and prayers they've been sending since we started this whole thing four years ago. When I asked my parents if I could live with them after college and work full-time on my crazy idea that had no funding or revenue, they didn't hesitate for a second. Living at home with them when our company had no money gave me the chance to ground myself and work as hard as humanly possible. My parents have supported me and given me space when I needed it, and I appreciate them dealing with me when my mood swings based on the revenue growth of the company on a week-to-week basis. I also want to thank my friends for supporting us and caring. I know we can act crazy sometimes about this company and I appreciate you bearing with us. Thank you to Dotdigital for trusting us and our mission. We’re just getting started, and we’re thrilled to build the future side by side. Cory and I first started building Alia four years ago when we were 20 years old, both interns at a bank. Being able to celebrate this with the same person who I've been with since the start is a feeling I can't put into words. Oh, and by the way, we didn't take a dollar of outside funding to build Alia. As I'm holding back tears, I'll conclude with this: I've been posting almost every weekday since January 2024 on LinkedIn and Twitter. And, at least once a week since then, I've dreamt of writing this post and how it'd feel to write it. It feels better than I could've ever imagined.

“Don’t be so busy you don’t have time to think” is incredible advice generally A huge Founder trap is being stuck on autopilot or doing low-leverage work because it feels productive

less yappers more builders

High IQ without high agency is anxiety.

I vibe coded BangersOnly in a weekend. enter any X/twitter handle, see their top 10 posts ranked by engagement.

@robjama But when do you spend time with your wife and kids? 😅

i realized my whole week is two modes now: building premium software by day, personal software on night & weekends. personal is made for me and for scratching my own itch. only need to make one user happy. premium is made for others, solves a problem well and worth paying good money for. software you can't one shot with AI.

there are guys on here who don’t know how to cook themselves eggs trying to create AGI on a Mac mini

made an app that shows a live $ counter burning during meetings based on attendees's salaries

if ur gonna quit something this year quit being a bitch

When your Grandma says “Idk why you like that John Cena guy i heard he tapped out like a b*tch” at Christmas Dinner.

Prompt engineer son or storyteller daughter

Need your help! 🤝 Sales: w enterprise exp who are comfortable in 6 figure cycles. Build part of your own funnel, but also work with partners/marketing 📈 Growth: creatively generate enterprise demand, finding new channels, and experiments that get us in front of the right ppl

Some of you don’t realize John Cena was so big at the height of his career that a lot of us learned Osama Bin Laden had been killed because of him.