Dexter Dake

I met a startup who wants to stay in stealth for two years…

@boardyai So… do they keep the dropout records?…

When a VC hangs up because you said you didn't drop out of Stanford.

@kolencherry @ClaudeDevs I noticed this too

i think there's a bug in Claude design where if you upload multiple .fig files to initialise a design system, it only takes the last one. @ClaudeDevs

@daltonc Guaranteed you’ll have an AI feature before they fix it.

We’ll know we’re truly living in the future when TV UIs stop lagging.

@gbtechnologia Bro, I literally thought I was alone. 🙏

If YC is directing your vision you’re 3 years late

@marty_kausas 🍿

Adam Robinson called me out *personally* for raising $51M. Why? He just doesn't get it. Our goal has never been money or "the freedom to build cool shit". We want to build a generational company, which we define as getting to $1B ARR in under 10 years. Why? For fun and adventure. Adam (and a lot of other people) assume that VCs drive bad business decisions in favor of overly aggressive growth. That hasn't been our experience. What Adam thinks... VCs push growth over everything else. Reality... Our VCs have asked us twice this year to slow down growth in favor of other business decisions. What Adam thinks... Liquidity comes at IPO or acquisition. Reality... The team had options to sell 10% of their vested equity at Series B (and we plan to continue for future rounds). What Adam thinks... VCs control the company. Reality... Pylon founders control 3 of our 4 board seats. What Adam thinks... VCs micromanage. Reality... Our investors show up when we ask and stay out of the way when we don't. What I don't disagree with is that different companies are better suited for bootstrapping vs raising capital, depending on founder objectives. And that's ok. For us, we want to win one of the biggest markets in B2B software and get to $1B as our core objective.

@michaelxbloch Dan is one hell of a founder. Huge congrats!!

@issyadelaja @paulscherer While it’s not my jam, I agree.

@paulscherer @DakeDexter yep, imo only polymarket has been rlly successful at this

last gen’s successful consumer founders (pinterest, snap, insta, etc.) weren’t on the bleeding edge of tech, they were on the bleeding edge of culture and human experience. most of consumer ai today is still more interested in the tech than the culture. in the fullness of time, i don't think they'll survive.

@ky__zo 🫡

reply if you're in SF and under 1.000 followers

@mosiddiquee This is awesome! What’s the file size?

Animated favicon for a client

@marcelkargul Doesn’t pass the modify by 20% conceptually unspoken rule.

people are straight up copying our work and selling it to their own clients 😂 honestly, im flattered!

@kylecompute 💯

being earnest gets you killed in the bay if you dont find the right people

@charlieissland I keep receipts. My toxic trait is to follow up post their obnoxious deadline. “So… hows it going? What’ve we learned?”

Our client recently learned the hard way why we charge 200 USD per hour. He hired a freelancer for a simple landing page website through Framer because he liked a template the freelancer made—classic. The deadline was two weeks, including branding, web design, and Framer development. They agreed on 70 USD per hour. The release date was last Friday, but it didn’t happen. The client came back to us yesterday, feeling guilty, and briefed us. The website is now in production—fully QA'd with all design assets, favicons, OGs, and the typical stuff—and should be online tomorrow evening. You are paying us for fewer headaches and meeting deadlines.

@Ahmedcreatives Option 1 is most unique. Curious if the mark was flipped horizontally to allow the negative space to be up and to the right would help. Could potentially move the mark to the end if it feels like it then clashes with logotype. Just a thought but overall great work as is!

Need a second opinion Trying a few color options for this logo. Can’t decide which one works best Which one would you pick?

@joannewang_ @traversal_ai @_anish_agarwal spotted ^ 👀

Nyc subway ads from tech startups are getting kinda good??

When someone says you’re being replaced. Let them find out the hard way. Survival of the fittest.

@BobbyThakkar I might reframe cryptos challenge as a messaging and narrative problem. My grandmother knows what AI can do, but still has no clue what crypto is.

crypto founders complaining ai is eating all the venture money… we built every primitive — payments, identity, marketplaces, settlement — and shipped almost none of it to a real consumer ai didn't out-raise us, it out-shipped us