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Preet Singh

@DesignSingh

Heading Product Design @eqbank | Community Building @wearedesignxy | Long on @Cosmos | Host @ https://t.co/JC8Y749elu

Toronto Katılım Temmuz 2010
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Jelena
Jelena@jelena_noble·
Kind of incredible that, for many years "context-switching" was seen to be a bad thing, when now, in the AI economy, its the one human skill that AI agents can't (yet) replicate.. context-switching now becomes a SUPERPOWER! As a super context-switcher, feeling vindicated...
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Preet Singh
Preet Singh@DesignSingh·
@simoncorry @figma Feeling similar feels when few of my team members including myself ran into this yesterday. Claude Code alone is doing a pretty decent job too (with Figma mcp when needed) - as a Make alternative.
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Simon Corry
Simon Corry@simoncorry·
Goodbye @figma, I will remember our time fondly. In the end you broke the one cardinal rule... never come between a builder and their tools.
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Phantom Stays
Phantom Stays@PhantomStays·
Just got off a call with a Canadian🇨🇦 ecom founder running a $40M/year Shopify brand, holds 2 passports too. Sharp guy. Seriously impressive setup, wild numbers. But underneath all of it its a ticking time💣 His business is tied to a Canadian corporation and Canadian PayPal, and with the brand tracking toward a record year and an 8-figure exit planned in 1–3 years, every single month he delays restructuring, his Canadian exit tax liability climbs higher. Traditional tax attorneys keep dropping the ball because they don't actually understand global e-commerce or Shopify. He's been stuck without a clear path forward. Here's exactly how we're solving it. The goal is to shift the entire business to a pass-through US LLC before the exit, which, when paired with proper foreign tax residency, unlocks 0% corporate, 0% personal, and 0% capital gains on the whole thing. To pull this off cleanly, we work through a few critical layers: 🔥 First, the payment stack migration. We move him off Canadian Shopify Payments and onto US Shopify Payments under the new LLC. This requires forming the LLC, getting an EIN, securing a real US business address, and opening a US business bank account with Mercury or Slash. A fresh US PayPal account gets opened under the LLC as well. This severs the revenue reporting trail back to Canada entirely. 🔥 Next, tax residency. He's got two clean paths: → Paraguay: few grand to setup, ~$500–$1,000/year to maintain, and zero days of physical presence required. 0% personal tax on foreign income. No mandatory local bank account. Total flexibility for a nomad lifestyle. One of the most underrated setups on the planet. → Panama: A fast-track 5-year citizenship program for a $200k investment. Stronger passport, deeper long-term optionality given he's already building toward starting a family. We're running both scenarios with our community tax attorney to find the cleanest fit. 🔥 Then, the exit filing. Once the US LLC and new residency are locked in, typically within 3–6 months, he formally files his Canadian exit. A specialized cross-border tax attorney handles the final Canadian exit tax valuation to legally minimize what's owed at departure and sign off on the full global structure. The good news is, he hasn't been spending signifigant time in CA the past few years (less than 3 months). So this should be relatively painless. The outcome here is genuinely staggering. Once he is setup fully, he will be eligible for a completely clean 8-figure exit with 0% corporate, 0% personal, and 0% capital gains tax. He continues stacking cash tax-free for the next 4–6 years across his Shopify brand, consulting business, etc. When he's eventually ready to return to Canada and start a family, he comes back with a fully protected, generational windfall that was built entirely outside the Canadian tax net. The wild part? None of this is exotic or aggressive. It's just proper structure, done early enough to matter. Most founders wait until the LOI hits their inbox before they start thinking about tax on the exit. By then the damage is already baked in. The only move that actually works is restructuring while the business is still private, still growing, and still yours to reposition. If you're running a high-revenue online business and planning an exit in the next few years, we should talk before the clock runs out.
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David Senra
David Senra@davidsenra·
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

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Preet Singh
Preet Singh@DesignSingh·
@simplifyinAI Is it heavy lifting to sell the Skool community rather than being rigorously sourced — "$850M+ market," "527% traffic growth," "4.4x higher conversion." The whole thing is ultimately a funnel: free tool → paid community ($2K–$12K/month agency pricing is dangled).
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Simplifying AI
Simplifying AI@simplifyinAI·
🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a tool that optimizes your website for AI search engines. It’s called geo-seo-claude. It optimizes any website for AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. → Runs full GEO audits with parallel subagents → Delivers 60-second visibility snapshots → Analyzes structured schema markup for LLMs → Exports complete PDF reports 100% Open-Source.
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Preet Singh
Preet Singh@DesignSingh·
PSD era made pixel-perfect craftspeople. Figma era made systems thinkers. Claude Code to Figma just launched — and I don’t know what this era makes yet. But I think it’s someone who holds the “why” while AI handles more of the “how.” Do we have a name for that designer yet?
DesignX Community@WeAreDesignX

Claude Code to Figma dropped Monday. By Wednesday, 150 of you signed up to test it live. That's not a webinar. That's a community running an experiment in real time. Tomorrow, we find out what it means to design when code flows back to canvas. luma.com/claudecode-fig…

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Robleh
Robleh@robjama·
we hosted Claude Code Toronto yesterday, 900 people signed up. what surprised me most was who showed up. it's not just developers its lawyers, fintech folks, marketers, designers. really cool to see how claude code is crossing over. highlights: - @mimurchison from Ada showed how he runs his entire company through Claude Code - @mrkrishsatya demoed a new internal tool we're building at @tmrwai - @trq212 from Anthropic did a live Q&A + some amazing community demos next up: we're going vertical. smaller focused meetups ...Claude Code for marketers, designers, developers, product people, fintech, legal, health tech. reach out to me or @surim0n if you wanna co-host one
Ben Vinegar@bentlegen

More scenes from last night's Claude Code meetup (generously hosted at @ada_cx)

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Preet Singh
Preet Singh@DesignSingh·
Holy biscuits! Someone’s @openclaw agent is roaming in downtown Toronto!
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Preet Singh@DesignSingh·
@internetvin In! Would love to figure out how it can build decentralized communities, tackling labor + coordination. The DAO x Communities dream to come true ✨✨✨
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internetVin
internetVin@internetvin·
Please reply to this if you live in Toronto or any city that surrounds it and you’re interested in clawdbot, moltbot, openclaw or whatever you want to call it and you want to explore different use cases, workflows and potentials Thank you for everything.
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PAUL SYNG
PAUL SYNG@paulsyng·
How to fix your 'brand' in one day. @thedankoe's article "How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day" got nearly 90 million views. His core insight: You aren't where you want to be because you aren't the person who would be there. Your actions reveal your actual goals, not your stated ones. I've been saying the same thing about businesses for years. Your structural decisions reveal your actual position, not your messaging. And you can't read your own label from inside the jar. So I wrote the positioning version. A full protocol to reveal what your business actually stands for versus what you think it stands for. It covers: Why you can't see your own position (and the cognitive science behind it) The implicit positioning test that strips away the words The 4-level architecture of real positioning A complete 1-day protocol to surface the gap What to do once you see it Images by the insanely talented: @ciguleva 👇🏼 Read the full piece here paulsyng.com/blog/how-to-fi…
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PAUL SYNG
PAUL SYNG@paulsyng·
Before hiring an agency or consultant, try the CEO Clarity Starter Kit. You might not need them.
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zadriel
zadriel@zadriel·
Oh shieettttt ChatGPT Atlas operating @figma
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Zephyr
Zephyr@Zephyr_hg·
Competitor research takes me 2 minutes now. Built a scraper that monitors websites, tracks price changes, and extracts product data automatically. Claude AI pulls contact info, pricing, and company details straight into Google Sheets. Used to spend 10-15 hours monthly doing this manually. Now it updates every hour while I focus on closing deals. Comment "SCRAPE" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)
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