Mike

what's your number 1 pain point while traveling? this is triptimize, we let you swipe on destinations to build your perfect personalized itinerary. working on adding bookings for hotels/activities/car rentals/flights as well as locking in activities to specific times.

@hthieblot Full of debt*

One of the hardest parts of being a startup founder: You wake up exhausted, stressed, full of doubt. Then you put on a smile and pretend: – The company’s fine – You have a plan – You’re not breaking down Your team, customers, and investors all count on you. It’s lonely.

@jovan_kis @fdotinc shit you get me a flight and ill be there ;)

@ExecutionLoop @fdotinc it is I indeed, wanna come? :)

@ San Francisco Like this if you like startups. And would like to come to a demo festival about them. This Friday, we’re opening our campus to show off 120 live demos across software, hardware, and creator-led companies, all built over the past 6 weeks. There will be food trucks, DJs, matcha, and more. thank you.

@neuralunlock morning US sales cycle -> nap -> dinner -> asia sales -> middle east sales is the best way to work ngl, if you dont enjoy this kind of shit you're ngmi

It’s very interesting that the best founders are quietly working more because they want to, instead of announcing to the world that their entire company must work 996. One is performative and doesn’t work, whereas the other inspires everyone naturally.

@sridharfyi triptimize - capturing the multi-hour long window travelers spend reading or watching a movie to plan their trip, book activities, tours, restaurants, etc. to add a revenue line airlines have never had before thru rev share.

actively writing pre-seed and seed checks into early founders. if youre obsessed with what youre building, drop your one-liner + what youre working on right here. high signal replies only. dms open. lets build #startups

@hthieblot better yet, find megacorps vc arm that buys companies to make things for them around legally restrictive zones because law is more forgiving for startups and build whatever they want with more resources :)

The best source of funding is paying customers, not VCs. Just a reminder

the only margin that survives is the margin operators stop giving away by choice, to OTAs and to anyone else extracting rent on demand the operator already owns. @triptimize is built around exactly that gap. coming soon to a flight near you 😉

the data quality is the moat the analysis sits on. the operators who come through summer 2026 in one piece will be the ones who own their demand deep enough to absorb what they can't control. external shocks aren't going away.

european long-haul carriers spent up to $3.9 billion in extra fuel in 60 days. most of the analysis stops there. the second cost layer is the one that sucks. here's what i6 Group's day-60 conflict report actually says, and what most coverage is missing about it.