Elijah

the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or walking into compounding capital and joy over decades this, necessarily, requires rotating quickly out of things that aren't it

Responsibility is an Honor. True in your professional life -> responsibility over your team, your employees, your work & craft. True in your personal life -> responsibilities with your spouse, family, or home. The weak shirk it. The strong embrace it as an honorable position.

Deel has raised $300M at a $17.3B valuation We started about 6 years ago, struggling to even make $10K. I've never shared this before because of how embarrassing our start was. The story of how we went from $1K to $1B and the advice I'd give to my younger self:

@mifhimself Nice to see you back on X.com Yours truly, Nighthawk

Now I’m listening to this legend. Chill out. open.spotify.com/track/4Qx0r08Y…

@LBacaj Thanks! Excited to use it!

@Pocolocoelijah Damn, will look into iphone 16e see if i’ve messed something up That’s really surprising because I have an older iphone, 14 pro max I appreciate you sharing that

I built an app to take voice notes on walks & transcribe on device, also pull interesting ideas from those notes. It runs two different AI models on iOS, whisper & the Qwen 3 LLM. So that means no account needed, no subscription, private all on device apps.apple.com/us/app/walkwri…

2024 was 🤯 @deel 🌎We're now the largest global, fully remote company in the world – with 4,500 team members in 104 countries 💰We sent $11+ billion to workers in 100+ currencies 🔨We shipped 1,100+ products updates Thanks to our team and amazing customers - Let's go 2025!

@TrevMcKendrick I also have a little api wrapper for when I'm working locally, that pushes the updated context to Claude with a hotkey, so I can work locally on my own machine and then ask Claude questions in the interface, without having to re upload context

@TrevMcKendrick If I'm working in the context of a broader project, I make sure all of the work context is uploaded into a Claude project. Makes it much quicker to ask questions / brainstorm without providing tons of context. I also paste in a standard prompt into the context for my prefs

What's the best thing you've done to lower the activation energy to ask Claude/ChatGPT a question? Yes I've already set a hotkey This is about a mental shift

If you think working with a globally distributed team is easy lets chat tonight at 11:00pm and talk about it for an hour.

As a data leader, you need to understand the "business equation" of your company. Great companies map out their levers for growth. High-performance data teams have strong data models supporting these levers, and develop a deep, causal understanding of why they matter.

It's been over a year now that @deel's been profitable 🫶 Growth is critical, but doing it sustainably is the only way. It sets us up for years to come. More than ever, we are focused and investing on delivering the best experience to customers, workers, and partners worldwide. Excited for the last stretch of the year! Thank you to our amazing customers, partners and teammates 🙏💙

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One of my actually trad beliefs is that apprenticeships should make a comeback And not just for plumbers and carpenters, for programmers and graphic designers and chip manufacturers No reason capable 14 and 15 year olds shouldn't be learning a trade instead of going to school

@VicVijayakumar @deel is fully remote and global, with 2000+ employees.

I’m very curious about something. We see a lot of news about companies that are mandating a return to office, but almost nothing about the companies that are doubling down on remote work. Examples I know of: Twilio, Eventbrite, GitHub. What are some others?

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@SullyBusiness if I were his age again, I would start building bounties on @Replit + summer internship. Great way to get practical experience + make some money

So I know a good kid between his sophomore and junior year in college. Looking for an internship/job opportunity this summer. Here is the resume. Anyone got any ideas for this kid? I don’t know the comp sci world.

Most people still don't know how to hire. I've messed up enough times to feel strongly about one thing now: The best employees I've worked with are all very, very curious. 1/ Now I know how to find curious people and hire them: