Rob Zuazua

I just quit my $375k+ job after 4 years of W2. Time to build, learn, and eventually start my first business 💪

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

AI coding destroyed SWE demand. SWEs are no longer special and the majority have already become commoditized. Elon's X has only 30 employees. So either learn to be in the top 1%, or get replaced.

Trump lying about skilled immigration to tech.

coding is becoming more important, not less. you can now make custom tools in minutes to speed up almost all of your workflows. if you can code, your leverage will grow over time

wrong. Vibe a 10 minute feature at a time. You can condense 2 hours into 10-15 minutes. Iterate this process and you can vibe code an app without an ide

how I use Claude Code: 1. aim for 10 minutes prompt to prod 2. keep diffs tiny and ship many times per hour

chatGPT o1 = quality answers to complicated questions, fast. Highly recommend trying it out. I've asked similar questions to every model, and o1 has finally been able to correctly answer my business/international law questions w/o hallucinations.

TLDR: it's too hot during the day in the summer. Find some fun coffee shops/restaurants and meet up with friends during the day and then walk/explore outside in the evenings. Sunset Ideas (7:30ish): - Go to Zilker, invite a few friends, and enjoy fruits/bites with a great view. - If you want a decent walk and like looking at houses, park at Mozarts and walk north up scenic drive - If you like the water/boats, renting a boat and captain on lake Austin is great. Food Ideas: Asian: House of Three Gorges, Bamboo House Austin, 85C Sushi: Uchi Mexican: atx cocina, Fonda San Miguel Pizza: Pinthouse on E. Ben White Grocery: Heb on Lake Austin Blvd, Ranch 99 Assuming you had enough bbq.. Workplace Ideas: - South Austin has some good coffee shops, I recommend Meteor and Simona (quieter) - If you want to get into a Wework, let me know! General: - if you've never been to an HEB, everyone in TX loves them. the one on lake Austin blvd is good. - Mueller area = area where a lot of young families live. Feel free to DM if you have any questions!

What should I do in Austin? Terry's BBQ yes but what else No I don't wanna jump into Barton Springs cold water thx 🤠 YEEHAWWW

What is GROWTH marketing? (Conversation w/ experienced growth marketer) 00:00 Teaser 01:07 Intro 03:25 What is growth marketing? 05:41 From engineering to growth marketing 08:01 What type of person makes a great growth marketer? 11:03 How the industry dramatically changed 12:35 PREPARING for interviews 15:27 The many different backgrounds of growth marketers. 17:37 Working in a team 19:11 Sales floor experience 19:55 The onboarding process 23:10 Relationship with the sales team 25:52 Who is the BOSS? 31:39 Growth marketing vs. marketing 33:17 Climbing the ranks 34:56 The intricacies of growth marketing 38:34 Playing detective for finding buyers 43:59 Narrowing down an effective STRATEGY 54:04 ESSENTIAL marketing books to read 56:01 Advice for small businesses 58:56 ...time, budget, limited resources... 1:03:34 The typical day in a growth marketing job 1:07:09 Taking in FEEDBACK, being successful 1:10:26 Work culture 1:13:38 Understanding sales teams 1:15:07 Marketing in an enterprise vs. a small business 1:18:37 Have you considered doing sales? 1:19:19 Advice for newcomers 1:20:38 Getting a PROMOTION 1:21:23 Deciding to leave Samsara 1:25:36 Applying skillsets 1:29:09 The growth marketing SALARY 1:30:34 Evaluating start-ups 1:34:09 Final thoughts

Finance Unmasked (E1) Investment Analyst on Consulting, Investing, and Making a Living in Finance 0:00 Intro 1:13 Getting into the finance industry 3:36 Seeing the MASSIVE scale of finance 7:00 Applying to finance programs 8:31 Can ANYONE get into finance? 9:26 Finance background vs. non-finance background 11:43 What are people in finance school like? 12:54 What does being a "CFA charter holder" actually mean? 15:31 How long does it take to get into finance? 18:03 The SEVERAL different tracks of finance 24:45 What are the different ways to get into finance school? 27:38 The importance of NETWORKING 29:29 What's it like to be a consultant? 32:30 How much do you get PAID? 34:42 A consultant's work schedule 35:20 Why did you leave consulting? 36:30 The WIDE scope of the consulting field 38:30 The STRANGE way consultant staffing is done 40:34 Transitioning to Prudential 42:02 Day-to-day life in a private capital firm 40:45 How much legal work do you do? 47:25 The FUN part of investment analysis 48:55 How much do you work? 52:04 Acquiring new investment projects 56:45 How do deals happen? 59:41 SALARIES in the private investment world 1:05:08 How is performance measured? 1:08:57 Standing out in your team 1:10:16 What makes people thrive? 1:11:24 Family life vs. work 1:15:04 Corporate finance 1:17:02 What would you have done differently? 1:19:14 What does SUCCESS look like? 1:20:12 The HARSH culture of the finance industry 1:21:50 What motivates your work? 1:22:59 Closing thoughts

Anyone in the Austin Area want to get interviewed and discuss what it's like working in your profession? We are making a series (10 interviews per profession) for 16-35 year olds to get a balanced perspective on choosing their career.

@nickgraynews Sent!

Austin: I need 2 social volunteers for an event Feb 19th 5-8PM downtown I will pay you $20/hr to work and help me welcome people, small group intros, and generally look nice and be friendly on my behalf I will help train you + will be fun. Reply and DM me

The social media algorithms magnified existing differences.

Best way to listen to the Milei speech in English, rendered using HeyGen, in his own voice.

@HaydenSoph85957 Another margin pressure that I haven't seen discussed much is competition from Chinese tech cos. Capcut is 100M/yr business competing with adobe/apple but much cheaper. Feishu/Lark is > 100M business that is basically smart sheet, notion, slack, etc.. but much cheaper.

@RobZuazua Interesting perspective! 🤔 The SaaS landscape is evolving, and solo ventures like yours are shaking things up. Offering a free alternative to Hootsuite/SproutSocial is bold! 🚀 It'll be fascinating to see how this impacts the industry.

I learned a lot from my time at Smartsheet. I just don't see how these SaaS companies can sustain growth / margins if dozens of small teams can offer the same product features for a tenth the cost. I am literally solo building Hootsuite/SproutSocial, but offering it free.

3 observations from coding a lot again: 1. I don't write new code anymore. I paste entire files into GPT and ask it to write new code following my style. 2. I don't measure hours worked anymore. I do 12 25m sessions of 100% focused work (5 hrs) and the rest is bonus. 3. I am bullish on new lean SaaS companies. A few people can reach feature parity with an incumbent much easier today than in the past.

My mentality is to move fast and learn fast. So I am launching my first product within the next 2 weeks! Sneak peak at posteasy.co

Quitting my job last week was the first step. Now I need to be able to make a living wage. Targetting $5k/mo MRR within 1 year. 🙂

High level thoughts: My vision is to build a business / family empire.