Ali Nawab

Twitter vs X headcount changes, visualized 📊 Product and Design by ~80% HR by ~85% Marketing by ~70% Almost every other department by 50+% * numbers extrapolated based on public sources

toronto is the greatest food city in the world

@realsigridjin here

Reply here if you want to be part of Canadian builder group chat in X 🇨🇦

@robjama I’ve heard April One ventures is great

it took me awhile but I’ve finally decided I’m raising VC

@collision @christinacaci @TrustVanta Christina is super cool

Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: the person who made SOC 2 cool, @christinacaci of @TrustVanta.

some places you go without needing a reason. Ghadir is one of them

@robjama I just set one up - mine were Brew 1Pass Claude

setting up my new Mac! what are the first 3 apps I should install?

@fahdananta my dad says I work in IT

The guy who’s a distinguished eng at google will say he works in IT The guy who does software sales at salesforce will say he works in tech

@robjama they could do an ICO - we're already buying the tokens so might as well

how can i buy anthropic stock??

originally posted at alinawab.com/chrono-blaster

@bwertz Thanks for sharing. It’s been fun to watch the ride, and read some of the blog posts.

We've been writing on our blog for 13+ years. These 5 posts capture the ideas that actually guide how we invest — from why we updated our thesis to include "early in new areas," to publishing our anti-portfolio (we passed on Shopify at $100M 😅), to why deep tech is now a core focus. The common thread: back extraordinary people building where others aren't looking yet. versionone.vc/five-posts-tha…

Four months after exiting, I still haven't written about it. Built a second brain instead. Then it told me something I wasn't ready to hear. alinawab.com/i-was-supposed… Built on @internetvin's setup, found via @gregisenberg

@internetvin @gregisenberg how much did you think about sharing your notes with Claude

I might make another video / video essay on how I'm using Obsidian, and more broadly how I interact with AI, after seeing some of the comments on the show with @gregisenberg. There's a lot I can expand on and dive deeper into. Even since we recorded the episode last week I've made some upgrades to my tooling and workflow.

obsidian notes looking like a crescent @internetvin @gregisenberg

With the end of the Olympics in sight, @tobi and I are donating 1M to Great to Gold, a distinct fund within the @CDNOlympicFDN that is very entrepreneurial and data driven. They run the numbers, pick the winners, and give them what they need. Of the 19 medals won by Canada so far, 15 of them are supported by Great to Gold. If your family has enjoyed the Olympics as much as we have, consider helping out the athletes that have brought us so much joy. Team Canada forever! olympic.ca/great-to-gold/

@FionaMcK @tobi @CDNOlympicFDN that’s amazing

founder mode - no idea whether this works but I appreciate the effort

@internetvin Ghadir is ❤️ next time you go try the butterfly chicken

when I walked into Ghadir, the restaurant, or the grocery store, or the butcher shop, or the bakery, they actually didn't want me to pay for my meal, there's something about the energy of this place that feels so different, it feels very different than like a McDonalds or something, it's hard describe, I've felt it in a few other places, there's a certain signature to this energy, it's very hard to describe, there's a warmth to it, it's like being in someone's home. I've felt this a lot as a kid growing up in this area. Walking into different homes, the different smells, the different foods, the same warmth of the family letting you in, I am a welcomed guest. Interesting.

@FounderEric what do accelerators do?

We need to put actual full-time entrepreneurs in startup accelerators in Canada.