Austin Walker 🛴

a few years ago i got covid and never recovered. i went from exercising every day to completely bedbound. lost 40lbs. in and out of hospitals for over 2 years. saw 20+ doctors. bloodwork came back normal. "you're probably just stressed from being a founder."

@AlesyaMacWaters 🙏

@austinxwalker Banger & true

real talk: personal hardship builds better founders. it instills humility and resilience you can't get any other way.

@TheRealMcHoy For sure!

@austinxwalker We spend a lot of time on “hardship” in founder interviews. Honestly the heaviest convos but the ones that leave me the most inspired

@LadySoleil33 true

@austinxwalker With hardship you become a purpose driven entrepreneur 🫶

@JordanEureka 💯

@austinxwalker Exactly. Makes it MORE competitive, not less. Any ability you have to differentiate yourself from what the AI can do is more important than ever.

everyone can ship code now. so the next 10,000 startups will die faster than ever. same bad ideas, just built in a weekend instead of a year.

@OmarArtss its like playing a game, you gotta level up one step at a time. spend time in SF, get in the right rooms, meet the right people, network your way to the top

my question would be, how do i get in front of that many investors? would love your perspective on this. Cuz if i belive that i would need at leas a 100 NOs before my first Yes, i'd want first to be able to get in front of those 100, which is something that i feel each founder figures out for themselves, and would highly appreciate any directions or advice about that!

if an investor rejecting you makes you rethink being a founder, you’re in the wrong game. it’s your job to believe when no one else will.

@liamsLCjourney 100%

@austinxwalker Noticing this with writing, video, everything. We are drowning in content, but it's as easy as ever for the cream to rise to the top.

@themgmtconsult agreed!

@austinxwalker To be fair this is no different from any other field. People will doubt and question you, but if you don't push through that noise, are you really convinced of your capability?!

@hite_sh 👀👀

@austinxwalker Last few weeks I have seen inverse, Investor rejecting and signing up as a customer and customer investing as angel. Ofc both were different.

@adrindsouza10 🚀

@austinxwalker Top top mindset

@julianweisser thank you 🙏

@austinxwalker There's quite a lot of inauthentic things posted here so when people see something real it tends to resonate in a big way. I'm glad you posted it, too.

One post can change your life. Can you trace back something important in your life to a single post? Would love to see them.

i agree with this in principle, although i have also seen many people where SSRIs have helped them break out of the negative loop they are stuck in. start ssri > feel a little better > leave the house more often > start seeing friends again > feel a little better > start doing more activities > feel a little better > eventually you get your life back and you can taper down the drug. the problem as we all know is this is maybe less than 25% of cases. most lack the willpower/agency to make hard changes and it just becomes a crutch, so it becomes important on who receives the drug.

@julianweisser i met about 250 people from this post, some of them became close friends, investors, advisors, and one turned into a FT hire. it sat in my drafts for 2 months and it was very intimidating to share publicly but very glad i did. x.com/austinxwalker/…

@AngadRandhawa yes

@austinxwalker chips on shoulders to chips in pockets

@davefontenot 🔥

the man burns in 37 days )’(

@franjohn21 yeah lets do it

@austinxwalker Thanks Austin! 🤝 Saw you're building for chronic illness, would love to talk shop sometime

introducing BodyBuddy's biggest update ever: We built an ai coach that comes to your doctor's appointment with you. You know how it usually goes... you listen, you nod, you forget half of it by the parking lot. Not anymore.

@aegeantic banger

+ have you been merging PRs without reading a single line of the diff in the past couple of months? - on the advice of counsel, I respectfully I decline to answer based on my rights under the 5th amendment of the constitution

@garrytan congrats chief. don't larp!

Hit 1M followers Thanks everyone Don’t LARP