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@demireren_ 😂

@chasewoolard When is it not aha

San Francisco you’re beautiful today

@zachtratar and tbf he is getting so much traction from piggy backing his post off their investment. Smart move but also clearly still helping him by being GC being interested in the first place. VC world lives on FOMO. He will have a check in days if not already.

Me during the first 30 seconds of this video: Bro this is how competition works. Grow up. Me after 30s+: LOL this is actually hilarious and he kinda has a point. Still doesn't matter much, but fight on man... founder mode time.

@MarshallJGould @Spotify Heads have to roll for this... 🤣

What have you done @Spotify

@trikcode That should be the motivation

everyone can build now. that's exactly the problem.

Whoever gave the thumbs up to the new Spotify logo needs to be canned. I don't usually call for jobs, but it's horrible.

@zamdoteth You just know that guy is going to absolutely crush usage. No sleep needed = tokenmaxing!

The best founders are the ones that don’t really give a fuck and have fun while building Id hate to fund a low key smart ass I’d shoot a million dollar wire no contract to a meth addict with claude code

@wolfiesch I said this the other day. I just do not get the genre.

how are there so many kpop fans? the music is awful

@towheretobegin This is mostly true. But plenty of people get firstname @ in Series A still and that isn't founding.

if your email is firstname@company then you're founding, actual role notwithstanding

@kylejeong Lurie really has done a good job cleaning up this city...

I can’t believe this is the tenderloin in sf

I just ran a search in the portfolio. Out of 170 current open jobs from Seed to Series D in NYC and SF, 89 have Senior, lead, staff, or principle in their job title. So 52%. But you are right that yoe is noisy and should not be an always thing. I agree with you too on the outcompeting part. It's why the Founding Eng title works so well for Seed stage. You can hire cracked folks right out of college, a mid career stud from a great company, OR an assassin with 12 years of exp who has seen everything you can possibly throw at them and the only thing that matters is the leveling behind the scenes.

@chasewoolard @larsencc ok fair enough, roughly how many offer senior/staff titles? and do they correlate yoe as a prereq for them? because that's the issue I have with these titles, they make yoe a prereq when it's noisy. I've seen people outcompete others with 6x more exp on paper

Seeing SF comp move in real time is wild. A few weeks ago, inbound was 150-250k base. Now no one names a number below 200k. Top end is 400k + equity. Hiring great people just got harder than ever.

@hiiinternet Moving faster wins the race.

@chasewoolard feedback the day of if you're based

Basic rules of interview feedback. 1. If you interview someone over the phone or video - Give them an answer in <2 days. 2. If you interview them in person. Give them an answer in <5 days. Stick to this and you will keep your candidates happy and your inbox cleaner from annoying feedback requests.

@kseniam0s @X Hey 👋

Hey all - @X I'm looking to #connect with people interested in: - SaaS - Startup - Marketing Let's grow together 🤝

@ksyed1125 @Vatsalpandya333 Welcome!!!

I’m Kashish. Just moved to SF from Madhya Pradesh, India via Nebraska. I’m 22, the co-founder and CTO of TasksMind, and I ended up here because of an Instagram DM. A friend I met during orientation messaged me about an idea. Honestly, the idea was questionable. But I replied anyway. We eventually pivoted into what TasksMind is now, and somehow that one message brought me from Nebraska to SF. That DM changed my life. A few things about me: • I listen to music in five different languages on rotation. Bollywood, K-pop, C-pop, Thai pop, Western pop. Algorithm is confused. • I alter my own clothes. Just finished crocheting a sweater for my boyfriend. • I’m a CTO building AI agents, but my hot take: AI isn’t going to take over. Engineers won’t let it. We know how broken these systems actually are. If you’re in SF and want to grab coffee, talk on-call infra, agents, fashion, or yell about how overhyped AI doom is, say hi.

@AntonHashTry @andruyeung No doubt. You can still work 6 days a week and 60 hours and have a life where you don't live every single day at the office. All you're doing is building hive mind at that point. You need to get outside influence on your brain sometimes.

@andruyeung Ah yes the classic 'we're changing the world' pitch that somehow requires you to have no life outside the office

I thought 996 was a myth, but I was shocked to hear from friends at late-stage AI companies (names everyone familiar with) that their business + engineering teams are working 12+ hours a day, 6–7 days a week. In office!

I literally have 100 startups hiring in my portfolio. Tons offer senior and staff titles. It's not some. It's a bunch. I've also been internal and built engineering orgs from 0-75 engineers. You have to introduce leveling in some capacity even if small at Series A. Even the companies you see who don't use it in the JD are most certainly using it in their pay band leveling.

@chasewoolard @larsencc Some of them do have those roles but most don't based on what I've seen

@fuckpoasting HBD!

another trip around the sun today, life looks very different than last year. grateful for all the friends i've made here :)

@da_green_hermit @larsencc These titles 100 percent exist at startups. Thinking they don't is a founder/cult building MTS fairytale. You can get away with everyone being SWE at seed and some Series A, but not late A and beyond. And besides title, they absolutely exist for salary banding.

@chasewoolard @larsencc The senior and principal titles don't exist at most startups. Those are outdated categories for big companies to ineffectively correlate skill with yoe

@Carl_petey Visualization!!!

pov: you're touring sf offices you can't afford

@theleanover Everyone here just holds on until second summer hits in September and deals with the whiplash from warm to cold and grey every day. lol

the concept of warm San Francisco weather during the month of May