Deep Shah

Calling the growth gang at @EthCC Do you work in GTM, growth or marketing? Let's meet tomorrow, 11am on the yellow floor (in that wooden sphere) to exchange notes & pressing problems and secret hacks. Tag everyone who should be there

starting a consumer company is basically opting into pain as a lifestyle. you need this weird, almost contradictory stack which is taste + timing, future intuition + present execution, & culture fluency + product rigor. most ppl have like… one of these. maybe two if they’re lucky. oh the worst thing is that there’s no clean feedback loop. ain’t no tidy dashboards telling you you’re right. it’s mostly vibes, weak signals, & ridiculously delayed validation if it comes at all (kinda like being in a toxic situationship). you’re effectively betting on something that doesn’t fully exist yet, using instincts you can’t quite articulate, in a market that will happily ignore you until it suddenly doesn’t. this is one of the most asymmetric games you can play but also one of the least coherent while you’re in it. i think of it as playing a video game in hall of fame difficulty with no tutorial & half the UI missing.

The older I get, the more I realize intelligence is overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that intelligence is abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things. Courage beats intelligence.

Working on something ambitious is like climbing a mountain that’s covered in fog. You can't see a clear path to the top. You have to take a few steps into the unknown to be able to see the next few steps in front of you. Inevitably, sometimes you’ll end up a local maximum and have to backtrack. That’s fine, just keep moving.

@vxanand @clay I'm looking for a GTMe --- how can we post an opening?

We just helped Airbnb hire their first GTM engineer. Now, we want to help you do the same! Last year, I went to our team with a problem: too many enterprise companies were asking me how to hire GTM engineers and I needed help finding them. So, we launched @Clay's Talent Marketplace for GTM Engineers, which now has over 1,500 candidates across the ecosystem!! But soon we realized there was still a gap between the number of companies looking for great GTMEs and the number of people who can do the job at the highest levels. Teams like Decagon, Notion, and Lovable are quickly adopting the role, and the demand is outpacing the supply. That’s why next month we’re launching Clay’s first GTME Career Prep Bootcamp: Alpha Forge. It's an intense 4-week, 20-hour-per-week program designed to teach you how to think and operate like a world-class GTM engineer. This is not about learning Clay or any one tool. We'll teach you the mindset, core concepts, the full tech stack you could use, workshop creative strategies, and help you execute plays at scale. Graduates get priority introductions to top companies that are actively hiring GTM Engineers. For our first cohort, the bootcamp is 100% free. If you want to break into one of the fastest-growing roles in tech, this is your chance. The bootcamp starts April 6th. Learn more and apply here: clayhq.typeform.com/to/BtPYbo3Y

Paul Graham’s 5 Commands:

Retirement as a concept exists for people who don't like what they do for work.

When your crypto app meets the real world. >>>@deep45shah and I were canvassing students at Technical University of Dublin. Let's see which pitch worked and who shows up tonight!!

Tag your favs in Dublin becaaaaause the @gnosis_ team will be there in two days!! 🇮🇪 🎉 Let's grab a drink and make a plan with legends @tw_tter @adrienne_adz @deep45shah about how we can build the future or money together. Sign up on Luma: luma.com/gxofcexy?tk=ng…

Speaking about how to build the next generation of banking the 'right way'. To not simply be reduced to being a backend upgrade for Wall St. Going through each and every part of the 'neobank' stack to discuss how we can build something that aligns with why Web3 was born in the first place. Tomorrow at 9:30 am . If you're in Buenos Aires, come through, I promise it will be worth your time.

@colossuspay i wanna chat with you guys, how can I reach out? We can do some very interesting things together....

Colossus is a permissionless credit card network built on stablecoins. We reuse the existing credit card infrastructure to settle instantly in stablecoins on Ethereum. Follow for more updates.

Meet voices shaping the next chapter of onchain finance in Buenos Aires on Nov 20th. @deep45shah, @doganeth_en, @Mr_Goodbuy, and @Solana_Luke will take the stage at Onchain Capital Summit. The lineup keeps getting sharper, see you in BA: luma.com/onchain_capita…

Have you met Helmut at @EFDevcon?

If you're curious about on-chain payments & banking, I share a few thoughts about how I see this space evolving. While also dropping some alpha on the @gnosisapp :)

You're not ready for Gnosis App (yet)

Investable startup: 1. Founder is unstoppable force of nature 2. Founder seeks disconfirming evidence, and changes 3. Serves niche inside a large and growing market 4. Customers genuinely love the product (high retention) 5. Employees genuinely love the company (high retention)

@0xAbhiP Gnosis :)

what makes a crypto brand instantly trustworthy to you?

More people you have in your company, harder the pre-'actual building' time. As a startup, you want to remain as lean as possible. You need to build and iterate fast.

The actual time to build most things in software development is very little. It's the time before that is brutal. thought > decision > prioritisation > 'actual building' Big companies are therefore so slow. Too many people involved. For startups, having a long window before 'actual building' is suicidal.

For a startup going 0 to 1 >> you need to hire people that can bend reality to their desires on a day to day basis.