Isaac Chambers

I need to know who Bill Murray will be rooting for on Saturday

@pronounced_kyle And suddenly everyone knows how to type an em dash

The symbol × is a new AI giveaway, btw No human would write "15×" instead of "15x"

Biggest takeaway from oral arguments on tariffs: if we ever implement term limits on the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch can at least take comfort in his career potential as an audiobook narrator.

@pronounced_kyle Think of all of those rewards 🥑

Just bought $2,500 of Chipotle. Surpassing my previous largest order from last year, $850. At this rate...

@daltonc @paultoo @berg @Standard_Cap Definitely read that as "Stanford" capital fund. Although I'd guess it kind of is...

Paul, Bryan and I are proud to announce the close of Standard Capital's $425M Fund I. Standard Capital is Series A for the best founders. Applications for our inaugural funding cycle are open now.

@giacobbbbe @NWischoff The problem is you can’t return a fund on a $100m EV.

I would generally agree with your post in what I would consider “arms race” verticals, like self driving cars in the 2010s, foundational LLM providers in the 2020s, etc. But in the long tail of business verticals, the businesses whose terminal value is 10-100m enterprise value, I completely disagree - those can happen anywhere. I just think your post is generalizing a bit too much (“if you are starting a company”). Maybe it should read “if you are starting a company that I would be interested to invest in”. Obviously as a SLC-based founder I’m biased lol

If you are starting a company right now and don’t have plans to be in office and in a major hub, cards are stacked against you from the start.

SFO is one of the most underrated airports in the U.S. for one simple reason. Its Quiet Airport Program. You don’t realize how loud most airports are until you go to SFO and hear the difference.

@thepalashshah That’s basically YC’s approach to investing too.

yc taught me that pretty much everything in a startup is a shots on goal problem. not finding enough customers? you haven't done enough cold outbound. customers not loving your product? you haven't found your early adopters. once you understand this mindset, every failure just becomes an incremental step to success.

@NWischoff This is so true. Hearing people say big companies are better for job security makes me cringe. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, etc. layoff employees without a second thought. The best way to control your destiny is to be a founder or owner.

The only way to avoid getting rug-pulled by your employer is to found a company. Raising capital has never been easier. Hope that helps.

@pronounced_kyle Except forward deployed engineers *are* software engineers, just in a client service role.

Palantir's greatest innovation was rebranding consultants as "forward deployed engineers"

@pronounced_kyle What are your goals and constraints? It’s hard to provide good feedback on a solution without knowing those first.

I am gonna try to build this. It doesn't seem that hard. (Famous last words.) Here's my current plan, please poke holes: 1. Make an Apple Shortcut that turns off Wi-Fi and cell service 2. Build (or buy) a cheap HomeKit-enabled, battery-powered button that can trigger that shortcut at this stage, we can only turn off, because once off, phone loses touch with everything. bluetooth could solve but seems worse than the solution below. 3. Set up a VPN between my Wi-Fi and the internet that can shut off all access to the internet while keeping the phone connected via Wi-Fi to our hub 4. Configure the button so it turns off the cell connection of the phone and toggles the VPN thing (this step seems hard, whatever the button is talking to will need to be HomeKit compatible & run 24/7 & integrate with the VPN) at this stage, we have a switch that can toggle the connectivity for my whole house, but not room by room 5. Install sensors that segment my house into zones. I think for simplicity this will start just as "office" (connectivity always on) and "home" (connectivity can toggle on/off) 6. Make a program that runs continuously, and checks both the state of the button and the phone's location

@pronounced_kyle 🙋‍♂️

I want to join/start a group chat to talk policy & tech (DC <> SF). Anyone either a) have one or b) want to start a new one?

@pronounced_kyle SSPAs over bulky vacuum tubes?

$100 if you can guess what the crazy eyes + this gesture represents

@pronounced_kyle The downside of neglecting Loran-C has come into focus. eLoran and other AltPNT systems are in the works, but we *also* need more riscilience of our GPS infra.

Today, GPS is all-but-unusable on the front lines of modern conflict. Space Force knows it, so they're moving incredibly fast to field new capabilities and boost GPS resiliency.

Starbuck's new CEO looks like if you drew Justin Trudeau from memory

Of course, the fees are nowhere to be found on the email receipt. Sneaky.

Highway robbery by StubHub. Fees are almost HALF of the original ticket value.

In desperate need of a logo. Don't care to spend hours on calls discussing the vision for it. Want something less corporate, edgy and simple. Black/ candy red. Will happily pay well to whoever wants to take a crack at this. DM me your best work.

Maybe minor, but hidden fees like this really grind my gears. I ordered to-go at the counter and the fee wasn’t disclosed anywhere on the menu board. I’m all for paying staff a living wage and benefits but don’t deceive customers to do it! Include this in your prices.

@alexandrameeks the question doesn't match the stat. According to the linked article, 16% is the average tip percentage, not the percentage of people who tip.