Jake Varner

@16vchq Booking local music in local venues, full stack. Discovery, contracts, payment, ratings, taxes

What are you building? Drop it below. We read every reply at 16VC.

@Sherifdeenolat2 Sell. Anyone can learn to code, someone who can sell is more beneficial

Founders, would you rather have: - cofounder who code - cofounder who sell

@benbuaron_ What else is there??

from now on, i have two jobs in my startup: 1. writing code 2. writing content f everything else

@byryangambrell Completely agree. This is why they need to onboard someone who knows it. Then the founder can focus on making a sweet product

Hot take: 95% of founders don’t understand sales or marketing What do you think?

@StevBuilds Dude 10k is way more than enough. I think 7 could be workable

Which MRR would make you feel "this is enough"?

@StevBuilds $10. Getting users isn’t terrible. Getting them to convert is brutal

As a solo founder, what do you find harder? - getting first $10 - getting first 10 users

Unlimited coffee (and beer), Claude, and Toby Keith this weekend

Fable coming back over a holiday weekend is diabolical

What’s the secret to getting great digital content at an in person event like a launch party??

@StevBuilds We are trying to be compliant from day 1. It makes GDPR much more manageable and forces us to have real solid data practices

Is GDPR a big obstacle for you as a founder?

@Anas_founder Gotta go laptop. Work from anywhere!

As a founder, which one do you prefer ? - Desktop - Laptop

I’ve grossly underestimated how critical a good onboarding process is….

@0xPrajwal_ Can’t see a Mac mini without a vivid flashback to the Mac mini + openclaw course seller era of TikTok

Be honest As a developer, which is worth buying in 2026? And what is your reason to ?

I think I’ve nailed my updates until I ask a user to walk me through it…. How do they find this stuff

Gonna make my out of office message mysterious and cryptic for the long weekend

@pmitu I’m not sure it will ever be able to market to the extent a human can. Humans, whether they will admit or not, naturally crave some extent of connection. I think marketers today can nail that, but ai might struggle. Only time will tell

AI can handle building, but can't handle marketing... yet.

@dark_coderz Always have to make time to revisit the ways of old

anyone still using VS Code?

I can’t wait to get 7 fable prompts before hitting my limit tomorrow! Gotta use them wisely