Jake Messer

@n0w00j You don’t need VCs bro you could’ve just asked me to spot you

PSA to VCs: not to be that guy but please stop spelling my name wrong in emails. i'm immediately going to ghost you. it happens more often than not. like way too often. correct spelling is in my email address and name.

@austinh___ @n0w00j Is this real…??? 😭

house hunting in SF is going great

@BrianLaManna_ What status level do you have to be before this starts happening? Been stuck at silver

My love language. Big perk of traveling all the time & sticking with the same airline. My 5th time this year getting upgraded for free to 1st class on United. We will take it! ✈️

you could take an F1 racecar to pick up your groceries. you'd get there fast and you'd also spend millions a year, need a pit crew, and may not have enough space to bring milk back. that's how most teams are using leading models today. introducing ramp router: the right car for every trip.

@zainkho Available wen?

I switched teams recently and they unironically forced me to make merch as my first job

@n0w00j how the mighty have fallen f in the chat

i’m in sf does anyone have waymo credits to give me pls i wanna show my gf Autonomous Vehicles

@natolisnuggets Nationwide shipping when…? Still need to try those protein cinnamon buns!!

My wife has evolved her business into baking, event and party planning but she still makes the best cookies I’ve ever had in my life

@mchlhess This cannot be real

Clause 4 is something you’ll only see in SF

@ItsJonHowell @tryramp Just needs an overly aggressive denial sound now

The Brand Experience team @tryramp recently built some micro-interactions, icon animations, and even sonic feedback into this receipt fetching prototype ✨ Make sure to turn your sound on! 🙃

Everybody has AirPods these days so you gotta get creative… @tryramp

@imjaredz You should only be allowed to included “catered lunches” as a perk when it’s this

this is what software abundance looks like

@nickbruhman Head of Game Dev @ Slash??

I work 100+ hour weeks at a startup. So I built a video game where you do absolutely nothing. Just rain, passing trains, and wandering around. No points. No objectives. No winning. It's the only thing that shuts my brain off. Link below.

One of these hires, but not Minecraft. also never mentioned it in the hiring process so I don’t know if it counts…

@nikunj @alexch3n He offered me $20 per positive tweet and I don’t even work there

@alexch3n how much did jooowon pay you to post this

I literally changed the whole trajectory of my life basically to work here, am so grateful to be able to build with the fellas

@BowTiedCocoon Sending this to all my buddies trying to break into tech sales, this is gold

most reps bomb "tell me about yourself" in the first thirty seconds and never even feel it happen. they treat it like a warm-up question. it's the whole interview. the hiring manager has basically decided how they feel about you by the time you finish answering it, and most people use those thirty seconds to recite their resume back to someone who already read it. let me show you what a good one sounds like, because i had a kid run this exact answer last year and watched it change the temperature of every room he walked into. here's the move. you don't open with where you worked. you open by framing yourself as a competitor. something like: "i'm [name]. the thing i do better than most is create urgency and drag a deal forward when everyone else at the table has gotten stuck." that's it. one line and the HM is now listening to a closer, not screening a candidate. you've set the frame before you've told them a single fact about your past. then --and this is the part nobody does-- you tell them you never meant to be here. "i didn't plan on sales. i was headed for law, but i needed money and took a BDR seat at some company nobody's heard of." sounds like a throwaway. it's not. it does two things at once. it's disarmingly honest, which makes everything after it more believable, and it sets up the turn. because then you say: "i was the new guy, 22, and i was outproducing reps who'd been on that floor for years. that's when it clicked - this is the thing i'm actually good at, and the thing i like more than anything i was supposedly built for." now you're not a guy with a sales job. you're a guy who found out he's dangerous at this by accident. that story sticks. the resume recital doesn't. now you prove it, and proof means numbers, not adjectives. "since then i've been at [company] selling [product] to [ICP], and my biggest wins are [the deal, the quota %, the revenue]." short. specific. you're closing the gap between the competitor you claimed to be in line one and the evidence, so by now the HM isn't wondering if you can back it up. you already did. then you close on where you're going, because the last thing they hear is the thing they remember. "what i want now is somewhere i can plant for 3-5 years, push top-line revenue, sharpen my skills, build a real network, and grow what i earn. i know i've got what it takes to be a top BDR. i want to learn from the best - that's what put me in this chair today." and you say that last part with a smile they can hear in your voice. you just answered the flight-risk question and the why-us question before either one got asked, and you painted them a picture of you already in the seat. that's the whole thing. competitor open, the accidental-origin story that makes you memorable, proof tied to real numbers, and a future vision that puts you in the role in their head. the reps who win this question don't answer it. they tell a story the HM is still thinking about after you've left. and look - you've probably told a version of your own story a hundred times and just never built it on purpose. the raw material is already yours. it's the thread that brings everything together that's missing. you already know you're good enough for the rooms you're chasing. the gap is that your story is landing flat when it should be landing like a missile — and that's a writing problem, not a you problem. inside The Incubator we build your TMAY line by line and drill it 1-on-1 until the HM's first reaction is "tell me more." 300+ clients placed at RepVue top-tier orgs. if you want yours built with you, book a call: app.iclosed.io/e/BowTiedCocoo… END. /Cocoon

@slashapp @nicholaschen__ @trymelius @usebland 100% certain @n0w00j made this call

We found the only logical solution to the $80k problem: Billboards. Since Nick’s game went viral, we’ve received tons of interest from brands looking to reach our highly engaged player base. Proud to announce our first advertising partners @trymelius & @usebland

@BrianLaManna_ Literally my exact workflow, excited to try this

I’ll admit - I took my transcripts out of Gong and into Claude (Enterprise) for email follow ups. Gong just killed that. AI templates are live, so each seller can have their exact follow-up format ready to go post-call. Gong knows the context from the call - the account, opportunity, ARR, contacts, next steps, risk, industry, etc. That is missing context when you just copy/paste a call transcript into an LLM. Makes it easy to link my Gong call for customer review too. Full video on YT here: youtu.be/6oVIX-Sn3pc One very happy Gong seller.

@nickbruhman Doubling down, love it

Updates: Solo overhaul live. Revive cap (2), rarer tokens, overcap upgrades, W40+ modifiers, evolving bosses, mutation stats, and better scoring. Mobile-friendly HUD polish + kill feed fixes. Display name moderation, P2P validation, HP reset fix, and build fixes. Enjoy :)

@FidelCacheFlow Big plus 1 to this - Came from finance in pharma

Every person got their first sales job without experience. Utilize your background and resume and tailor it for the sales position you’re applying for by showcasing how you have the behaviors and traits of sales person even without the direct selling experience. Thinking about soft and people skills. Leadership, project management, communication skills ect