Mayuresh

Startups are hard. My first one took 16 years. → Started @CurseForge in 2004 → Sold to Twitch in 2016 → Raised $ 60M+ Along the way: • Had 5M users on a gamer chat app before Discord. They still won. • Burned most of our Series A before the 2007 crash. Went from 20 investor meetings/week → 0 for a year. Had 6 weeks of cash, 20 employees. 2 angels saved us. I’ve never had that level of stress again. • First product plateaued at $5M/year. Built multiple others that stalled at $ 10M+. Reinvented the company over and over. • Reddit killed our forum traffic. • Made every hiring mistake early. Hiring execs is the hardest problem. “Hire slow, fire fast” is real. • In 2008, our main investor told me to step down for an “adult CEO.” I walked out. • Got hit with multiple lawsuits. One arrived the day before Christmas. I never considered quitting. No plan B. Didn’t even finish high school. It had to work.

Building this “bet on yourself” productivity app @createwithbloom @CreateWithBloom #Bloomathon

betting on yourself

what if productivity apps takes my money for not doing the task

i'm tired of using productivity apps, they dont do shit

@SheCallsMeAddy @vercel @v0 let me get some

Thank you @vercel 😋 if u want $30 credits in @v0 dm meee got a few redeem codes left valid for today only…

europe is such a cool place to build a startup

@byjasonz @fdotinc cool will follow

wtf is a media company doing applying and getting into a startup incubator @fdotinc i’ll tell you: building fieldstudios.co, an independent media empire documenting the startup world from the inside. the only youtube channel you need to stay current on all things in silicon valley. next steps, find some affordable housing for the month in sf

A contrarian questions comfort.