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@peer_rich @calcom @stripe 👏

in an ocean of founders making up revenue its really easy to stand out and just be honest @calcom is getting close to $7M ARR w/ 8-11% MoM growth and 0.8% Net MRR churn rate (83rd percentile) verified by @stripe profile.stripe.com/calcom/CoXKoYRm

Starlink coming to United flights will boost US GDP by ~1%

If you think someone is wasting your time, one option is to not let them.

@thisisgrantlee Nice!

8 years ago, I spent over $200k to exercise my startup options. I didn't have enough saved, so I took out a big loan. A few years later the company was acquired. Decent outcome. But after paying back the loan and taxes, my startup equity actually cost me money. The Wall Street Journal shared my story last week. That experience shaped how we built equity at Gamma. When we started the company, we made a vow: if Gamma succeeded, our team should share in that success. Without having to pay upfront. So we designed our equity program around it, including secondary opportunities with cashless exercise. As part of our Series B, we completed our first employee tender. $44M led by IVP. Our early team, anyone with vested options, was allowed to participate. Some have been with us for over five years. None of them had to take out a loan to share in what they helped build.

@HarryStebbings Every day I’m opening x/linkedin to find at least 2-3 >50m series As. Every day. Fun times.

I have been investing for 10 years. It has never been more of a founders market. It is crazier than 2021. The growth trajectory of companies today means the prize is seemingly larger or more tantalising. Which means investors will do more than ever before to win. This won’t end well.

@DavidOndrej1 Sounds cool, but Servienow *is* a system of recod.

@HarryStebbings @WisprFlow @WillowVoiceAI is the way Harry

I am often asked how has AI changed the way that I work. Two ways: I do not ever type emails. @WisprFlow perfectly transcribes them. Structures them. Spelling of names is perfect. Could not live without Wispr both on iOS and desktop. Every single 20VC show we now run the same prompt into Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT and Grok to help us create questions and schedules for the show. 12 Months Ago: (Best to Worst) 1. ChatGPT 2. Claude 3. Grok 4. Gemini Today: (Best to Worst) 1. Gemini (By far) 2. Grok 3. Claude 4. ChatGPT Btw, I use Flow to do the best and most detailed prompts on all of the above. The times they are a changing…

@Bouazizalex @deel 🤔

New Year, New You: is it time for a change? It's well known that January is the most common month for candidates to search for new jobs. But is it the actually the best month to apply? At @deel, we have the start dates of over millions of employees who started new contracts between 2021 and 2025. This means we can answer that question. As it turns out, January sees a huge spike in start dates. The post-January lull is followed by a slow and steady rise through to September and then a big drop-off in Q4. So candidates, if you're looking for a change - now is the time to do it!

Because Deel owns the infrastructure, we can automate the actual work, not just the status updates.

Now we're seeing something magical happen when customers combine the best of horizontal automation tools with the vertical HR/IT specialization.

Onboarding, payroll, and support are finally becoming pure software workflow problems for @deel customers. In 2026, I expect most customers to automate >80% of their day-to-day HR and IT operations on Deel.

@thierryEdde44 @deel 🔥

Now live: @deel customers can fund payroll in stablecoins from any wallet or exchange. Onto the next one.

@Bouazizalex Huge

Boom! Try it out and let us know 💪

What an incredible year it’s been! I’m deeply grateful for our amazing customers and partners. Excited to build on this momentum in 2026 and achieve even more together with our outstanding team.

@thierryEdde44 👏

I’ve stepped into a new role as 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 at Deel. The mission is clear: make payroll 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 — whether it moves on-chain or off-chain. Next on-chain moves, straight from the lab 🧪 • 𝗢𝗻-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 – Fund payroll instantly from any wallet, no middlemen, no delay ⚡ • 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 – Pay your team in stables, always on time 🎯 • 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 – Let your team hold, spend, and earn, all inside Deel 🤑 We’re spinning up a dedicated crypto vertical; If you want to shape the next evolution of payroll and bring 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 to millions of workers and businesses — let’s talk 🪃

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@hliriani Nice

We're launching Lightfield today. It's a CRM designed for founders going zero to one—shaped in the past year by hundreds of founders who took a bet on us and now use it daily, and a waitlist of 20,000 more. When starting out, it takes countless hours of talking to customers to figure out what works. From day zero, Lightfield builds and updates itself from your unstructured conversations with customers. It becomes your customer memory: helping you execute deals, communicate without missing details, and understand patterns across your business. It's free to try. Would love to hear what you think: lightfield.app

Why Houston? It has a 6 hrs time difference to Europe, for easy communication. It's more than 16C (60F) in the winter, so people are happy to visit! We set up there 4 years ago and never left 🧡

As such, we opened our new and expanded @deel IT warehouse in Houston, TX last week. It allows us to scale up our IT operations by 5X in the US and beyond.

In the fullness of time, infrastructure beats almost everything. @DanWestgarth wrote about this in a recent post on payroll infrastructure. IT is no different. In a given field, customers usually care about 1-2 metrics above everything else.