Noah Pepper

Announcing: Multiplier Holdings - a technology company building AI-native professional services firms.

Full post here allocatormindset.com/early-career-c…

I know a lot of people who did exceptionally well by getting into mobile development or data analytics in 2008 or 2009—right at the dawn of that era. There was a strong tailwind that meant decent skill in that domain would accrete to job opportunities or business success. There is a huge advantage to catching the wave early. Coming in late and you risk the "Oompa Loompa problem" that @arampell points out here x.com/arampell/statu…

Folks navigating their early career stages have never had more challenge or opportunity. We want to hire a lot more early career folks at Multiplier Holdings - and I think the idea that AI will decimate junior roles is wrong. AI will be a massive accelerant for those with the curiosity, optimism, and drive to achieve. That said - we live in a wild time where paths in front of young people have never represented more opportunity or more peril. The internet provides nearly infinite free knowledge to learn how to create or do anything. The internet also provides nearly infinite cheap dopamine to waste your time, ruin your motivation, and become cynical. Similarly: Those who are able to leverage this new breed of AI tools are having faster career advancement than ever before and those who are looking for "old style" entry level jobs are struggling. The question is: how do you allocate your most valuable asset—time—when the range of outcomes has never been wider?

@dps The Bicycles for the mind notion is my favorite concept in computing. So thrilled for you, my friend!

Jobs called computers "bicycles for the mind" -- tools we could shape to our will. But they never were. Until now. Every morning an agent preps me for my day -- calendar, news, last 24hrs of Slack -- in a personal podcast. I made it by asking. Same for hundreds of other things. Launching @dreamer in beta today. That 🧠 bicycle, finally. dreamer.com

@jeiting We only met a few times but I still get excited seeing you guys making it big / smile every time I see a @RevenueCat reference!

let it be known that: if you are my friend, i will 100% ride your coattails when you make it big

Thanks Peter!

I apologize: I made fun of The Matrix in 1999 for envisioning people in the future just staring at walls of scrolling code. I stand corrected.

Corollary: Social engineering will (continue to be | become even more) a vector for attackers as an increasing proportion of targets are controlled by AI

@clairevo I was thinking this was coming when telegram pushed me a notification that you had signed up

I let an autonomous lobster royally fuck up my calendar, AMA

@doodlestein @fordhsmith Hahaha yes. Today’s weekend project was Clawd - no points for originality here!

@fordhsmith @noahmp I'm at the bottom of the hole I think, it's just me and Peter Steinberger down here!

I constantly feel I'm not quite AI-pilled enough despite using AI tools every day and working on an AI-focused startup. I blame @doodlestein for making me feel this way.

But more seriously - it's just crazy how fast the tooling is evolving and how hard it is to keep up.

@nathanclark_ Great suggestion! Thank you.

@noahmp Very often this improves reporting: Numbers for absolutes. Percentages for context. “We onboarded 42 customers this week. Up 15% from last week” “We’re at $22k, which is 30% to goal”

Wrote this for our team as we collaborate on the latest company update memo. Anything missing? Anything you'd remove?

If someone thinks the main problem with the California government is that the budget isn't big enough... ... I think that person might be the problem with the California government.

I think @agarwal's work in SF is a good proof point that smart people can rework toxic political environments and improve things. Everyone I've talked to feels like SF is in a better place now - some of that is post-covid bounce / AI boom but Sachin / @GrowSF were key.

The best outcome is to join a business that _becomes a big brand_ but before that status is fully solidified. The best advice I got on this topic was from @aunder who, in 2015-2016 era told me to look for a ~300 person ~Series C company that was scaling quickly. This would cause there to be a lot of empty seats opening up as earlier people didn't scale with the growth or new opportunities opened up. I signed at Stripe between Series C and D and over the subsequent 5-6 years was repeatedly given huge scope that I was ~barely qualified for because the business was moving so quickly. Then I just didn't sleep much and learned a lot. April's suggestion is clever because C (+/-) stage is early enough that you don't fall into the Oompa Loompa bucket but late enough that there's ~orders of magnitude less risk than early stage. Further - you have enough data at that stage on founder(s)/vision to have an inkling about the chance there is going to be a generational company built.

This is now counterproductively wrong in tech If you want to make it at a startup, boosting your resume with the biggest logos is not just unhelpful, it’s harmful You will get (perhaps unfairly) filtered out based on the heuristic that most startups look at — have you made a thing, or sold a thing — not been Oompa Loompa #12,411 at giant company

My advice to students is to chase the biggest and most prestigious logo early in your career Harvard opens more doors than you can imagine. Having Goldman or Google on your resume as a first job can set you up for rest of your life Do not fall for anyone telling you otherwise