Michael Raybman

Do you feel cold? It's #remotewinter. Strong AI Winter and Crypto Winter vibes - lots of blowback from old guard, "experiment is over," "technology not ready" kinda talk. There's no coming back though - things have changed forever. Bullish on the future of work.

@levelsio @levelsio what was strartupretreats and why did it fail?

🍰 Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew 📉 >95% of everything I ever did failed 📈 My hit rate is only about ~5% 🚀 So...ship more

@girdley The offshore/onshore distinction is largely gone. (I hire tons of devs, would challenge anyone to guess who lives where on a zoom call). What's happening in the software market is supply/demand: 20x the talent pool vying for jobs priced to US market.

❌ Software Developers Nobody is hiring American programmers anymore. Even the elite engineering jobs are going overseas. So that, plus a massive recession in tech plus AI, is bad news for much of coding. Top 1% devs will be fine. The rest are getting automated.

Now is a turbulent time in our economy. My eldest son is about to go to college. He asked me what careers to pursue, and what to avoid. Here’s what I told him:

@al_koii You made it

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I don’t think an airline has ever falsely marked me as a no-show, refused boarding, *and* kept the money. Never again @British_Airways

@michelleefang What are your other favorite coworking spaces? Public and private.

sad to be losing the expensify lounge 💔 truly felt like the one space in downtown sf everyone was excited to come in everyday

@sweatystartup Would he be open to an interview? Making a podcast on fractional work. Can dm detail.

I met a guy who travels the world and builds businesses. He spends 20 hours a week working and the rest of his time traveling, playing golf, etc. He has a key team or operators who he pays well and they grow his companies. He got rich on that schedule. One of my friends started running and 6 months later ran a sub 3 hour marathon. All while being an excellent dad, building businesses, a media empire, strong relationships. He even drank a few beers and smoked a few stogies with me on a Mexican vacation mid training. I know another guy who has built a real estate empire, several other companies and has worked about 30 hours a week on average since 2012 when he started. He hangs out with his kids and does outdoor stuff all the time. Sucks at golf but plays a lot. All three of these folks are truly happy. They don't care what people think. They aren't trying to prove anything. They genuinely have fun at life and don't have a chip on their shoulder. My conclusion: Obsession is publicized, but balance is the key to a happy life - and you can still get really rich and become very successful. Too many successful people are chained to a desk or locked in a business they can't get out of. They don't have control over their lives or their time. What the hell is the point of it all if you can't do what you want to be doing when you want to do it?

@dunkhippo33 Many devs I hire from overseas these days are not just cheaper but also better! More companies need to know this.

2) Most of their tech team is overseas, which helped them with their burn rate — they kept their burn super low.

I recently met up w a founder whom I had backed yrs ago at a prior firm. They are doing super well — 8 figures of revenue per yr & growing well. But the last time I spoke w them, they were not doing well, & it looked like they were going to shut down. What changed? More >>

@durjoy Wow they still use those!

Any reccos on ti84 graphing calculators? 8th grader needs one- what’s the right choice

@solyousefi why are people flaming this post so much? am I missing something or is this just twitter? Seems like the guy put in some work. (If you think it should be free - fair enough, post yours!)

Everything there is about AI

@michelleefang I’m here for it!

if you're in sf this friday, we've got something fun for you 👀 drop a comment and we'll get you in🤘

@KunalsLab @michelleefang Give me a shout too!

@michelleefang Does Friday at midnight count? I leave for the airport on Thursday night 🙃

If your response to my job rec starts with "As," I assume ChatGPT wrote it.

@billclerico “If you succeed here and your responsibility grows, who is the first person you’d hire?” Subconsciously people jump into addressing their weaknesses.

What is the best interview question you’ve ever asked or been asked?

@tradergirlsuki wen airdrop $uki

What’s happening…

@germfreegangsta @tradergirlsuki Literally put this prompt into ChatGPT. (being totally serious)

Had lunch with an OpenAI researcher. He said most of the team are research people, and they aren't prioritizing building products, it took them 7 months to ship a simple mobile app(only 3 people worked on it). People say OpenAI is too big to compete against, it's just not true. There are still plenty of green fields for people to build, and building applications is a lot easier than people think. #OpenAI #Startup

@drewvolpe 🙋🏻‍♂️

Have Farcaster invites for any friends interested in joining.

@CCgong @databricks Would be interesting to build a playbook for startups entering AI - like how to identify a viable market entry point without an existing data moat.

all the data companies I talked to at the @databricks expo are integrating AI into their product offerings. the window of opportunity for startups thinking they have a leg up with AI is narrowing. Separate note - I’m excited to never write sql again as everything moves to nlp

@CCgong Both are easy. Building the relationship part is hard.

Is cofounder dating or real dating harder?

@DavidVanMtl @sweatystartup @ParikPatelCFA This tweet just pulled a @sweatystartup on @sweatystartup

@sweatystartup @ParikPatelCFA Dr. Parik Patel knows it is the cart boys who can get his samosas in the back store.

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