Sander Daniels

1/ After 13 yrs full time, 5 mos ago I moved to an advisory role @thumbtack. IMO the greatest issue of our time is ensuring we have good jobs for people as tech accelerates. 🧵 Thread 👇on what I'm doing to find + create jobs for people:

@tferriss 10. Been using Athena for 3.5 years through two startups. One EA turned over after ~18 months and the replacement process (hiring + re-training) was quick and easy. EA is always bringing me new ideas she learns from others she works with and Athena training sessions

Has anyone used Athena for virtual/executive assistants? If so, from 0-10 (no 7 allowed), how strongly would you recommend and why? Thanks! 🙏

1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 3, where top founders get their own $1M+ fund for angel investing. Like past cohorts, investment experience is not required, and founders have no administrative obligations.

After an intense decade of scaling Thumbtack to $1 billion+, I realized I wanted to taste complete freedom. So I shed it all: my operating role, apartment, possessions. Everything I owned would fit in carry-on luggage. Here's how it changed my life🧵

When we first started Thumbtack in 2009, we had no customers, no product, no money. Our first “office” was a house, and I slept in a closet By 2019, we scaled it to $1B. Here are my 5 real-talk lessons I learned building Thumbtack from 0 to $1B starting from a CLOSET! 🧵

Sam Corcos is the biggest maniac about delegation and personal tracking I've ever met. He time tracked every waking hour of his last two years while scaling his 4th startup. No CEO has ever shared this before. Here's what every founder should learn from him 🧵

In 2018, Sam Altman simultaneously managed YC(a $30B+ Startup Accelerator) , invested >$400M in startups on the side, and built the world’s best team of frontier AI researchers with Elon for Open AI. His answer to ‘How do you get so much done?’ is powerful. A thread 🧵

@delk @rabois Love this

The most valuable thing I’ve learned from @rabois:

@Mtclai @RobBonta @JamiePatton @mattdorsey @JoelEngardio @Scott_Wiener @nonmayorpete @terronk @NancyTungSF @Bobakkabob37 @thedanigrant Couldn’t be more excited about you running… and WINNING!!

Last weekend, I gathered with 200+ family, friends, & neighbors to make an announcement. An announcement rooted in my family's story, and the story of so many immigrant families who moved to the US to seek a better life. I'm running for the SF Board of Supervisors this Nov! 🧵

@Mtclai Go Michael!!

I’m running for office for San Francisco DCCC on March 5th, 2024! In the city where ppl are building AI & longevity drugs, it's crazy that the basics don't work: Streets are unsafe New housing is blocked We don't teach 8th grade algebra I'm running to change SF 🧵

@IsSilver @daydream_hq Woohoo!

Introducing Templates on @daydream_hq We now can give you a full toolkit for running your team or improving your business with data: best-practice metrics, reports, business reviews, 1:1s, deep dives, etc. Check them out! daydream.co/templates Want SaaS metrics, to track runway, or to build your GTM motion? We got you. Our mission is to help your team operate better with data -- so these templates are built for making your data useful to the business. Forget dead, data-only dashboards. Instead connect your data with words, discussion, and operational workflows. Enable better decisions & faster execution from your whole team. Lots there already. Adding more everyday. And we take requests. All with input from the world's best founders & executives. Stay tuned: I'll be highlighting some of my favorite templates this month.

@delk This is amazing

It turns out you can just email your local farmer and buy 1/4 of a grass fed & finished cow.

@STLChrisH Yes

Who would be interested in attending a 1-day event at my "Shared Services" office? Optional dinner hosted by my team the night before. Who? Residential service SMB owners and Hold Co owners. Some seats reserved for ETA / searchers and select SMB service providers. What? Deep dive into "shared service" ops supporting a >$100m OpCo, a real estate portfolio, and an active investment company (alts + public equities + direct investments). Will include call center ops, inside sales, IT / technology stack, finance & accounting structures & processes, purchasing & and supply chain structure, etc. Where? Saint Louis, MO When? Q1 2024 Why? Facilitate a great learning / sharing experience for attendees. Build new relationships. Let me know in comments below if you meet the "who" definition above and would be interested in a trip to STL. RTs would be helpful to extend reach.

@omooretweets Downloading now now I know how I’m spending rest of sunday

We may have reached peak “pets as kids”… Jolly Dog, an iPad game for dogs, has cracked the App Store top 100 The app is getting 70k downloads / day (and climbing!) 🤯

@danhockenmaier @Melski_S We will crush this 💪

@Melski_S If anyone is going to knock this out of the park, my money is on the Thumbtack team!

Why aren't there huge marketplaces in services like there are in products, despite massive TAM and highly fragmented buyers are sellers? I just published an essay on what is holding them back, how they might soon get unstuck, and why this would produce some of the largest businesses in the world: danhock.co/p/service-mark…

@omooretweets 👀

Well, I guess I have plans now for August 5

@omooretweets 😂 🐶

One man's bug is another woman's feature, I guess 🤷‍♀️

@lennysan Artifact: heyartifact.com Under the radar incredible gift. Have gifted it multiple times (parents on wedding anniversary, friends for 40th bdays, son recording a podcast about his life at 10 yrs old etc)... draws tears of joy from the listener every time!

What's something under $100 that you bought (or were gifted) that makes you very happy? Can be work stuff, kitchen stuff, books, gadgets, subscriptions, experiences—anything at all. Thinking about doing a gift guide again this year, and looking for inspiration 🎁

Stoked for my buddy @roger_lee to reveal his latest startup. Roger is a machine. In Silicon Valley there is much heralded mediocrity but occasionally you find unheralded mastery. Roger is the latter. Watch him tackle this huge opportunity and remake comp 👀 🚀

So stoked for my buds @jake_zeller and @swaaanson in launching this. Powering the next generation of deep tech founders. No better mission to focus on 🙌

Don’t mind us. We’re just over here helping people care for their homes.