Rifath Rashid

Soooo deserved. One of the most stacked teams out there 🤯

Today, we complete Circle’s stack with the launch of our own website builder. A quick backstory: When we started Circle, my co-founders Rudy, Andy, and I would often talk about how most websites for creators and digital products felt disconnected from what they actually sold. Visitors might land on a beautiful website, but the moment they signed up or became a member, the experience fractured — dropping them into a different platform that felt fragmented and transactional. As a contract CTO for dozens of creators, it was Rudy’s job to build these websites, and no single platform let him create a cohesive end-to-end experience for his clients. For a while, we were almost convinced the world needed a new website builder for creators that tightly integrated the post-purchase experience. But we talked ourselves out of it after attending the Webflow conference in SF, realizing how daunting it would be to build a full ecosystem for it to succeed. Five years later, we’re finally completing the vision we had from day -100. I’m excited to announce that Circle can finally power the whole experience for creators and community builders. With the launch of our website builder, you can now create beautiful, high-converting landing pages, sales pages, and funnels. Unlike other builders which bifurcate your content and community, we built ours to unify every part of your experience — and by extension, your entire business. This includes your: - Community - Courses - AI agents - Events - Live streams - Memberships - Paywalls - Email marketing - Mobile / desktop app - Workflows Fun fact: Rudy personally led this mega-initiative at Circle. We’ve always believed that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and it feels good to come full circle today 🥁 (Disclaimer: I’m not a fan of using ‘circle’ puns internally, but this one feels warranted 😆 )

@kenanhsaleh @cory opened

@therealrifath @cory Open DMs for invite

co hosting a poker tournament next weekend in NYC if ur building something and want a saturday evening poker break… @ reply free entry and $1,000 for the winner

Announcing Exa Websets - a breakthrough toward perfect web search. Sign up for the waitlist below👇

@AAbuhashem fix the fix with a more better fix

big things happening at nsave (but seriously probably one of our biggest releases 👀👀)

@rohitdotmittal Bay Area is pretty good for south indian food though

Best Indian food by large city: 1. London 2. Virginia 3. New York 4. Bay Area Bay Area has the worst Indian food of all the big-ish cities I’ve tried.

@thekaransinghal is truly one of the best thinkers I know. If you're looking for a new opportunity and want to partner with someone who approaches complex problems ferociously, look no further.

Psyched that I had the chance to talk about @ExaAILabs to @guruchahal and @whoisnnamdi and live to see this partnership become a reality! This is only the beginning 🫡🫡🫡

Something that I've noticed become completely normal this year that wasn't normal beginning of last year is wearing more than one health tracker

@AAbuhashem @Baroudi_Amer Surprised there's no boba machine in sight

Working remotely wasn't working for us, so a year ago (on a whim) @Baroudi_Amer and I decided to move to London. From day 1, we found ourselves working harder than we had done before all while couch-surfing and not having an office

@pardzz_ ++ Knowing what questions to ask is the hardest part

one of the highest leverage activities for PMs is to figure out the right prompts

The same energy drink costs $4.53 at one deli near me and $3.12 at another (45% difference). Good reminder that inflation is here but not evenly distributed.

@raunaqsingh Also there's not as much institutional demand as before

Expect to see thousands of delistings every week as sellers don’t find offers at their sales price Few buyers can afford to qualify at 7% rates and those who do will want a discount on the purchase price

@pardzz_ @WHOOP respectfully disagree

if @WHOOP bands could tell time they would be a 10x better product

Something I've learned to internalize about the human experience is that there are virtually no unique problems. For every bad hand you've been dealt, someone has been dealt the same hand or worse and got through it. Each problem is just another hand that needs to be played.

@moseskagan why was it so underpriced or did you do something value-add?

From the "How we got started" files: Here's the first deal we ever did at Adaptive. Still remember exactly where I was standing when the listing broker told me seller would take $450k. Sold it 14 months later for $1.57MM. (Buyer sold it ~24 mos later for like $1.8MM. Ouch.)

I spent the better part of the last 3 years trying to convince my sister to get into running and she never tried. Last week, she signed up for her first 10K after seeing me finish a marathon. Your actions inspire more than your words ever will.

@katgleason If you’ve found the right work

work is prayer