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@NaivaidyaY66600 make that pain your entire life

Wanna get early users? Talk about one pain, not ten features.

Burnout is optional. 1/ Do what you love. 2/ Do what makes you money. You'll never feel burnout again.

hands down one of the best places to live in sf

You don’t need VC money to build a great startup. Chatbase, Mailchimp, and Basecamp are all successful, fully bootstrapped companies.

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@kwharrison13 This is wildly unethical

VCs are so unbelievably stupid. They think founders are pouring life force into building a company from nothing all for the benefit of the VCs personal process and network? Here's the story of a VC using customer references from a founder to then intro to a competitor: - VC expresses interest in a founder's company - Founder meets the VC to share the story - VC asks for introductions to the founder's customers to do "diligence" - Founder obliges - VC spends the whole call asking what the customer thinks of Competitor A; barely spends any time on the company's product - VC continues to email those customers, even sending them customized demos from Competitor A (clearly custom made by Competitor A for that specific customer) - VC is barely responsive to the founder, now clearly just farming the customer references for leads to send to Competitor A As VCs make themselves the main characters, they forget this, but we are a service industry. Without founders, we're out of the job. They are gracing you with their willingness to have a conversation about this entity they're breathing life into. They are NOT your personal GLG sourcing engine. Do your homework on your own time and dime, or get f*cked.

@kylegawley so much slop...

I am not anti-AI I am anti-AI-bullshit

@racheleizner i'm sure your date trap will end up on the Forbes 30u30 prison list.

forbes 30 under 30 ranges from noah kahan to a guy that once trapped me on a date by disguising it as a coffee chat

@jefielding Respect that you took him seriously. Such a bad habit to think that going in cold to investors means the deal is not "hot".

A founder sent cold LinkedIn messages to both me and my partner. I didn’t see it but my partner did, took a call and we ended up investing in the pre seed. This week the company signed a term sheet for $25m on $100m pre making it a top company in our fund. Cold can work but it’s also easy to slip thru so my take-away is try a few avenues / angles.

@kylegawley 100% agree with this statement.

AI is not eating SaaS I've built lots of internal software tools over the past 14 years long before vibe coding was a thing Here's the reality: They're a mess Stuff has broken - external APIs, packages They badly need updated They look dated and are painful to use But I don't have time - every hour spent faffing around with internal tools is an hour not spent improving the core products for customers I would happily pay for SaaS solutions if I could find ones that did the job, with better UX and migration was simple I'd rather pay $20/mo and have the time People pushing this narrative that SaaS is dead and we're going to move to vibe coded internal SaaS tools are hobbyists who have never run a real business

@agupta You can with @Revolut, which is why I believe that they will eventually become the biggest bank in the world.

a very common startup idea right now is to use stablecoins for foreign exchange, and it's a funny one bc there is no reason for this idea to exist other than the existing foreign exchange system being dumb. why in 2025 can i not do 24/7 foreign exchange with minimal fees with regular currency? surely this is just flipping some numbers on some databases. instead it is conceivable that it's easier to maintain a new pegged currency in every country which transact on a separate distributed ledger and then transfer back to local currency and somehow that's cheaper

@zebird0 Couldn't agree more with this statement. Disasters waiting to happen.

Can someone explain to me the youth worship in SF of <25 founders to me? Sure there’s some who are cracked but many more are status posers Experience does not feel accurately priced in

@peter_potapov @ycombinator of course we did but we had to cut that part to not be over the YC video length guidelines. Below is a little proof :)

@tigersolomons @ycombinator Did they eventually jump out of the plane?😁

Show me a better @ycombinator Application Founder video

@AlessiaBaumgar what about being calm?

@tigersolomons What about getting a joke? Chill bro this is CT x.com/alessiabaumgar…

Being smart and beautiful is a very dangerous combination.

@lillysharples YC vs other incubators AI bubble Which company will win the AI race? VC vs bootstrapping Who really built the pyramids? 9-11 conspiracies Autopen (Biden presidency) Trump meme coins Big Pharma Big Toilet Paper (do we really need it?)

First time hosting Thanksgiving. What are some good controversial topics for someone just getting into controversial topics?

@marcelkargul Yet...

@useapolloio @MartinGTobias Would be great if you fixed the data removal part of your website instead of tweeting. I've tried to remove my data multiple times but strangely the captcha always has a bug (what a funny coincidence).

@tigersolomons @MartinGTobias FWIW we also have a parallel dialer 🥰

Apollo sucks for local SMB leads. One of my portcos built a custom lead generation with Apify scraping Google Maps, Freckle to upgrade, then Hubspot to send sequences. Anyone else have a good stack for finding, qualifying and reaching out to specific SMBs ?

@Jacobsklug just give them a free trial with a paywall.

If you’re building apps, pay attention: Instant paywalls and forced opt-ins are about to fall off a cliff. Consumers are burned out, options are endless, and the second you block value upfront—you lose them. The next winners will earn trust before they charge.