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POV my down payment on a 911 is gone

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@tsladha congrats? lambo soon.

POV my down payment on a 911 is gone

My updated take on this would be that everything does go wrong at some point, and THAT is the beauty of it. Maniacal conviction above all else.

"Everything could go wrong at this stage. That's the beauty of it, is just putting out fires, and finding one less thing to go wrong everyday" 2 weeks left to apply → alliance.xyz

The most locked in cohort we've ever had.

Your Mac can use your apps without interrupting you. It works in the background. The cursor stays yours.

@zebird0 TLDR: building a platform that unifies and contextualizes structured and unstructured equity market data.

@zebird0 Done & Done ✅ Student at the University of Michigan, would love to chat about fundraising for my latest venture!

Over the last four years at a16z, I helped hundreds of founders fundraise and students figure out their careers. Usually that's behind closed doors or through referrals. This holiday season, I was inspired by my ol colleague @justmazer to open up my calendar to help more folks.

@julianweisser On the come up 🎯

Our first solo founder just hit $1M ARR in under 2 months. Announcing the 3rd cohort of the Solo Founders Program. "SFP gave me a new framework to think about how fast I can go." Apply today to build "solo, together" in January.

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If you're a founder looking to work with me on your raise, shoot me a DM. I want to test my inbound flow on our new website.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@julianweisser authenticity = success = inspiration ✅

One thing I love about Solo Founders is how aligned our small but mighty team is on the frequency we want to put into the world for others to resonate with.

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