


Erica Silver
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@ericasilver
Head of Design @ Club







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This is how you make a fractal glass effect in figma. Tutorial.

Worth the wait


People often wonder how startups came up with their names. In Greptile's case, it was brainstorming on slack with YC partner @bradflora during the batch. "You could add some stuff after grep to make a new word" "What do you think of greptile.com?" "but is it a multi billion dollar public company? $GREP?" "$GREP would be sick ticker. Sick"

this is all great advice from @joulee! some thoughts. 1) my hot take is that if you are a good founding designer material (0-1 product, not post-PMF), and thats what you are interested in doing then you should seriously consider doing your own thing/co-founding. similar risk, much higher reward (material and emotional) and problem surface area. you get to "design" a product, an organization and a culture. 2) very few designers are capable of being a good founding designer and can truly steer the strategy and positioning in interesting places more so than just the pixels. see next point why. 3) lastly finding a thought partner who matches your wavelength in the ceo/cofounders is very rare. you could have the most amazing ideas but they need to be aligned with how the cofounders see the company and world to truly be earnestly be believed in by the whole company. design is a way of looking at the world and seeing a different/better one. not just a tool to improve funnels or draw UI. very very few companies get this.