Nick Tippmann @ntippmann
Vertical SaaS 😇 | Prev CMO/founding team @GreenlightGuru bootstrapped vSaaS $0 → $X0M ARR → $120M from PE | Investor in 75/7+ companies/VC funds linkedin.com/in/nicktippmann Austin, TX + 🏔️☁️ Joined August 2010-
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Getting ready to head to the airport for @coolwatercap's Demo Day in SF where I'll be pitching <redacted> 😉 in front of 175+ institutional LPs and family offices. Billed as the "YC for Emerging Managers", Coolwater has helped launch over 200 funds that are invested in over…
Well said, and agreed. “One of the reasons AI is so important is bc it shuffles the deck of possible killer apps.” GG started w/ Design Controls > pre-market engineering > QMS Platform
Well said, and agreed. “One of the reasons AI is so important is bc it shuffles the deck of possible killer apps.” GG started w/ Design Controls > pre-market engineering > QMS Platform
The vision is getting clearer. IYKYK. Very soon.
vSaaS founders & execs are definitely going to want to give this one a listen! Full podcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=EEsuJP…
vSaaS founders & execs are definitely going to want to give this one a listen! Full podcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=EEsuJP…
apparently this is the first time @HustleFundVC went for an event of this format I’ve been to enough pitch competitions to tell you confidently that this was well organized and educational!! Big props to the panel — @ntippmann, Jeremy, @arturo___p !!
apparently this is the first time @HustleFundVC went for an event of this format I’ve been to enough pitch competitions to tell you confidently that this was well organized and educational!! Big props to the panel — @ntippmann, Jeremy, @arturo___p !! https://t.co/refmOfy0XK
Packed house at the new @PlugandPlayTC Cedar Park launch event. Standing up three verticals in central Texas: ⁃Advanced manufacturing ⁃Aerospace and defense ⁃Healthcare & diagnostic “We want to be the most active VC in Texas.” Excited to collaborate
What a game!! Let’s go Chiefs!!! Super Bowl CHAMPS!!!! Congrats @DTranquill!!!
ATX founders, don't want miss this one! Excited to be panelist and looking forward to hearing some great pitches! Huge thanks to @HustleFundVC for putting this on! Sign up here: lu.ma/BatterUpAustin
ATX founders, don't want miss this one! Excited to be panelist and looking forward to hearing some great pitches! Huge thanks to @HustleFundVC for putting this on! Sign up here: lu.ma/BatterUpAustin
Earned wisdom.
Vertical SaaS Founders & Operators... Want to see how you stack up against your vSaaS peers? We've teamed up w/ @davelyuan, @tidemarkcap, @tidemark_vskp on sharing their "2024 SMB and Vertical SaaS Benchmarks Survey" 7-10 min to complete in return for access to the…
In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed, “Software is Eating the World.” The thesis was that internet startups were “poised to take over large swathes of the economy,” and make all the failed dreams of the dot-com era (Act I) finally come true. Andreessen was at least half…
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Introducing our inaugural report, The State of the SaaS Capital Markets, a deep dive into enterprise software, uncovering the trends shaping the SaaS markets – both public and private – and the exit environment. Considering investment trends, valuations, valuation drivers, and…
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Simply put: there is just no actual threat to vertical SaaS/ISVs continuing to capture payments volume. So long as that holds true, there is no reason to believe in the death of vertical SaaS as a whole even if AI renders the development of the actual software…
Read @BucknSF's whole thread Re: adjacencies occupied -> Our *crowded* @CloudRatings category quadrants = reality of competitive landscape & we exclude many vendors! Hard to grow profitably OR horizontally
Read @BucknSF's whole thread Re: adjacencies occupied -> Our *crowded* @CloudRatings category quadrants = reality of competitive landscape & we exclude many vendors! Hard to grow profitably OR horizontally https://t.co/fo4HFKKeai
Do you really understand your customer's lifecycle? EVERY. SINGLE. STEP. What fo they go through from start to finish? Where are the points of high friction? Very few early-stage founders have actually done this exercise.
Ryan Hoover @rrhoover
257K Followers 2K Following Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Writing about fun(d) stuff at https://t.co/tsunRijcs8 with @vedikaja_in. Say hi! 👋🏼
Kyle Lacy @kyleplacy
35K Followers 6K Following CMO at @_Jellyfish_Co | X @SeismicSoftware @Lessonly ($300M) @OpenViewVenture @ExactTarget ($2.6B) @Salesforce | 3x 📖 | 👎🏻 onions | 🏃🏻♂️to stay sane
YC @zack31393935
468 Followers 405 Following
Bronco Bruiser @BrianBowers96
333 Followers 2K Following Indianapolis. Amateur sports gambler. Colts 🐴 Boiler Up! 5x ⭐️ Boiler Card Holder
Drew Beechler @drewbeechler
4K Followers 4K Following Founder & CEO building @HolderXYZ, a Web3 CRM & Marketing Automation Platform | Believer, Musician, & Startup Junkie | Prev @HighAlpha @ExactTarget @Salesforce
KP @thisiskp_
53K Followers 938 Following The "Build In Public" Guy. Founder Relations @PaddleHQ. Host of the @Buildinpublic_ podcast. Founded @BIPF_ & 4 other startups.
Benjamin Kosiarek @benkosiarek12
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OnlyCFO @OnlyCFO
22K Followers 372 Following Software, finance, and startups 💰| check out my newsletter on the software industry: https://t.co/XmJzDA25p5
Jim Brown @jim_brown
3K Followers 377 Following Building @Uncovered to solve the cold cases of murdered or missing people / Dad to an amazing lil' boy / Sergeant of Marines / Been around the world 🌏
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Lanell Ursini @LanellU51588
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Duggal @harshitduggal5
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JJ @Joseph_Jacob13
439 Followers 2K Following automating the back of house for restaurants @theburntapp. Grew up in restaurants. I used to sell shrimp. Husband and best friend to @rheakarimpanal
Smorshareth @smorsharet16423
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Praneet @PraneetKedari
796 Followers 955 Following peoplemaxxing w/ @sulemanali ✦ prev. @GeorgiaTech, @startupxchange
Rosann Naughton @RosNaught
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Chaya Zoltek @CZolte
66 Followers 5K Following
Gabriel Bercegeay @BercegGabri
55 Followers 5K Following
Klara Guilianelli @k_guilianell
11 Followers 3K Following
Leffo @Leffo435763
214 Followers 3K Following I'm new to Twitter accounts so I tried the messaging feature and it's great to meet you.
Breann Mozelak @brean_mozela
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Constance Nill @ConstancNi
52 Followers 5K Following
Moselle @moselleio
143 Followers 2K Following Inventory on autopilot. We're making inventory planning simple!
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6 Followers 528 Following Our company first transfer USDT to you TRC20, you return 90% to our BEP20, you get 10%, you get 2K per day Telegram group for details: https://t.co/YcCkPsUk3G
Kaitlin Fuss @KaitlFu
58 Followers 5K Following
siddharth verma @sydverma
659 Followers 418 Following Partner @grayscale_vc | Investing in AI-native startups
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1 Followers 516 Following Our company first transfer USDT to you TRC20, you return 90% to our BEP20, you get 10%, you get 2K per day Telegram group for details: https://t.co/NGpBevAzqG
Emma @Barkurt57390155
11 Followers 201 Following In this short life, we will all eventually lose, so why not be bold
Kaja Vandiver @KajaVandiv59899
49 Followers 5K Following
Dulce Avance @DulAvance
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Meghan Pfeifer Corsel.. @MeghanCorsello
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Hollie Metherell @HollieMeth87843
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Cecelia Dannelley @CeceliaDan10637
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Sophie Scheibner @ScheibSoph
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Ayra Mood @mo_ayr
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Kyle Norton (he/him) @kylecnorton
721 Followers 965 Following CRO, @Owner. Formerly Head of Revenue & Merchant Success, Canada @Shopify.
Sanora Zollars @sano_zolla
19 Followers 3K Following
Alexander Harmsen @alexharm
2K Followers 763 Following Serial tech entrepreneur, father, dreamer & builder. CEO/Founder @worldpred, Chairman/Founder @iris_automation, Advisor @verisimlife. 30under30 YCS16 ODF8 ODI
Triet Nguyen 🏇 @TrietVC
565 Followers 801 Following Generalist Investor @RenderCap | Deal Partner @GanasVC Prev. @MicroVentures | @capitalfactory | CheesePlug | Just happy to help - [email protected]
Phoebe Muddaththir @PhoebeMudd96937
68 Followers 5K Following
Robyn-rose Bickelhaup.. @Bickelhaup34013
82 Followers 5K Following
Ileen Mckiernan @il_mckiern
37 Followers 5K Following
Cherie Sanmiguel @SanmiguelC13053
84 Followers 5K Following
Ryan Hoover @rrhoover
257K Followers 2K Following Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Writing about fun(d) stuff at https://t.co/tsunRijcs8 with @vedikaja_in. Say hi! 👋🏼
Kyle Lacy @kyleplacy
35K Followers 6K Following CMO at @_Jellyfish_Co | X @SeismicSoftware @Lessonly ($300M) @OpenViewVenture @ExactTarget ($2.6B) @Salesforce | 3x 📖 | 👎🏻 onions | 🏃🏻♂️to stay sane
Nait Jones @NaithanJones
43K Followers 2K Following London birthed me - Kansas City raised me - California put me on - “it was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine”
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Bronco Bruiser @BrianBowers96
333 Followers 2K Following Indianapolis. Amateur sports gambler. Colts 🐴 Boiler Up! 5x ⭐️ Boiler Card Holder
dennis hegstad @dennishegstad
102K Followers 7K Following building @IRU_DCE. Prev co-founder https://t.co/bIADGh1cgd (acquired). i run for fun. I post about marketing, investing and ecommerce ⤵️
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
206K Followers 2K Following Newsletter: https://t.co/LF0tRFpCeT 💥 Podcast: https://t.co/ZQWNT0iXvJ 💥 Jobs: https://t.co/h5qbpegVYd 💥 Lennybot: https://t.co/TqkCh3hVCa 💥 Swag and Book: https://t.co/qgtUH5DM4S
Steve Schlafman 🐛�.. @schlaf
77K Followers 2K Following Founder & Coach at @Downshift_me. I help high performers decelerate and navigate transition with intention and clarity.
Jay Clouse @jayclouse
47K Followers 4K Following Founder of Creator Science – studying creators, running experiments, and sharing what I learn. 59,000+ readers and counting!
Mark Suster @msuster
332K Followers 2K Following 2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to @salesforce). Now @UpfrontVC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
Drew Beechler @drewbeechler
4K Followers 4K Following Founder & CEO building @HolderXYZ, a Web3 CRM & Marketing Automation Platform | Believer, Musician, & Startup Junkie | Prev @HighAlpha @ExactTarget @Salesforce
Aman Brar @amandbrar
2K Followers 2K Following VC. Still waiting on my mutant powers. Past lives: CEO @jobvite, CEO @gocanvashq - acquired by Jobvite, President of @apparatus - acquired by @virtusa.
Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr
84K Followers 7K Following Unearthing the mysteries of outlier startups. Partner @floodgatefund. Unabashedly grateful to live in the USA.
Dave Kellogg @Kellblog
22K Followers 6K Following EIR at Balderton Capital, principal at Dave Kellogg Consulting, and author of Kellblog. See FAQ for disclaimers. RT != endorsement.
Gary Darna @garydarna
2K Followers 820 Following I help ambitious brands make and distribute quality merch @micromerch_ and share the journey here
Mike Langellier @MLanj
4K Followers 622 Following Op Partner/Head of New Ventures, High Alpha Prev: CEO of TechPoint, co-founder/ceo of MyJibe (acquired by MX)
Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy
13K Followers 1K Following Tweeting Sales & SaaS. Author @foundingsales. Founder @atriumhq, @modernsalespros (https://t.co/emGFAtnEFd), @talentbinhiring (acquired). B2B Angel.
Jared Hecht @jaredhecht
8K Followers 165 Following venture partner @usv | previously founder @groupme and @fundera
Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea
6K Followers 742 Following investing in autodidacts ~ @Sourceryvc newsletter + podcast on top weekly VC deals & tech trends #LongLA
Matt Turck @mattturck
96K Followers 2K Following VC at @FirstMarkCap. Links to my blog, podcast and events: https://t.co/HAX12dVijm
Praneet @PraneetKedari
796 Followers 955 Following peoplemaxxing w/ @sulemanali ✦ prev. @GeorgiaTech, @startupxchange
Mark Goldberg @Mark_Goldberg_
16K Followers 610 Following Partner @Indexventures - fintech, SaaS, AI. @Dropbox before. Plaid, Lithic, Pilot, Persona, Built, Pave, Intercom, Motive. I talk shop on fintech, VC, dad life.
Jason Shuman @JasonrShuman
11K Followers 3K Following General Partner @PrimaryVC focused on NYC, Vertical AI, Consumer, PropTech & Software for the broader Built World | Fmr @Uber Driver | BOD @info4pi
Memeland ❤️ Memec.. @Memeland
2.5M Followers 23 Following The Community Company • Building @memecoin • Hosting @gmshowofficial at 9AM HKT every Thu • Discord: https://t.co/60iQxWzeVw
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15K Followers 212 Following CTO @Palantirtech, Chairman @Ginkgo https://t.co/oaEBf1su2x https://t.co/mf1cSAPtef
V ⚔️ @VSwordH
3K Followers 233 Following Founder and CEO @SWORDHealth. Pioneering how we treat patients with AI and freeing 2 billion people from pain in the process. PhD (Bits & Atoms)
Jeremy Yamaguchi @jeremyyamaguchi
3K Followers 921 Following Career entrepreneur. Built @lawnlove, a national brand in lawn care. Sold for mid 8-figures. Now building the first national brand in pools. YC alum
Zachary Bookman @ZacBookman
2K Followers 477 Following Co-Founder and CEO of OpenGov - powering more effective and accountable government.
Adam Guild @adamguild
5K Followers 4K Following Co-founder and CEO of @Owner: making online success easy for restaurants. High school dropout but lifelong student. Thiel Fellow
Martin Roth @themartinroth
4K Followers 1K Following SaaS Founder, GTM Advisor | Sales Leader | Former CRO @ Levelset ($500MM exit). I talk about B2B SaaS.
Kyle Norton (he/him) @kylecnorton
721 Followers 965 Following CRO, @Owner. Formerly Head of Revenue & Merchant Success, Canada @Shopify.
Alexander Harmsen @alexharm
2K Followers 763 Following Serial tech entrepreneur, father, dreamer & builder. CEO/Founder @worldpred, Chairman/Founder @iris_automation, Advisor @verisimlife. 30under30 YCS16 ODF8 ODI
York IE @yorkgrowth
4K Followers 3K Following We’re an advisory and venture capital firm reshaping the way tech companies are built, scaled and monetized.
Parth @parth220_
733 Followers 744 Following 👨🏽💻⚡️🌱 | founder | prev. @metrics_co + @zocdoc | fellow @8vc | human @earth
Coffee with One @coffeewithone
3K Followers 2K Following building AI first Salesforce 🚀 @octolane_ai (YC W24) | prev. 1 exit with 300K users; AI research at Duke; @mintlify (YC W22) | [email protected]
Nick Abouzeid @nickabouzeid
16K Followers 2K Following Cofounder @RivetTax. Prev Growth @tryRamp. Book time for this tax season👇
Ethan Brooks @damn_ethan
6K Followers 41 Following I write a weekly newsletter for business owners in Austin, TX | Prev. stories + community @HamptonFounders and @TheHustle.
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BlockGames @GetBlockGames
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Forg Maxi Biz @ForgMaxiBiz
11K Followers 36 Following ..-. --- .-. --. / .- .-. --- ..- -. -.. / .- -. -.. / ..-. .. -. -.. / --- ..- - / ✴️✴️ https://t.co/LfE7L9xh8f
Wen Exchange @wen_exchange
294K Followers 62 Following No.1 @Blast_L2 Native NFT Exchange. Discord: https://t.co/CeVHKzIIR8
Runes Collective ◼�.. @Runescollective
6K Followers 20 Following A community driven force, uniting members in pursuit of success and growth. Your gateway to a thriving network.
Kera DeMars @kerademars
1K Followers 120 Following Writing newsletters @HustleFundVC. Addicted to planning events and cookies.
Jarrod @1jarrodprice
1 Followers 6 Following
Drue Tranquill @DTranquill
57K Followers 152 Following Super Bowl Champion | Chess Champion | Dad Business/Marketing: [email protected]
Ryan Shank @ryanashank
4K Followers 4K Following Building @share_willow. Previously founder & ceo at @phonewagon (acquired by @callrail).
Alok Tayi @aloktayi
3K Followers 705 Following Building a community to find & fund treatments for rare diseases w/ @VibeBio Also: @biotech2050pod
Allison Kiang @allisonkiang
699 Followers 2K Following investing in healthcare, fintech, climate at Twelve Below. prev scout @baincapvc Moonlight writer. past: @Contrary @KomodoHealth @columbia
CryptoSlick @CryptoSlickBTC
8K Followers 915 Following Gem Hunter | Ordinals since Feb 23’ | #Bitcoin
x. @k81365250
5K Followers 3K Following Maybe these early #DMT #UNAT will be the Picassos of tommorow🖼️ Bitcoin is the Artist! Digital art curator & collector #Natcats #Natalias #TAP #Retordinals
Harto @harto_fr
69K Followers 6K Following Digital artist • Chief Curator at @vivid_ordinals 🌐 • 1st NFT in space • Sub 10k 🟧• Generative art 🤖 - @floraforms
ARTIES @ArtiesLtd
46K Followers 88 Following Accelerating artists and brands on Ordinals. Accelerator Season 1 - soon.
Flora Forms @floraforms
30K Followers 157 Following Merging cultural heritage with generative art on #Bitcoin A collaboration between @harto_fr and @belvederemuseum accelerated by @Artiesltd & @vivid_ordinals
ABCDE @ABCDELabs
13K Followers 32 Following We help transformational founders build the #NextGenInternet, co-founded by Huobi cofounder @DujunX and former Internet&crypto founder @BMANLead.
Vivid @vivid_ordinals
13K Followers 208 Following Unleashing generative art on #Bitcoin • Join our Discord ➡️ https://t.co/6DHe8gXO0u
Particle Network @ParticleNtwrk
662K Followers 74 Following The Modular L1 Powering Chain Abstraction ✨
Daemon @DaemonWAGMI
2K Followers 2K Following DeFi maxi: @DriftProtocol, @Lifinity_io, @JupiterExchange | (◉ + ▣) & generative art enjoyoooor: @vivid_ordinals | Co-founder @runescollective
bitSmiley @bitsmiley_labs
118K Followers 109 Following BTC-Native stablecoin protocol, Initially funded by @OKX_Ventures & @ABCDELabs. @bitCow_AMM, BTC-Native AMM. DC: https://t.co/oieDt0zDfKFrom 2x exited Founder to Venture Partner at @usv, @jaredhecht might just be the coolest new investor in NYC and he's honest. Jared Founded: - Fundera (acq by Nerdwallet 2020), grew to a profitable $100M+ annual revenue business with 1M+/mo visitors - GroupMe (acq by Skype/MSFT…
It's out! After hundreds of hours of work, excited to publish the TENTH annual MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape. 🔥🔥🔥 The OG of data/AI market maps is back, bigger than ever lol + 24 themes we're thinking about in 2024 w/ @AmanKabeer11 mattturck.com/mad2024/
Random PSA: box breathing has been exceptionally effective for me -- I wish I'd discovered it sooner. After around a minute of it, I reliably can start sleeping wherever I am. Useful with jet lag adjustment, random naps in the back of a car, etc. (Box breathing: inhale, hold,…
Working on @2048vc Thesis on Systems of Record In short, we believe that specific types of long tail Vertical SaaS and Marketplaces lend themselves onto non-linear unlocks - becoming platforms - capturing outsized value unlike traditional Vertical SaaS which is linear. The…
The New Power Law: An Exclusive Breakdown of Top VC Firm Returns Following a viral tweet last year, we got our hands on an anonymized dataset from the SPI team over at Stepstone breaking down the portfolio returns and concentrations strategies of more than 150 top VC funds
All B2B products eventually converge. I’ve seen it over and over again. You probably have to. This is even more profound / true in vertical software. Why you HAVE to eventually eat the frog and become the source of record: x.com/parkerconrad/s…
At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down.
My mother was a meth addict. I was arrested for the first time at 14. I didn’t graduate from high school. Had my first son at 19. Yet... I started college at 16. Raised millions in VC at 21. Sold my first company before 24. Built an agency to 8 figures in revenue by 30.…
Just crossed $20m AUM, with 199 investments on the @AngelList platform. Just getting started. Here for you founder fam.
I'll spill the beans. Our Thielian secret. Something that is true and most people don't believe to be true. If you talk with the serious AI Labs, they will tell you that only @PalantirTech is doing anything in the enterprise with LLMs. Chat is the wrong paradigm to harness the…
At Google Cloud Next, the company outlined an ambitious vision for its enterprise AI — now it needs customers to get on board theinformation.com/articles/at-go… w/ @anissagardizy8
It looks to me that it's IMPOSSIBLE to accelerate revenue growth YoY in SaaS without having a GTM machine that consistently allows >=50% of your quota carrying sales reps to attain or exceed their personal quota To make this point, going to deep dive into $OKTA and $NOW 🧵
A certain ... malaise has slipped into SaaS. A dourness, a resignation that nobody is buying anymore, that maybe SaaS is sort of "over". I get it: - public SaaS companies' average growth has slowed to < 20% - buyers are still asking for reductions at renewals - many buyers…
Forerunner did a good breakdown on franchises today versus vc-backed companies creating "digital franchises" Slice for Pizza is one of the best examples of someone killing it with this approach. What other industries could this work really well for?
I'm seeing 4 sets of vSaaS companies today... Classic: Selling SaaS into one industry Digital Franchises: SaaS + Business In A Box + Ops Support Vertically Integrated: M&A led + SaaS + Ops Takeover Hybrid: SaaS + M&A + Selling their SaaS to other companies Let's go deeper...
The pSEO engine of Zapier draws in over 280k monthly organic visits. Compare that to its blog, which draws in 9M+ organic visits per month, and you may be thinking why bother? … A deeper analysis shows why their pSEO engine should not be undervalued. withdaydream.com/notes/zapier-a…
Big congrats to Team @owner on another epic Double Double Month Double digit growth at Double digit millions in ARR!!
Restaurant spend crossed $1 trillion / year, eclipsing grocery. It shows no sign of stopping. Fintech x Restaurants is a huge area of opportunity. The category has already delivered some of the biggest winners in fintech like - Square / Block ($50B mkt cap) - Toast ($14B mkt…
When you can’t sleep because you can’t stop thinking about it… When you wake up at 2:30a and think about it until 5:15… When you forget to eat… When peeing is too much of a distraction… You’ve found your obsession, and you should do it even if it “fails.”
@ntippmann @coolwatercap !!!! aaaaahhhh
One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite…
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