Tech investor & mouse jiggler. Previously co-Founder at Hired & 99designs. INTJ with a Questioner tendency. 🇨🇦
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Been meaning to post this for quite a few years - mattmickiewicz.com/post/7468…
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How to become a music artist w/o skills:
1.) Use ChatGTP to write a song
2.) Use AI to "sing it" with MurfAI or similar
3.) Overlay lyrics onto an AI generated beat using Soundful
Voila!
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SpaceX achieved orbital flight, with less capital than Pinterest has raised to allow people to pin photos ($764 million).
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So, you're calling him a liar? the same person who promised us self-driving robo taxi's, FSD, cybertrucks, etc. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Startup valuations are really coming down hard:
- $10.3m ARR after 3 years raising at $50m with 2X preference
- $5.1m ARR with a 3 month CAC payback growing at 3X raising at $30m post-money
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Is it wrong to disqualify a job applicant for using a Yahoo email address (for a role that requires being at the bleeding edge of tech)?
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RIP Dad.
Less than 6 years after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, my dad passed away at 5:45AM this morning from PSP, a rare brain disease.
I’ll be forever grateful for him and my mom leaving communist Poland behind to ultimately give my brother and I opportunity in Canada.
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and they are used to working/being effective with much more process, infrastructure and documentation than 99% of all startups have.
Success and output is very context dependent.
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Nothing like getting a cold call from a company you co-founded, and they have no idea who they are talking to. 😁
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Meet the"Chief Revenue Lion" (#9742), an introverted yet friendly Canadian with dollar signs in his eyes.
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pfp verification on @unstoppableweb is taking off...
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Announcement! We're hiring for 40+ roles (remote, US and internationally).
Get a @LazyLionNFT as a signing bonus for yourself or someone you refer to me that we hire. DMs are open.
Open roles: unstoppabledomains.com/jobs
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.@unstoppableweb sold 50,000 human readable names in the last 18 hours. Probably nothing. 👀
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Why is it 4x cheaper to buy socks and tshirts brand new than it is to do hotel laundry ?
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What's the better use of $50k?
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Lazy Lions NFTs
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$ETH
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YC startup $30m SAFE Note
1,202 votes • Final results
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I'm HIRING for a badass operator! Hustle, entrepreneurial spirit, and risk-taking mindset are a must.
SitePoint's is one of the OG's first Internet era, and I'm looking for the right person to take over.
We've got over 13M visitors annually.... and 👇
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Based on today's gas prices, @unstoppableweb customers have saved over $40 million by minting 140,000 domains in the past two weeks on @0xPolygon
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The fact the UX is so bad & that we don't use human readable names is crazy to me... imagine navigating the web using IP addresses?
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Congrats to Calendly... going from $550K seed to $350m @ $3b valuation with nothing in between is rare indeed.
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Facebook can cancel your ads.
Tik Tok can close your account.
But no one can touch your email list.
So build one.
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Why doesn’t @netflix do a Spotify style EOY wrapped summary? Your most watched actors, genres, favorite TV shows by minutes watched…
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New Microsoft AI model that turns photos into lip-synced, head bopping, videos with emotions and realistic facial expressions is very impressive.
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This is what wasting $1m on branding looks like...
Thrilled to unveil the new @Docusign brand website, crafted with heart by @basicagency.
Immensely grateful to have led the @Webflow dev supported by @iljavaneck. Shoutout to the BASIC/DEPT® team for your trust – you guys are the real deal.
Live URL: brand.docusign.com
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“Talent is achieving a target that few are able, Genius is seeing the target that others don’t"
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McDonald's is basically just a commercial property investment company that pays down loans through burgers & fries... no chance of them being affected by the shift to WFH.
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You know all the fundraising decks saying "If we only get 1% market share...?"
Well, Tesla has 0.6% market share and Elon Musk is the richest person on earth.
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Monday’s quarterly revenue numbers are stunning… over $700m ARR with 50% year over year growth in a crowded, competitive market segment during a time of mass layoffs in tech. And it’s profitable.
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Found old book purchase receipt. Apparently this is what I was reading in 1999 at age 16.
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The startup secret that no one will tell you, is that once you've found product market fit, you're going to spend 20 hours per week interviewing, forever...
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Only took a decade, and the hard work of 10 product managers and 3000 Engineers @Netflix, but they finally released a feature that allows me to log myself out of the AirBNB TV that's been screwing up my recommendations for the past 2 years.
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More examples:
- $7M ARR at $35m pre-money (raised $13m Series A)
- Pre-Seed $500K ARR booked at $5.5m post-money (in AdTech)
- $100KMRR marketplace growing 30% m-o-m at $8m post
- $3M ARR struggled to raise at $12m (messy cap table and fundraising history though)
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My all-time favourite scene from the show.
Russ Hanneman really was the smartest person on “Silicon Valley”.
RICHARD: We can offset a lot of [expenses] once we get a few customers and start a
subscription revenue model.
RUSS: Revenue? No no no no. Why would you go after revenue? If you show people revenue, they’ll ask ‘how much?’. And it will never be enough. The company that was the 100x-er or the 1000x-er becomes the 2x dog. But if you have no revenue, you can say you’re pre-revenue and you’re a potential pure play.”
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Horrible decision by our woke-socialist government.
Bad day for Entrepreneurship in Canada 🇨🇦👎. Capital gains tax rate is increasing from a 50% inclusion to 66%.
This increases the net capital gains tax rate from 27% to 36%...
Compared to the US which has a 20% capital gains tax rate (+ major incentives like QSBS)
In my conversations with Canadian entrepreneurs, it's clear: They're feeling less motivated to build businesses here when moving just a bit south could mean saving a lot more.
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In all the villain movies where the ransom money shows up within minutes, instead of days, must have been using cryptocurrency and not wire transfers.
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Getaround which went public today, had previously raised $500m in equity, in order to generate $370m in income for car owners over 12 years. Current market cap: $280m🤯
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Tons of interesting businesses on Flippa.com trading for 1x-4x multiples… e-commerce, saas, content, etc
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"Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side." - Munger
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They only do the right thing after all other options have been exhausted (including ignoring the issue and hoping it goes away on its own)
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And so, the public’s trust in the establishment and government continues to plummet to new depths…
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Housing, healthcare, education, wages for Amazon warehouse work, and even plywood (3X) has gone up significantly more and faster than official inflation numbers...
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Google Calendar needs a feature that calculates the opportunity cost of a meeting when you invite 15 employees to attend a 1-hr meeting with no agenda to discuss “strategy”.
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Coronavirus-driven CO2 shortage threatens US food and water supply, officials say theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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Half of adulting is just following-up with people who should be doing their jobs but aren't.
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"Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems." - Jim Collins.
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So Elon marked down OpenAI to a ZERO and told Sam he needed billions per year, and when Sam got the $10b he needs, Elon sues because OpenAI didn’t merge with Tesla?
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