It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce: We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe. A small fund that punches way above it's size. With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering. First check. First round. As early as it gets. Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics. And yet… We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity. What should we do instead? Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed. What we will do: → Publish all our fund updates and build in public: updates.prototypecap.com/ → Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: piped.video/@prototypecap → Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more. → And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide. We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense. This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better. It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy. Check out prototypecap.com!

Gmail's UI has a blurry icon since months and I am no longer ok to be quiet about this.

Marketing people think this is bad But this builds a insane pile of trust among engineers. You know the stuff the show is real. You know they dare to actually ship. And they believe in their product enough to take the risk of something breaking live. I’d build for that ecosystem rather than some fancy after effects vaporware marketing demo.

This picture will be framed by dads everywhere.

It’s a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work. Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact. Always remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.

New desktop background. 🔥

Never let them tell you that bullying doesn't work! Google fixed it.

I think the US has no understanding what they are doing to cultures who are not ready for this kind of technology. Spotted in Berlin. 😉

Yea… I am done. lol 🤯 I just drew a game and it works… 💀

derek – if they would have good visibility, they wouldnt ship blurry icons

The figma design vs the implementation the developer tells you not to worry about.

Scary good scam mail - email by real person - content credible - link looks like attachment - landingpage looks real

This might be the coolest use of Gaussian Splats in a movie i have seen in a while. Wait for 0:20 /cc @bilawalsidhu @gravicle @janusch_patas

🚨 Announcement 🚨 I am launching something new: remotefirstcapital.com A group of more than 50 remote founders, operators and early investors, who together invest in the next generation of remote work. Checks for startups $25k-50k This is by the community, for the community

Before COVID-19: i was born in cities, always lived in cities, will always live in cities. After COVID-19: i think we should move to the country side. It seems beautiful and very relaxing. I want a big garden at least.🤔 I had discussions like this with several friends by now.

The next Zuckerberg was born in a poor family, never got into a good school and she now works in someone else's startup's kitchen. The next Einstein died of a curable disease in a warn-torn country. We limit humanity's progress by the percentage globally who can join innovating

Hell froze over. 🙀 Microsoft open-sources a linux kernel on @github To repeat: Microsoft open-so.... 🤯 Microsoft is completely reinventing itself - right in front of us. Kudos @satyanadella github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Li…

Every codebase ever:

Coding essentially is an infinite loop of: 1) wtf 2) ah yea Add sprinkles of "that should be easy" and "why did i agree on this"

Imho: In 2018 it's no longer a question if you work remote or not. You already work remote It's the logical evolution of digital work You replied to that email on the commute, you worked from that cafe yesterday, you worked while traveling,… The only question left is how much

Uber using data to predict how long your car will need is called Machine Learning Uber telling you it’s 3 minutes so you don’t cancel the arriving ride for the next 10 minutes should be called Machine Lying. 🤷‍♀️

Yahoo! Pipes would be a $1B no-code startup today. RIP. 🕯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!…

Nobody should have to live like that… sorry to hear mate :(

2019: You can't recreate Silicon Valley anywhere else. 2020: Well… Silicon Valley is more of a mindset. 2021: I heard Miami is great.

You either die a hero or you become the person recommending Jira to engineering teams.

Never, barely, a bit, then suddenly all at once. EU stockexchange is an absolute must. Let’s make this happen.

“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech! Not a single NVIDIA chip could be produced without European machines. Not a single American cloud, robotics, or deep-tech firm would operate without European manufacturing or suppliers. But we are too humble. Brainwashed to never celebrate Europe. By outsiders and our local politicians. Time for a change. Europe is the birthplace of industrialization. The home of frontier tech. Time, we act like it. Welcome to the real Europe! 🔥🇪🇺

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A friend of mine is joining a breakout hypergrowth startup. Here is the advice I sent to him via email Sharing the in hope that it's useful to others as well 🙏 LMK what you think. ✌️ klinger.io/post/654608607896… 👊

They hated on him in his replies, because he opened their eyes to the truth.

Explaining budget tourism in Switzerland breaks my brain. You cant even take a cab there without filing out a loan application

Hot take: Almost every hosting startup (vercel, supabase, fly, render, etc) can only exist because AWS console is such a mess.

on global scale it puts a lot into perspective wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/populat…

Highly recommend every manager to lead a remote team once. You learn to: - enable people to "play single player" (decisions when everyone is offline) - teach how you decide, not what you decide - automate&document common situations - be explicit about processes - avoid meetings

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OH: "I am not drinking alone… I am drinking remotely."

Next 4 months in startups: - "Like Pokemon Go but for sports" - "…for dating" - "…meets ebay" - "…but w/ your pets" - "4SQ relaunch w/ AR"

Many say AI automation will create a job crisis. I agree but my thinking is that it will primarily expose a preexisting education crisis.

How to be a thought-leader on twitter: - Pick an audience - Repeat things that work - Share things people already know - Add stats even if they are dubious, 82% do - Repack the same message in different ways - If you have nothing to say make sure it sounds good and/or go meta

Calling it. Remote is the "next silicon valley".

My grandmother died 10 minutes after I said good bye via WhatsApp from 9000km away. Sad, but happy I was able to. Thanks to anyone building communication tools. And especially thanks to anyone working at FB to keep whatsapp reliable. These moments can really matter. 🙏

"when life hands you lemons, joe biden kills you with them" is just bars

Most first-time founders/managers burn out their first batch of employees because of bad management. I am not great at it but learned a few things on management over the years. Summarized my learnings – hope it helps ✌️ Here the full article: klinger.io/posts/managing-pe…

“We need to pay the debt i took. Let’s charge a ton for the API” “Sir, people now scrape the website directly to avoid the cost. Which is really expensive for our servers!” “Block public access” “Our frontend wasnt anticipating this. Multiple parts of the site are now infinite looping for non public content killing our servers” “Rate limit everyone!” “Sir our engagement is down because people cant use the site!” “Force people to open the app at least twice a week or get downranked and ultimately removed to encourage usage.” “Sir advertising partners are no longer booking large contracts” “Sell this hellhole to comcast”

Stripe: - 2010 - european founders - needed to go to SV to raise & scale - today the highest valued startup Hopin: - 2020 - european founder - gone remote to raise & scale - today the fastest growing startup 🔥 To repeat: The future of hypergrowth startups is remote. 🔥

We aren't ready for the next generation of gaming. This is gameplay footage of @unrecordgame 🤯

I hate European startup pitch decks. Exactly following a template. 20 slides on why saving money is good and preferred by customers. 1 slide about the product. Super abstract & high-level. Please just show the product. You are a pre-seed startup, not an MBA study. 🙈

Would buy 50 pieces of this. 👀 Can someone make this real please. Via @katekiewel

🚨 Hey folks I got something to announce: I am launching a new investment fund brand: Prototype Capital 🦾 A globally-active first-check investment fund. We focus on cool stuff that's technical hard to achieve, but also still new enough to be a bit weird – globally. Think Robotics in Eastern Europe, AI in SF, Software remotely, OpenSource SaaS, Space-tech in India, Reindustrialization of Europe, AI Agents in Brazil, among many others… - $100k-$200k - we say we invest early and we actually mean it - with every 5th investment we are the first to commit - only 6% of all ivnestments were after seed - the brand will be a larger umbrella for all kinds of stuff from our own prototypes 😬, to streams, to communities, to investinpublic transparency efforts - this is legally speaking a rebrand of my previous solo GP fund so we got track record to proof - we do about 15-20 investments per year Link in thread! 🔥 Please RT if you got a sec – Appreciate your launch support 🙏❤️

Just received a startup pitch as async loom video from a founder who had his 3 months old baby strapped around while he explains the business. This is the kind of future I want to see.

Serious question: Who is investing in Youtube channels? Basically ISA for Creators

This is the best time to work on software startups. Millions of non-technical people are able to work from home because of software products. They can sell online and their businesses can continue. I know we are all nervous & distracted. But remember to keep up the good work ✌️

Ok, it's finally done and published! Thanks to everyone giving feedback 🙏 * "Should we do remote?" * "How did you make remote work for your team?" * "Our team struggles with engineers being remote…" New post: Managing Remote Teams: A Crash Course ❤️ klinger.io/post/180989912140…

Hopin hired 400 people last year. I just heard of a [very large] remote team that plans to hire 400+ engineers this year alone. 🤯💥 Said it and will say it again: 👉 The future of hypergrowth startups is remote. 👈

Americans should stop larping European antique culture. Have some self respect and put a massive Walmart parking lot there.

I want Macron as next European Commission president 🔥 Can we do direct elections of this role finally? Ridiculous that all the true power is kept with national political leaders and parties.

People should use google maps menu photos to track real world inflation. Example: Döner in a popular Berlin spot (Rosenthaler Platz Grill) 6 years ago: €3.40 4 years: €3.90 2 years: €4.40 3 months: €6.90 (!) 🤯 And people don’t believe me when i say BLN got expensive. 👀

New post. I tried to summarize my POV on Europe. More importantly, i share share two small suggestions that, as a first step, could bring us back on track. 🇪🇺 eu/acc klinger.io/posts/eu-acc

A few 2020 remote work predictions combined with free startup ideas: 📺 Multiple teams will innovate on videocalls Startup Idea: Rethink video clients without "BIG FACES IN A BOX" Different calls need different optimized experiences (eg Townhall vs 1on1 vs small team call)

Europe – we need your help. Please sign this petition to create a pan-european legal entity and promote it as much as you can: eu-inc.org We got RIGHT NOW a once in a generation chance to improve Europe for startups. 🔥 We got 6 weeks until the new comission sets their work agenda for the years to come. Uniting the European startup ecosystems needs to be part of this agenda! The solution is known, it's just one out of hundreds for politicians. It's our job as industry to show how important it is. First co-signatories are people like @patrickc, @nzennstrom, @martinmignot, @MattClifford, @Taavet, Eléonore Crespo, @jobvo, @roxannevarza and many many more coming in the next weeks. Hopefully including you! ✌️ How you can help: - Sign this - Get your friends, your team, your investors, your portfolio to sign - Share this in your whatsapp, slack and discord groups - Get this in front of press, newsletters, and influencers eu-inc.org/ For Europe, for the next generations to come: Let's make Europe the best place for innovators. Uniting as one ecosystem is the first step - a pan-european ecosystem is the key here. Let's go!

Life Update: Most of you know that enabling global talent is one of my big passions in life – so i am excited to finally make it public: I joined @beondeck as CTO to lead the product-engineering team 🙀🙀🙀 Quick thread why 🧵👇

I never understood why US VCs use Yale or Stanford as "best possible founder filter" Compare it to: - Get into IIT in India - then a US visa (as Indian!) - then join a top-tier company in the Bayarea - AND THEN decide to "f&ck it… i'll start a startup" That's a filter! 🤯🔥

English should be Europe’s official primary default language. We should call it “European” Recognize both UK & US spelling as correct grammar, and all European accents as perfect pronunciation. English (European), EN_eu

A GPT that emulates a Grammarly-like interface. If OpenAI figures out how to do API / embedding / exporting right, a whole layer of "mid-level" tooling will be gone. via @reddit

India's tuktuk-first Uber competitor Namma Yatri has a "/open" page. It shows all their revenue and other KPIs. They charge a monthly driver fee instead of commissions – hence this is perfect marketing via transparency. Awesome stuff 👇 nammayatri.in/open

Holy. 🤯 Built by a team at Alibaba. Ecommerce will be wild in the next years. 👀

There are normality influencers now. "You don't have to escape the matrix" "The grass is greener where you water it" "Enjoy the little things" "Use a 9-5 to build the life you want" Amazing

This guy got elected as Austrian president end of last week. Bodyguards? Press? Nah. Just shopping like anyone else 🙌 Love how chill 🇦🇹 is.

So many disucssion how, when, what to do when you start a company… - 80h/30h? - VC/bootstrapped? - Local/remote? Here the only startup advice i ever found to be true: 1) Do whatever you think is right. 2) If you end up successful, you were right (for your path) 🤷‍♀️

Having an audience is the best business right now - Sell exclusive content - Get monthly contributions - Start a fashion brand - Start a food chain - Raise a venture fund - Invest in companies - Get access to opportunities and deals 🤯

Imho: In person is better for innovation. Remote is better for iteration. Hence as a remote team you need to meet in person. And as colocated team you need to give people space to focus. But it's by far easier to optimize your own focus / performance if you work remote.

Having too many opportunities killed more startups than having too few.

New website who dis? eu-acc.com/ 🇪🇺🔥

I don’t get why that’s weird. AndroidOS is used for most complex stuff - eg quest is just an android fork Why would you build your own OS And $199 isnt even much for custom hardware

Biggest risk for founders: “Blue Ocean Syndrome” Opportunity into every direction. You swim to all of them. A bit. At once. Get nowhere. 🌊🏊‍♀️🌊

If i order a $10 pizza i got so exact tracking that i see when the driver takes a wrong turn. 🎯 If i order a $3000 laptop: it comes somewhere tomorrow, oops, we forgot to ring your bell, here is a sticker though, good luck 🤷‍♀️

That’s a grindr ad isnt it?

Request for product: Coach European founders to communicate with the self-confidence of a US fresh-out-of-college bro.

In case of fire…

React is popular because it is complex enough that engineers feel like they are doing something smart.

Imagine you are in the current YC batch: You are building AI-enabled X OpenAI just partnered with X You got only two more weeks until Demo Day 😬

The week of burning man is an extremely special experience for people in San Francisco. Many people are more experienced with this than me. I want to make sure I do this right. Given that everyone is at BM: WHICH restaurant that I'd never get into normally should I try out? 🙏

Nice. Digital Hoemads 🥁 ( sorry )

WTF This is genuinely terrible for Europe. We got all the leading robotics providers but we let them buy for scraps by Asian firms. KUKA to china ABB to japan 🤯

Breaking: complete list of UUIDs got leaked. Double check your ID entries, search if they are part of the list, and act accordingly 🚨

Life update: Most here know that promoting remote work has been my passion for the last 5-10years. I decided to stop doing it "on the side" & focus on it fulltime: From now on i'll lead @AngelList's efforts to become the #1 place to connect global talent w/ global opportunities

how is this not an episode of how i met your mother

Official proposal handover to the EU commissioners ✅ 🙏❤️ Still tons of work but great first steps Lets fix Europe for startups. 🇪🇺

OH: If you move to San Francisco, sooner or later, you either - start a company - raise a VC fund - or become a yoga teacher That's the rule.

"Remote work is the new normal for developers" 86% of respondents currently work remotely in some capacity, with ~1/3 working remotely full-time. 43% say the ability to work remotely is a must-have when considering an offer with a company. digitalocean.com/currents/ju…

We should celebrate private companies in Europe more. Eg LIDL With stock markets fragmented into little countries the incentive of going public is smaller. But eg Lidl (Schwarz Group) has comparable revenue($180B) to Home Depot($170B), has profit($16B) comparable of Walmart ($19B), and a customer follower that could qualify them as religion. I got AC in my office so i never understood the meme as much but yea AC is good. But shittalking Europe on retail where we are worldclass is crazy. Lidl and Aldi alone will roll up the US. H&M and Zara already did years ago. Imho: Every US person will join the religion. They already did with trader joe which is Aldi undercover. Lidl is the purified cleaner version of that. I don’t want to talk about it too much to avoid an euphoric recall reaction.

The only startup advice that you should follow: “Do whatever you think is right; if you end up successful you were right.” Everything else are just opinions, ideas or noise. Take them, use them, ignore them. Your choice. You will only win in your own way. 🙏

They could spend their time standardizing European entities, investments, taxes, legal systems, pan-european trade and/or employment. Instead, he worries about features on twitter. This is literal micromanagement.

AfD = Russia If you look for strict immigration policy but want a pro-European option go CDU They are christian conservatives. No reason to go with Putin’s gang. Good luck on Sunday Germany 🇩🇪🇪🇺🔥

Good morning Europe, Let's get to work… 1) As some of you already heard: the EU has confirmed that they are starting to work on a pan-european legal entity early 2025 🔥 2) Instead of waiting and hoping for the best. We want to frontrun this and – together with the whole startup ecosystem – create the best 👀 Today we are opensourcing a first-draft of how the EU-Inc could look. And we want your contributions. What are we missing? What's unclear? What edgecase might be an issue? The @euinc_petition needs you! 😉 It's all opensource and public here proposal.eu-inc.org/ This first draft was created with several dozen legal experts in the European ecosystem. Now we are opening it up to the wider community. We – as a community – got until January 15th to finalize a draft for the EU-Inc. To contribute simply comment in the notion (seriously what could go wrong 😬) or use the feedback button to send us your thoughts/changes/suggestions/questions. Please promote this and send this to your friends. Ask your legal-council to give their feedback too. Post on twitter your thoughts to give this more reach. The last time we said "we got 6 weeks" we managed to make this an urgent part of the work agenda. This time we got 6 weeks to make sure the implementation is right for startups. Let's show, not tell! 🔥🇪🇺

In almost all discussions about remote work I have to first explain the difference between: - digital backpackers - workation tourists - digital staymads - remote workers Very different people with very different lifestyles and needs.

Does your imposter syndrome ever go away or do you just scale it with your ambition?

The European Competitiveness Compass just launched. Obviously, it's a boring looking policy doc - like always – but skim it quickly - i bet you'll like it (link in reply) Personally, i love the focus on productivity, innovation, resiliance, and competitiveness. Also, they announced that they want to propose a 28th regime for a pan-european legal entity THIS year. I cannot explain how FAST this is for government standards. Think about how many countries, stakeholders, incentives are involved. The SE needed 20 or 30 years to launch. And here they want to get something ready to work & vote on already THIS year. Crazy Btw this quote here stood out to me – couldn't agree more 👇🇪🇺🔥

EU Inc was just confirmed as main agenda topic in the European Parliament And has already a commissioner who will co-lead it (28th regime) First impossible, then inevitable. 🔥

Larger remote teams should get a "Head of Remote". A role at the intersection of optimizing internal tooling, processes, transparency, collaboration, efficiency, inclusivity, onboarding, hiring, employer-branding, culture and communication overall.

Europe is dragging when it should be Draghing. politico.eu/article/mario-dr…