be greedy when others are fearful

ADHD CEO + autistic CTO is the most cracked cofounder combo

pre-nups for marriages should have a vesting schedule and cliff just like cofounder equity 50% ownership from day 1 is insane

the tizz / rizz founder matrix (TRFM) all great founders land somewhere on here tag yourself cooked up with @jia_seed

being non-technical in SF is like being ugly in LA

ADHD CEO + autistic CTO is the most cracked cofounder combo

went to a yc dinner in sf and everyone went to stanford, mit, or an ivy except me

only in sf

after 7 applications and 6 rejections, today is day 1 of @ycombinator time to build

SF techie moves to NYC ‘to meet new types of people’ then hangs out with the exact same friend group from SF All of whom moved from SF to NYC for the same reason NYC is a study abroad program for SF techies

accidentally said "unemployed" instead of "pre-revenue" and they kicked me out of SF

‘unmute when a joke is told’ Hahahaha ‘mute again’

you underestimate the amount of people that would say yes to you just ask

all the best founders are misfits autistic, gay, ADHD, immigrant, or short the more you have, the more cracked you are

the shorter the pitch, the more legit the startup

startups don’t die from running out of money they die when founders give up your runway is just how much rejection you can handle

being a male founder means the more your startup succeeds, the more dating attention you get, which distracts you, which then makes it harder for the startup to succeed it’s like the universe has this brake set up to automatically slow you down once you start winning just had a friend who got into YC and was flooded with DMs, at the exact moment he should be focusing on building + selling, not dating massive alpha in either friendzoning everyone or having a long term supportive partner (like Zuck) anything else is a distraction

founding a startup in your 30s is completely different than in your 20s the opportunity cost is much higher 🧵

I used to pray for times like this

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

never forget the people who bet on you early

overheard in SF: ‘You’re in his DMs, I’m on his cap table. We are not the same.’

all the best founders are socially disadvantaged: autistic, gay, ADHD, immigrants or their children, or short you won’t find a generational founder outside this list they all have something to prove

years of dreaming, grinding, and building all for this moment day 1

it’s different than in your 30s marriage in your 20s is like cofounding a startup together, you grow and build your lives together marriage in your 30s is like a corporate merger. you already have your own lives and you’re combining them

the best part about being your own boss is choosing which 16 hours of the day you want to work

Tizz/Rizz explainer (filmed on uber ride)

6 months ago I was sleeping in a hacker house closet, trying to get one customer to care now @hyperspell does $1k a day momentum isn’t magic, it’s just showing up again and again until something starts to move

started YC with a mattress and a dream

A founder’s most important traits are charisma (“rizz”) and autism (“tizz”). Those with high levels of both rizz and tizz can bend the world to their will

windsurf is the soham parekh of startup acquisitions they got acquired by openai, google, and now cognition labs all in one month

make your AI agents so good, they might replace you @hyperspell gives AI memory and context across all your tools

I hate sf halloween, what do you mean you’re sam altman ceo of loopt

our launch video drops in 12 hours not gonna lie, I’m nervous we put a lot into this it might offend some people but it’s time

he's definitely learned his lesson now and is going to work insanely hard to prove everyone wrong massive opportunity to bring on top talent with a chip on their shoulder

my body is a machine that converts autism into shareholder value

being nontechnical in SF is like being ugly in LA

In SF personal + professional life are deeply linked. anyone you meet at a party, workout class, or board game night could be a cofounder, investor, or customer. but they could also be a friend two ways to approach this: 1. let the professional drive the personal. treat every interaction as networking. always be selling. burn out 2. let the personal drive the professional. build real friendships first, then find a way to work together. this is a much better approach the real challenge isn’t finding investors, cofounders, or top engineers. there are more available than you could ever work with the really challenge is knowing who to focus on I’ve met investors, customers, and advisors in the most unexpected places. Ski trips, birthday parties, even burning man none of it happened through networking, it happened through real friendships. if you start off with authenticity and vulnerability then people will be there for you, even when times get tough. they’ll be flexible and find ways to support you even when it doesn’t directly benefit them. you’ll also be much less lonely and have real friends surrounding you on the flip side, if you can’t be yourself around someone then they shouldn’t be in your company or your cap table. there are too many options available to have to work with anyone you don’t trust or like trust is the only scarce resource

we need a standard pre-nup for founders cofounder breakups are the #1 killer in early-stage startups. they're messy, expensive, emotional. progress stalls and only the lawyers win the founders i know with the cleanest breakups just shut the company down and start over. the rest burn time + money and end up with dead equity + future risk why isn’t there a playbook for something this common? a cofounder pre-nup should be as standard as a safe: clear terms on equity, exits, voting, severance. fast, fair, boring we know what bad cofounder breakups look like. time to define what good ones look like. idea came from riffing with @theamberyang earlier today, credit to her for the spark who’s building this?

you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

1) elon, zuck, bezos, jensen all went through the tizzmaxx wormhole to transmute their tizz into rizz zuck + bezos did TRT elon did adderrall and hair transplant jensen huang got leather jacket

another customer just asked to invest starting to think our customers might lead the round

I’ve been through a cofounder breakup, sometimes it’s the only way forward I’ve known Peggy for years, we’re friends and now in the YC batch. she did the right thing by leaving a dynamic that wasn’t working and starting fresh. she’s taking the high road and focusing on building the only people pushing a story here are ragebait accounts making things up. if you’re here for that, unfollow me right now builders build, haters gossip

one year ago we got rejected from the YC Fall 24 batch we didn’t even get an interview. it was our 5th rejection this week we demoed our startup @hyperspell in front of the batch and all the partners as part of @ycombinator F25 the road was long we’re just getting started

PSA: we’ve onboarded more customers than we can handle, so we’re pausing new demos to focus on current customers if you’re booking now, we’ll reach out in december once we come up for air thanks for the patience everyone

ask chatgpt “is there a seahorse emoji” you won’t regret it

why don’t these 30u30 types build startups from jail no distractions, free housing, years of runway

there are two kinds of people
1) those who play to win 2) those who play to not lose
 I used to play not to lose at bcg, the game was keeping your options open
grind hard, get your MBA paid for, make partner, clear $1M a year always keep your ‘exit options’ open in case you decide on a specific direction
I met partners 10 years in who still said “I’m figuring it out, not sure what I want to do yet”
smart, driven people who never bet on themselves lots of doors stayed open, but I realized these doors didn’t matter unless you actually walk through them my last company was bootstrapped
same mindset, different flavor
grow steadily, keep burn low, don’t die
careful. safe when I started @hyperspell, I knew the odds were brutal
most startups fail. most founders never break through
but I also knew that if I went all in, we’d have a real shot at building something that mattered I pitched afore before I had a product, a cofounder, or a real company. I first met @maebert through @beondeck. two weeks later, we teamed up
 we raised pre-revenue, pre-team, pre-everything, on a new idea we had conviction in
 we swung before we were ready I started Hyperspell to build something meaningful and retire my parents at our IPO. not to keep my options open. in fact, I intentionally closed a lot of doors
 I wasn’t playing to not lose anymore
I was playing to win every breakthrough since then has come from betting big and being bold
 any regrets have only come from playing it safe we’re all dead in the long run anyways better to go all in and have no regrets don’t play to not lose
play to win

just because he’s got one job doesn’t mean he can’t get another

If Soham ever applies to YC he's going to have a god-tier answer for this question

the felon: SBF, holmes

just got into yc and already doing collison installations traveled down to palo alto to get @iamfaranna and victor kovalev set up with @hyperspell first of many

one more can’t hurt

when ur customers are all trying to invest

when @maebert and I started @hyperspell, we set a recurring calendar invite to apply to YC every quarter we planned to keep applying until we got in or IPOed found another one today, should we apply for W26?

YC demo day is the coachella of SF

we built the world’s first self-installing API powered by claude code add memory to your AI agents in 5 mins with @hyperspell no human coding required

there’s no better feeling than exceeding the expectations of everyone who bet on you customers, team, and investors make them proud

VCs gotta start filtering for short kings chips on shoulders put chips in pockets It’s the ultimate fuel to prove something to the world

we’re finally live on yc appreciate likes and comments on their post

is this pmf

MCP might be the first tech with more builders than users

just had a new customer onboarding call their first question was "can I angel invest"

genuinely had no idea today was a holiday

looks like it worked! thx for helping spread the gospel of rizz and tizz 🚀

3) you don’t start a company because it’s cool or gives you status at this point in life, it really doesn’t you do it because you have to because you have no other choice something inside you needs to build this

they’re the wolves. poor white male lamb :(

our first rejection from YC was almost a decade ago @maebert and @realbenhorowitz applied and got rejected today Ben joined @hyperspell as founding engineer 15 yrs of eng, led integrations at Segment now we're in @ycombinator F25 some things are worth waiting a decade for

grifters love tizz appropriation faking autism so people think they can ship

2) be careful with tizzmaxx wormhole tho SBF used stimulants to go through it, but took it too far and became a grifter (30u30 -> prison)

we flew to LA just to onboard a customer @hyperspell installation for @liam_a_collins and @pupscub

our motto @hyperspell

it's not FAANG anymore it's HOGMAN

we got into @ycombinator on our 7th try and the @composio team sent us a @hyperspell cake to celebrate shoutout to @GanatraSoham @KaranVaidya6 @CryogenicPlanet @jiteshluthra and the whole team for being awesome partners excited to keep building together 🚀

customers deserve more than a zoom call we come to their office, onboard them in person, and bring pizza @hyperspell installation for @FeifanZ and @tanagram_

if you’re a single female harvard graduate student worried about your immigration status and need a green card ASAP, my DMs are open

the more locked in I got, the lonelier I felt - until I realized recently I was approaching friendships completely wrong as a founder I thought friendships were something you needed to ‘carve out time for’. parties, trips, hobbies, etc. I don’t have time for any of those things anymore but it turns out you don’t need to add social time to your schedule. just do the stuff you’re already doing, but with other people. you actually can have both connection and productivity you need to build your company. you also need to tackle basic physical needs like working out and eating. the key to staying connected is just do those things with other founders instead of alone cowork at friends’ offices. walk to grab meals together. find gym buddies who are also grinding I have no real hobbies anymore and honestly nothing interesting to talk about except work and AI, which is a buzz kill for small talk at parties. but when you’re doing productive stuff together, that pressure disappears and you can form real connections around the work/workouts at @mission__ctrl we started doing morning workouts on the roof at 8am with the other founders in the house @shortkingceo and I have been working from different coworking spaces every week to catch up with friends while staying productive @jia_seed and I bond by making founder content together (more coming soon) founder life is focused as it should be, but it doesn’t have to be lonely. the plot twist is that being completely locked in actually led to deeper friendships than some of the surface-level connections I had before bonding through shared creation, rather than shared consumption, leads to the most real connections. turns out shared struggle and purpose beats small talk every time

apple, google, microsoft, and amazon all started in garages today we installed @hyperspell for @samuelekpe in his garage, with world domination plans sketched out on napkins we drove over an hour to get him set up and ready for launch he’s just getting started 🚀

thank you all for the support on the launch 🙏 the response has been incredible lots of demos rolling in LFG 🚀

my cofounder @maebert and our founder engineer @realbenhorowitz both have kids under the age of 6 still doing YC rn and shipping at an ungodly speed 🚀🚀

every @hyperspell installation gets more elaborate onboarded @coderpr0grammer and @aql404 with dandelion chocolate

thx aws for sponsoring hackhalloween

and ‘my equity is probably worth zero, but at least I don’t have very much of it’

2) in your 30s, it changes your friends are buying houses, getting married, having kids, becoming directors at well-known companies the stakes are higher and the time to recover is shorter

just sent a customer the stripe link to pay and the SAFE to invest in the same message @hyperspell customers are pre-empting the round

996 isn't enough

attention is all you need