Aidan Church

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Live commerce is one of the most engaged shopping channels right now. Now @Shopify merchants can tap into it through @Whatnot.

Products, inventory, and orders all managed from Shopify.

More surfaces to sell on. Same admin to run it from.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Congrats to @Whatnot on raising $225M at an $11.5B valuation—doubling their valuation in less than a year.

Whatnot has built the leading US livestream shopping platform, with $6B+ in goods sold (2x 2024's total). Users now spend 80+ min daily on the app.

https://t.co/rGwBvZqwIE

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

A fascinating thing about @whatnot and other historical marketplaces like $DASH is their growth rate often increases as they scale rather than flattening out.

[Whatnot @Whatnot]

🚀 Exciting News! We've secured an additional $265M from investors to bring our sellers more tools, grow our audience, and enhance seller and customer support on our platform. Check out our latest blog post to learn more https://t.co/6Q41E1ANEX

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@wongmjane Ireland isn't in Schengen - so deduct a few

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax Yeah, I think coming to the US it’s 5 YoE or degree

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax I think the impact always ends there, the first job is harder - that’s probably it (probably)

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@KillianConnolly @DanMulhall They pay taxes, most trade deals and other international economic levers the private sector enjoys are brokered by civil servants.

I’m not entirely convinced asset management is the bastion of value creation you seem to think it is 😬 https://t.co/iXl0hdLjSu

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax A soft yes is always a no

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

I get these things can sometimes be super complex, and you need specialized help that isn’t necessarily on-call 24/7, but it does seem unusual that an ISP doesn’t have a 24/7 oncall that can do basic on premise triage (like turning off & on again)

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

If you rely on Monkeybrains in SF for internet, maybe don’t - outage at 4pm yesterday, didn’t even start trying to fix until “the AM” still out now.

Scary to think there isn’t a 24/7 oncall that can do on premise triage…

[Monkeybrains ISP @monkeybrainsnet]

Outage in Portola district. May be related to a PG&E outage. Will investigate/reset power in the AM.

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax Finishing your dev env setup on day 1 is pretty good going - seems like a solid hire.

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax Strong founder energy

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax Agreed, with a slight expansion - every M1+ or L6+ should always just round out their team. If you have no senior SWE that’s you, if you have no DS it you, if nobody wants to do the migration and you need to keep the team motivated - it you

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax @nathanvf I don't think we've adopted a single convention from Lyft. Company runs pretty heavy on Slack, but we don't do deploys there

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@hrlomax It black, it yellow

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

The T-shirt they give out during onboarding not bad either tbf

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Possibly the fastest growing marketplace of all time: @Whatnot

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@LauraBehrensWu Whatnot in the middle ❤️

[Sean Johnson 🔥 @intentionally]

This is @GrantLaFontaine and his cofounder @loganhead13.

They have built social commerce startup @Whatnot into arguably the fastest growing marketplace ever, succeeding at social selling where many more well-funded companies failed.

How did they do it?

[Aidan Church @Aidanchurch]

@bradysays TFW it's Friday and u gotta launch the feature or get fired