Amar Anand

Product @Reforge

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My first @Medium post! Priorities when building your product: Utilities vs. Networks

https://t.co/v4gfFHFnqj

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@buysidedigest I think your email system is broken. Can't reset password or sign up for a new account

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@fundiescapital @SowingAlphaSeed Whatever xAI didn't want, Anthropic more than made up for.

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@clubmaliboo AMZN and V/MA

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@cap_zay american foundry, supply bottlenecks, and vibes-based multiple expansion

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@lazereater @Divergent7651 Where do you get the scanner data from?

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@ramit Your friend is less wrong than you think.

Professional photos that are obviously professionally taken in a single-day shoot comes across as extremely try-hard.

Key is to have professional photos that look natural, which a very small percent of photographers do well

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@akramsrazor $CLBT

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@visakanv Funny —t he highest form of human intelligence combining empathy, theory of mind, and cleverness

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@AggieCapitalist My understanding was True Wind owns 18% of sun corp because True Wind wants them to spin out their CLBT stake and sun corp doesn’t want to (not sure why though been a minute since I took a look). I wonder if they wouldn’t want to sell it for same reasons

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@ramit What’s your rational for city owned grocery stores?

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@ValerieLi88 Run clubs or pickleball

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@star_annise that kindergarten rizz

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@CXCarroll Taxes

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@FintwitFella @compoundpapi Consider putting a covered collar on if valuation gets too crazy. Sell some oom calls to buy some oom puts. Pretty tax-efficient if you have a super low basis.

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@shreyas BTW I remember a time that you didn’t disagree with me. There’s a reason Dan gets prematurely promoted and Jessie founds a successful company 😉

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Lastly, Jessie is now a co-founder of a YC startup that is absolutely crushing it (and to fast-forward a few more years, this startup will take over a large part of Acme’s core business by 2028).

END OF STORY

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@karrisaarinen @pp3383 Overall depends if you’re a network (multi-player product) or a utility (single-player product). Networks win on size / network effects. Utilities win on quality

Priorities when building your product: Utilities vs. Networks https://t.co/NDf1IaoFys

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@karrisaarinen @pp3383 2) Lyft vs Uber

Lyft launches true ride sharing ~9 months before Uber (uber was black car only). Uber raised a war chest and out spent Lyft to outgrow them. Dried up a lot of the growth capital in the space