Christian Vestergaard

Work: Founder. Escape: Cycling. Personality: Simple.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

Recreating Mac OS X Snow Leopard components is fun! Here radio buttons.

[ElevenLabs Developers @ElevenLabsDevs]

@thorwebdev And over in Copenhagen, team Nine Three Quarters won with a voice agent that narrates interactive educational children’s stories.

Congratulations Gustav, Hans Christian, Christian, and Noah Lloyd

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@oliverhamrin Do you generate images or what is generally your source, when it's not tied to company earnings?

[Michael Bloch @michaelxbloch]

https://t.co/Sbr574u8fu

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@Prof_Kalkyl Where did you get these? Jealous.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

Steve would never.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@conductor_build + @detaildotdev. Cooking.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

token anxiety (noun)

/ˈtoʊ.kən æŋˈzaɪ.ə.ti/

The sinking feeling when you're in a meeting or asleep and zero prompts are running on your behalf.

Prognosis: permanent underclass.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@conductor_build Passport is a fun touch. Give me those rare cities!

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

I really like the @conductor_build interface and spend around 80% of my day there. I hope they find ways to make agent teams from Claude available. I want to make the switch and really don't like CLI.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

Bye sleep. @pollenrobotics

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@jakubkrehel big fan of your articles - wish they all came with code examples. keep it up!

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@emilkowalski Your course and path has been a great inspiration!

[JC @shiftj]

As a YC founder I've now watched 2 close friends build multi-billion dollar companies.

Here's a few things that surprised me:

1/ it can be anyone

There's nothing special about these guys. They're smart, committed, and work hard. But they're not geniuses. They just figured it out as they went.

There's often a perception that unicorn founders are special cases or natural geniuses.

In reality, they struck on something and held on for dear life as it started to get it's own legs.

2/ growth creates spend, not the other way around

When you compare a unicorn to a slower growing company you realize something interesting.

A slower growing company is spending to increase growth while a fast growing company is spending to support it.

Meaning that unicorn companies often have more demand than they can deal with. Their product clicked and demand spiked - they're spending to keep up, holding on for dear life.

The mistake founders make is thinking that headcount and spend is creating that growth. It's not. It's supporting the demand that already exists.

3/ momentum is everything

The most fascinating thing watching these two work is how they utilized momentum.

Every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every year. They'd take the momentum of the last and use it to fuel the next.

Whether that's press, investors, feature builds, or anything in between. It felt like every move they made compounded into next one.

They got initial momentum and continued to fuel it until they hit the finish line.

4/ build your own path

Frankly - when I first saw their products - I thought they were stupid. In fact, they were stupid and looked nothing like the current versions.

It doesn't matter what someone like me thinks.

Build your own path, make your own product, and find your way - just like they did.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

Move to claude they said, it will be fun they said.

[njokuscript.um @njokuScript]

https://t.co/hn6rDkgYDR

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

we take the internet for granted - so much amazing work done that we never notice! @leerob breaking down how image compression works. wonderful.

https://t.co/L7Z0zufkl4

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

https://t.co/fxHYR6S29D

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

I'm mind blown from learning about how transistors work in a computer. All tech is built on a miraculous pile of prior innovations.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@dhh Death Star vibes