Casey Kline

Something new | past: PM @fablesecurity PM Intern @trustvanta @getcalixa investing @gcventurefellow UNC ‘25

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@CharlesChillFFB @KentWeyrauch I’m working on this!

Will be opening the app for new leagues around late July/early August. Dynasty players deserve better

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@KentWeyrauch I’m working on this! Fantasy football (especially dynasty) players deserve a product built by actual dynasty players.

Planning a small launch before this football season

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@matt_slotnick if you talk to FDEs at some of these startups, they’re basically TAMs, maybe slightly higher-touch, with a Palantirian rebrand

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@matt_slotnick great take - among a bunch of strong founders, basically just Distyl following the model

tbc none of these Palantir for x startups are doing true FDE product development model anyway though

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@matt_slotnick @bhalligan @P_Remarks but they’re mixed in with some great ones:
- 6 months way too long to ship a “free shipping option” feature
- speed is an advantage over outsourcers/consultants
- vertical selling works
- charging % of retail revenue for SaaS does not work (unless you do payments…)

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@matt_slotnick @bhalligan @P_Remarks great read - very cool to look back on all the bad takes:
- ASPs fail bc customers in 2000 build vs buy
- Big Five (lol) consulting firms will adapt to ASP model and kill them
- IBM, EDS, etc will kill them
- can’t use implementation cost as loss leader

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@nrmehta so much fun - I thought we had a shot at a comeback until they asked the LAMP question

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@armahinuwedu1 @itsamks I’ve pledged at 2 different schools and at both we lived on groupme and imessage + some snap groups

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@samuel_spitz another one: I realized that I left “billing address same as shipping address” checked, and it def isn’t, so my billing address is wrong. I realized pretty quickly but I can’t figure out how to edit it (I’m on mobile site if relevant, will check on laptop later)

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@samuel_spitz weird product feedback and probably not representative of your customer base but I just signed up (to get this shirt actually) and it took me like 5 minutes to think of 3 brands that you had on there lol, I don’t shop much + when I do it’s mostly Vuori stuff, was kinda friction-y

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@gdb @ronithhh making huge moves

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@nealkhosla Menlo actually still does this! At least the ASR class still did a few years ago, when I was still there. I hope the balloons don’t get shot down this year lol

[Casey Kline @CaseyKline01]

@roshanchandna @chriszeoli @menloschool I had a VC tell me he knows way more founders from Menlo than he does from my college (UNC, not a tech school but pretty big + pretty good) - I’m definitely more likely to recruit for a future startup from my Menlo network than from the UNC one

[Christina Cacioppo @christinacaci]

"[My next blog post] will be a slightly-subversive or longtermism take on why building a SaaS startup is the most valuable thing I could be doing for the human race." (Watching Casey this summer was so fun.)