Daniel SchuHi

Backing teams in robotics at inception.

Ex product @N26 & @Taxfix, @ETHBerlin & @TUM_Hyperloop, org theory @HECParis & @zeppelin.

[Neel Popat @theneelpopat]

About to wake the fuck up

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

Imagine replacing 90% of your employees with a team of geniuses who have no idea how your company operates.

Total chaos. Nothing works.

That’s what AI feels like today.

The missing piece is extracting all the domain knowledge from people’s heads and providing that as structured context to the models.

[Daniel SchuHi @DanielSchuHi]

@wolfejosh In Germany this would be forbidden

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing wires the messaging- the facts you want to communicate to customers- and gets the product sold. But from my experience that's a grievous mistake. Those are, and should aways be, one job.

There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained- the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your messaging is your product. The story you're telling shapes the thing you're making.

I learned story telling from Steve Jobs. I learned product management from Greg Joswiak. Joz, a fellow Wolverine, Michigander, and overall great person, has been at Apple since he left Ann Arbor in 1986 and has run product marketing for decades. And his superpower- the superpower of every truly great product manager- is empathy. He doesn't just understand the customer. He becomes the customer.

So when Joz stepped into the world with his next-gen iPod to test it out, he fiddled with it like a beginner. He set aside all the tech specs- except one: battery life.

The numbers were empty without customers, the facts meaningless without context.

And, that's why product management has to own the messaging. The spec shows the features, the details of how a product will work, but the messaging predicts people's concerns and finds way to mitigate them.

- #BUILD Chapter 5.5 The Point of PMs

[Neel Popat @theneelpopat]

🚨 JOB OPENING 🚨

I'm Neel, Head of Customer Support at @popcorn

I’d like a demotion.

We’re hiring CX. Please like + RT to save us!

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

We are on the cusp of a profound change in the field of mathematics. Vibe proving is here.

Aristotle from @HarmonicMath just proved Erdos Problem #124 in @leanprover, all by itself. This problem has been open for nearly 30 years since conjectured in the paper “Complete sequences of sets of integer powers” in the journal Acta Arithmetica.

Boris Alexeev ran this problem using a beta version of Aristotle, recently updated to have stronger reasoning ability and a natural language interface.

Mathematical superintelligence is getting closer by the minute, and I’m confident it will change and dramatically accelerate progress in mathematics and all dependent fields.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Hire for agency

[Neel Popat @theneelpopat]

I hate making phone calls.

So I built an open source MCP server to do it for me.

We're baking this into our next-gen telco 🌽 + 🔥

If you're:
- Hungry
- Ambitious
- All in, 6 days a week

We're hiring engineers @popcorn

Github below. Surprise us :)

[Daniel SchuHi @DanielSchuHi]

@dennismuellr @tryamie Congrats @dennismuellr and team! ☺️

[Tomasz K. Stańczak @tkstanczak]

Early successes of Ethereum on the institutional front were built with @ethereumJoseph and @Consensys - I can only imagine how challenging it must have been. The level of energy that is coming back to Ethereum!

[Daniel SchuHi @DanielSchuHi]

@tkstanczak @tkstanczak Throwing Germany's hat in the ring. Love the french ecosystem and have been going to ETHCC for a while, but France (Paris) and UK (London) have centralized innovation ecosystems, while innovation in Germany is as diverse as Europe is. (Co-organized @ETHBerlin 1+2).

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Things that didn’t exist on Christmas 25 years ago:

iPhone
Tesla
YouTube
𝕏
SpaceX
Gmail
Instagram
Bitcoin
Facebook
Skype
Amazon Prime
Google Maps
Netflix streaming
Android
App Store
WhatsApp
TikTok
Snapchat
Fitbit
Xbox
Pinterest
LinkedIn
iPad
Uber
Airbnb
Reddit
Spotify
Zoom

[Productlane @productlane]

Something huge is coming next week.

Hint: User feedback and customer support won't have to be managed separately any longer.

🔔 Don’t miss out on our Product Hunt launch - get notified:
https://t.co/sFqUYOFcYO

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The side of planet Earth we aren't used to seeing.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[Daniel SchuHi @DanielSchuHi]

@VCBrags @skbjml Isn’t the same true for many successful founders and operators? Isn‘t this the game of dominance and attention (i.e. signalling theory) we‘re all playing?

[ETHBerlin04 @ETHBerlin]

The moment you have all been waiting for has arrived!

Congrats to every single hacker who submitted a project, we were truly overwhelmed by the results.

It’s time to announce the winners of ETHBerlin04! Drumroll please 🥁

[Philipp Moehring - tiny.vc @pmoe]

It's been three weeks in SF, some thoughts (if I don't forget, I'll keep updating this):

[Kieran Hill @Kieranleehill]

Ep.16 Drop 🎙️

@Joakim_a, Co-Founder of @nxtgms (acq. @netflix), F4 Fund & angel investor joined me in the #20Angel hot seat 💥

👉 The key to investing in Gaming 🎮
👉 How to build an Angel Syndicate 🏗️
👉 Founder stress & loneliness 🫶

Enjoy 🍿👇

https://t.co/YStq66BCte