&rew Gold

currently building formerly @ZiinaMENA @coinbase, @_dsys, @apple

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

I'm really not more of a tweeter (or public shamer), but this is now the fourth time our product has been taken completely offline by @Railway instability. Doesn't really matter how pleasant the UI is when it's telling you your database can't be reached.

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

Is @Railway having another outage? Our database has become unreachable, redeploy is completely stuck.

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

Is @Railway having another outage? Our database has become unreachable, redeploy is completely stuck.

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

@kchau My wife is hard of hearing and really struggles in loud restaurants. Would love to try it!

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

@tomasmas @augmentaltech I want one!

[Jessica Peltz Zatulove @jessicapeltz]

Alpha comes from non-consensus bets, couldn’t be more excited about our @HannahGreyVC investment in Escargot!

Escargot is bridging digital convenience with physical, real world connection. Brilliant application of AI to make people feel connected and special.

It’s working- they’re ripping 📈

Download the app today and send your first card, quite addicting and fun experience ✨

Let’s go @ASALBERT and @DrewMAu ! Alongside rockstar friends @NWischoff @ditzikow @WischoffVC @southpkcommons 🔥

[Jessica Peltz Zatulove @jessicapeltz]

Bullish on @ASALBERT @DrewMAu

🐌💌

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

@zehranaqvi oh let's goooo 🔮

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

Killer pun and a killer product 👀

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

snail mail startup Escargot is proof you can raise $2.8M off one killer pun

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

Cards coming to a celebration near you!

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

How lucky I am that every day I get to work on insanely fun problem with the most insanely fun person. Thrilled to be on this ride together brother 💌

[Aaron Albert @ASALBERT]

my cousin pitched me a greeting card company 5 times over 5 years. i said no every single time. then in 2025 i finally said yes. to a paper company.

while every founder i knew was racing to build AI agents, we walked into VC meetings pitching snail mail. we kept telling investors: in a few years saying your company "uses AI" is going to sound as ridiculous as saying you're "an internet company." so we skipped that part.

escargot is not a greeting card company. it's a way to stay close to the 15-20 people you actually care about. we remind you when the moments are coming, make it stupidly easy to show up for them, and close the loop so you actually feel it. no algorithms. no hashtags. just slowing down and being thoughtful.

today @BusinessInsider published a feature on what we're building. we raised $2.75M led by @NWischoff and @HannahGreyVC with @southpkcommons , @_CommonMagic , @NextWaveNYC , @bentossell , and @LizaGurtin .

grateful to my co-founder and cousin Andrew for not giving up after 5 rejections. and to our team — this doesn't exist without you.

cards are just the beginning 🐌

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

It is a privilege to have your support, thank you for sharing our vision 💌

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

When I first met @ASALBERT + Andrew, what stood out was their confidence zigging where others zag - bc they deeply understand culture.

Next gen consumers crave analog. Real friendships.

Escargot are building the celebration layer of the internet; proud investor @_CommonMagic

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

It is such a blessing to have Dylan in your corner, we're lucky to have him as a partner and even luckier to have him as a friend 💌

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

And they say VC's don't know how to have fun

🤝🤝🤝

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

Nichole is actually the greatest, she is as real as they come, and we couldn't be luckier to have her along for the ride 💌

[Nichole Wischoff @NWischoff]

Backed a greeting card company last year and it is crushing. The current market is over $20B and 2/3 of consumers prefer a physical card. Use Escargot and send cards to everyone around a special occasion instantly. They will love it!

More on the round from me and the team:

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

@ditzikow @southpkcommons Congrats!! Thank you for making our time at SPC so special. Well deserved 🫡

[Ruchi Sanghvi @rsanghvi]

10 years ago, there were 10 people around my kitchen table. No structure, no brand, no certainty. Just a handful of builders showing up for something that yet didn’t exist.

Since then @southpkcommons has grown to over a 1000 members. Today, 25,000 people apply to SPC every year. We have offices in SF, NYC, and Bangalore.

But SPC isn’t about the numbers, it’s about the people and what emerges when they choose to show up for each other.

It looks like @anuraggoel, already successful and credible, showing up with generosity, helping others, sharing work, iterating in public. Patterns sharpened and @render was born.

It looks like @thejamescad and @dbabbs, who met at SPC to become cofounders building @tryprofound. One of the superpowers of SPC is the collision rate—not the shallow kind, but the kind that only happens when people keep showing up long enough to build trust.

It looks like @MaximilianMona, who moved out to California in an RV to be at SPC and eventually build Ironsite. That’s someone saying, with their whole life: this matters.

And it looks like @AshtonJEaton, an Olympic gold medalist, walking into SPC not for a career pivot, but for a deeper reinvention. To trade mastery for learning. Not for optics. For truth.

SPC has been designed by the community and for the community, with one goal that hasn’t changed: pay it forward. We’ve helped normalize taking time to find truly meaningful work, whatever shape that might take.

So on this ten-year anniversary, I want to thank the people who made SPC what it is.

The ones who showed up when they didn’t have a narrative.
The ones who lived in the question — and lingered in uncertainty for long enough to find out.
The ones who came back, again and again, for the work and for each other.

Happy ten years, SPC. Thank you for showing up!

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

The goal @southpkcommons is to build maximally ambitious companies.

Take some time to find the right mountain. Don't confuse motion for progress.

Our first 10 years have been strong. Now we get to to go build the next decade.

This article captures us well:

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

The average dunning email gets ignored. You are literally sending "please ignore me" messages to customers who owe you money.

Playbooks - our workflow system for intelligent collections - is now live on the @usemonk platform.

A system that reasons, not just reminds.

We filmed a 60 second video showing you an experiment between @zhou_squared and @francescocoacci collecting $100K.

Finance, biz-ops and post-sales teams should not be spending time chasing customers.

Many spend 10+hrs/week doing what Joe did in this video:
- context switching between tools (slack, gmail, quickbooks, google sheets)
- breaking flow from deep work
- sending reminders because the average dunning email is ignored

But agentic collections are not enough. Every customer relationship is different.

Some need white-glove treatment and others a nudge. That’s why we built playbooks, giving every business a customizable collection workflow.

With playbooks you can:
- create triggers and workflows specific to a customer segment (tone shift, conditions, escalations to sales/customer support)
- auto-resolve AP questions with context from relevant email threads
- pause automatically when product questions or upsells opportunities come up

Playbooks is how you get paid while you sleep.

And we do it with professionalism and empathy that your customers deserve.

Heading into Q1 with a gap between signed ARR and actual cash? Watch the video.

And if you want to see bloopers from Frank/Joe filming, comment “payday” + tag a teammate and we will send you bloopers from the shoot.

[&rew Gold @DrewMAu]

The SPC membership is the greatest deal in tech. If you're in the wilderness trying to figure out what to do next, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner]

People sometimes miss that there are 2 ways to join @southpkcommons: the Founder Fellowship, which we're pretty loud about when the application is open 2x year

—and the membership residency, which has no cost and is always open