Ethan Sands

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

Miami's buses and trains will run again. 🚇

63 of 69 electric buses sit at Coral Way waiting on parts.

The amazing people at @GoMiamiDade keep Miami moving. We'll fix this with them, turning broken parts into data Miami shops build from.

Miami, let's go. @MayorDaniella

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

I have 30 followers rn and one post about what I'm building got me chatting with some of the best people I've met.

Build in public.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@spyrex9769517 Your DMs aren't open

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

Hiring founding engineers. I want winners who can ship. I don't care about pedigree.

DMs open.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

Applications are open for the Jump Founding Shops. Picking 10–20 CNC shops. 3 months free, 33% off for life.

Apply: https://t.co/18athd8upl

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

Named the company Jump while jump roping and Jump Around came on.

Cool, fun, optimistic, unique. Odd enough that people will remember it.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

2 weeks ago I came up with the idea for Jump.

Since then: a prototype, 15 potential users, 20 engineers interviewed out of 100 applicants, and now investors.

Most of it came from talking to people. Paul Graham was right: "do things that don't scale."

So I'm committing to 10 new conversations a day with people who can help the mission. Engineers especially. DMs open.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@DarrelFrater DM

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

I'm setting out to solve a massive problem.

Last December I got the green light to take a break from school. School never gave me the freedom to actually learn. My mom flew up to Philly, got a rental, I packed everything I owned into it and drove back to Florida. Straight through the night, no stops. Turned 19 somewhere in the middle of nowhere on I-95.

Dead quiet. Kinda unsettling. But I've never felt that free. I just trusted it would all work out. I don't know how I knew, I just did. That's why I'm here.

Shortly after, I navigated my way into high finance. Buyout shops, roll-ups, private credit, owners of big family businesses. I was just trying to prove myself.

Sitting across from them, I kept seeing small problems nobody was solving that quietly hold everything back. And I realized people put up fake walls in front of themselves, guarding themselves from following their curiosity and becoming who they're meant to be.

If I'm gonna do something bold, it's now. I can afford instability. I can afford to disappear for a while.

We're born empty-handed and we die empty-handed. All I have to lose is the shirt off my back.

Follow along. You'll want to say you were here early.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines.

The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough to continue.

Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game.

The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@thejustinwelsh Scary competition is a gym. The point is to graduate out of competing.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@REK Love this

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@zerohedge Bigger!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It will be much bigger

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

ray dalio spent his 77th birthday in an ibiza club until 4am

somehow this one didn't make it into Principles

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@MichaelDell Learn Obsessively!

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Technologies we need to advance to settle space:

* bio regenerative life support
* artificial gravity
* non-rocket launch
* ISRU

Any others I’m missing?

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

You're allowed to change your mind. New data = New decisions.

[Ethan Sands @Ethanhsands]

@ScottiePippen Dude...