Fred Pullin

I'm helping founders set a VeryGood sales process. Otherwise I'm a Montreal in Berlin.

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

Something I'll send next time someone asks me what I actually do for a living, thanks @mattwichrowski !

[Matt Wichrowski @mattwichrowski]

New interview: Technical Sales w/ Fred Pullin of @garden_io.

Technical buyers don’t buy software, they adopt and convert. In our enlightening conversation Fred explains how he first unlocked this conversion magic and the built a team to scale it.

https://t.co/AJWj9uEekN

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

can’t stop thinking about this

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈 @JackDunc1]

"People always drift right as they get older"... Nah mate, Millennials put a stop to that shit

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@hopper cars for Venice? great

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“everyday is the super bowl when you’re building dashboards that give executives actionable insights into critical business functions”

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

so worth repeating

[sphinx @protosphinx]

@Vichyhacker its a better spreadsheet. its a better powerpoint. a better doc file. a better piece of code. but it still needs a human to glue it all together.

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@TheRestHistory total lols

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

To the VCs with common sense who are willing to speak up: respect

[Christoph Janz 🕊 @chrija]

To everyone in tech who supported Trump in 2024: now would be a good time to reconsider.

The parallels to the early stages of Germany’s darkest history are becoming hard to ignore. To be clear, Trump is NOT Hitler. But look at the intimidation, normalization of violence, centralization of power, threats against other nations,... The fact that Trump is less evil and less racist than Hitler shouldn't reassure us.

Time to call out the emperor’s clothes. I refuse to believe that anyone in their right mind can deny that Trump is a narcissistic, egomaniacal, incompetent, corrupt, and deeply immoral person.

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@signulll @vkhosla relax guy, it's only a 24T EU GDP market that you're cutting out plus putting a Can+Aus+Japan 8T GDP market at risk

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@AventuraObscura 2021! (sorry to be that person)

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The thing I want to know most about the Venezuelan operation is who's in the Epstein files.

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

Note

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@AventuraObscura I didn't know there was the cast there! His auto biography is crazy when he describes how he made it

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@orphcorp to real

[Bob Dewey @macroleverageTP]

somebody had to do it, might as well be me! (Do they have AI in the UK?)

"how many emails would have to be deleted to impact water usage?"
AI: "Short answer: an awful lot—deleting email barely moves the needle on water.

Here’s a back-of-the-envelope using reasonable, public figures:

Assume a small, no-attachment email ≈ 75 kB. With ~3x redundancy in the cloud that’s ≈ 225 kB (= 0.00022 GB) stored.

Typical data-center energy for storage averages a few kWh per GB per year. Use ~5 kWh/GB-year (mid-range).

Water use for cooling often averages ~0.5 liters per kWh (varies widely by site and season).

Putting that together:
0.00022 GB × 5 kWh/GB-yr × 0.5 L/kWh ≈ 0.00055 liters per email per year (about half a milliliter).
What that means:

~1,800 emails deleted (and kept deleted for a year) ≈ 1 liter of water saved.

A 5-minute shower (≈ 50–75 L with a low-flow head) ≈ 90,000–140,000 emails.

Fixing a leaky toilet (200–400 L/day) dwarfs email by >300,000–700,000 emails per day.

So while deleting emails isn’t harmful, it’s not an impactful water-saving tactic. If you want meaningful water savings at home, prioritize fixing leaks, shorter showers, efficient fixtures, and reducing outdoor watering."

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@chat_SBC just goes to show how big the market actually is tbh

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@chat_SBC maybe true for a short bit, if only directionally, but microsoft won’t pour concrete or make textile… so the indices would have to be either reduced to 7 or a major correction takes place

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@stevesi @martin_casado @levie also an actual human to point to and hold accountable if it all goes wrong

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

@mhdempsey Twenty years ago I did a season in Whistler and visited the orcas near Victoria, they came so close to the boat it felt surreal, I remember it as if it were yesterday

[Fred Pullin @FreddyPullin]

wowza, end of an era, thank you to the @Pocket team for the thousands of articles I’ve kept, I’ll give it a push and try to get through as many of the ones I’ve been putting of, best of luck on the next ventures

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

You can just take academic papers and paste them into Gemini 2.5/ChatGPT o3/Claude 4 with the prompt "build me a game based on this paper, make it interesting and thematic but still conveying key findings" and get a tiny working educational game. (In this case, I used Gemini)