The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).
This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.
@bscholl@JeffBezos@elonmusk Respectfully this doesn’t make sense. There’s plenty at stake as a citizen, regardless of your personal tax burden. Your healthcare costs, prices at the pump, moral entanglement in wars, I’d argue are more salient everyday than April 15
a founder has three jobs. everything else is serious amounts of noise.
1. you have to tell the story. roughly in three registers. first investors need inevitability. customers need to *feel* what you do/stand for. & your team needs a mission worth their best years.
2. you must secure the capital before you need it. running out of money is running out of options. you have to be relentless about it.
3. you must obsess over the product. product is the story made accessible for everyone. every shipped detail is a sentence back into the narrative in point number one.
this is the entire job.
everything else you either delegate or kill. early on with a really small team, delegation is a huge tax so you have to learn to kill more than you delegate.