You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…
Just keep going ✌️
@yishan This misses how products win: owning the workflow, data loops, and distribution. Small startups can take risks, build hooks & network effects, verticalize use cases, route across multiple models, and adopt models platforms won’t. That freedom compounds.
Big news today! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce that Flox raised a $25M Series B led by Addition with @NEA, the @DEShawGroup@HetzVentures, and @IlluminateFM.
Our mission has always been to redefine how software is built and managed. With the recent funding, we’re able to focus on building the reproducible development infrastructure, delivering secure solutions that can handle the new, AI-driven scale and give enterprises trust in their code, whether it’s generated by humans or agents.
We see these first-hand:
🟣 Software supply chains are getting more complex.
🟣 Developers wrestle with layers of configs and fragile connections just to see their code run
🟣 All on top of an infrastructure that’s not ready for the wave of AI-generated code and the security challenges it brings.
Instead of building on that broken foundation, we’re replacing it.
With a declarative framework based on Nix, Flox gives developers reproducible environments that contain everything they need, spanning the entire software development lifecycle.
The result: faster builds, stronger trust, and a foundation that scales.
We’re already seeing 70% retention across a wide user base, from individual developers to teams of thousands. And we’re partnering across the ecosystem to bring Nix concepts to development teams all over the world.
This is just the beginning.
Big thanks to our users, investors, partners, community and the amazing team standing behind Flox.💜
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