Ryan Janoch

Cofounder @Mapistry to empower environmental decision making by industrial companies. Dog dad to Lola. Reports @alliejanoch

[SaaStr Fund 🚀 @saastrfund]

What we’re looking to invest in:

$10k-$200k MRR, top tier growth
$750k-$5m check size
Lead or co-lead, ideally

Do not require social proof
Don’t care where went to college
Don’t care if anyone else invests

More -> https://t.co/fIrVTdEgqJ

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Am looking to add 1 person to help me invest a new fund at @saastrfund

Looking for someone very specific:

- either 1+ year of investing experience or founder
- knows SaaStr cold & why helps re: VC investing
- in Bay Area

Benefits:

- chance to really do 1-2 deals a year for real
- lot autonomy

What don’t need:

- Groupthink
- Someone who hasn’t done it a little bit
- Someone who doesn’t know what a truly great founder is already
- Someone who thinks SaaS is Dead
- Someone that needs a lot of support & infrastructure

[Aaron Levie @levie]

High skilled immigration has been central to America leading the world in tech.

The biggest misunderstand about high skill immigration stems from people thinking that the market opportunities in tech, and tech-adjacent fields, are zero sum. This essentially imagines innovation is finite and we’re all fighting over the same job or opportunity pool.

This may be true of a few very legacy, slow growth industries, but it’s categorically not true for any important industry in the past 50 years or the next 100. Biotech, AI, advanced manufacturing, software, EVs, new energy sources, and dozens of other fields of the future are our high growth industries. And there’s no inherently fixed volume of companies or talent that the market needs.

Tesla being started or not started in America is the difference between 100,000’s of jobs here - and leading in EVs globally - and not. Apple being started here is the difference between potentially millions of jobs being here - and leading consumer electronics globally - and not. You could go through this list all day long.

Tech is not zero sum. More startups, pursuing more ideas, ultimately create more innovation and ultimately more jobs and prosperity. And that means you need the right talent to both work at these companies, and start the next ones. High skilled immigration has directly made America dominant technically and thus economically, and create far more jobs in America for others than are supposedly displaced.

Even briefly imagining the alternative scenario, it’s obvious how disastrous this would be. The demand from tech companies for this top talent will remain, yet America won’t benefit directly from their hiring. That talent will go to another company that competes with the US and makes our dominance harder to maintain. You’re just increasing the odds you have more competition in the future.

And even in the “best case” scenario (for our competitiveness) where a larger company like Google hires the same people internationally that would have otherwise moved here, when that person leaves Google to start their next company, it will be in their country of origin, not America.

This is how you lose the tech war within one or two generations. There’s simply no good game theory in anything that reduces our talent access.

Yes, we absolutely have and need to continue to educate and train incredible talent that grows up in the US, but equally having access to the world’s smartest talent has always been a huge advantage for America.

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@sulemanali @mitchell_sorkin Finally product goes out to a job site in a mixer truck. Mostly run on paper and excel. (Note we provide environmental compliance software to all the parts of the chain)

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@sulemanali @mitchell_sorkin another hauler (bulk transporter with different type of truck)takes it to a concrete ready mix plant, the first hauler is bringing in sand and aggregates from a different quarry.

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@jjen_abel We have been heavy services since early on but made the mistake of doing it for part 2 (tangential offering) at first before doubling down on part 1 (services = value add AND future product)

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@ThiraniJai @Kazanjy Love the hustle! I’m interested in learning more [email protected]

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@davegerhardt @_mjpsmith

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@auren Zakopane and Tatar mountains for hiking

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@Kellblog @andruyeung Yeah $50pp just gets us coffee and muffins…your own events are not cheap. Also made a lot of mistakes with hotels and room blocks :(

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@Kellblog @andruyeung We have had a lot of success and fun doing our own events for 30-200. Getting partners with complementary services to sponsor reduced the cost and increased the community. We do trade shows too but cut back early on to do our events

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@auren You mean your supposed to move past that phase 🤔 @alliejanoch 👀 I guess now we just do it by accident

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

A true supporter of founders takes you to the Olive Garden 💪

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

When I go to celebrate with founders, we go big

It's gotta be The OG

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@eastdakota Newspaper delivery starting as a 10 yo for 4 years before upgrading to cleaning dog kennels full time at age 14

[CalCIMA @CalcimaRocks]

Feb. 22 is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day! Historically, women have contributed greatly to the engineering fields, yet are underrepresented in education/workplace. This day encourages us to teach/inspire girls to pursue an education/career in engineering

ca📷: @TeichertInc

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

@villi Yeah! I shattered my wrist in February and had nerve damage paralyzing part of my arm/hand…seeing muscles atrophy is crazy

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

I switched from Salesforce + Pardot + Wordpress + lots of smaller tools to simplify our stack in just Hubspot because of this. I didn’t want to waste time or budget on admin

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

Hubspot's software is just so damn usable.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Reminder: Veterans Come FREE to SaaStr Annual 2024!

more here -> https://t.co/twoKogm3rn

[Ryan Janoch @RyanJanoch]

I love the hustle & grit

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

J. Cole has released Colin Kaepernick's letter to the Jets requesting to join their practice squad 🙏