Sean

I help startups prioritize and validate ideas to grow your business.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Most people want everything amazing at the same time, immediately, and you can't have it.

- Immediate amazing income.
- Immediate amazing life.
- Immediate amazing job or business.

Each of these requires effort, slog, and some periods of suck.

Want them? Start building now.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@prakdadlani Overlooks a key point: It’s only for USD, NRIs who are U.S. tax resident need to pay tax in U.S. anyway plus state taxes. It’s only tax free in India but not in U.S.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@blessedtism @signulll i think FatFire is definitely rich life style 10 MM$ + NW (excl home), upper middle class is more like 5 MM$.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@elyasandkhoy @SteveOnSpeed I'm more curious about financial planners always saying nothing is ever good enough, 2.5 million is decent money yes not private jet and unless you live in San Francisco downtown should be good enough for most Americans

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@elyasandkhoy @SteveOnSpeed So 5 million for general US?

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@FidelCacheFlow Is comp clawback realistic in US?

[Tim Isgro @TimIsgro]

Peter Thiel and Founders Fund had a rule about not meeting with executives in suits...

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@buccocapital Sadly I can’t even say it’s just this guy - noticed 2 other VPs do the same. On the other hand they aren’t wasting 10 hours every week on making TPS reports. So guess it’s less theatrics

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@buccocapital Noticing midsize company VPs making exec decks with hallucinated garbage content with pure lies and acknowledging this is Claude. Same Vp is doing every week

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

Bad habits acquired during ZIRP era, converse is also true right now : Startup folks usually struggle in bigCo including big tech. Recruiters and insane interview panels do weed them out

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

Startup Hiring

One of the best startup CEOs I support told me: “there are very few certainties in hiring. One of them is startup experience. It’s almost non negotiable for me.”

One of the highest predictors of a failed hire for early stage startups (< 100 people) is hiring someone who has only worked at large companies (> 1000 people) for the last 10 years. They have lost (or never experienced) the grit, scrappiness and speed that startups require from their people.

Yes, they could succeed, but the probability is low. Founders: Do yourself a favor and instead hire someone who has recently worked at a startup and has a hands-on (not theoretical) understanding of what early stage startups are all about.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@mahasr199 Luxury experiences including business class international has 2x since 2024 despite what inflation numbers say. Instagram driven price increase is what i would call

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

I see this everywhere in big Tech and midsize- do not interview for a new role. Focus on your exit plan

[Blind @JoinBlind]

Every laid-off employee just read this and said: well that explains a lot

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

This has become my favorite trick: Do 30 minutes worth of prep and a quick meeting with someone in Asia who started their morning already.

[PEoperator⚡️ @PEoperator]

Reminder: the cure for the Sunday scaries is to do a little work.

It’s never as bad as it seems

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

Spoken like a true Silicon Valley TechCel- average TC 1.5 million

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

I'm happy for this guy because he seems happy, but there is no evidence here that his continuing the path of being an employee wouldn't have seen similar or better gains.

[BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned or NGMI @BowTiedBull]

It's a million times easier to turn a customer into a friend than a friend into a customer.

Psychological reason why is there is no jealousy/envy hurdle to jump. The customer knows you have value and admits you're good/useful at something already

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@girdley This is a classic use case people overestimate willingness to pay. So many startups tried this for last twenty years - everyone either gets hacked, sold their data or just doesnt work.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

lol what a loser- atleast you can learn to rage bait better

[Akash Singh @akkiex007]

Controversial take ⚠️: Was chatting with a very experienced big tech recruiter from the Valley and one thing he said stuck with me.

Big tech companies rarely let go of their true top performers voluntarily. Most movement at that level usually happens through massive compensation jumps or very strategic opportunities beyond normal bands.

A lot of the circulation in the market is often average to below-average performers moving around repeatedly.

And over time, companies also start realizing that many of their strongest performers internally aren’t necessarily the ones coming from big tech backgrounds.

Wouldn’t be surprised if this “big tech tag” fever reduces significantly over the next few years.

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

@mahasr199 Probably Pakistani

[Sean @SamRangerPark]

Start a Wyoming llc - Just buy a beach property and registered in llc

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Surely you would just not spend anything?