seth

a little geeky. a little funny. a lot opinionated. these are my thought, not those of any group i work with.

co-author of @newbuildersbook & @cap_evolution

[seth @sether]

Thrilled that Capital Evolution is now a National Best Seller!

For everyone interested in the future of capitalism and our economy: https://t.co/0EiSeCebsT

[seth @sether]

Vog is an outstanding entrepreneur. Beef waiting for this reveal and excited to see this out in the world!

[alex vogenthaler @alexvogenthaler]

Today Rocker is out of stealth. We know you've heard about AI assistant after AI assistant (we're tired of it too!). Rocker is something different -- it is both an assistant for the busiest knowledge workers and an AI nervous system for companies. Read more from @alexrkonrad https://t.co/V57QdvxFvv

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Colorado has something awesome called the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Among other things, it protects a simple principle: everyone pays the same state income-tax rate. If your income doubles, your tax doubles. Seems reasonable, right?

Amendment 87 would repeal that protection and nearly double the top marginal state tax rate while modestly reducing the lowest rates.

Under the new rules, doubling your taxable income could mean a state income-tax bill nearly four times what you’d owe on your current income today.

To me, this looks like a blatant attempt to buy votes: the majority votes themselves a tax break funded by much higher taxes on a small minority.

And it hits startups especially hard. Founders and early employees often spend years building something before receiving a substantial payoff from selling their shares after an IPO or in an acquisition. A decade of work with no guarantee of success can produce a payout counted as income in a single year—and taxed at much higher rates.

I’ve spent a decade building Boom in Colorado, on track to create hundreds of high-paying jobs. Colorado’s tax fairness was one reason I chose to build here. Now voters are being asked to change those rules and take a much larger share of a potential taxable payoff from that work.

Should I have built Boom in Texas, which has no state personal income tax? Should the next ambitious founder choose Colorado or somewhere else?

Colorado is at a crossroads. Do we want to stay true to our OG spirit of rugged independence, freedom, and fairness—or make Colorado a less attractive place to build?

Punishing success is morally wrong and bad policy to boot. We should be celebrating the people who build new things and create new wealth for themselves and others. Their work gives us companies, products, and jobs.

Let’s keep Colorado as one of the best places to live, build, create, and innovate—and to enjoy the rewards of our hard-fought efforts.

I’m voting no on Amendment 87.

[seth @sether]

hey @rivian: when will the maps/zillow integration be released? you should absolutely make this. i want to see what homes are for sale right on my dashboard as i’m driving around. and i’m sure a ton of mothers do as well.

[seth @sether]

i wish google calendar had a hot-key command (maybe cmd-H) that would toggle between the current calendar view and your home time zone.

cc/@googlecalendar

[Phil Weiser @pweiser]

Great to shop at the Composition Book Shop in Longmont. I love independent bookshops and believe in supporting local businesses. Please check it out and support our local businesses whenever you can.

[seth @sether]

Proud to be a part of this.

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

Today, I took Executive Action to strengthen Colorado’s economy, boost investment and infrastructure in the state, and create good-paying jobs by creating a statewide permitting portal and directing certain agencies to streamline permitting to make it easier and faster for important industries to secure permits in Colorado.

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

Today, I took Executive Action to strengthen Colorado’s economy, boost investment and infrastructure in the state, and create good-paying jobs by creating a statewide permitting portal and directing certain agencies to streamline permitting to make it easier and faster for important industries to secure permits in Colorado.

[Pablo Giralt @giraltpablo]

ESTAMOS JUNTOS, ARGENTINA DE MI CORAZÓN.

[seth @sether]

"100 yards away stepping on someone's toe is not why they invented VAR."

[seth @sether]

Excited about this one. And to have a small piece of the action!

[Etched @Etched]

We're coming out of stealth.

We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised.

Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads.

Our first racks ship this summer.

[seth @sether]

Niel and I have worked on many businesses together - he's an outstanding entrepreneur. We (Foundry) are not involved in this one, but I'm excitedly watching from the sidelines. Go Niel!

[nielr1 @nielr1]

Nobody has ever loved their HR software.

We talked to 250+ HR professionals this year, and the same wishes came up over and over.

- Get my time back from busywork.
- Let me build what my org actually needs instead of waiting on someone's roadmap or begging IT for resources and budget.
- Kill the friction my employees feel at every turn.

So today @dalton_wais and I are launching Winslow (@usewinslow) - the first truly AI-native platform for payroll, benefits, HR, and operations.

We set out to fix HR software. Along the way, we realized Winslow could be something bigger.

It does everything you'd expect — payroll, benefits, employee data, workflows. But Winslow is also an AI employee, available to your whole team 24/7 in Slack, Claude, Codex, and our app. Ask for what you need, and it gets done.

→ Want a Slack ping every Monday with the week's birthdays and work anniversaries? Just ask.

→ Onboarding a new engineer? Drop their offer letter into Claude and Winslow takes it from there.

→ Built a dashboard in Lovable using your Winslow employee data? Share it with your team right inside the app.

All of it runs on the most robust MCP toolset out there, wrapped in a deep permission and security layer on SOC 2-compliant infrastructure.

The goal was simple and a little audacious: rethink HR and payroll not as something that could suck less but as something every employee might actually fall in love with.

It's pretty awesome. And honestly? It feels a little magical.

None of this type of thing is possible alone. Thanks so much to huge investor support along the way from @MarkALinao from Progression, Erin and Cara at PTP, @FrazerAnderson , @DaveBlundin and Camilo Román Cepeda at Link Ventures, @bencasnocha at @villageglobal, @kshillo and @jessicapeltz at @HannahGreyVC , @brianshin at VitalStage Ventures, and countless other angels, advisors and critical figures like @adamdlurie who’s been ride or die through the whole process.

We can’t wait for everyone to try Winslow out. Whether you need to run your first payroll or you’re 50 people and running from the crazy prices of a PEO, we have your back. Feel free to reach out on the website or here.

For today, if you like what you see please give us a repost, comment or some love.

#HR #FutureOfWork #AINative #HRIS #PeopleOps #HRTech #payroll

[seth @sether]

It's a very tight race, and off-year primaries come down to who actually returns a ballot. Turnout is small enough that yours matters.

Full case: https://t.co/vmGzxHjdBS

[seth @sether]

Colorado's primary is Tuesday, June 30. If your ballot is still on the counter, this is your reminder to vote.

I'm voting for Phil Weiser for governor. Here's why.

[seth @sether]

When 400+ Colorado business leaders signed an open letter on the state's innovation future, Phil was the only candidate it was addressed to who responded with anything substantive. That's how he'd govern - by asking how he can help.

[seth @sether]

A wonderful writer, an outstanding photographer, and an amazing human. The world was a better place with him in it.

I wrote a few words about him here: https://t.co/ZTnPqwBUTU

[seth @sether]

Om Malik passed away this week.

He was one of the greats - smart, thoughtful, and kind. Always willing to engage on an interesting idea or a hard question, but he took his time and thought deeply before weighing in. That combination is rare.

[seth @sether]

Here's the full context of Alan Greenspan's famous "irrational exuberance" quote (often misunderstood). Do yourself a favor and take 2 minutes to read the full quote.

"Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? And how do we factor that assessment into monetary policy? We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs, and price stability. Indeed, the sharp stock market break of 1987 had few negative consequences for the economy. But we should not underestimate or become complacent about the complexity of the interactions of asset markets and the economy. Thus, evaluating shifts in balance sheets generally, and in asset prices particularly, must be an integral part of the development of monetary policy."

[seth @sether]

Does American capitalism need to be reimagined? My answer in @IntlEconomy's current edition: the status quo isn't an option — but neither is replacing capitalism. We need an evolution, not a revolution. We need more capitalists.

https://t.co/AvC7e7cZNu

[seth @sether]

“Markets are priced on the basis of earnings, hopes, and dreams” - definitely seeing this quote lived out right now.