Shreyas Mohan

Product Lead | Instagram, Parafin, Plaid, + 2 startups

[Sahill Poddar @sahillp]

Big and very exciting news: @parafinHQ is joining @stripe.

We started Parafin in 2020 because the small businesses that power the economy were the hardest ones to finance. Six years later, with $3B+ funded to 60,000+ SMBs, we're taking the mission to Stripe's scale.

Huge congratulations to our team, investors and supporters. To our customers: nothing changes about our commitment to you. It only gets better from here.

More from me, @vineetgoel92, and the team

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

“A friend is someone that supports you in difficult times.”

“If someone’s still supporting you when the chips are down—that’s a friend.”

“Fairweather friends are useless.”

“Everyone likes you when the chips are up, but who likes you when the chips are down?”

@elonmusk with @nikhilkamathcio

[signüll @signulll]

you never forget your early believers because early belief is expensive af.

there’s reputational risk, financial risk, social risk, etc. there’s roughly no proof, no consensus, & no obvious upside. the early believers have to see something way before the market has agreed it should exist.

whereas late belief is absolutely free. this is where you see pure bandwagon & trend following stuff. this rule applies to business sure, but maybe even way more to personal stuff.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now

All I can say it's just fantastic:
- no need to keep laptop open ever
- no laptop battery drain
- can switch to phone or any other device you like whenever you want to continue (like when you're outside)
- it just keeps going all night while you sleep (esp with /goal)
- you can start hacky projects from scratch and go live in seconds because you're already on the server which is great to ship things and get it used by people fast (not stuck on your local laptop webserver)
- it just feels like living in the future

I used to code on my laptop, test locally, then push to GitHub, then it auto pulled and deploy to production, that'd take me ~1 minute to get a new feature out

But then when I bought a new Mac Book Pro a few years ago I was too lazy to install a local Nginx environment, so I just started pushing to prod and everything went fine, and I sped up deploying to about 3 seconds from laptop to server, which people called me crazy for too

But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK

If I wasn't working solo, like at a big company, I' think I'd recommend the same workflow but with a staging server, so it wouldn't touch production, for safety and regulatory reasons etc. but for me it's fine

I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first

P.S. I have 3-2-1 backups, multiple on-site and off-site backups which you should also even if you wouldn't code with AI, safety first!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

💯

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@MarthaOlney Congrats and thank you for all the lessons! Took 100B with you right around GFC. It’s been fun to listen to the fed, watch them use the tools this time around, and apply the knowledge you gave.

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@dantley > “We tune Twitter to the rawness of humanity.” This is the best part of Twitter imo and why I cherish it. Thank you for encouraging this and the transparency! ❤️

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@daveybuster @joreilly @kezarpub Yup. See you there!

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@TeslaMotors at the Monaco Grand Prix! #thefuture cc: @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Latest vertical landing rocket vid. 325M altitude, hold against wind, land w T/W>1, radar in loop http://t.co/I68Xxpb1EQ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Seems to be some stormy weather over in Shortville these days

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

Great bike ride from Stinson to the top of the mountain. @ Seven Sisters http://t.co/2xKdhs4bP4

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

Dropped off in paradise. @ Baldface Lodge http://t.co/IMba5V6t84

[Tesla @Tesla]

"A Most Peculiar Test Drive": We release the facts behind the @nytimes test drive http://t.co/gvHDzWE3

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

Blue skies and fresh powder. @ Snowbasin Resort http://t.co/yzmoaj4

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@erikeccles super jealous.

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

And of course the golden gate. http://t.co/3geYzWy

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

Sunset from the golden gate. @ Golden Gate Bridge http://t.co/IzeXxcN

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

Couldn't pass up the opportunity for a bike ride today - weather was gorgeous http://t.co/7NZDisj

[Shreyas Mohan @ShreyMo]

@_AnthonyB691 Oh man that sounds painful!