JoEl Meeks-Matous

building in stealth

CSO @ Montage Business Financial
Previously: Founder @TMMnano; Co-Founder @IndieLabRVA; Founding Member @BloodSweatHoney, @ZincoVerdeX

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

My favorite answer these days…four years later, and I probably wouldn’t change a thing about it

https://t.co/auvTh67UHX

#Quora #ElonMusk #MotivationalQuotes
#ElonMuskTesla

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@mttgrmm @joshuahlipton @PalmerLuckey Journalists are good people

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@Twolfrecovery I live in Los Angeles and fully agree. How the heck do we stop this?

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@thedataroom It got deleted, but I saved a screenshot anyway

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

Adversarial Testing IRL

[Mechanical Knowledge @mechanical_4u]

Imagine a hydraulic torture chamber designed to violently tilt and shake a fully firing Porsche flat-six engine just to see if it breaks.

This legendary test rig uses real telemetry data from the grueling Nürburgring circuit to replicate the extreme G-forces experienced during hot laps.

By simulating these intense track conditions, engineers can ensure the engine's oiling system prevents oil starvation and catastrophic failure during hard cornering.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@DanielleFong New Claude file harveyweinstein.VC.skill.md

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

And he’s easy to spot, always top three in CRM. Other forms include Brad, Hunter, CJ, DJ, AJ, Paul, Bryce, Tanner and Steve

[Ben Horne @benjamin_horne]

This developing story about Dario's failed communications with the White House confirms everything I've ever believed about the enormous power of the Sales Chad.

You can be the smartest, most hard working, well-meaning guy around, but if you can't get people to like you, it's all for nothing.

When the time comes to send one of your own to meet inside the Halls of Power, you don't send the Geek Squad. You must send the affable, beer-drinking, golf-loving Sales Chad.

It literally doesn't matter if he understands the product half as well as everyone else. You send him. It's what he was put on Earth to do.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@ThatMrE Look at this dapper gentleman 👍🏾

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

The age of the one-person unicorn is approaching

[Ben Cera @Bencera]

Every revolution follows the same pattern.

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.

Then you win.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@zanehengsperger Congrats @zanehengsperger and blessings to your family! My dad beat prostate cancer a few years ago

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@WuTangClan thank you the win last night

#NBA #Knicks

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@karrisaarinen You’ve basically explained why @sequoia and @Accel stay in the top five VC firms, but I also think you played your hand exceptionally well.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@davidsenra @edgardesigns Legend. He stayed in “f*** you” energy until 10X

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@humfhuang @ycombinator I actually stated Thursday that I was pretty sure Friday there would be a mass decline dump from YC that would be automated. Sad to see I was right, but hey, the fact you were in the top 10% is pretty awesome. My decline letter did not mention that, lol.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

Really in a league of its own. Doesn’t stop until you ask it to do so.

#agentic

@polsia @Bencera

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@hamedinsf I’m going to agree with the Yemeni coffee shops. No one makes coffee better. SF or LA…

Add Motoring Coffee in Polk Gulch to your A tier

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

🥲

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is what real drift footwork looks like

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@DStrachman Wow that’s an awesome speech. They are lucky to have you.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

@AroraBhavyam @ycombinator I’m in the same boat. I have a sinking feeling everyone who hasn’t gotten an interview yet will be part of a mass sweep of auto-decline. Tomorrow is apparently the deadline.

Crossing my fingers for the both of us.

[JoEl Meeks-Matous @ThePsyence]

This is actually my mom too…most ethnic parents actually.

[Master | 最強打野(穢土轉生) @CryptoMaster_70]

Jensen:
Asian parents' culture, toxic😟
I know they love me, I usually “alright, alright..."

黃仁勳今天說了內心話 一路過來真不容易
“亞洲父母有毒 總是會糾正你“
"我63歲了 他們依然覺得我不夠好“