Timothy Maksim

Opinions after a decade in tech. Prev. engineering @uber @google @amazon. Now I call you out on your baseless takes. Thoughts are my own.

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@eshear @AviSniffmann A fun thought experiment I like:

If one of today's religions is true, and some planet out there develops intelligent life, would they also have the exact same holy book? Same commandments? Same tenets? Same entities? Same number of deities?

The reasonable answer is no. Alas ^

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@eshear @AviSniffmann The bad example and analogy aside, the graveyard of history is full of men who believed their religion is true. People used to sacrifice other living beings because they believed it would make it rain (Ancient Mesoamerica).

Alas, it ended up not true. Just like todays religions

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@pmfordie Blake is so tiny and adorable, rooting for my manlet king 🙏

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@bidah This is you right now;

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@HipCityReg Like I said. Stay quiet next time.

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

Making up people to dunk on

Jfc get outside

[Reggie James @HipCityReg]

AI people pretending they have schizophrenia is significantly worse than your average tech person larping autism

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@deedydas To be clear: yes, follow the rules and laws as best as you can.

But absolutely no one in the govt actually cares about this stuff. What, you think ICE is gonna show up at your door? Or Customs works with the IRS? LOL that's some insane faith in the govt system.

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@deedydas IMO living like this is too by-the-books.

I know plenty of immigrant founders on TN, H1B, F1, visas that have started their own businesses in the US & no one cares.

Hell, many have even worked for multi co. aside from their sponsoring co. and have gotten their GC after.

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

another one:

everybody knows 😂

https://t.co/jfDJsKwoQv

[Tony Dinh @tdinh_me]

Love Pieter but all developers should stop pasting their JSON payload on random website on the internet just to beautify it 😬

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

I love how this guy had preface every single tweet with "oh I love @levelsio" because I think we all understand how sensitive @levelsio is & if u don't completely suck up to him, he'll block u for saying anything critical about him. 😂 "antifragile" king

https://t.co/7vi5nm1PcT

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

love the brilliant @levelsio but never understood the "100% organic, ads dont work for me" POV

my take is that the best companies don't start with ads, they earn the right to use them. i'll explain:

1. organic proves people want it
2. organic shows what content works
3. ads prove it scales
4. organic sets baseline CAC
5. ads test upper limits

funny thing about ads, everyone expects instant results.

nobody wants to put in the same patience they did with organic.

it's like giving up on content after one blog post.

framework we use for ads and scaling startups:

1. get to $10k MRR organic
2. find channels that work
3. calculate true CAC
4. test $500 ad spend with organic style content that you've already proven
5. double what works

good companies start organic. great companies use ads to accelerate what's already working

- organic for brand/trust
- organic to prove out what ad creative works
- ads for predictable growth
- ads to test new products in new niches/geos
- content for longevity
- paid for speed

being '100% organic' sounds noble.

but when you find something that works, why wouldn't you want more of it?"

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@levelsio "please don't be sensitive about this disagreement sir please don't block me"

https://t.co/7vi5nm1PcT

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

@morganlinton @levelsio Love Pieter and everything he does, but if I was the CMO of his empire I’d be experimenting with ads to amplify

Just a personal difference on how we’d operate ❤️❤️

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@StrongerAstro yeah that's what I thought. 🤫🤡

also:

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@HipCityReg just stay quiet next time lil bud 🤫

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@hot_girl_spring yeah that's why you're on here too

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@HipCityReg yeah that's what I though fk boy

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@HipCityReg Do it

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

another reason why indiehacking is dead

mfs will make the 8,000,000th workout tracker app in 2024 and claim people are copying them

smh 🤦‍♂️🤡

[Timothy Maksim @TimothyMaksim]

@JLarky

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@jxnlco skill issue, u were just bad