@r0ck3t23 I don't believe this problem is new. The volume has just increased with scale on the idea side. So few are focused on discovering truth & the exercise is really difficult.
@alexisxrivas Entitlement, permitting, onerous code adoption, insurance, legal, freight costs, median home size increase from 909 in 1949 to 2,400 today, and the list goes on.
#deathbyathousandcuts
Gratitude interrupts negative rumination.
When your mind gets stuck in sadness, worry, or irritation, your amygdala keeps looping the same emotion. The key is to break that loop by shifting your attention. The benefits of gratitude aren’t exactly a secret, but many of us still think of it as some kind of fixed personality trait. Some people seem to be born grateful, while the rest of us feel like we’re the ones who automatically notice what’s wrong. It’s true that we all have different affect profiles, but gratitude works the same way happiness does. It’s a skill you can train, and it becomes more powerful the more you practice it.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, this week’s episode of ‘Office Hours’, focuses on my five-step gratitude protocol and the research behind each practice.
Watch the full episode now on YouTube.
https://t.co/yeZQrKGy7M
we just raised another $25M after 10x'ing our ARR in 5 months. the crazy part is this almost never happened.
17 years ago, I watched Iron Man as a 10-year-old kid in Delhi. that night, I pulled my first all-nighter teaching myself to code. not because I wanted to build apps or make money.
because I wanted to build Jarvis.
my parents gave me 1 hour of screen time per day. so I coded in secret, sleeping every alternate night through middle school and high school. built 50+ apps. got a cease and desist from Google at age 12.
all for this one obsession: making computers understand us like humans do.
fast forward to today:
- we've raised $81M total to build the voice operating system
- growing revenue 40% month-over-month this year
- 70% user retention after one year (unheard of in consumer)
- teams at 270 of the Fortune 500 use Wispr Flow daily
our Series A2 was led by @hanstung at @notablecap (who was an early investor in five companies that made it to $100B valuation like Slack, Tiktok, and Airbnb). we also brought on @StevenBartlett as an investor and partner.
but here's what matters more than the money:
we cracked voice input. not transcription - actual understanding. our users hit "send" in under 0.5 seconds without checking. they trust it blindly. that's never existed before.
in a recent benchmark, Wispr came out as 3-4x more accurate than OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Siri.
and we're just getting started. voice input was step one. now we're building the assistant that actually does things for you.
to my co-founder @SahajGarg6 - there's no one else I'd rather build Jarvis with than my college roommate and closest friend.
to our team pulling all-nighters and shipping magic - you're the reason that 10-year-old kid's dream is becoming real.
we're hiring cracked engineers and growth marketers who want to build the future of human-computer interaction.
the keyboard had a good 150-year run.
time to build what comes next.
PS: like, retweet, and bookmark to get wispr flow for free for 3 months ❤️
— Written with @WisprFlow
@yasminekho Not a fan of the word judgement, but understand what @naval means. I prefer discernment & this also applies to being the founder/CEO of your own life too.