when @alexatallah pitched us on this idea there would be a long tail of models, it was completely against the narrative of the time
consensus was that there would be one model to rule them all
alex and louis took the other side of that bet
and executed nearly flawlessly (1/n)
Classic sales technique: ANCHORING 📷 Credits to @Audi
Me: Someone stole my jacket, I need to order a new car key.
Dealership: That would be $1,100.
Me: What??? For a key?
Dealership: Yeah, Ferrari charges $17K.
Me: Ok, I'll find the criminal. The AirTag is still active.
A lesson I just taught a Flexport employee is that there are two lenses you can look at the world through:
1) Doing more work is bad
2) Solving problems is how you make money
Always and forever use lens 2. More work is good if it lets you solve important problems.
Two weeks ago @FedEx lost our $1.5K tradeshow booth, now offering $100 compensation. Last week, they lost a 200lbs wooden crate with a customer sample that is on tight timelines. Impossible to get someone on the line to help resolve this. @FedExHelp
Every billion dollar founder I know dropped off the face of the earth for years.
We built the perfect home for these people.
It’s called HF0.
In our last batch, teams raising after demo day hit an avg valuation of $82M.
Applications for F25 open today.
🚨 We just went live on @NBCNewsNow@NBCNews!
Our CEO Geoff Nudd sat down with NBC to unveil the world’s first AI-Hybrid Care Model: designed to support people through addiction, depression, and anxiety.
Watch the full segment here:
Nature spent 3.8 BILLION years perfecting human anatomy.
Boston Dynamics ignored it.
Tesla dismissed it.
But Clone Robotics copied it — creating 1,000+ synthetic muscles, 206 bones, and tendons that work EXACTLY like yours.
Here's why it changes everything about robotics 🧵:
A fourth GP just joined HF0.
He’s never been out to SF in person.
In fact, he’s never been a GP anywhere.
Come to think of it, I don’t know anyone who’s actually met him in person.
He kind of just appeared online about a year ago...(1/8)