Andreas Fragner

Co-founder @KappaPay 🇨🇲 Former quant trader and PM. Write about finance, programming and other things.

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Deciding not to solve a problem, or solving a different one, can also be a solution.

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[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.

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[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.

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[Kappa @KappaPay]

Excited to share that Kappa has closed a $5M seed round led by Morningside! This investment will fuel our expansion across Africa and help us meet surging demand. Are you a Cameroonian business struggling with international payments? Get in touch!

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[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done. https://t.co/rwhYavvB4c

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Fewer parts make for better software and better products https://t.co/6G2mWnLgJ2

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Early on, you have to have the confidence to break with best practices. And that confidence comes from knowing what risks actually matter in your context. https://t.co/dsXrUeSBpX

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist).

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[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

Founder time is the most expensive resource in a startup and the hardest to quantify.

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

One way to think about software development is to view implementation as a complement to writing specs. If LLMs make the cost of the complement drop by, say, 90%, demand for the other may go up 10x — assuming there’s latent demand for the output. And for software there's plenty.

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In the absence of a strong conceptual model for how LLMs work, following a systematic, empirical approach is the only way to get good results. Expect some cool tooling to be built around this. So prompt engineering moves from art to, well, engineering.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Prompt Engineering vs Blind Prompting. I show how prompt engineering can be a real systematic approach to extracting value from language models by following a realistic example, as opposed to "blind prompting" which is barely better than trial-and-error. https://t.co/yXwtvnGYFH

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

@ay_o Magretta - Understanding Michael Porter

Greenwald & Kahn - Competition Demystified

Helmer - 7 Powers

Christensen - Innovator's Solution

Many of @ganeumann's posts

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

@chrbrantley @rolandlisf @Katie_Roof There are many cities across the world where the answer is independent of time of day and location. The simple framing makes it comparable

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@ryanjyoder @KappaPay Awesome to you have on the team! Wouldn’t be where we are now without you

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@bernhardsson Agree there’s exceptional talent in Europe and it’s way underpriced. Until you’re big enough to have multiple offices remote is the only way to take advantage of that talent :)

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@LucaProsperi @g_dip @Oliver_Schimek @m0labs Infrastructure is also a product

[Andreas Fragner @AndreasFragner]

@LucaProsperi @g_dip @Oliver_Schimek @m0labs Most people think about ventures in terms of products and customers. If the goal is to attract people to your cause, it’s worth framing things in those terms — even if the framing is perhaps narrow.

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@benedictevans @rexsalisbury @Apple Same. Almost flawless in both German and English