Austin Walker 🛴

4x founder, designer, engineer. sold my first company at age 25.
now: building the AI layer for chronic illness. angel investing.

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

a few years ago i got covid and never recovered.

i went from exercising every day to completely bedbound.

lost 40lbs. in and out of hospitals for over 2 years.

saw 20+ doctors. bloodwork came back normal.

"you're probably just stressed from being a founder."

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@healthapiguy would love to meet him!

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@gauravvohra 🤣

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@CoffeeSlug772 customers aint gonna talk to themselves

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

how to get more time back in your day:

default your meetings to 20 minutes.

30 minutes is just a calendar setting. most calls can cover the same ground in 20 when everyone gets to the point.

at 6 meetings/day, that’s 5 hours back every week.

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@jurlycat just stack them back-to-back

the gaps are deadly

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

you should try to kill your startup idea.

- talk to hundreds of people who are experts in your space.
- ask them to tear it apart, and tell you why it won’t work.
- if, after all of this, you're still excited to build, you might just be onto something.

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@tokifyi that's not a blimp, but either way, i'm not a fan

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

i love guerilla marketing but this is not the way.

your startup does not deserve to turn natural beauty into advertising inventory.

buy a billboard and leave nature alone.

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@tokifyi which one?

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@sheesh_reloaded i do

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

im convinced every group chat in san francisco is just people asking you to like and repost their tweets

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@gaurangm15 ugh

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@RAnSacks yea

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@miracleinvxker nice

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@avizurlo welcome!

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@ScottHickle theranos vibes

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@chowtato saigon sandwich is elite, iykyk

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

why isn’t caffeine free diet coke more popular?

there are so many times where i pass by a vending machine and feel the craving but don’t want 46mg caffeine at 8pm

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@Ali_Shobeiri who’s that handsome guy

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

@AngadRandhawa it really is

[Austin Walker 🛴 @austinxwalker]

discretion is an underrated skill.

as you grow in your career, you’ll learn things about people and companies that aren’t widely known.

sharing them can make you feel important.

but being trusted is worth more than being interesting.