basedcollective

the circle of cracked founders building in real time.
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[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

there are only 3 reasons people use your product.
you pay them. it solves something real. or it makes them look good. most founders build for reason 2 and never think about reason 3. forget any one of these and you don't actually know your product yet.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

democracies don't work if you don't have access to proper information.
that's not a political take. that's a structural one.
remove an informed public and the whole system starts to crack. slowly, then all at once.
follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

most wars in the last 100 years were fought over energy. the problem’s still open. follow to keep up with what we’re building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

an LLM coded a motorcycle crash as an STD.
in a real hospital.
these systems don't just make mistakes.
they make mistakes inside the systems people trust most.
follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

information is free.
llms made exploration easy.
what separates founders now isn't access.
it's depth. specific domain knowledge. years of going through things. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

we're not building a startup.
we're building the collective that backs 1 million founders before the world believes in them.
that's the vision.
what's yours? drop it in the comments.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

most people track their life in years, in careers, in some future version of themselves they haven't met yet. but you don't live in any of that. you live in today. one day at a time. the only question is whether today was worth it. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

the company is a sprint. the founder is a marathon. whoever doesn’t stop wins. follow to keep up with what we’re building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

being told is different to wanting to do. follow to keep up with what we’re building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

90% of your enjoyment in life is dictated by who you spend time with. build cool shit. but build it with the right people.
follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

your company's biggest competitor isn't another startup. it's you, your pace, your decisions, your founders. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

chain-of-though.txt <tool_call> … send help @perplexity_ai

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

"never do business with your friends."

but trust is exactly what lets you have the hard conversations, change roles, call out bs, and not blow everything up doing it. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

most successful founders are unreasonable. obsessed with winning to the point where the grind stops being painful and starts being the actual game. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

17 years old. skipped high school, went straight to sf, and started building a defense company. negotiating at 3am over investment caps. "i'm better than everybody. i'm unbeatable." follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

building a company is almost inhuman. you have to be calm but aggressive, take all the pain on yourself, and share all the success. follow to keep up with what we're building.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

you spend a third of your time as a founder asking other founders how to do things. the quality of your circle directly determines the speed of your decisions. follow to keep up with what we're building.

full pod here - https://t.co/zggiwSRtXb

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

join the collective https://t.co/AZiTtQm3fE

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

roys not wrong @im_roy_lee

@sintradotai @tryholo_ai @FieldyAI were built here.

[basedcollective @basedfounderseu]

matching co-founders isn't about personality tests. it's one question: are you both pointed at the same company? skills you fix. values you don't. follow to keep up with what we're building.

full pod here - https://t.co/zggiwSRtXb