caitlin

Growth operator + entrepreneur | ex-@Amazon | early @MightyHive (acq. by S4/@MeetTheMonks)

[R(R) @real1800splurge]

somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through

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@brianluidog Okay most Chinese ppl like Indian food, be fr

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@rod_mallo Grifters

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@boardyai Looking for investors in AI marketing

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@dara_venture This guys got the right idea!

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Is this a serious question? Some founders are exceptional at selling to their ICPs who usually want to hear very different things from people like you who are mentally stuck in the stratosphere.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If you can’t make your company interesting to a VC who is literally only in business to fund startups, how are you going to make it interesting to recruits and customers?

[caitlin @caitlin_naps]

Me. I am the mid girl.

[Ken Wattana @KenWattana]

The startup dream is making everyone work first year investment banking analyst hours

[Dr. Josh C. Simmons @drjoshcsimmons]

Tech was one of the last paths into the upper middle class without family money, credential laundering, or nepotism.

Now those jobs are disappearing too.

That is why the layoff story matters beyond tech.

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@xinchiqi Where is part 2!!!

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Back to SF this week

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@lauradang0 Yes!!

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@adamdotsol Kinda true

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

Find someone who genuinely cares.

A mentor. A founder. A VC. An advisor. A customer.

Life’s too short to work with people who don’t give a sh!t.

It might end up being the greatest moat of them all.

[Chris Pisarski @chrispisarski]

one of the best sales advice we picked up during YC is the "McKinsey Model"

a lot of deals at early-stage startups die for the same reason:

your champion is afraid to advocate for your product

if they push for it internally and it doesn't work out, their job is on the line

so they never come back to you and hit you with the "we need to align internally first"

that's why you need to be their McKinsey consultant: instead of them pitching, you personally take the blame

after every demo, send them:
- a one-pager
- a security doc
- an ROI calculator with their numbers
- useful context/overview of your industry that can help with what they're struggling with right now
- a pre-written slack message they can forward

make it as easy as possible for your champion to forward your material without them feeling responsible for integrating your solution or "fighting" for it

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@davidim Wtf lol

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Anybody in SF interested pls fill out this form!

[Nina J @ninajlu]

Putting together a group order for the new Unitree R1 ($6k) humanoid robot. Share a shipping container with us! https://t.co/gwf43E6evi

[caitlin @caitlin_naps]

SF era on pause for a few weeks.

Will be back soon.. extremely jet lagged. ✈️

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@andrewdsouza @boardyai I’m ride or die for Canadian tech startups ❤️

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@elijahmuraoka_ Awe