Curtis

Product Manager @useMotion // ex-founder @DetectiveIO // Trumpet Player @RunAndPunch // Organizer @MidwestSkaFest

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@dreetje @openclaw Ah, which model would you recommend? Codex 5.2 and Opus 4.5 both seem to have system level guards against this 🤔

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@chander sounds like a rocket ship about to blast off at the end there 🤣

[Chander ரமேஷ் @chander]

It is time to say goodbye. At the peak our TypeScript monorepo was ~2.5 million lines of code (excluding comments, node_modules, etc.). This is not a post hating on TypeScript though.

Motion would likely not have survived until today without it. We have pivoted 20x times 😂.

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@harryqi666 Thanks for always confronting hard truths head on👏

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

When we were at $15M ARR, Michael Seibel told us we were f*cked. No path to $1B ARR. We weren't delivering enough value to customers. Motion was just a “very nice to have.” Here’s what we did about it.

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

When Chander joined Motion 3.5 years ago to lead engineering, we both thought he'd quit by now - he'd always wanted to start his own startup.

But today, Motion is his own startup, as a co-founder.

This was not a light decision - the bar we have for any team member is insanely high, let alone a co-founder.

The decision was made for one reason only: increase in Motion's probability of winning. And that delta is just as high for Chander, as for Ethan, Omid, and myself.

Chander has the highest pain tolerance out of any human I've ever met.

Yes - sometimes, that's not a good thing: he always wants to fly Spirit economy and gets f*ked with delayed flights. His pick of 2-star hotels for offsites is always veto'ed by me.

But sometimes, the willingness to suffer more pain than our competitors is our moat.

We are willing to grind the hours and go through pain no one else can tolerate.

And that's why we are winning.

Welcome Chander - to the next decade.

[Chander ரமேஷ் @chander]

My son was born.
And an hour later, I was debugging code for a customer demo… in the In-N-Out drive-through line (my wife's favorite).

This isn’t normal. But I knew Motion wasn't normal going in. This is the story of how I became a Co-Founder at Motion.

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@chander Wild story. Wild team. Proud to build with you.

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

I hear a lot of founders and investors say that YC is not worth it: $500K for 7% implies too low of a valuation.

What they are not understanding is: the (often brutal) advice from YC Partners can mean the difference between life and death for a startup. As a founder, you should pick the highest-orbit thing: do you wanna optimize for that $1B vs $0 outcome, or do you wanna optimize for a couple percentage points in extra dilution.

Imo, the former is literally 100x more important than the latter.

Motion would've been dead multiple times without @ycombinator, and people like @mwseibel, @aaron_epstein, @garrytan, and many more. We share with Aaron all the ways YC has saved us in the past 5 years.

Motion has not succeeded yet - we are far from it, and I'm sure we'll be saved again by YC at some point in the future.

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

Congrats to @useMotion on their $60M fundraise at $550m!

I still remember early in the batch when @harryqi666 told me he gave up his seven-figure quant job at 23 to start Motion. It wasn't a tough decision for him, he was just betting on himself.

[Harry Qi @harryqi666]

On Christmas Eve 2019, Michael Seibel, then CEO of YC, called me: “You might not be cut out to be a founder.” He was right. We had pivoted 20 times. I thought I could always return to my 7-figure quant job. That night, I realized: you commit or you quit. Fast forward: Motion raised $60M at $550M. Michael is now a personal investor.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

these gpt-5 numbers are insane 🤯

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@clairevo these are facts 👏

[Curtis @ccurtisj]

@aakashbarot just wanted to thank you for this article! It saved me many additional hours of frustration https://t.co/1YpjYt4t3P

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[Curtis @ccurtisj]

The next time someone disagrees with you or criticizes you, just shrug your shoulders and say, 'you might be right,' and watch the energy change.

If you care about the outcome, focus on what's right, not who is right.

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