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[cezzanne @cezzannee]

idk who's behind dime but whats certain is that its not someone that knows how to write copy

[tuhin @tuhin]

Mysterious ad for Dime

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

The notion of a career in the arts is crazy because it assumes an artist has enough things to say to work a lifetime when in reality humans will ever just have one or two things to say - or if you’re really lucky high single digits. Lost in translation sucks

[ty @castcredits]

Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation Interview (2003)

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

got a couple dms asking what this meant

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josh likes building beautiful products that aren't successful

workday is an ugly product that is successful

beautiful products != success

your role as founder != designing beautiful things

your role as founder = succeeding

josh criticizing workday and second-guessing their valuation = ironic because it's a prime example of why his products weren't successful in the first place

workday = good = $9b in revenue

steve jobs bullshit = bad

apple win != beauty

workday win != beauty

yves klein logo = cringe

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

there should by an entire section of yc startup school dissecting this tweet

only thing that could make it better would be something like "can't believe this is a $34b company, it hasn't been featured in spottedinprod"

[Josh Miller @joshm]

I am generally a very optimistic, positive person. I do not like to hate on other products. But Workday is, by a wide margin, the worst piece of software I've ever used in my career. I cannot believe that this is a $34 billion company. I pray the AGI gods fix this hot mess.

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

it takes them all the way to 'e' up north to cross the b

sf you could prob get that vibe coding a notes app on tuesday, getting a viral reel by wednesday, get 100k users by friday, raise from <redacted> with a "the future of thinking is here" leading-partner slop blogpost over the weekend, 100% churn by monday, lifestyle-it-out for 6 months, "sunsetting x" - more to come soon, "happy to announce i've joined <redacted> as a scout/venturepartner/whatever", never work again, argue on twitter all the time, pick up esoteric hobbies till the day you die since the puddle of sameness in which you partake has fogged any sense of individuality in you

optionally: wife/kids and take your frustrations/failed dreams out on them

[FounderEric @FounderEric]

BREAKING: Canada has a new unicorn company. Fintech platform nesto raises $302 Million Series E at $1.47 billion valuation

https://t.co/UvC0017I2B

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

@prestonattebery what could you possibly be building that takes three months to build

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

nyc is fascinating because it's like a college frat in the sense where you have 10% of legitimately cool, good looking, interesting people that were always cool and then 90% of people that have always been uncool but wanna larp as cool, and believe they are, because the other 10% is there

the 10% doesn't actually care about being there really, since it's just another place, another situation and another institution they're a part of

the other 90% can't talk about anything else other than being there. it becomes they're entire identity. they're not used to it. very bronze-medal coded

the 90% are all out here tweeting "nyc is electric", "never seen it like this", "game watch party" to all their hometown friends they'll brag about living in nyc over the winter break

the other 10% per my sources (i am also deeply uncool yet know people on the other side) are split evenly right now between formentera, primavera sound (the indie fashion hot girl crowd), monaco (the executive c-suite hyaluronic acid crowd) and weddings in the med (md's and vps and non-single people where he has a submariner and she has the panthere)

so no nyc is not "electric" right now, nyc sucks during the summer. it's too hot, too humid and only the petite bourgeoisie stay there

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

NYC is absolutely electric right now.

Perfect weather. Knicks in the Finals. Hyrox going on. Interns. Summer Friday. Every bar is buzzing. Everyone is outside.

I honestly can’t remember the city having more energy than it does today

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

get giddy every time i see one of these on the tl

such a perfect screenshot for memetic transportation

perfect display information hierarchy, incredible domain (https://t.co/Q48C22JRmY), exquisite implementation broken down to the core value and nothing else

and most importantly, a fucking incredible hook: "Can you build a team that goes 82-0?" that instantly tells you the game dynamic, piques your interest and is niche enough (in a sufficiently large tam) to go viral in an online subcommunity whilst still having legs to ride the wave in the general population

just perfect. no notes

[Coach Matt @MVScouting]

Ain’t no fucking way

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

@mstr_ridley @Empty_America all i'll say is "i don't care, i'll take a cripple" goes hard i'm afraid

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

you shouldn't be pitching if you ain't got the juice

and if someone sleeps on you, you properly tell them to sod off and see yourself out

if you failed both counts then well your startup is more likely to fail due to lack of character than lack of money

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

dawg no one out there knows what they're doing they're just loading up a dollar more than the last to build more compute than the last in the case compute is the differentiator which doesn't make a whole lot of sense and doesn't seem to be an indicator of who will capture the market but it's the best proxy we have right now and the only consumer product that has embedded itself on the social fabric to justify raising billions of dollars is a text box that hasn't really changed since it las launched and there's no indication that it's a winner takes all market nor that the models won't become commoditized and the value will be in the application layer and the real winners haven't even been founded but none of that matters because all that's left to do if you're in one of those horses is try to go as fast as fucking possible because if you stop to evaluate others won't and it's worse to be left behind than to lose so in reality this is just a fucking knife fight with a bunch of maniacs just shooting from the hip jumping off a precipice and trying to find sure footing and the ones that will win are those that want it more and call me crazy but i don't think there's a person who wants to win more or is crazier than elon and if i were in a knife fight i'd bet on him over the rest which is all that startups and companies really are bc moats don't matter nor does tech nor does even funding there's this extra gear hidden in humans which is a key to unlock anything one wants and the only way to access is is through supreme desire the type of desire that your life hinges upon and some people don't even have that desire to live even and some others that just are wired a tad bit differently than the rest are able to will that desire into enterprise which is quite romantic if you really think about it and so it comes at no surprise tesla exists and it comes at no surprise aviation itself exists and it comes at no surprise mcdonalds exists and it comes at no surprise ford exists and i could keep going point is if spacex is worth $10T its justified the real cap is how long does elon live and i'm not a fanboy but i've spent enough time on this earth to know that and be able to recognize it and it's funny all these normies talk about P/E rations like this is some type of yoghurt shop and we're dealing with dara k or some shit. elon became annointed the moment he got everything and decided he still didn't give a shit. even the most powerful wielders of desire get tamed by possession like travis k for example so you need to price those differently - as i would sama and dario. elons different gravvy man. history is violent desire made concrete get your mba shit out of there

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

No one can reasonably argue that SpaceX deserves a $1.75 trillion valuation on its current biz.

The big question is whether or not that figure stretches the outer bounds of "In Elon We Trust."

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

@metapreston Most people can only leverage time spent on a problem because grinding is their only competitive advantage. Not the case for certain other individuals

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

americans aren't ready for european football troll accounts and their elite fake-quote game

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

follower networking graph defaults to curation regardless the format, expiration or content

only a close friend photo sharing network would prevent curation

but that lacks the necessary content output to self sustain

bereal attempted to solve this by hook on format

locket by hook on destination

neither hook increases content production

eternally doomed

unless

[cezzanne @cezzannee]

@metapreston not being able to use it within 50s of signup is the constraint