Dash Gur

Digitalist

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

The quicker you make decisions.

The quicker you execute.

The quicker you learn.

The quicker you iterate and improve.

The quicker you find product market fit.

The quicker you succeed.

Speed wins with startups.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

An underrated reason why some ambitious high slope people change jobs every few years is that their org/company will always maintain some residual memory of their skills & abilities from 1-2 yrs ago and cannot fully appreciate who they are now. A job change resets the y-intercept

[niña @ninarstepanov]

idc who you are, this is a terrible product visually

[Austen Allred @Austen]

As startups grow there is extremely strong pull into what I call the death spiral of bullshit.

More people -> more teams -> more buy-in required -> more meetings -> being persuasive rewarded more than building -> builders leave -> nothing gets done

[Matt Gallagher @MattP1Gallagher]

That spin turn from Vettel is one of the greatest things I've ever seen

[Brian Armstrong @brianarmstrong]

Sharing a government id in-app is a game changer for financial services that need identity verification

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

The best startup combo is a founder who can create the spark and a strong operator that organizes the madness.

[Cian Maher @cianmaher0]

I'm sorry, but no writer will ever top this opening paragraph

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

“More organizations die of indigestion than starvation”

— David Packard (the P in HP)

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

1) Is this a problem

2) Is this an important problem

3) Will our solution be differentiated

4) Will customers pay for it

5) Will the adoption friction be too high

6) Will enough customers purchase it

In B2B, a skilled team can usually answer 5 of these 6 questions upfront.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Many of your co-workers will conflate adding value to your proposal with adding ideas, adding suggestions, adding more items to a proposed list of items. Often, the feedback that adds greatest value is really about subtracting items from a proposed list of items, not adding them.

[Jan Bakker @janbakker_]

Dentist: “did you floss”?

Me: “Do you use unique passwords and MFA where possible”?

[Dash Gur @dash_gur]

@pjozefak @benedictevans What! No wonder I had nothing back to my "a few" emails.

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Amount of people who work in tech that have not once used the products their company makes is astounding. I saw it as both a consultant and in-house. Oh yeah, and frequently these people are the ones that keep getting promoted (they have not the faintest understanding of users)

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

Do you know what worked?

A clear vision. Design-led development. Weekly demos to deciders who always made the call on what to do next. Clear communication between cross functional teams. Honest feedback. Managing risk as a function of the rate of actual progress toward goals.

[Adam Draper ⏻ @AdamDraper]

Everyone wants to start a startup.

Nobody wants to build for 5 years before anyone notices.

Everyone wants to be a VC.

Nobody wants to wait 10 years for returns.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Founders building web3 solutions for problems that don’t exist

[Dan Moyer @vvs1man13]

@ErikVoorhees Elon bought 9% of Twitter stock it climbed. Offered 43 billion cash to buy Twitter. Stock sky rockets. He sells his Twitter stock before it’s released to the public they turned down his offer. He turns over millions in profit and moves on to something else.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Laptop Class (noun): Western upper-middle-class professionals who work through a screen and are totally abstracted from tangible physical reality and the real-world consequences of their opinions and beliefs. Synonyms: Professional-Managerial Class; Orwell’s “outer party”.