You pour years of blood & sweat into a company. Mr Investor writes a check to gamble on your idea, then later kicks you out because he feels that’s what it needs. He does it over & over. And you don’t see this as creepy and wrong? Why's this being made to seem honorable?
I’m backed by Vinod. Every founder who raises from Vinod knows the deal.
Could he try to fire you from your own company if he thinks that’s what the company needs?
Yes. That’s not a secret. We even joke about it.
But making this entire drama about “firing founders” misses the point.
The point is that Vinod will always make the call he believes is right for the company, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
And there are 2 sides to that coin.
If he thinks you’re in the way, he’ll move you.
If he believes the company should win and you’re the person to make it win, he’ll move mountains for it. He’ll pull strings, take the hard fights, and push harder than almost any investor would.
The ruthlessness that makes him dangerous is the ruthlessness that makes him exceptional.
That’s the deal with him. Vinod is not founder-first, he’s company-first. And if that makes your uncomfortable, you should probably pitch someone else.
I checked US Health & Fitness this morning.
5 sleep apps all climbing at the same time.
RISE: $400K/mo
BetterSleep: $600K/mo
ShutEye: $700K/mo
Endel: $1M/mo
Hatch Sleep: $2M/mo
$4.7M/month combined.
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Here’s our application video to @ycombinator s26: agentic body count detector
We built a 4 agent committee to analyze how many body count people think you have based on your appearance
We are pushing the frontier of AI for Biology with the aim to increase birth rate, which is a serious problem human race is facing right now
It comes with a full analysis of your body count as well as ways to increase it and therefore make sure we can have more babies in our society
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We just released Music Marketplace in ElevenCreative.
To celebrate, we’re giving away 5,000 free credits so you can create and publish your first track.
For the next 6 hours: retweet + follow @ElevenCreative and we’ll DM you the credits (must follow).
Introducing the Music Marketplace in @ElevenCreative.
Creators, artists, and musicians can now publish and earn from their tracks created with our music model.
I just built a Claude Code SEO agent that replaces your $200/mo. Ahrefs subscription 🤯
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If you're paying $200/month for Ahrefs & SEMRush, opening it once to export a CSV, then closing it until next month...
This agent runs the entire loop for you:
→ Connects to Google Search Console and pulls your real ranking data
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Full playbook is on GitHub — skill files, brand interview, and the exact weekly workflow.
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we have officially launched!
and i can’t lie… this one feels different
almost a year ago, i left london and moved to san francisco with 2 suitcases and a big bet on myself
london was comfortable
i had friends, a network, a routine
but comfort caps your ambition
i wanted to be somewhere that stretched me
since landing here everything has compounded
• hosting events and meeting amazing operators
• late-night founder dinners that turned into partnerships
• joining yc and being pushed to move faster than we thought possible
the last few months have felt like 2-3 years compressed into one
and now it’s official
we’ve launched
what started as an idea about performance-based payments is now a live product helping companies actually move money better
this is more than a product launch for me
it’s the result of changing environments, raising standards, and betting on yourself publicly
grateful for sf
grateful for yc
grateful for everyone who’s supported @jvheaney and
and we’re only at the beginning
if you’re in the creator or performance economy and care about scaling payouts properly, @usegrade is live
onwards 🚀
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