Franklin Angulo

VP of Engineering @ Squarespace 👨‍💻 MIT EMBA ‘22 📚 Born and raised in Costa Rica 🇨🇷👨‍👩‍👧‍👦⚽️ Lived in BOS, HKG, LDN & SEA - NYC is now home 🗽

[CG @cgtwts]

pov: Life after upgrading to the Claude Max plan

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

BREAKING:

At the Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny says he prefers Opus 4.6 for vibe coding but turns to 5.3 Codex for gnarly engineering problems.

“Opus pa’ vibear, Codex pa’ lo heavy” - he said

[Squarespace @squarespace]

Unavailable. 02.08.26

[Neil Zeghidour @neilzegh]

Me defending my O(n^3) solution to the coding interviewer.

[Emily Chang @emilychangtv]

Figma’s insane IPO reminds me of that time I was interviewing @bchesky on live TV when Airbnb shares hit the market - and his eyebrows went to the top of his head. He re-watches it here…a few years later.

[docyogi @docyogi1]

I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and
look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

[Tadic @i2iry]

I C O N I C 🐐

[ESPN Centroamérica @ESPN_CENAM]

PERO QUE VIVA EL FÚTBOL, MAESTRO✨

😮‍💨T-R-E-M-E-N-D-O gesto de Vitinha para quitarse a los defensas de Alemania🇵🇹🔥

▶️ Más 🏆 UEFA #NationsLeague en #DisneyPlus

[(fan) REAL MADRID FANS 🤍 @AdriRM33]

El último día de Luka Modric como jugador del Real Madrid en el Santiago Bernabéu.

Es imposible no emocionarse con este video, he llorado y mucho.

Uno de los nuestros para toda la vida 🥹🤍

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The intro is the best ad for SF I've seen https://t.co/q85bjBEMf0

[Franklin Angulo @feangulo]

A glimpse into the successful domains migration from Google Domains to Squarespace in 2024. An acquisition with an overwhelming scope but with a world-class team behind it and an unwavering dedication to a smooth transition for our customers: https://t.co/IBTHDgm0uX

[gon @chinesegon]

“babe whats going on with the stock market”

me:

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Así son las grandes noches de Champions en el Bernabéu ??!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[DECSA @decsacr]

El pasado viernes nos acompañaron más de 90 funcionarios de 13 municipalidades en las sesiones Impulso de los módulos de egresos del Sistema Integrado Municipal DECSIS viendo temas específicos de contabilidad, presupuesto, caja chica y activos fijos.

[UNAFUT @UnafutOficial]

¡Marvin Angulo alcanzó los 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ partidos en la Primera División del fútbol nacional! 🎉⚽️. Desde UNAFUT felicitamos su extraordinaria trayectoria, que sigue enriqueciendo nuestro campeonato. 👏🏼

#UNAFUT #LigaPromerica

[Franklin Angulo @feangulo]

Wow! 🎾

[TURKI ALALSHIKH @Turki_alalshikh]

Djokovic @DjokerNole, Nadal @RafaelNadal, Alcaraz @Carlosalcaraz, Sinner @janniksin, Medvedev @daniilMedwed, and Rune @holgerrune2003

6 Kings 👑 One Throne 🎾 Who will emerge victorious in the ultimate battle at this Riyadh Season? 🔥🇸🇦

The Venue 📍
October 16 - 17 - 19 🗓️

Book your ticket now 👇🏻
https://t.co/WW4AgvyLdp

#SixKingsSlam
#RiyadhSeason
#BigTime

[Murcia con Limón @MurciaConLimon]

No entiendo como se les ocurrió al Real Madrid hacer un campo de fútbol en el mismísimo centro de una ciudad sabiendo que iban a molestar a los vecinos.

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

VCs when they hear that someone is leaving OpenAI to start a new company

[María @MerengueMaria1]

Totalmente adicta a este contenido y desde mi casa aplaudiendo la cruzada de Vinicius contra los árbitros porque ya está bien de poner la otra mejilla con semejante estercolero. Por cierto: el vestuario rotísimo eh😁

https://t.co/G5qbi22wAv

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Tobi Lutke explains what the VCs who passed on Shopify got wrong

Tobi recounts pitching Shopify to VCs on Sand Hill Road a few years after founding Shopify.

Investors passed because they thought the addressable market was too small. At the time, there were about 40,000-50,000 online stores, and even if Shopify captured 50% of the market, that still wouldn’t be a venture-scale business.

When Tobi ran into the VC partner a few years ago, the partner asked Tobi what he missed (Shopify is valued at almost $100 billion today).

Tobi explained:

“You were actually correct, but what you didn’t realize was that Shopify was the solution to the very problem you identified. The reason there was only 40,000 online stores was because it was hard, expensive, and everyone who tried ran into all these brick walls of complexity, which Shopify, one after another, smoothed over and made simple to do.”

Tobi believes this is a common mistake:

“What a lot of free-market thinkers don’t understand is that between the demand and eventual supply lies friction. And I actually think that friction is probably the most potent force for shaping the planet that people just generally do not acknowledge… That was my theory when I turned my snowboard store into Shopify: there was a lot more people like me except there was too much friction which we needed to solve. And Shopify has proven out that every time we make the process simpler, there’s more consumption. At this point, we have a million merchants on Shopify, which is a mind-blowing number. So friction is a major component, and it’s something that software is uniquely good at reducing.”

Video Source: @danmartell