Jack

Product, AI and Growth ❤️ Building 🎙️ Working with startups @MaketheProduct | ex-Head of Product @thenextweb + @Vinted

[Jack @itsjack]

@zeeg Thats fair, I understand your point
better now

I find it works for me since I swap slower iteration speed for more parallel threads. So I still always have something to QA

You do have to do a bit of customizing to get it how you want, but I like that personally

[Jack @itsjack]

@johnowolabi_ @TonioRenteria @WisprFlow Or just use any other speech to text app for free

[Jack @itsjack]

This banner in Cursor should really be dismissible

[Jack @itsjack]

@madietlx its a transparent oled, like this: https://t.co/hpLZI16GOs

[Jack @itsjack]

My teacher in school told me that energy drinks are worse for you than heroin

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

I never ever drank an energy drink in my life and I don't understand why is this even allowed

[Jack @itsjack]

Ironic UX for a section talking about 'constraints'

[Jack @itsjack]

@Shpigford any seo that tells you confidently ‘what works’ is bullshitting you. its a black box by design

that said, my best tip is to look for a company in a similar space thats killing it and analyze them

look at the pages in their footer, their pr, social impact etc. and experiment

[Jack @itsjack]

Imagine being expected to work 7 days a week for a company that just sells insurance 🙃

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[Jack @itsjack]

@tomhacks @bekacru You can’t build using Better Auth on Auth0 but they would say you get ‘better auth’ if you use Auth0

[Jack @itsjack]

@SamuelBeek happy that the effort carrying these desks into the office on the hottest day of the year was worth it 🫠

[Jack @itsjack]

@SamuelBeek 1m views in the first month 🤯

[sam @SamuelBeek]

This tiny thing is soo dope

[Jack @itsjack]

@nicdunz @StijnSmits okay fair i tried it and it can set a timer (at least for the 1 min i tried)

[Jack @itsjack]

Very creative

[Soontiago @soontiago]

Building a Dynamic Island cam: Drag to open → tap to snap → morph to slot + eject. All just Swift 3d transforms and a lot of persistence

[Jack @itsjack]

@nicdunz @StijnSmits llms are really not aware of time in my experience

[Jack @itsjack]

@antoine_moyroud @schematikio such a cool addition for the office!

[Jack @itsjack]

@StijnSmits will it break if i tell it to do 1000?

[Jack @itsjack]

@tomboutin_ despite this you were late for our call

[Jack @itsjack]

@starwardshar @SamuelBeek @lightspeedvp ahh thats bas our designer (hes not on x)