Jason Jin

startup journalist in SF | @eostudi0 | @MinervaUni

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

I was there for work ...

.. and ice cream, and nachos, and to make friends, blah blah blah

love my job

[EO @eostudi0]

founders inc was fire. went to their offseason demo day in sf. @fdotinc

few teams we met:
- skipping their wedding to rebuild ai labs @soleil_colza_, @k_taro56v2
- brothers building infinite context window @daleverett & @daltonmeon
- missed hs graduation to save your AI bills @jamyanges, @Anipaleja
- lovable for AI models @ETezRyu
- robots that build robots @AnselDias

did we miss any cracked teams?

#foundersinc #offseason #demoday

[EO @eostudi0]

We spent months reporting on SF's hacker houses: which ones are actually running, which ones are actually popular, and how different the move-in terms really are.

Here's the practical guide: price, length of stay, and how selective each one is. 🧵

1. Superhero Hotel: book by the night, 100+ events/mo next door
2. Foundry: 4 properties from the Mission to Lone Mountain
3. Mission Control: 14 yrs running, Vitalik Buterin & Lucy Guo alumni
4. Accelr8: 3 houses, $1,500-$2,500
5. 20mish: SF's original crypto house, since 2012
6. The Residency: Altman-backed, 16 houses worldwide
7. The Bridge: no idea or co-founder needed (Europeans only)
8. Lightyear: Olympic-village-style founder immersion
9. Frontier Residency: 8 wks, 3% equity, Frontier Tower access
10. FoundHer: the only all-women house

(We're also mapping even more hacker houses and spaces, coming soon.)

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

now back to work writing👀... https://t.co/n60WcWrm0y

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

almost fxxked up my monday morning

- moved in to a new place yesterday
- bought bunch of amzn products
- realized I put the wrong address while going to work
- everything was getting delivered to a place next block
- had to return to pick some up

YET plenty more were arriving this afternoon (where I cant pick up cuz wd be at work).

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last time I made this mistake, I had no other choice but to lose some products. so I didn't expect much when I reached out to @amazon customer service center 30 minutes ago.

BUT this time, the cs guy picked up right away and kindly got everything sorted out. what was better was that his energy was soooooo good I ended up starting my Monday morning actually pumped🔥

Reminding myself that there is always room to turn a bad day around:) + and just don't make dumb mistakes on my side lol

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@DoloresPark

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

first time in @DoloresPark !

still need to find other things to do during sf weekends.

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@DoloresPark

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

I made my interviewee drunk by making him drink soju

well to be fair, we ran out of beer during a K-BBQ party at EO House. Soju was the only replacement (sorry @densoylular ).

Jokes aside, thanks to the beer running out, I was able to randomly meet and interview Deniz, co-founder and CPO of Mindra. He's a Turkish founder who raised the biggest pre-seed round in Türkiye and has now moved to SF to compete with big AI companies.

What I loved about him:
- no victim mentality -> being an immigrant founder ain't a drawback
- full of bold energy only young and early-stage founders exude
- drank soju in a bottle (lol)

Full article here👇
https://t.co/a49GOxVG6E

[EO @eostudi0]

https://t.co/cXkfB0BQlv

[EO @eostudi0]

Why the document that decides whether your company survives its own success is the one you signed and never read, from Eric Ries(@ericries), author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and co-founder of Answer. AI (he helped Anthropic design its Long-Term Benefit Trust years before anyone had heard of it).

What you'll learn:

- The retailer who hung his competitors' ads inside his own stores, and what his own board did to him 20 years later
- Why "sell to the highest bidder" is a legal default nobody consciously chose, and the lung health company that proved it
- Why the companies rated worst on governance have quietly outperformed the ones rated best since 2008
- Why a promise from a CEO is worth nothing, and what has to change in a company for a promise to outlive the person who made it
- What AI still cannot accelerate in build, measure, learn, 15 years on, and the one shift he made in every prompt

Timeline:

00:00 Intro
01:22 Why Great Companies Get Destroyed
08:14 Built to Resist - Ethos + Integrity = Incorruptible
16:30 Build a Company That Outlives You
21:24 Rethinking the Lean Startup
23:50 Advice for Founders

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@daleverett @daltonmeon @damienhe @polygres @fdotinc goatttt

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[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

A dream is for you to chase.
Don't let it chase you down

I've been chasing this dream of becoming the best startup storyteller. Locking in on my work at @eostudi0 , interviewing early-stage founders and documenting the earliest chapter of their stories.

But somewhere along the way, there were moments I got so deep into the work that I forgot why I started.

> pressure to do well
> feeling that I'm still not good enough

It all builds up quietly, and before I knew it, the work was chasing me instead of the other way around.

That pressure matters. It sharpens you. But it can't be the whole story.

Not letting my dream chase me down.

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@songwoojin @eostudi0 yes master 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

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where I storytell: https://t.co/uBrVQwbMhE

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@heythisisjasonf @fdotinc @ETezRyu 🤌🤌🤌

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

Becoming a startup founder is more than just looking COOL

2 weeks ago, I had the privilege of visiting @fdotinc's offseason batch demo day to film a documentary. More than 200 teams were there, pitching what would become the next unicorn.

Well,
- 90% of them will likely go back home, ending their startup journey
- only a few who decide to press on will make it to the next round
- even smaller fraction will ever reach unicorn status

BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER
For them, the past 6 weeks would be a summer that they'd remember for life.
Total obsessions, late nights, and raw conviction with a group of friends who push you harder.

Building a startup isn't about guaranteed success and being cool. It's about having the grit to build something out of nothing when the odds are stacked against you. Only through that experience do you learn more about yourself, how you could contribute to society, and maybe push humanity forward.

That's the startup culture I want to spread by writing https://t.co/kJT9C54dPe.

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

where I write = https://t.co/Tbl10Agqzb

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@songwoojin ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

[Jason Jin @jasonjin2103]

@vivomatix made a flirting bot

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wth is robot flirting to ppl at a bar 🤖🔥