Jeremy Chatelaine 🔥

SaaS Founder &

[Jeremy Chatelaine 🔥 @jchatelaine]

15 projects & years of work leading to $0 in rev prior to https://t.co/xyY8xKlzQ4, here are things I learned and my take on life as a 45yo 🧵👇

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@marclou Classic mistake: judging a decision based on the result instead of the criteria used to make it. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Google made is super hard to transfer Google Drive data now when deleting a user. In the past it was a tick box, now you have to read their doc and figure out where the heck it is

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Even X is confused 😅

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To the moon 🚀

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Before/After

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Before/After

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We just replaced our Helpscout support site with a vibe-coded one. It's 100x better.

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Google map for drunk people. There is nothing preventing a straight line

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Spotify is an absolute rip off in Switzerland. Need to time my renewal for when I'm in Japan

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@SuperYosh it does require a bit of technique but you could always revisit the true meaning of laptop

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What's stopping you from working like this?

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@Rashidkhasanov I feel you brother

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@paulg what a sad way to go through life

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@jessethanley @rhiannon_io your friend from Switzerland lol

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@jessethanley @rhiannon_io PS: I'll be back, I liked the vibe last time :) Thanks man as always!

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@jessethanley @rhiannon_io Not a problem for me, but maybe I'm just not trying, or I'm just an old cunt 😅

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@jessethanley @rhiannon_io That's the funny thing, I don't think it's that hard. I see many people mentioning it as a pain point, but it just doesn't ring true to me. Not open enough? Too picky? Too comfortable?... Not sure what the problem is, but it may have a lot to do with expectations and sacrifice.

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@anthony_franco 100% self built, and amazingly easy to pull off. Crazy.

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Moving to 100% AI support these days, and I'm blown away by how good it's been.
We build the help docs in markdown files, in GitHub for version control.
It then feeds a website that turns the md files into HTML, and the AI to answer users.
Users get perfect answers in 30 sec 🤯

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@wes_bush HARDER is the only way! YOLO

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bro, it's an ai insurance company, you aren't solving cancer...

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"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.