Daniel

lgtm || ball knower of sorts

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

need to up those rookie numbers

[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.

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@joinshift shift

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Asking Claude for its answers to the Thiel Question has unlocked schizoclaude and I am having the time of my life

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Sigh… skill issue

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@patrick_oshag Not sure how well this is gonna hold up in the age of AI compacting all implementation timelines

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@skeptrune @Stagehanddev I am struggling to not be the bottleneck

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@staysaasy great read. How would you manage the uncomfortable conversation of someone wanting to grow into a role that you don’t think will play to their strengths?

[Omar @TheOneandOmsy]

Mr. Beast's scale from the investor presentation is nutty. He's pretty much a walking global broadcast network:
> 1 billion followers (~3x the US population)
> 68 billion annual views = ~24 Super Bowls / yr
> 1.4 billion uniques (his content hits ~15% of humanity)

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Learning to code has quickly become learning Latin. Probably still worth it for the framework but gonna be “dead”

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@ramonos yeah but you actually create value

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@JonahBlake Gotta build in public using that x premium for Elon bucks to fund your expenses

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Tailscale + Termius + CC + 🦛🦛🦛

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@BenjaminDEKR Wow

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@CryptoSays What the fuck is this image in the background

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@businessbarista claude

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Kai Cenat had the right idea for Streamer University but didn’t have the taste aspect down like Banks. I’m sure someone will crack this

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Someone needs to make the Y-combinator for Streamers. FaZe worked so well in cultivating and growing talent but never got the economic incentives right

[korza ✗ @korzawyd]

Plaqueboymax opens up about the Faze Files [ FULL ]

- Why he left
- The members have no control
- Lacy was really kicked from Faze that one time
- The faze members are caught up in something
- Hints at Faze Banks having something to do with it
- Apology to members

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Zack Bia will one day work at A16z mark my words

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

Can’t wait til Founders are doing 1 and done like college basketball. Pop in for a year, network for a cofounder, then drop out. Good opportunity to be the Coach K at college for these future founders by coaching them then let em ride

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Introducing Early Decision.

For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now, get funded the moment you're accepted, and do YC after you graduate.

https://t.co/YQbvZj0AJm

[Daniel @jdgilhuly]

@Tgarratt10 Wolves Relegated