Jitha Thathachari 🔍

Investor (15+ startups, 3 10x-es so far 🤞) • Operator • Deal-maker • I tweet about startups, management, and closing deals • Writing:

[Jitha Thathachari 🔍 @jithamithra]

My app had only 20K users. No matter what I did, that number didn't budge.

Until suddenly: I found a way to grow to 200K+ users in 1 month. With 2 devs and zero funding.

The silver bullet? Theory of Constraints.

4 steps to feel limitless (or get damn close).

🧵in 11 tweets👇

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What's the point of having your cake if you can't eat it? 🤔

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Whenever I don't understand a joke, I whisper to myself "joy of missing out, joy of missing out".

And a look of complete enlightenment and understanding automatically appears on my face.

Works every time.

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@usemonologue I'm an Every subscriber, and would love to try Monologue. But I'm unfortunately on a Windows laptop!

(I use Wispr Flow right now).

Do you have a Windows version coming up soon? Would also be happy to be a beta tester - let me know!

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I like this question from @jakobgreenfeld !

Am I expanding, or am I contracting?

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https://t.co/7Cytqyy8fV

Good to know that this is standard advice in at least some quarters 🙏

[hamilton @hamiltonsympat1]

A thing all Scoutmasters tell their scouts, showing this article.

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PSA: Drowning does not look like drowning

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@hamiltonsympat1 Ah that's good to know!

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@64bitmodeling Yes it's quite scary!

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Oh wow, half of all VC funds return less than 50% of what people put in! Yikes!

[Meghan Reynolds @MeghanKReynolds]

Heard from LPs this week:

Latest Cambridge Associates VC benchmarks out (Q3 ‘24).

2015 Vintage Funds DPI
Median Fund: 0.49x
Upper Q Threshold: 1.13x
Top 5% Threshold: 2.66x

#choosewisely

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Age as a superpower

(via @kenthendricks )

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How people use ChatGPT.

(Mildly disappointed that the numbers on this chart add up to 100% properly, to be honest)

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Now this is the kind of progress I can get behind.

Invention of the decade!

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When my bro was young, he never could keep secrets. The moment we felt he was hiding something, we'd say "Whisper it in my ear". And bingo, out the beans would spill.

I'm reminded of that every time someone says "Oh we've signed an NDA. Why don't you give me your sales numbers?"

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The largest living organism on Earth is... a humongous fungus?

Would feel so weird walking in the Blue Mountains, knowing that this massive thing is just under me 😳

HT @LibertyRPF

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Gee, what could have happened in Nov 2022 to cause this massive impact on youth employment?

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@krishnanrohit @osoleve Scary!

There were already plenty of people in the world too sure of their opinions 🙃

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Nothing teaches you the non-intuitive logic of queues as much as when one of the two elevators in your building stops working.

Two elevators = civilized society
One elevator = immigration at JFK

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@sajithpai 👏👏👏

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@ZachWeiner Reminds me of what @SeekingN0rth said about happiness as "stored value" in your personality.

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Framed this way, you can't "try" to be happy. You can't use tactics to become happier.

I mean - you can, but it won't last.

Instead, try to become a person who's always happy. Work at the level of identity - kinda like what @JamesClear says about creating habits that stick.

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Said another way, happiness is not due to things that happen to you. Happiness is due to who you are.

(via @ZachWeiner )