Mr. S

30 something business & philosophy enthusiast. Splitting time between a M&A career, growing real estate portfolio and a family business 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇪

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

Your judgement on what is unfair and unjust defines you as a human being.

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@premierleague Have some shame

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@thsottiaux UI

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@derrickcchoi @OpenAI Supabase

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@lydiahallie You just lost $1000 of my teams monthly revenue. Small I know, but it’ll add up.

Horrible.

[Animesh Koratana @akoratana]

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PlayerZero frees up 30% of your engineering bandwidth by:
1.⁠ ⁠Finding the root cause for bugs & incidents in minutes that engineering teams take days to identify.
2.⁠ ⁠Predicting in minutes, edge case issues that a 300-person QA team would take weeks to find.

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Here's why this matters:

No one in your org has a complete picture of how your production software actually behaves.

Support sees tickets. SRE sees infra. Dev sees code. Each team builds their own fragmented view - and none of these systems talk to each other. When something breaks, everyone scrambles to stitch the picture together by hand.

PlayerZero connects all of it into a single context graph -

→ The Slack thread where your lead said "we went with X because Y fell apart in prod last time"
→ The PR review where an engineer explained the tradeoff
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So you can trace any problem to its root cause across every silo.

And it compounds. Every incident diagnosed teaches the model something new. The longer it runs, the deeper it understands - which code paths are high-risk, which configurations are fragile, which changes tend to break which customer flows.

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[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@akoratana @Scobleizer @matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston 100x

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

Read now: The web of offshore companies that allowed Chelsea to cheat the system. https://t.co/iZTJGcp9ik

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Colorado built this wildlife overpass last year for $15 million. It’ll pay for itself within five years from the avoided collisions.

California spending $114 million on a failed wildlife overpass is absurd.

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@adaptiveai Adaptive

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@SimularAI Delegate to Sai

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@chhddavid @claudeai Shipper

[Snehil Saluja @mrsnhl]

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru.

And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less.

My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel the need to stop. He slammed into them instead.

I know he was drunk. She knows it. The highway police knows it. The truck owner knows it.

No arrest was made.

The truck driver never showed up at the station. The owner never showed up. Nobody cared. My sister and her friend - both injured, both terrified - kept going back to the station, back to the accident site, explaining what happened over and over, just trying to get a report filed.

I was in the US. All I could do was talk to them on calls, helpless.

Here's what the police told them:
"If nobody died, an FIR doesn't make sense."
"Just claim first party insurance."
"Third party insurance doesn't pay much anyway."

And then, quietly, one officer pulled them aside and told the truth: "These truck mafia bribe us. Nothing will happen."

Nothing happened.

The truck was KA04 AE6550. The police themselves said if they'd been on a two-wheeler, both would be dead.

We had 100% insurance from Reliance. Claim rejected. Reason? "Misrepresentation of facts." These two, even while injured, kept showing up to represent the facts. Reliance still found a way to deny them.

The law says if someone hits you from behind, the person behind is at fault. It was a red light. How does a truck driver not see that?

Trust me, this isn't about money. I'll manage the repairs and the medical bills. I have savings. And I have a decent credit score; I'll take a personal loan if I have to. That's not the point.

The point is this: my sister is afraid now. Afraid that anything can happen to her at any moment and there's no one - no system, no law, no institution - that will protect her.

But how do I tell her the world is supposed to be fair? How do I tell her to trust the system? How do I explain that the drunk driver walks free, the truck owner was never questioned, and the police pocketed their bribe and closed the file?

I can't say to any official, "What if this was your daughter? Your sister?" Because their daughters travel in cars with security escorts. They will never know what it feels like to be ordinary and unprotected.

So I'm saying it to you, an ordinary reader.

You're on the road. You stop at a red light. A drunk driver in a truck rear-ends your car. Your loved one is inside, terrified.

And then you learn: there is no recourse. None.

The truck owner pays off the cops. The insurance company rejects your claim. The system shrugs.

This is Bengaluru in 2025. This is India in 2025. This is what your life is worth here.

One more thing. The friend in the car? He's one of the smartest people I know. close to top 100 rank in IIT-JEE. AI engineer and one of the biggest data companies. At 23, he is valuable to be paid more annually than the cost of five such trucks, that too, in India. He's patriotic. He pays his taxes. He stays in India even though he constantly gets offers to move to the US.

This is the confidence our system gives to someone who is clearly an asset to this country. All this unfairness - for a drunk truck driver.

@blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice - tell me. I've always avoided raising fingers publicly. But what else can I do?

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

brb framing this on my wall

[Doge Van @ballsdeepindoge]

I drove 500 miles to Los Angeles to rescue a German Shepherd who was red listed for euthanasia.

The shelter told me he was adoptable.
They approved it.
They walked the dog out to me.
I was filming. We were about to load him into the van.

Then I was stopped.

They pulled me aside and said “there was a mistake.”

A clerical error.

Someone entered his behavioral score wrong in the system, which is why he was ever listed as adoptable in the first place.

Once they realized their mistake, they reversed the adoption.

And now, because they corrected their paperwork, they’re going to kill him anyway.

I work with difficult dogs all the time.
This dog is not aggressive.

He’s terrified, stressed, and stuck in a concrete nightmare.

Call Sergeant Vega at 562-658-2085 and ask why dog A5745484 is being euthanized because of a data entry error.

This is what “process over life” looks like.
This is what bureaucracy does when no one pushes back.

[Michael J. Miraflor @michaelmiraflor]

I pay $795/year for a @Chase Sapphire Reserve card and they won’t let us into the half empty Sapphire Lounge at BOS earlier than 3 hours before our flight (6 hour unplanned layover) for no reasons other than “thems the rules, sorry.” Finally a great reason to cancel.

[The India Voice @The_india_voice]

We were promised transparency, not a digital hoarding for tolls and hotels.

No contractor, no cost, no maintenance, no accountability but somehow potholes still have full attendance.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Please put the budget on a website so public can see how & where money is being used.

Names of authorities and contractors should be public.

Let this be the first truly transparent project ever.

[Mr. S @justdailymusing]

@henrythe9ths Fundraise

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.

After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.

Were we solving the right problem?

What were we doing wrong?

Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?

Were we the right team to build this?

We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.

Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.

That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.

We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.

We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.

Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.

And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.

And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.

So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:

Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process

(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).

So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.

Here's what you are getting:

• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)

• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI

• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)

• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)

Want access?

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I'll send it over ASAP.

P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.