Jason Lovell

Founder and CEO @ Motion. Previously @airbnb @avant_forward @doejo. Say hi.

[Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin]

People who join startups after working at large companies

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

1. Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb. I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks

[Chris Cantino @chriscantino]

It took seven years, but we finally earned a $100M+ exit.

So many hard-learned lessons—hopefully sharing them here will give you an advantage.

A checklist of everything it took. 🧵

[Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick]

If that young man has Taylor’s scarf he should return it.

[David Perell @david_perell]

My favorite thing that @TylerCowen has ever written

[Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv]

Something I've learned: You have to shamelessly self-promote. It's the only way to succeed. And if you think what you're selling is of value and good then there's nothing to be ashamed of.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars?

This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

The past generation of social apps won the market through a playbook:

- building big networks with feeds for discovery
- creating a followers/status competition for engagement
- bringing together creators and audiences
- monetizing with ads
- supporting photo, text, video

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

need a new social network with geolocation at its core

-tells me if my friends are in the area
-tells me if a friend has been to restaurants I'm going so I can ask for recs (aka a better review system)
-let's me play fun virtual games (e.g. ingress, but with good friends)

[Suhail @Suhail]

One useful trick I've learned for startups is to strongly consider features you're nearly certain your competitors cannot idealogically build but your users would love. What can you build that would probably lead to endless debate and require a sacrifice from some other business?

[ricky @rickyflows]

All chess positions with 7 pieces or less have been solved. But a sliver of that solution space is just beyond human understanding

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

One huge gap in worldviews is about whether success is something awarded or something created.

One reason for this gap is that there are social universes where one or the other is almost inarguably dominant, so much so that it's difficult to understand any other way of thinking.

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Jeff Bezos, June 2000: “If I could do anything, I would like to go help explore space.”

[𓆚 @for001ever]

working out is really the key to happiness all the annoying people were right

[David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 @davidu]

100% of current hospitalized Covid patients in SF are unvaccinated. This is an incredible triumph of science, and a colossal failure of the media and politicians.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Startup idea:

Uber, but 50% cheaper.

And no app.

Maybe paint the cars a bright color, and then you just flag one down when you need it?

Prototype below.

Raising $200m at a $2b valuation. DM to invest.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The most counterintuitive part of building social networks is that virtually every product decision should be to the benefit of the network, *not* the user. This is fundamentally at odds with human-centered design. For many founders, this means unlearning a lot of things.

[HBO Max Help @hbomaxhelp]

We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. ❤️

[Katelyn Gleason @katgleason]

pixar was technically founded in 1979

then became an independent company in 1986

but didn’t release toy story until 1995

keep going