Manuel Rodriguez Dao

Freethinker.

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

Creo que uno de los mejores indicadores de salud mental es genuinamente alegrarse al ver el éxito de otras personas, y en general sentirse feliz al ver otras personas ser felices.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Be your self, not someone you were assigned to be!

Bezos won on time horizon, not AWS or 1-Click.

If your bets have to work in 3 years, you compete with everyone. Every smart, funded team is chasing the same 3-year problems. Short horizon, crowded field.

Stretch to 7 and the field collapses. Investors want returns, employees want vesting, founders want proof. Almost nobody can sit in a bet that doesn't pay for most of a decade. The patience is the moat, and it costs you, that's why it works.

But you can't fake a 7-year horizon on a problem you don't actually care about. Pick the users and the problem Moloch assigned you, the safe ones, the fundable ones, and you'll bail the first hard year. Pick the ones that are actually yours and you'll still be there when everyone else has quit.

So the real prerequisite isn't discipline. It's knowing yourself well enough to choose a problem and a set of people you care about that you'll serve them for decades.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many highly successful people are saying.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Put this in my veins. Big @jack fan.

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@jalehr @bradflora Mutiny

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@AlfieJCarter Claude

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I'm calling it. AGI is already here – it's just not evenly distributed yet.

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@benkimbuilds @kepano id like to meet that cracked dev in mexico

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@garrytan 💯

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@Thomasslabbers facts.

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@anvisha @davj Moda

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@timothylindblom newly

[Ernesto Lopez @ErnestoSOFTWARE]

Marketing agencies reading this:

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@davidcasem love it

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@pmarca the book is called 'meditations'

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@davidsenra @Bouazizalex @pmarca pretty bad take lol

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

this is the stuff every 20 year old needs to hear. not bullshit career advice from people who never took risk to build something real.

game from a guy who got pushed out of his own company, cashed out billions, and started building again like nothing happened.

different breed.

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Atoms.

https://t.co/nbCnIkI3RD

[Manuel Rodriguez Dao @manuelrdao]

@davidcasem Hey David, i'm CTO at tech startup using Telnyx. Just got blocked from the platform. Im reaching out for help to get it unlocked. Where can i reach you?

[Rohit Mittal @rohitdotmittal]

$6M raised. top tier investors. $2M still in the bank. $500k ARR, but declining.

and completely stuck.

talked to a founder last week in this exact situation. they were building a consumer app. it kind of worked. they grew quickly with social media, but it plateaued.

revenue somewhere between $500k-$1M ARR. consumers have churn, so declining revenue.

things didn't end here, after the product stopped working, cofounders had different ideas on their next steps. one cofounder wants to continue to try, the other wants to do a hard pivot.

classic founder split.

and investors don't care. at all.

not because they're bad people. because $4M is a rounding error for their fund. they'd rather write it off for tax loss harvesting than spend cycles figuring out the mess.

"just have a clean breakup" is the actual advice from tier 1 VCs.

this is what nobody talks about. there are hundreds of companies like this. raised real money. built real products. making real revenue.

and completely trapped.

wrong cap table structure. wrong cofounder alignment. wrong growth expectations set by the raise size.

the founder could return every dollar tomorrow and investors would shrug.

sometimes the best move is to stop optimizing for investor feelings and just decide what you actually want to do with your life.

if you want to sell your company, you should do so without worrying too much about how you are going to make the investors whole.

you don't owe investors every dollar back. what you actually owe is "a shot at greatness" - and that's impossible when you're spending months negotiating a breakup instead of building.

make decisions for your next big thing and stop worrying about sunk cost.

if investors believe that you did your best, they will support you again

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