Matan Lachmish

Building AI products @ Ex-founder. Code, ship, repeat. 🪁 Kitesurfer. 🎸 YY band.

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

I'll never raise VC funds again for my startups ever ❌

not because I hate VCs - some of them are great people

but the math just doesn't work for what I'm building

here's why the math never works for builders like me:

- say a VC raises a $100M fund - they'd need to return 3x to their investors

- that's min $300m from one fund with maybe 20 bets

- so every single company they back needs to have a shot at a billion-dollar outcome. that's not a preference, that's a structural requirement

- now if Revid does $1M MRR, that's life-changing money for me but for a VC fund, it's a rounding error

- the only way they make money is through a big fat exit. acquisition, IPO, or another round at a higher valuation so someone else can take the risk off their hands 🤯

our incentives are completely misaligned from day one, and when incentives are misaligned, pressure follows

raising forces you to grow at a pace that you and the market aren't ready for

you hire fast, burn fast, pivot fast, and die fast trying to hit a number someone else wrote on a whiteboard

meanwhile I wake up every morning and decide what to build, who to hire, what to charge

no board meeting, no quarterly targets I didn't set, and no one asking why I didn't grow 3x this year

Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Feather - all profitable, all mine 🚀

the portfolio just crossed $1m mrr and the best part isn't the numbers

it's that I feel completely free ☺️

free to move fast, change direction, double down, or slow down - whatever feels right

no one wrote that on a whiteboard for me

staying small and profitable keeps you alive long enough to actually figure things out

that's not a consolation prize - that's the whole game, at least for me 😇

[Or May-Paz @MaypazOr]

יותר מ 5,000 מסמכים נוצרו ושותפו עם https://t.co/ZjM2hsSJR7 בשבועיים!

3 בקשות שחזרו על עצמן:
1 - לשמור קבצים ליותר מ 24 שעות
2 - לערוך קבצים
3 - לייצר קבצים פרטיים

בקיצור, הוספנו את שלושתם.
אפשר להתחבר ולשחק עם זה.
https://t.co/LUhOolsFoV

תמשיכו לשלוח פידבקים 🙏

[Or May-Paz @MaypazOr]

@signulll what do you think about tools like https://t.co/ZjM2hsSJR7?

[Or May-Paz @MaypazOr]

Need to share markdown quickly? We solved this.

AI agents give you markdown.
You need shareable pages.

So @mlachmish and I built https://t.co/ZjM2hsSJR7 👇

One command. Clean URL. Auto-expires in 24h.

https://t.co/SsGOvCqzFp

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

AI agents that work 24/7 sound great until they expose your real bottleneck.

It was never about coding speed. It's about knowing what to build.

Technical founders who do GTM have the edge. You see the funnel AND the codebase.

You don't build features. You build growth.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

Hot take: most founders should learn to build a landing page before they learn to code. If you can't sell the idea in one page, the product won't save you.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone asked what advice founders ignore. That they:

1. Should change their name.

2. Should launch fast.

3. Shouldn't treat fundraising as success.

4. Shouldn't assume they can raise because it's time to.

5. Should fire bad people quickly.

6. Shouldn't talk to acquirers.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

@sama And the next generation of builders will thank us for figuring out how to ship with AI before the playbook existed. Every era has its craft.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

@ivanburazin Ship something real, not a deck. The gap between "launched" and "acquired" used to be years. Now it's weeks. The bar isn't lower. The feedback loop is just faster.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

Best productivity hack nobody talks about: make the first version embarrassingly small. Not MVP. Smaller. One screen. One flow. Ship it. Watch what happens. Then build the next inch.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

Every startup says "we're AI-first" now. Most of them just wrapped an API call in a nice UI. That's not a product, that's a feature. The gap between demo and product has never been wider.

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

.@JiveSoftware's #JiveChime Wants to Ring Slack’s Bell With New Real-Time Messaging App http://t.co/iCMlhMmWjo via @techcrunch

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

SkyGiraffe! What a great demo #TNXT14 guests, check it out!

[Matan Lachmish @mlachmish]

I love Dropbox because What would I do for extra free space... http://t.co/kILkIYbK