Murtaza

optimistic contrarian - building @antimetal |
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[Cole Ryan @whoiscoleryan]

lapping people in life is so fun and so easy

nobody tries

everybody puts limitations and boxes on themselves

you can just do shit and never take your foot off the gas

people will cry, conform, and make excuses

and all you have to do is execute and think free

[Naval @naval]

The problem with truth is, once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning.

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

@buccocapital 😂

[LangChain @LangChain]

LangSmith for Startups Spotlight: @Antimetal

Antimetal is an autonomous system to manage your software in production. It builds a world model of your environment -- then its agents continuously monitor to prevent issues, triage alerts, and ship fixes.

They are currently in private beta and used by engineering, infrastructure, and SRE teams at startups and the Fortune 500.

They build with Deep Agents and leverage LangSmith for tracing, evaluations, and sandboxes.

Speak to their engineering team for a demo at https://t.co/p1h1E0O8Yr.

[niclas @niclasernst]

Prize for the prettiest office in New York goes to @antimetal.

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

Generalists are the best people to work with because they have no territory to defend.

They’re not protecting a function. They’re protecting the outcome. That makes them easy to trust and impossible to silo imo.

[Dylan Bowman @dylanbowmanSF]

https://t.co/XvMvhrk16B <- the post

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

@sadjamz_ @antigenco Very cool !

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

https://t.co/hXE5lXLpFT

[Shreyas @shreyasaiyer]

Antimetal is in SF for Config!

We rented an amazing house with a rooftop, and for the next three nights we're filling it with founders, engineers, designers, product people.

And actual magic, performed by our Head of Design @kenta_magic 🪄

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

Distribution is a loop, not an event.

Michael & team spent nine years posting to a HN audience that ignored. That wasn’t persistence. It was compounding.

Launch reps in public are how you contextualize a market.

“Luck” is just the last rep in a long series.

[broadglow @broadglow]

congratulations to the cursor team

[Paul Klein IV @pk_iv]

"never feel like you've made it" - @jack

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Startups are hard.

My first one took 16 years.

→ Started @CurseForge in 2004
→ Sold to Twitch in 2016
→ Raised $ 60M+

Along the way:

• Had 5M users on a gamer chat app before Discord.
They still won.

• Burned most of our Series A before the 2007 crash.
Went from 20 investor meetings/week → 0 for a year.
Had 6 weeks of cash, 20 employees.
2 angels saved us.

I’ve never had that level of stress again.

• First product plateaued at $5M/year.
Built multiple others that stalled at $ 10M+.
Reinvented the company over and over.

• Reddit killed our forum traffic.

• Made every hiring mistake early.
Hiring execs is the hardest problem.
“Hire slow, fire fast” is real.

• In 2008, our main investor told me to step down for an “adult CEO.”
I walked out.

• Got hit with multiple lawsuits.
One arrived the day before Christmas.

I never considered quitting.

No plan B.
Didn’t even finish high school.

It had to work.

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

VCs are terrified because AI is turning their entire asset class into an expensive Rolodex nobody needs anymore.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

first vibecoded billion-dollar company?

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

@LoganTGott Funnel

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

@THArrowOfApollo Code

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Murtaza @mxqsim]

@scaling_shields send