Patrick McDougall

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@alexroyhe

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@alexroyhe Sell

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Ok now seriously.. everyone wants to "use AI at work" but most people aren't coders and have no clue where to start.

Built https://t.co/ilYcAIyxtp so anyone can find good Claude skills and install them in one click. Pick your lineup, build your company brain.

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Brazilians invented skills way before @DarioAmodei did. Check out 🇧🇷🐐

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@peteoxenham @cmonjonser What does it do for you?

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

Common fundraising deck mistake: using boring slide titles like "Team" and "The Problem".

Instead, state the conclusion that you want investors to take away from the slide, and use the body as supporting evidence.

If an investor only read the titles on your slides, would they understand your business and want to invest?

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@peteoxenham @cmonjonser What do you want to do with your data?

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

casually sending claude a :)

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@YounchanHwang Like a marketplace will charge me 10% of my sales to bring me traffic, can you do the same? With barriers to build a product going to zero, distribution becomes key. If you can lower that barrier too, you’re gold

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Saw this 2021 startup announcing they're [AI for x], Allbirds vibes

But for real, all respect for founders who pivoted from social to mobile to big data to gig economy to on-demand to wearables to NFTs to the metaverse to AI agents.

Staying alive is 80% of the way. No joke.

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

The new hot take for AI is that builders have long life, managers are extinct

That's right but only 1/2 the picture. Now everyone can build, the scarce skill is distribution

If you can build + distribute, you're dangerous. If you can only build, you have a portfolio project

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

New productivity hack with AI. Now I don't forget my to-do list :)

Problem: b2b on meetings and always forget the action items.

Setup: Granola + Linear connected to Claude.

Granola records every meeting. Claude reads the notes, writes the tasks, drops them in Linear.

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

If you screw up the CEO will actually fire you. (5/n)

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Trainy is made for you to learn how to build AI products, without being fired in real life.

https://t.co/oYACyrp8GH (1/n)

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Trainy is a simulator to replicate the experience of building an AI product from within a large company. You interact with agents representing CEOs, CTOs, Compliance, etc who have their own expertise, way of looking at things and even personalities. (4/n)

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

Working on this thing. Trainy, the AI product training I wish I had. Agentic stakeholders that push back like real ones.

Tried to demo it. Got fired 😅

More to share soon.

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

@vytalow @garrytan @ycombinator @ParasmaAI They’re betting on you more than on your idea

[Patrick McDougall @patmcd90]

this was v1.

the deck i raised our seed with coming out of YC was v11.

if you're raising now, send me yours. i'll give you honest feedback. free.