Ryan Laverty

Tweets about startups and the future of learning. Co-Founder @arist (YC S20)

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By the time I was 24 I'd raised over $17m -- here's all the worst pieces of advice I got:

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congrats to spacex on the ipo! 🙃💀

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@dibstickets love this product

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Incredible articulation of how distribution affects outcome

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

I love this video

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TIL Steve Jobs / Apple basically invented the word podcast

[Global Index @TheGlobal_Index]

@HinataMotivates When we learned Steve Jobs essentially popularized the term "Podcast"

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There’s a huge business waiting to be built running the AI Review Board (ARB) at every major company.

Legal and IT teams are swamped evaluating hundreds of tools, and it can take months to get a spot in the board’s queue if you don’t have the right champions

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@joshqharris rosemary oil every day for 1-2 hours then wash it out, right after workout / while pores open is best

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@m_franceschetti @eightsleep have had my 8sleep for 3 years, love it — well deserved

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

A great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought up by existing giants, can generate enormous value.

A win for employees, investors, innovation, and the public.

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This.

A country has never been lifted out of poverty while creating no billionaires

No one realizes each also creates thousands of millionaires, often more

Massive net positive

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

We should have more billionaires

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10% of parents thinking their kids will go pro, when .001% do, is insane

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

It's not hard to see why PE keeps pushing into youth sports

• ~60 million US children
• $40 billion annual revenue

Youth Sports Parents:
• 2 in 10 think their child can go D1
• 1 in 10 think their child can go pro

And the average family spent $1,016 on their kid's primary sport just last year, +46% since 2019

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@MollySOShea damn that’s what i get for skimming, in that case HODL 🫡

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- Do research on Arist and who we serve
- Land an Arist meeting with a potential customer
- Send me an email (work email) explaining how you did it and what you’d do to get 50 more in a quarter

And that's it. Rather than 500 applicants on LinkedIn we'll likely get 10-15 who attempt this. But they'll be incredible humans 😉

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I'm looking for an all-star SDR to join Arist and work with me directly. You don't need any xp in the tech space, and just need to be hungry and ready to learn.

Since no formal qual or job application, how to apply:

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@TaliaGold @perplexity_ai Love this — did you run a version removing the mag 7?

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at some point in life i need to dedicate a year to collecting legos

peak human happiness

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the best ideas happen when you’re bored

which is tough, because the modern world is great at making sure we’re never bored

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The Collison brothers single-handedly fighting tech’s anti-alcohol trend

irish founders true to form

[John Collison @collision]

One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with @gdb, Meta’s Susan Li, @kvogt, and @levelsio.

Let me know if you have suggested interviewees. We'll likely include a bunch of interviews with people you've never heard of but whose business stories are fascinating.

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@austin_rief my friend did an interview with bloomberg after getting $2k in free food from referrals in nyc

VC winter = no more free eggs in 11 minutes 😢

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*sigh* the least fun things often yield the best results

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Execution in startups is mostly resisting the urge to work on things that matter less and obsessing on things that matter the most.