Samuel Hall

Plays 🥁 on the steering wheel, skates 🛹 longboards, takes 🏀 jump-shots, backs founders & venture builders in APAC. Testing out new bits.

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

@adeets_22 Big lols

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

After coaching a lot of very successful people, here's an unsexy truth:

A lot of success is learning to grind when it's boring.

Staying engaged, working, and seeing it through when it's "boring" is a skill. If you expect all building to be exciting, you'll never make it.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

When someone is very dogmatic about a specific title they want coming into a role, 90% of the time, it hasn’t worked out in my experience.

That sign for me is always a red flag.

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time. If you put yourself out there, you will be criticised. The best you can do is try your utmost to be kind, knowing that that still won't be enough for everyone.

[Santiago @svpino]

Developers who shit on this are missing the point.

The story is not about ChatGPT taking programmers' jobs. It's not about a missing import here or a subtle mistake there.

The story is how, overnight, AI gives programmers a 100x boost.

Ignore this at your own peril.

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[Jaime Schmidt @jaimeschmidt]

Startup founders don’t care about gaps in your work history or where you went to school. We care that you share the same wild enthusiasm for what we are building.

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

However, I would expect them to run minimum viable concept tests, pre prototype.

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

I was asked about investing into products pre-prototype, and which should come first, prototype or investment?

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

Some propositions don't need much work or much spend (if any) to achieve prototype, in which case I would expect founders to do that without investment. Others require significant investment, in which case I wouldn't expect founders to achieve prototype without investment...

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

I believe in this v strongly

[Amanda Cua @itsamandacua]

Never stay in a place where you feel like your goals are too big.

It’s a sign to switch environments. Change schools, jobs or even move to an entirely new place/country.

You can always be more and do more :)

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

The coincidence of freezing cold coffee shop wifi and #WrappedSpotify shuffling me King's College choir and it feels like Christmas 🎄🙌

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

It's been tough for many in Sg tech, but hopefully the silver lining will be the birth of many new #startup builders
https://t.co/3GEWVO7DUk

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

"youve gotta keep forcing it... You've gotta be fearless" - applies to anything in which you want to be great

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

John Mayer improvising a song live is the most incredible thing you’ll see today:

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

@CharleyMa 😂👍

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

Speak up, or you're endlessly missing opportunities to learn

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

@rod_mallo 💯

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

@AbhilashaPurwar For data accumulation and synthesis, so that when they later found something it's a better bet than what they otherwise would have gone with?

[logan bartlett @loganbartlett]

On episode 40, I asked @peterfenton why the best venture capitalists in the world seems to get worse at the job over time. Loved the thoughtfulness, self-awareness and humility in his answer.

[Samuel Hall @samalhall]

3 things that have probably made the biggest difference in the success of our venture studio in recent years:

(1) deep work,
(2) intentionally optimising for opportunities for individuals,
(3) constantly iterating our business&operational models