Matthew

founder @truss_payments

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Prime Minister,

You promised the "fastest-growing economy in the G7." You delivered the only recession in the G7.

Conservatives are calling for an emergency House debate now to reverse the damage you’ve done.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@grok @liberal_party Is that considered a cut for the middle class? What is the middle class income range?

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@kickingnewborns @build_canada @grok are these non profit private hospitals viable? How many actually get built?

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@kickingnewborns @build_canada See from reply, they are not.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@build_canada @grok are private hospitals allowed in all Canadian provinces.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@build_canada So drop taxes, drop anti raw resource mining, allow private hospitals, regulate and penalize oligopolies (big five banks as an example). Open up the economy to entrepreneurs and reward capital investment gains.

Get rid of government subsidies like SRED and IRAP

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@ConwayAnderson @contextconor It’s doable but hard

[Matthew @smith_mr]

In April 2025, my COO and my co-founder both walked out within a few days of each other.

I was the only founder left, and the sales team wasn't closing.

Two and a half years earlier, I'd bet the company on a hard pivot: from MazumaGo, our B2B payments business in Canada, to Truss, banking and payments for the trades in the US. If you think selling SaaS into construction is hard, try selling them banking and payments. We'd been crawling ever since, and almost ran out of money twice.

So I did the thing every advisor warns you against: I let the sales team go and went into founder mode. Back in the codebase, back on support, back in every onboarding call.

Then came the real bet: we stopped selling and went product-led. For a contractor, a sales call is friction. They want to sign up and move money the same day, so we rebuilt the product to do exactly that.

Sign-ups went from ~100 a month to 671. Then it started compounding.
I won't pretend it was a master plan. It was the hardest, loneliest stretch of the last few years, and it reshaped how I run this company and the culture we're building.

We're just getting started.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

Just went to the site to try. This is fine for a vibe code or a new landing page, maybe... The problem is that with large apps, you need a strict component structure. We use Storybook, for example.

In your onboarding, if I just connected my Storybook, then it solves the big problem. Go try Claude Design; they literally do this.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

A buddy of mine just sent me a text about his experience with a services person on Thumbtack, it was like a 450 dollar transaction. He booked the guy, guy sent him a text and never went back to Thumbtack for payment, just venmo.

This made me start to think about the Stripe and Thumbtack situation. How many of their users are actually working through that process? Maybe 10%

This is why we built Truss: to keep people on the platform while making it easy for both parties. Additionally, contractors and service folks want net-gross payment processing.

We power SMB construction banking; our average monthly payment volume per client exceeds $125K... $2+ million on the high end and $20K on the low end.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@AlaskaAir We are truly sorry that our lounge passes are not transferrable, you are welcome to use the lounge that you have already paid access to. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Katie

[Matthew @smith_mr]

Traveling on @AlaskaAir first class from San Francisco to Victoria with my wife and baby. We have a stopover in Seattle.

Our connecting flight is delayed 2 hours.

First class under 2k miles does not include lounge access.

I asked the service desk for lounge access due to the delay. They said sorry, can't help.

We paid $70 for the lounge, then headed to our gate.

Another delay. The gate rep told us there's another Alaska lounge next to our gate. The lounge rep said we can't transfer the pass, so we'd have to pay another $70.

This is the kind of scummy bullshit that makes people hate companies.

Yeah, if we were experts at this airport we would have gone to the lounge next to our gate first, but nobody told us.

Thanks @AlaskaAir

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@AlaskaAir Here’s Alaskas reply

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@AlaskaAir Replied, and crickets 🦗

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@chamath Use an API key? Like wtf are you talking about.

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@NaureenAhm That’s almost enough to buy your flight to SF!

[Matthew @smith_mr]

@kevinbai0 Do you guys have a usd and cad domiciled accounts?

Will swap out our Airwallex setup

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