Tate Hackert

Inventor of Earned Wage Access. Café sidequest. Spent 100+ days at sea. Lent $250k on Craigslist at 16. Tweet fintech, Canada tech, and half-baked thoughts

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

Last week, I wrote 2 checks to Canadian founders 🇨🇦

This week, I'd like to write 2 more.

Who's raising?

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

People like to overcomplicate that first few million.

Go hyperbolic on reach out.

Then it's ingrained into your culture and you keep winning.

[Wiki Milczyńska, MD @w_milczynska]

I've now seen 50 screenshots of the Cursor founder in people's DMs and I'm convinced the real product was the outbound. man ran a one-man SDR team against the entire tech industry and closed it at $60B

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@jedgar Wanna bet on it?

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

Wealthsimple is on another level lately

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

Prediction markets are coming to Canada.

For the first time, millions of Canadians will be able to trade what's next through Wealthsimple.

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

My day job after my day job

[toki @tokifyi]

@realMikeChong @PsudoMike @TateHackert runs tech events there

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@owenbjennings Hype

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@jack_newton @goclio Jack - what does your July 6th look like? I want you to come to Stampede Summit

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

Canadian founders btw

[Build Canada @build_canada]

Canadians have built tech empires. But most didn't do it at home. ✈️

@Uber, @Cloudflare, @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI - all co-founded by 🇨🇦's who went on to build their businesses in the 🇺🇸.

Add on foreign nationals who attended Canadian universities, you get @Instacart, @Tesla, @moderna_tx, @NotionHQ. 🎓

Founders of all these companies slipped through our national grasp.

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@Linico_ @ZayZoon Hey - dm me. If you're seeing wages available, I'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to access them.

Will get this solved for you!

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

That's... incredibly difficult to comprehend.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

With today's 20% SpaceX pop, Elon made more money today than Warren Buffett made in his entire career

[Brandon Waselnuk @BrandonWaselnuk]

“Fable out of the Stable”

This years Calgary Stampede brought to you by Anthropic

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@slye No. Spend the $3k

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

I hate when I ask someone for something and they ask when I need it by... because the answer is always "now" but I can't say that because I'd be an a**hole

[Daniel Eberhard @DanEbs]

Today, @GetKoho announced $130M in new capital at a $1.33B valuation.

We’re very happy to welcome Mubadala, Savano Capital, @tobi, CEO, Founder of Shopify, and Michael Linford, COO of Affirm, to the KOHO story. We’re also grateful for the continued support of Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Eldridge, BDC Capital, and HOOPP.

One of my favourite things about KOHO is that the only way we win is if millions of Canadians choose us. We cannot out-spend or out-market. We have to out-build. The progress we have made reflects the progress our users have made.

So, while we feel very proud of what’s behind us, we’re much more humbled by what’s in front of us. With this capital, we’ve earned the right to keep building on our promise to users. That job remains monumental, and we’re very honoured that we get to do the work.

I want to thank the team for their incredible work these past few years. The world doesn’t yet know how talented, smart and kind the KOHO Collective is - but they will.

I want to thank our investors for their continued trust and support. We’re lucky to have partners who recognize and support the need to take the longer view here.

More than anything, I want to thank our users. We’ve come a long way with much farther to go. We’ll keep earning your trust every damn day.

Back to work 🔥

[nicole alonso @_nicolealonso]

miss the era when:
fable was a story
sonnet was a poem
haiku was shorter poem
gemini was a zodiac sign
opus was your life's work
agent worked for the CIA
& a token was something you put in an arcade machine

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

This is the definition of taste and delight btw

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

omg this @tryramp direct mail card IS AMAZING

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@MillPrue As someone who had this growing up, albeit not in the suburbs, do it. Absolutely do it.

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

Everything is pointing to this being the top

[Motor1 @Motor1com]

Porsche and Pixar unveiled three special 911s to coincide with the release of Toy Story 5.

Each car is meant to be based on a main character from the film. There's a Buzz Lightyear, a Jessie, and—of course—a Woody.

https://t.co/rOHkTcxyIS

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@alexabelonix I think founder led sales gets painful well before $500M arr

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

$500M arr, built in Canada btw 🇨🇦

[Clio @goclio]

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[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

@berrysweetmum But can you buy stuff with it?