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?

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Ya sign me up

[Omar Abdelaziz @OmarAbcXyz123]

We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back.

Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done.

It has all the context, can use every single app, and even triages your notifications.

We built it for people who always have a little too much to do. The ones buried in messages, notifications, and to-dos.

If that's you, get yours today.

Backed by Y Combinator + 70 other VCs & angels.

https://t.co/R8o6ouHBJF

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@johnfitch_ Admittedly I've been on and off for far too long

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My hobbies as a >$100M revenue founder

[Masha Bucher @mashadrokova]

Best founders I backed had no hobbies. Only one obsession — the company.

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This app is free

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When you're in nyc and just want to grab ice cream with the homie 😔

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@speedtriple675 Ngl I've fallen off. It's been an n and off thing for me since I was 5

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@prunecookie Passive vs transactional

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Wifi ads are a really good example of how incentives drive behaviour and people everywhere just go through the corporate motions.

Some marketer is justifying their job by surfacing metrics that lie

No one actually watches them, but they play, so watch time is high.

Some leader is saying cool without thinking

Marketer sees they can keep doing mediocre work without thinking because their leader doesn't hold a sense of intuition or critical thinking.

Eventually the market believes what they are doing is actually correct because they've lied to themselves for so long

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@prunecookie I guess said differently, if that's the case than why waste my time as a consumer on a minute ad?

The disruption <> delight tradeoff just doesn't make sense

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@awilkinson My head of revenue. He runs an org responsible for >$100M revenue, has a yoga studio and CrossFit gym in Scottsdale.

Good meet

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@kaleighf https://t.co/GfxX6GWuxa

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Learn to straddle the eagerness line of annoying and endearing.

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The world is basically a Canada wrapper

[Official Lax Girl™️ @officiallaxgirl]

No idea how a Tim Hortons appeared in the Barcelona airport but I’m truly living my dreams!!! (Tim Hortons > Dunkin, sorry not sorry!!)

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@JessLozanoS Dayvigo

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@KevGCallahan I did this recently.. I bought a Good Life membership three blocks away from my house. I finally realized that my dreams of going to a cooler gym 30-minute walk away was never actually happening

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@brendamarienyc @danmall Because people either disagreed with Seth, or related to it.

I wanted to show that two things can be true at once, but the latter is sorta silly depending on your reasoning

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My wife and I had a son 5 months ago.

We were both uncertain if we wanted him.

Why? We really enjoyed our life and the fear of a new variable disrupting that was very scary.

And the first 2 months into it, we were still uncertain. It felt more like a nuisance than a benefit.

We also lived a life of extremes. Each with 120+ nights per year in a hotel, hiking every weekend, racing cars and a ton of solo time. The relative change was real.

There's a mourning of your old life.

But then the postpartum hormonal extravaganza ends, you settle into the change and adapt to the new.

You realize how incredibly special a child is.

It's difficult to explain until you have one, but I liken it to the gut punch feeling and chemistry you experience with a first love. There's a draw to that person that is more important to you than anything else. And the weirdest part is no one else feels this same yearning.

If you don't have a kid, this might also help you understand how looking at your kid is way different than looking at someone else's... because I really don't care for anyone else's.

But mine? When I'm away for more than 4 hours I catch myself smiling at a photo of him and anxiously anticipating when I get to see him again

You solidify the family unit. And imagine a future together that's much greater than "happy".

Then there's a wonderful realization you can still thread in the parts of your old life that mattered.

Prioritization becomes clear.

My wife and I learned how to work even better together for each other, ourselves and the family.

Could we have been fine without kids? Probably. We're pretty adaptable as humans.

But does the good outweigh the bad and is that worth taking a chance on the regret index? Absolutely. 100x.

It's difficult to explain, but I suppose anything encoded into us over millions of years is.

[Rocco @_roccosv]

Seth Rogen says he and his wife are now more grateful than ever that they decided not to have children he’s not afraid to explain why.

He admits they used to question whether they’d made the right decision, but now their conversations have shifted to, “Honestly, thank God we don’t have children.”

His reasoning? They’re in the prime of their lives, understand themselves better than ever, and have the freedom to pursue their careers, enjoy life, and build the kind of relationship they’ve always wanted.

But Seth took it a step further, saying he sees people with children struggling to find the same time for work and personal enjoyment that he and his wife have.

“I seem to get a lot more active enjoyment out of not having kids than anyone I know seems to get out of having kids.”

That statement will probably divide people. Some see raising children as life’s greatest joy, while others believe a fulfilling life doesn’t have to include parenthood.

Do you think Seth has a point, or is there a kind of happiness you can only understand after having children?

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@withtenacity This is what people mean when they say "aesthetic"

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@madslamwrld Why?

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Who's the most underrated founder in Canada right now?

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@ecom_cork Why?

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@Colin_Salter_ @christophergilp That bio Is sick

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