I do not care at all about how fast a startup scales $0-$3M ARR.
High quality customers, that love the products
But I care immensely that you can go from $3M to $20M and 20M to $80M in the subsequent two years.
Don’t rush the foundations for scale but once met, run faster than ever.
Behind someone who's locked in, disciplined, and living with purpose, there's usually a person Who once hit rock bottom and never wants to feel that way again.
I'm constantly hiring and referring writers, video editors, designers, content strategists and creatives.
If you are a creative person and have some body of work, do apply.
RT/QT for karma :)
(link below)
Spent a few days in New York catching up with folks:
1.) Few have heard of Mythos
2.) While people have heard of Claude Code, few have tried Cowork or knows what a skill is
3.) Many F500 non tech companies here aren’t getting any value out of AI because of politics
4.) Too many companies have too much AI slop esp in product roles, removing AI now
5.) Lot of “Gemini” shops since it’s bundled
6.) The same people firing people because of AI are also the same people that still want their decks sent to them as a PDF / printed on desk
This technology will take a longer to diffuse than SF tech twitter thinks
I rarely get into twitter (X) debates. As a founder I have always wondered how so many outsiders have opinions about a business. With the @emergentlabs revenue rate debate - here are a few points to consider
1. A private company does not need to disclose any numbers and nobody should care about those numbers except the founders, investors in the company and employees
2. The only time we disclosed revenue numbers for Freshworks as a private company was when we crossed 100M and 200M ARR - and we did that intentionally- not to boast about our revenue- but to inform the global investor community that it was possible to scale a global product company from India
3. I think the Emergent founder sharing numbers is a good thing for Indian startups as it validates AI startups from India can scale and that attracts more global investors to India 🇮🇳
4. There are nuances in metrics - actual revenue vs Annual Recurring Revenue(ARR like in Saas ARR) vs Annualized Revenue Rate (combining subscription plus usage plus deployment - modern AI companies)
5. The only people who should care about this are the investors in emergent and I can tell you that at Together fund as early investors in the company - we are aware of the revenue nuances and so are the other investors
6. For outsiders who don’t have all the details - we should assume that founders know the best about their business and let them execute
@WisprFlow really like this onboarding tweak
instead of trying to explain the product upfront, they just nudge you to use it every day
100 words → +1 day of trial
feels small, but it quietly solves the hardest part: getting people to come back in week 1/2