Alex 🇺🇸🇧🇬 @_alexshaq

Making art. prev scaled apps to 1m users | founder @fdotinc @ycombinator | win 🏁 alexshaq.com nyc Joined July 2014

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3 months ago

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3 months ago

Didn't check twitter all week and came back to junior VCs dunking on founders and founders dunking on each other for not working 7 days a week. This week in startups.

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3 months ago

The more you need it, the more it escapes you. Relax and let things naturally play out.

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3 months ago

Life is a series of hard no’s to get to an undeniable yes

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3 months ago

We will look back on TikTok/brainrot as the cigarettes of our generation The medium is the message

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I have switched to using all social media on a mobile browser. Apps are out. So far haven’t noticed a single downside. My usage is much less and haven’t missed anything of importance - sent from mobile safari

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4 months ago

Creatively ambitious people live a paradox. Once you're successful at something it means you should stop. You've lived it already, and now you need to play something new. It's like the moment Bob Dylan mastered folk he was mandated to move to a new genre. Yes, his fans hated…

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4 months ago

Be highly skeptical of anyone giving you advice who isn’t actively doing what they are telling you. Skills atrophy. Times change. What worked then will probably not work now. The only answer to trust fully is a consistent feedback loop with reality.

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4 months ago

The decisions that matter from @naval

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4 months ago

Nyc is peak rn

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4 months ago

The rarest asset on earth is a founding engineer

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4 months ago

An idea for all the app founders out there An Infinite onboarding app. Onboarding > paywall > another onboarding > paywall > and so on. It’s fool proof bro, trust me.

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5 months ago

The domino that starts generational runs of momentum is just going for a run in the morning

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5 months ago

The most ambitious + generous ppl you will find are at @fdotinc. Really special place

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5 months ago

The most ambitious + generous ppl you will find are at @fdotinc. Really special place

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5 months ago

Lots of ppl asking me where to do taxes for C-corps Check out usehaven.com for <200ms customer response time

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5 months ago

In SF everyone praises speed as the ultimate. Go fast all of the time. Execute execute execute. If you watch Steph Curry (or any great athlete) -- you see a different lesson; the hardest people to guard are the ones that master changing speeds. Slow. Fast. Stop. Speed up.…