Ian Crosby @ianwcrosby
Let’s build great things and win. Co-Founder/CEO at https://t.co/FdNlSrjwtq. Fmr. Head of Financial Services @Shopify and fmr. co-founder/CEO @Bench. teal.dev Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 Joined August 2011-
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Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
Justin Trudeau thinks he can allocate capital better than entrepreneurs.
Tobi Lutke explains what the VCs who passed on Shopify got wrong Tobi recounts pitching Shopify to VCs on Sand Hill Road a few years after founding Shopify. Investors passed because they thought the addressable market was too small. At the time, there were about 40,000-50,000…
Announcing the next phase of Strut—the complete workspace for writers. Strut now brings all your writing tools together into one simple app. Capture notes, organize projects, and collaborate with your team. All in one place, supported by AI. Here's how it works👇
Founders can sometimes get defensive hearing about product-market fit challenges because they worked so hard to build the product. The reality is, “M” in PMF is the high order byte: markets either have an acute need or they don’t - the product itself is secondary.
Oculus & Anduril founder Palmer Luckey explains why founders need to “make themselves obsolete” “When I started Oculus, I thought I was really good at everything… But I was only the best at a lot of things in our company because I had been negligent in my hiring process.” For…
If your startup has a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors. If you don't have a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors. Ergo, no one will care who's on your board of advisors.
When a startup is competing against a large competitor, they aren't competing with the *entire* company, they are likely competing with some PM focused on internal politics/career progression. With this framing, it shouldn't be surprising to see startups win as often as they do.
Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt: openai.com/sora
Here's what people don't understand about vertical saas. Shopify, Toast, Service Titan - they are each just getting started. And there are still so, so many untouched verticals. We need 100x more Shopify's. 99.99% of vertical saas market cap is yet to be created.
The real world is about trade offs. Good intentions don’t change the laws of physics, economics or nature of mankind.
Good morning to all the builders out there. This is your year to shine!
what i wish someone had told me: blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-so…
I don't agree with Elon about everything, but you have to give him this: He's achieved much more than roughly 100% of his critics.
It seems we’ll have to get used to dramatic change in what’s possible every 6 months or so.
It seems we’ll have to get used to dramatic change in what’s possible every 6 months or so.
It’s pretty clear at this point that Teal.dev has hit on something big. If you want to join a team of competent people focussed on winning, we’re hiring our first PM role: teal.dev/jobs/product_m…
Shouting out @mintlify as an absolutely incredible platform for hosting API docs. Blown away at how this 9 person team has built the best product in the space in 18 months.
There is absolutely no substitute for using your own product. None whatsoever.
Jamie Dimon of $JPM has said everyone should be prepared for rates to go higher form here
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman
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339K Followers 2K Following @Shopify CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night. Aspiring comprehensivist. (tweets auto delete) retweet/like=noteworthy share, not endorsement
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One thing nobody told me about getting older is how much time you spend thinking about databases.
I will switch all of my flying to whatever airline offers this
KTLA Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro tests out Hawaiian Airlines' new Starlink satellite internet on a flight from LA to Honolulu ✈️📡 Starlink is a game changer
Never forget the time Lex Fridman made Zuck take a robot captcha test before his interview
Some people are just born to be GM of EMEA
On the other end is this guy
after 20+ years of startup debates - my simple view: the #1 thing that makes a productive startup ecosystem happen: success. commercial success drives community success, not the other way around meetups, gov't $, accelerators, regulation, real-estate, studios, taxes,…
@DionysianAgent Gimme dem IQ points I'm going for that min-max build
The Social Network movie vs. real life
New study shows that, in Finland and Norway, the relationship between cognitive ability and income becomes *steeper* in the tail of the distribution. This is contrary to common assertions that ability stops mattering at some moderate threshold.
I'm told there are over 3000 people on the waiting list for my talk on Tuesday, and the venue only holds 180. Since we don't want to disappoint anyone, I'm going to give another talk later this year at a bigger venue.
The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.
He said he was a prompt engineer but he kept joining standup late
Was curious when traveling and… are you kidding me. (I checked; GPT is right.)
Stripe Sessions giving Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting a run for its money as the Woodstock for Capitalists
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
The @usairforce has selected Anduril to design, manufacture, and test production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). In this era of great power competition, there is no time to waste on business as usual. We look forward to delivering CCAs on schedule, within…
Almost every single deep tech founder I talk to credits Elon and SpaceX for helping them realize, "Oh, you can just go build really hard things." I think Anduril will have a similar impact. "Oh, you can just compete head-on with really big incumbents and win."
Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America.
The real scandal is that leaders think that creating the “process” and “scalable system” in the latter example *is their job* Everyone is incentivized to add complexity because it justifies their scope. Fight this as much as you can.
Startup vs Big Company Dynamics Startup • Observation: Users want a new feature. • Designer (60 min later): Here are some figma prototypes. • Engineer: We can ship this by the end of the week. Big Company: • Observation: Let’s discuss our observations when Suzy’s back;…
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