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Waseem Daher @waseem

Tweets on building and scaling startups. CEO @PilotHQ, financial back-office for growing businesses Prev. founded @Ksplice (acq Oracle) & @Zulip (acq Dropbox) waseem.substack.com San Francisco, CA Joined March 2008
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Waseem Daher @waseem

23 hours ago

30% of startups are paying an AI foundational model provider today, in our analysis of ~2k companies in @PilotHQ 's dataset. Most paid usage is dominated by OpenAI, until very recently—huge spike in usage for Anthropic right alongside the announcement of Claude 3.

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Pilot @PilotHQ

a week ago

📣📣 We're less than one month away from our Founder Tactics event 📣📣 We've got a stellar speaker lineup with Diane Greene, @jaltma, @ParisHeymann, @wadefoster, @PeterJ_Walker and Pilot's own @waseem and @jeffarnold You won't want to miss it! founder-tactics.pilot.com/?utm_medium=so…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

4 weeks ago

Can you get away with doing bookkeeping once a year? Yes, but I don't recommend it: 1. You’ll need accurate books for filing taxes and waiting until the last minute ends up being painful for both you and your tax preparer 2. At some point you’ll need to provide financial…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

a month ago

Delaware doesn't require that you have a "President" or "CEO". In fact, they don't specify the required titles at all. They just require an officer that can sign stock certificates (usually the president or CEO), and an officer who has the “duty to record the proceeds of the…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

a month ago

Don’t get cute with your company's legal name. The rules about naming your company are quite specific. Delaware says: the name of the company shall contain 1 of the words "association," "company," "corporation," "club," "foundation," "fund," "incorporated," "institute,"…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

2 months ago

Will @hwchase17 and I accidentally create AGI when I interview him at @PilotHQ about @LangChainAI on Mar 13? Well, you'll have to join in person to find out. Join the waitlist here—priority will be given to active AI founders: pilot.com/event/founders…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

2 months ago

Classic founder mistake #195: you have to file a tax return. Yes, even if you had no revenue. Yes, even if the company only existed for one day in 2023. Yes, even if you don't want to. Please tell your founder friends and save them the pain of the scary IRS letter.

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Harrison Chase @hwchase17

2 months ago

I've talked a lot about LangChain the technology, but not a lot about LangChain the company. Excited to dive into that more with @waseem and Pilot next Wednesday - come join! pilot.com/event/founders…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

2 months ago

Our annual founder conference is back on May 9, where you can hear from folks like @jaltma @wadefoster and a bunch of other amazing folks. I promise *only* super-tactical tips that will help you run a better startup. Check the agenda: founder-tactics.pilot.com/?utm_medium=so…

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Sara Mauskopf @sm

2 months ago

If you've ever wondered about how to build something that gets to a successful exit, @waseem has done it 2 times and is now on his third company @PilotHQ, his biggest yet. He shared all kinds of gems from how you raise money from famous people to building your network (and…

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Second Time Founders Podcast @SecondTF_pod

2 months ago

If you've ever wondered about how to build something that gets to a successful exit, @waseem has done it 2 times and is now on his third company @PilotHQ, his biggest yet. He shared all kinds of gems from how you raise money from famous people to building your network (and…

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Waseem Daher @waseem

2 months ago

We launched “Quality Check by Pilot” on Product Hunt today and I’d love your support. producthunt.com/posts/quality-… It's essentially "GPT grades your QuickBooks" and checks for common errors. So if you had any doubts about your existing accountant's work, please check it out!

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Waseem Daher @waseem

3 months ago

How much does it actually cost in legal fees to raise a funding round? We looked at 9,059 transactions to find the answer. Why the spike for Series A+B? Term sheets typically have a clause where you pay for two lawyers: yours *and* your VCs (plus, it's a more complicated txn).

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Waseem Daher @waseem

3 months ago

What's the best tool for monitoring keyword mentions on LinkedIn and Twitter? Like, hypothetically if I were interested in people mentioning "startup accounting", among other terms, what should I be using to monitor that?

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