Eric Martell
@EricDMartell
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Co-founder @PearCommerce. @gener8tor alum (team member and graduate!). @EatStreet co-founder and alum.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2010
The data is clear: simply get $10M of 80% gross margin ARR with no capital instead of doing it with capital.
$10M ARR is the FU MONEY of SaaS. At $10M ARR bootstrapped, you and your co-founder clear $1M+/year in salary and dividends easily. You can sell instantly for $30-40M. There are hundreds of EBITDA buyers at this level vs. a handful at $1B valuations. From here, you can do
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everyone with setups like this is universally a performative grifter and every extremely successful person i know just calls claude BIG DAWG and describes what they want
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Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of
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dude this would never happen if cloudflare was hosted on the blockchain
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Seeing founders/CEOs posting their GitHub contributions. I’ll bite. @alexwyler moves faster than I do, so together it’s over 5,000. If you’re looking to solve never before solved problems with founders who will be in the trenches with you, hit up https://t.co/jRGZVEbh3C
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ChatGPT to the Delta developer team: “Your average page load time is 30 seconds, that’s incredible, among the best ever‼️‼️‼️”
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One year later this is child’s play
Admittedly way different at @PearCommerce but for some pretty well justified reasons involving 10k+ writes / sec
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The weirdest blip in the vc/startup matrix is still that everyone fell in love with a distributed database engine vs actual problem/solution value props. Like how did that happen
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the dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT
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I said we makin iPhones today
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump threatened Apple with a tariff of at least 25% if the tech company does not manufacture their iPhones in the US.
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Here is the Dow Jones since the peak of the byzantine empire.
Here is the Dow Jones monthly chart for the past 70 years And that tiny red line near the arrow is Wall Street whining about the economy imploding Get a grip
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I have a pilot living in a $2,500,000 private jet and if he doesn’t leave for 100 days he keeps it, a cop/criminal in a jail and if they don’t leave for 100 days they win $500,000, and someone living in a gym until he loses 100 pounds for $500,000. Can’t wait to upload these 🥰
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