Brandon Jacoby
@JacobyBrandon
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craft meets consequence — prev. @x/@xai, @cashapp, @emigrantventure, party round + some others along the way
USA
Joined August 2009
in an era of slop, the product yearns for an interface from a human touch
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you can just design things while drinking a pinot on a friday night
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Evolutionary Maladaptation & The Promethean Imperative We're running Stone Age software on a civilization that requires quantum computing. Your brain evolved for survival in groups of 20-150 people, handling immediate physical threats and managing scarcity. Now you're processing
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Companies have spent the past decade+ using Apple as the gold standard for product marketing, and yet, still nobody comes close.
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five years ago, if you told me I’d be rooting for Andrew Cuomo to win any election, I would think you’re crazy. but crazy times… please go vote.
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Received a $0.21 ACH deposit test. Booking it as $76 ARR.
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Stripe, the company built to move money on the internet, does not support money movement for their new fundraising product?
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under appreciated insight that many founders and product builders miss: primary metric selection is the number one driving force in roadmaps and product decisions
another trend worth noticing is how many great firms are maniacal about keeping the information they consumer consistent. druckenmiller looks at the same 272 charts every night at the same time. if you open the search space its too easy to get caught in noise, keep it narrow
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Checking in on everyone who said Sora was going to become more popular than TikTok
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design reviews for early cash card concepts back in the day (2017ish) were some of my favorite memories of my career to see the team still pushing the limits on creative ideas— not to mention getting an F1 car wrapped in one of them makes me happy to see special place and team
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figuring out how to let your thoughts wander while still remaining focused is the key to great ideas
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trains comes eventually. you just have to stay patiently at the station.
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Anduril is giving our armed forces wall hacks. Naturally, aimbot will be next. But true enterprise value won’t be unlocked until we force our enemies to sit in a post-match lobby with their adversaries, getting chirped at by a 12 year old yelling obscene and pointed slurs
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setting up a new phone from scratch and downloaded a bunch of “important” apps that came to mind chatgpt didn’t come to mind until much later lesson in there
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Hey @brookwellapp, great design. I was proud of it when we designed it for Capital in 2022, too.
Have you ever tried using stablecoins to pay for expenses like rent, phone bills, or student loans? You can't. Your stablecoins today don't interface well with legacy systems. So we got to work. Introducing Brookwell (@brookwellapp):
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I wish @figma AI solely lived in comments. > assign comments to agents to go solve > ask questions based on contextual knowledge of design system and other files on a team
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i was reading through some old posts from building capital and came across this just hire great people who can ship quickly and you’ll find yourself worrying about tradeoffs a lot less
@brianarmstrong @freshperspected @capitalxyz 1) Things like this lead to trust, confidence, and love for our brand. Worth it on a macro level for @capitalxyz, even if it does not *immediately* move the needle of a metric on a micro level. 2) Our team is elite and can ship this fast, while still building bigger swings
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its crazy how fast "ux" in designer titles became a negative signal
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