Josh Constine 📶🔥
@JoshConstine
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Investing in pre-seed consumer. Trying to help the world gracefully adapt to the future. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, pitchcrafter.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
People hate the SF tech party scene but honestly I love it. Where the belle of the ball is the author of an open source library
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Developers using AI coding copilots complete 98% more code changes and 21% more tasks. but their companies don't ship faster due to downstream bottlenecks and a 91% increase in code review time . Any journalists want to see this study of 10K developers before it publishes?
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Never seen this before. This Instagram interactive sticker lets you swipe to spin and scratch the record.
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Step 1 of starting a great social app: Inspire protests. @jointallyapp launch vid shows how you can set cash penalties for bad habits, like porn addiction. Of course Columbia students are freaking out. Reminds me of “1M students against Fb News Feed” protests, soon its #1 feature.
you said you'd stop gooning. texting your ex @ 4am. that you'd go to the gym. introducing tally. the habit tracker that charges you 50 cents every time you slip up. and gives it to your friends (or enemies). because you should bet on yourself. i may or may not have dropped
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The haters said Apple shouldn't do this. And they were right. Great call from the haters. Apple just rolled back the worst parts of liquid glass, substantially reducing the brain-scrambling transparency/refraction in navigation elements.
Refraction = distraction. I don’t need *beautiful* interfaces. I need them to be efficient so I can get back to looking at the wondrous real world.
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Full-time job isn’t specific enough any more. Now you “exclusively” join a company.
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Grammarly’s CEO @shishirmehrotra is one of tech’s best system thinkers. No one does customer empathy like Superhuman CEO @rahulvohra. This team up is going to create some delightful products
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Writing assistant @Grammarly just acquired deluxe email client @Superhuman. A new AI productivity powerhouse has entered the arena
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I love people that land in SF and just immediately build community. Fresh from London, @lottsnomad sold his last startup, incorporated his new startup, and hosted an epic Consumer Club this week.
pls don’t ask me why i had a spatula in my hand. you had to be there to understand 😂
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*When self-driving Tesla taxis kill so many people the gov shuts down Waymo too.
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As eng and ops commoditize, founder-distro fit matters more than ever. How you sell determines who you need:. Top-down: A rolodex who golfs with your customers. Channel sales: The glad-hand long-game diplomat. Paid acquisition: Ruthless budget allocator. Viral: Based Machiavelli.
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Founder-Distro Fit is the new PMF. Virality is extremely tough to hire for. Anyone who can run killer zero to one social strategy could earn 10X more as a creator. You can recruit a legion of interns to execute, but like sales, early on, virality must be founder-led.
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Monsters, beware. My 4 year old says “I’ll put them in a self driving car and send them straight to jail”
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The International Space Station, a defiant speck of humanity against the sun. 📸 @AJamesMcCarthy
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More and more, I think businesses will pay people to try products rather than pay for ads. Easy to imagine a bounty marketplace where you auth in with real identity, and based on your demographics and interests, receive cash offers to complete onboarding and engagement.
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