Matt Mickiewicz
@MattMickiewicz
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Tech investor & mouse jiggler. Previously co-Founder at Hired & 99designs. INTJ with a Questioner tendency. 🇨🇦
Somewhere warm
Joined September 2008
Been meaning to post this for quite a few years -
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What might happen if Uber tried to transition to a SaaS business? A fictional story. Imagine a transactional business, like the Uber we know today, going through the transition, and what might...
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The Great AI Mispricing Cash is not a moat at the app layer A lot of people have asked if we should have raised $100m+ at Spellbook. We have no need for more cash. We have lots of revenue from 4,000 customers. But mainly, we are wary of a serious market distortion... 🧵
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From breathability to quick drying to moisture-wicking, SHEIN runs various tests to check that the materials we use in your clothes can keep up with your day. Whether you’re on the move or in the moment, performance is built in.
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People memorize every Kardashian breakup but can't name a single tax deduction. Then wonder why they're broke.
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The deeper you go into the semiconductor supply chain, the less believable it becomes. > TSMC, a company on a small island, produces over 90% of the world’s most advanced chips > TSMC relies on dutch company ASML for EUV lithography machines > ASML depends on German Company
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We’re in a weird era for startups where perception has become the moat. Raise early, get labeled a “category leader,” and that perception attracts capital, customers, and talent until it’s no longer perception. The irony is many kings were crowned long before they’d earned it.
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Spellbook has raised a $50m Series B led by @rabois at @khoslaventures. Since 2022 we've grown rapidly to 4,000 law firm and in-house legal customers including Nestlé, eBay and Kennedys. We aim to be the best way to draft and review agreements with AI—Cursor for contracts 🧵
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Canada taking a page from WeWork's "Community Adjusted EBITDA" metric for its Federal Budgets:
We're Screwed If Ottawa pushes forward with its new budgeting approach. Yesterday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer dropped a bombshell initial assessment: "The Government’s New Budgeting Approach – PBO’s Initial Assessment." It's a must-read for every Canadian worried about
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Economic growth is literally everything. People fondly remember the times of high GDP growth and treat the ones with low growth as the dark ages. Growth means positive sum thinking becomes the optimal strategy and this is the bedrock of civic society. We must build more
Opinion: We need to worry more about Canada’s economic growth
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Trigger warning:
Everyone wants enterprise b2b ACV, no one wants 6-12 month sales cycles, 200 point security questionnaires, redlines, net 60, white glove onboarding, services partner ecosystem, last minute procurement negotiation step, 14 page MSAs, champions that leave the company. 90-180 day
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I always knew this number was high, but this. 21.5% of employed people work in the public sector. 1 in 5 working Canadians have a government job. This is ridiculous. The public sector contributes nothing to the economy it is only a drain.
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Comparing your "real life" to someone else's highlight reel is the recipe for unhappiness.
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Canada ranked 33rd in the world for quality of life this year Down from 5th in 2013
This Women’s History Month, I’m proud to stand alongside the largest Liberal women’s caucus in Canadian history — over 60 women MPs strong.
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Is this a case for solo founders? Co-founders are leaving startups at a higher rate in recent years.
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Awesome.
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You need to be very concerned about Bill C8. It allows @melaniejoly to kick anyone off the internet with no trial, no warrant. Worse, you won’t be allowed to say you’ve been kicked off. This is the Emergency Measures Act on steroids, only permanent and secret.
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100% agree, and also, I think it was @Naval that gave this additional advice that has always stuck with me: Once you're successful, you start getting invited to events, talks, coffee chats, fancy parties, etc., which distract you from the thing that made you successful, and so
A lot of younger people who’re new to the industry ask me how to do “networking”. How do you go from knowing no one in San Francisco to having a network of people that you can do business with, learn from, hire, etc. The trick is I never set out to “network”. Maybe due to
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Vancouver gets it. Leaked documents show that the city paid Musqueam $33,500 to come to meetings and events for the renaming of Trutch street. Residents had no say and nobody except woke, white consultants can read the new name, but who cares? That’s the price of progress!
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Congrats @SauravShroff5 on another milestone towards energy production and a base on the moon (and Mars).
As part of a prize in our Break the Ice Lunar Challenge which ended last year, @StarpathSpace tested its updated competition rover this summer in the vacuum chamber at @NASA_Marshall. The challenge aimed to advance novel technologies to find and transport ice on the Moon. Read
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The “great economist” Carney is going to bankrupt our Country.
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