Andreas Klinger 🏝
@andreasklinger
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First-check and first-round investor – – prev: 🔧 CTO & co @beondeck @producthunt @coinlist @angellist – ❤️ @susanneknoll – 💬 DMs open
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The world needs a bit of a software update on India
Going 🔴LIVE with my startup office hours
This time with an India special
Join the chat:
🔥 Investor Open Office Hours - The India Special 🇮🇳💸👀
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It’s a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work.
Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact.
Always remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.
The harder I work the more work capacity I develop.
I’m sure burnout exists, but I doubt it’s caused only by hard work.
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I think the US has no understanding what they are doing to cultures who are not ready for this kind of technology.
Spotted in Berlin.
😉
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Yea… I am done. lol 🤯
I just drew a game and it works… 💀
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The figma design vs the implementation the developer tells you not to worry about.
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Scary good scam mail
- email by real person
- content credible
- link looks like attachment
- landingpage looks real
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🚨 Announcement 🚨
I am launching something new:
A group of more than 50 remote founders, operators and early investors, who together invest in the next generation of remote work.
Checks for startups $25k-50k
This is by the community, for the community
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Before COVID-19: i was born in cities, always lived in cities, will always live in cities.
After COVID-19: i think we should move to the country side. It seems beautiful and very relaxing. I want a big garden at least.🤔
I had discussions like this with several friends by now.
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The next Zuckerberg was born in a poor family, never got into a good school and she now works in someone else's startup's kitchen.
The next Einstein died of a curable disease in a warn-torn country.
We limit humanity's progress by the percentage globally who can join innovating
What is your least popular but deeply held opinion on tech/startups?
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Hell froze over. 🙀
Microsoft open-sources a linux kernel on
@github
To repeat: Microsoft open-so.... 🤯
Microsoft is completely reinventing itself - right in front of us. Kudos
@satyanadella
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Coding essentially is an infinite loop of:
1) wtf
2) ah yea
Add sprinkles of "that should be easy" and "why did i agree on this"
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Imho:
In 2018 it's no longer a question if you work remote or not.
You already work remote
It's the logical evolution of digital work
You replied to that email on the commute, you worked from that cafe yesterday, you worked while traveling,…
The only question left is how much
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Uber using data to predict how long your car will need is called Machine Learning
Uber telling you it’s 3 minutes so you don’t cancel the arriving ride for the next 10 minutes should be called Machine Lying.
🤷♀️
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Yahoo! Pipes would be a $1B no-code startup today.
RIP. 🕯
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2019: You can't recreate Silicon Valley anywhere else.
2020: Well… Silicon Valley is more of a mindset.
2021: I heard Miami is great.
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You either die a hero or you become the person recommending Jira to engineering teams.
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A friend of mine is joining a breakout hypergrowth startup.
Here is the advice I sent to him via email
Sharing the in hope that it's useful to others as well 🙏
LMK what you think. ✌️
👊
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@0xgaut
Explaining budget tourism in Switzerland breaks my brain. You cant even take a cab there without filing out a loan application
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Hot take:
Almost every hosting startup (vercel, supabase, fly, render, etc) can only exist because AWS console is such a mess.
The AWS console is the one place that might actually be in serious need of PMs. What the heck happened.
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Highly recommend every manager to lead a remote team once.
You learn to:
- enable people to "play single player" (decisions when everyone is offline)
- teach how you decide, not what you decide
- automate&document common situations
- be explicit about processes
- avoid meetings
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OH: "I am not drinking alone… I am drinking remotely."
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Next 4 months in startups:
- "Like Pokemon Go but for sports"
- "…for dating"
- "…meets ebay"
- "…but w/ your pets"
- "4SQ relaunch w/ AR"
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Many say AI automation will create a job crisis.
I agree but my thinking is that it will primarily expose a preexisting education crisis.
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How to be a thought-leader on twitter:
- Pick an audience
- Repeat things that work
- Share things people already know
- Add stats even if they are dubious, 82% do
- Repack the same message in different ways
- If you have nothing to say make sure it sounds good and/or go meta
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Calling it. Remote is the "next silicon valley".
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My grandmother died 10 minutes after I said good bye via WhatsApp from 9000km away.
Sad, but happy I was able to.
Thanks to anyone building communication tools. And especially thanks to anyone working at FB to keep whatsapp reliable.
These moments can really matter. 🙏
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Most first-time founders/managers burn out their first batch of employees because of bad management.
I am not great at it but learned a few things on management over the years.
Summarized my learnings – hope it helps ✌️
Here the full article:
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“We need to pay the debt i took. Let’s charge a ton for the API”
“Sir, people now scrape the website directly to avoid the cost. Which is really expensive for our servers!”
“Block public access”
“Our frontend wasnt anticipating this. Multiple parts of the site are now infinite…
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Stripe:
- 2010
- european founders
- needed to go to SV to raise & scale
- today the highest valued startup
Hopin:
- 2020
- european founder
- gone remote to raise & scale
- today the fastest growing startup
🔥 To repeat: The future of hypergrowth startups is remote. 🔥
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We aren't ready for the next generation of gaming.
This is gameplay footage of
@unrecordgame
🤯
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I hate European startup pitch decks.
Exactly following a template. 20 slides on why saving money is good and preferred by customers.
1 slide about the product. Super abstract & high-level.
Please just show the product.
You are a pre-seed startup, not an MBA study. 🙈
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Just received a startup pitch as async loom video from a founder who had his 3 months old baby strapped around while he explains the business.
This is the kind of future I want to see.
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This is the best time to work on software startups.
Millions of non-technical people are able to work from home because of software products. They can sell online and their businesses can continue.
I know we are all nervous & distracted.
But remember to keep up the good work ✌️
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Serious question: Who is investing in Youtube channels?
Basically ISA for Creators
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Ok, it's finally done and published! Thanks to everyone giving feedback 🙏
* "Should we do remote?"
* "How did you make remote work for your team?"
* "Our team struggles with engineers being remote…"
New post: Managing Remote Teams: A Crash Course ❤️
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Hopin hired 400 people last year.
I just heard of a [very large] remote team that plans to hire 400+ engineers this year alone. 🤯💥
Said it and will say it again:
👉 The future of hypergrowth startups is remote. 👈
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People should use google maps menu photos to track real world inflation.
Example:
Döner in a popular Berlin spot (Rosenthaler Platz Grill)
6 years ago: €3.40
4 years: €3.90
2 years: €4.40
3 months: €6.90 (!) 🤯
And people don’t believe me when i say BLN got expensive. 👀
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A few 2020 remote work predictions combined with free startup ideas:
📺 Multiple teams will innovate on videocalls
Startup Idea:
Rethink video clients without "BIG FACES IN A BOX"
Different calls need different optimized experiences (eg Townhall vs 1on1 vs small team call)
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Life Update:
Most of you know that enabling global talent is one of my big passions in life – so i am excited to finally make it public:
I joined
@beondeck
as CTO to lead the product-engineering team 🙀🙀🙀
Quick thread why 🧵👇
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I never understood why US VCs use Yale or Stanford as "best possible founder filter"
Compare it to:
- Get into IIT in India
- then a US visa (as Indian!)
- then join a top-tier company in the Bayarea
- AND THEN decide to "f&ck it… i'll start a startup"
That's a filter! 🤯🔥
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Holy. 🤯
Built by a team at Alibaba.
Ecommerce will be wild in the next years. 👀
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A GPT that emulates a Grammarly-like interface.
If OpenAI figures out how to do API / embedding / exporting right, a whole layer of "mid-level" tooling will be gone.
via
@reddit
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India's tuktuk-first Uber competitor Namma Yatri has a "/open" page.
It shows all their revenue and other KPIs.
They charge a monthly driver fee instead of commissions – hence this is perfect marketing via transparency.
Awesome stuff 👇
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This guy got elected as Austrian president end of last week. Bodyguards? Press?
Nah. Just shopping like anyone else 🙌
Love how chill 🇦🇹 is.
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So many disucssion how, when, what to do when you start a company…
- 80h/30h?
- VC/bootstrapped?
- Local/remote?
Here the only startup advice i ever found to be true:
1) Do whatever you think is right.
2) If you end up successful, you were right (for your path)
🤷♀️
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Having an audience is the best business right now
- Sell exclusive content
- Get monthly contributions
- Start a fashion brand
- Start a food chain
- Raise a venture fund
- Invest in companies
- Get access to opportunities and deals
🤯
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Imho:
In person is better for innovation.
Remote is better for iteration.
Hence as a remote team you need to meet in person.
And as colocated team you need to give people space to focus.
But it's by far easier to optimize your own focus / performance if you work remote.
Unpopular opinion: remote work is mostly bullshit. Way more gets done when you’re all in the same office.
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Having too many opportunities killed more startups than having too few.
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Biggest risk for founders: “Blue Ocean Syndrome”
Opportunity into every direction.
You swim to all of them.
A bit. At once.
Get nowhere.
🌊🏊♀️🌊
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If i order a $10 pizza i got so exact tracking that i see when the driver takes a wrong turn. 🎯
If i order a $3000 laptop: it comes somewhere tomorrow, oops, we forgot to ring your bell, here is a sticker though, good luck 🤷♀️
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Request for product:
Coach European founders to communicate with the self-confidence of a US fresh-out-of-college bro.
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React is popular because it is complex enough that engineers feel like they are doing something smart.
please quote tweet this with your most controversial webdev opinion, I LOVE controversial webdev opinions
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Imagine you are in the current YC batch:
You are building AI-enabled X
OpenAI just partnered with X
You got only two more weeks until Demo Day 😬
We are adding support for plugins to ChatGPT — extensions which integrate it with third-party services or allow it to access up-to-date information. We’re starting small to study real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges:
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The week of burning man is an extremely special experience for people in San Francisco.
Many people are more experienced with this than me.
I want to make sure I do this right.
Given that everyone is at BM:
WHICH restaurant that I'd never get into normally should I try out? 🙏
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Life update:
Most here know that promoting remote work has been my passion for the last 5-10years. I decided to stop doing it "on the side" & focus on it fulltime:
From now on i'll lead
@AngelList
's efforts to become the
#1
place to connect global talent w/ global opportunities
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OH:
If you move to San Francisco, sooner or later, you either
- start a company
- raise a VC fund
- or become a yoga teacher
That's the rule.
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"Remote work is the new normal for developers"
86% of respondents currently work remotely in some capacity, with ~1/3 working remotely full-time.
43% say the ability to work remotely is a must-have when considering an offer with a company.
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In almost all discussions about remote work I have to first explain the difference between:
- digital backpackers
- workation tourists
- digital staymads
- remote workers
Very different people with very different lifestyles and needs.
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Does your imposter syndrome ever go away or do you just scale it with your ambition?
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Larger remote teams should get a "Head of Remote".
A role at the intersection of optimizing internal tooling, processes, transparency, collaboration, efficiency, inclusivity, onboarding, hiring, employer-branding, culture and communication overall.
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In the ultimate lean startup twist it turned out that
@sama
was manually answering all GPT-3 requests.
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🗒️ Send an agenda
🎯 Be specific
✉️ Don't call if 📧 works
📞 Don't meet if ☎️ works
❌ Do double opt-in intros
🙉 You're not entitled to a reply
✌️ Pay forward
🙅 Remove ego
🤝 Embrace beginners
💥 Be honest ab/ motivations
The 10 networking commandments by
@_jillruth
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PSA: Your imposter syndrome scales with your ambition.
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The only startup advice that you should follow:
“Do whatever you think is right; if you end up successful you were right.”
Everything else are just opinions, ideas or noise. Take them, use them, ignore them. Your choice.
You will only win in your own way. 🙏
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NIMBY 2.0:
- Buy 50 cheap androids.
- Buy a small programmable RC car.
- Ensure no more drive through traffic in your neighborhood.
Performance artist generates virtual traffic jams in Google Maps by pulling a wagon full of smartphones
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Request for Startup:
Video-conference tool built for distributed teams
1) No mute/unmute - Press space while you talk
2) Allow people in the same room to join from their own laptop
3) Always show all participants
4) Buttons for emojis
5) No chat - questions queue to ☑️ instead
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My favorite German word ever:
"schlimmbessern" (verb)
When you continue trying to improve something and end up making it multiple times worse.
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Lots of new funds
Few quick predictions
1)
Startups and VCs will switch roles
VCs are now newbies
Founders are the kings
VCs pitch now founders
VCs panic while they look for product-market fit
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Using an samsung android for 1+ month now.
This comparison screenshot summarizes my opinion so far:
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I invested in ~50-60 companies in the last 20 months.
The most jarring experiences so far were with German startups.
Weirdly complex processes to invest in a GMBH.
Local investors acting for own interest vs startup interest.
🤯
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@Jason
There is no universe where this behavior is ok. They are civil servants. Not military enforcing law.
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A manager's job is to become redundant.
If your team doesn't work well without you, you didn't do your job.
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I get many requests by companies looking for people
They specify in detail what *they* want
Almost never what they offer or even what they work on
When hiring start from a "why should anybody talented work for anybody else" mindset and then work your way fwd with good arguments
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In discussions in engineering teams, you quickly see who has ever worked in a company that ran out of money and who has not.
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From the original Hackernews thread:
"Facebook acquires Instagram"
"This is very reminiscent of Google/YouTube circa 2006"
Reply:
> This is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next decade
> Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022
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"If we were to start over I would have built Zoom fully remote. It's too expensive here now."
–
@ericsyuan
CEO of
@zoom
#Emerge2019
/via
@michaelglena
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Being an investor is amazing
- you can give feedback to problems you barely understand
- advice business strategies without needing to put work in and see them fail
- change your opinion between every call without even noticing yourself
- hear mostly exciting news
✨
/s
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Our global tax systems are REALLY NOT optimized for people regularly moving between countries. 👀
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"You don't seem very excited. Are you German?"
You'd be surprised how often i get this in California. 🙀
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5 things that changed my freelancer rate dramatically:
- charge per day not per hour
- change based on "willingness to pay" not my own effort
- become go-to person for a niche
- create an agencylike brand
- talk about myself in plural ("need to discuss this with the team")
✌️
Freelancers, remember that your rate isn't what you need to live but what you're worth.
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Remote teams in 2018: "I wonder where our next offsite will be"
Remote teams in 2021: "I wonder how tall everyone is"
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Request for product:
Zoom but with smart audio
- Keep all microphones on
- Removes background noise
- Mutes people that feedback noise
Usage: Online meetups
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Still my favorite SF OH:
"How is your startup doing?"
"Long term really really good"
"…and short term?"
"Short term is still a huge challenge"
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@JayseDavid
@syswarren
@united
This takes my "dont fly US airlines b/c of horrible customer experience" to whole new level
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One of the largest all-remote teams in the world just filed for IPO
GitLab Inc. 🚀
Congrsts
@sytses
& team
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UX-Asshole-Pattern / Personal Pet-Peeve
@classpass
does not allow you to cancel your membership by yourself
You go through a four-page process only to be told that you need to message their support.
If you do that but leave without waiting for an agent it's not processed. 🤯
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Many remote workers optimize their workplace for individual performance.
But the setup of
@andytryba
is the best I have seen in a long time.
Ok… Fanboy-time:
You call in… and at first, you are confused about where the camera would be…
Then he zooms out…
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Isnt it amazing how Mario Run instantly brings back all those awesome childhood memories 😻😻❤️🙌🎉
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Opinions VS Decisions
Management principle i use in all my teams.
Copypaste from our On Deck notion hub.
Worth a blogpost? LMK what you think.
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