Boris Epstein
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Founder of 1st10 🌱 Building early engineering teams in SF/NY | xBinc Founder (built Stripe, Ripple, Airbnb, etc), acquired by Robinhood in ‘21. Dad.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2013
Happy Labor Day 👋 Given I’ve dedicated my career to helping people create their own Labor stories, I thought I’d share mine: -I graduated in 2000 with a degree in Bio from UC Irvine. After exploring careers in medicine, dentistry and law, I followed my passion into business -My
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It’s not that AI is going to take people’s jobs. It’s that AI will be an easy target when the people who can’t find jobs need something to revolt against. And then we will enter the Terminator era 😳
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Crazy how 'may I meet you?' went from boomer cringe to the voice of a new generation in less than one week.
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Don’t @ me but the glorification of 996 and working late and weekends is total loser behavior. Grinding is important but come on people. Go touch grass. Meet people irl. Live a little!!
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Just had a brutal offer decline. Candidate backed out after long negotiation and verbal accept, right before signing, because they thought they were getting RSUs instead of options. It’s a Series A startup, so I figured it was obvious it was options. Lesson learned - never
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Parents teach your kids to participate in fundraising campaigns in person or at minimum via phone. Do not teach them to do this via texts or emails. They’ll learn the important life skills of hustle, courage, resilience and much much more.
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I don’t care what anybody says. Graduating from a top school always was and always will be a top performance indicator.
OpenAI is absolutely hunting and grabbing its employees from the top universities: 1. Stanford — 422 2. UC Berkeley — 316 3. MIT — 230 4. Carnegie Mellon — 198 5. Harvard — 144 6. UCLA — 106 7. USC — 83 8. Columbia — 82 9. NYU — 81 10. Cornell — 79
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Phew not building an AI Recruiter 😅
Here’s every single product OpenAI is working on. It makes a lot of sense. Reminds me of early Facebook / Google. When you have distribution (~1B users), just build everything and see what sticks. And who better to run that playbook than the ex-boss of Y Combinator!
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I just had breakfast with a friend whose profession is to publicly defend murderers, get mad at me for helping AI companies ‘kill humanity’
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Sorry to all the FAIR folks impacted by Meta layoffs. The blessing in disguise is publicly seeing all the incredible companies who are excited about hiring this top tier AI talent. And just from looking at a few of the startups, the extent of incredible teams building incredible
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We just celebrated 2 years at 1st10! I’m so grateful for our team, clients, and the incredible talent, investors and friends we've gotten to work with. When I started 1st10, the goal was simple. Work with early stage founders to build the next generation of companies. Get
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Success in anything is about depth not breadth. Go deeper on fewer things. Become better at them than others and stay with them for longer. Only then add pieces to gain breadth.
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Are there seriously people that care?
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Startup hiring in a nutshell
The best hiring filter isn’t resumes and linkedin. It’s side projects.
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Client was on the fence about a candidate. Candidate found a mutual connection and suggested them as a reference. Client took them up on it. Solid!! Always a nice way to bridge the gap.
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I spoke with college senior graduating next May who is interested in working for a startup. He's not technical. I gave him the following advice: *Most likely place of value is in sales, growth, hiring, operations. Figure out what you know how to do in these areas that could add
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