@immad You can find my entire conversation with Immad here:

Getting to weak product-market fit is often worse than finding none at all. A great founder can grind their way to some traction, but that's often not enough to bend a growth curve and build something that can compound forever. A three-time founder, @Immad Akhund felt strong

We had the good fortune of partnering with @nicckopp nearly exactly four years ago. At the time, when we were doing references, one of the people he worked with said, "Once a goal is set, he will do anything to get there as fast as possible. He is self-motivated and self-driven.".

From our earliest conversations with the @clay_gtm team in 2017, it was clear they had the potential to create something massive. But they would spend the next ~6 years hunting for real signs of PMF as they iterated through different versions of their product and ICP. Today,.

It's surprising how often people take a firm stance on something without understanding the full context or underlying details. Most things are more complex than they initially appear.

Here is my entire conversation with Qasar:

"Forget the seven-day work week. Just work 10 extra hours per week. That small change compounds significantly over time. Over the course of a year, it adds up to the equivalent of three extra months of work. Even if you waste two-thirds of that time hanging around the office,

It's funny in life how often bad luck turns out to be good luck and sometimes the inverse.

A VC after they have a super intense day with two founder meetings.

Figma's new (?) tagline "Design is everyone's business" is just so good.

Fal has built an epic product!.

RT @firstround: Co-founders, are you having weekly 1:1s? Here’s why @GustoHQ's co-founder and CPO found these weekly meetings so valuable.….

@firstround @ankrgyl @braintrustdata

One our primary obsessions @firstround is the drivers of product market fit. @ankrgyl's first company didn't have strong PMF and his second company @braintrustdata does. In this extremely expansive conversation we explore the topic from every angle. I think it's the most

More on PMF Method here: If you haven’t read our framework for finding PMF in full, check out this essay here: Apply here by 8/15:

We just opened up applications for the fall cohort of PMF Method. The level of talent in our alumni group is insanely high. What’s been really interesting to see is that many were pre-idea and not even sure they wanted to be founders when they applied. This intensive experience

Given the pace of this fundraising market, I'm starting to wonder whether our Pitch Assist team should do the Series A and Series B decks at the same time for our founders. .

@firstround Full essay here:

Carta saved 3,500+ hours a month with internally built AI agents. Not by automating busywork, but by scaling complex judgment. Our second essay on @firstround Applied Intelligence explores exactly how they did this, in a crazy amount of detail.

@Shopify This and dozens of other AI insights from the Shopify team: