Connor Beem
@connor_beem
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Growth Manager at Lyft ex @bookCameo Add some time on my calendar below for free Growth consulting.
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2013
What even is Growth?. I get asked this question by friends, family, and most founders I talk to. So, in order to answer some of the most common questions I get (and hopefully explain to my parents what I actually do for a living) I wrote an article. Check it out below!.
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if youve got some time to kill, this is one of my all time favorite channels. This guy has basically re-established society in a forrest from literally nothing over the course of years. No tools, no anything.
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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If a founder talks more about distribution and scale than features, pay attention. They’re already thinking past the prototype.
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The best early signal: when a founder has stories of pulling something off with no resources. That scrappiness scales.
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Hey Chicago friends. Anyone know of someone selling a mill or CNC?. Know someone looking to buy.
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Someone told me to touch metal. So I found some metal to touch.
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The founders I trust most aren’t just great storytellers. They’re magnets. People want to build with them.
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The biggest opportunities in deep tech are usually invisible. You find them by asking "if this works, which industry collapses?".
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Many founders think you should build what investors want. But at the end of the day, investors want to invest in things that users want.
Two important principles that have a lot in common:. If you make users love you, investors will love you too. If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
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Ive seen very few hard tech companies die from tech risk. Ive seen a lot die from scale-up risk. Supply chains, certification, and manufacturing that weren’t ready.
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Being a hard tech VC is just a cheat code to wealth creation right now.
today i ran an experiment that exposed what i believe to be one of the biggest threats to america right now. i attempted to raise funding for a manufacturing company from silicon valley VCs and from PE funds. the VC gave me 5 minutes on zoom and said this was "more of a PE deal".
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Most “bad” startup ideas weren’t wrong. They were just too early. The skill is knowing which blocker just disappeared. For my last startup, the problem was that most companies didn't know about gen AI yet. The second that changed everyone wanted a piece.
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the vest screams "hasnt touched metal".
we're a little concerned with how capital intensive your company is
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Counter point. You can just keep launching over and over until it works.
I am once again begging you not to squander your startup's announcements. You only come out of stealth once. You only launch a product once. You only raise a Series A once. Here's how not to fuck it up:.
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It’s weird how often this happens. Like why book the meeting in the first place?.
If you book a meeting with me, don't show up, and don't send an email before or after giving an(y) explanation, I likely won't have a meeting with you ever again. Is this too strong a stance?.
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Man I gotta get my hands on some metal.
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This is why I will lend some time to any founder. It’s so isolating and there’s no playbook. Good vibes to the founders.
founder journey can be incredibly lonely. few that survive have the strongest tribe. find ur founder family.
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Unless you are @AstroMechanica.
what SpaceX did to rockets, Astro Mechanica is doing to jet engines. aviation hasn’t changed since the ’60s. new engines are the key; AM is taking flight into the turboelectric age: long-range, supersonic travel. glad to have @united aboard 🛩️.
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Keep noticing this in hard tech: the sexiest companies rarely own the value. It’s the “boring” ones. The supplier, the certifier, the testing company that end up essential.
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Every exceptional founder I’ve met passes one test: . After 10 minutes chatting, I am convinced about either them or the problem. That transfer of belief is a superpower.
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I was just having this conversation. But it’s not an SF thing. Any time you have a city with a mono-industry you get this. Every outing is actually networking.
@alyssakrejmas I think that’s true of most epicenters, each with their own dimensions of ambition.
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