Ian Tracey
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Building AI-powered data tools @Turntable Prev: @ycombinator @stripe, @pinterest @atlassian
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Joined January 2012
Excellent post.
It feels like there are two modalities of competition in Silicon Valley today. Both are valid and interesting and can lead to big outcomes. Modality 1: Work on something legible. Out execute the fuck out of everyone. --> This means that you are working on something that is.
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RT @andruyeung: The best // worst coffee shops in Flatiron, ranked:. S Tier – Elite (worth traveling for).• Devocion (20 st).• Paper Coffee….
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Claude Code is one the best products I've used in the past 5 years.
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A dead-simple litmus test for low-integrity founders:. If, in a first convo, they talk more about:. – their dilution.– their YC "rank".– a story about a VC they landed.– trashing competitors.– trashing ex-employers.– who exited for how much. …than about their customers, product,.
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The line between software and services gets blurrier each day.
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RT @JonErlichman: Age of these businesses:. Tesla: 22 years.SpaceX: 23 years.Google: 27 years.Netflix: 28 years.Amazon: 31 years.Nvidia: 32….
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RT @zebulgar: In Q1, SpaceX represented 99%+ of the payload to orbit of the Western World. One of the greatest monopolies ever with an incr….
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The worst case scenario in finding PMF is not a lack of interest. It's lukewarm interest. It's incredibly distracting and steals focus from building the actual non-obvious painkiller.
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I'm betting in the next ~12 months, we'll see newgrounds 2.0. Vibe coding games with friends is a blast but getting it usability for users/multiplayer is still hard. Lovable for games would slap.
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The moat is shipping fast . It’s the feedback flywheel with customers. It’s the compounding of knowing each corner of a market . It’s a team that gives a shit.
“what’s the moat” is a mid’s platonic ideal of a wise question.
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RT @AvantePrice: I’ve come to believe that everything you do as a founder should contribute to 1 of 2 objectives:. 1. Organizational Alignm….
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