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Announcing Arcway ⊹ ࣪ ˖ A real-time 3D engine where anyone can design a home. It is a simulated 3D world where buyers explore, change, and decide as light, physics, building rules, and real products move as one.
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If you enjoyed my convo with the inimitable @joulee from First of Kind, Season 1 You’re invited to join our live conversation at @southpkcommons SF on Thursday Oct 23 where we’ll dive deeper into her working philosophy of how design and data interact. Request access below. ⬇️
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Haven’t done many podcasts recently but when @itsurboyevan asks, I answer. We get into the state of startups and VC, why I don’t want any one firm to control the future and lessons from building @indievc through its various chapter. Congrats to Evan on launching his new pod!
VC is getting weird: bigger rounds, bigger multiples, less sovereignty for founders. I talked to @bryce about Indie and the alternative future he’s building. His first attempt to change the funding paradigm didn't work. BUT, this second one is looking much better. What
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Embracing all the VC stereotypes, @semil (legendary seed investor and one of Figma's earliest backers) and I took the pod on the road to Montauk, near where each of us grew up. Semil shared the full story for how he got into the Figma Series A, "design as an enduring
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Loved @thisisgrantlee metaphor of “player coaches” for how modern startups like @MeetGamma are moving faster and getting to profitability sooner by removing middle management and hiring ICs who can take ideas from concept to delivered with minimal resources and bottlenecks.
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This conversation with @thisisgrantlee feels like the perfect encapsulation of the modern startup playbook: - company started pre-ChatGPT but adapted and adopted models quickly - kept the team small by selecting for “player coaches” who can execute from idea to implementation -
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Our conversation with @thisisgrantlee, co-founder of @MeetGamma is live on all indie channels
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Our conversation with @thisisgrantlee, co-founder of @MeetGamma is live on all indie channels
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One of the newest @indievc backed companies is looking to add to the team. The amount of early positive response this product is getting from customers and design partners has been beyond impressive. Bonus- most of the team is right here in Utah…
we're selectively adding to our engineering team. If you want to build the next great security company leveraging AI, please reach out – here is a snapshot of the JD:
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Many people talk about a One and Done™️ approach to funding but @MeetGamma is walking that walk. Using constraints allowed @thisisgrantlee and team to focus on solving real problems that real customers would pay for- the ultimate sign of product market fit…
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This week we’re back with a new @indievc video. “ We sat down with @thisisgrantlee founder of @MeetGamma a company they’ve scaled to $50M in ARR (likely much more now!) with less than 50 employees. If you want to understand the new playbook for building, this one’s for you…
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“Be the first to try a new combinatorial approach without the need of permission from someone who has come before you. Because sometimes the immediate gains aren’t apparent but the ability to shape culture through software and design has never been more pronounced” -@soleio
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