James Clift
@jamesclift
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Lifelong business builder. Founder @ https://t.co/lksc4dajoR. Previously built & sold @visualcv.
Joined January 2010
I’m excited to share that we've raised a $14m Series A at Durable, led by @sparkcapital. It's been an incredible 12 months. Over 6 million websites have been created, and I'm inspired every day by the companies built with Durable.
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How to get a job @DurableAI. After a call with our head of ops, build an entirely new version of our website generator before your first official interview. Then crush the (very challenging) technical interview process. We love to work with high potential, relentless.
I’m thrilled to share that I’m joining @DurableAI as a Junior Software Engineer! .Durable is building AI tools that help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses faster, and I’m really excited to contribute to that mission. Huge thanks to @jamesclift and @_o_s_a_m_a for.
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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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Despite them aggressively bidding on our branded keywords, Shopify is the most important company in Canadian history. Companies simply don’t get to scale here without regulatory capture, govt enabled monopoly, or generational money. We need a lot more of this energy.
@Sean_Speer @harleyf Shopify has definitely the biggest non-quasi government company in Canada for a long time. Also the only 10b+ company that was created in the last 50 years in Canada.
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Any engineers interested in the latest and greatest applied AI technology, join us @DurableAI to build cool shit for millions of business owners.
solid release. no surprise that the neatest abstraction for ai engineering is coming from application devs and is in ts. we use v5 is prod. come join the most fun ai playground / candy land for engineers at @DurableAI.
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RT @michaelrbock: 1/ Can AI file your taxes? Not yet. We tested the latest frontier models and the results were full of catastrophic error….
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If OpenAI can build the world’s most popular app, a browser, a trillion dollar datacenter, APIs, and a revolutionary device - you can probably think slightly bigger too.
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Anyone attending this, DM me what you build. If it’s dope, we’d love to interview for a very well paying job @DurableAI working alongside some complete lunatics. j/k we’re pretty nice too.
Been co-hosting these Build Days these last few weeks and they’ve been amazing. It’s great to see such cool people all in one room building such cool shit. The idea is simple, no panels, no pitches and no workshops. Just raw builder energy and really good convos. We’re back
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My original goal was to build a business that made $5k a month. Orders of magnitude later, still at it. The key is to learn to enjoy the process and the work.
A huge challenge of ambition is that every success feels like a local maximum.
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It’s an awesome time to be a young person in tech if you’re high agency and like building stuff. No companies have figured out AI, and you don’t need 10 yrs experience to be an expert. Obsess over the right stuff and learn fast. You will succeed.
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Absolutely silly to be an AI skeptic. Somewhat defensible to be an AI doomer. Much more fun to be an AI optimist.
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RT @kylethacker: Anyone realllly good at @rive_app, particularly character animation? Got an exciting project.
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Since October, our referral traffic from ChatGPT has increased 1433%. It's now our 3rd largest customer acquisition channel, and the fastest growing. I built my last business on SEO, and never thought I'd see the day when the Google Search box was the fallback option.
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RT @DurableAI: Vancouver showed up for Vibe Coding IRL. @vancouverdev_ . Proud to support the builders, mentors, and dreamers shaping the f….
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It feels like (finally), there’s unlimited opportunity for:. - new models of education.- new models of housing .- new models of entrepreneurship . The next decade is going to be wild.
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Your job won’t be replaced by AI. It will be replaced by someone using AI better than you. Who will then be replaced by an AI using AI better than them.
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I built many mediocre products early in my career. Two things remained constant: . - I believed deeply in them .- I sold the sh*t out of them . Energy and momentum = progress.
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The greatest opportunity for AI agents - solving the problems you don’t know you have.
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The TAM of AI agents isn’t the broad, made-up software categories we’ve created. It’s every single bullshit thing you need to do while running a business that no piece of software will ever come close to covering.
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I'm hiring a head of GTM @ Durable in Vancouver. This may be a unicorn hire. The world is changing fast, our growth team needs to move faster. We're building AI that replaces traditional employment with high-leverage self-employment (AI that runs your business for you).
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