John Li
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Human bean. Co-founder & CEO @vimcal
New York, NY
Joined June 2012
It took 11 months and 181 investor meetings to raise @Vimcal's last round Fundraising at the bottom of the market... really sucked Here are 5 crucial things to know if you're raising in 2024:
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One unexpected trend we're seeing from our users: Teams that use AI end up with more meetings. While AI drastically reduces the time it takes to do solo work (coding, drafting emails, reviewing contracts), humans are still the deciding factor on what's acceptable to ship. 💡
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🚗 Buffers for Commuting For in-person meetings, we have a built-in Google Maps integration that lets you: * Pick your travel mode (walk, drive, bike, public transit) * Auto-calculate buffer length using live traffic data * Get a direct Google Maps link inside the buffer
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⌛ New in Vimcal: Smart Meeting Buffers + Commute Time Calculator! Whether you need to drive to a coffee chat or leave room to prep for a sales call, @Vimcal's got your back. With our new Smart Buffers feature, you can easily add color-coded buffers before and/or after any
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🔒 🗒️ New in @vimcal: You can now add a private note on any calendar event! By "private", I mean no one else can see them but you. Not an attendee, not a teammate, not even someone with edit access to your calendar. Use them for: * Quick meeting prep, e.g., “Remember to bring
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🌐 We've got another new feature for you today that you'll only find in @vimcal! Now when you look up your coworkers' calendars, Vimcal automatically sorts everyone by their local time so you can immediately see how everyone is spread out. You can then overlay everyone's time
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Check out https://t.co/QF1nW5NZnh if you want to use the world's most advance calendar.
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Vimcal is the world’s fastest calendar, beautifully designed for people who have too many meetings. Drag to share availabilities, schedule across time zones, and see all your Outlook and Google...
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I've been dying to share our newest feature in @Vimcal that you won't find in any other calendar: You can now see how often your meetings have been rescheduled! The truth is, some meetings just don’t want to happen. Now, at the bottom of your calendar events, you can see how
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I'm happy to share that @Vimcal is now HIPAA compliant! Alongside SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001, this makes us one of the only enterprise-grade calendar solutions on the market, trusted by teams handling sensitive data across healthcare, the Fortune 500, and beyond. If you're at a
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"Cold calendaring" is becoming more and more of a problem. This is when people: • Throw sales meetings on your calendar without ever talking to you • Add you to webinars using email lists they purchased • Schedule a "chat" through your booking link they found somewhere online
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Just started rewatching Silicon Valley and it's even better than I remembered
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Thrilled to be published today in @firstround's Review At the start of @Superhuman, we knew onboarding would be a big deal. We had no idea how big. Onboarding has taken me on an obsessive, decade-long journey, including: • 🤩 Personally onboarding hundreds customers to
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The book that’s influenced my thinking most in 2025 is "Alchemy" by @rorysutherland . His core insight is simple but profound: Humans are irrational. So why do we keep designing products using rational frameworks? That idea hit especially hard as I reflected on how we built
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Just found a dark design pattern used by Apple... I subscribed to Apple TV+ last night so I can finally jump on the Severance train. Right after confirming my payment info, I get this screen asking if I'd like to turn off renewal emails for my subscription, under the
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5 years later, getting messages like these still never gets old ❤️
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I put the same prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to compare and the results were hilariously different. 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽: 🏃 I stated that my goal is to rapidly improve my 5K time by the end of the year. I asked them to be my coach and help me estimate both my training paces and
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I was rewatching Harry Potter this weekend and got sad when I realized all the moving portraits at Hogwarts are just AI 😢 Poor Harry probably still thinks it's magic.
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Two quick but powerful updates in Vimcal today! (1/2) Declutter your calendar by hiding events This is especially useful for events that you don’t want to see all the time, but also don’t want to delete. Simply right click on the event, press "hide event", and poof! It'll be
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Pro-tip if you're applying to work at a startup: DM the founders. This guarantees your resume moves to the top of the pile because they'll glance at your app before replying to you. Write a personalized message explaining why you want to work for their company and their
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➗ New in Vimcal: Split View! You now have the option to see multiple teammates’ calendars side by side instead of all bunched up. This improved readability makes scheduling large meetings faster and easier on the eyes. To turn on Split View, just go to the calendar view
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