Josh Constine 📶🔥
@JoshConstine
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Investing in pre-seed consumer. Trying to help the world gracefully adapt to the future. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, pitchcrafter.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
Nerd out harder than anyone on something super niche but growing in importance, and you’ll be stunned how fast you become indispensable to the world.
my youngest ambitious friends suffer from something I can only describe as the expendability curse. the devastation realization that the universe might not need you. ambition is the first narcotic. you chase the next title, the next gold star, the next fucking plaque on a wall,.
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Camp Grounded was magically surreal. An adult summer camp with:. No devices.No real names.No work talk.No talk about schedules.If you mess up, you can’t say sorry, you say “I’m awesome” and everyone claps. It creates a bubble where it’s so easy to meet people and try new things.
Adult summer camp is THE BEST. I went to Camp Grounded in 2017 and have been chasing that magic ever since. had my 40th birthday, camps for our founders, & parts of our wedding with summer camp vibes. Adulthood is better when you act like a kid sometimes.
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Charisma defines your recruiting, sales, morale, and fundraising. Your CEO has to be the Charisma Executive Officer.
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Super fascinating tech talent trends from @SignalFire 's new report: Diplomas not required, fewer managers per engineer, and Anthropic wins as Tesla loses. Here are the highlights:. -No college degree needed: 15% of engineers at Microsoft & Adobe and 13% at Apple & Netflix
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Spotted an SEC filing for a fundraise. Product seems smart, Google Docs for design. No press yet. Think I’ll write about it. 12 years ago.
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New Klarna just dropped.
I'm excited to announce that I'm starting my next company 🚀. We give customers $100 and they give us $10 back. We're going to be the fastest company in history to hit $100M ARR. Just need to raise $1B. Who's in?.
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4 years old: Buy my first cassette tape, MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” . 40 years old: Judging a hackathon alongside @MCHammer. This is my proudest glow-up
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"Want to judge our music tech hackathon this weekend?".Me: Sure, like with some other VCs?."No. but I Gotta Feeling you'll think they're Legit"
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Gen Z thinks Tea is wild, but millennials remember Lulu. This truly unhinged 2013 app let women rate guys and PUBLICLY tag them with #KinkyInTheRightWays, #GoneByMorning, or #BigFeet 😬
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People hate the SF tech party scene but honestly I love it. Where the belle of the ball is the author of an open source library
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Developers using AI coding copilots complete 98% more code changes and 21% more tasks. but their companies don't ship faster due to downstream bottlenecks and a 91% increase in code review time . Any journalists want to see this study of 10K developers before it publishes?
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Never seen this before. This Instagram interactive sticker lets you swipe to spin and scratch the record.
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Step 1 of starting a great social app: Inspire protests. @jointallyapp launch vid shows how you can set cash penalties for bad habits, like porn addiction. Of course Columbia students are freaking out. Reminds me of “1M students against Fb News Feed” protests, soon its #1 feature.
you said you'd stop gooning. texting your ex @ 4am. that you'd go to the gym. introducing tally. the habit tracker that charges you 50 cents every time you slip up. and gives it to your friends (or enemies). because you should bet on yourself. i may or may not have dropped
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The haters said Apple shouldn't do this. And they were right. Great call from the haters. Apple just rolled back the worst parts of liquid glass, substantially reducing the brain-scrambling transparency/refraction in navigation elements.
Refraction = distraction. I don’t need *beautiful* interfaces. I need them to be efficient so I can get back to looking at the wondrous real world.
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Full-time job isn’t specific enough any more. Now you “exclusively” join a company.
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Grammarly’s CEO @shishirmehrotra is one of tech’s best system thinkers. No one does customer empathy like Superhuman CEO @rahulvohra. This team up is going to create some delightful products
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