Kim Taylor
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Edtech/Workforce Founder. Tweets = Future of Work, Hiring, Online degrees. Workforce + edtech expert with previous exit to Wiley.
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A late but strong contender for worst sales email of the year 💍
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I am a founder. I did not collect baseball cards, sell things as a child or start any business in college. I simply did not want to work for others and wanted to execute my own ideas.
The end.
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Many people love the idea of working at a startup. Very few are cut out for it. This is one of the hardest things to screen for when interviewing people is who will thrive in an unstructured environment.
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99 out of 100 of people will say they want to work at a startup to "make an impact". Someone recently told me they want to make money and make the company big. This was refreshing.
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VCs posting their pass emails to successful founders doesn’t make us think you’re humble. It’s a reminder many have no idea what they’re talking about. Onward founders ✨
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20s: My boss is the worst 😠
30s: Realize you weren't that great of an employee in your 20s 🙃
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After hearing the SF Mayor and Chesa Boudin speak in
@joinClubhouse
one thing has become clear about SF politicians. They have no idea what their goals are, but they absolutely know who to blame for not achieving them.
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Serious question. What % of Americans do you think know what McKinsey is?
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What about the 2/3 of Americans who didn't go to college? Why is their debt less important? Why continue to lend if the debt is so toxic it must be cancelled 🤔 So regressive.
I just became the first U.S. Secretary of Education to call on President Biden to unilaterally cancel student loan debt. Can I count on you to retweet and help me hit 35k followers so we can spread the word?
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When I meet other startup founders there are 3 vibes:
Awesome
Not awesome
Going to jail
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Thank you from all the female founders. We’ve had enough.
Taylor Lorenz:
- Attacks a female CEO out of the blue
- Made a factual error (
@stephkorey
is still Away CEO!)
- Violated NYT social media guidelines
- Then omits her own attack & plays victim ()
This is how it works. These "journalists" are sociopaths.
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Honestly about 50% of whether or not I want to work with an investor is just vibes. We don’t talk about this enough.
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@emilykmay
Fun fact the 2003 Sex and the City episode in season 6 inspired the book.
One of the best Miranda episodes when she gets the advice.
#eldermillennial
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No. A reporter at the NYT lied, spread slanderous information about a subject she covers. Got caught and is being held accountable. She’s not a victim. She’s the bully and should no longer be employed by the
@nytimes
What’s happening to
@TaylorLorenz
right now is a bad faith attack by a mob. We’ve seen this over and over again.
Newsrooms need hard policies in place to protect their employees from this nonsense. It’s not about anything other than silencing journalists doing their jobs.
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@TheRealKatPat
Top left photo is a fundamental supply chain and quality issue. They sewed the fabric in the wrong direction. You can always tell when the founder leaves bc this type of sloppiness happens. It must be infuriating for her.
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Video calls overrated. Everyone now just gets a dial-in number from me. Nothing worse than being tethered to your monitor making eye contact for hours 😐 Much more productive calls when I can move around. Esp if you don't need screen sharing.
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People hire for hard, fire for soft.
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We’re about to find out how many universities can’t really transition programs to online. There will be serious winners and losers.
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Chat with a lot of founders who are fundraising and exclusively hear 2 things and no in between:
There is so much money! It’s literally raining cash.
There is no money.
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Remember how we banned smoking in most indoor spaces to not subject unwillingly ppl to the dangers of second hand smoke? People fought that too. It was the right thing to do.
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If you need encouraging words don’t do a startup
-
@elonmusk
on people who ask if they should do a startup
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@Jessicalessin
@elonmusk
Yes I think about this often when a NYT journalist blocked many female founders for no reason
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I love when ppl post these in SF. Its always a where’s Waldo for finding women. How many do you see?
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One of the best parts of leaving SF is not having to be around people whose idea of fun is "Escape the Room"
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@DKThomp
They now have the data from students who didn’t take them to know it didn’t work as intended.
GPAs down in those groups.
Tests are predictors of college success and help high achieving lower income kids.
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I've been recruiting someone for 18 months and they just accepted an offer with us 😭✨
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There is nowhere to hide at a startup. Your contribution (or lack thereof) will be felt immediately by the entire team.
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Most female founder events make no sense.
All many people have in common is gender and they tend to be a waste of time for people trying to move their companies forward.
I encourage you to have events based on business verticals and simply invite women. The end.
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@mishachellam
Oh there will always be religion its just not about god anymore. Its an altar of wokeness.
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Fun fact: more than 50% of college students first job is in sales. There are no sales majors 🤔
Learning how to sell provides more job security than most college educations.
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Kids this is what it looks like when general counsel makes you write a tweet because you seriously f*cked something up that opens you up to liability.
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Would pay so much money to watch Steve Jobs address cancel culture and Apple employee complaints in a presentation. What do you think he would say?
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If you like the weather in San Francisco it simply means you have bad taste in weather.
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What will Gen Z replace religion with?
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Colleges get upset when people use *the internet* to look up answers to problems.
Employers get upset when you don't.
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After hearing Chesa speak in
@joinClubhouse
I would like to congratulate myself for leaving SF 2 years ago. 💣
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@michelletandler
Maybe she should spend more time alone to figure out what she's looking for? Some Bay Area ppl treat their personal lives like a work problem to be solved with OKRs/metrics/deadlines. Relationships don't work that way...
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Back at my happy place 🌵Startups are hard. Don’t forget to take vacations ✨
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@micsolana
I have never lived in a city where public officials so openly mock their constituents. Really tells you everything you need to know. So happy we left 2 years ago.
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You don't need to have an SVB take. Its okay to sit one out.
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How much longer will product management be the role du jour? Honestly I'm not convinced ppl actually want to be PMs. It's just a new prestige signal like joining top consulting firm.
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As a founder assume everything you do may become public. You’ll also write better emails💫
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Imagine being upset about someone going to space and human progress.
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Malcolm Gladwell is making enemies in higher education. That’s a good thing. # via
@HuffPostCollege
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I got you.
Growth = boys that do marketing
What even is Growth?
I get asked this question by friends, family, and most founders I talk to. So, in order to answer some of the most common questions I get (and hopefully explain to my parents what I actually do for a living) I wrote an article.
Check it out below!
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Had an A+ day today. Startups are hard. Don’t forget to celebrate the wins ✨
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If a VC asks you for this they should not be a pre-seed investor. 🚩🚩🚩
Founders seek out other founders for advice. Not VCs.
Financial models are back!
For years founders rolled their eyes when I asked them to take me thru the model…. ‘I mean we have one, but we are pre-seed so it doesn’t mean anything’
Yikes noooo.
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One thing I'm tired of hearing is a super generic statement about wanting to "make an impact" without putting in the work. This shit is hard, it's tedious and you make an impact by pushing through it even when it shouldn't work.
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Can we create a cult around Operations instead of Product?
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HBR ran an article in 2009 about MLB and The Catcher Hypothesis (catcher most likely to become manager). In business the catcher is the Key Account Manager and they’re most likely to become CEO. I followed their playbook....
What piece of media (book/essay, podcast, video) has most inspired you to be positive-sum?
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False dilemma. Let’s go to space 🚀
@elonmusk
Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don't go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.
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Imagine if we funded female founders as aggressively as we tear them down.
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Where are all the tech reporters?
Holy shit. Unreal.
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I wonder how much less violent police departments would be if they employed more women & they were in leadership. Nationally ~12% female. That’s pretty awful.
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So impressed by the improvements Culver City made to make it more pedestrian friendly
@AlexFischCC
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Actually we said we don’t want Trump or socialism. 🤫 We don’t want extremes. Democrats need to move away from this rhetoric.
The American people made it clear this week: they don’t want a government controlled by billionaires, giant corporations and their armies of lobbyists to favor the rich and powerful and corrupt our government. It’s time to take back our government and make it work for the people.
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Convinced there are 10 ghost writers in tech startups + VC 🙃
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@briannekimmel
When I was 23 my boss was the most productive person on the team and always left the office first. She told me that she wouldn’t be impressed if I worked late and that if I couldn’t do my job in 8 hours a day I prob wasn’t doing it correctly 💥
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Investor: I would very much like to meet you
Me: We're not fundraising right now and focused on our customers
Investor: Send your deck and growth rate right away
Me: No
The end
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Chatting with a CEO of much larger company...
Me: Does it get easier? Handling it all people issues, etc. How did you handle it?
Him: I lost 2 teeth and became an alcoholic.
😐
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@paulg
When I meet people at other companies I can tell who is going to be let go and in what time frame and why 😳
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Watching the super bowl after your team has lost the NFC Championship 2 years in a row 😐
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I saved for years b4 starting my first company/lived far below my means knowing fundraising would be hard. Took a very low salary (~30k) that VCs were shocked by. They said were used to 3 male founders that all pay themselves $100k at seed stage.
after making 140+ angel investments, the only criteria that seems to be correlated with success is the founders’ cash compensation.
the lower the cash comp over the first four years, the higher the likelihood of success.
I’m not sure why.
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2010-2019:
😢A decade ago I was unemployed after losing my job during the recession.
🤷🏻♀️I found a random EdTech job in the online degree space.
🌉Left Chicago to join an SF startup.
👜Started my own edtech company.
💍Got engaged.
💰Sold the company!
💁🏻♀️Started Cluster in LA
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All of the successful founders & CEOs I know are kept sane and have become more successful because of the support of their significant other. Myself included ✨
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Canceling people doesn’t make you woke & opposing it doesn’t mean you’re anti-consequences. Quite the opposite. Nice reminder from President Obama.
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This. I don’t want an investor because she’s a woman. I want one that understands our market. If a man on your team knows it better send them instead. common sense > diversity theater
Founder emails me saying “We are now really trying to focus on women investors to add diversity to our cap table”
I’m not a “woman investor”. I’m an investor. Period.
Sure, I’ll be your token female investor. I appreciate the effort.
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Cluster has the privilege of working with many electric vehicle companies. Today excited to see
@ScytheRobotics
come out of stealth today after 3 years!
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Accurate. Also I worked my a** off in my 20s, prob went 3 years without a real vacation at one point. I don’t recommend that 🙃 However it does a disservice to people to act like working 9-5 got them where they are today.
I’ve never met a successful executive (regardless of industry, function, gender, etc) who didn’t check email on the weekends or ‘after 5pm.’
Work-life blend became a reality well over a decade ago. Owning that is more powerful then blindly saying it isn’t true to succeed.
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I have a handful of people I hate follow on Twitter. I disagree with about 99% of their takes on everything, but echo chambers even worse.
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@awilkinson
We work with a lot of hardware startups so put together an infrastructure guide for them
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Just pretend it's a female founder of a consumer tech startup in NYC and she's MEAN on slack. Level of coverage looking for.
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