Sean Linehan
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CEO @WithExec. On a mission to scale excellence. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Previously VP of Product @flexport, @Cal alum
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2011
I'm convinced the number one most important trait for founders is psychotic levels of persistence.
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San Francisco is so productive because:. 1. It's not nice enough outside to feel the urge to frolic. 2. It's not cold enough outside to feel the urge to snuggle up by a fire.
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Meta stock is up $1.5T in 3 years. The freshly minted SBC they have to play with is world historical.
Heard Zuck poached 4 more OpenAI researchers, including some behind the open-source model. how deep are Zuck’s pockets?.
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On one hand, we need to romanticize it a bit so smart people take the plunge to make the world better,. On the other hand, the reality is it's an insane thing for insane people.
The romanticization of being a startup founder is kind of insane to me:. – You’re statistically unlikely to succeed.– You’ll have no life and be totally consumed.- Incredible lows.– You’re locking yourself in for 10+ years. This is insanely hard and NOT for everyone.
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This type of user-hostile platform lockdown only works in consumer. Enterprises will pay a lot of money for platforms, but they actually have to be functional as platforms. Locking the API turns Slack into just another app. Slack is writing their obituary.
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A sovereign nation is nothing without the industrial means to support itself. We have a long journey to reestablishing our self-sufficiency around national security and @HadrianInc is showing how it can be done. Congrats Chris and team.
Hadrian is announcing a $260m Series C lead by @foundersfund + @Lux_Capital + @MorganStanley for (Factory Expansion financing). We're also welcoming new investors @altimeter, @1789Capital + investments from existing investors @a16z, @constructcap, @137ventures and many others.
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Fun fact of the day: . Only 7% of China's population are members of the CCP. The world's largest "Communist" nation is actually ruled by an exclusionary, elite minority group.
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It's why the "Why Now" question in venture is so important. Ideas that seem bad in the immediate term can, in fact, be brilliant due to a recent change in the landscape. Though, more often than not, the predicted change either fails to materialize or does so differently.
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Some decry the excesses of venture capital as wasteful. Dumb ideas get funded, money gets wasted, experiments get hyped but fail. That's all true, but it's also extremely valuable. The cost of long-run resilience is short-run waste.
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In this sense, relatively unregulated market-driven capitalism is near guaranteed to be in a weird state of suboptimality. There will be many extant mutations that are burning capital towards their ultimate demise. But thats a feature not a bug.
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This is why top-down economies can thrive in the short run but collapse in the long run. They can more effectively exploit the fitness landscape as it is today. But lack an engine for broad economic experimentation.
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Most mutations are maladaptive. But the absence of mutation is a guarantee of long-term susceptibility to black swan events.
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Contrarianism is the mutation mechanism of the economy. Mimeses is the selection mechanism. Can't have just one.
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RT @PavelTseluyko: Beautiful product websites - design inspiration worth checking out. What I've shortlisted in June: . @WithExec built b….
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Long Live Accenture.
We are pivoting away from doing enterprise AI transformations ("AI-native Palantir"). For now at least. I've shared our key learnings below. I'll share a detailed blog post soon. What's next? We are going to start moving insanely quickly on several other ideas. Stay tuned 😎.
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I get ~3 cold emails every day from random people saying they want to buy @withexec. What's the racket here?.
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Rumor has it that Dyson is working his way up the scale curve to achieve his namesake Sphere.
Dyson is now growing strawberries with robots, spinning trays and UV lights, making farming super smart and fun 🍓
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Hype is a debt with a very high interest rate. Like all forms of leverage, you can use it to go very fast. But you either live up to it immediately or crash and burn.
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It's the decade for those who love jazz, not planning. Choose direction, move with speed, adapt aggressively.
We are all underestimating the remaining uncertainty, chaos, and volatility in this decade.
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ChatGPT is a bigger business than every software company in Europe except SAP. And it did it in 3 years.
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At an early stage startup, founders' one lever for shaping culture is to hire people that already embody the values they want. The way they operate in the field with customers, build the product, and work with each other ultimately becomes the culture.
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