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Here's my conversation with Curt Lary (
@curt_lary
) founder of Hextronics
Curt bootstrapped Hextronics to $4m in revenue as a hard tech company by “fundraising from customers” and is now expanding his team from 25 to 30 to fulfill customer orders.
It's here on X and is also on
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Interviewed a founder yesterday that:
- Bootstrapped to $4m in rev as a hard tech company
- Doesn’t pay himself a salary
- Got turned down by 100 “early stage” investors before saying “fck it I’ll do it myself”
- Currently has 25 employees, about to bring on 5 more bc they need
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One framework I’ve recently adopted is the idea that everything is a skill issue:
Couldn’t get a job at an awesome startup? Skill issue.
Couldn’t raise a seed round? Skill issue.
Couldn’t close an important customer? Skill issue.
Weren’t able to get a meeting with Jeff Bezos?
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Trust is the most powerful economic force on earth.
— Charlie Munger
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Here's my conversation with Isaiah Taylor (
@isaiah_p_taylor
) the founder of Valar Atomics
Valar aims to build hundreds of nuclear reactors and use the energy to pull hydrocarbons out of thin air.
Isaiah has a fascinating story and I'm excited to see what he builds over the
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Here's my conversation with Jason Carman (
@jasonjoyride
) the Creator of S³ & Head of Content at Astranis
Jason is on a mission to increase the % of people changing the world by creating inspiring mini-documentaries on some of today’s most ambitious hard-tech startups.
It's here
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Here's my conversation with Augustus Doricko (
@ADoricko
) the founder of Rainmaker
Augustus is one of the most relentless human beings I've ever met and I feel incredibly lucky to consider him a friend
It's here on X and is up on YouTube and Spotify. Links in comment
I
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Here's my conversation with Garrett Scott (
@thegarrettscott
) the founder of Pipedream Labs (
@pipedream_labs
)
This was a fascinating convo and Garrett is one of the most relentless founders I've ever met.
It's here on X and is on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Find links
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Here's my conversation with Aaron Slodov (
@aphysicist
) the founder of Atomic Industries & Remesh
It's here on X and is on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Find links in comment.
I recommend listening on 1.5x; it's best that way.
Timestamps:
0:00 Growing Up In Cleveland
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Here's my conversation with Soren Monroe-Anderson (
@soren_ma
) the founder of Neros Technologies
Running an experiment for this ep. I'm giving a $1,000 equity-free grant to one founder/builder who re/quote tweets this ep.
Reply with whatever you’re building and what you'd use
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Here's my conversation with my friend, Filip Aronshtein (
@FilArons
), the founder of Dirac
Fil is incredibly driven and one of the most customer-focused founders I've met. He spends over three hours a day talking with potential customers.
It's here on X, YouTube and Spotify.
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Being willing to get on planes to meet someone in person is extremely underrated
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“My exit strategy is death.” –
@ADoricko
Announcing
@RainmakerCorp
‘s $6.3M seed from
@LongJourneyVC
@1517fund
@starship_vc
@tamarackglobal
@dayoneventures
and angels like
@garrytan
and
@balajis
Our farms and ecosystems at risk of collapse because we are running out of water. Rainmaker’s cloud seeding solves this.
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Here's my conversation with Siqi Chen (
@blader
) the founder of Runway, Hey, and Serious Business
Siqi has created multiple extremely viral products over the past 20 years and I really enjoyed hearing his war stories.
It's here on X and is also on YouTube and Spotify. Find
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Every single founder I’ve interviewed in the gundo is an outlier.
If you had the opportunity to back any of them and didn’t, you made a massive mistake.
Whatever they’re raising at today is going to look ridiculously cheap in 10 years.
If someone simply goes from office to
Ok quick story time (don’t blame me, Danielle started it)
Valar is the first company I’ve raised venture money for. I lived in a town of 22k in north Idaho with no close friends or family who were founders, VCs, or really in tech in general. No college network (I skipped
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@eightsleep
is going to become a massive company.
I’ve been using the eightsleep pod the past few months and my sleep quality has improved by more than 50%. Instead of tossing and turning for hours, I fall asleep within 15-20 minutes. Going to bed is actually something I look
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Want to put this out there.
If you’re someone with enough agency to actually reach out and ask, I’ll probably go out of my way to help you.
Especially if you’re an early stage founder.
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Here's my conversation with Sheel Mohnot (
@pitdesi
) founder of Businessman, Innovative Auctions, and Better Tomorrow Ventures
Sheel has a bunch of crazy stories like getting married by Taco Bell in the metaverse, staying at Brian Chesky’s Airbnb, getting in a Justin Beiber music
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Here's my conversation with Andrew Arruda (
@AndrewArruda
) the founder of Flexpa & Ross Intelligence
Startups are like chewing glass and staring into the abyss and being a founder is being someone who likes it.
It's here on X and is also on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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S³ shows why you should be excited to wake up in the morning
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I'm kinda confused why so few investors ask early stage founders things like:
- Have you ever started a business?
- Have you ever sold anything?
- What was the first thing you created to sell?
- What have you created/designed previously?
- Did you hack any systems to your
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Here's the current (non-exhaustive) list of founders I want to interview:
- Brian Chesky | Airbnb
- Palmer Luckey | Oculus, Anduril
- Brian Armstrong | Coinbase
- Immad Akhund | Mercury
- Drew Houston | Dropbox
- Sam Altman | Loopt, OpenAI
- Elon Musk | Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co.,
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Should I raise a $70m gundo fund?
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Want to share part of the why behind Relentless.
I've always loved watching early interviews of future greats — Steve in 81, Bill in 83, Jeff in 94, Elon in 98, or Mark in 04.
The problem is almost all the interviews are less than five minutes long and the interviewers ask bad
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@entropywizard
what’s funny is there are literal John D Rockefellers out there building but most investors wouldn’t back them even if they got the chance.
in my experience, the greats get turned down hundreds of times on average before they hear the first “yes”
going to fix this
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You can get a meeting with anyone in the world with six months of focused effort.
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One thing I love about El Segundo is the extreme level of ambition + speed of execution.
Everyone is basically doing an any% speedrun to see how fast they can build a generational company.
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Here's my conversation with Zane Mountcastle (
@zanemountcastle
) the founder of Picogrid
Picogrid is already profitable leading some to believe Zane is unreasonably obsessed with unit economics
I recommend listening on 1.5x
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:22 Before Picogrid
3:11 UAV's
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We deserve more awesome behind-the-scenes stories/lore about the greatest founders & startups early days.
Working hard to make it happen.
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@0interestrates
Wild “Ensure platform scalability to handle at least one million video views per day.”
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The level of serendipity in SF is wild. Interviewing some incredible founders over the next couple weeks
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Going to put some numbers down for good measure.
Assume on average every founder is willing to take $10m for 10%.
For ~$70m I own 10% of Rainmaker, Valar Atomics, Picogrid, Dirac, Neros, Rangeview, and let’s throw in Pipedream for good measure (since I think Garrett is an
Every single founder I’ve interviewed in the gundo is an outlier.
If you had the opportunity to back any of them and didn’t, you made a massive mistake.
Whatever they’re raising at today is going to look ridiculously cheap in 10 years.
If someone simply goes from office to
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@frankjpinto
these are the founders others should learn from. it’s important for their stories to get told because this is what it’s actually like.
powering through a huge amount of pain and staying optimistic through it all
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The gundo is unstoppable
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I’m currently researching for my fifth gundo interview and I finally understand why this place is so incredible.
The town is full of outliers!
Every single founder I talk to is great.
They all have wild stories about starting a first business in high school or creating some
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Isaiah is actually going to make this happen. Strongly recommend joining his team if you can
I am going to make thousands and thousands of nuclear reactors or die trying
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This will be a banger. Andrew has an incredible story and he’s one of the best founders I’ve ever met.
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Here's my conversation with John Coogan (
@johncoogan
) the founder of Soylent & Lucy
I recommend listening on 1.5x
Timestamps:
0:00 Soylent vs Lucy
3:03 Cost To Launch A New Nicotine Product
5:31 Building A Brand That Sticks In People's Minds
8:57 Marketing A Nicotine Product
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.
@thegarrettscott
is a gangster.
.
@pipedream_labs
wants to make 30 second delivery possible in the next 10 years.
@thegarrettscott
says 'hyperlogistics' "feels as close to teleportation as I think we're going to get."
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@HasitVibhakar
he chewed glass and stared into the abyss for three years before things started working. a lot of sacrifice
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It’s absolutely wild what you can make happen if you be persistent and ask
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@FoundersPodcast
Trying to put yourself in situations where positive unexpected things can happen is probably a good way to go about life
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@FoundersPodcast
Warren and Charlie have been my biggest influences by a mile. Listened to every Berkshire shareholder meeting 12 times.
The world really does run on trust.
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Christian won the best solar eclipse pic competition with…
pac-man 😂
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Here's my conversation with
@TurnerNovak
the founder of Banana Capital and the host of The Peel Podcast.
I recommend listening on 1.5x
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - Mom's business
3:05 - Gears of War
5:09 - Twitter & Snapchat
9:16 - Memes
11:37 - Consumer social
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@johncoogan
@ADoricko
@ScottNolan
@ashleevance
@mrexits
@isaiah_p_taylor
@zanemountcastle
@cameron62s
@soren_ma
That was fantastic! Would be cool if Lex Fridman went down there to do some interviews with those guys
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Try to surround yourself with people who make you want to be a better version of yourself
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In El Segundo, instead of identifying people using pronouns like (he/him or she/her) you’ll mostly hear people refer to each other as Cracked or Based
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@cameron62s
When you hear Elon talk about "a small candle in a vast darkness" he's actually just referring to the gundo
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@jasonjoyride
I've learned so much from watching S³
Whenever I research a founder, if you've done an ep on them, I'll watch it 3-5 times. Always find something interesting to ask. Thanks 🙏
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@AndrewArruda
@PalmerLuckey
Confident we’d uncover a bunch of previously unknown stories & lore
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@KadrianStahley_
Not going to put down timelines but working hard on Palmer, Elon, Sam, and Jimmy
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@heyadvikkapoor
@AndrewArruda
Ross Intelligence was one of the first AI companies to go thru YC
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