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filmmaker & founder @ponderstudioai (hiring)
New York, NY
Joined July 2022
i fear we ship too slow i fear we ship too fast but not well i fear we don’t scope enough i fear we over plan without these fears, i don’t think an eng team can rapidly improve their efficiency if an eng team can’t rapidly improve, they won’t make it even after PMF. bc
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if I see one more AI slop launch video im gonna lose it
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Hedera’s Hashgraph replaces blockchain’s linear chain of blocks with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), where transactions confirm each other asynchronously, similar to how news spreads by word of mouth The result: parallel consensus, sub-second finality, high throughput & low fees
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we’re hiring cracked engineer interested in creative tools to join us full time in nyc (i can sponsor your visa) https://t.co/juo2hY1VC7
careers.ponder.ai
Ponder is a team of exited founders, filmmakers, ex-YC engineers, and creative technologists building Cursor for video editing. We recently raised 2.5 Million. We have over 25,000 waitlist sign-ups...
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got my O-1 🎉 didn’t even have to marry my cofounder 5 years ago I showed up in NYC with a backpack and a camera now I get to stay to build @PonderStudioAI helping people make movies without spending half a million in film school big thanks to @sampeiomichi for making the
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free food, free uber home, unlimited PTO
no shade, but most startups in nyc still end their day at 6pm. ngmi. what can one actually get done in 8 hours? let alone beat adobe. the entire Ponder team works 10am–12am, 6 days a week by choice. we're all extremely privileged to be working with world class teammates &
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Our kids have been riding the same bus for over 50 years! Totally unacceptable! It's time for an update! Here are some remodel ideas. Anything would be better than what it currently is! Let's show the next generation some love and get them a nicer and safer new ride! Perhaps some
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on life: everyone on the team gets lunch/dinner/uber/great medical insurance/PTO on work: we plan maniacally before execution so every task has a measurable success benchmark (therefore can be finished) turns out most startups don’t do this
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i get this but problem is we never enforce long hours i usually do the opposite and have to force my team to log off and go home momentum is a drug customers blow up my phone 24/7 and generously help us improve our product & models
@timwangyc Humans can only be productive for so many hours a day, push harder and you just get diminishing returns and long-term burnout. AI doesn’t need rest, food, or motivation. It just needs more storage. If you’re forcing humans to operate like machines, you’re not building culture,
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no one in the comments has ever built a generational product at first most people thought cursor for video editing was impossible to build we are proving them wrong most ai startups are either an interface layer or a model bet we’re building both and a performant editor
no shade, but most startups in nyc still end their day at 6pm. ngmi. what can one actually get done in 8 hours? let alone beat adobe. the entire Ponder team works 10am–12am, 6 days a week by choice. we're all extremely privileged to be working with world class teammates &
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work/life balance is a concept invented by B players to feel better about themselves but at the same time no one talks about the tradeoff of having a hardcore early culture: once the hardcore culture sets, hiring gets harder as the team becomes more selective by nature the
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no shade, but most startups in nyc still end their day at 6pm. ngmi. what can one actually get done in 8 hours? let alone beat adobe. the entire Ponder team works 10am–12am, 6 days a week by choice. we're all extremely privileged to be working with world class teammates &
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we're hiring creative, obsessive people: https://t.co/juo2hY1VC7 (in-person in nyc)
careers.ponder.ai
Ponder is a team of exited founders, filmmakers, ex-YC engineers, and creative technologists building Cursor for video editing. We recently raised 2.5 Million. We have over 25,000 waitlist sign-ups...
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The strongest sign of product-market fit: your customers are fixing your bugs on a Sunday.
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