Jake Zegil 🗽 (@JakeZegil) / X

Jake Zegil 🗽

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Jake Zegil 🗽

@JakeZegil

keeper @fractaltechnyc

NYC

Joined February 2020

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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Dec 5, 2024
a university built for the 21st century would have: - ex-industry teaching students - students building companies - companies working on campus when I squint at this, it's kind of shaped like a huge coworking space with an engineering school and an accelerator...
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Dec 7, 2024
a young founder pitched me today, ~20k ARR When I dug a little deeper, I realized he’s processed $450M in loan volume and built a large proprietary dataset. They’ve been alive for 2 months This was not in the deck lol. Insane alpha in young founders
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Apr 21, 2025
performative bar coding vs closing deals in the bar this is the difference between SF & NYC
Vikram Subbiah
@tiovikram
Apr 20, 2025
Replying to @JakeZegil
Yeah, that's only because YOU CAN'T CODE lol - Sincerely, Mr. Bar Coder, himself
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Sep 11, 2025
NYC keeps winning
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Sep 9, 2025
OpenAI executives are reportedly discussing a potential relocation out of California, per TC
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
May 3, 2025
tech people signal weakness and lack of control for status "I'm autistic lol" "I'm ADHD" being weak is not high status (who taught you this?). you should be physically strong, socially ept, focused, empathetic there is virtue in strength, your duty is to your highest self
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Aug 21, 2025
most of my employees are poached my gf was dating a different guy and I called her for a month until she said yes best way to get the things you want is to go after them ruthlessly
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
May 1, 2024
What do we call the neighborhood for NYC tech? I keep running into founders that live in a specific part of Williamsburg. It's cozy, affordable, close to transit (15m from Union), great food nearby. There's also free coworking 😳
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Apr 20, 2025
in NYC we don’t do performative coding at the bars, we close deals at the bars
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Apr 24, 2025
if you're a cracked engineer in SF, you should move to NYC simple supply and demand problem, the amount of killer founders here has skyrocketed and they will give you a better deal. happy to make intros also summer in NYC is divine
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Feb 15, 2025
NYC will win because of hot girl founders
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Mar 19, 2025
live footage of me hotfixing production on the way to a client demo
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
Dec 7, 2024
My cofounder and I live in NYC making only $1M / year even after raising billions That’s $160 / hr (based on 120 hour work week) Many people think that if a founder raises billions, they’ll build a profitable business. But here’s the reality: - we spend 400% of our revenue on
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
May 1, 2025
always pee before a big negotiation
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Jake Zegil 🗽
@JakeZegil
May 9, 2024
Stripe is a $65B company and they still use google forms to collect interest for new product launches Why are you, a pre-seed startup, building products that nobody wants?
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