Watch @typesfast pitch Flexport to Paul Graham and Sam Altman for the first time at Startup School 2013:
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Adam Smith
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Adam Smith
@asmith
Founded Xobni and Kite, MIT, YC 2006, VP Eng Affirm; adam.net | linkedin.com/in/adamsmith314 | opsgo.cc/anonymous-feed…
Joined April 2007
- The best piece of advice for early stage startup recruiting I can fit into a tweet: Don’t interview candidates who are also interviewing at FB, Google, etc. These folks always end up joining BigCo. The precision on this heuristic is unreal: 100% out of n ≈ 10 offers we’ve made.
- Replying to @eshearI just published my GPT-4 prompts for turning an audio transcript into well-structured text here: gist.github.com/adamsmith/2a22… I use this alongside my integration with Apple Voice Memos that I also open sourced here: gist.github.com/adamsmith/80ce…
- Paul cooking dinner for us every week during YC was such a great, non-obvious design choice on many levels. During YC we worked as hard as we could, which was stressful and tiring. The care and warmth of each dinner was understated, empathetic, and nourishing.Just made chili for 13. Like cooking an early YC dinner.
- Who is doing the most to fix SF? In order: 1st place: Those putting in work, like @DavidSacks & @cyantist 2nd place: Those leaving SF and being vocal about it, like @rabois & @JTLonsdale because ultimately competition is needed to motivate Last place: Everyone else in SF
- I just published “Entrepreneurial Careers: Beyond the Fairy Tale Narrative” medium.com/p/entrepreneur…
- Kite, smart copilot for programmers, launches publicly today!! Check it out: kite.com the future of programming, we think!
- An excerpt from Andy Grove's autobiography. He is in post-war Hungry and applying to immigrate to the US.
- Kite launches Line-of-Code Completions, goes cloudless, and secures $17 million in funding. Excited! kite.com/blog/launching… #kite #python
- Steve Jobs: "Innovation has nothing to do with R&D dollars. [..] It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it."
- Beginner entrepreneur mistake: stubbornly sticking to something because you've sold others on that thing. Commitment consistency is deadly!
- I’m optimistic. Yes, we were probably slow off the line. Yes, our government has issues. But our country has deep capacity, a great work ethic, and innovative people and companies. Let’s do it!
