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Finn Mallery
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Finn Mallery
@fin465
- POV: You left stanford after the first day of class to build an ai startup 8 months later, your 10 most cracked friends all moved to sf to help you build it
- POV: you got all your most cracked friends to move sf to build an ai startup Revenue: $50k+ / month Rent: <$1k / person Sleep: 4-6 hrs / night Mattresses on the floor: 7 If you're not doing this, your startup will never hit PMF
- Pitched a startup I couldn't get out of my head to my most cracked friend. Within 3 days he dropped out of uni, broke up with his gf, quit his job, and moved to the US. We just got a flat together in SF and are now working 24/7 to realize this vision. It's an issue that slows
- POV: you raise $2m for your ai startup You're post-YC, pre-series A, and can finally invest in that triple bunk. You feel like a hero. You've ditched the mattresses-on-the-floor but your engineers hardly notice. (they've been vibecoding MCP servers for the last 36 hours)
- POV: it's 3am and the first sleep rotation has just begun for your engineers if you're not building your ai startup from a 900 sq ft apartment with mattresses on the ground, you're not doing it right
- 2024 wrapped > graduated stanford cs > started and failed 2 companies > pitch most cracked friend new startup > both leave school to build in sf > first x post > get into yc > launch product 3 weeks into batch > $50k MRR in first 50 days > raise seed, hire team > its time to
- Replying to @ben_kaufTrue, it's not sustainable long term but no choice right now until we have a bigger team. Here's my philosophy: Pre seed: 2-4 hrs / night Seed: 4-6 hrs / night Series A: 6-8 hrs / night
- Replying to @DavidXue_aiYeah, we had an engineer pass out once so we installed air quality detectors everywhere
- After going $0 -> $500k ARR during Y Combinator, I scaled @origamiagents from 2 to 10 people in 60 days. Here’s everything I learned about hiring (and firing) so you don't make the same mistakes as me: From January to March we received over 2000 applications, collectively
- I asked @sama what the biggest problem facing the world is. His words rattled me to my core-- "Cold outbound sales is broken and nobody is doing anything about it. If I had another chance, I would've solved this problem over starting OpenAI" Well, we followed his advice and
