yeah, their responses were unexpectedly tone deaf.
it's funny because the actual story (the crazy structure of the potential raise) would've made a great story!
Today we’re launching Dover Autopilot: spin up a world-class outbound recruiting motion in minutes.
I've spent the past 4 years building @DoverHq. We’ve helped Scale AI, Stripe, Vanta and 400+ other co's make 2,000+ hires.
But we were often too expensive for startups…
1/
i'll do you one better: anyone can create a job posting under *any* linkedin company page!
(unless an admin of that company page has disabled that setting... but the default is to allow it, for some insane unknown reason.)
Your startup shouldn't start as a platform.
Step 1. Solve 1 problem
Step 2. Earn the trust of users
Step 3. Solve more problems and become a platform.
Salesforce, Facebook, and Figma all started by solving 1 problem.
Wisdom from @thedanigrant (founder of @jamdotdev)
the skepticism and hate in the replies to this is reminiscent of early dropbox and bitcoin posts. people have a really hard time imagining the future.
good luck @Suhail :)
Usually when people talk about grand things like changing "the future of computing," they're full of it. But not this time. Suhail has been working on this for 2 years. There's a good chance it's the new default infrastructure.
blog.mightyapp.com/mightys-secret…
"YC is the best program for creating top-end entrepreneurs that has ever existed" - @pmarca
This is why I was so honored to host the first-ever YC-sponsored alumni event outside of SF.
Looking forward to hosting many more in the future!
I asked GPT-4 to come up with puns. Then I fed them into Midjourney to create some crazy images.
See if you can guess the pun behind each pic...
(Hint: they are very corny)
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every recruiting tech founder gives this advice 😅
recruiting is a universal problem and engineers can't believe it hasn't been solved yet. but so much of the solution isn't actually a technical challenge.
going to write a long blog post about this one day...