As a PM, I always wondered what taking the founder plunge would feel like 🥶 Then last year, I finally did. A thread on what early stage startup work has taught me about time, money, team, and what I do all day: 🧵
Jon Noronha
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Jon Noronha
@thatsjonsense
- 👏 this 👏 is 👏 why 👏 you 👏 feature 👏 flag 👏Replying to @SwiftOnSecurityUPDATE: APPLE HAVE DISABLED GROUP FACETIME PENDING CLIENT-SIDE FIX x.com/inafried/statu…
- Replying to @danshipper and @everyIt’s very little dilution, and the external validation helps with hiring and selling. A lot of people only want to work for/with a series B+ company
- 🚩 My team’s building feature flagging as a service 📱 Cross-platform - #ios, @nodejs, @reactjs, #java, +more ⚡️ Open source, fast, customizable 🎁 Free for startups 👋 Give it a try: optimizely.com/rollouts?utm_m…
- Kinda surprised that with all the AI hype we’ve barely seen any voice interfaces, it’s all text. The tech is mostly there so is it a demand problem? Millennials and gen z hate using the phone so we prefer texting with AI? Why isn’t TalkGPT a thing yet?
- 5 years ago, we started a company with a mission that sounded a little nuts: reinvent the slide deck. Did I think we'd succeed? Not really – I just thought it would be fun to try. So it feels surreal to announce that @GammaApp has crossed $100M ARR - and we raised a series B!
- Replying to @thatsjonsenseIMO very few product teams really break out of what @johncutlefish calls the Feature Factory. cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-… The pressure to release something every quarter + measure success on # of widgets shipped is profound (and then you factor in promo cycles, job hopping, etc.)
- Replying to @danshipper and @everySadly yes. It amazes me how much fundraising is the love language of the tech industry - the only legible signal that the whole network knows how to react to.
- Replying to @razxiko and @FadhiliTheOne
- Loved this essay on non-dystopian fiction by @Ada_Palmer. Most movies/books train us to expect our problems to be solved in one triumphant moment by a lone hero, but the only way things actually get done is gradual, incremental team effort. beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-fut…
- Replying to @clairevoOr, hear me out, join the next figma at series a 😉
- Replying to @thatsjonsenseHope this helps other PMs in my positioning thinking about taking that icy plunge. The water's pretty warm so far! Will try to share more as I get deeper 🏊♂️
