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✨ Cultivating a Calm Company ✨
A running thread of the most important things I have learned about building a calm company and being long-term ambitious as an entrepreneur. Let's go 🙏👇
Tyler Tringas
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Tyler Tringas
@tylertringas
Calm companies: calmfund.com
Send PDFs: docfizz.com
Spark connections: getsparks.co
Rock climb: bkup.nyc
Writing: codeandconcrete.com
- I think folks are sleeping on one of the biggest and most obvious "zero interest rate phenomena" that's going to get vaporized slowly and then all at once: Andreessen Horowitz Here's my thesis:
- From @elonmusk “the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist” Honestly think this applies to much more than engineers. The first question to ask is “what are we actually trying to do here”
- I can't over-emphasize this enough for folks at the earliest stage of building your SaaS. Put the application on a subdomain like app.your-product[dot]com and have your main .com be an easy to use CMS marketing site like Wordpress or Webflow. So annoying to unwind after the fact.
- How to apply for a job and instantly be in the top 1% of candidates: do a small sample of the work you're applying to do and share it.
- I mean, you kinda have to admire the honesty of this
- The surest path I know to building generational wealth today: Build an online/SaaS business with little to no outside capital. Hire a lean, remote team. Get profitable. Extract yourself from day to day operations. Sell the business.
- Imagine the potential that could be unlocked if almost everybody in tech/startups wasn’t 85-100% burned out... build calm companies.
- Sooo, I built "Cursor for thinking//doing things" I made a simple journal/note/todo app for my daily practice of writing down everything in my brain that I need to do across all my projects. Quickly realized this context is what's missing from all my interactions with AI...
- Today I'm announcing that @calmfund is pausing our investing & fund activities. I've come to the conclusion that the investment thesis absolutely works, but the business model (of raising micro-funds and building a company off mgmt fees) just does not.
- web developers: DO NOT disable copy/pasting on your password fields pls 🙏
- Terrific summary of everything that’s wrong with VC right now 👇I was just trapped in a snowstorm in a 2-bedroom apartment 72 hours with one of the most powerful venture capitalists in the world. This person (@andrewchen) is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz I asked them how to get rich through angel investing. Here's what they told me...
- Sharing this because at the time I felt unbelievably alone and maybe this will help someone else feel less alone: almost 3 years ago I got a surprise diagnosis that it would be almost impossible for me to have biological children of my own. I'm otherwise in great health. So when
- Work remotely Get lonely Realize socializing only at work was pretty bad anyway Take control of your time Join a gym, start a hobby Spend more time IRL w/ friends & fam Make more IRL friends Join a club & co-working space Make online friends Travel to see people more often
