Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE
How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I’ve sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
And by "all," I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous
YC is no longer an exclusive club where membership signals legitimacy—it’s becoming a broad index of tech startups.
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild
My takeaways from selling TinyPilot
〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being an entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first ... Read more
Breakneck is the ultimate SaaS Starter Kit for .net developers. Lettings you focus on your business instead of boilerplate code.
A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency.
A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
Notes about startups, AI, health-care and overall engineering
I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.
uglify the UI for non-paying consumers
When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…
Level of difficulty: insane
Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users
Over the course of my tech career thus far, I’ve been through two acquisitions. In each case, I was just a normal employee without any special inside knowledge, and found out only a few days before the deals were publicly announced. In retrospect, however, there were some clear signs in the weeks leading up to the…
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.
