Building in Public

"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence" - George Saunders (good advice in general)

give away all your secrets and create new ones

AI is so hot right now. We’ve had 100+ investors reach out. We don't have time to meet with everyone so instead we're sharing our investor presentation with the world: http://rewind.ai/invest... See more

Some honest reflections on 3 years into Maven (my 3rd startup)... - This was way harder and more stressful than I remembered. Amnesia is real. - Being a 3rd time founder has reduced execution risk, but strategy risk remains the same. This means less stress, but roughly equal… Show more

simply sharing who you are in public makes you a magnet for others who vibrate on the same frequency. you don’t even need to market yourself or do anything particularly overt—just exist publicly. share your thoughts. publish your creations. curate your taste. make yourself known!

Workweek turned two this week. It’s been a crazy journey, and it's hard to believe how far we’ve come. Here's an honest overview of where we're at as a business, my biggest mistakes, and what’s next. If you work in the creator economy, media industry, or care about content to… Show more

You told us what you don’t like about Airbnb. Here are the 50 things we’re doing about it...

if you're working on something weird or unconventional, pls pls pls write abt it in detail while you're doing it. the most deeply unhelpful and cliche-ridden narrator is the one reflecting on the past through success-tinted glasses

Stripe, live: https://bfcm.stripe.dev.

Since Q2 2019, Gumroad has grown from $4M in annual revenue to $22M in revenue, and from break even to making $10M in profit a year. I’ve been documenting the journey with public board meetings you can watch on YouTube here–8 hours so far: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_DfN-mKCGNuswqERc6sIA8urYAKARc6s&si=40-j5imlZ_2Qxi3-... See more