Figma had $0 in revenue for 4 years. Completely breaks the “rush something to market and start charging immediately” mindset that most try to adapt. And it resulted in the largest acquisition of a private software company (ever) https://t.co/YLGBR9hJe0

A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago 🧵

“I can’t see a way through”, said the boy. “Can you see your next step?" “Yes” “Just take that”, said the horse. - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse @charliemackesy

In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons. @yishan set them straight.

After we found product market fit @Segment in Dec 2012, we nearly ran out of money because we were so scared to ask customers to pay. It took two gracious customers, a cocky sales advisor and a lot of fernet to learn the true value of our product. A 🧵 with 📸 1/18

I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.

I keep thinking about this illustration ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz5dFCBagAAp69f.jpg... See more

We spoke to 50+ Web 3 metaverse companies in the past year. My takeaways, summarized.

I wish early-stage M&A were more common. So many strong early-stage founders that would make dream teams if they joined forces.