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Nan:  Yeah. I don't want you spending your entire day in Linear, right? Like that would be like a kind of failure mode for us if somebody just spent their entire life managing issues here and there.

So I think the utopian vision is that a lot of people who use Linear don't even know they're doing it. There's a big piece of what we're trying to do

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Solo workers venturing out on their own need to feel like they can replace the support of a company model. Traditionally, the firm brings three things to support the core craft or product:

So it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke... See more

By joining forces and creating Dapper Collectives, we will:

On one hand, it’s the respect you give. Being ‘on the hook for the team’ means having a certain dedication to the potential in other people, specifically a desire to help it grow. Explicitly, this looks like being direct and honest in your communication, especially when it’s not easy. As anything otherwise would be a disservice. It’s helping others... See more

If we look at venture/growth investing as a game, the duties to LPs and Founders above constitute the game’s two immutable rules - you must follow/succeed at both in order to play. If you fail, you lose and can no longer play, either because you can’t raise more money or you can’t deploy the money you’ve already raised effectively.

Web2 companies use Facebook ads to reach new users, email to reactivate churned customers, and push notifications to tell users about new products. There are currently no widely used crypto-native growth tools which presents a major blocker to teams building effective growth loops.