Tom So

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Deep into web3 social, bit of a generalist In the crypto rabbit hole (as I should). Also super into startups, everything social and community building. I usually read on product management and career development - I add engineering sprinkles to the mix bc why not

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Startup COO job boils down to this: 1. Pick a problem area, and build 0 to 1 yourself. First principles get you pretty far! 2. After it gets going, start recruiting for an experienced leader for the area. 3. Onboard the leader well, nuke yourself out and attack next problem.

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Startups and Scaling Back Office

Today’s thread is on “VC backchanneling” — how you can use it to your advantage as a founder. When I was a founder I knew that VCs all talked w/ each other. But boy, they really talk. Here’s how it works >>

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perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC) and Startup Finance

a very important design choice of the Ethereum blockchain: the concept of Account (the object holding your tokens) and the concept of Signer (the object authorized to move these tokens) are basically the same thing!

Julien Niset • Part I: WTF is Account Abstraction

A startup’s data room is key for raising venture capital. But many founders waste time compiling data investors don’t want or need. From @venturetwins, a 🧵 on what founders need to know, including specific data investors want to see, info to leave out, and traps to avoid.👇

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Data and

Retool Operator Playbook: Retool

David Hsu retool.com

No Code and Low Code and

high-skill immigration, since foreign-born geniuses starting American companies—in green energy, yes, but also in software and beyond—is perhaps the greatest free lunch in all of economics.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

Shreyas Doshi linkedin.com

GTM (go to market strategy) and

A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this mess? Much easier to clear the forest and plant a legible “scientific” forest. Uniform rows of trees that produce good lumber. Now we can count the trees, make a map,... See more

Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State

The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club.

Julien Niset • Part I: WTF is Account Abstraction

Retool Operator Playbook: Retool

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State

Will Larson • Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work.