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๐Ÿค  i'm the founder of @_buildspace

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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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You can make something good.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Today I built a special hat ๐Ÿค  It has a motor + propeller on it that spins faster the harder I focus! The motor's power is connected to my Raspberry Pi which is running a Node server I wrote that's actively capturing my brainwaves over WiFi via a @neurosity . Check it out โœจ
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Figma is wild ๐Ÿคฏ We put 300+ people in the same file, at the same time. Each cursor you see is a Nights & Weekends builder working on nailing the headline + one-liner for the project they're shipping.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Big news. We've raised $10m led by a16z to build Hogwarts for the builders and dreamers. It's a school for those who don't want to just "get a job" -- who want to instead pursue an alternative path. We're profitable + have 125,000+ users. Let's go ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
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introducing sage. ai + people. open for all. try it today.
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Today, we're opening our first @_buildspace campus. A physical school for you to go all-in on your ideas. No matter how big, or how small.
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This is the most big brain ad I've seen in a while lmao.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I've now seen over 25,000+ Javascript/web devs jump from web2 to web3. Many of them now have full-time careers at web3 companies, or are starting web3 companies/projects of their own! Here's a thread on how to build your way into a crypto career ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We're building something new in SF...๐Ÿ˜ˆ It'll be a 4,000 square foot space for people to build whatever tf they want -- music, software, film, games, whatever. Lease signed + construction underway. Very early, janky sneak peak:
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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A lot of ppl ask me about how @a16z ended up investing in us.. So I wanna share it for the first time. Here's the story of a kid who had no idea what the hell he was doing. Few things: 1) I'm a solo founder. 2) I had never raised money before. 3) I had been building companies
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I'm sorry. I made a mistake...
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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i have an announcement.
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i just did the biggest live stream of my life.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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really amazing little book. full of emails and memos steve jobs directly sent his team. ex. in an email, his vp of software at apple said that he was burning out and that the apple may not be worth it. steve's reply:
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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hi s5.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I'm hiring for 5 roles. All based in SF. $80K - $160K range. 0.25% - 1.0% equity. If you wanna work at an education company that doesn't really look like an education company -- read onwards ๐Ÿงต
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introducing the nights & weekends fund. $100,000. 10 domains. $5,000 per grant. no equity. no contract. just straight money. but, one condition -- if you make it big, you pinky promise to buy us a jet ski... here are our first 5 domains: 1. ai 2. music 3. film 4.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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~4-years ago, this company started as an education platform for kids ages 4-9. We had 200,000 students on it. But, struggled to monetize. In a moment of desperation, I decided to pivot -- it turned into @_buildspace . Now, nearly 2-years later...it's time for another change ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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It's time for the next chapter.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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friend: yo dude, wanna drink? me: nah man, that stuff kills brain cells. friend: you say its killing brain cells but i say its just real life dropout to prevent overfitting
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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The dream is to be Aamir Khan at the end of 3-Idiots. At the end, he's just inventing, flying drones, and building cool shit 24/7 at a school he built. But, he also secretly runs one of the biggest companies in the world under the pseudonym Phunsukh Wangdu hehehe.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a society, no matter where you're from -- we have a tendency to look at those that did something really hard, but didn't figure it out as a person who "failed". We put them under
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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The Rabbit R1, the Humane, all these AI wearables seem like great products, for the wrong initial market. Market is full of 28 year-old boomers too attached to their existing tech. I truly believe when we look at the next generation of device we carry -- we shouldn't be
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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first day of class was fun.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Here's my YC application vid from 2019. This is the idea that got accepted! Kinda crazy how the thing I'm talking about in this video pivoted into the wildly different thing we're working on today... Never get too attached to specific ideas. Keep iterating.
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we got a sign outside now omg.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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buildspace v0. find and be found. summer 2024.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I started this company at 23. Today, I turn 28. I have literally grown up with this thing. And for many of you reading this you've grown up alongside me watching me struggle, fail, figure it out, repeat. From moodgg to zipschool to buildspace -- ty for following along โค๏ธ
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I wrote this week about why I stopped playing League seriously and why I'll be picking up Super Smash Melee competitively in 2020. With Melee: 1. There is no team to blame. Just me. 2. The learning loop is fast (short matches) 3. I can be creative af.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Crazy to me when people don't pursue a good idea they had b/c "it already exists" when they Google it. Homie -- it doesn't matter. There is no such thing as a unique idea. It's your execution that's unique that causes your version of the idea to feel different from others.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We're launching the "Web3 Starter Pack" next month. This would be sorta like the "Student Pack" Github has today which offers perks/free credits on tools like AWS, Twilio, Heroku, Stripe, etc. Which web3 cos should we include? Tag them! Got 5 launch partners already โœจ
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We've done ~$200,000 in revenue so far this month. We'll be putting that money + a majority of future revenue into a public treasury that all @_buildspace NFT-holders will be able to govern. First vote happening in 3-4 weeks max.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I added AI to my old CRT TV using a Raspberry Pi lol. It will take my webcam feed, send it to the Pi + CRT, and chronicle my life as if I'm a heroic character in a retro-style, epic movie. All while playing Hans Zimmer in the background baby.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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๐Ÿš€ Launching something new today :). BuildSpace -- project-based course for developers that don't suck. Pick up new tech by joining live sessions led by awesome instructors + by actually writing code and shipping to prod.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We passed 30,000 devs on @_buildspace today. Really happy we've been able to help onboard so many people into web3 this year. Everyone from my 12 year-old cousins in Pakistan to my YC friends in SF use buildspace now lol. 2022 is going to be awesome. ๐Ÿฅ‘
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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You don't need to move to SF and attend random events every week. You don't need to join 10 different founder group chats. Most of it is noise. You just need to find 5 people who are making stuff, and talk to each other for 1-hour a week. That's it.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Most people don't know this, but @_buildspace was the result of a pivot we did 6-months ago. Initially, we were working on ZipSchool for ~2 years -- a product for kids K-5. Here's my quick story on pivoting/ getting startup ideas ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I've been bumping A.I Drake for a week. I wanna give: 1) $10,000 2) a space in SF to work for 3-mo 2) a weekly chat w/ me. To whoever wants to build a Soundcloud-type experience full of A.I generated tracks w/ artists who opt-in How I'd ship it in a week ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Today marks 1-year since we started this crazy thing called @_buildspace . 1-year later? $2M yearly run-rate, 100K+ builders joining in to ship the future, and a team I adore working with. If we've helped you on your builder journey, drop a "happy birthday buildspace!" below โค๏ธ
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Taking some time off. Decided to come out to MIT. Never been here but I like sitting in on random classes to get some new inspiration for whatever I'm working on -- you can just walk in lol. Just got out of differential equations. Architecture or nano technology next lfg.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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2-months ago, we started to reward users with NFT credentials as they completed projects. 2-months later, over 4,000 devs own at least one. Craziest part? Recruiters at legit web3 cos have begun to recognize our NFTs as proof-of-knowledge when they filter through candidates. ๐Ÿคฏ
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We usually stay away from the topic of raising money or finding investors -- we just wanna show you how to make stuff. Yet, every week I see a new @_buildspace alumni raise $50K - $500K. Yes. If you ship, tell the world, repeat... capital finds it's way to you. But, it's not
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I'm happy to finally release DeepLeague. The first combination of computer vision, deep learning, and esports analytics + a dataset of over 100k labeled images to drive AI / esports research forward. Completely open-source. Enjoy.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We made $100,000 just this week -- wild. 5-years ago, I started a different co and it took a year to get to $100 MRR -- here we are 1000X-ing that in a week lol. Learnings truly compound... The fails/wins you experience today will help you years down the line. Stay shipping!
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After college, I didn't got a single job offer after I interviewed at places like FB, Google, etc. I always flopped on the leet code challenges. Felt unfair. I want to flip the model. You hack + ship for fun. Web3 cos approach you directly. Be judged by your ability to ship.
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this journey -- it continues to surprise me.
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here's my project for @_nightsweekends . gonna bring back my channel i had when i was 13. now, i'm 27. same kid -- new stories to tell. wyt?
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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this email is the start of an anime ๐Ÿ˜‚
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7 months
see you soon.
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We started working on @_buildspace 10-weeks ago. Today, we reached 10,000 developers on the platform. Thank you for your support โœจ.
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one journey ends. another begins.
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We passed 20,000 devs on @_buildspace today โœจ Proud we've been able to onboard thousands of devs into web3 -- from 11 y/o's in India to senior engineers at places like Riot Games, Netflix, and Stripe. If you're one of us, drop an ๐Ÿฅ‘ below hehe. Let's keep hacking my friends.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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back to where it all started -- my mom's garage in pembroke pines, florida.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
Just got a text from my little brother who's visiting SF and thought $300 would be enough for 3-weeks.
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I almost ended the company. But, then I had this weird dream...
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What a year.
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2022 was the toughest year of my life. on the outside, all was well. but on the inside, it was a struggle. building has been most my life -- but, what happens when after 15-years you lose your motivation to keep going? i wrote an essay w/ my story:
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โœจ Super excited to announce @_buildspace x @solana In a weekend โ€” pick up some Rust, write + deploy your first Solana Program, and ship a React app to let friends connect their wallet + interact w/ your deployed program. Capped at 3,000 signups ๐Ÿค 
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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mom look i did a thing
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Front-end engineers, designers, smart-contract devs, marketers, artists, founders, game devs, financial analysts -- the amount of talent at @_buildspace today is ridiculous. And, we want to help members capture the value they create for the world. Here's a peak into the future.
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125 builders have flown to SF for Nights & Weekends IRL at @fdotinc . Got to high five a few of them waiting to check-in โœจ
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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45-days. 10-hours a day. If you're down to spend that time alongside me in SF creating a new AI tool for builders from scratch -- DM me some stuff you've built. Airbnb covered.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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I remember before my YC interview -- I practiced answering questions for 2-days straight with my Mom and Dad. I'm telling you. Aint nothing quite like having your Pakistani mother + father obliterate your startup lol. Things get clear and simple real quick.
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At 13, I started my journey making things on YouTube. I made hundreds of videos as a kid under the nickname "farzatv". Now, I'm 27 and am officially reviving that same childhood channel -- here's my toy trailer I just dropped. Really rough, lmk wyt. @_nightsweekends
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Anime is a magical source of motivation. I still remember being in YC S20 feeling like everything I was working on was useless/trash. Dark times. Then, I saw Naruto vs Pain. I was inspired for like ~3-months -- grew 20% every week and raised millions at Demo Day lol.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Web2: You haven't worked at Netflix, Apple, Amazon, or Google? Hmmm, it won't work out. Ty for applying tho! Web3: We'd love to see your open-source PRs, the work you've done for DAOs, the random dapps you've shipped for fun, web3 blog posts you've written, and the NFTs you own.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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We're offering a new class. The class is titled DMW-069. It covers things like -- going viral, understanding the algorithm, getting new marketing ideas. It's taught irl, on-campus. We know 99% of you aren't attending our SF campus. So, here's lecture 01. Stanford/MIT style.
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Spent a month in Thailand -- learned a lot :).
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ty for an awesome season.
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iykyk ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’€
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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This is a box ๐Ÿ“ฆ When I push the red button it: Hits an ESP32 microcontroller connected to Wi-Fi, calls a Replit function to scrape my todos from Sunsama, and finally -- prints them out. Built by @sarvasvkulpati , check it out:
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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If you wanna get involved w/ a startup you like, DM'ing the founder is a 10/10 strategy. But, don't DM them an essay w/ your life history lol. A decent template: "Hi! Here's a thing I shipped + the link to use it. It has x # of users rn. Your co is cool! Up to chat for 15m?"
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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hi s4.
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Making the latest investor update for @_buildspace public. TLDR: - we killed a $1.5m biz. - in 2023 we got huge. - we said no to a $2m gov deal. - we wanna do more in 2024. - delaying s5 to summer. - we're building a product. - we're hiring -- a lot.
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If you are god like at building with RAG/LLMs, have a US visa, and want to work with us in-person in SF on a breakthrough AI productโ€ฆ Send me a DM. 1%-2% equity // $140K - $280K Weโ€™re entering an intense period in the history of @_buildspace . And, I want to gather the best.
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This is Ke Huy Quan -- from Everything Everywhere All at Once. At 13, he played a role in Indiana Jones. After that, he had no big roles for nearly ~40 years. Dude didn't give up, kept hustling. Here he is in 2023 at 51 winning a Golden Globe for his performance in EEAAO.
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Japan was inspiring. I got to meditate with monks, talk to old sushi chefs about obsession with work, and wander around the mountains of Kyoto + the random streets of Tokyo. Just feeling inspired again for the first time in a while. Back to work.
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Making slide decks in Figma is the move. It lets you think about the story you're telling less linearly since you can just rearrange multiple pieces freely around the canvas. Each slide is just a frame. Makes it easier to build a compelling narrative.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
9 months
A lot is happening in SF lately... And, perhaps you feel like you're missing out with all this AI stuff. But hey -- reader, it's unlikely that magically moving cities will somehow supercharge you, solve all your issues, and make you a shipping machine. You'll probably be the
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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you don't need a vision to start a company. you just gotta be a lil stupid. until very recently, whenever investors/hires would ask me my 10-year vision i would flat out say: "i have no idea." how being dumb ended up working out:
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
9 months
Spent a week in Switzerland. Got a cabin in the mountains and got to spend time just quietly reading + thinking about new ideas. Feeling solid. Back to SF tomorrow. Back to work baby.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
1 year
Hardest part about startups is maintaining that childlike excitement that first got you started -- do whatever you gotta do to keep that flame alive. Anime, meditation, vacations, gaming, whatever. Else, the passion will fade. Then, the motivation fades. And then you give up.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
Web3 has a ton of FOMO. You always feel like you're missing out on some hype irl event you can't attend, token sale, NFT drop, etc. Don't get distracted by the noise. Stay focused on building/shipping things to real users. Thats where true long-term winners are made ๐Ÿค .
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
3 years
I hear this a lot: "I wanna get into X! But first I have to learn the tech behind X, then Iโ€™m going to do a 4-week bootcamp on X, then I'm going to..." and on and on. Instead -- just start building, assume you're going to fk up terribly, and adjust along the way.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 months
A lot of founders and builders probably over value the importance of Twitter. Even me. After all -- I met all my founder homies on here + have had many viral launches. But... 4-weeks ago -- instead of daily tweets, we started posting daily shorts. Hit 2M views + 100K profile
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
Last week we raised $10m from a16z for @_buildspace . This week we shipped 4 massive things. Note: On Monday none of this existed they were just ideas -- a week is truly an eternity in startups lol ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
11 months
I'm going on a world tour. I wanna build more of our campuses around the globe. Perhaps, in your town. To do that -- I'm meeting government officials in places like UAE, Singapore and more. If you're a fan of what we're up to + got a connect to someone in gov, drop me a DM.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
5 months
i got a seat open next to me. looking for an engineer down to hack with us for a few weeks in sf. flight covered. airbnb covered. goal: help us build a new ai product from scratch. mobile + web. can even start this thursday, if you're down. dms open.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
Over the weekend -- ~200 people came out to Enugu, Nigeria for @_buildspace Africa. This was the first irl event funded by our community governed treasury + it was completely organized by our NFT holders in Nigeria. Here's a lil thread w/ some pictures ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
10 months
The trick I've found to creating high-quality work is to first do a lot of silly, low/mid-quality work at a high tempo. Once there's some movement forward, there's more room for the better ideas to find their way into the work ๐Ÿงต
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
1 year
making progress on our irl school in sf...
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
11 months
I used to have a real commitment problem to my ideas. I was that dude where every 4-weeks, I would have some completely new thing I was working on instead. Not only is that exhausting, but, terrible when trying to actually output high-quality work. It's like playing soccer one
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
1 year
got some hoodies.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
5 months
You often hear "the CEO shouldn't be coding". But hey -- you can only get so far reading about AI on Twitter all day. Decided to hop back in engineering land. A week later I got a handle on the latest tech, shipped a RAG app, and my ideas for stuff we can build are 10X better.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
3 years
Smart-contracts-as-a-service. Ex. Today if I want to build an ecomm store on Solana + accept payments in SOL, I have to be a Rust god lol. Instead, I rather someone deploy a secure, audited contract that lets anyone build a store on top of the contract via a Shopify-style dapp.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
1 year
i got a seat open next to me. i'm looking for someone to help us with socials. we've gotten over 40,000 tags in just the last 7-days. goal: surface the people building cool shit + help them go viral. if down to start wednesday -- dm me. only sf.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
I promise you, your favorite founder has no idea what the heck they're doing.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
11 months
At the end of YC, we were shown these two slides. Donโ€™t lose to yourself. Startups are a highly emotional game โ€” and many people fail because they canโ€™t get out of their own heads. Master your emotions, solve anything.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 years
There are simply two types of founders: 1. Those that ship. 2. Those w/ 0 users that will watch a Steve Jobs interview or read a blog post about building "delightful products" and use that as fuel to spend two weeks perfecting their CSS animations ๐Ÿฅฒ.
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Farza ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
1 year
hey farza. how's s3 doing?
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