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Matt Wensing 🐙

2 months

If Summit becomes the easiest way for no-coders to make things with AI, it will be the easiest way for anyone to do so. Sounds insane but we spent 4 years of laying this groundwork — and after 2 months of intense focus it’s all starting to click.

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Matt Wensing 🐙

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2 years

i still work at twitter i used to attend meetings about tweaking the icons last night i drank 8 redbulls and rewrote the worst parts of our direct messages backend i haven’t felt this alive since cs 301 thank you elon

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Because unlike your website these UI’s do real work.

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Why do most camera UI look like they’re from 2003… Should we make a petition?

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what i dont understand is how people that raise $100M+ can't figure out how to get someone like @MKBHD to give feedback on their products _before_ they release them? do they just only surround themselves with people that are unable or uninterested in saying anything crit-- oh.

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7 months

GPT has definitely gotten more resistant to doing tedious work. Essentially giving you part of the answer and then telling you to do the rest. Imagine your database only giving you the first 10 rows when you run a query. The tide is going back in.

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Just remember that Zapier is making $200m+ ARR on $1.3m raised and the profound world problem they solve is letting non-devs use API’s.

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1 year

The work of a genius.

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2 months

Well now we have our answer

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3 years

No. Stop. “Simply by”? You went to Yale, then YC, then had a $970M exit. We’ll see more positive change in fundraising when we acknowledge “the story” most investors look for.

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I've raised over $150,000,000 as a founder, simply by being a good storyteller. Here's how to get VC's to throw money at you:

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5 years

Things I am NOT doing at my second startup: 🐋 Whale hunting (enterprise sales) 🦄 Chasing higher valuations 🐰 Hiring fast 👬 Having co-founders 🗓 Accepting speculative meetings 🥕 Rewarding results over process 🦸🏼‍♂️ Valuing talent over values 🐣 Valuing potential over talent

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7 months

The most disturbing undertone in the replies are folks thinking that I shouldn’t be wasting the AI’s time with trivialities. As if its time is more valuable, precious, or sacred than mine? Scary slope.

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1 year

An huge % of so-called startup advice, especially on podcasts, is for scale-ups. “I joined early and got to help them go from $4m to $100m in revenue.” My brother this is not startup experience.

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Shout out to all the folks telling me I need to be mOrE CLeAr wiTH My PrOMpT (!!) while also believing that we are but moments away from AGI. They’re right though, I changed my prompt to a bunch of really clear instructions called Python and it worked perfectly. 👌🏻

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And yet the entire financial system is built on such parlor tricks being done by humans tirelessly in Excel. If AI really wants to liberate people it better get used to doing the mundane for us.

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@mattwensing People are using so much compute for these little parlor tricks. Which cost real money. Was only a matter of time before they tried to throttle it.

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2 years

Good idea generator: 1. Have any idea 2. Pursue it 3. Build something that makes it easier to achieve 4. #3 is your good idea

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@TopherScottie Unlike some people I don’t tend to burn out as long as the reward is big enough

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Imagine being so dumb you let a guy with this work ethic go.

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High Performance SQLite launches next week! Come see what all the fuss is about. Y'all go sign up for the waiting list at to hear when it launches + get a discount! Super excited for y'all to see it!

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@kaseyklimes Make sense that Google would fail to deliver a valuable product for political reasons

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This isn't about versions. This is happening for me and I have GPT-4 (Plus).

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Honey badger market truth served cold.

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1 year

The AI mind virus is incredible. People losing their damn minds. Wtaf. Repeat after me: 1. I will build a boring B2B SaaS rooted in web2. 2. I will acquire as many customers as possible. 3. I will manage a roadmap that includes AI-powered features.

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@jwbaldwin As it should be.

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@NateSilver538 I’m not a Rangers or Dbacks fan but I am much more likely to watch the WS than if it were Astros / Phillies. Variety is fun and memorable. Monotony kills leagues too. You wanna see Georgia vs Alabama every year in CFB? Of course not. Take the long view and enjoy the spice.

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After my 1st startup, I went shopping for a nicer car to satisfy 12 years of delayed gratification. Audi: *joins me on test drive, 'so what price are you looking for??'* BMW: "It's got a full tank of gas and there's a country road 1 mile that way. Have fun." Sell like that.

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Headcount is the worst vanity metric.

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Another example where I asked it to extend some code. It would have had to generate perhaps 50 lines. It told me to do it instead.

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Celsius 0-100 is about water. Fahrenheit 0-100 is about humans.

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@austin_rief Every startup is a journey through this table. :)

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Rediscovered this printout that was taped to the cubicle wall of my first programming job in 2005. You could do a lot worse than internalizing these.

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@Trace_Cohen @MKBHD That’s the thing about feedback — you have to get it to know what it is.

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3 years

Don't be afraid to burn the boats.

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4 years

The opposite of technical debt isn't zero debt, it's compounding gains: each new thing makes it easier and faster to build new things.

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@kylembagley @MKBHD those are the only options huh

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1 year

If you price high, you're taking on a product challenge. If you price low, you're taking on a marketing challenge. If product is your strength, why would you rather take on a marketing challenge?

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2 years

After 12 months of early access ending in 5 months of intense product work, I'm thrilled to share that is officially open for general access as a low-code platform for embeddable calculators, forecasts, and simulations. ⚡️ @usesummit

Summit | Break the limits of no-code

Summit gives you the freedom to create and launch custom triggers, actions, and models that open a universe of possibilities.

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1 year

And then one day, all of those necessary but insufficient changes ... became enough.

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@AngieBEvans Sorry, I know the feeling. This is what’s supposed to happen.

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🥹 we finally have real neighbors! 😭

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Lead your team by learning better ways to say no.

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PHP’s origin story is naturally the most PHP thing ever.

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the one thing we *all* have in common is a universal hatred for pointless meetings

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If you’re selling a SaaS on @microacquire , I will build* you a free, interactive growth and cost model (like below) to include in your listing. *while supplies last.

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1 year

There are two paths diverging: 1. People who feel like @Suhail . 2. A bunch of web2 folks that will keep building boring businesses that make billions of dollars and adopt any useful tech that emerges from the fomovortex that is #1 .

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It’s quite frustrating to feel so behind in software right now after so intensely being a student of it since 8th grade. I am not sure how to catch up other than just continuing to put in the work to accumulate AI knowledge. So if you feel that way, you’re not alone.

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2 years

With all due respect to all the new writing products … AI is a feature.

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3 years

Innovation means risk, and you can only take so many risks as a startup. My approach: Product — innovate Marketing — don’t innovate Tech stack — don’t innovate Sales — don’t innovate Hiring — don’t innovate Compensation — don’t innovate Cap table — don’t innovate Yeah.

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@daniel_nguyenx Great tweet, could’ve been shorter

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If you built a better CRM than HubSpot you wouldn't be better than HubSpot you'd be a new CRM with an almost-insurmountable distribution problem.

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@sobedominik This doesn’t seem that awful to me. It’s 1-1, no?

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@WanderingStrngr I studied computer science & design while studying russian at the university of chicago where I graduated with honors in 3 years but thanks

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@kylecordes @MKBHD but they must know this internally before the thing ships, right? and that includes the ceo?

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@Lamp_Sec So we’re back to writing code

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1 year

Writing Code Was Never The Hard Part Of Starting Up

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@dunkhippo33 This is what it took to raise my first seed round from 2011-2012. Red = pitches that ended in 'no'.

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After 14 years of quoting PG ...

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"Today is priceless tomorrow." – Matt Wensing

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Efficient Use of Capital Hall of Fame: Ultimate Software: $900m+ ARR on $14m raised. Veeva Systems: $1b+ ARR on $7m raised. Who else?

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@Chris_Grosse Not my first, but first in my heart.

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@JarvisKa Sorry did you post something? Can't read it anymore.

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@Lamp_Sec “List all the weeks between X and Y” is pretty clear and specific

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@dannykanell Congrats on winning the quitters cup.

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@Austen Yes. And believing you can evaluate someone as “25% better” is psycho-level reductionist thinking.

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Okay this is starting to come together.

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When it comes to fundraising, easy mode = Stanford, Harvard, Google, FB, YC. Hard mode = turning to the people you know, know your nascent brand & are willing to invest in *you*, not as the extension of a pre-existing story (brand), but as the originator of a new one. ✌🏻

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A pre-seed startup with an eight person team and no revenue walks into a bar …

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RIP “What if Google builds this?” 2005-2024

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@hnshah I have this game I play where I go to: GSheets, then GDrive, then Recent, then Shared with me, to see if I can find the fucking file.

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@bryce $5m is often $500k of progress wrapped in $4.5m of guessing.

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What startups prove: When given the freedom, only a very tiny percentage of people know what to work on.

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5 years

Good morning. ☕️ I’m starting a new thing: .

- SimSaaS.co

Find Similar SaaS (Software as a service) Products.

simsaas.co

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Our daughter just incorporated her own LLC using @stripe Atlas after beginning her first summer contract position at a profitable startup. 🥹 Five generations of self-starters. 💪

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@Shawnryan96 Why didn’t they give me an option to pay more?

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@r00k While we're waiting for you to fill those out, can you do a demo to our team of 14, 6 of which won't show up and will need you to do it again, 1 of which is the decision-maker?

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Earliest-stage venture funding buys you time in the Exploration space. Customer funding (bootstrapping) does not.

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Explore the solution space before refining the solution. (aka 'Get the right design, then get the design right') This is the biggest lesson I've learned from @wasbuxton .

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@BBGreatMoments An Astro doing something dirty? No way

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Remember in 2004 when suddenly we could create entire basic websites with a single line of php or Python thanks to frameworks? That really killed demand for developers.

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@IamEXS

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🧗🏼‍♂️ 10th paying customer.

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3 years

I'm really proud of this product right now. I feel like we've created an AutoCAD for your business plans.

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40 yo, 2nd startup, and still starting up at 8:49pm.

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1 year

A lot of people would rather take a 50% revenue cut and feed their ADHD with context switching, than be responsible for learning how to grow a business beyond their comfort zone.

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What you think the pricing dilemma is: 100 customers paying $10, or 10 customers paying $100. What it really is: 10 paying $10, or 10 paying $100. Because the hard part is distribution.

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For the people actually in hard mode, my two cents (and I’d love to hear from others):

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3 years

When it comes to fundraising, easy mode = Stanford, Harvard, Google, FB, YC. Hard mode = turning to the people you know, know your nascent brand & are willing to invest in *you*, not as the extension of a pre-existing story (brand), but as the originator of a new one. ✌🏻

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Sometimes growth is a long, slow ramp. This time it was a combination lock.

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@jspujji @einarvollset R&D in the United States is now being treated as a luxury.

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If people won’t pay for the ugly version of your software they won’t pay for the pretty version either.

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After finding traction in February, we kicked off a new & needed fundraise straight into the headwinds of 2023. Yesterday we got to tell our investors that we've secured new funding, led by @bryce at @indievc : "It's working." 🎯 Our plan: this is the last $ we ever need. 💪

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To get to a very modest $2m ARR business with $19/mo pricing you'll need about 90,000 trials.* Maybe don't try this. (* 5% churn, 30% conversion rate)

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This was an incredible and challenging year, requiring a lot of personal sacrifice of time with me from those around me. As such, I’ve decided to perform some work-life rebalancing until mid-January. But first, one more update: Seed round secured. ✌🏻

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@dpaola2 Founders need to not think of process as something for big companies. Finding a scalable and repeatable process for ___ is the goal of starting up (assuming you have growth ambitions). Founders = Process Architects.

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The $47,500 loan my co-founder lent our startup to pay me a $40,000 salary in 2009. It was enough to buy us a year of my dev efforts with 2 kids and no health insurance. It was paid back in full with interest when we became profitable.

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@kaseyklimes 1. Oversimplify a complex problem by making it an issue of rich vs poor 2. Block anyone who challenges this obviously moral stance 3. Progress!

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@levelsio Is it supposed to be obvious which is better? One is way more focused on video, one has many more numbers.

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Gmail: we know everything you've ever written and can use this to personalize every ad you ever see. Also Gmail: we do not know the rest of the email address of the person you met with on your GCal yesterday.

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Recently saw a $500 candle. 1st thought: dang you’d need to be pretty rich to walk in and buy a few of those. 2nd: hmm, those people probably don’t walk in here, their assistants do 3rd: their interior designer’s assistant Last: I’m describing an enterprise sale.

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Fb just reminded me that 9 years ago yesterday I got to meet with my first startup's coolest customer. Kind of unbelievable still.

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If you can charge $19/mo for something, you've likely done 95% of the product work required to charge $249/mo for it in a different context.

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Riskpulse, the company I co-founded in 2007 and took over my life for more than a decade, has been acquired. Thank you, team. You are extraordinary.

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First day with over 100 users on the app. 😊

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Getting rich

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👨🏼‍💻 After ~1,500 hrs of development, customer research, iteration and design, the free version of SimSaaS I had in my mind’s eye is live. Time to send out a lot more invites, and help 1,000 startups reach their goals.

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First startup hangout in a very long time w/ @CapitalFactory @Jason & @JoshuaBaer — mind blown by the fact that most of the people I talked to have moved here in the last 12 months! 🤯 Love it. #atx #FullyVaccinated

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$0 MRR: hopes & dreams!! $49: just testing! Ha it works! $113: just testing, yep $254: wow heh $204: ... $254: yeah, ok $555: yay me! whatever. $1000: whee — big deal not really $2000: omg I have a little business?! $10000: I am the one who knocks!!

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