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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

. @stripe just announced it is launching flat rate Stripe Billing fees, moving away from transaction fees percentages. This is a huge change.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Thank you to @dan_abramov and @Mappletons for creating . I am only 6 days in and already it has fundamentally changed my understanding and the way I think about Javascript. I think these resources will be immensely helpful for so many developers.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

An angel that put a small check into our round sent us an Airtable with 30+ relevant angels he can intro us to. It’s not about check size, it’s able the value they provide.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

“I’m hiring engineers, do you know of any looking?” 1. No 2. If I did, I would be hiring them. 3. If I send them to you, I probably already passed on them.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Any alternatives to Grammarly that are open source or do all the computation locally so ALL my data isn’t all being sent to their servers?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Back to back investor pitches as a founder… 10am: you get ripped apart, “this doesn’t make sense” 11am: “wow this is amazing - I’m in!” Your days are either 1-2s or 9-10s nothing in between. Investor calls are often the same.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

All married up. Honestly, best day of my life. 📸:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

I'm stoked to announce that I've joined the product team at @beondeck . I'm humbled to be part of such an incredible team. Most startups can't think 5 years ahead and On Deck has a 50-year vision. The vision is both exciting and scary at the same time.

ODF

@beondeck

4 years

What is On Deck? Glad you asked. Here's an ongoing thread of threads, summarizing: 📈 Where we came from ✨ Where we are going 🚀 What we are building 🛠 How we are building it — join us! 👀 More to come... Thank you all for being a part of the journey so far 🙏 👇👇

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

I'm excited to announce that I've just joined @posthog ! I've been a user for years and have always admired the transparency in their handbook and commitment to open source. I believe they're one of the most exciting companies of this era in startups. It's an added bonus to be

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I’m finishing up a 6 month roadtrip with my fiancé while working for a hella fast growing startup @beondeck . AMA

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

A few years back I was interviewing for new jobs and I ran an experiment to test out how important a personal network is when looking for a new job. Here is what I did and what I found👇

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

My prediction: @supabase and @calcom are announcing a merger on April 15th

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 year

Student loans paid off 🥂🙌

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Congrats to all the companies who got @ycombinator interviews! I remember my experience getting into YC...storytime! We first applied for YC S18...

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Wow I’m getting married in 10 days

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Lesson: Your network is important, build it, nurture it and utilize it.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 months

Shoot your shot. This message to @ShaanVP changed the trajectory of my career and I'll be forever grateful to him @RomeenSheth and @benmlevy for the work we did at the fund.

Frank ☼ Bach

@zendadddy

2 months

What's a moment that changed your life? I'll start - I was on vacation in Palm Springs at a vegan cafe, sitting with my wife enjoying breakfast when I heard a familiar voice. I glanced at the door and spotted a bald guy walking out, and instantly recognized it was Andy

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Excited to launch Refined Zapier at On Deck Foundry Weekend #odfw At @beondeck we have >1700 Zaps and >400k executions/month. @zapier wasn't built for this so we've created an open-source browser extension to 10x Zapier's UX Check us out on Product Hunt:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I'm hiring engineers for my team at On Deck. If you're looking to build, ship and learn a ton, talk to me! This is a unique opportunity to be a product owner and be able to mesh engineering with startups and venture capital. DM me if you're interested!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

What are your favourite open-source projects? Ones I'm excited about: - @supabase from @kiwicopple and @AntWilson - @calendso from @peer_rich and @BaileyPumfleet

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I just onboarded to @deel and I gotta say the experience/feature-set is incredible. In the past, I've used Remote to be paid internationally and it's like I just upgraded from a Corolla to a Model S. Don't stop moving the bar forward @Bouazizalex and team!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Today I decided it was time to spin up a Metabase instance. I wanted to self-host to save $$. I went to my @Railway account, clicked "New Project", typed "Metabase" and realized they support it out of the box! 3 min later I'm set up. Railway is a game-changer.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

Did anyone else notice @stripe Sessions was held on 4/24/24? That can’t be a coincidence.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I’m gonna run some dinners in Toronto - who are your favorite founders and early-stage investors that I should invite?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Excited to announce that I've joined @WorkOS ! 🎉 Thrilled to find a team so passionate about building a better developer experience. We are going to empower every B2B SaaS company to sell to enterprise faster! Keep an eye out for us 👀

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

For the W21 batch, I helped > 90 companies with their applications. I referred over 42 of them - 39 got interviews (89%) and 14 got accepted (33%).

Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

The deadline for @ycombinator S24 is next week. If you're applying and want some feedback on your application, send it to me. I've got a flight on Thursday flight and will spend the whole flight reviewing applications. I'll see how many I can do.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

16 days

Who here is writing small checks to Canadian founders?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

I'm shocked by what @steventey is doing at @dubdotco . He is one of the fastest-moving and creative founders I have ever worked with. It's honestly insane the speed at which he ships. His speed of execution and iteration will make Dub a success, mark my words.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

Just met with @alanaagoyal and I'm blown away. Her focus on backing top founders as their first investor and being the most valuable investor on the cap table is inspiring. I can't wait to see what she accomplishes with @basecasevc .

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

It's been 5 years since I did @ycombinator and I'm honestly shocked at how many amazing people I've met and things I've done because of that experience.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

. @posthog looks incredibly promising. Has anyone switched from the typical tracking stack: Mixpanel/Amplitude + Segment/Rudderstack + Fullstory + Optimizely/Launch Darkly? Any limitations? Anything I should consider before making the move?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I’m launching a Substack! Recently, I’ve been writing more and I’m excited to share it publicly. I’ll be writing about: - investing - startups - founder stories - frameworks Subscribe if you're interested!

Welcome!

Hey there — I’m Zach Waterfield, I’m currently leading Fundraising Products at On Deck and a Network Leader at Village Global.

zachsthoughts.substack.com

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

8 months

@zackhargett What don't you like about them?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 months

First triathlon complete 👌

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

26 days

we had to do it

PostHog

@posthog

26 days

OK, @t3dotgg , what's next on your list?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

I founded my first company when I was in undergrad. It's now been 5 years, and I've learned a ton. Here are my top 5 learnings as an early-stage founder:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

5 months

On my way to Greece to see the whole @posthog team in person 🫶

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

I finished every @MasterClass course. Here are my learnings... (Thread 👇)

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I’m excited to be teaming up with @albertianlogan to invest in incredible founders! If you’re interested in tagging along then join our syndicate and keep an eye out for upcoming investment opportunities 👌

Invest with Ian Logan and Zach Waterfield's Investment Club's Syndicate

We love engineering, technology, and products that pull the future to today.

venture.angellist.com

Ian Logan

@albertianlogan

3 years

As an engineer and operator, I’m partnering with @zlwaterfield to back founders building the future today. Join our syndicate to invest alongside the outliers that we actively help! ✌🏽 Our LPs are from 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, and around the 🌏.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I started investing in 2020 - since then I've invested in 25+ companies with a mix of direct checks, syndicates, and scout checks. Pretty nuts how fast things can move! Thank you to @ShaanVP , @RomeenSheth , @adwane , @eriktorenberg and others for the support over the past year.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

This week has been one of the busiest weeks in a long time for me. Today I got booking confirmation email that my fiancé booked our honeymoon in France and it was the best feeling during a stressful week. France here we come!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Me: *explaining something in the startup space and mentions Slack* Friend: "What is Slack?" Me: Damn, that's a nice life where you don't know what Slack is.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Back to being a founder. That means I actually have stuff to tweet about but don’t have the time to do it.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I did this. In 3 months, I built and sold the product. All with just Next.js and Supabase. The burn was only $25/month. @nextjs (with @vercel ) + @supabase is bliss 😍

Nico Botha

@nwbotha

3 years

We really live in a golden age of web development 😎⚡ For only $45/month you can build an app using Next.js and Supabase, host it on Vercel, and scale it to 100 000 users without a single worry about scaling issues or any complicated DevOps setup 🚀💰 And it's free to start!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

Who is Alicia from @deel ? She emails me so often I feel like I know her.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

@benawad I don't know about dirty but Chrome DevTools is just so much better that I always default to it.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Excited to launch Toad (), a fun little side project for shortening your URLs. Built with Next.js, @tailwindcss and @supabase_io hosted on @vercel . Props to the Supabase team for building an amazing product. Check us out on PH:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Having all my investments just neat and tidy in @cartainc feels so good.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I 36x'd my followers from 80 to 2,900 in one year. That's 35% MoM growth for 12 months. Using the current run rate, 12 months from now, I'll be at 110,000 followers and I'll be ready to raise a strong Series A from tier 1 funds. Here is how I did it:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

I love Toronto but I do miss SF. The number of incredible people I met today is next level. The energy here is palpable. I hope we can some day match that quantity and quality of people like this in Toronto. It’s definitely moving in the right direction.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Fintech is so confusing - - medical bill payments - - one-click checkout payments - - freelancer payments - - payment gateway

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

I just went through the process of interviewing with startups for a new job and my main takeaway is: most startups suck at interviewing. Here are my top pieces of advice for startup founders hiring early employees:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Why use Discord over Slack for a companies community with it's customers? Lots use it like @supabase , @Railway , @reflectnotes , @rize_io , @BuildableHQ , @codexbuild , etc. and I'm trying to figure out the pros/cons.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

The deadline for @ycombinator S24 is next week. If you're applying and want some feedback on your application, send it to me. I've got a flight on Thursday flight and will spend the whole flight reviewing applications. I'll see how many I can do.

Apply to Y Combinator | Y Combinator

To apply for the Y Combinator program, submit an application form. We accept companies twice a year in two batches. The program includes dinners every Tuesday, office hours with YC partners and...

www.ycombinator.com

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Wedding invitations sent! 💍💒👰‍♀️🤵 Let’s hope this time it goes as planned.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Who’s looking for a co-founder? 👩‍💻🧑‍💼 Comment here with your details and I’ll try to make some intros: - Do you have an existing idea: Yes/No - Are you technical: Yes/No - Areas of interest: - W̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶l̶o̶c̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ (who cares) - Other details to mention:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Seeing my friend @peer_rich and his team build and scale @calcom over the past year has been absolutely incredible. I’m constantly impressed with their creativity and determination. Here are some of my favorite things they’ve done:

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

The thought of launching a web app without using Next.js on @vercel actually seems daunting. They’ve improved the developer experience so much that I wouldn’t even think about using anything else right now.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

When you ask for 5 banana on Instacart and they get 5 bunches (40 bananas). Who wants banana bread? 🍌🍌🍌

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Leaving for a 6+ month trip today ... Mountains here I come.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Reviewed 320 intern applications today. Damn it’s exhausting.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

It’s coming! @robbiebent1 and team launching the best place for wellness, and building friendships in the city. Toronto is getting a massive new retreat with saunas and ice baths

Toronto is getting a massive new retreat with saunas and ice baths

Saunas and ice baths come together at a soon-to-open Toronto retreat that aims to reinvent the idea of a spa. Othership ambitiously describes itself…

www.blogto.com

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Miami for the first time next week 🌴

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 month

I'm building a new side project, and every person I've mentioned it to wants to be a customer. I'm building it for just myself, but it's a good sign I should release it publicly.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

5 months

On June 4th, 2021, I was invited to @robbiebent1 's house for an Ice Bath/Sauna session. This day set me on a trajectory change personally that I'll be forever grateful for. The biggest thing to come out of it for me is - do hard things. I've learned how much better the rest of

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

If you had $1m to invest in 4 pre-seed companies, what would they be?

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

@RomeenSheth Let me intro you to

Compound Planning | Modern Wealth & Investment Management

Deliver a magical planning experience to your clients powered by our world-class team and wealth management platform.

compoundplanning.com

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 year

Being a founder building a marketplace startup is a rollercoaster. Matching supply and demand is hard when you start with zero on both sides. It's an uphill battle convincing the first suppliers to join an empty marketplace. It requires grit and perseverance in the early days

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Damn, it's been a good day!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

What are the most exciting OSS companies right now? I'm going to do a deep dive into the top open-source companies that are building amazing products.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

I get a huge number of emails between 8-11pm and it's because it's all the founders who work hard all day then run through all of their emails at the end of the day. It's crazy how consistent it is. I never expect a founder to reply to me mid-day.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

5 months

We did a hackathon at the @posthog offsite and it was probably the highest quality pitches I've ever seen in a hackathon. A large % were actually demo'd in production 🤯

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Technical Co-founder Needed! I know a Brooklyn-based founder with 2 previous exits (FB +Google) running a search for a technical co-founder; expects to finish a pre-seed round next week. The company is a platform focused on creator/passion economy & ed tech, and is at MVP stage.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

My first post is live, check it out and let me know your thoughts. This post is on the idea of "Internal Product Market Fit" which I've been thinking about a lot lately. If you're interested in the no-code space ( @thisiskp_ ) then this post for you!

Internal Product Market Fit

Many early-stage venture-backed companies rely heavily on their product teams - perhaps more heavily than what is really necessary. These companies often get blocked or slowed down by their product...

zachsthoughts.substack.com

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

11 months

Last night, I had the pleasure of hosting a dinner with some of Toronto's most innovative early-stage technical founders. Our discussions spanned from hiring challenges to effective strategies for scaling infrastructure and team structuring. A huge thank you to @theC100 ,

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

7 months

@peer_rich Yours would be poor

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

My fiancé loves wine and due to covid we couldn’t do any wine tours this year so for Christmas, I got her a basket of wine from around the world and made her a website to showcase the wines

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

11 months

Thanks to @goldlist and the @TechTO team for hosting a YC holiday party last night here in Toronto. It's incredible how many amazing founders we have in the Toronto ecosystem. Fun fact: Jason made a custom hot sauce called "The Hottest Startups in Canada" for all the people

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

The energy this team has is like no other. Check out the positive vibes from my All Hands demo today. Thank you to @andreasklinger , @curtisjcummings , @stef , @peer_rich , @david__booth , @eriktorenberg and everyone else on the On Deck team for the amazing welcome.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

What is the most thoughtful gift you've ever received? I'll go first, my fiancé made me a custom picture book about our relationship.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Today I explored logging roads until I found a mountain lookout, then I just sat there and read. It was amazing.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Things get real when you have actual users onboarding to your platform.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 year

When the SEO starts to work

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Twitter fame is just 4-6 people hyping each other up.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

I just had a call with someone I respect but only know a little through our few interactions. In a 30-min call she went from a friendly call to: - an investor - a user (providing incredible feedback) - and she might end up being our first user paid on the platform Incredible!

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Overhead today in a coffee shop: "I'm bullish on coffee" Ok bud.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

Guy beside my on my flight updated his watch time each time we crossed a timezone barrier from Toronto to San Francisco.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Startups today and more so in the future: - Remote-first - Community-centred - Early revenue before seeking VC money - Build-in-public mentality - Mental health as a priority - Focused on diversity

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

2 years

Send me your best startup ideas. I'll start one of them, make it a $10B business and give you $10k in return on the date of the IPO.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 year

The number of ppl I met at the YC alumni event was incredible. The caliber of founders is next level.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Satisfying @Wealthsimple logos.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

1 year

I'm excited to be working with @_dominiclau and @mattybcohen at @ripple_ventures . They're doing some incredible work supporting Canadian startups and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to help them on that mission.

Ripple Ventures

@ripple_ventures

1 year

We're excited to welcome @zlwaterfield as our new Venture Partner! 🎉 With his expertise in engineering and startup operations, Zach will play a key role in sourcing developer tools, evaluating investment opportunities, and supporting our port cos.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

9 months

My founder poker group struggled to split funds at the end of our game this week, so I built this: The cool part about this is that it took under an hour from start to deployment! 🤯 With AI + tailwind + "npx create-next-app," you can make things so

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

🐸🐸🐸 I launched something on Product Hunt today, check it out! Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

New fav newsletter from @beondeck

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I'm working on buying some software right now, the price tag is in the mid 5-figures per year and the sales person ghosted me ...

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

Google Meet > Zoom

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

4 years

Couldn’t recommend Supabase enough.

Supabase

@supabase

4 years

After 9 months of building, 3102 databases launched, 505 issues fixed, and 238,000 lines of code written - we're moving into Beta.

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

3 years

I just spent a week in Miami and the startup scene is bumping! Here are my recommendations on what you should do if your here 👇

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Zach Waterfield

@zlwaterfield

6 months

This is sad to see. Disincentivizing entrepreneurs is not the path we should take.

Armon Shokravi

@Armon_Sho

6 months

Bad day for Entrepreneurship in Canada 🇨🇦👎. Capital gains tax rate is increasing from a 50% inclusion to 66%. This increases the net capital gains tax rate from 27% to 36%... Compared to the US which has a 20% capital gains tax rate (+ major incentives like QSBS) In my

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