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Gregory Koberger
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Gregory Koberger
@gkoberger
- I wrote a song about the history of web dev, as I remember it! š„š„š„š„ š¤ It's the end of web dev as we know it š¶ And I feel fineeee
00:00 - How to start an AI startup 1. Hire a bunch of minimum wage humans to pretend to be AI pretending to be human 2. Wait for AI to be invented
- Starting a company is just taking something that used to annoy you every once in a while and spending every waking minute thinking about it.
- Replying to @zachbraff...they have enough money for the original music, right!?!? Scrubs+?
- Replying to @mr_wormhole and @dabit3Iām *actually* in this photo and donāt mind!
- For the first enterprise deal I ever sold at ReadMe, I told our contact it was $300/mo. He "misheard" me and told me they were happy to pay $1,200/mo. That was half a decade ago, and I still appreciate it. A bit of early support can go a very, very long way.
- Our ARR for some early major milestones: š $10k - Applied to YC (2014) š¾ $38k - Got into YC šļø $57k - Incorporated, paid myself š° $303k - Seed round ($1.2M) šØāš» $348k - First hire šØāš©āš§āš¦ $880k - Fifth hire (2016)
- I really want a startup version of Kitchen Nightmares. "HASHING YOUR PASSWORDS WITH MD5? YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!" *throws something*
