Jon Wu

@jonwu_

sensemaking the singularity • married to @maggielove_ • did stuff at @yale @harvardhbs @baincapital @aztecnetwork @asylumventures

San Francisco

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Joined August 2008

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Jon Wu
@jonwu_
Jul 29
Travis is an apex predator put on ice in 2017 and only recently reactivated from cryogenic slumber. Standards for male behavior have moved so far that he's actively perplexed by it. Our current ecology was last home to performative frat bros nearly a decade ago. So when Travis
TBPN
@tbpn
Jul 25
.@travisk's commute takes 5 minutes on a jet ski going 70 mph on Lake Austin. "Who else do you know is jet skiing to work? Nobody. I'm the guy."
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Jon Wu
@jonwu_
10h
Tantrum throwers are actually the only valuable people in your company because they're the only ones with deeply studied beliefs. Everyone else is a compliant little automaton who will happily drive your company into the ground one "How was your weekend" at a time.
hilary gridley
@yourgirlhils
15h
I call this the diva's paradox if you tell your manager you have complete conviction in an idea, and they tell you "no," and your response is anything OTHER than leaving the company to do it yourself, you are signaling to them that you don't actually have conviction in the idea.
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Matthew Zeitlin
@MattZeitlin
Oct 19
steve jobs and robert moses would do this too, it's a habit of highly effective people that no one is brave enough to write a book about
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Jon Wu
@jonwu_
10h
Inside "operator" there are 3 wolves: - doer - thinker - manager Great interview question to ask candidates to force-rank their preferences. A primary failure mode is a thinker doing a doer role, or either of those roles being forced to manage.
Jon Wu
@jonwu_
Oct 16
A lot of career problems can be solved by just figuring out which edge or vertex of this triangle you belong on.
Jon Wu
@jonwu_
11h
Got a golf instructor to fix a single part of my swing and started hitting it 10 yards further with nearly no effort. I was thrilled and told him it felt almost too easy. He goes, "Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?" Lesson in there.
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Jon Wu
@jonwu_
Oct 19
Having a child made me love my parents to a degree I hadn't felt in adulthood. When my daughter was born I knew instantly that I was willing to give my life for her. And I realized that's how my parents felt about me. Becoming a father helped me inhabit my own parents' love.
feyisayo 💸
@feyiszn
Oct 17
It’s actually crazy how you grow up thinking home-cooked meals every day are just normal, then get older and realise how much time and effort it took your Mom to make that happen and how lucky you were to have that.
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