Calvin Chen
3,458 posts
- a hill i’m willing to die on: anyone saying they are more productive working from home every day is lying and wants to slack off
- hot take: people who code in public social settings (bar and/or party) are just looking for approval and to “look cool” the real grinders just stay in the office and work
- for founders who say they grind but don’t work weekends you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
- the average founder: move to sf vcs invite you to events mon - fri go to all of them and network cowork at shack15 and make more friends sat and sun more events obviously never build, never talk to users — don’t be average
- how to get an internship at a startup as a student: 1. find startup (seed-series A) 2. email founders your GitHub and past projects 3. tell them you will figure things out on your own and won't slow team down 4. ask for small non-important tasks to prove your worth for free
- being young, technical and ambitious is such a gift. if this is you, being around the right people is critical or else your ambition is fleeting
- Harvard + Stanford MBA's are disproportionally delusional about their value to startups outside of startups, their pedigree (usually MBB or IB) gives them value, but in startups, value is judged by results and MBA's usually have little track record of individual results
- cursor is down and half of sf just stopped coding...
- “mom, how did we get rich?” “your dad finally gave in and decided to do b2b”
