I saw filming outside of our office a few weeks ago. Didn't realize I was recording Jony Ive meeting up with @sama for their commercial. I love this city.
- With each new round of funding, I've noticed a logarithmic decay in how loud a founder is about it. Initially, I thought it was because it takes exponentially larger numbers to generate excitement. However, I'm realizing now that the first round/investments are also likely the
- 10 years ago - My first "big" idea. 9 years ago - taught myself to program so that I could build it. 8 years ago - moved to San Francisco to grow it. 7 years ago - built my network so that I could scale it. 6 years ago - trough of sorrow. 5 years ago - met my now
- Is there a single customer support helpline that isn't "currently experiencing exceptionally high call volumes"?
- DAO for hostile takeover of public companies?
- Fun podcast with my Co-Founder, @alexgunnarson Discussing our new self-learning AI agent and Neurosymbolic architectures being the next frontier after LLMs. open.spotify.com/episode/4kbjF8… Thanks @robmay for having us.
- Yes, investor updates take time. I certainly don't have a perfect record, but the benefits outweigh the effort. You'd be surprised the impact of sending even quarterly updates to investors and non-investors. At the very least, it's a forcing function for focus and determination.
- It's been a wild ride building a search engine with @thealexgunn and team @shopdeft. A lot's changed since we started, but what hasn't is that we're solving this problem for ourselves. We want trustworthy search, and we're determined to make it a reality.
- I came to San Francisco with a dream of building a product used by everyone. I'll never forget the first Uber I got into, the person sharing the ride with me was pitching his startup to the driver. Coming from a place without many startups, let alone people working in tech, IE-commerce search hasn’t evolved much since the early 2000s. Until now. Our CEO Zach Hudson spoke at Humans in the Loop on how Onton is reinventing product discovery, cutting the average shopping journey from 79 to 0 days. Big thanks to @ForerunnerVC for having us!
- We hit a new milestone today. We're growing so quickly that we're breaking other big companies' webhooks....haha!
- We're just days away from the most important feature an engineering team can release each year....or as I like to call it "The great copyright migration". ©̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶2̶ → © 2023
- People will use your product in ways you didn't expect. That's why talking with them every chance you get Is incredibly helpful. A user was literally drawing their ideas into our shopdeft.com/imagine tool and the output was magical.
- New milestone unlocked at onton.com. Instead of breaking webhooks with our growth, big companies have stopped trying to keep up altogether.
