POV: You left stanford after the first day of class to build an ai startup
8 months later, your 10 most cracked friends all moved to sf to help you build it
POV: you got all your most cracked friends to move sf to build an ai startup
Revenue: $50k+ / month
Rent: <$1k / person
Sleep: 4-6 hrs / night
Mattresses on the floor: 7
If you're not doing this, your startup will never hit PMF
Pitched a startup I couldn't get out of my head to my most cracked friend.
Within 3 days he dropped out of uni, broke up with his gf, quit his job, and moved to the US.
We just got a flat together in SF and are now working 24/7 to realize this vision.
It's an issue that slows
POV: you raise $2m for your ai startup
You're post-YC, pre-series A, and can finally invest in that triple bunk.
You feel like a hero.
You've ditched the mattresses-on-the-floor but your engineers hardly notice.
(they've been vibecoding MCP servers for the last 36 hours)
POV: it's 3am and the first sleep rotation has just begun for your engineers
if you're not building your ai startup from a 900 sq ft apartment with mattresses on the ground, you're not doing it right
2024 wrapped
> graduated stanford cs
> started and failed 2 companies
> pitch most cracked friend new startup
> both leave school to build in sf
> first x post
> get into yc
> launch product 3 weeks into batch
> $50k MRR in first 50 days
> raise seed, hire team
> its time to
True, it's not sustainable long term but no choice right now until we have a bigger team. Here's my philosophy:
Pre seed: 2-4 hrs / night
Seed: 4-6 hrs / night
Series A: 6-8 hrs / night
After going $0 -> $500k ARR during Y Combinator, I scaled @origamiagents from 2 to 10 people in 60 days. Here’s everything I learned about hiring (and firing) so you don't make the same mistakes as me:
From January to March we received over 2000 applications, collectively
I asked @sama what the biggest problem facing the world is.
His words rattled me to my core--
"Cold outbound sales is broken and nobody is doing anything about it. If I had another chance, I would've solved this problem over starting OpenAI"
Well, we followed his advice and
