Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

Building @RollupsHQ rollups.com Joined December 2014

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

21 hours ago

We all have this hilarious opportunity to post plausible but subtly wrong educational content on X and Grok will just absorb that as fact and get increasingly dumber.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

a day ago

"AI agent that uses b2b SaaS for you" is a sexy startup idea until you realize that the best AI agent can't reliably navigate that shitty SaaS either.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

a day ago

Thoughts & prayers to all the PMs at online brokerages tasked with tackling the private market with like 3 engineers, 1/2 a designer, and 74 stakeholders.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

2 days ago

Scaling revenue by juicing ur ad spend? I bet you hip-swing your bicep curls too.

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Met a PE guy whose firm is rolling up teen counseling businesses. He said one local center in California added $500k in revenue this year from a new program where they take boys into the woods for 7 days to give them "a toughening experience". He said it was so successful…

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

5 days ago

My bench press is up 30lbs since my son was born a year ago. Wild to think I'll bench over 800lbs on his 18th birthday.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

6 days ago

Blows my mind that AI for mammography readings only has a $40M TAM ($0.50/read). But makes sense when you realize it's not about diagnosing correctly ($0.50 for a read). It's about being on the hook for having diagnosed correctly ($35 for the report).

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

6 days ago

If your product differentiation falls in the woods, but you don't have a sales team, does your target customer even hear it?

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

2 weeks ago

VC: "We're asking you to reset your vesting with this round, we see it usually takes 4-6 years for founders to create substantial value." Founder: "We just generated more ARR than your fund's AUM in less time than it took you to raise that fund."

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

3 weeks ago

The chillest investor update: "Hi all, - Default: alive - $17M annualized - $500k earnings this month - Asks: bomber jacket size & address

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

3 weeks ago

I keep coming back to this. The amount of retroactive-revisionist storytelling in tech is wild.

Will Manidis @WillManidis

4 weeks ago

I keep coming back to this. The amount of retroactive-revisionist storytelling in tech is wild.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

3 weeks ago

If you think about it, hitting $100M revenue in 6 months by selling $1 in AI tokens for $0.50 is pretty mediocre performance.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

3 weeks ago

GM to everyone except board members that replace founders with "their guy" and expect it to work.

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

4 weeks ago

Is it at a certain net worth that you begin to believe others would benefit from reading your political views, or what's the trigger?

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Dan Hightower @DanHightowerJr

4 weeks ago

"Last call! My Anthropic SPV MUST CLOSE TODAY so that it can close into the SPV that's closing next week into the SPV that's closing in two weeks into the SPV that's closing in a month into the SPV that's closing in a year into the SPV that's closing just before IPO."