Aayush Kumar @_iameveryware

Hustle = f(Code, Coffee, Customers) | Building @OpsLyft | Previously @indix | Engineer By Heart :) opslyft.com San Fransisco, United States Joined September 2015

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tobi lutke @tobi

5 months ago

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Premature Founder Boredom is a recipe for failure amongst Startups. The goal of a business is to become boring, and until the business becomes boring a Founder cannot afford to get bored. A non-exhaustive list of Deliverables for a business to qualify as Boring - (1) Sustainable…

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Jen Abel @jjen_abel

2 years ago

Early-stage startup sales is high-touch sales.

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Jen Abel @jjen_abel

2 years ago

your customers want to understand if you understand them where you dig, what you question, how you position yourself in accordance to their risk exposure -- it's all being evaluated and assessed, esp. up-market no surprise, there is a lot of risk in working with an early-stage…

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Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

2 years ago

You can avoid a lot of drama by simply avoiding people who have no goal in life: those with too much free time have a tendency to create problems out of nowhere.

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Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter

2 years ago

your MIS is your best mirror as a founder. embrace it. it’s how everyone else sees your business as, too. and it never lies. mixpanel cohorts, daus, maus, roas, etc dont mean much in isolation.

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

2 years ago

@eladgil @patrickc In AI at least, the real 30 under 30 imo you have never heard of. They are 5 layers down the org chart from the CEO. They are usually not on Twitter, they have an unmaintained LinkedIn, they don’t go on podcasts, and they maybe published at one point but don’t do so anymore. They…

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Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter

2 years ago

founder grit is the only sustainable leverage at a startup.

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Aayush Kumar @_iameveryware

2 years ago

The trick is to take your work more seriously than yourself, all the time!

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Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

2 years ago

The goal isn't happiness. The goals are: - living in a place where you feel safe - supportive friends with whom you can regularly meet up with, share perspectives, enjoy deep conversations - a family you can fully be yourself around, with whom you can laugh about the simplest…

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar

2 years ago

Some people are really privileged to call, nearly non-issues as their life problems.

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Sam Altman @sama

6 years ago

How To Be Successful (At Your Career, Twitter Edition)

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Kunal Shah @kunalb11

2 years ago

Those who are deeply invested in being interesting often lose the need to be skilled.

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Kunal Shah @kunalb11

2 years ago

Most successful parents take away one gift from their kids which made them successful in first place : struggle

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Jen Abel @jjen_abel

2 years ago

Startups: Customer problems that are obvious (i.e., truisms) are likely still unsolved for a reason. The largest opportunities are in problems where symptoms are felt but market doesn’t fully understand the problem yet.

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Jen Abel @jjen_abel

2 years ago

Startup Founders: I can't stress this enough. Be very, very careful who you learn from. Many folks are marketing on Twitter as a ruse for reps/experience. They share obvious insights (typically generated via ChatGTP) and when you dig into their experience they have none OR…

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Bhavin Turakhia @bhavintu

2 years ago

Time wasted in "inaction" for the fear of being wrong could be spent "in action" to discover whether you were wrong and iterating

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Sahil Lavingia @shl

2 years ago

Work-life balance is easy. Work-wife balance is hard.

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Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

2 years ago

Every stressful situation life challenges you with, is actually an opportunity to upgrade yourself, and build up a mind that can remain calm and clear when it matters the most.

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Suhail @Suhail

2 years ago

The most stressful thing you can do in a startup is raise huge sums of money, hire lots of people, and have no idea what product to build after the first idea didn’t work. The smaller you are, the more adaptable and carefree you can be.