Zach @zach_dev1

ex @google, raised 1m to build https://t.co/L8XCrO517J, computer science @georgiatech, community adjusted ebitda, your mom is an angel investor San Francisco Joined January 2015

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 days ago

bitnami rugged cloud infra like it was a shitcoin presale

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 weeks ago

stuck at the DMV next to a founder from romania. clerk asks why he’s here in sf. he just says: “fundraising.” the most startup answer ever

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 weeks ago

what tf happened to the fonts @v0 @rauchg

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

to win you have to be based

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one of my investors sold his company for $400m in the cloud space. never pushes off a call never shy to share hard feedback always asking how he can help and actually delivering these are the best early supporters you can have in your business.

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

one of my investors helped shape the internet — building a product that powered hundreds of millions of websites. he's supportive but never easy on us pushes the team to aim higher gives us the time and backing to get there ex-founders make the best vcs.

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

so many founders get oneshotted

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

raising money is a lot easier than building a unicorn business. said differently, it’s harder to build a good company than to raise money. most founders start with raising money when they should be focused on building good businesses

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

how to turn an intro call into an annual contract: 1. intro call (no demo) 2. mnda → demo (with live data if creds) 3. define success criteria 4. 45–60 day paid poc (“cloud costs” $2k–$100k) 5. prove value → annual contract (no opt out) paid pocs aren’t a hurdle, they’re…

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Zach @zach_dev1

3 weeks ago

the current interaction loop with LLMs needs to be flipped. i shouldn’t have to direct all the work via prompt. it should simply ask me questions when it gets stuck but operate independently. who’s building this?

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Zach @zach_dev1

4 weeks ago

torture vs torture early-stage founding is its own kind of torture: your product is breaking, users aren’t coming, prospects aren’t responding. the shift isn’t from pain to abundance — it’s from one kind of torture to another, where the problems get bigger, and so do the…

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

think of startup ventures as a game. most people don’t just skip levels and go straight to level 10. the goal is to pass level one and then you can figure out level two. either way, you have to pass tutorial island first

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

nvidia ceo said he’s created more billionaires on his management team than any other ceo in the world. AI is the “internet revolution” that people in their 20’s/early 30’s missed out on and it’s 100x bigger

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

so much happening in the browser automation space. internally, we have an ai agent that interacts with the browser 2x faster than most of the competitors. do we rip and ship or find our niche?

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

is being faster enough of a differentiator to win customers?

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Roy @im_roy_lee

2 months ago

unpopular take: virality >> talking to users 10,000 users’ worth of data is a lot more helpful than talking to 3 users it’s just not recommended because not everyone can get 10,000 users’ worth of data immediately except thx to short form, u can now think more ab going viral