INDIE LORE
“We live in such a weird oligopoly right now that being distinctly different and being distinctly human is going to be valued in an entirely new and different way.”
Having It All with Jason Jacobs
I will achieve if I can just stay true to my own weirdness. If I try to do anyone else’s game other than mine, I have no shot and I will be miserable.
From VC-Backed Bust to Bootstrapping to Billions
If founders only knew that the investors they’re killing themselves for have already written the company to zero, it would completely change their psychology.
Building a One Person
How one founder is testing whether AI can run an entire software company alone
Skipping Seed Straight to Series A — Founders Reveal their Secret
We are two of the hardest working people you will ever come across… all of the VCs that said no, they are going to have to compete against us. I’m really looking forward to it.
Building a Startup that Becomes a Verb
“I’m just fundamentally pissed off that… the fact that your DoorDash driver’s trying to make a living and DoorDash is extracting this big amount… that carpet guy should get more of his money.”
This Founder has VCs Begging to Invest in his Startup
"VCs are lemmings. That’s what you realize when you’re a founder. They’re followers." 🌶️
How to Fix the Founder Mental Health Crisis with Eric Ries of the Lean Startup
“What pisses me off, and what I do begrudge them, is how miserable they are. Not everybody. Some people are perfectly happy and well-adjusted, but quite a lot of people who have made quite a lot of money are really unhappy. What are we doing this for?”
Stargate
“There’s no way that chatbot is the only UI innovation in AI.”
Terminal NYC with Reggie James — Full Q&A
“Fundraising is the lowest vibration conversation in startups”
Drones
“If I had to choose between ambition and discipline, I’d dial down discipline and dial up ambition. Although I intellectually agree constraints are a good thing—I’ve never lived that.”
Cults & Culture with Soleio
“$100 million in revenue with less than ten employees is this generation’s four-minute mile. Once someone figures it out, it’s going to uncork.”
Where Are They Now with Joshua Schachter from Del.icio.us
“Before you get acquired, you’re an important visionary. After you’re acquired, you’re an idiot who has to be reined in.”
Post-AI Entrepreneurship with Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius AI
“If you’re not being yourself, you end up being a bad version of someone else. Might as well be a great version of yourself than a bad version of someone else.”
INTRO TO INDIE
“The North star of indie really is like this vibrant world of startups and not like Microsoft owning everything or that three firms get to decide what the future looks like.”
Going Bananas with Turner Novak
"If I would have raised 3 million bucks, we wouldn't have made it. Because they would have built the company differently."
From $250k Raised to a $1.25B Exit with Shegun Otulana
“Running out of money is not a fundable milestone… We are servants. We’re not money chasers.”
