Jimmy Douglas
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Founder and CEO of @plugautomotive . Previously ran sales/delivery ops and used cars at @Tesla . Tweets about automotive, EVs and entrepreneurship.
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Working at Tesla is super hard.
But after two years, my standards for what success looks like and how big to swing have been dramatically transformed and it's pretty cool tbh.
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I made 25 angel investments before jumping off to take something from zero to one for the first time. To every founder I spoke to like I knew what it was like, I did not, and I'm sorry I was confidently wrong. This is so fun but impossible to understand without having done it.
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Just wired my tenth angel investment!
I will be taking a break from investing as I was promoted at work and will be drinking from a firehose for the foreseeable future.
Thank you to all the amazing founders who believed in me enough to let me on your cap table!
LFG! 🚀
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I am wishing you all the fortune of loving anything in this world as much as my son loved this slice of pizza on his first birthday. 🎉
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Blue check this, blue check that. Have any of you checked in on your parents to see how they’re doing lately?
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If you're a manager and someone on your team asks you a question that you both know you have answered before, and they are clarifying so they don't get it wrong, remember they're showing some vulnerability in exchange for reducing risk to your business. Don't be mean.
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Global market share of electric cars 🚗🔋🌎:
2021: 8.57% (DOUBLED)
2020: 4.11%
2019: 2.49%
2018: 2.3%
2017: 1.36%
2016: 0.89%
2015: 0.67%
2014: 0.41%
2013: 0.27%
2012: 0.17%
2011: 0.07%
2010: 0.01%
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I’m thrilled to publicly announce
@plugautomotive
, a wholesale marketplace facilitating buying and selling of used EVs among a network for dealers and fleet operators.
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Airlines should let economy class ticket buyers opt-in to buy 1.5 seats, and assuming the window/aisle person in your row mutually agrees, the middle remains empty.
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The simplest advice I can give someone who wants to move up in a large organization is to master the skill of concisely summarizing information.
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If you want an outlier outcome, you have to do outlier shit.
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Yeah, fundraising is hard. But have you ever tried to rent a house in the Bay Area as a dog owner? 🙃
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Pray for my son.
There’s nothing wrong with him, but at six weeks old, he keeps insisting on meeting at Blue Bottle on University, and he’s more interested in “adding value” than watching Sesame Street.
We are deeply concerned that he is considering raising a pre-seed fund.
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The application process for a HEY invite code was “email us a story about email.”
Here’s my story, and it’s 100% true. 🙈
No invite code, btw. 🙃
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I want to meet senior software engineers in LA with product management and team leadership experience who might be interested in joining a seed-funded climate tech startup in its earliest stage.
ALL races, genders, and walks of life are encouraged to inquire.
Discretion is
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It is extraordinary how much potential you can unlock in someone simply by showing that you believe in them.
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@anothercohen
One time I tweeted at
@AlaskaAir
and they responded by having someone physically come find me in the airport within single digit minutes and I’ve never been more impressed.
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I don’t know of any business leader who brought transformative change while maintaining unanimous popularity.
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Love love love! “I learned to code, build a web app and launch it on Product Hunt in 2 months” by
@AndreyAzimov
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I am so sorry, but I had no choice but to break down and make a Calendly. 😭
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Being an extrovert means I feel extra drained at the end of a work-from-home workday. For some reason, video calls don't really help.
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Founders, I love it when the problem statement in a deck is quantified and makes me say, "Oh shit!"
"In 2019, less than 30% of sexual assaults were reported. That means over 2.3 million sexual assaults went unreported."
Oh shit!
@LedaHealthCo
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Last night, I watched my son take two steps for the first time. Today, we launched
@plugautomotive
in Beta.
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In 2019, I want to meet
@ArlanWasHere
.
In 2019, I want to meet
@JanetJackson
@TheEllenShow
@maddow
@richardbranson
and
@Oprah
.
If I meet just one of them, I’m fainting everywhere. Let’s go!
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Thank you
@plugautomotive
teammates, customers, investors and fans. One year down. The journey is the reward. 🍾
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Considering getting an iPad Pro + Pencil for the purpose of sketching out diagrams and rough wire frames in Miro. Worth it?
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Just me with a bowl of cheese and some other stuff I made today
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I'm starting to believe there is no such thing as over-communication.
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If you're not on version >=10 of your pitch deck, is it really your best work?
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Is there an equity crowdfunding platform for operators who want to acquire, modernize, and flip retiring boomer businesses?
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Sharing updates with my investors for the first time and feeling grateful for my angel portfolio founders' updates more than ever!
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This was eight months ago 😳
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One like and I’ll build a EV total cost of ownership calculator
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We can't afford to kick and scream about 100% EV sales by 2035.
It'll be tough and cause short-term margin dilution for some automakers, but we must make it happen.
For it to work, we also need to make other things happen; converting the grid to renewables, managing peak-hour
Breaking News: The EPA is said to be planning strict auto pollution limits to ensure that electric cars make up two-thirds of new passenger vehicles by 2032.
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Learn how we bootstrapped
@trakt
from a startup with no capital to a platform with millions of users.
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We sold our SF place yesterday, after six months on the market.
The experience has me wondering about the real estate marketing stack:
- Redfin/Zillow optimization
- Targeted IG stories walkthrough
- Tour scheduling (Calendly-like)
- Email/text automation
Does this exist?
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Finally got around to listening to two of my favorite people discuss some juicy and important EV topics. 10/10 recommend!
THE EV WHISPERER IS LIVE:
— EV life-span secrets
— Tesla prices impact on dealerships
— Investment opportunities in EV space
— Bear case for EV adoption
Fascinating discussion with Scott Case from Recurrent!
Link to podcast below👇
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2023 should be a banger of a year for the filthy, tattered operators who do their best work in the eye of a storm
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I've learned a lot about the childcare industry this week, and what really stands out is the effectiveness of the "Facebook groups of moms" distribution channel.
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I regret to inform you that Microsoft Teams is better than Slack.
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You know you've invested in a 10/10 founder when you hear her commit to running 100 customer calls (in a very short period of time) to validate a new idea.
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Chocolate is best enjoyed with a 🔨
Wow,
@darrellsilver
this is so extra, and reminds me of classic
@SmarshInc
times. Thanks so much!
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.
@lyft
@AskLyft
@jonmcneill
This WONDERFUL man just found me at a bar in Austin to return my phone after I accidentally left it in his car!
I have no idea how he pulled it off, or how much time he spent looking for me.
I am so grateful for people like Gerard! 💕🤗
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If you're going to cold email, fine.
If you're going to GPT to generate a cold email to me, okay, also fine.
If you're going to use an AI-powered mass email sales tool to cold email me with GPT, maybe don't let said tool market itself in the email footer.
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I'm hiring a Senior Project Manager at Tesla, reporting directly to me to drive strategic projects across all aspects of our fast-growing used car business.
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I have an idea for an app
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Wow, major props to
@Walmart
for stepping up to the plate and announcing plans to expand their electric vehicle charging network! This is exactly the kind of leadership we need to combat climate change and accelerate EV adoption. Let's show some love and support for Walmart's
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Startups are fun, but I'm taking my one-year-old son out for a steak dinner, just him and I tonight.
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Nobody told me being a West LA dad was a license to exist in Vuori and Ons full-time but I'm here for it.
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If I were investing pre-seed full-time, I would happily help founders build their model for free (before investing) as part of due diligence.
Do any funds do that today?
value-add investor check:
@jimmydouglas
just spent over an hour of his day helping me model couplet happenings in excel <3 we stan jimmy.
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I used to think an expensive watch was a cool flex. Now, I realize the real flex is not needing to know what time it is.
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Just had my annual “yes, I really mean I want 8 ounces of straight espresso in a cup” barista conversation. AmA
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If you're an individual contributor and you want more responsibility, ask yourself, "How would my boss make this better if they had to show it to THEIR boss?" before submitting a project, big or small, even very small (one email). Make the incremental improvements. But then...
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Today I have a root canal and an investor call so I can finally settle the debate about which is more fun.
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