Samuel Spitz
@samuel_spitz
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Founder @0xagentprotocol, stealth, @gently // @Forbes 30u30. Board @salvationarmysf // Raised millions, 100,000s of customers, & 7-figures profit by 24 y/o
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It’s wild that 23 y/o tech founders spend every other weekend in a new city, partying 4 days a week and paying for it with VC money as a “work expense”.
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You graduate college at 22 and you have approximately 3 years to be a breakout success before you feel like your life is over.
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How does anyone have enough time to:.-Lift weights.-Do cardio.-Walk 10k steps.-Cook all your food.-Dress + iron your clothes. make time for friends & date . read before bed. work 8-12hrs + sleep 8hrs. Literally impossible.
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How does anyone have enough time to:.-Lift weights.-Do cardio.-Walk 10k steps.-Cook all your food.-Dress + iron your clothes. make time for friends & date . read before bed. work 8-12hrs + sleep 8hrs. Literally impossible.
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Founders not working weekends is basically quiet quitting.
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You graduate college at 22 and you have approximately 3 years to be a breakout success before you feel like your life is over.
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Listening to Peter Thiel on Joe Rogan makes me want to stop going out and spend all my time studying philosophy, history, and technology.
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Saw some dude wearing a Nvidia hoodie at a party in SF. Honestly, sick flex. Better way to say "I'm rich" than wearing a AP or whatever. All the girls were talking to him.
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not to brag but earlier last year I started a tech company to impress a girl - thirteen months later we’ve lost $200k and she’s engaged.
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I will never understand people who would rather work in a coffee shop than at home.
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Your 20s are for making your first $10mm liquid so you can focus on building something more ambitious.
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Lord give me the confidence of a VC associate telling me how to build product.
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Hey girl, do you give money to your friends’ half-baked startup ideas?. Because you look like an angel.
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I’m sorry but if you’re 23 and a VC you probably have a fake job.
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I quit my $200k/yr private equity job to start a startup. 2 years later and we’re losing $200k per month. Ama.
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Every startup needs the following:.-Cult leader CEO with no hard skills.-Grinder CTO who works 80 hours a week and talks to nobody.-Engineer who makes everyone on the team feel a little weirder after talking to them.-Personality hire that upkeeps the vibes.
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If I raise $$ faster than I spend it, my startup is profitable, right?.
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Guys idk who needs to hear this but Waymo is 100% watching your rides. Me and a girl put our seatbelts on behind our backs so we could makeout in the backseat and the rider support came on and demanded we put them on correctly. Fully buckled, just strap behind our backs. Creepy.
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I moved to SF 2.5 years ago after a bad breakup. Coming from LA, it was a big adjustment. This city is dirtier. There is way less sceney stuff to do. And the people are harder to look at & talk to. Anyway, I’m moving back to LA next month.
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I health-maxxed for 2 months last fall. No drinking, no going out or staying up past midnight, 15,000+ steps a day. Counting every calorie. Wow, that’s the most depressed I’ve ever been maybe.
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If you’re over 6ft & fit, people instantly listen to you more. Zoom eliminates this bias, which is why we should ban it.
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No engineer is looking for a nontechnical cofounder. Be CEO or die trying.
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Went to a disrupt afterparty. Some 20 y/os in YC found out I’m a founder. “Did you do YC?” they asked.“No” I said. “Maybe next year” they responded and then walked away.
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Convincing someone to work at your pre-seed startup with 0 traction
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Uber has no cars.Airbnb has no houses.My $30m company has no revenue. This is the new economy.
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If you’re non technical and looking to start a tech company, just quit now.
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New TikTok show where I go to equinox at 2pm and ask all the people there why they’re not working.
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Forget Jordan, Apple Maps is the best comeback story of all time.
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San Franciscans mad at FTX like they’ve never seen a meth-head steal before.
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People make fun of paying $8 for blue check “status” and then give 7% of their company to YC.
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I’m sorry but if you’re 23 and a “ceo” you probably have a fake job.
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Your CEO is at an SF tech week party. 6 expensed cocktails deep, asking 19 y/os what they’re building. I’m at my desk, listening to The Art of War while I respond to customer emails and Slack my team to work harder. See you in 4 months when we’re both raising our Series A.
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You can make $400k/year, spend $100k after taxes ($4k apt, restaurants, a little travel), save $100k. It would take you ONE HUNDRED years to save $10mm this way. Think bigger.
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Went to a config afterparty. Some 20 y/os in YC found out I’m a founder. “Did you do YC?” they asked.“No” I said. “Maybe next year” they responded and then walked away.
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I don’t want a fancy sports car or a yacht. I just want a dense walkable community.
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You say you’re a pre-seed investor but you’re asking me about revenue. Why is that?
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Took a girl on a coffee date Saturday in SF. Popped in Shinola to window shop and she starting gaslighting me to buy a watch. “What you can’t afford $1,000?”. You can’t make these people up sometimes.
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Going to a top 5 college is under-rated. Where I went (Rice) is ranked 15th but I might as well have gone to Chico State in the eyes of investors & peers. Going to Stanford / MIT / Harvard / Yale / Princeton is ~10x more valuable.
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My take on where valuations should settle for ingroup (eg YC, Stanford founders, etc) deals:. -angel (basically just an idea): $5-7mm.-pre-seed: $10-15mm.-seed: $25-50mm.-A: $50-100mm.-B: $100mm+.
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FYI Sequoia just led SHEIN’s $2B fundraise. So much for the climate thesis.
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I don’t think most college kids realize how broke the average seed stage founder is.
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I’m reading a book a week in 2023. I’ll keep adjusting the list. Start on Monday, done by Sunday. Might make lowkey videos of takeaways. Here’s the list, what am I missing?
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Once you realize founders who’ve raised $20mm from top funds are still very much figuring it out, you look at the world differently.
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❗️If you’re applying to Y Combinator and want someone to review your application, delete it. You can’t even fill out a lil form for an accelerator without help? You’re definitely not building a billion dollar company.
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I’m starting a new VC firm called “pretty privilege”. We exclusively invest in founders that are extremely good looking. Studies show attractive people are better liked and more successful. I’d count on this thesis to outperform.
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While counterintuitive, I’m best able to focus on work when there’s 3-6 girls in my life.
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I left $200k/yr to live at my parents house and make 0 money for months.
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FTX only needed 6 people to steal $13B in customer funds. Why does your seed stage startup employ 20 people?.
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Marc Andreesen might be the greatest investor of our time. He wrote a $50k blank check to an AI and 3 months later the AI is worth $10mm.
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Salesforce closes the WeWork at 5pm so none of the SaaS startups working there have a shot of taking market share.
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Hot take but web3 isn’t quite there yet for the average consumer.
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>be me.>21 y/o college student, struggling to raise money.>get on twitter, cold dm every investor.>nobody takes a meeting.>see @jason tweet about using discord for the first time.>dm him there.>he connects me to his team.>3 weeks later they invest $100k on my graduation day.
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Here’s the message I sent @jason on Discord that got my 7-week old MVP funded with $100k before I graduated college
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Before founding Devin, @ScottWu46 worked on consumer social for FIVE YEARS. Lunchclub was a cool product but it was never going to be a big business. Goes to show the power of picking the right idea
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Your CEO is at a SF Tech Week party. Drinking with a bunch of preproduct founders who will never raise $$, and no-name VCs who write $50k seed checks to lifestyle businesses. I’m checking Mixpanel before my 10pm bedtime, getting ready for my 6am workout & 9am meeting. Good luck.
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Guys will intern at one YC company and think they know how to start a startup.
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How’s our product team? Our head of PM built this feature
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Some of our investors do NOT like my twitter. Sorry to break it to you fam but you’re only getting your money back if we exit. It’s in your best interest to like & RT.
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2023 will be the year of pivoting from crypto to B2B SaaS.
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If you send me a Google meet I am skipping the meeting and you also won’t hear from me again.
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I’m starting a group chat for tech Twitter. We’ll like/retweet each other’s posts, share ideas, and discuss the happenings. Gonna limit it to 50 curated spots to start. Interact with this tweet for a chance to get an invite.
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Petition to call startups “projects” until they have 1,000 users or $10,000 in revenue.
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LA is a great city for startups because there’s almost no good founders, you won’t get distracted by networking.
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Even most people that work out consistently are overweight . There’s something wrong with our food.
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SF is just going out every night and calling it networking cause everyone’s in tech.
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LinkedIn requests be like “Hi we’re both people that work in the business industry. We should connect.”.
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Once you realize founders who’ve raised $20mm from top funds are still very much figuring it out, you look at the world differently.
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I want to get my first Series A term sheet within the next 3-6 months. We have no traction or product. If you’ve raised $20mm+ in a similar situation, please drop tips below 👇.
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@neelsalami It’s crazy that we don’t use genetic clusterings (race) more when considering things like weight gain, nutrition, and diseases. There’s clear differences in tendencies across genetic groups and acknowledging & accounting for this is key to improving health.
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Hats off to the one guy who pivoted from creator economy to web3 to AI in the last 24 months.
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There are no four words more intimidating than “I majored in math”.
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No startup founder has all 3:.-Twitter clout.-Strong metrics.-Happy personal life.
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Just walked by 4 people in a private WeWork office sharing a bottle of wine at 4pm. May their startup rest in peace 🙏.
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I don’t angel invest and am not an official scout for any VC fund. Still, in the last 3 months, I’ve generated $100,000s in investments in my friends’ companies by sending their deals to my investor network. If you’re raising for something cool, my DMs are always open :).
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I have a working theory that >50% of founders have undiagnosed ADHD.
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People who say they want to cowork really just want to socialize.
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You’re in her DMs, I’m also in her DMs, she’s a senior engineer who just left Coinbase and we both want to hire her.
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24hrs after getting our fundraise announcement in TechCrunch:. -Countless requests from potential recruiting candidates.-Multiple Tier-1 funds reached out.-Getting approached for M&A.
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Twitter has opened 10x more doors for me than going to a top 20 college.
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@valeriealvrez 10k steps + weights + intense cardio is like 4 hours per day if you count changing & getting to gym & everything.
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Just met with someone super plugged in to top people in NY tech. He spent 30 mins talking about how much better SF’s tech scene is.
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Your 20s are for slaving away, neglecting your health, and then realizing what you’ve built the last 5 years has been automated by AGI in 15 seconds.
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Sf parties are crazy bc one sec you’ll be vibing with a former USC frat bro that’s a VC now. And then out of nowhere someone with a neon hoodie will walk up to you, stare at you, and immediately ask what you’re working on. Like in college this would not be the same party.
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Hot take but most college students aren’t mature enough to run a company.
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I could be making $400k a year in private equity by now but instead I’m in a shitty 1br in sf DMing tiktokers to collab.
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Hiring an employee who turns out to be super incompetent is basically the same as being scammed.
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So startups are definitely hard. But I was more burnt out after 6 weeks in private equity than a full year running a startup.
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There’s nothing quite like the youthful arrogance of a 20 y/o SWE with an idea that’s “gonna get funded soon” because he got one meeting with an analyst at a VC fund.
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Nashville has no income tax. Petition to make it a tech hub. Who is down.
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