founder working on @goodstuffnearby. uncensored bio below.
Atlanta, GA
Joined April 2008
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dave payne retweeted
99.3% of the people telling you that “distribution is the only moat remaining” have never distributed anything except that opinion.
Was just listening to a podcast about @usv's new fund. They said that "up to 50% of our seed checks will be internal incubations."
More and more VCs are incubating. VCs have always done some version of this.
Venture studios are a more productized, systematic version of this.
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dave payne retweeted
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
dave payne retweeted
I agree with this take. Over the next year, I think we’ll see an adjustment in internet behavior where everything that was once too hard to do/high friction for most people, is now accessible.
You can send something to Instinct like “find all of the unwanted subscriptions that I’m paying for, refunds that I’m missing, unsubmitted expenses, expiring airline credits, property tax dispute opportunities, medical insurance warranty claims, and other opportunities that are falling through the cracks” to see what you’re missing out on.
I've been using the Instinct personal AI assistant for weeks now and it's occurred to me over the last week that AI is making me more human.
A few examples...
- Scheduled two dinners with friends that I never would have scheduled otherwise.
- Scheduled a family volunteer event that would have stuck on my my to-do list for weeks.
- Ordered a cool new Halloween decoration for the @goodstuffnearby office with almost no effort.
None of these are game-changers by themselves, but my life will be better over the next month.
And these examples are probably 5% of what I've done with Instinct in just a few weeks.
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Great post @dunkhippo33. I can chime in here about ATL. Small check angels make this ecosystem happen.
At @goodstuffnearby we asked the best people in ATL who's their go-to merch person and they ALL said @Danger_Press.
@whit4th has been working with them lately. Just incredible!
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Last week, we said we don’t hire often. The response was kind of wild.
Apparently, when we do, we make up for lost time.
As we work to close Fund II, we’re opening one more role: Idea Runner.
Help us figure out which ideas should become companies: hiring.neighborhoodstudios.c…
Big AI moment for me today. Just told Instinct "buy these shoes for me" and they showed up at my door.
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This guy hit a big milestone!
Great founder. Great product. Great guy. @dinnerbites @getundaunted @AtlantaVentures
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dave payne retweeted
COME BUILD WITH US!!
We're about to close our second fund. We don't hire often. Today we are.
Neighborhood Studios (@goodstuffnearby) is hiring a technical leader.
Some context: we're a venture studio based in Atlanta. Each year, we evaluate 2,000 ideas, dive deep on 60 of them, run 10 real-world experiments & launch 2 companies.
Some examples...
joinhomegrown.com
hidandy.com
loopstuff.com
januarymemorials.com
justzingit.com
They all started this way.
This role is the builder's seat for the companies we launch in Fund II.
You won't inherit a roadmap. You'll take an idea from prototype to product to real revenue — then do it again with the next one. Full-stack, hands-on, days-not-quarters.
AI gives a small team like ours absurd leverage, and this person will be at the center of it.
Who thrives here: people who'd rather ship a first version this week than plan a perfect one this quarter.
If that's you — or someone you know — the full posting is here: hiring.neighborhoodstudios.c…
Know a builder who'd love this? Tag them or share this post. The best people we've worked with came through someone who knew them.
been thinking a lot lately about weaknesses versus blind spots.
they seem very similar. even the same.
they are very different things.
you have a sense of you weaknesses. being blind to something is entirely different.
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We're about to close our second fund. We don't hire often. Today we are.
Neighborhood Studios (@goodstuffnearby) is hiring a technical leader.
Some context: we're a venture studio based in Atlanta. Each year, we evaluate 2,000 ideas, dive deep on 60 of them, run 10 real-world experiments & launch 2 companies.
Some examples...
joinhomegrown.com
hidandy.com
loopstuff.com
januarymemorials.com
justzingit.com
They all started this way.
This role is the builder's seat for the companies we launch in Fund II.
You won't inherit a roadmap. You'll take an idea from prototype to product to real revenue — then do it again with the next one. Full-stack, hands-on, days-not-quarters.
AI gives a small team like ours absurd leverage, and this person will be at the center of it.
Who thrives here: people who'd rather ship a first version this week than plan a perfect one this quarter.
If that's you — or someone you know — the full posting is here: hiring.neighborhoodstudios.c…
Know a builder who'd love this? Tag them or share this post. The best people we've worked with came through someone who knew them.
It’s wild how many people now think coding was the missing piece between their idea and a successful product.
It looked that way because code was historically hard and expensive to get.
But the code was never the hard part.
Our newfound AI abilities has gotten me thinking about "showing instead of telling" on a daily basis these days.
Talking about ideas in theory is very different than talking about ideas where everyone can get out of their head.
Talking a ton about this at @goodstuffnearby with @whit4th.
@RickRubin talks a bunch about this too.
tiktok.com/@artificialmilieu…
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