Founder of TradeX, YC (W22), Engineer from IITR, Experimenting with AI movies, love sin businesses
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Divij Goyal retweeted
Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.
Disclaimer:
We shut down our prediction market platform TradeX (tradexapp.co) a year ago. Any apps using our name (e.g., “TradeX Live”) are not affiliated with us and must be be scams as money games are illegal in India
Do not download random APKs from internet.
Clarification: tradex1.live is NOT our initiative! It's a scam using the TradeX name to run a CFD platform, both in India & globally. Indian agencies are working to stop them. Please don't associate us with this site. Stay cautious! 🚫 #ScamAlert #TradeX
This is so true. Here's a real life example from 3 months I stayed in SF.
M1: Attended events. Realized AI coding a massive unlock as everyone was doing it.
M2: Out of curiosity started using bunch of AI coding tools to write code and making apps.
Divij Goyal retweeted
Prioritize operational excellence over product features, new city expansions and other fancy projects.
But only a few startup founders do that.
global truth
When their own party is in power, people tend to think the economy is doing well, whereas when the opposing party is in power, they tend to think it’s doing badly. Further evidence that politics knocks 10 points off your IQ! stevestewartwilliams.com/p/5…
Divij Goyal retweeted
What if AI could change how enterprise software gets built and sold? @harjtaggar
Divij Goyal retweeted
Jack Dorsey on why building something for yourself can be better than trying to solve a problem
When a 29 year old Jack Dorsey joined the podcasting startup Odeo, he soon learned that no one there really cared about podcasting either:
“That was one of Odeo’s biggest failures. We were not building tools for us. We were building tools for other people.”
As Odeo struggled, the team began to look for new ideas, and Jack presented his idea for Twitter. Somewhat counterintuitively, the product would not solve a specific problem:
“Twitter solves no one’s problem at all. It was something we wanted to use. It was something we wanted to see in the world. It was something we wanted to use on a daily basis, and that’s all that drove us. That’s what got us up every single morning, and that’s what made it meaningful.”
It turns out there were more people like Jack and the Odeo team who wanted to use it to.
“I think that is one of the biggest lessons I learned—Twitter did not start as a company. Twitter started as a product within another company that was failing. And to me, this really emphasized the fact that entrepreneurship is not necessarily starting a new company. It’s actually just taking significant risk to build what you want to see in the world.”
Video Source: @Cal_Engineer
Divij Goyal retweeted
When a startup is competing against a large competitor, they aren't competing with the *entire* company, they are likely competing with some PM focused on internal politics/career progression.
With this framing, it shouldn't be surprising to see startups win as often as they do.
Divij Goyal retweeted
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“Zero to One” Journey is the most challenging part of a startup’s evolution.
Here are the 7 young startups that I have had the previlege of being involved with in their zero to one journeys in the last 3 years. A few were even incepted over many conversations that we had. In most cases, I invested even before they went to YC.
It’s not been easy for them, but they have survived this massive death trap in their evolution. Adapting and proving PMF were two key strategies during this phase. Thrilled that they are now poised for leapfrog:
@nikhilgoel03 @salaryboxapp
@GoyalVikul @Bimaplan
@vivekprakash @codingal
@asinghal_7 @legistify
@DivijGoyal @TradeX
@SohailGupta #UnrealMilk
@HimanshuBamoria @AthinaAI
As a part of the next iteration of GSF Founders Academy, I will be hosting these magnificent 7 startup founders and explore their “zero to one” journeys in depth. @gsf_fund
If you are a founder starting to build a new venture, do apply: lnkd.in/giTsKmDb
Divij Goyal retweeted
Great!
BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. has been granted a massive victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him and others.
RFK Jr. was able to win a preliminary injunction against the White House and several federal agencies as a federal judge ruled that the government was "insinuating themselves into the social-media companies’ private affairs and blurring the line between public and private action."
Judge Doughty said Kennedy provided substantial evidence that the Biden administration had coerced the companies into suppressing free speech related to Covid, elections, gas prices, climate change, gender, and abortion.
"It is certainly likely that Defendants could use their power over millions of people to suppress alternative views or moderate content that they do not agree with in the upcoming 2024 national election," the judge added.
The injunction is stayed until 10 days after the Supreme Court rules on Missouri v Biden, though it prevents the White House and other agencies from coercing social media companies to "remove, delete, suppress, or reduce... content containing protected free speech."
This is a major triumph for free speech in the country that RFK Jr. has won.
