Inventor of Earned Wage Access. Café sidequest. Spent 100+ days at sea. Lent $250k on Craigslist at 16. Tweet fintech, Canada tech, and half-baked thoughts
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Life felt infinite until I had a kid.
Now it feels incredibly visceral and depressingly short
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Also, if you're an airline that's not using starlink yet, what tf are you doing
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I got to my desk today with 5 things to do, did like 8 things, and now leaving with 6 things to do
Tate Hackert retweeted
Don't over complicate, just do.
The pace at which things are moving can leave you in a state of overthinking and paralysis
But everyone forgets that the market doesn't need to move independently of them
You can be nimble and make the market to avoid innovators dilemma
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Been out in Alberta doing some work with The Government. Got to hang with @TateHackert and @evansammccann - time we spent. 🥰
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43 today 🎂
Father of 4. Married 19 years. Great hair.
43 lessons on raising kids, building a business, and living a good life 🧵
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I used Claude Artifacts and took every stock I’ve owned and backtest my decisions to see which ones I sold too early, which ones I sold too late, and whether I should’ve sold for the ones I’m still holding 📈
Pretty cool interactive display plotted on a log scale.
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One of the most compelling parts about working at an ElonCo was the agility to pivot to whatever the most important problem was.
One day I said: I wasn’t hired to go after spam, but a tsunami is coming and I’m going to drop everything to focus on that.
The org is so flat and agile that your title is basically meaningless. Anyone can sound the alarm about a problem and solve it themselves—or rally the team to join them.
This is how startups work but it’s very hard to make it work in a larger company.
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@TateHackert built an amazing community at @831Calgary so happy that we were able to support what they are building
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we are cooking - and hiring talented engineers
truly a generational opportunity
if you love building highly performant systems, travel, and want to work with a brilliant team, this is your chance
If you are an engineer that gets excited by this- please email me, mp at wander.com
I want @wander to be even faster, more performant, and more reliable than ever.
Tate Hackert retweeted
The point of man is to build, create, and improve the lives of others.
The number on the screen is not relevant.
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I currently have 43 angel investments.
Wander is one that will return the entire portfolio.
A few years ago, I felt that AI would change the way people book travel.
I started @wander to build the infra to experience the world. To help people, all people, find their happy place.
So we built a new product, led by that vision.
The how, matters far less than the why.
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My daily routine as a $100M/Year founder
5:30 AM / Wake up and feed crying son
6:00 AM / Walk and tummy time
7:00 AM / cook breakfast
7:30 AM / pass son to wife and shower
8:00 AM / sit on a computer for 9 hours
5:00 PM / hit gym or bike
6:00 PM / dinner
6:30 PM / family walk
7:30 PM / watch TV
9:30 PM / read until bed
Tate Hackert retweeted
I don’t think most people realize how much transportation and commuting are going to change in the next 5-10 years.
Canada is still building infrastructure, rail and transport for a world of 10 years ago.
AVs will dramatically change where and how people live. A 30-45 minute drive will be nothing when fully autonomous.
Drone deliveries could cut traffic single digit % and make rural living easier.
Road infrastructure already exists and is great, reducing volume and improving flow with autonomous driving and likely increasing speeds makes a lot of rail and other infrastructure very costly and will be built for a world that is changing.
Autonomous rides could get to $0.30/KM and BYD showing that <$12,000 cars are possible.
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I am currently in downtown Austin. There are @Tesla Cybercabs EVERYWHERE. All of the Cybercabs in these clips have no steering wheels or pedals.
Makes the vibe downtown feel so futuristic. Can’t wait for tomorrow! 🤖
Tate Hackert retweeted
People always ask me what it's like working with @tobi.
Here's @sama's answer: he writes the software himself, he sends OpenAI more detailed product feedback than anyone else on earth, and he stays six to eight months ahead of every other CEO.
Nothing in this clip surprised me. This is just what every day at @Shopify looks like.
My conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), co-founder & CEO of @OpenAI.
0:00 Tobi Lütke, AI-Native Companies & Why Adoption Moves Slowly
5:45 Sam's Own Resistance to AI & the Missing iPhone Moment
10:00 Models, Compute, Power Laws & Non-Consensus Talent
18:37 From AI-Obsessed Kid to Founder, Investor & Back Again
23:19 Impossible Problems, Scientific Discovery & Human Connection
30:16 AI's Two Biggest Risks: Loss of Control & Centralized Power
33:09 Iterative Deployment, AI Safety & Learning From Reality
40:27 Why People Fear AI & the Coming Small-Business Boom
46:13 Context, Memory & the Next Way We Will Work With AI
49:17 OpenAI's Platform Strategy & Killing Good Ideas
53:20 Peter Thiel, Paul Graham & the Value of Nonlinear Thinkers
1:00:42 How Y Combinator Changed Startups & Shaped OpenAI
1:04:03 Learning More From Success & the Power of Repetition
1:09:45 Building OpenAI Without Customers, a Product or a Playbook
1:15:57 Letters to His Son & Preserving the Story
Includes paid partnerships.