CEO at ScaledOps
Austin, TX
Joined July 2007
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Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Ardent (@ArdentAI) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast without fear of taking down production.
It's already being used by dozens of teams like Supermemory and Surface Labs with 10TB+ of data across customers.
Congrats on the launch, @vchennai2!
ycombinator.com/launches/QE3…
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Some personal news! Recently, I stepped back from the day-to-day at @Instacart to focus on investing full-time. I sat down with my friend @jaltma on Uncapped to talk about building Instacart and my philosophy on early-stage investing — check it out here!
For this episode of Uncapped I got to sit down with my close friend @Max, cofounder of Instacart 🥕
We talked about the key moments of Instacart...how it got started, critical wins, tough losses, competitive dynamics, earned insights, going public, and Instacart's future.
Max is also an awesome startup investor, and we talked about what he looks for in founders, consumer investing, and what he's building with Workshop.
He's one of the best people I know, hope you enjoy.
(0:00) Intro
(0:36) The inception of Instacart
(4:55) Finding product market fit
(7:20) Landing Trader Joe’s
(11:04) Big levers for growth
(13:36) Operationally complex businesses
(14:55) Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods
(17:50) COVID and Instacart’s IPO
(20:02) Prioritizing profitability
(23:21) Avoiding temptations
(24:59) The future of Instacart
(25:53) Investing in consumer
(28:21) Irrationally optimistic founders
(29:49) B2B vs consumer founders
(30:35) How to work with investors
(33:38) Building Workshop
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:
I have been accepted into @oshea 's AI software Accelerator
This is a BIG deal
Over the past couple months I've been building something huge in private.
It's an AI powered X content tool that I believe will change the world
This accelerator was a dream of mine to join. I'm now going to have the support and resources to make this the most powerful AI tool in content history
I'm not just an algo guy. I'm not just a growth guy. I'm not just a Trader Joe's ice cream sandwich guy
After this accelerator I will be the 1 person billion dollar business guy
My tool is called Creator Buddy and it will make your content 1000x better
You'll come up with more ideas and create greater content in a fraction of the time
With Creator Buddy you'll be able to:
• Create posts quickly
• Use AI to repurpose posts for multiple platforms
• Have an AI content coach that is trained on ALL of your content and can tell you how to make better content and get more followers
• Generate endless content ideas
• Use proven post templates
• The most powerful AI content analytics on planet earth
And much much much more
The best part is I'll be building this entire thing in public
I'm already 80% done. But once I launch I'll be going live every day to build in front of you. You can give me ideas and I'll ship those ideas live
Beta testing starts in the next month and I'm letting a bunch of you guys in
I'll be choosing 10 people who like/repost/and comment down below to beta test on day 1
Let me know 1 thing you'd want in a tool like this.
Subscribers will get in the beta automatically
Will be reaching out over DM shortly to the 10 winners
This accelerator is a MASSIVE step for me in my career and life
I will be the first person ever to build a 1 man billion dollar business in public
I absolutely can't wait to take you along for the ride
(after you like/reply/repost check DM in a little for beta invite)
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Too many engineers have opinions about AI without having built anything with AI.
If you believe that AI will change the world, you need to understand what today's models can do, how they'll change, and what opportunities open up. I'm not asking you to create a novel ML model, but you should understand how to apply AI to a problem.
In my circle of friends, there is a strong consensus that we're in an incredible technological moment because of AI. If you look at the most recent batch of YC, it feels like most companies are in AI, or at least AI-adjacent.
If you want a structured way to build something substantial with AI, @oshea is running a free Side Project Accelerator in October.
10 individuals or small teams will turn an idea into a real product in 6 weeks, and you'll get direct feedback from an Engineering Director at X.
Apply here: jointaro.com/event/ai-side-p…
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Did you know you can upload your work history and find jobs on X? #TwitterCouldNever
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Hiring (beta) is now available to all Premium users in the US.
Add up to 3 jobs and feature them on your profile.
Get started on web at xitter.cf/i/premium/hiring!
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
DM a job to a candidate, post a job on your timeline to drive more applicants, or share a job with your Community.
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Free Hiring features are available for 100% of Verified Orgs, and jobs are visible for all web and iOS users in the US.
Android and non-US rollout coming very soon!
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
we’ve raised the majority of funding via @x, hired most team members, most customer inbound, discuss features, reply to complaints
its our best channel and are happily paying for it
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
I use to be WAY more active on LinkedIn.
However, the results speak for themselves:
A post on X got more reach in 1 hour than my post on LinkedIn got in 2 days.
I basically don’t even login to LinkedIn anymore. Wait until you see what X has in store for careers 😎
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Fun company update:
June 2021: 0 customers, 0 revenue
August 2021: 1 person per month found a job through Laskie
November 2021: 1 person per week found their job through Laskie
February 2022: 1 person per day is finding their job through Laskie.com
Happens fast.
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Absolutely thrilled to announce that our team can afford extra guac at Chipotle tonight.
blog.laskie.com/blog/laskie-…
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
you: frustrated with Fiverr & Upwork for pro services
me: highly recommend you ping Chris about Laskie
Check us out, Paul!
laskie.co
We'll hustle to find you a great highly-vetted person or agency to handle anything big or small.
Pretty early, but you can fill in a project request for any category we haven't built out yet.
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
Sales can be tough.
If you're a founder and you ever have a sales-related question, feel free to DM me or email me at chris@laskie.co
I've sold $79 software over the phone, closed multi-$m deals, and have done founder-led sales to profitability at two startups.
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
New business model:
For $19/mo my cofounder will send you the same motivational emails he sends me every day.
Daniel O'Shea retweeted
We launched a Substack:
laskie.substack.com/
Please subscribe so that people start referring to me as a "journalist" and Twitter wakes up and gives me a checkmark.
We'll be writing a lot about starting a startup, hiring, sales, running meetings, KPIs, engineering, etc.
I limit my newsletter subscriptions..but I just subscribed to Laskie bc @ChrisJBakke and @oshea are 2 smart badasses who I admire and will strive to become like over the next 5 years.
Excited to watch+learn how you guys build your next biz
laskie.substack.com/?utm_med…