Bootstrapped software in the apparel space. 👕 Love design, being active, and growing 🤙🏽
Santa Monica, CA
Joined October 2009
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My lessons from 10 years of bootstrapping to an (unplanned) exit.
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Letting our kids manually drive cars will soon be seen as too dangerous.
Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data.
Miles per major collision:
• Teslas Driven With FSD (Supervised): 6,006,200
• Teslas Driven Manually (Active Safety Features): 2,031,221
• Teslas Driven Manually (No Active Safety Features): 845,915
• U.S. Average: 660,164
Total major collisions:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 1,579
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 17,775
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 239
• U.S. average: 4,989,713
Total miles logged:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 9,483,790,215
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 36,104,958,020
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 202,173,600
• U.S. drivers overall: 3,294,031,000,000
Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experienced ~9x fewer major collisions than those driving without it on.
This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The data reflects a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions.
Rivian is hard to recommend until they fix unlocking.
If you’re within Bluetooth range at home or work, the car will unlock → lock → unlock → lock constantly. Kinda a real safety issue.
Their workaround? Enable proximity unlocking…except your spouse or kids can’t get in until the driver does.
Very goofy.
iOS shortcut to Do Not Disturb for 1hr
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Wrong.
If you have 15-20 full-time employees and don’t have an EA, you’re easily wasting 40% of your time.
At that size there’s immense amount of wasted time sludge the founder is handling. Not just code and customer chats.
Examples:
- paying bills
- hr compliance
- booking travel
- dealing with travel hiccups
- booking trade show logistics
- handling personal minutiae (appointments, family stuff, etc)
- planning team outings
- customer visits and logistics
- gift sending
- waiting on phone hold for god know what
- new hire equipment and logistics
Its endless.
.@shensi thinks needing an EA as an early stage founder is a skill issue:
"I used to be a Chief of Staff. And I used to manage an EA. So I have a good understanding of the workflows.
If your company is 10-20 people, you need to be spending as much time coding and talking to customers, as fast as possible.
There's Calendly, there's Google Calendar. You don't really need an EA. It's a vanity thing. And it slows down scheduling customer meetings. You need to get those on your calendar immediately.
If you're really good with a computer you can go a long time without an EA.
Good EA's are a gamechanger. If you run a big company, you're really successful, are a VC, you're traveling a lot with a lot of meetings, you should have an EA.
But I see a lot of people with an EA, a Chief of Staff, a Founders Associate, sometimes all three. And I just wonder what is even going on?
Are you really that important? Or are you just slow with your computer?"
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Things I get excited about as an adult in no order:
Fast WiFi
All green lights
Good water pressure
A great recliner
Really cold beverages
A good walking path
Homemade cookies with lots of chunks
First 10 sec of getting into a hot tub
A desk with nothing on it
My phone dying
