pcannons
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Comment · 1 year ago
My current world view: for monster multiples you need someone who knows how to go 0 to 1, repeatedly. That's almost always only the founder. People after are incremental. If they weren't, they'd just be a founder. Hence why everything is done through acquisitions post-founder. So there's armies of engineers incrementally scaling and maintaining dollars. But not creating that wealth or growing it in a significant % way.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice, my experience writing production code in large codebase here, granted it's evolved a lot since: https://philippcannons.com/100x-ai-coding-for-real-work-summ...
Not surprisingly, building really fast is not the silver bullet you'd think it is. It's all about what to build and how to distribute it. Otherwise bigcos/billionaires would have armies of engineers growing their net worth to epic scales.
Comment · 4 years ago
SigFig | Principal Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote (US)
We're a FinTech committed to building financial solutions that are accessible and affordable to everyone. Currently we are focused on partnering with banks such as Wells Fargo, UBS, and Citizens Bank to serve consumers where they primarily are. We did start as a B2C company though and do still have a significant user base there as well.
For this team specifically we're building a product which is like Teladoc but for financial advice. Because of the complexity of financial advice and everything that goes into it there are a lot of opportunities to do first principles thinking on how things can be done especially given the "digital window" of remote.
If that sounds interesting, please apply here: https://sigfig.breezy.hr/p/97258ebf4859-principal-software-e...
I'm the hiring manager so please feel free to look me up as well: Philipp Cannons
Comment · 5 years ago
Are you hosting on Wordpress? You just need to install caching so each visit doesn’t query the DB.
Or what are you hosting on?
Comment · 6 years ago
My framework for this as a failing entrepreneur so far, so don't take too seriously:
There are 3 steps going from 0 to 1: 1. problem/solution fit 2. product/market fit 3. business model fit
#1 determines whether or not you can make just a few people very successful in achieving some outcome they want where they are willing to pay you
#2 determines whether or not there's a market that highly demands your solution and you can convince them to pay you for it at scale
#3 determines whether the net profit and net profit growth YoY justifies working on the company
I think this tweet is saying the company already had product/market fit so scaling it was no problem.
Brian Balfour is someone who actually has some success. Here's his series for putting p/m fit in a different framework: https://brianbalfour.com/essays/product-market-fit-isnt-enou...
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