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Posted on 2022-05-12

A large part of what we do at True Ventures is guide early-stage startup founders along their journeys. One question we get all the time: How should I tell my …

Why is it that after 50+ years our primary tool is still a simple text editor? We can do so much better. In this talk I present my vision for a much more holistic developer experience, that deeply understands the application we’re building, and supports us in this endeavour.

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GraphQL decouples the frontend team's data needs from the teams managing the API and data layers. GraphQL was first deployed for Facebook's native mobile applications. Clients and backends had rapidly diverging data needs. Mobile clients were different than web clients. Some APIs didn't even exist (e.g., hydrated serverside and sent as HTML). iOS applications might rarely (or never) be updated. * The ability to scale GraphQL is highly dependent on your underlying data architecture. Meta did i

The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you've grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.

Six weeks • One cycle An inside look at the specifics of how we decide what to do and then decide how to do it. “How do you guys actually work? How do you choose what to do? How big are your teams?…

We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit? So I thought I’d detail som…

Dear SaaStr: When Should You Sell Your Startup? Having been through the acquisition process 4x -- twice as a founder, twice as a start-up exec, here's my

On 3rd August, 2022, Carl Pei (founder, @Nothing) sat down with Kunal Shah for a fireside chat. What followed was an hour’s worth of shared curiosities between them. Kunal and Carl started companies which brought new products in fast-growing categories, financial services & mobile phones respectively. Both left these companies, to return with all-new takes. Kunal, with CRED in 2018, and Carl, with Nothing in 2021. In conversation, they cover all about what entrepreneurship looks like in the roaring 20s, building high-performing teams in startups, what makes powerful brands, and choosing the right problem to solve. Bonus: Carl Pei discovers the word “cringe” and Kunal Shah reveals his meme dealers. Never miss an update on any of the upcoming sessions. Subscribe and switch on notifications for exclusive #CREDcurious conversations. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 0:58 Session opening 1:17 The beginning of Nothing 3:54 Setting up a hardware tech company 5:18 How to build a brand around your business 11:47 The values which define Nothing 17:32 Taking business decisions 22:02 Insight behind the design 24:25 Vanity versus utilitarian functionality 25:16 Dealing with crisis while building a company 28:38 Unique traits of the Indian market 30:36 Creating the right market environment for a premium phone 32:58 Carl’s role at Nothing 34:18 Identifying mediocre talent 39:11 Kunal’s role at CRED 42:58 Question and answer session 49:05 How Nothing got its name Follow CRED for a rewarding experience: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CRED_club Instagram: https://instagram.com/CRED_club LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credapp Join the conversation about CRED curious on Discord: https://discord.gg/CHCAbdj3Wu

Arm is now a real force in the data center. With all of the “Super 7” running Arm CPUs, and the software industry increasingly recognizing the benefit of porting to Arm, we are at or ap…

Amazon’s Fire Phone was a failure.

Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

Richard Held and Alan Hein raised 20 kittens in pitch black darkness.

An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…

An Analysis of Public Tech Company Valuations Versus the Capital They Raised

Why air-conditioned railway stations are political Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

In this episode, hosted by Jonah Kowall we are excited to introduce Pranay Prateek the co-founder and creator of SigNoz to the audience. He is an entrepreneu...

Spare a thought for the poor guppy fish, who lives a miserable existence but teaches us something important about forecasting.

Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.

Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.

Some brief observations on the cases so far. Use this as a starting point, not an authoritative take.

Some brief observations on the cases so far. Use this as a starting point, not an authoritative take.

Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.