andrew arruda 🎸 @AndrewArruda Twitter profile

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we're stuck in 2022 while this man is living in 2075

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when someone cancels a meeting and sends an email instead

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"marcus aurelius says your only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing. focus on what you're doing. get better at what you're doing. everything else is a complete waste of time."

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closing enterprise customers as a startup

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if I asked you about startups, you'd probably give me the skinny on about every book and blog post ever written. paul graham. you know a lot about him. essays. y combinator. hacker news. his vision. his investments. the whole works, right?...

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an absolute @sama banger. "innovation is easier with a relatively small team that has to make a decisive and clear concentrated bet and that doesn't tolerate any mediocre performers. that's it." small, focused, high-performing teams win.

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"now, let me tell you what i do know; every day, i come by your work station and we go eat sweetgreens together. you tell me about your startup idea and how fed up you are working at this dying decacorn, and it's great. you know what the best part of my day is?...

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i am a grown up

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solution = cut out the middle and ensure developers are talking to users!

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trying to land an enterprise customer as a startup

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a classic @paulg banger. "it turns out it's not that important to be smart. it's much, much more important to be determined. if you imagine this hypothetical person who's like 100 out of 100 for smart and 100 out of 100 for determination, right? and then you start taking away…

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wake up babe new boston dynamics video just dropped

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4 years

I guess all lawyers are now in-house.

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9 months

what's the answer?

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5 years

Networking 101.

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founders pitching startups that solve problems no one has

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...it's for about ten seconds before i text you to see if you want to grab lunch. 'cause i think maybe you'll text me back & tell me you quit your cushy PM job. that you got into yc & you're building your startup. no goodbye, no see ya later, i don't know much, but i know that."

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i want to hang out with the person who made this sign

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but I bet you can't tell me what it feels like to launch your product & get your first paying customer. you've never actually built something & put it out there for the world to see. really shipped. if i ask you about growth, you'd probably give me a list of your favorite hacks.

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1 year

got a cold dm from a 12-year-old startup founder looking for angel investment. whoa.

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1 year

i can't learn anything from you I can't read in some fucking tech newsletter. unless you want to talk about your contrarian vision and what you're building. then I'm fascinated. i'm in. but you don't want to do that, do you, sport? you're terrified of launching. your move, chief.

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3 months

if your ceo or founder has a sauce drawer, your startup is going to make it

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4 months

“libraries rely on fair use at every step in a typical digital preservation workflow, from cataloging to access.” → publishers are coming for libraries now. support the @internetarchive in their fight. link to the full brief here:

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Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed:

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andrew arruda 🎸

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3 years

ROSS is filing antitrust claims against Thomson Reuters and West Publishing. As explained in our filing, Westlaw’s business model is to build walls around the public law to unfairly maintain control over the $8 billion-dollar legal research marketplace.

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but you've never been near one. you've never poured your heart & soul into a project and watched it crash and burn, looking to your co-founders for help. if i ask you about passion, you'd probably quote steve jobs. but you've never found a problem and been totally obsessed...

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...you may have even run some experiments and tests. but you can't tell me what it feels like to see your user base and revenue grow exponentially. you're a smart kid. if i ask you about failure, you'd probably throw "lean startup" at me, right? "fail fast, fail often"...

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andrew arruda 🎸

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9 months

NEVER FORGET: THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO BE ALIVE IN HUMAN HISTORY

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3 years

This interview from 1974 is great. One day a computer will fit on a desk...

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1 year

of course that's your contention, you're a new vc coming off a two-year stint at a telehealth unicorn. you just got done readin' the newsletters, probably @nikillinit or @healthapi . you're gonna be convinced of that until next month when...

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"why shouldn't I work for google? thats a tough one, but i'll take a shot. say I'm working at google. somebody asks me to ship something, something nobody else can build. maybe I take a shot at it, and maybe it works. and i'm real happy with myself, cause I did my job well...

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1 year

closing salutations in emails are a relic from the days of letter writing. we know who sent it.

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11 months

@roshanpateI this is hilarious to see written out

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...found something that can drive you with its purpose. feeling like you're on a mission to change the world. worked with an incredible team on something revolutionary. and you wouldn't know what it's like to be their leader...

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you don't know about real success. because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. i doubt you've ever dared to love anything that much. i look at you, i don't see an innovative, ambitious founder. i see a wannabe, scared-shitless hustler...

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to have that trust & respect for them be there forever. through anything. through pivots. & you wouldn't know about sacrifice, sleeping on an air mattress for years, eating ramen, because the investors could see in your eyes that the terms runway & burn rate doesn't apply to you.

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1 year

but you're a genius. no one denies that. no one could possibly understand the potential of you. but you presume to know everything about me because you saw an early demo of mine, and you ripped my fucking idea and product apart. you're a dropout, right?...

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4 months

dostoevsky's writing is close to perfect

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andrew arruda 🎸

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3 years

PRO TIP: When you're writing in Microsoft Word or Outlook and accidentally leave the Caps Lock on, select the text and press Shift F3. You can now change the text between upper and lower case, and there's a third option to make the first letter of each word upper case too.

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1 year

this video plays in my brain when i'm pitched by a startup and it's obvious they never talk to users

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@AndrewArruda

1 year

you think I know the first thing about how hard your journey has been, how you think, who you are, because I watched the social network? does that encapsulate you? personally, I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what?...

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1 year

angel investment #1 and #2 of 2023 signed & wired

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1 year

"You can't handle the truth! kid, we live in a world that has markets, and those markets have to be disrupted by startups with funding. and whos gonna do it? you? your cofounder weinberg? as a VC i have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You beg for funding...

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1 year

all startup pitches right now

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5 months

and here's trying to land an enterprise customer as a startup

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1 year

@sama we’re living in the best era ever for human beings

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3 years

For too long, Westlaw has maintained an unearned monopoly over legal research, quashing any competitor & restricting access to the public law to those able to pay its exorbitant prices. We can no longer allow the law to be held ransom behind the paywalls of a corporate monopoly.

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love that @garrytan is still camera in hand and taking photos during demo day - let’s go!

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3 months

the gundo crew knows how to make an entrance

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"one guaranteed way to turn your mind into the type that startup ideas form in unconsciously is to get yourself to the leading edge of some technology. to, as @paultoo put it, "live in the future." ...ideas that seem uncannily prescient to other people will seem obvious to you."

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the future of surgery will include remote. here's a video of a surgeon in london performing a remote operation on a banana in california. i hope the claims process gets figured out for these sorts of remote procedures in a way that doesn't prevent progress.

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3 years

more video game poetry.

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1 year

mcdonald’s in the 80s versus now. this is what they took from us.

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4 years

"Dad, why is my sister's name Rose?" "Because your mother loves roses" "Cool. Thanks Dad!" "You're welcome Regulatory Reform"

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the biggest news in health no one is talking about yet

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andrew arruda 🎸

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4 years

BREAKING NEWS: Yesterday, the Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously to amend Rule 5.4 to allow for non-lawyer ownership & investment in law firms & to establish a legal regulatory sandbox! ...a massive step forward for true #A2J and more great momentum! 🚀

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"everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you -- and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

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5 years

A ram-dom act of vandalism h/t @reddit

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4 months

had the opportunity to tour the @internetarchive last week. got to see part of their server setup. each blinking light is someone downloading or uploading something to the internet archive. also chatted about some really cool upcoming projects...stay posted on that!

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@AndrewArruda

1 year

i made 23 angel investments this year, here's what i learned:

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@AndrewArruda

9 months

today is the world dog surfing championships in pacifica

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@AndrewArruda

1 year

@pararths “That’s why I’m not talkin’ right now about some idea I had in college and how I always regretted not building it. I don't regret the 8 years I spent building the company. And I don't regret when we had to pivot. And I sure as hell don’t regret missin’ the damn conference."

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

3 years

Since Day 1 at ROSS, we fought to improve A2J via tech. This is Jimoh & me in our first "office"-an unheated basement in Toronto. I'm energized by the fight ahead. Until Jan 31, we'll keep helping others find precedents. Afterwards, we're focused on setting a precedent ourselves.

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1 year

i'm going back

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andrew arruda 🎸

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7 years

Proud to announce our 13M in funding today ($8.7M Series A & $4.3 Seed). The future is very bright! #LegalTech #AI

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@AndrewArruda

1 year

pete davidson is trending. better call my mom to make sure pete didn't steal her away from my dad

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1 year

@rongse "do you like apples?" "...yeah." "well i got a term sheet. how do you like dem apples?"

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cybertruck perfectly parked outside yc, great aesthetic

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8 years

How awesome are these door handles?!

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1 year

angel investment #3 of 2023 signed & wired

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1 year

the smartest people i know send the shortest emails

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6 months

just became a 2x dad. guess this makes me a serial father as well as a serial entrepreneur.

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

3 years

Thanks everyone for all your kind words. The truth is that it hurts deeply to lose the amazing team we had, our incredible partners and customers, and to be forced to stop building towards our dream. We will fight, but it's a shame.

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andrew arruda 🎸

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🚀 Launched @AutomateMedical with @tjhammy & @jdjkelly 💰 2M round led by @sama , @jaltma & @maxaltman 's Apollo Projects + amazing investors incl. @eriktorenberg & @arjunsethi 💪 @ericries advising ⚕️ We transform messy medical data into useful insights

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hello, world

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san francisco sunrise

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"i think investors don't get the stuff that is the first one...so i think investors, even though they like to say i'm in venture capital, i take risks, they look for pattern recognition, which in this business is probably a mistake."

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Founders, if you wonder why VC's act so weird, it's basically this VCs act mostly via mimesis based on social consensus, but the future is built by founders who are contrarian AND right

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1 year

how it feels in the bay area these days

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

3 years

Pumped to announce I'm joining @RyersonLIZ as a Special Advisor. Excited to be able to work closely with LIZ on the important work helping consumers get the legal help they need. I'll help shape LIZ strategy working closely with @Chris_Bentley & @hperlis ...stay tuned for more!

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@AndrewArruda

3 years

I don’t think the Big 4 thinks about law firms as much as law firms think about the Big 4.

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@AndrewArruda

3 months

the gundo x silicon valley crossover is happening proud to be an angel investor in both rainmaker and dirac. lets go @adoricko , @filarons and the rainmaker and dirac teams. it’s time to build.

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@AndrewArruda

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3d printer writing out chatgpt generated homework

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1 year

new @ycombinator merch drop right in time for the holiday season

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1 year

as an angel investor, i invest in founders, not startups

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

4 years

"If you threw a lawyer from the early 1900s in a courtroom, she would probably do just fine. But if you threw a surgeon from the 1900s in a modern OR, they would flounder. We’ve not kept the pace, right?"

How a new program connects Utahns to lower-cost legal advice

Utah becomes 2nd state to allow non-lawyers to give legal advice in new paralegal program

www.deseret.com

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so great to see @garrytan irl. garry was one of my s15 yc group partners and i learned a ton of startup wisdom from him. yc founders are lucky to have garry at the helm!

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

8 years

A set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies ... (via Douglas Adams) Pretty spot on for #LegalTech !

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

3 years

Just heard that my wife, who has been battling COVID on the front lines as an ICU pulmonologist, should be getting a vaccine in the next few days. Great news. The selflessness of the doctors, nurses, support staff, janitorial team, and administration of hospitals is incredible.

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@AndrewArruda

5 years

World's scariest pumpkins 🎃

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1 year

been thinking a lot about ikigai, or the concept of our reason for being. 'iki' in japanese means 'life,' & 'gai' describes value or worth.

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@AndrewArruda

4 years

Today I learned that "upper case" and "lower case" refers to the physical cases where printers kept their letters!

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@AndrewArruda

1 year

founders should seek out former founders who unsuccessfully tried to launch in their space — lots to learn from

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

4 years

The fact that a Canadian news outlet is interviewing folks by taping their microphones to hockey sticks to maintain social distance is amazing. So 🇨🇦🏒!

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

4 years

Google trends on Mariah Carey, "All I Want for Christmas." and so it begins...

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@AndrewArruda

10 months

"if you do the right things on the top line, the bottom line will follow...if you get the right strategy, if you have the right people, and if you have the right culture, you'll do the right products, marketing...and if you do all those things right, the bottom line will follow."

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andrew arruda 🎸

@AndrewArruda

5 years

Left my career as an attorney because of the #A2J issues I saw on the front lines. Founded a #LegalTech company to enable lawyers to assist more clients...and I am proud to be on the @StateBarCA #ATILS team driving regulatory reform - I'll never give up & I hope you won't either!

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2 years

when does a joke become a dad joke? when it's full groan.

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1 year

no founder-led sales early, no bueno

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1 year

angel investment #4 of 2023 signed & wired

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a charlie munger banger 🔥 "i constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. they go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up. and boy does that habit help, particularly…

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"Ultimately, machine learning might reveal what many lawyers suspect: very few disputes are truly unique and enormous sums of money are sometimes spent discovering facts that don’t really change either party’s view of the value of the case" #LegalTech #AI

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