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CEO @ Seis (YC W22) - banking for US Spanish speakers. Sign up for my newsletter to read more interesting things ⬇️⬇️

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Steve Jobs spent 10 years (getting kicked out @ Apple to Pixar's 1995 IPO) basically totally in the wilderness NeXT pivoted year after year. Almost no traction with every evolution of the product. Seeing videos of him pitching the next great version of NeXT (that never came…

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Give the vaccines to Amazon & we’d all be vaccinated in 2 days

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Hard to put a finger on why this surprised me so much but... TIL Home Depot has a market cap of $335 billion

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I’m super excited to announce my new company: Seis – banking built 100% in Spanish for the 44 million Spanish speakers in the US

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Optimism isn’t about seeing a glass & thinking its half full. Optimism is believing you have the agency to refill the glass.

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👋🌊 [new thing] - What gets a tweet get retweeted? I love studying narrative & storytelling - so I spent > 20 hours digging through Twitter building an index of popular tweets Here's 10 categories of tweets that got traction, with a few examples of each:

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There’s two types of countries in this world... Those that use the metric system, and those that have been to the moon. Happy Independence Day!

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You know what's an actual, honest-to-god life hack? Working out

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Super long India. Both intellectually & emotionally easy to root for. Should be considered a first class partner with the US.

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Amazon is hiring 100,000 people during one of the biggest economic declines in history Netflix saves the internet infrastructure of the EU Facebook enables free video calls The NYTimes' take? "Be afraid of tech companies getting bigger"

Big Tech Could Emerge From Coronavirus Crisis Stronger Than Ever (Published 2020)

Amazon is hiring aggressively to meet customer demand. Traffic has soared on Facebook and YouTube. And cloud computing has become essential to home workers.

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Why does the tire company rate restaurants

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Where is the button for "Accept All Cookies At Every Website On The Internet Forever Until I Die"

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@Jason FFS Jason can you just chill for 2 min & not help burn the industry to the ground for the likes

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The single best thing you can do for yourself, for your family, for your company, is to figure out what you actually want and to ignore literally everybody else.

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@mikealfred I hope you go to jail for reporting this nonsense

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I wonder how many parents have hurt their children’s careers by giving unintentionally horrible advice

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Every piece of startup advice should also include for what size company. When you read me say that a 5 person company and a 500 person company should operate differently, you react "duh, no kidding" But almost no online advice tells you which one they're talking about.

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The best part about growing up with a big Mormon family is you automatically have the first 100 customers for every new startup you launch

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How you choose to spend your attention is probably the center-most point in your circle of influence. Changing what you pay attention can therefore probably change your life more than any other single behavioral change.

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- Opening your kindle > Asking for book recs - Going for a run > Googling workout clothes - Cold emailing a customer > “Researching” your industry - Doing the work > Reading about the work

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All I want for anyone is for them to figure out what they actually want, and then to unapologetically pursue it

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I don’t think people appreciate how the irrationality of a Musk or a Jobs is the same thing that makes their impossible products happen

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Sooo many bad decisions are made solely because they’re made by groups. Tbh Apple’s competitive advantage was mostly that Steve was the unquestionable dictator on product decisions.

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My wife knows I'm colorblind but like once a year she'll have me do one of those colorblind tests, just to gloat. (And no, I can't see the number in here)

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Great copy is some of the lowest hanging fruit to build your first moat

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All I want in life is for my 83b election to matter

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I remember when @Suhail came to the Lambda offices in early 2019 to demo what would become Mighty It was just him, he travelled to us, and the product was so early it was still barely useable Just a classic example of all the work you don't see underneath fun days like today

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PSA: $1,000 angel checks are totally normal today. Don't feel bad about asking for that size allocation.

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The "hello world" magic first moment for each type of leverage @naval described: Code: making your first $ while you sleep Labor: delegating a task you previously had to do Capital: seeing your stock go up Media: getting an email from a reader

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A subscriber: "Your newsletter sucks, you're a moron, you just don't get it." Me: *Checks his open rate* Dude read every email each week for the past 9 months

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PSA: If you use Apple Calendar you will - Miss meetings - Not have the latest invite info - Wonder why things always feel just a little bit off

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Praise fucking be

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We’re about to see a _lot_ of high priced ($5,000+) online Zoom classes, many of which will absolutely be worth it.

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Just had my final goodbye Zoom chat so it's probably okay to say that today is my last day @ Lambda School. Lambda has been a life-changing experience for me & I only wish I could do it all over again. A few quick thoughts... 1/

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The PTSD from even a few years @ KPMG means I cannot bring myself to read more than literally a sentence about Stripe's revenue recognition release

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Becoming more convinced that believing you will succeed is the most important variable to making it. If you _know_ you’ll succeed all you’re doing is working on your todo list.

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How much of being a company people love working @ is really just having high margins?

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What are your favorite industry biographies? e.g. The Prize on the entire oil industry. Putting together a list & will share later

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Criticizing is easy. Building is harder.

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Learned again today for 97th time that literally everything is negotiable

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@jarredsumner Trying to heat your room

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Instacart has one of the craziest hacks of all time "Managing our own inventory sounds hard so let's just get an Uber driver to *go inside the grocery store, pull the orders, and checkout himself paying retail prices*" !!!!!!!

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I have yet to eat at a “nice” Mexican restaurant that tasted as good as the 2 peso street tacos I devoured in Oaxaca

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If you betray me by putting a Plans & Pricing tab in your navigation that then links to a page with only a Contact Us button I'm gonna be sad

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My favorite question of all time for any CEO: "What's the delta between the external perception & the internal reality of your company?" Would love to ask Robinhood CEO today

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My very Mormon mother-in-law is helping us unpack and just discovered ~10 bottles of hard alcohol There was a quick moment of silence

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Something they don't tell you about getting married is that suddenly rugs just start appearing in your house

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New office move in day for Seis Happy Friday!

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The biggest social network in the world can’t compete with Twitter and people are wondering what Elon bought

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Matt Levine asking the question that we're all wondering... what exactly did $44B buy, if nearly everything ends up on the scrap heap?

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It's astonishing how much a startup has nothing to do with inventing things or other grandiose ideas of creation, and so much more with knocking out trivial schleps 1 annoying schlep at a time

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@Austen Who said it was a joke

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I have two wishes: I wish we would let more Pablos work in the US. There are so many great people who just want to build a life & who would make great contributions here. And I wish more American citizens would recognize the privilege it is to have that blue passport. /end

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Pro tip for getting useful feedback: say how finished your thing is. Eg “this is 30% done” vs 90% gives the person permission to give much deeper advice without thinking they’ll hurt your feelings.

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@0xgaut Suddenly a huge fan of Lenovo

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Jobs signed a horrible deal with Pixar, but years later when it trapped them he didn’t look back and get upset... just kept moving forward. It always impresses me the people who can unemotionally ignore the past.

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The hardest part of getting what you want is actually knowing what you want

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@killedbygoogle I don't see that quote in the link

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Been brushing up on my español so I put out an ad on Craigslist: "I'll pay you $30 to talk to me in Spanish for an hour & I'll buy dinner" Met a guy yesterday who I'll call Pablo

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We’ve raised $5 million from @ycombinator , @immad , @eladgil , @ShrugCap , @Austen , @jaltma , @SirJRG , @theSamParr , @ShaanVP , @dchhugani , @annierriley , @max , @harryhurst , @Altimor , @HodgesSam , @albumvc & other fantastic investors

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Why in the world does taking a screenshot on my iPhone while connected to CarPlay also take a screenshot of the CarPlay screen?!

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“Give yourself permission to work on things that are harder than you think is reasonable” - @patio11

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The introverts better buckle up for 2021 because when this is over I’m giving literally every human being I see a hug

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The lost value of working in person will be similar to the previously denied value of remote work. It's all intangible + impossible to measure. (e.g. meeting someone in person even 1 time is a step change in a relationship that couldn't be replicated over 365 daily Zooms)

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@shl One of my most popular posts on exactly this topic

Efficiency Is An Excuse To Not Do The Actual Work

Wanna lose weight? Stop reading this sentence & do 10 pushups.

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What’s your home screen look like?

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If you live outside of the US & would like a Clubhouse invite my DMs are open I'm _from_ the US & Silicon Valley always felt like this impossible place to be a part of - would love to make it just a little bit closer

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A well written cold email can get the attention of almost anyone in the world

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If you think of emails as direct response marketing you'll become very dangerous very quickly

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Everyone who changed their avatar for a crypto cartoon nuked 90% of their brand equity on this website because 1) I know you from the pic you’ve had for 5+ years & 2) Crypto avatars are often similar to each other - suddenly I have 5 monkey friends I can’t tell apart

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What’s is your 10/10 nonfiction audiobook?

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We’re too hard on ourselves on what we can accomplish in a day. But not hard enough on what we could do in a year.

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Contender for tweet of the year

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Predicted the clickbait handshake angle of a report asking for an interview, was admonished by @karaswisher , and was ultimately 100% right. Amazing thread.

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Incredible. Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public health. Unfortunately, my concerns proved well-founded. Recode’s virus piece ignores WHO & CDC, gets the science wrong…and focuses on handshakes! Thread: 🧵

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@Austen Someone on the Internet is wrong

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We started Seis because of the years I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico… I saw too many friends who immigrated to the US seeking the American Dream taken advantage of by high fees & interest rates, or denied access to the US financial system altogether.

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🏗Companies live & die based on their story. The story is what converts believers ((customers, employees, investors, etc.) And the best stories explain who you are in a way that's inspiring & memorable. I've collected a bunch of these, here are a few of my favorites:

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The new interview from @balajis does not disappoint

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If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan

Technology as sole determinant of history, why culture has stagnated despite advances in the tools that make it, how wokism will lose, improving health and models of health systems, if love can...

www.neonarrative.us

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Entrepreneurship is a lot easier when you realize it's creative & there's almost never a right answer

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“... if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.”

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I can drink either 0 Coke Zeros a day, or 9 Coke Zeros a day. There is no middleground.

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@Noahpinion This doesn't even come close to counting all the things that do not get said, shared, thought publicly because of fear of cancellation

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"What is the equivalent of a musician practicing scales for what you do?" I've thought a lot about this question for entrepreneurs... And I _think_ the answer is "maintain mental calmness in all situations & in all places"

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The most unrealistic thing about The West Wing is how quick & efficient the meetings are

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Related: one of the great benefits of living in the age of the Internet is that uniqueness is an asset not a liability. The more you can find & deliver what uniquely differentiates you, the more valuable you are to the world. This applies to skillsets, personality, everything.

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My favorite Seis review of all time is a 1 star review that says “Not in English - Very disappointed ☹️” Liked it so much we got it printed on glass to hang next to our customer selfies & 5 star reviews

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@Seth_Troutt @forthechurch I left the LDS church but I can assure you they believe in and worship the same Jesus you find in your New Testament. That they also believe in the Book of Mormon is irrelevant to your assertion. If someone reads the apocrypha does that make them not Christian too

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We want to break down those barriers by 1) making trustworthy products 100% only in Spanish, w/ native Spanish speaking team members 2) providing a bank account that you can open w/o an SSN and 3) building a community of support/education for the specific needs of our customers

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@kylebrussell This is literally what a startup is

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Your first response to any information that gives you an emotional response will be an overreaction Review the same thing 24 hours later & it almost always feels like less of a big deal

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I liked Crunchbase more when it was free and you didn’t have to log in 🙃

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I attended a citizenship ceremony in San Francisco just before the pandemic - it was inspiring I wish we treated all immigrants regardless of nationality or English ability as 1st class citizens We should be rooting for anyone who tries to make it in this country

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Just overheard my favorite new question to understand scope of an issue: "If we do nothing, what will happen?"

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Our north star is to treat our customers as 1st class citizens and *end dial #2 for español*

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Shaping up as the Game of Thrones quality ending we never got

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btw - you can know what any startup is struggling with based on the advice their CEO spouts on twitter

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Elon can be a podcast host because Clubhouse removed all the friction to make it happen Friction is leaving the world

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The actual moat for all startups is just giving a shit

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The single most frustrating thing about so many left-leaning policies is that they assume so little of people: You're not smart enough. You can't make make your own life choices. You need people from the ivory tower to decide what's best for you.

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Our first product is a checking account that’s 10x easier to open for someone w/o an SSN. We launched on iOS & Android in Q4'21 & are struggling to keep up with demand. Our dashboards clearly tell us this is an underserved market, and boy do we hear it when we can’t keep up.

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Feels relevant today

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