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Not enough founders talk about their time before starting. Instead, you usually hear super polished, half-true, perfectly linear founding stories that make you feel unproductive. The reality is that most startups had a messy exploratory phase before starting. Patrick thought about payment ideas for a year before starting Stripe. Bezos brainstormed dozens of potential products to sell online before landing on books. Brian applied to YC with multiple different ideas before starting Coinbase. In this spirit, here are some things I’ve recently explored (researched, talked to customers, prototyped) working on next: * loom for real estate * real estate x climate * ai for semi-architecture * marketplace for ai tokens * ai for remote communication * ai for crypto tax and accounting * substack for ai-powered coaches * plaid API for multiple listing service * decentralized multiple listing service * stablecoin-based global labor marketplace * ai/crypto-enabled marketplace for powersports
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My buddy Nick is working on AI for tax with his company Rivet.tax Afaik, they're starting as an AI enabled tax prep firm → future goal is to automate as much as possible I'm a happy customer :) Happy to reach out and connect y'all if helpful
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@king
main reason why i ditched founders. the copium is copious there. you learn nothing from the same Steve jobs quote being regurgitated on the daily.
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Also! I love these. What are you working on next?
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I think it doesn't improve the story for most people. Perhaps people like you, me, and maybe a small portion of the population care about that messy exploration stuff.
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do you think this non-linearity can be related to many different areas or one should try to be focused on a topic and circle around that?
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How do you validate whether an idea is worth working on?
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Great list! Like at least 3 What is semi-architecture?
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if I can help ponder any of these or other ideas let me know. love you sharing the story
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It’s all meditation and play before you start
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as a founder that is super early on my own founding path I’ve also learned many don’t have the bandwidth to follow the journey of the seesawing nature of early founding. by the time the story is polished the old medium is less relevant to learn the early story. Only coming out through the questions people ask the now bigger founder.
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curious to hear more about the first 3! what is semi-architecture?
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are you saying it’s not all “ship, ship, ship” ? 🙃 getting through that messy part is the only processes which filters out the survivorship bias.
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