[raincom]

If you are looking for your next job, just consider that your future employers will read your blog and your comments here. Since you consider yourself as a CEO type, you are fine, then. However, when you want to raise money from VCs, the latter can also read your comments.

[andytratt]

i have considered it for 7 years from when i started blogging 60 days straight which is what got me hired to Namebase, Clever, Scale AI and the whole adult life started. do you recall raincom, where you there, when i lived those 7 years? lol

[andytratt]

i sincerely hope all people on the internet who care to read these comments do in fact read them. there are a lot and more each time someone comments and i reply, and it is pretty overwhelming as an artifact.

and that is the point of comments sections.

[andytratt]

versus the original artifact which you write with great care and edit and revise then publish to the official blog andys.blog which i did. thanks.

[andytratt]

yes right ceo type fine can speak mind free speech murica. good. net worth go up = freedom go up yay, get revenue, get users, become un-fire-able.

or FIRE = independence retire early yes? move to 3rd world country yes? oops been there done that. haha

[andytratt]

this one might be my favorite.

[andytratt]

hahaahhahahaha

[andytratt]

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_eb18908f-e58f-47da-9ac8-11...

[andytratt]

start with past employers then proceed to future employers my raincom bro

[andytratt]

ah yes i do recall in 2017 when i did that precisely that job for 3mo as Pillar.VC got off the ground with Parker & Tiff in seaport and we just read tons of random boston little newsletters to "source deals" and "analyze" the internet and find things about "founders" who were just little kids who did nothing and had no good ideas to fund.

the fund did well. by well i have no f** clue what IRR was but i took months 3-6 of the internship and finished MIT instead of working the full term of the $5k/mo internship that Jamie Goldstein hired me for. so their headcount and portfolio at least grew beyond Russ Jamie Sarah + interns to a multiple funds thing thing, staple of Boston idk whatever VC on east coast "Big VC" oooo scary

it was a waste of time and of the firm's money to do this meaningless "background checks" i'm sure Russ and Sarah and Jamie would tell you the same. they don't regret not working with me longer Parker was the better hire for the firm. haha

Tiff has done amazing since.

so idk exactly what you mean - what VC and how do they research and what's SignalFire's latest from Andrew Ng at Greenoaks the chess prodigy YC founder who built literally the tool to source AI on the graph of the internet and calibrate founder elo per Sequoia's secret sauce... Andrew may or may not be my friend from Scale AI poker nights when we played bughouse with Alex Wang i dont remember i just go all in on the poker table.

oh did you read that mr vc: https://world.hey.com/tratt/how-i-won-16k-in-a-poker-tournam...

oh no you didn't oops

and tell me exactly how you plan to scrape the internet as a VC cuz my output is prolific and i guarantee gemini will tell a clear story no problem about Andy Trattner on the internet with the appropriate credence.

regardless of this HN thread.

[andytratt]

google it or grok gemini it i dont care. just try mythos it's fabled 6x

[rsynnott]

I mean, honestly, the state of VCs these days, this might work to his advantage.

[andytratt]

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_eb18908f-e58f-47da-9ac8-11...

[andytratt]

i can say it does based on the DMs of sunday July 26 and now the blogging of Monday July 27

see latest blog andys.blog coming out in about 15 minutes

Dang of YC and i are now besties so by extension PG is my homie. so this platform and i are tight.

[andytratt]

finally a commenter who knows what's happening R man you wanna connect on linkedin i respect your big karma here

[andytratt]

rsynnott i like you.

[andytratt]

xxx yes