[andytratt]

Dave Morse and Varun (later Toan, great FDE i learnt a lot from him about many things at both Scale AI and Anduril)

they hired me and kept me on the team and tried to get me not to leave ever by being kind managers

because i did support in slack and was a human Pylon and it was nothing. they were small tickets and API integrations. trivial for claude today.

as i said i did nothing. truly very little. my contributions to training openai or chatGPT or whatever roomers you here or hear or whatever are dump dumb hallucinations. sam altman can confirm rofl

[andytratt]

i am sincere in acknowledging the magnitude of my work historically as very insignificant. the only thing i actually did in my career was work with Austin at Shuffle Dating. the rest is meaninglessly small if you want to put KPIs on any of it.

but most people suck at applying John Doerrs OKRs i promise i asked him.

direct contribution to topline growth is how i'd look at it, or bottom line efficiency. the rest is noise.

actually i think Ruben Mayer taught me that one at Scale. do you know him too? great guy. very sharp.

he was cofounders with Botez, we played chess in high school. did you know that too? but i didn't talk to her much, Andrea just crushed me when she was 12 at the portland chess club i doubt she remembers either and all of this is water under the bridge. just funny stories