Carlos Gomez
@cgvendrellCo-Founder & CEO @cheerfy | Entrepreneur, Engineer, Optimist | @MIT @Techstars
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My favorite quote of his: "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell
Velocity is the only thing that works as a startup. Rapid feedback loops that get you more data. Shipping product faster than the competition. Moving quickly on internal challenges so they don’t fester. Removing bottlenecks that prevent getting to the next stage.
I used to be impressed by people with fancy houses, cars, and degrees. Now I'm impressed by people with passive income, quality networks, and complete control over their calendars.
So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened: 1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary 2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns 3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my…
Here’s how insane things have gotten in Norway: The Socialist Party has a “wall of shame” in their office with “rich people who have left Norway” - due to the outrageous taxes they’re now being charged. Who do you find on that wall? Startup founders like @hagaetc - who was…
Yup
How To Write - by David Ogilvy, 1982
Best way to develop good product taste might be to use products and pay very close attention to how you feel while you're using them.
This is Thomas Seyfried. He's a scientist who's dedicated 30+ years to researching cancer. His message? Cancer IS preventable. It's caused by lifestyle factors, not genetics. Here are Seyfried's 7 MOST important rules for preventing cancer:
The most important financial decision you will ever make is to always live below your means.
Great advice on how to sell:
So you know who isn't seeing >any< slowdown? Toast. It's B2B2C, selling to end consumers, where the economy is still strong. It's now at $1.5 Billion in ARR, growing a stunning 29%, and it's profitable! 5 Interesting Learnings:
Optimism is a moral duty
Your competitive advantage is that you are only obsessed with one thing.
You have to understand: China's population is declining at an accelerating rate. Each year will be like losing an entire small European country. This will change the world.
That‘s the most scary chart I have seen in a while. Unfunded pension entitlements in major European countries between 300% and 500% of GDP. Mixed with collapsing demographics it’s just perfect storm brewing.
Gotta trust the process
Fundraising is simple; you must go from rejection to rejection with no loss of enthusiasm. Founders, this is a numbers game. Never let your head drop. The next meeting could be the one. Keep going.
Toast is the best-in-class vertical SaaS company of our time: 💵 $1.2bn in ARR with 48.4% from payments. 💸 Toast Capital has reached $1bn in annualised loans originated. 🧑🍳 875k restaurants in the US (Toast has 112k: 13% market share) 🚀 75% of locations are coming from…
Debating someone on social media is equivalent to looking for love in a bordello.
“Google parent Alphabet’s deals to get its search engine in front of users by paying to be the default on browsers and mobile phones have been declared illegal by a federal judge. “ Just when you think a system is static, it becomes highly dynamic. Google says this could…
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