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Simon White

@simonwhiteio

Founder & Systems Engineer. @YCombinator alumn. ex-@usecaribou (fka Rebank).

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Simon White

@simonwhiteio

9 Jul

Headcount is a terrible metric for measuring the performance or potential of a startup. Revenue per employee is far more insightful.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

4 Jul

Serious question Why do the Greens go into election after election with a socialist clown show manifesto, win next to no seats and keep coming back with largely unchanged policies? #UKElection2024

Building a company and looking for a technical co-founder? Don't pitch me the idea, pitch me you. Founder > idea. Why should I spend the next 7-10 years following you in to probably the hardest thing either of us will ever do?

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

20 Jun

Is it just me or is there a shitload of Americans in Dublin? I swear 1 in 3 people I’ve come across today are from the US.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

19 Jun

I'd go one step further and say that if there was a security that contained all startups that implemented k8s from day 1 I would short it with my life savings.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

19 Jun

You should never trust a CTO or tech lead that advocates for an early-stage company to implement k8s (especially self-managed) from day 1. Startups win with speed. Kubernetes destroys your ability to move fast. Solve for scalability when you have scalability problems.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

19 Jun

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

17 Jun

Got aspirations of being a hand model? Want to signal to everyone that you don't know what you're doing? Then you should try... Gym gloves

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

15 Jun

Jailbreaking is a fascinating problem to solve in relation to LLMs. You can't deny that some of the prompts are hilarious though...

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

6 Jun

Facebook marketplace is basically unusable now. Selling some house stuff and of the 100+ messages I've received at least 95% are obviously scammers.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

3 Jun

Startup CTO with an engineering team of > 10 that spends a majority of their time writing code 🚩🚩🚩

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

22 May

Are there any examples of a startup building the first version of their product with an offshore agency and going on to succeed? I mean venture scale success.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

15 May

Further to this - you'll find you get to a point where you get excited about constructively negative feedback. If someone is willing to take the time and effort to explain why your product is off the mark, it generally means they care about the problem and want it fixed.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

15 May

First-time product builders are afraid of negative feedback. Second-time product builders are afraid of a lack of feedback.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

15 May

First-time product builders are afraid of negative feedback. Second-time product builders are afraid of a lack of feedback.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

13 May

If you find yourself using Tailwind and thinking "this is dumb, I have to apply the same classes everywhere" then you're not using components correctly. Component composition + utility classes makes frontend actually enjoyable.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

11 May

If you’re an adult with disposable income, a regular YouTube user and you’re not paying for YouTube premium Then you might just like money more than you like yourself.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

11 May

Shadcn/ui and Tailwind have made me enjoy doing frontend again. Something I didn’t think was possible.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

11 May

Lost track of the number of times we heard this from our customers at rebank. For multi-entity companies, US accountants were doing a 10th of the work, doing it very badly, and charging 3-5 times as much as the ops entity accountants in the UK.

Lucy Guo

@lucy_guo

10 May

When your accounting firm is so bad you actually want to sue them... 🤡 Can't calculate COGS correctly, months late on books, sending the cap table to normal employees, etc... this is actually a nightmare. Help. Someone find me a new one once this nightmare is over.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

8 May

There is nothing virtuous in being a high maintenance, litigious employee who threatens their employer with legal action if they don't publicly support their cause-of-the-day. It's hard not to admire what @brian_armstrong did here re "mission-focussed hiring".

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

8 May

I’m increasingly convinced that the main differentiator between successful and unsuccessful founders is what they choose NOT to spend time on.

Simon White

@simonwhiteio

8 May

Elected official’s account posting with comments disabled. Cowards.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

@MayorofLondon

8 May

The odds are increasingly stacked against young Londoners. That’s why I'll be focusing on: ✔️ Providing free meals for all state primary school children ✔️ Working to create jobs and apprenticeships ✔️ Standing up for renters’ rights ✔️ Keeping the daily commute affordable