It'll all be fine...I think

CoFounder Weekly #82: March 1, 2020

CoFounder Weekly is a startup newsletter.

☣️ Coronavirus: what people are tweeting about

🍍 Food for thought

👩‍💻 Founder and Investor corner

😹 Funnies

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☣️ Coronavirus: what people are tweeting about

Twitter has served as an incredible source of coronavirus intel.

Michael @mmay3r

This corner of social media seems to be about one week ahead of the rest of the world (example coronavirus risks). Other corners are behind. Social media didn’t make people less informed, it made information transmission less centralized.

Here’s what we learned…

Stop touching your face.

Halle Tecco @halletecco

Thank you #COVID19 for helping me realize just HOW MUCH I TOUCH MY STUPID FACE.

Quarantined? Try this app:

Danielle Baskin @djbaskin

Excited to announce: QuarantineChat. A voice-chat chat app connecting you to quarantined people around the world. 😷☎️ quarantinechat.com

quarantinechat.comQuarantineChatA voice-chat app for serendipitous connections with people around the world affected by the virus. Available on iOS and Android.

Citizen journalism is at its finest:

Benjamin South @bnj

If anyone is wondering what Costco looks like right now:

True Life: I’m self-quarantining.

Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo

Damn damn damn.

reddit.comr/nyc - My COVID-19 Story. Brooklyn.7,056 votes and 1,411 comments so far on Reddit

Amazon ceased corporate travel. Others to follow?

Balaji S. Srinivasan @balajis

Given the complexity and physicality of Amazon’s business, this could not have been an easy decision. This is probably the signal for every VC and pure software company to stop travel and go to remote work.

businessinsider.com.auAmazon tells all 798,000 employees to halt travel, in US and internationally, over coronavirus fearsAmazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid “non-essential travel” domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider.

VCs are telling founders to work remotely (this guide is a great overall recap).

Elad Gil @eladgil

I wrote this Coronavirus guide for founders I work with and many suggested I post more broadly. Hence this post:

blog.eladgil.comCoronavirus (COVID-19) PSA for StartupsLast updated: Feb 28, 2020. If I add updates, they will be here . (I originally sent this out to founders I know but was encouraged to pu...

Stop checking for updates all the time (*guilty*).

Carl T. Bergstrom @CT_Bergstrom

4. Pick a time to get your updates. I'd suggest once a day, maybe before work or maybe after dinner. For the rest of the day, don't get drawn in. You don't need to. Block the #COVID19-related hashtags if you have to. Otherwise it can easily become an obsession.

So where do we go from here?

We’re not epidemiologists, so until then we’ll be reading the Twitter tea leaves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

What do you think? Reply back with your thoughts.

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🍍 Food for thought

Morgan Housel @morganhousel

“History doesn’t crawl; it leaps.” @nntaleb

Sahil Lavingia @shl

I think people should do less research before building an idea, not more. It’s much easier to find reasons not to do something, than to find reasons to do it. Too much research will kill the enthusiasm behind any idea, especially the ones that end up changing the world.

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👩‍💻 Founder & investor corner

Allison Grayce @allisongrayce

to design at a startup you have to love the problem to design in-house you need to love the product to design at a consultancy you should love the process

Austin Petersmith @awwstn

Possibly unpopular opinion? In the early days of a startup, your ability to make good data-ignorant decisions is more important than your ability to make good data-driven decisions.

Tom Critchlow @tomcritchlow

This is a great post: a16z.com/2020/02/06/100… but is unfortunately going to directly lead to an explosion of high tier subscription "businesses" in a few months.....

a16z.com1,000 True Fans? Try 100 - Andreessen HorowitzIn 2008, WIRED editor Kevin Kelly wrote that creators only needed to earn “1,000 True Fans”—at $100 per fan, per year—to make a living. I propose an update.

Leo Polovets @lpolovets

1/ The amount of great content coming out these days for founders, managers, and employees is incredible. Tons of 10+ and even 100+ page detailed tactical manuals, interactive guides, curated content databases, you name it. A few notable examples:

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😹 Funnies

Reminiscences of an American Capitalist @4Awesometweet

People who remember your birthday: 🎂 People in Real Life: 22.7% People on Facebook: 44.5% Online Retailers: 99.9975% 😂😂

Lee Edwards @terronk

The real psychopath test is if you don’t have ♥️ anywhere in your Frequently Used emojis.

François Chollet @fchollet

"No code" is just the beginning. I'm looking forward to no software, no computer, just living in the woods

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wash your hands,

Greg & Wiz

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