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CoFounder Weekly #69: November 17, 2019

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🤔Thought Starters

👩‍💻 Founder & Investor Corner

😹 Funnies

🥣 CeReAl PaRtY Recap

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Connor Murphy @ConnorPM

One introduction can change your life.

This week, let’s try an experiment.

Enter your name here to be introduced to a fellow CoFounder Weekly reader.

We’ll try out best to matchmake you to someone relevant. Or maybe someone irrelevant.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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🤔 Thought Starters

Kunal Shah @kunalb11

Don’t hate, create.

Daniel Sifredo @DanielSifredo

Huge companies stop being innovative not because of increased bureaucracy but because as companies grow they get worse at hiring. Recruiters play it safe and look for signals and experience on resumes. They stop hiring for slope and start hiring for y-intercept.

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👩‍💻 Founder & Investor Corner

Kara Nortman @karanortman

These days when founders ask about my theses, I share - future of work, security founders starting non security cos, new communities, etc BUT really I most often fund companies that convince me my thesis is wrong 😂

Arianna Simpson @AriannaSimpson

My new default: "happy to hop on a call, but let's kick things off with a couple questions over email" –– half the time we are done w one back and forth and the need for the call evaporates entirely. Magic! ✨😃

Neal Khosla @nealkhosla

Technical breakthroughs are black swan events, which explains why so many investors struggle to value the possibility of one in advance.

Gokul Rajaram @gokulr

Cofounder of large tech co gave me a life hack that has me both excited and scared: “Delete the email app from your phone.” He did this a few months ago and now only sends email from his laptop. Says it’s made him 100x more mindful and focused. Anyone else try anything similar?

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😹 Funnies

Gabe Rivera @gaberivera

Like, boomers' most devastating response to “OK boomer” could be just to continue turning out to vote 3X as much as young adults.

dustin senos @dustin

1password’s generated passwords are now like “try-the-new-coke-zero-for-a-limited-time-at-walgreens”

Mike Rundle @flyosity

1Password raises $200 million in Series A funding. Uhhhhhhh, what? https://t.co/pHoDqDqQTS

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🥣 CeReAl PaRtY Recap

Thanks to everyone who came out last Sunday to our CFW New York Chapter’s CeReAl PaRtY! 22 servings of cereal and 43 varieties of milk were served. We talked a lot about dating in a digital world — how algorithms can do a better job of inferring potential good matches, where astrology could fit into all this, and the importance of developing your own mental models around dating.

(spot the 🐶)

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Golden Grahams are underrated,

Greg & Wiz

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