@lennysan's Latest X Threads

You know something special is happening when your fund announcement shows up in the actual WSJ paper 🥳 Really proud and excited to bring take the @WeAreAirAngels alumni angel syndicate to the next level and infuse some of that Airbnb magic into more startups ✨ t.co/hhwHbaGL0i

The 7 distinct types of product virality (aka how your product can spread): 1. Online WOM: Learning about products through mentions on social media (e.g. @joinClubhouse) 2. Offline WOM: Learning about products while talking to friends or colleagues (e.g. @Airbnb) Read on 🧵 t.co/FNGHbS4I1Q

New post: Top 5 reasons marketplaces fail 1. Lack of demand-side PMF: Not enough customers badly need what you’re selling (e.g. Zimride, Kitchensurfing, Neighborrow, Sharingear, Design Inc, Mapudo, Wydr) Read on 🧵 t.co/lLrd0sjTEt

Types of projects you'll experience at work, as taught to us by Kurt Vonnegut: 1. Man in Hole: The project starts off OK, but you quickly find a huge issue, which you are able to recover from, and it ends up a big success. More in 🧵 t.co/uwbLeemHHY

Today marks exactly one year since I moved to a paid newsletter. Since then: ✔️ Published 80+ posts ✔️ Subscribers grew from 8k to 58k ✔️ I've gone from zero to now making *twice* what I made at my last tech job Below are my 15 favorite posts from the past year 🧵 t.co/7wUYoX8yvq