Exactly a year ago, @aquariusacquah asked to grab coffee at a small café in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, while I was visiting town. It was the week of Halloween, children were running around SF, and the city was flourishing. He said, “Today’s my last day at work. I want to start something of my own.” Then he added, “They say, talk to your smartest friends — so that’s why I’m talking to you.” The year since has flown by. In January, I moved to SF. February, we got into @ycombinator. March, we incorporated @joinkaizen. April, we started YC. May, we raised our seed from @8vc. Over the past six months, we’ve made incredible progress. @joinkaizen is deployed across public companies, healthcare organizations with 1,000 clinicians, and vertical software juggernauts like @tryaugie and @assort_health. In the last month, we’ve 4x’ed the workflows executed on the platform and we’re only just getting started. Today, we’re incredibly excited to open @joinkaizen to the public. We can’t wait to see what you’ll never have to do again. P.S. We're hiring! Send me a note if you or someone you know would like to join our incredible team — working alongside @conorxmccormack, @nmfaulkner_, @_niksrc, @aquariusacquah, and I.

Just download more RAM. Just replicate to one more server. Kubernetesmaxxx bro. 6 more TBs to the DB. 3 more read replicas. It’s gonna be ok bro. Just one more microservice will do the trick. All you need is a little PgBouncer. One more gateway and we’re good. I love infra

South Park is the Gramercy of SF

When I was a kid my father took me to see the Red Sox. As I grew, I realized — it’s all about swings at bat. In life and in business. Show up to the plate, swing. You’ll miss. You’ll foul. You’ll even strike out. Keep swinging. Eventually you’ll home run.

Everyone is talking about 996 @michael_silver the co-founder of @joinkaizen on why what works for him is something different

Random cast of hot people in SF who are AWS sales reps In another era they’d be counts and duchesses, learning 9 foreign languages, hunting ducks, and riding horses Instead they’re wrangling socially awkward venture funded founders to make spending commitments on AWS Bedrock

Bagel and Lox at Loveski Jackson Square probably saved my life today between a wall of back to back IRL meetings.

To everyone trying to build a career in technology in New York, I sincerely wish you good luck. Great city to drink eat and spend your life away. I’ll be back when I’m rich. In the interim, San Francisco is where the future is being built, brick by brick, token by token.

If you form your opinion of SF off Twitter then yes, it’s a clown show And then you show up, recognize the never ending sunshine and opportunity San Francisco is, and always will be, the gold rush town. If you’re not here, you are being left behind in the dust.

When she says “I know a spot” and it’s literally Corgi Cafe

Would rather go to Guantanamo then Corgi Cafe

Somebody dared to give me a mic and a spotlight A year after YC, @aquariusacquah and I sat down with @Getthecheckpod to share some hot takes, what drives us as a founders, and our progress at @joinkaizen Kaizen now works with the nation's largest healthcare providers to eliminate the $1,000,000,000,000 admin overhead.

Who tf needs $250/mo Equinox when you can get jacked with a $15 pull up bar off Amazon

The Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai exactly 3,338 years ago For my SF homies - this is like the system prompt for Jewish people.

Something about: - Raised by parents with three doctorates - A European mom - MIT education in CS - living in NYC for much of my 20s Calibrated me to be a Services-as-Software vertical AI founder in San Francisco. Nothing like a three martini lunch to drive lead gen🍸🤝🤣

You can take a man out of New York But you’ll never take the New York out of me. #NewProfilePic

At MIT we worked our asses off to get an A The entitled fucks at Harvard just get handed an A for participating

Entry level jobs have been completely eliminated by AI. This month, I replaced my EA & SDRs with AI. We're now doing more with less people. All that's left is extremely high agency people with taste. Adapt or be left behind.

don’t pay your credit card bills. tell her you love her on the first date. order six negronis at lunch. read a paper copy of the financial times cover to cover. have four shots of espresso before bed. delete your email. spend 30 minutes ironing your shirt.

Since when did my life become "what do I need to wear to the golf course" for selling my B2B SaaS Oh boy are we not in Kansas (or MIT) anymore 🙈

After two weeks as a traveling salesman, flew back home to San Francisco. Trip was a great success. Steak was too juicy. Lobster too buttery. Grueling back to back meetings with incredible customers. Grateful for everything.