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[r]alph [b]addour @rphbad

🐣 ideas nightly 🤔 daily 🎶 hardly / 🇨🇦 – 🗣🇫🇷 🇬🇧 ❤️ #cheese #curling 🚀 @BadhouseV supporting underdog startup founders (SaaS/AI/web3) 👨‍💻 building

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[r]alph [b]addour@rphbad
4 Aug 2022
Falling down; that’s experience. To struggle; that builds character. To persevere; that’s life.
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Generative AI is collapsing the gap between product management, design, and engineering. Everyone is becoming a builder. In startups — and soon large companies — there are really only two jobs: build or sell.
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Weekend. Did a thing. Wrote about it: medium.com/@baddour/vibe2ori… Standing on the shoulders of giants, from @ericmigi to the @pebble_dev team. 🙏
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[r]alph [b]addour retweeted
Badhouse Ventures@BadhouseV
23 Sep 2025
When to quit your job? We get this question a lot. Here's our advice ⤵️
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What you don't hear in all the #AI buzz: Though non-tech folks love vibe coding tools, a high % of non-junior software developers don't like using code generation tools (why? having to fix code after, code being lest artful, etc). No rigorous data, just based on empirical convos.
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Less ego. Less bluster. More building. More impact.
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Been thinking about #journalism and #news #media a lot this week. AI boom may prompt orgs to "cover" less and "uncover" more, i.e. unearthing things we wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
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« Disruption » has been the mantra hammered onto startup founders for the last 15 years. It loses its meaning in an era where disruption abounds around us all, every quarter, every month, every week.
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Hey @MarkJCarney: The elbows-up move for #Canada now is not retaliatory tariffs but suspending recognition of US patents blocking strategic industries; it’s built into trade law for emergencies. Win-win for 🇨🇦 business AND consumers, max pain for US businesses, e.g. Big Pharma.
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Startups building AI to simply evaluate employee productivity (“bossware”) are missing the point. AI potential for business is in working WITH the teams; solving bottlenecks, enhancing training and onboarding, optimizing layouts, filling gaps, etc., thus boosting efficiency.
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Curious engineers can make great product managers: Engineers tend to be very creative and probing in their thinking processes, which is very important in most product management roles. #product #engineering
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Given the strong sentiments I hear expressed in Canada these days, I think it may be time to revive this old poster from over a century ago showing Uncle Sam kicked out of Canada: "An empty house is better than such a tenant as that."
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Slowly but surely, despite the odds, like moss on a roof, Vancouver’s startup ecosystem is growing. #RainCity
moss on a Vancouver roof

ALT moss on a Vancouver roof
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Keep an eye on this burgeoning ecosystem: Quite interesting not only for the decentralization aspect, but in the context of the worldwide shortage of GPUs (being massively hoarded by the big guys). @aleph_im could empower startups to train their own “large” AI models.
Moshe Malawach
@MosheMalawach
3 May 2024
#AI should be decentralized. x.com/i/status/1786279629969…
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Tired of business/startup books. One reason: An over-focus on finding and tracking some KPI, ignoring the fact creating a culture of continuous improvement and learning can have even more impact.
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I’m confounded by the fact that there is a “Canadian Restaurant” professional category one can self-select on here. What is that?!?
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I just updated my profile on here to proudly indicate, despite what different hat I may put on each day, I’m always an “Engineer”.
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Hey @TheBigWhale_, presque pas remarqué que votre édition de la semaine (This Week's Token) était en anglais pour la 1ère fois. Beau travail @gregory_raymond! Cela dit, égoïstement, je préfère quand même vos infos web3 en français pour l'indépendance de pensée que ça m'évoque.
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[r]alph [b]addour retweeted
Badhouse Ventures@BadhouseV
24 Nov 2023
6 days to go... Apply to pitch or register to watch! Link below in the comments ⤵️ #retrievalaugmentedgeneration #genAI #pitchevent #pleaseshare
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The main problem with regulating generative AI is that, like for all engineering work, synthesis is always easier than analysis.
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[r]alph [b]addour retweeted
Badhouse Ventures@BadhouseV
2 Nov 2023
It's official, next 𝙋𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 event is on Nov 30th (online for max accessibility). Theme for learning pitching: 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (aka. RAG). Pitch the product you're building or just register to watch; link in comment below ⤵️
Badhouse Pitch Learn - Episode 16 (November 30, 2023) event banner.

ALT Badhouse Pitch Learn - Episode 16 (November 30, 2023) event banner.

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