I am generally a very optimistic, positive person. I do not like to hate on other products. But Workday is, by a wide margin, the worst piece of software I've ever used in my career. I cannot believe that this is a $34 billion company. I pray the AGI gods fix this hot mess.

Demo Day is in 7 days at @ycombinator. Quick recap since we joined YC: - ran our first Launch Week - rebranded the company to @Inth - c15t crossed 3M npm downloads - hit 912k npm downloads in May - grew 46.4% month over month - served 32.4M hosted consent sessions in May - passed 2,600 public sites detected by Wappalyzer - teams like Zed, Cal, Parabola, Unkey, Infisical, Kernel, and others are using c15t - started converting open-source usage into hosted revenue - opened platform conversations with major AI app builders, frameworks, and commerce platforms - started the first design partner work for what comes after c15t: agents that inspect codebases for privacy and compliance issues - got much clearer on the wedge: c15t earns trust with developers, then we expand from consent into the codebase The bigger thing we learned: Code is moving faster and faster. Teams can barely inspect it for bugs now, let alone keep it up to date with compliance. So we’re building Inth for the place compliance now has to live: inside the codebase. Still feels like the beginning.

Demo Day is in 7 days at @ycombinator. Quick recap since we joined YC: - ran our first Launch Week - rebranded the company to @Inth - c15t crossed 3M npm downloads - hit 912k npm downloads in May - grew 46.4% month over month - served 32.4M hosted consent sessions in May - passed 2,600 public sites detected by Wappalyzer - teams like Zed, Cal, Parabola, Unkey, Infisical, Kernel, and others are using c15t - started converting open-source usage into hosted revenue - opened platform conversations with major AI app builders, frameworks, and commerce platforms - started the first design partner work for what comes after c15t: agents that inspect codebases for privacy and compliance issues - got much clearer on the wedge: c15t earns trust with developers, then we expand from consent into the codebase The bigger thing we learned: Code is moving faster and faster. Teams can barely inspect it for bugs now, let alone keep it up to date with compliance. So we’re building Inth for the place compliance now has to live: inside the codebase. Still feels like the beginning.

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy. Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output. This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work. I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution. Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook. With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it. My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day. There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed. Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work. I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things. I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master. Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

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