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Grant Lee Profile picture
@thisisgrantlee
Nov 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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I've seen 10,000+ resumes in my career, and 99% of them suck.

Here are 5 tips that will instantly transform your resume:
I wish I could say every resume is treated equally.

Applicants spam the same resume to hundreds of openings.

This results in a boring, bland, templated result that looks something like this: Image
Let's fix your resume:

1. Elevate the title.

My eyes are drawn to the top of the page first.

• Make your name large and bold
• Only include your phone and email
• Add a slogan to tell me something unique

This slogan can also be replaced by the next part. Image
2. Clearly define your objective.

Tell me in <200 characters your Long-Term Career Goal.

Elon Musk wants to reduce the risk of human extinction by making life multi-planetary.

Everyone is captivated by a good story.

Tell me how yours is unique. Image
3. Highlight your skills.

Now that I'm hooked, I need to know if you fit the position.

List the skills you have that I'm seeking. I read too many resumes that are entirely unqualified for the position. Keep this simple.

I'm going to match these skills to your experience. Image
4. Magnify your experience.

Here's how you write about your job history:

• Bullet points
• Share your accomplishments
• Data-driven & number-focused
• How do your responsibilities impact the company?

Google "action words" to learn how to start every bullet. Image
5. Understand SEO.

You can do everything perfectly, but ruin it if you mess this up.

Your resume gets scanned by software that's looking for specific keywords.

If you don't have the right keywords, your resume gets thrown into the abyss.

Use an ATS keyword checker to help.
In the end, remember that the look and feel of your resume really does matter.

So you need to strike a balance between creating a resume for an ATS system vs the hiring manager.
If you want more tips to help you get hired:

1. Follow @thisisgrantlee for more
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Nov 28
We used to win by building faster.
Now, everyone can build fast.

When technology is commoditized, being "better" isn't enough. Competitors catch up too quickly.

A thread exploring the question: is brand the only moat left? Image
In 2025, the technical moat is essentially gone.

Features that used to take six months to build can now be copied in a weekend by anyone, using the same APIs.

This also applies to software services, browsers, and operating systems.
Buffett coined the term "economic moat" in one of his letters.

He started favoring 'indestructible' brands (See's Candies, Coke, Gillette) more and more over time. Image
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Nov 17
During our seed round in 2020, an investor laughed when I was pitching, called Gamma "the worst idea I've ever heard," and hung up mid-call.

We've now raised at a $2.1bn valuation.

This is the story and every fundraising lesson I learned: Image
It's the end of 2020, peak pandemic.
All pitches had to be over Zoom.

I'm living in London.

I'd put my kids to bed around 8pm and set up between my kitchenette and laundry closet with a fake background, so that investors wouldn't see the reality of my modest flat.
From 8pm to 2am, I did 30-minute back-to-back pitches with very few breaks in between.

I did 80-90 pitches over two weeks, all from that tiny corner of my London apartment while my family slept.
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Oct 28
"Specialize or die" made sense in 1995.
In 2025, it's a death sentence.

The future belongs to generalists, and the proof is in Systems Theory.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it: Image
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In "Thinking in Systems," Meadows states that a system is more than the sum of its parts.

How those parts connect is crucial.

Generalists, also called 'Jacks of all trades', ace above specialists by being the connectors. Image
Knowledge workers spend hours just finding information across departments.

That kills speed, how fast you sense change, process it, and adapt.

And speed may be the ONLY predictor of startup success that matters.
Not headcount. Not capital. Not network.
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Oct 4
How can AI startups raise capital at sky-high valuations while losing money?

Because investors are betting on future dominance, not current P&L.

Thread: Image
Amazon ran e-commerce on razor-thin margins for a decade.
By 2006, net margin was < 2%.

But that's how they established dominance.
You can't compete with a company that keeps prices as low as feasible.

Once you own the market, you can optimize for margins. Image
Scale translates into profit through three levers:

1) Charging by outcomes or usage.
2) Bundling services to increase average revenue per user.
3) Capturing value across flows through marketplaces and take rates.

Companies can activate any of the 3 to capture more value.
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Sep 25
Gamma crossed $50M ARR with 28 employees and more cash in the bank than we had raised ($23M)

In hindsight: We got here because we ignored common VC advice.

Examples of glaringly bad advice that you should ignore to save you $10M+ and years of time, like we did for Gamma: Image
Advice that sounds okay on the surface but might cost you your company:

1. “Raise as much as you can, hire quickly, and worry about profitability later”

My advice: raise little, stay lean, fund with profits.
If you do raise, be thoughtful and choose the right partners.
The difference between an average and exceptional hire isn't 2x, it's 100x.

We've deliberately designed our organization to maximize impact per person.
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"Your success in life will be largely determined by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

Thread:
Buffett spent $100 on a Dale Carnegie communication course.

That certificate hangs on his wall.
Not his Columbia degree.

Warren always speaks about how economically sensitive a decision it is to learn how to communicate properly.
Berkshire Hathaway is a 60+ yrs old, $1tn company, with 390,000 employees.

But you can't throw all that complexity to shareholders hoping they'll understand.

Buffett is a master at keeping things deeply effective. Image
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