Manu Kumar (recruiting @HiHello šŸš€) Profile picture
šŸ¦® Human, Founder, Investor. Chief Firestarter at @K9Ventures. The O.G. for PreSeed. @lyft, @twilio, @playosmo, @CartaInc, @lucidchart, @auth0, @HiHello & more.
Apr 2, 2020 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
1/ The @HiHello team is excited to help take your @zoom_us #video calls to the next level w/personalized backgrounds that show your personal/professional brand & make it easy to exchange contact information!

Create your #VirtualBackground for #Zoom at go.hihello.me/zoom 2/ #WorkingFromHome has it's charm, but being able to showcase your brand and identity is still important to many professionals. We've made it easy for any user to do just that with just a few clicks!
Mar 18, 2020 ā€¢ 12 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
Itā€™s all about math, and the thing with math is that you can cheat the numbers. Read this post and start Social Distancing ASAP.

#coronavirus #COVID19

ā€œThe Sober Math Everyone Must Understand about the Pandemicā€ by Jason S Warner
link.medium.com/qk6KW0DpX4 The fundamental problem with people not understanding why #SocialDistancing is so critical is related to people not understanding how exponentials work. Most people donā€™t even know what the word ā€˜exponentialā€™ means. So here is a challenge for you:
Jan 31, 2020 ā€¢ 10 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build something, you figure out something else, then you build that, and so on. But you only figure out what to build by taking the first step, which may not always be *exactly* in the right direction. 2/ This is why itā€™s impossible to ā€œaccelerateā€ a startup. Some things you only figure out over time and only when your mind is ready to see and absorb the signals you're getting. Sometimes these are weak signals & if you didn't go from Point A to Point B, you wouldn't hear them.
Mar 10, 2018 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
1/ I believe we are approaching the point (or have we already passed it?) where every startup in the San Francisco Bay Area will have a distributed team. Such is the reality of living in the Bay Area, with housing costs, traffic, commute times, high rents, and more. 2/ Having face-time a couple of days a week is going to be the best we can expect given this reality. Building teams and getting the right talent comes with dealing with these realities.