"Async" Slack channels are one of our secret weapons at @beondeck
After using them for ~18 months, I can't imagine Slack without them. Particularly now— operating 100% remote with 62 teammates in 14 timezones.
Here's the "how it works" post I use to open each new 1:1 channel 👇
Welcome to our private "async" channel!! 👋👋
Here's how it works —>
Dec 31, 2020 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
"If [college] teaches people to be productive citizens of society, On Deck is helping them become productive citizens of the internet"
— @eriktorenberg on the @NFX podcast.
What does this mean?
Why does it matter?
A quick thread exploring the @beondeck mission/vision:
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First, let's wind back the clock ⏪⏱
Back in the 90's and early 2000's, capital and credentials were bottlenecks to starting a technology company.
Anyone can start up... so long as you can get an MBA and $10M from Sand Hill Road.
Oct 4, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Consider the cost of joining a paid community vs. the "cost" of a free one.
If you're a founder, writer, engineer, angel, etc; time/attention is your scarcest asset.
The more you value your time, the more you should spend on things that give you leverage on it.
Simple, right?
Tech/startup communities are traditionally VERY under-resourced; "tacked on" to a VC strategy, or reliant on sponsors and volunteers.
Imagine if this weren't the case.
Imagine if:
• They could hire amazing people, pay them well to create/curate incredible experiences.
Jun 28, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
We aspire for @beondeck (the *company*) to be somewhere the most ambitious future founders want to work
We’re looking to hire at least four of them in the next few months.
"I may not be starting a startup just yet — i'm taking some time out to explore, advise, angel invest, and think about what I want to do next. Is @beondeck for me?"
Founders: what are your plans for hiring interns/apprentice roles this summer?
@beondeck is seeing a LOT of inbound from incredible young talent.
Mostly too junior for the Fellowship, so we're considering something new:
If ODF were grad school, this = "undergrad"
More 🤔👇
2/ What could On Deck "summer school" look like? maybe:
— 1 month learning "startup skills", building community, project based collaboration, access to On Deck knowledge base (~200 hours of recorded workshops), mentorship;
— 2+ months of work experience with top startups;
Feb 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Two things happened this week to give me extreme confidence in @LambdaSchool
1). @MaxKajiwara joined our team at @beondeck, and he's killing it. His only engineering training was Lambda. In less than 3 days on the job, he's running at full speed & invaluable.
Aligned, sure. So long as the "issuer" remains the "holder."
But holding ISAs is totally inefficient for a startup with a small balance sheet + super high cost of capital (i.e. VC)
Feb 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/ We aspire for @beondeck (the *company*) to be somewhere the most ambitious future founders want to work
We don't want to hire people who just want to be engineers, operators, or product managers
We want to hire people who will start and run their own companies in the future
2/ If you're with us 6 months or 6 years, your time at On Deck should be less "career ladder" and more a series of learning curves — accelerating your growth
The faster you can run up a curve, the harder we'll work to make sure there's another one waiting for you to jump to
Feb 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The @AngelList "Rolling Funds" announcement today is a bigger deal than most people realize....
1/ in the 90's and 2000's, capital was the bottleneck to starting up. You needed $5-10M from Sand Hill to build all that infrastructure.
Nov 26, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ over time, technology and tech-enabled services will abstract away the complexity of operating a business, to the point where the only “job to be done” is *talent* — identification, development, and mobilization
2/ I see this happening today in many industries:
@AngelList, @cartainc abstract away the complexity of operating a VC fund. What’s the primary remaining job for the manager? Identify mispriced talent, nurture relationships.
Oct 20, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hosting a BBQ tomorrow in Brooklyn with all the best Kiwi founders and expats in tech I could find.
