Proper investor ↔ founder communication is critical.

We send Basewell updates to investors on the 1st of the month—every month—regardless of holidays or weekends.

Here's the format that works for us: 1️⃣ Intro

Use names. Keep things snappy. Don't hide from what's important.

If anything needs to be said ASAP, say it first thing.

↳ {first_name}
↳ Brief recap of last month
↳ Immediate points that need to be brought to the top
↳ Transition to body content

That's it.

I believe you need @threads if you care about building a productive startup with happy, engaged people.

A few weeks back @ItsBrittStew and I spoke with the @threads team about how we're using their platform... a few highlights from our experience so far. 🧵 Like most, before @Threads we used Slack. Also like most, Slack was an awful, messy experience.

We were always trying to hunt down info. "Did you see this?" was common language. I couldn't stand it. Search was messy AF & information overload was constant.

It wasn't sustainable.

Seeing lots of people sounding the alarm that society isn't ready for widely accessible AI after ChatGPT's popularity explosion on Twitter.

A reminder that history repeats itself, and fear of new tech, ideas, information, and societal progress is a tale as old as time. ↓ Fear of writing.

Philosopher Plato stated in 370 BCE that “writing is a step backward for truth.” ¹

He feared that "[writing] will implant forgetfulness... [people] will cease to exercise memory [but] rely [solely] on that which is written... by means of external marks." ²