Assume zero context on the space, and expect they'll see it through TradSocial lenses.
Most investors think in terms of threat pattern-matching. In your case, a positive framing on "why won't this be Periscope / Vine" gets ahead of that.
Sounds like a testable hypothesis. Let me know how that works out!
Completely shocking development, given the nature of our home-brewed side event. 😹
Most investors just don’t have the time to do a deep dive nor, sadly, have any major motivation right now given the state of the market.
If you assume your audience needs to come to you, you have already lost.
bsky.app/profile/rica...
I keep quoting my grandma: god makes them, and then they gather all on their own.
Goddamn those soles are spent though!
They're a thing that bite you when you most expect them.
Corollary: the more it might look like you're teasing out parts of a complete social app, the more important this is.
Nobody is going to wonder why isn't Bluesky PBC going to build @tangled.org internally.
They will for your more obviously social thingie, though.
6/6 He was honest about it, but was willing to hear more given my interest.
Others will just pass, or send a polite nothing.
This is not about "dumb" vs "smart" money — it's about being able to raise.
Assuming priors will trip you. Plan your deck for the person who doesn't know what you know.
5/6 Something as "obvious" to us as "there can be multiple topic-focused ATProto apps, each with their own algorithmic feeds" is a non-trivial leap for someone still thinking in Twitters and Tumblrs.
4/6 We risk bundling a lot of assumed ATProto knowledge: customizable feeds, third-party feeds, open feed marketplaces, per-user choice of algos and feed options...
They have no idea.
3/6 To even a seasoned investor who isn't eyebrows-deep in ATProto, Graze looks like a Tweetdeck waiting to happen.
He knew Bluesky was "decentralized" in some vague, finger-quotey sense — but not what that actually means in practice.
2/6 I recently sent the @graze.social deck to an investor friend. Perfect target on paper: believes in consumer empowerment, thinks social media is broken, years of conversations between us about giving people control over their attention.
His reply: I don't get it.
Hey #ATDev — if you're raising now, or thinking about it soon, a friendly tip:
Don't expect your deck's audience has spent more than two seconds thinking about Bluesky or ATProto.
Don't assume any priors.
1/6
Fuck yeah. Defund anyone who platforms genocidal, warmongering fucks.
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I wonder if this is because it was tripping their own AI detection. 🤣
Amused to see that iA Writer now turns smart em-dash substitution off by default. (New laptop, new setup.) I switched it back on. I like em-dashes, AI be damned. I write all my own words, for what it's worth.
UPDATE: The European Parliament voted today to *end* untargeted mass scanning of private communications, firmly rejecting the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years! Next: trilogue negotiations w/ Commission and Council.
Gonna screen Fitzcarraldo at the White House
Looking forward to meeting everyone there!
Is there a list or starter pack of attendees so we can more easily find each other?
One of us! One of us!
Dishonest politicians don’t stay bought.
If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.
Boy am I glad I didn't get it, because the non-expandable storage + forced cloud option seemed iffy.
@supernote.com all the way.
OH SO YOU HATE MUSHROOMS NOW?
I generally agree. Preemptively poasting before some ackchually dickhead comes in: yeah, there are times where the interim CEO becomes the perm one.
Let's not act as if de facto that's what's happening here and, if you want to act like it is, and it's a problem, then bring receipts on the guy.
And by "negligence", it reads like a fucking excuse. Did Claude also suggest that double-tap was not only in line with international law but totally fucking rad?
Say no to the DoD, and next thing you know your mechanical pencil lead factory might be why someone's wedding reception got blown up.
Glad to see you survived the ordeal.
It's been a few years, but Goldstein's "Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing" was a well-researched overview, and a solid jumping point for people who may want to read further after but aren't sure yet (starting with Marx is a discouragingly dense approach).
Hell, making slides is often how I find the talk buried in the rant.
That 30min spiel seems great until you're spending 5min on one slide - then clicking through the rest like you're trying to Manchurian Candidate the audience.
