Kyle Wild
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Kyle Wild
@dorkitude
- Boring CTO opinion: almost everything you built in years 0-3 should've been built on Rails + Heroku. Optimize your engineering decisions for iteration speed, observability, and simplicity until you achieve Product-Market Fit — and probably longer.
- Replying to @billybinionwaiter ignoring you until you signal is a feature vs being interrupted constantly with HELLO SORRY HOW IS EVERYTHING TASTIN
- As a developer and long-time GitHub user, I responded to the news that Microsoft has acquired GitHub with a sigh of relief. It was never totally certain the service would will stay online forever — and now I believe it is.
- If I'm building a team, I'll take generalists who are addicted to learning over specialists who are addicted to thinking they already know.
- If I'm building a team, I'll take generalists who are addicted to learning over specialists who are addicted to thinking they already know.
- Replying to @michelletandlerAs a brown kid who grew up poor in a white supremacist town, I'm super grateful I was able — on merit — to test and essay-write my way into @IMSA_ one of the best schools in the world. It probably saved my life, and as a result, I've climbed a bunch of rungs on the class ladder!
- Replying to @BontaHillWeird make-up. But also I just rewatched it, and it's definitely a 5-count. I just want AI refs 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
- Storytelling is execution, though. You need it to recruit, to sell, to lead. A CEO without strong storytelling is just a GM.Replying to @semilI wish execution had more impact on fundraising, but instead amazing storytelling and no traction are often better at fundraising than poor storytelling+strong traction.
- I grew up on the internet, and this is what it looked like: Geocities theme for Bootstrap divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/
- A great manager once said, "assume any target you set will be gamed, and ask yourself if the second-order effects of that gaming are good"
- Influence is more powerful than control, because influence respects the potential greatness of the person or thing you're trying to steer.
- 5 years ago today, we launched at @Techstars Demo Day: 1 term sheet implosion X quadrillion datapoints 3500 customers $30M raised Persist.
