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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation Pratyush reposted Will Manidis @WillManidis On Grindslop 43 76 518 47K A podcaster recently posted about a founder that he had just interviewed. The founder was the most hardcore founder he's ever encountered after decades of chronicling the most hardcore founders. Each detail was more extreme than the one that came before it, enumerated in the way that a medieval chronicler would escalate the mortifications of the saints until the congregation was sufficiently prostrate that the church floorboards were bending under them. The company works seven, maybe even eight days a week. The founder lives, sleeps, and eats in his office. He built a cafe inside because even though he lives amongst other hardcore founders, there is no founder hardcore enough to demand coff

@WillManidis: SF missed connections like “she was sitting in Haus Coffee with Bose 700 headphones over her glossy black hair, testing new Stripe features to reduce fraud. I had swiped right on her Hinge profile a week ago. She had a tattoo of her startup logo on her well-muscled left bicep.”

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