Founders who were fired (or forced out) of their own companies: Steve Jobs: Apple (1985) Travis Kalanick: Uber (2017) Sam Altman: OpenAI (2023, briefly) Jack Dorsey: Twitter (2008) Noah Glass: Twitter (2006) Andrew Mason: Groupon (2013) Adam Neumann: WeWork (2019) Rob Kalin: Etsy (2011) Jerry Yang: Yahoo (2009) David Neeleman: JetBlue (2007) Sandy Lerner: Cisco (1990) Sean Rad: Tinder (2014) Dov Charney: American Apparel (2014) Jensen Huang: NVIDIA (2026) Huang resigned today amid affair scandals; Colette Kress named interim CEO.

Founders send decks with no net revenue retention, no burn multiple, and a market slide that says $100B TAM. Then they wonder why no one replies. Run your deck through the SaaStr AI pitch deck review and see which numbers you left out:

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Founder, @atumhq, @petecooling, said that AI Agents Will Create a Neural Network of Payments⁣ ⁣ "I have this thesis that payments are going to follow the same exact trend as high frequency trading did."⁣ ⁣ "You used to pay $20 a trade, and you couldn't place a trade for a stock unless it was probably buying $2,000 worth of it to make it worth it for the fee."⁣ ⁣ "So we've built effectively high frequency trading for payments."⁣ ⁣ "I think agents and AI and everything that we're seeing today is what drives that."⁣ ⁣ "They're gonna be able to move your money efficiently across all of these different systems, across all different endpoints."⁣ ⁣ Every agent delegated a task becomes a new endpoint transacting on its own, so payment volume scales with automated decisions rather than human clicks.⁣ ⁣ 🎙 Listen to the latest episode on Tokenizedpod(dot)com

Founders should take some money off the table. I read someone saying take 10% every round. That’s too much imo. It should be enough that you don’t need the company to pay for your life but not so much that you’ve mentally cashed out. If you're bullish on your company, even a small % seems like an opportunity cost.

Founders are so excited after speaking with FLock Because they know This / That gonna help them solve their problems and OWN the model! every company can be a model company. Just like everyone can be a 5min comedian. My dm’s open. Flock it.

Founder of Complete Robot and @Nethermind, @tkstanczak, will join Devcon 8 to share insights from his work combining AI and robotics with experienced engineers and operators, plus his background in Ethereum core development as @Nethermind founder and former @ethereumfndn Co-Executive Director. Join the Open & Verifiable Stack track for Tomasz’s talk Open Source Robotics with Ethereum.