James Bashar

"We love Loom. Emails, texts instead of Slack."

"The number one is the Apple Watch as a dumb phone. When you're at the gym, don't bring you can obviously most people do bring their phones but you might get sucked into an email."

"I will work from my iPad. Try to do 99% of my work from my iPad."

"Shout out to Replit there because I got a great iPad app and I've been I'll create apps like with Replit to where I like created an app that brings up quotes of the Bhagavad Gita."

"I created an app that brings up quotes of the Bhagavad Gita and stuff like that's the only thing when I sit down on the toilet I might read a little bit of the Bhagavad Gita."

"Mercury did really well and I told Ahmad at Mercury when he was like because we had built financial technology and he told me the idea for Mercury and wanting to start a bank for startup And I was like, 'Don't do it, dude.'"

"Open AI. My biggest miss. Sam and I, Sam Altman and I, we were advising and building out YC's YC research for universal basic income. Every month we would meet in a conference room. This dingy little office. And the dingy little office, the conference room was where they were doing open AI research."

"We don't I hate Slack."

"Magic Mind is unique in that it is the world's first time release energy shot. You couldn't do time release in liquid form until about 2 years ago and we were the first to put it in a shot."

"I was Angel in Gusto. That was my first angel check. They were in our Y Combinator batch."