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Researching investors and their investment history
"You get a Crunchbase account or any of those things. You start following on social media the different firms and figure out 150 different firms that invest at your stage."
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Researching investors and their investment history
"You get a Crunchbase account or any of those things. You start following on social media the different firms and figure out 150 different firms that invest at your stage."
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Image enhancement and detail extraction from photographs
"The easiest software we used to get that detail out was DaVinci Resolve. With DaVinci, it's a faster process than if you're messing around with Photoshop or whatever."
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Finding properties listed over 100 days with no equity to identify candidates for subject-to deals
"There's a company called DealSauce.io. If you go on DealSauce and you map into Summerland and you find listings that are over 100 days and you click on the no equity button and then you reach out to those agents and say, 'Hey, would your client be willing t..."
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"for my venture capital firm we use a digital ocean virtual machine that operates in our slack"
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Electronic health record system that Abridge integrates with
"I grew up with Epic and EP there is um and I was at a health system that had multiple medical records and I was always the happiest when I was using Epic compared to any others out there. So we build on top of them but the layer of the stack that we are bui..."
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Historical use for retirement cash flow and tax bracket modeling
"A decade ago I originally used Exact Plan. It had some functionality that I loved and some functionality that I hated. And so the part that I loved was the transparency with which you could see how funds flowed through to different income tax brackets."
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Video editing; the draw that brought him into the Mac ecosystem
"I actually remember when I first switched to mostly using Macs myself, it was around 2015 because they roped me in with Final Cut Pro."
"It's because of the way I've edited in Final Cut Pro for like the last decade. So you can blame Final Cut Pro for this, but I have a mouse and a magic trackpad."
"I have been impressed that you can legitimately open Final Cut Pro and do basic 4K edits, no problem."
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Primary web browser for users who want independence between browser and AI model provider
"I think people should use Firefox. I think a lot of people probably switched to Chrome when it came out and honestly for good reason — it was a better product at the time. But we're doing really great on fundamentals, performance, security. For this audienc..."
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Building membership software and newsletter tools
"I'm using Python. There's no React, there's no Next, there's none of that stuff. It's very simple. My membership software is a Flask Python app, which I built by myself before any of this existed."
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Learning about SaaS business models early in his career
"There's a great blog written by David Skok, who is a partner at Matrix, called For Entrepreneurs, that was basically all about the SaaS business model. And no one of this generation would know it anymore, but it was amazing, and it was a gift that he put so..."
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On-premises AI deployment for regulated industries (healthcare, finance) that can't put data into cloud AI services
"Go.ai formerly known as Abacus — they do on-prem and they basically make this go-in-a-box and you order this for your company. You're now compliant if you're healthcare, finance, any of the regulated industries that can't put their data into these services...."
Running AI models on-premises in 15 minutes via an Ethernet-connected appliance
"Aboc has changed their name, so I got to give them a proper shout out here. They're now go.ai. You plug it in and AI happens on-prem in 15 minutes. You own it. Look at that gunmetal steel. Looks like an Apple product. Go to go.ai."
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Company-wide writing quality and helping employees learn grammar
"If you haven't tried Superhuman or Grammarly, what are you doing, folks? It's the best. Go download it right now. It is a must-have for your team... you're going to save minimum two hours a week on email and, at a minimum, your most unprofessional employees..."
Writing assistance as a supplement, not a replacement for human thought
"I like Grammarly. Grammarly is helpful. But people use these tools as supplements. That's what I think they're supposed to be."
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Legal work for Fortune 500 companies
"Like I think if you're a Fortune 500 company right now, kind of a no-brainer to go with Harvey for everything related to legal."
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Automated email reporting from AI agents about outstanding issues, PRs, and bug reports
"I had already set it up with hey.com, an email address. We have a CLI that's in beta right now. So I set it up with that so it can send to email. That's how it gives me reports about outstanding issues and PRs."
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Centralizing all property listings from OTAs and direct booking sites, automating guest messaging across 10 touchpoints from inquiry to post-checkout, powering their direct booking website via API
"We use Hostfully for our property management software. We link all of our properties from our direct sites and all the OTAs that we're on to Hostfully, and we have all of our automated guest messaging with high touch point across 10 messages from time of in..."
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Taking paid pre-orders for her porch bakery
"It's a site called Hotplate and so they're able to just put their card in and then I can just directly transfer it to me. It's a really good site. A lot of bakers use it."
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Building year-by-year cash flow projections for retirement distribution planning, front-loading spending in early retirement years, feeding cash flow data into time-segmented portfolio construction
"We use Income Lab. Income Lab is a great tool for retirement distribution phases. It's unique — I don't think there's anything else like it. We've been using it for four to five years, so I would call us a power user at this point. We take the actual cash f..."
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"We use Intercom for more like triggered workflows and onboarding and for marketing emails and support."
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Screen sharing into a studio machine so agents can run continuously without draining laptop battery
"I use my MacBook, but I usually use Jump Desktop to screen share into my studio and then just use the computer there because that one's always running. I can run whatever I want fast and not drain my battery and I can close my laptop and things keep working."
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Sending Daily Stoic emails and A/B testing up to five subject line variants
"We use this company called Kit to send out the Daily Stoic emails. Well, you can test five ideas."
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