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Tom Preston-Werner

What Tom Preston-Werner thinks about startups

@tom-preston-werner · 10 positions · 0 changes of mind

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  1. Our readingA company's quality is bounded by its team's quality, and a team's quality is bounded by its founders.

    Their wordsWe believe that a company is only as good as its team, and a team is only as good as its founders.

    ↗Announcing PWV Fund Itom.preston-werner.com

  2. 4 years earlier

  3. Our readingTaking venture capital funding pushes a company toward extreme binary outcomes and pressures it to extract more value from customers.

    venture capital

    Their wordsWhen you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.

    ↗Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com