Kiko's Musings
Francisco Souza Homem de MelloA blog about tech. From Kiko H. de Mello, founder of Qulture.Rocks (YC W18).
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An old email from an old Kiko
This is an old email I found in my inbox after reading this tweet and remembering I once also thought the magazine Granta was a joke. I think I was a better writer back then. Also, I'm still just as acerbic. But I can't picture myself spend...
Founder Mode or Manager Mode? Yes
In September 2024 Paul Graham stirred Silicon Valley with his Founder Mode essay, where he tried to capture the essence of a talk Brian Chesky had given a while back at YC.
In the essay, PG describes Chesky's agony after following Silicon...
From Wages to Compute
Imagine waking up in a world where, overnight, millions of the world's best workers - infinitely knowledgeable, tireless, and perfectly coordinated - have been cloned by the billions. This isn’t a sci-fi scenario (anymore); it’s the rapidly...
The venture capital equation
If you want to play the game of startups, you have to understand the math that undergirds much of the game. That is understanding the premises in which the venture capital industry (here we're focusing on seed to series A funds) operate.
A...
On the game of startups (AI edition)
To run a company as best as you can, it seems that you need to be very aware of what game you are playing on the field.
Founding and running a startup [1] is kind of a game or discipline of its own when compared to founding and running oth...
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Founder and CEO of Qulture.Rocks (YC W18, acq. by UOL Inc.). Angel investor in Gympass, Creditas, and Cotopaxi. Father of two; lover of books.
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