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Bertrand Nembot retweeted
@BNembot, CEO of #Billdr, flew in for #OneWaySummit next week. Caught up today.
Procore built a $10B+ company serving the biggest construction players. Everyone doing home and commercial renovations got left with spreadsheets. That’s most of the industry.
Billdr is going straight at it. Best traction I’ve seen from them. Proud to back this team at @onewayvc.
At the Summit Oct 28–29? Go find him.
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
One day, you'll realize that no one was really watching, and you could have done whatever you wanted
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
Many startup employees do not recognize the sheer litany of ways that a founder can screw you over without you even knowing. Founder trust is one of the most important things to look at when you’re joining a startup.
From cutting you out of M&A, screwing your retention pool, overdiluting your equity, firing you before your cliff, not having attractive options exercise plans, poor 409a price management, not telling you about QSBS / early exercise, blocking you from participating in secondary, obscuring company performance and many more.
Many many decisions that are made in rooms you are not in as an employee where the only thing that matters is: “does the founder have your back?” Great startups with untrustworthy founders lead to poor outcomes and often good startups with trustworthy founders lead to great outcomes.
Pick wisely.
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
𝗘𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗜-𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗘 𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗘 ! 🇫🇷🔥
Nos Bleus battent le Maroc et rejoignent le dernier carré du mondial 😍
🇫🇷 2-0 🇲🇦 | #FRAMAR l #FIFAWorldCup
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
World Cup scoring strategies:
Argentina: pass the ball to Messi
Portugal: pass the ball to Ronaldo
England: pass the ball to Kane
Spain: pass the ball to Lamal
France: pass the ball to Mbappé or Dembélé or Olise or Doué or Barcola or Cherki or Thuram or
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
You are far more dangerous to your startup than competitors are. A hundred times more startups die from poor execution by their founders than are killed by competitors.
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
Some non-obvious traits you need to be an entrepreneur:
1. Unrealistically optimistic
2. Calm + resilient + decisive under crisis
3. Conviction in your ideas regardless of popular opinion
Hard to show up every day regardless of obstacles without these attributes.
Proud moment for our team at @BilldrHQ . We just raised USD $3.2M, led by @WhiteStarCap , @onewayvc , Desjardins Capital to build what the construction industry has needed for a long time:
a modern, AI-native operating system for SMB general contractors and home builders (SMB GCs).
Great news, Billdr has raised $3.2M to accelerate our mission: building the AI-native operating system for SMB general contractors (GCs) and home builders!
The round is led by @WhiteStarCap , with participation from @onewayvc , Desjardins Capital, asterX, & Formentera Capital.
Today, hundreds of GCs overseeing thousands of construction workers rely on Billdr PRO to run more efficient operations. Over 1B in construction projects flow through the platform annually. We're still very early in our journey.
Grateful to our customers, employees and investors for believing in our mission. Time to build :)
Read more on our journey here: billdr.ai/blog/billdr-raises…
Bertrand Nembot retweeted
"I ran a startup for 5 years. I thought we moved fast. Then I joined OpenAI—and realized I had no idea what fast actually meant."
Head of Product for @OpenAI's Codex @embirico and I chat about:
🔸 How OpenAI built the Sora Android app (which hit #1) in just 18 days by using Codex
🔸 Codex growing 20x since August
🔸 How they're thinking about the dev bottleneck shifting from coding to reviewing AI-generated work
🔸 Why coding will be a core competency for every AI agent—because writing code is how agents use computers best
🔸 Why the bottleneck to AGI-level productivity isn’t model capability—it’s human typing speed
🔸 The vision of Codex, and how they plan to win
Listen now 👇
• YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=z1ISq9Ty…
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4eG…
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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