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Bobby Goodlatte✓

@rsg

Co-founder & CEO @trysunflower 🌻 Early product designer @Facebook. Angel investor @Coinbase @Linear @Expo @Envoy @XMTP_ & many more

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    Gave a talk today on angel investing at @thelabmiami Thanks so much for inviting me @HelloEliam to share the stage with @gregmcadoo & @edsim—two people I truly look up to in investing, alongside yourself! You’ve built an incredible community here in Miami ❤️
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    We have some very big announcements coming up soon for Sunflower I'm so proud of our team and the craft they're pouring into this product I wish I could spill the beans today... but the wait won't be much longer 🌻
    Sunflower @trysunflower
    The best design disappears. You don’t see it, you feel it: in how fast you get through your inbox, in what doesn’t interrupt you, in the quiet you get back. Sunflower is almost here. Follow along 🌻
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    The best design disappears. You don’t see it, you feel it: in how fast you get through your inbox, in what doesn’t interrupt you, in the quiet you get back. Sunflower is almost here. Follow along 🌻
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    A small hint: you'll notice in those screen recordings that there's another tab to the far left of the nav... I wonder what's in there? 😉
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    RT @anjismail: After stellar pitches and crazy traction (eg. a 2 person companies, $750K ARR in 3 months) ending up with an all-stars panel with @rsg @edsim @GregMcAdoo Telora is next level
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    Miss Norm so much. What a treasure Some of my favorite jokes are his long-winded, absurd stories. That always land with an incredible punchline I can recite his “frog walks into a bank” joke by memory ❤️
    Everintrigued @EverIntrigued
    Classic Norm: reward the patience, kill the punchline, leave Conan and the audience wrecked.
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    Classic Norm: reward the patience, kill the punchline, leave Conan and the audience wrecked.
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    RT @kadikraman: Building desktop apps just for easier and faster! ⚡️
    Jay Meistrich @jmeistrich
    Introducing Legend Spark! It’s a React Native desktop framework for really fast desktop apps with React Native and Expo. The biggest gaps in RN on desktop have been getting started, Expo compatibility, and modules. So I’m trying to fix all of that. Let's make apps super fast!
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    Introducing Legend Spark! It’s a React Native desktop framework for really fast desktop apps with React Native and Expo. The biggest gaps in RN on desktop have been getting started, Expo compatibility, and modules. So I’m trying to fix all of that. Let's make apps super fast!
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    RT @Austen: You know you can just look this stuff up, right? You can literally look up that Tesla has $45 Billion in the bank and is doing billions in profit every quarter.
    CEOInterviews.AI @CEOinterview
    Scott Galloway says Tesla is the patient in Musk's SpaceX merger and SpaceX shareholders are the organ donors "It's a real merger with a fake promise. When Musk merges something into another, it's an acknowledgement that it's about to crater." "He stuffed Twitter into xAI, which then got folded into SpaceX. His M&A strategy is simple. When one of his kids is failing, he makes another family adopt it." "So, right now, Tesla is the patient and SpaceX is the organ donor or SpaceX shareholders are the organ donor." "So, who wins? Tesla shareholders... That's like trading, you know, your Buick for a piece of a Gulfstream."
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    Scott Galloway says Tesla is the patient in Musk's SpaceX merger and SpaceX shareholders are the organ donors "It's a real merger with a fake promise. When Musk merges something into another, it's an acknowledgement that it's about to crater." "He stuffed Twitter into xAI, which then got folded into SpaceX. His M&A strategy is simple. When one of his kids is failing, he makes another family adopt it." "So, right now, Tesla is the patient and SpaceX is the organ donor or SpaceX shareholders are the organ donor." "So, who wins? Tesla shareholders... That's like trading, you know, your Buick for a piece of a Gulfstream."
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    RT @karrisaarinen: What it’s like to talk about ARR these days
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    YC’s advice on defining “ARR” is great To keep everyone honest, I always clearly define key metrics in the board deck appendix. And then I highlight any definition changes we make. This should be standard practice
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    YC’s advice on defining “ARR” is great To keep everyone honest, I always clearly define key metrics in the board deck appendix. And then I highlight any definition changes we make. This should be standard practice
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    Of course I had to put the soundtrack on this morning Another fun story: within the company, people had mixed reactions to the movie But almost everyone *loved* this soundtrack. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross crushed it So we’d be coding & designing Facebook, while listening to the soundtrack from the movie about Facebook. Very meta We were wired in 😂 (And no, the phrase “he’s wired in” was never used before the movie came out, but we used it all the time afterwards!)
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    I’m not going to watch The Social Reckoning, but let me share a fun story about seeing The Social Network when I worked at Facebook back in the day At an all-hands, Zuck said he initially didn’t want to watch it—but if he was going to, we’d all watch it together So the whole company saw the movie together in a rented out theatre Afterwards we threw an impromptu company party across several bars in Palo Alto There’s a throwaway scene in the movie where the Sean Parker character first meets Mark. Sean asks Eduardo’s girlfriend what she wants to drink. She wants an appletini Sean then says: “Appletinis all around!” After the movie, I was standing next to Zuck at the party and asked him: “wouldn’t it be funny if we ordered appletinis?” Zuck loved the idea. A hilarious way to toast to an incredibly inaccurate movie So with my best Justin Timberlake as Parker impression, I told the bartender: “Appletinis all around!” And so this is one of my favorite photos from my time at Facebook
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    I’m not going to watch The Social Reckoning, but let me share a fun story about seeing The Social Network when I worked at Facebook back in the day At an all-hands, Zuck said he initially didn’t want to watch it—but if he was going to, we’d all watch it together So the whole company saw the movie together in a rented out theatre Afterwards we threw an impromptu company party across several bars in Palo Alto There’s a throwaway scene in the movie where the Sean Parker character first meets Mark. Sean asks Eduardo’s girlfriend what she wants to drink. She wants an appletini Sean then says: “Appletinis all around!” After the movie, I was standing next to Zuck at the party and asked him: “wouldn’t it be funny if we ordered appletinis?” Zuck loved the idea. A hilarious way to toast to an incredibly inaccurate movie So with my best Justin Timberlake as Parker impression, I told the bartender: “Appletinis all around!” And so this is one of my favorite photos from my time at Facebook
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    RT @karrisaarinen: A moat never made a castle impregnable. It slowed attackers down. The wider and deeper it was, the more time it bought. The industry made it sound like “moat” means high immunity from competition. But I think moats will remain as long as people are involved.
    jack @jack
    there is no moat
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    there is no moat
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    And yes that’s me wearing a suit in the back 😂 Rather than “casual Fridays” a few of us in the office loved the idea of having “formal Fridays” Because every other day was casual
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    I’m not the first to say it, but wow: You Can See Everything is a must-watch. No spoilers, but: it’s surprising in ways I’d never expect. Beautifully shot & scored. It was not on my bingo card for being one of the best films of 2026. But, yeah. Wow.
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    Eliminating fraud should be a bipartisan issue, and I know many people of both parties agree Giving a 1% commission on turning in fraudsters is an excellent idea Anyone operating a blatant fraud scheme is now liable to be turned in by their friends, by their employees, by anyone who knows what they’re up to Regardless of your feelings about the President, the idea of crowdsourcing fraud detection is probably the only way to root it out systematically Bravo
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    President Trump announced a new federal fraud whistleblower incentive program that he says will pay Americans, including journalists, a 1% commission for reporting fraud and corruption involving taxpayer dollars. "If you turn somebody in and you, let's say, report, and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It's a lot of money," Trump said.
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    President Trump announced a new federal fraud whistleblower incentive program that he says will pay Americans, including journalists, a 1% commission for reporting fraud and corruption involving taxpayer dollars. "If you turn somebody in and you, let's say, report, and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It's a lot of money," Trump said.
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    And I genuinely don’t understand why many people oppose Nick Shirley or would be against this whistleblower 1% incentive program Seriously, what’s the good-faith counter argument as to why this is bad?
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    RT @guilleflorvs: Peter Thiel has a blunt test for whether a startup team is thinking clearly. Watch how they talk about their own outcomes. His observation: when founders start framing results as luck — "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, so let's just invest a little and see" — that's not prudent risk management. That's a diagnostic failure. The mechanism is specific. Luck-framing doesn't emerge from humility. It emerges from not having done the analytical work to understand *why* your business will win. If you've truly mapped the competitive dynamics, the customer psychology, the timing — you don't describe the outcome as a coin flip. You describe what needs to be true and why. The portfolio mindset ("let's see what happens") is what you default to when you don't have conviction built on evidence. Thiel's sharpest version of this: the founders of Google, Amazon, and Apple in their early days weren't operating on hope. They had specific theories about why they would win that others couldn't see yet. Bezos mapped out why e-commerce would scale through selection and logistics before the market existed. That's not luck-denial — that's rigorous foresight presented as conviction. When a founding team tells you "we'll figure it out," the question isn't whether they're optimistic. It's whether they can articulate the actual mechanism of their advantage. If they can't, the luck framing isn't a personality trait. It's a capability gap. Blaming luck is what you do when you've stopped thinking.
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