When you have kids you get to make fun videos with LEGOs

I posted this on a founder parent GC and wanted to get a take on Twitter: What’s stopping you from having at least 3+ kids? I’ve been a single dad with full custody of two boys for over four years. I pay myself $60k/year in Saratoga, CA. My parents help once a week and cover work trips, but the day-to-day is on me. During that time, I also co-founded Make Sunsets, which made national news and was featured on The Daily Show. I want more kids, and the only thing stopping me is the right woman. But for most people in this chat you have the right person, right? I’m curious: is it money, childcare, career, wanting more freedom, or just feeling your family is complete? And no, this isn’t customer discovery. My “solution” would be telling everyone to shut down their startup, get a FAANG job, and have more kids. I just want smart people making more kids, and I'm trying understand why you don't.

As a sales guy, I look at things as a funnel. It seems like humanity sucks at actually closing the deal. I’ve seen social media posts where guys get girls’ numbers or a follow on IG. Those guys are great BDRs—great at the top of the funnel. But for some reason, nobody knows how to close, aka make babies. Your ancestors figured it out. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here. Now, so many people aren’t doing the same that it’s become an actual threat to society. If you’re actually reading this, I’ll be deeply sad if you don’t make at least three babies. I know this doesn’t look serious, but you’re probably hot, and someone out there would love to make babies with you. Please find each other. They’re really not that hard to raise. Your parents somehow kept you alive, right?

Followers only, do you have at least one kid?

Unless you're @neal_wu 's brother. 😊

To make this fair, you also have to give the beer equivalent that Scott drank to the models as well.

SoCal Friends, Going to be in your area this Monday (10/26) for factory tours with in-house manufacturing teams that are looking to automate their assembly line (press fitting, glueing, screw driving) know anyone I should talk to while I'm down there? Please and thank you.

With Elizabeth Holmes back in the spotlight, here’s my unpopular take: I’d rather have Tim Draper on my cap table than a VC whose conviction expires with the first bad headline. Hotmail. Skype. Tesla. SpaceX. @MakeSunsets. That’s part of the investment history we’re talking about. Venture capital runs on outliers. You can lose money on plenty of companies and still generate enormous returns because a few winners pay for the entire portfolio. Counting an investor’s misses tells you very little without counting the size of their wins. Theranos involved fraud, and Holmes deserved accountability. Calling it merely a startup that failed to ship would be dishonest. But Tim lost his investment and continued publicly defending her—even after her conviction. You can disagree with that judgment while recognizing that he was willing to take reputational heat for someone he backed. That matters to founders. Everyone advertises “founder friendly.” I want to know who still answers when there’s no prestige left in knowing me. Someone who will tell me the hard truth, help me face the consequences, and stay in my corner. Before taking a VC’s money, talk to the founders whose companies failed. Find out what that loyalty actually looks like when it costs something.

Honest question: Why are entrepreneurs still trying to start B2B SaaS companies?