Oxford Comma Champion | Founder, Jeremy Smith Advisory | GTM & business strategy for the agentic era
Denver, CO
Joined April 2009
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i think a lot about new grads starting eng jobs right now and how insane the growth curve can/will be, especially because i'd otherwise be graduating right now.
i've heard a lot of my peers be pessimistic about the opportunities for new grads in this new era of engineering. "we're cooked".
i think it's quite the opposite: once you get an opportunity, this is the best time yet to be a new grad in tech. the rate of learning and exposure to different parts of the stack have 10x'd. the diverse types of work you can contribute to is much broader and the level of responsibility one can take on has grown exponentially.
there's a risk of using those tools to avoid understanding the tech decisions, system design, etc. i think that will lead to a bad time. but people who can use them as opportunity to do mass experimentation, iterate faster, and gain deeper understanding, they will flourish.
optimism doesn't guarantee success, but it can change the course.
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Sign up to hear the latest on @bot! I'll be sharing some of the ways proactivity has supercharged @bot, should be a good time :)
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I will believe AI is driving productivity gains in the old economy when a front desk person checks me into a hotel with less than fifteen hundred keystrokes and mouse clicks.
Jeremy Smith retweeted
Last week, @Flexport released an AI agent that can audit bills from shippers and truckers against the actual logs to ensure its customers are invoiced correctly.
The product was just an idea 3 days before.
"We probably pivoted 30% to 40% of our engineers now just to building agents," founder Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) says.
"There's way less planning than there used to be at Flexport in the roadmap. It used to be a one year strategic plan. Now you're like, ‘Alright, let's go see if you can make this work, come back to me two days later.' And it works, because of AI.”
Catch the full interview on The Upstarts Podcast:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=1JamC0Wv…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1S1…
Jeremy Smith retweeted
“Fining these teams $100,000 is like worrying about mouse manure when you’re up to your ears in elephant shit” 😂😂 ~ Coach Saban
AMEN COACH #CollegeGameDay
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Chat with MLX 🚀 a high-performance macOS app linking your local docs to a custom large language model (LLM) on your machine 🧵
Now open-source in beta!
github.com/mlx-chat/mlx-chat…
Collaboratively built by @itsstock & @parkersmith
Jeremy Smith retweeted
I’ve seen what you describe. Growing aggressively to $100mm, and all of the sudden growth slows. It’s really painful.
In my experience, the number one reason this happens is fear of change. What ever set of variables led to the product/market fit that took you to $100mm become sacrosanct. These “sacred cows” become limiting constraints which hold you stuck on a local maximum. Growth goes from 30% to 20% then to 11% or even 8%. And product tweaks or pricing tweaks that you have discussed for over 5 years just can’t find their way to the market. Everyone is afraid those changes will hurt things. But you are already decaying.
Change is scary. So is flat-lining.
Jeremy Smith retweeted
Flexport.org's first aid shipments to Maui underway. Details to follow. Sad we didn't get there faster.
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SpaceX has launched so many Starlink satellites. Check out this live coverage map satellitemap.space/
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I'm writing an article about fundraising
1st time founder
$300M+ raised over 7 years
What are folks most interested in learning about
*in the fundraising process*
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13/ Thanks to the @flexport (@typesfast!) for taking care of our air freight shipping, our vendors on really going above and beyond working with our product & dev team.
Our fulfillment team, preparing our warehouse to start delivering asap. Our CS team answers 1000s of emails.
Jeremy Smith retweeted
Wherever the world works, they deserve to be safe and healthy. Proud to release a new app suite + dashboard that helps companies assess their workforce and workplace readiness and get employees back safely. #ServiceNowStrong
ServiceNow announces 4 apps and a dashboard to help workplaces reopen safely: spr.ly/6017GBK1X
Jeremy Smith retweeted
So what's really going on here in NYC?
You're hearing conflicting information on who is tested, who is admitted, who goes home, and what's going on inside hospitals.
Let me shed some light. NYC ER docs are a small and collaborative community, so let me share the scoop:
THREAD
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When we look back in five years, we are going to realize that there were 10 to 20 amazing companies that were started that changed the world and led us to a brighter future. Ask yourself: “Why Not Me” or “Why Not Us”. Now is your time. The world is waiting.
Jeremy Smith retweeted
Secret to high growth companies at scale - go to where your customers are - never stop hustling and remember your people are critical and your clients precious! This week is Tokyo and Korea!
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This was 8 years ago! Found this beautiful gem from #OOW11 when Oracle canceled @salesforce’s keynote and we had it anyway across the street at the St Regis. The Cloud cannot he stopped! That was a fun time, @Benioff! Here’s some more context around it. techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/la… – at San Francisco, CA
