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Radford Tam shared thisNot an April Fools joke. https://lnkd.in/eg-sgRJAStruggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in valueStruggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in value
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Radford Tam shared thisGreat read on how to be a leader in these times of uncertainty.What Authentic Leadership Looks Like Under PressureWhat Authentic Leadership Looks Like Under Pressure
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Radford Tam reposted thisRadford Tam reposted thisWe're building our first Social Media Team at Vibranium Labs. 🎬 Memes, viral shorts, product videos :: the whole nine yards. If you know someone who gets the zeitgeist and is generally pro-AI, send them my way. Drop a comment or DM me directly! 👏 #hiring #contentcreator #socialmedia #AIcontent #startuplife #motiongraphics #vibraniumlabs
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Radford Tam shared thisInteresting read. https://lnkd.in/eTY89HDcHow history and politics shaped Hong Kong's stablecoin use casesHow history and politics shaped Hong Kong's stablecoin use cases
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Radford Tam shared this“When you raise at a hubristic valuation, you attract employees, investors, and partners who are there for the outcome, not the mission. They’re there because they did the math on their equity and saw an IPO at $25B+ and early retirement. That’s fine when everything is going up and to the right. But the moment you hit turbulence—and every company hits turbulence—those mercenaries disappear. They have no patience for struggle. They didn’t sign up for hard mode. They signed up for paper gains.”Brex and The Pros and Cons of Hubristic FundraisingBrex and The Pros and Cons of Hubristic Fundraising
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Radford Tam shared thisAnother great read from Michael Lopp. “That’s your job — building a culture conducive to engineering. After that. Nothing. Don’t talk about 10x engineers at your All Hands. Build a safe, healthy, distraction-light, and drama-free environment where builders focus on building. That’s where engineers do their best work.”Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the WaySometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way
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Radford Tam shared thisWhat a year. https://lnkd.in/e5WYADreA comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunchA comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch
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Radford Tam reposted thisRadford Tam reposted thisWe’re growing! AptDeco is hiring for several high-impact roles in Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Experience. Know someone who’d be excited to help build the future of resale? Send them our way. https://lnkd.in/e83EndTvAptDeco - The Best Place to Buy and Sell Used FurnitureAptDeco - The Best Place to Buy and Sell Used Furniture
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Radford Tam shared thisWarren Buffett published his last letter as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. And what a read. As the holiday season approaches and 2025 begins to wind down, I've been reflecting on the challenges that I've experienced and the sometimes turbulent circumstances that have visited the country this year. Both of which, admittedly, have had an impact on my emotional well-being. But reading Buffett's letter was an illuminating reminder that difficulties in life will come and go, that disappointments and the fear of failure are inevitable, and that the best course of action is to seek improvement and move on. "Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior. Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it. Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior." https://lnkd.in/eTQcUXnB
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Radford Tam liked thisRadford Tam liked thisWe move fast at Harvey - there is always a ton to share. Here are some of our exciting updates from the past two weeks: We officially opened our doors and welcomed our founding teams in Madrid and Dallas over the past two weeks. Chicago is next — we're opening there in July and I am so excited about that market. We already have strong recruiting talent lined up to join the Chicago team. On the leadership side, we welcomed Rachel Hepworth as our CMO - she's already hit the ground running. We're growing SO quickly - but our bar has remained high and we're bringing in incredible talent across the globe. We're proud to be featured in Paraform's Talent Density Index Top 20 and the Forbes AI 50 list. On the Go to Market side — last night we signed our 101st Am Law 200 firm. We now serve the majority of the Am Law 200 and 60+ of the Am Law 100. What most people don't is that know we're also working with 900+ mid-market customers, giving lawyers in the mid market space more time to do great work, win business, and grow their firms. The team has been hard at work finding the best GTM talent to continue to power this effort across 14 different markets. On the tech side - agents are here. Harvey has been agentic from the start (teams have already built 25,000+ workflows), but earlier this month we launched Agent Builder so teams can quickly build, share, and schedule workflow agents to run in the background. There's a lot more coming in this space and I cannot wait to share it. https://lnkd.in/gtJeubSA https://lnkd.in/gJVzTvUB https://lnkd.in/gBamSZnF https://lnkd.in/gt6ggxiQ
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Radford Tam reacted on thisRadford Tam reacted on thisI was moved to tears yesterday morning. When is the last time someone truly made you feel seen? I’m not talking about a compliment in passing or kind words out of courtesy. I’m talking about something much greater. When someone says something that feels less like words and more like an action. It feels like they are extending themselves into your soul and gently embracing your inner being for a moment in time. It may only last a second in reality, but feels like an eternity. The moment passes, but it stays with you forever. In melancholy times, you can close your eyes and return to the moment you felt so validated and seen. These moments are fleeting, but they can last a lifetime. Well, I had one of these moments in the office yesterday morning when one of my new hires, Aubrie, walked into my office. I looked up from my monitor and watched her enter. It was around 6:12 AM. The day was just getting started. She was wearing the company uniform: grey onesie, white sneakers. On her face was the same fearful look a child has after breaking the neighbor’s window. Her hands were held out in front of her, elbows straight, as if she had handcuffs on like she actually did the day before when she failed to set a meeting during call block. Her lips were quivering and her body trembling. But in an instant, something changed. She began to smile and smirk at me like there was something I didn’t know. My nose scrunched, my eyes narrowed, and my head tilted slightly as I waited. I lost patience and said, “Well, what is it?” She covered her mouth as she laughed and looked at me like I was some sort of beggar. I leaned forward and said, “Start talking or get out.” She collected herself, breathed in then out, and said, “I called off my wedding.” I was perplexed. “I didn’t even know you were engaged.” She moved her head side to side. “Well, I was engaged up until this morning, but the wedding is officially cancelled.” I remained silent. She could tell I was waiting for more. She nervously explained, “It’s just that your talk during the emergency town hall last week really struck home with me. When you were explaining how work family is the most important family in the world. And that everything outside is temporary and frivolous and mostly meaningless, and that your work family will never abandon you and that...” She kept going, but I could no longer hear a single word she was saying. A beautiful song was playing in my head. I could only hear the vibrations of her words and see her lips moving. A single tear fell from my face. I felt like a child again. I felt seen. I felt appreciated. I felt loved. I felt warm. While the moment was precious, I recognized this was a waste of company time. I quickly wiped the tear off my cheek and said, “I don’t have time for this. Get out of here.” I fired Aubrie 15 minutes later.
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Radford Tam liked thisRadford Tam liked thisToday, we announce what we’ve been building quietly for the past 2-years. My newest venture, Thea Technology Inc., is building AI-Doctors focused on the aesthetic industry, backed by General Catalyst, Stellation, & other incredible investors. While there is a massive race to win the AI Doctor category, as seen evident by the investments into Superpower, Function of Health, ChatGPT Health, and Microsoft Health, there is a hugely underserved market of AI-Doctors focused on aesthetics (acne, hair, anti-aging, peptides, weight, etc). When I was younger, I’d suffered from bad acne several times in my life, feeling defeated by an incumbent dermatology & healthcare system. Shortage of practitioners, long wait times, complex insurance, & the root causes were always cured by something other than the front-line medication given to me. As I enter my mid-30s, I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on cosmetic products over the years, confused on what’s right for me, only to be left with distrust by the pay-to-play influencer market. A few years ago a medical coma left me with a keloid scar on my face that was surgically revised three times (growing back larger 2 out of the 3). During that same period, I suffered hair loss from MPB & telogen effluvium, now treated by multiple medications that came with unexpected side effects. The truth is, feeling your best self is directly correlated to strong mental health, yet the journey for improvement always feels extremely daunting, confusing, & alone. That realization always made me wonder: what would it mean to completely change how consumers bought products, treatments, or procedures in this category? With AI, Computer vision models are now stronger than ever, mobile devices produce professional-grade imagery, & consumers are interacting with LLMs at unprecedented rates, using them as personal doctors, trusted advisors, & shopping experts. In the next 5 years, there will be a paradigm shift in consumer buying. From Google searches to generic AI chat interfaces to 100% hyper-personalized, immersive, photo-driven experiences purpose-built for the cosmetic industry. 1 photo, & a few minutes with a fully autonomous, clinically trained agent, could unlock: Which OTC product to buy? With a complete dataset on which products broke you out in the past. Which prescription to get? Fully integrated into a same-day RX delivery service near you. What's going on with X symptom? Escalated from AI to a real doctor in the same flow. Which doctor to see or treatment to get? Seamlessly connected to insurance, booking capabilities, & the best prices. That experience is what Thea is building. In less than a year in market, we've ranked top in the app store, crossing 500k users, & went from $0-2M in annual revenue run rate. Soon, we will launch a fully HIPAA-compliant flow that lets you connect with real doctors in the app & get prescriptions same day. Stay tuned for even bigger announcements this week and next.
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Radford Tam liked thisRadford Tam liked thisDeloitte just cut its paid parental leave in half. A lot of CFOs are about to learn that this was the most expensive "savings" decision they ever made. The US is already the only developed country without federal paid parental leave. 1/4 of American women are back at work within 2 weeks of giving birth. 1/3 leave the workforce entirely when they don't have the time and support they need, and many stay out for 5 years or more. That's the baseline we're starting from. And now two of the country's most prominent employers are making it worse. Deloitte is taking their paid parental leave program from 16 weeks down to 8 for their internal support roles. They're getting rid of a $50,000 reimbursement that covered adoption, surrogacy, and IVF. They're cutting PTO by up to 10 days and ending pension accruals. At Zoom, birthing parents went from getting 22–24 weeks of leave down to 18, and non-birthing parents went from 16 weeks down to 10. All of this while Deloitte's US business grew 8% last year to $35.7 billion in revenue. Zoom's full-year revenue crossed $4.6 billion with operating cash flow growing almost 22%. Neither of these companies is cutting benefits because they can't afford them. They're cutting because the labor market has shifted, and they've decided they can get away with it. We should call this what it is: it's a rollback of parental support, and the cost is going to land hardest on mothers. If Deloitte and Zoom are the first to make decisions like this, they won't be the last and every company that follows is going to push more parents into choosing between their careers and their families, at a moment when daycare already costs more than rent in most major cities. Cutting parental leave doesn't just take something away from parents. It tells them exactly where they stand.
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Radford Tam reacted on thisRadford Tam reacted on thisToday SVB is retiring its brand. First Citizens Bank takes it from here. I have banked with SVB across three startups over the last fifteen years. I want to say something about what that actually meant. I remember walking into their office to open an account for one of my startups. It felt old school even then. They handed me a thick folder. Not a brochure. A set of documents that explained how they supported startups, the accounts, the debt programs, the community around it. It was the first time a bank had ever made me feel like they understood what I was trying to do. And they were there, all of a sudden making the dream into reality because we had a bank account. I remember taking my first venture debt loan from them. Startups are a roller coaster, and when things got hard, I had to go back and ask them to revise the terms. They didn't make me feel small for asking. They worked through it with me like a partner would. I remember when I later exited that same company. They celebrated with us. Not because of what it meant to their book. Because they genuinely cared about what we had built and what it had taken to get there and the people that fought to make it happen. That is a rare thing in banking. It is a rare thing anywhere. SVB was not perfect. The world knows that now. But for a generation of founders who were trying to build something from nothing, they showed up in ways that mattered. They understood the language of startups before most institutions knew the dialect existed. The brand is retiring. This is not a eulogy. It is an appreciation of what SVB has done for startups. The people and the mission, will carry forward. Thank you for being part of my journey.
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Rachel Trobman
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Context-switching is not just a buzz word. It's something that is integral to successful agency work. Not hiring engineers with this in mind can be a huge problem. The smartest CTO -- and now technical recruiting whiz -- I know has some big thoughts on this, questions to ask to find these unicorns and red flags to keep an eye out for during the interview process. If you need to grow your team, this is a must read as Jason Trobman has successfully hired and placed hundreds of engineers. https://lnkd.in/d9mKKNGw
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Mitchell Kosowski
Vouched • 31K followers
As Fred Brooks wrote decades ago: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Coordination isn’t free. New devs mean onboarding, syncing, and re-aligning. The fastest teams aren’t the biggest, they’re the ones that communicate best.
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