day #469 | founder of dayNumber_. dayNumber_ is the public, honest record of a founder's journey, logged daily. https://teapaw.org/t.co/YIRsmy021S
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Her first shop took her life savings. She started again with $500 and a newborn. In 2008 her bank called a $700K loan and gave her 45 days. Kendra Scott went direct, hit a $1B valuation, and now has 170+ stores. #founders
day #468. slower day today, spent it with family and got a little bit done. the push from here is consistency: revamp the outreach so we onboard and support founders every day, new ones and the ones already logging. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
His gear company went bankrupt. His bank called its loan and he laid off 150 friends. Yvon Chouinard capped Patagonia's growth, repaired clothes instead of replacing them, then gave the $3B company away. Earth is now our only shareholder. #founders
day #467. slow day on new founders, but a couple came back and logged again, and we closed our first client on the loans side. the record keeps building either way. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
Almost broke, Ivan Zhao fired his whole team, fled to Kyoto and rebuilt Notion from zero. It relaunched in 2016, passed 100M users, and hit an $11B valuation. Sometimes you rebuild the same idea right. #founders
day #466. restarted the behind the magic live partner hunt today, emailing vc firms about building a discovery engine together. startup grind already replied and booked a call for nov 20. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
30 jobs said no. KFC hired 23 of 24, and Jack Ma was the one left out. He lost his first company, then built Alibaba with 18 friends and $60,000. Its IPO raised $25B. Rejection says nothing about who you can serve. #founders
Jordan Ovejas retweeted
Would you let an AI agent fix your code?
For the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon, I built Indra. I gave it a broken checkout. After I approved the fix, it showed me 12 passing tests and a release report.
What would you check first: the diff, the tests, or the audit trail?
day #465. full shift, outreach rolling, live stream again with almost a thousand views already, and the april cohort restarted today, first reply in six minutes. founders still logging. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
She bought a bankrupt airport company for $6M in cash. Everyone called it toxic. Caryn Seidman-Becker rebuilt it as CLEAR, took it public at $4B, and Forbes now values it at $7.6B. Bankruptcy is a price tag, not a verdict. #founders
day #464. stressful day, landlord challenges on repeat like groundhog day. the way out is embracing the monotony with love and keeping going anyway. umair posted day #1, pramodh logged day #2. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
He built an app that did everything. Nobody used it. So Kevin Systrom deleted almost everything, kept only photos, and renamed it Instagram. 18 months later Facebook paid $1B for 13 employees and zero revenue. #founders
day #463. the internet install ate my work day, but the workflows kept things moving without me. about four founders logged today, and one hit day #4, four days in a row. that is the whole point. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
He sold Oculus to Facebook for $2B at 21. At 24, Facebook let him go. So Palmer Luckey started Anduril, valued at $61B in May 2026. Getting pushed out is not the end. #founders
day #462. quiet day, first full day in the new house, mostly getting stuff together from the move. no new founders onboarded, but the outreach never stopped, and two founders start their day #1 tomorrow. back in full force tomorrow. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
His first app died. His second sat under 10,000 users for 9 months. Then Ben Silbermann watched what users actually did, built Pinterest, and it just hit 661 million monthly users. Watch what users do. #founders
day #461. move day. long day, finished late, but we're in. outreach still rolled while i was on the truck. retention is still the wall though, founders start and don't come back. building the system that fixes both. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
Two of his robot companies got shut down. One laid off nearly 200 people in a week. Then Boris Sofman pointed the same robots at job sites and raised $600M at a $4.1B valuation. A shutdown is data on who pays. #founders
day #460. retention is the wall. 5 founders logged the other day, then it dropped right back. starting isn't the problem, coming back is. tonight i reached out personally to founders who started and stalled. tomorrow's the move. i keep going. full log: daynumber.io/u/71Eas3CS7wMS0…
3M called his sponge worthless and left it in a box labeled scrap. Aaron Krause gave it a smile, took it to Shark Tank, and sold $926M worth of sponges. Rejection is market feedback, not a verdict. #founders
