Various Startups

10 reasons you should work at Windmill (we're hiring): 1. you'll be one of the first ~15 employees. & the last time Brian Distelburger built a company this early, it went public on the NYSE 2. our product is already changing how companies (even $10B+ companies) run their teams. you won't be building an mvp, you'll be shipping something thousands of people use daily 3. you'll use the latest AI tools every single day. we're building the future of how companies manage people and we're as AI-native as it gets 4. you'll have real autonomy. in the last 6 months i've hopped on a last-minute flight to a conference, launched a guerilla marketing campaign, and ran a webinar with thousands of registrants. if you have an idea, chances are you'll get to run with it 5. taco thursdays: we have Los Tacos No. 1 catered at every all-hands 6. unlimited caffeine to go with it: coffee, celsius, cold brew, red bull, diet coke. if it has caffeine we probably have it 7. brilliant teammates and weekly lunch & learns so you're constantly both teaching & learning 8. offsites at cool locations (like the hamptons!) where we actually build stuff at internal hackathons 9. dog friendly office: my mini husky jasper will personally welcome you to the team 10. 5 days a week in office. yes, i think this is a huge selling point for the right person. there are no layers, no approval chains, and we ship incredibly fast...we've been known to turn around features to customers within 24 hrs we're hiring: a software engineer, ML engineer, design engineer, and account executive link to apply below...although I highly recommend messaging me or emailing me at nicole@gowindmill.com if you're truly interested https://lnkd.in/epMiaTS6

I'm hosting a founder dinner in SF with my friend Max Marchione (Founder of Superpower) on Apr 8 We met a few years ago on a boat. Shortly after, I had the opportunity to invest in what he was building. And now Superpower has raised $42m to help people unlock health intelligence to live healthier & happier lives. We are bringing together 20 founders & CEOs (Series A+) at my favorite steak house in SF. There WILL be peptide and longevity talk. Come nerd out with us on health: https://lnkd.in/gTY__h8X P.S. THANK YOU to my friends at Merrill Lynch (Seann Courtney), Virio (Eric), IDA Ireland (Gary) & Winner AI (Seba, Andrew) for supporting our dinner.

Applications are open for our Fibe Spring Fellowship Program! The Fibe Fellowship is a six-month program (5–10 hours/week) where you shadow our team, build your audience, ship products, and help run our CEO dinners, rooftop parties, and tech events. You'll be in the room with some of the most influential people in New York Tech. Perfect if you're early in your career, like to hustle, and are new to the city. Previous fellows include: - former world-ranked junior tennis players - NCAA division one athletes - MIT-trained aerospace engineers - big tech PMs We start on April 1, 2026. 👉 Interested? • Comment 🗽 below • Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ezjKCDan

The irony of going to conferences is that the most interesting and authentic conversations happen off the main stage We just wrapped our "off menu" curated dinner series at SXSW: three private CEO dinners hosted at a mansion in Austin throughout the week Who was there: - Former Olympic athletes - Creators with tens of millions of followers - CEOs of AI startups backed by top-tier VCs - Founders who've built companies to nine-figure outcomes Thank you to our friends at Perkins Coie, Niural AI, Rho, Fondo, DealMaker, Vamo, Deel, Agree.com, Cain & Co, TriNet, Winner AI for making this possible. And thank you to everyone who flew in from around the world to break bread with us. These dinners reminded me why I do what I do: the magic happens when you put the right people in a room and get out of the way. More Off Menu dinners coming soon. NYC. SF. Stay tuned.

We just threw our biggest party yet with over 2,000 people Together with our friends at The Hustle & Agree.com Every year during SXSW, we host the Secret Austin Garden Party. Thousands of founders, investors, creators, and tech professionals from all over the world come together for one night. This year was something else... Live music. A live performance from the Venmo founder, Taco trucks. Cocktails. Cotton candy. A rooftop with one of the best sunsets I've ever seen in Austin. But the most meaningful part of all this is the people I watch strangers become friends and founders pitch investors on the patio. I saw creators meet their heroes. Someone flew in from London just for this. A few thank yous: To everyone who showed up and made it what it was. To our partners, Agree.com and The Hustle, for backing us and the community To my team at Fibe, who spent months pulling this together behind the scenes. (Danielle, Vitoria, Anna, Sangavi, Maks) To the volunteers and the A-Team who helped make this happen. If you were there, thank you. If you weren't, we'll see you next year.

The way we use the internet is about to completely change I've been watching this shift for months. AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity now handle over 5% of all US desktop search traffic. A year ago, that number was 1.3% (384% YoY growth) This is a complete platform shift We're moving from just SEO (search engine optimization) to AEO (AI engine optimization), and most marketers are left wondering what to do Engineers have Cursor Designers have Figma Marketers now have Profound Profound just raised $96M (Series C) They work with companies like Figma, US Bank, MongoDB, and Chime - helping them show up when people ask AI for recommendations Consider this: When someone asks ChatGPT "what's the best CRM for startups," your brand either shows up or it doesn't…. There is no page 2 to rank on Profound tracks how your brand appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, then helps you create content that these bots actually understand and cite They provide an army of autonomous workers that collaborate with every function of your marketing team, from AEO/SEO and content teams to PR, Comms, and Demand Gen For the first time ever, marketers are creating content for bots, not humans WILD that this exists now. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eYVJ3Fu8 #ProfoundPartner

Virality can be engineered. I spent the last 14 days proving this theory. I've built >240,000 followers across LinkedIn, X, and email using specific principles for engineering virality. My thesis: these principles are universal. They should work on any platform. So I speedran TikTok. 50 videos in 14 days. The result: – 25,000+ followers – 3,000,000+ views – 36% of videos exceeded 10K views The thesis held. Here are the 9 principles I live by for creating content: 1. Curate your inputs – If you curate your feed and inbox well, you create an engine that infinitely produces content. 2. Always appeal to self-interest – The only thing that stops the scroll is content that either entertains or materially impacts someone's life. 3. Borrow credibility when you have none – Cite credible sources, reference experts, and use institutional signals until you build your own authority. 4. Master the hook (you have 3 seconds) – Pros spend hours refining their hooks because the way you package content is just as important as the content itself. 5. Make each sentence earn the next – Your second sentence should pull them to the third, the third to the fourth - keep them sliding down the slope. 6. Optimize for debate – Platforms reward engagement, and debate in the comments is the clearest signal that your content is worth distributing. 7. Study platform incentives – Every platform rewards different behaviors: LinkedIn pushes video, TikTok has content gaps, X favors vertical niches. 8. The game changes as you grow – What works at 0 followers (high volume, testing hooks) doesn't work at 100K (deeper insights, consistent voice). 9. Be remarkable – Tactics get you views, but remarkable ideas build careers -optimize for sharing ideas that are truly valuable and unique. The most important thing I learned is that volume negates luck. Make 100 pieces of content, and I guarantee one will hit. 👉 Full blog post: https://lnkd.in/eKM-HYTc