Six years ago, I moved to Nashville from San Francisco. I have great friends in SF, and I met great friends in Nashville. What struck me is how such great people could be so divided, especially when it came to politics. So for 6 years, I just listened and took| Shane Mac
What You Don't See: Listening to the Political Fears That Divide Us| Shane Mac
Hey friends, I'd love to hear your thoughts—hit reply and say hi! I've been thinking about this for a while: As social networks become algorithm networks, followers lose all their value, and group messaging becomes the new social graph, what changes? Why the Next| Shane Mac
Hey friends, You're receiving this email because you signed up on my personal website or LogosLabs.com. I'm excited to share our latest investments with you, I've removed sensitive information. To get all the information, simply become an LP in our fund. Here'| Shane Mac
Below is a copy of the post we shared about our Series A over on the XMTP blog. I personally couldn't be more excited to be building this company with my co-founder Matt Galligan. --- XMTP has raised a $20M Series A from a16z Crypto, with participation from many| Shane Mac
This was an internal memo we sent to our LPs in The Logos Fund. To receive the full version and invest with us, join our fund as an LP here. Share this email with friends and tell them to subscribe here: blog.shanemac.com. Hi team, It’s been| Shane Mac
Congratulations to Remote.com for achieving 🦄 status in their $150M Series B led by Accel with participation from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Two Sigma and more.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
I sent a note to our team earlier today about how, in an AI-native world, your job is not to do the work—it’s to ensure the work is great. Team, I’ve been thinking a lot about Tobi’s note that was shared in #tool-ai — I tweeted about| Shane Mac
I hear this question all the time: > “How should I go about raising money?” To start, raising money is actually really hard and there are lots of nuances but maybe a different perspective can help some people trying to raise a round. Also, the single best way to raise money| Shane Mac
Nothing has opened more doors and opportunities in my life than Twitter. I didn’t go to an Ivy League school. (Not even close [http://www.wiu.edu/]) I do believe that signaling theory exists and there’s a ton to gain by attending a school like Stanford. But I| Shane Mac
This story is about having no fucking clue what will happen, one lucky email, and the ignorant road to raising part of our $1.5m seed round in 5 days before New Year’s. July 5th, 2013. Sitting in Spanish Bay, CA with my girlfriend browsing Instagram. This is the| Shane Mac
Handmade paper letter with handwritten welcome note to you. Photo credit: @rstephens In yesterday’s news we talked about how to quit [https://medium.com/assist/how-to-quit-11a2d89bfff2], in today’s news lets talk about how we start.☺Here is what we do at Assist (and the purpose) for every new| Shane Mac
When a new team member joins our company, we have them start by reading a handbook to help understand our culture, mission and team. One piece of this document which you read on the first day shares thoughts on how to quit. I want to share our insights because honestly| Shane Mac
Michelle recently shared how we passed $40m in all-time revenue at Squared Away. Check out her post on X. I wanted to share a few thoughts on how we got here, lessons learned, all of our financials, and my personal journey to get here. To think we started this company| Shane Mac
Taken right from the Assist handbook for new team members I wanted to share why we believe giving everyone a personal assistant is the greatest perk you can offer. And a few other thoughts. Productivity Perks > Posh Perks There’s a lot of talk, especially in technology, about cute and| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
Read about culture, leadership, and building technology startups.| Shane Mac
The following post is an excerpt from David Marquet's book "Leadership is Language." David was the captain of a nuclear submarine and one of my favorite leaders in the world. David asked me to share when we were launching our biggest project with Apple and how one question almost led| Shane Mac
7 years ago, I called my best friend Robert Stephens and asked him for advice. His response was not what I was looking for. He said, Do you want my Advice or do you want my Validation? I just sat there for a second. Doubting my actual intentions. Thinking. What| Shane Mac
Reply and say hi, it's always great to hear from you. Every once in a while, someone tells me something that completely changes the entire way I see the world. That's what happened to me after a conversation with Ted Klontz, one of the best psychologists in the world. My| Shane Mac
David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around, which is one of my favorite books on leadership, is writing a new book coming out soon called “Coach.” It’s about how to coach yourself and the questions, tools, and playbooks that can help us all see what is hard to| Shane Mac
A year ago, I wrote this internal memo to our team at XMTP Labs. It's something I think about a lot, and even as we've grown and come a long way since a year ago, I still think about this almost every day. Here's how 13 years ago, we blew| Shane Mac
Anyone in the world can now send free global payments with a private and secure text message. This is just the beginning of individuals having more control, privacy, and ownership over their assets, identity, and now communication. I'm thrilled to announce that Coinbase Wallet is now part of the XMTP| Shane Mac
Richard Feynman once said that “you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” I shared this post recently as a screenshot on Twitter and I had 100s of people reach out and say it was something they were struggling with and the post really resonated| Shane Mac
Last month, I made an offer to everyone at our company: $25,000 to quit. 6 people took it. But, why? Because I fucked up. I'm sharing the story to be open about what happened, why I did it, and maybe it can be helpful to others going through a| Shane Mac
