The automatic switchboard, a monumental invention in telecommunications, was introduced by Almon Strowger in 1891. Strowger was an undertaker by profession. The story goes that he suspected his calls were being intentionally redirected by a human switchboard operator to his competitor, who happened to be the operator’s relative. Spurred by…

If you’re a founder, you’ve likely encountered this situation before. You meet with a venture capitalist (VC), have what you believe to be an excellent discussion, and then receive one of the variations of a “No” response: “We genuinely admire your product and have complete faith in you and your…

By Ethan Evans and Amir Shevat Congratulations on your promotion or hiring as a manager! This new journey will be a thrilling adventure, but it’s filled with challenges and learning curves. Let’s chart the course for successful leadership together. …

Congratulations on signing a term sheet, closing a SAFE, and securing funding! You are now a funded startup. You chose your investors carefully, and you are excited about all the help they will provide. However, if you don’t clarify your expectations with the investors, this may not be the case…

You would think it is trivial — a startup product features and roadmap always reflect the company goals, right? Well, wrong. In many cases, I find it not to be the case. Many times a company’s product feature set reflects yesterday’s goals. I have seen many cases where the product…

I have been happy in the last few years. It hasn’t been always the case — I went through a hard childhood, a horrible teenage years, and harsh army service, all of which bled into my young adulthood. …

Bluesky is an awesome new social network app and an open platform, that through a decentralized At-Proto protocol, moderation, and algorithmic choice is going to revolutionize the public conversation. Simply put, it is what we really wanted Twitter/FB/IG/Mastodon to be, but unfortunately they never delivered. …

In the last two days have been building CatGTP, a bluesky bot using the openAI API to generate funny cat posts and submitting them to the amazing new social app, using the ATProto API. Wanted to share the code, so that you can do it too. I have not been…

Following the popular release of Amir 4.0, 4.1 , 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6, we are excited to announce the release of Amir 4.7. This version deprecates our enterprise edition, and launches a few new editions we are excited about. We hope you enjoy this new version, here are…