Founder, BIMP - Relationships × Product. Founder, Assura - Traditional Thrift Excluding Its Weaknesses, Digitalized.
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Joined March 2024
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Sam Bare retweeted
Today we're announcing our $1B Series A, led by @kleinerperkins and @clearlake.
We believe making frontier AI R&D more accessible is the most direct path to AI that solves humanity's most pressing problems across science and technology.
Sam Bare retweeted
I had never done enterprise sales in my life when I joined Brio Systems.
When I got there the company was doing less than $1M in revenue. Over the next two and a half years we did over $100M, selling health and safety software during the pandemic to hundreds of giant companies, a lot of them Fortune 500. I ended up running multimillion-dollar deals and leading sales, marketing and ops teams.
People assume there was some secret playbook. There wasn't. Here's what I actually learned.
1. Learn the product so well you could sell it in your sleep. My whole thing is getting up to speed on something fast enough that I can reposition it better than the people who built it.
2. Speak the buyer's language. A giant company buys a way to make the problem keeping someone up at night go away, and the software is just how it gets delivered.
3. Timing is a massive part of it. We had a product that mattered at exactly the moment everyone needed it, and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a huge part of the story.
4. You don't need to be a sales bro. The deals that went best for me came from knowing the customer's problem cold and being straight with them.
That experience is basically why I do what I do now. Most technical founders are exactly where I was back then, great at the thing and new to selling it, and they can learn it SO much faster than they think.
Sam Bare retweeted
Pro-Founder tip: name the 3 founders you’d call at 11pm. Write down the one trait each has that you lack. Read it before every hard decision.
Marcus Aurelius did this 1,800 years ago.
Your network is a practice, not a contact list.
Sam Bare retweeted
10 Things I Wish My Board and VCs Had Told Me:
1/ Power laws are real. $1m MRR is when it gets great.
2/ Just go find the VP you need. You can miss a quarter if need be.
3/ Truly beloved products win. Invest more there.
4/ If you need a little more $$$, we will help
5/ It's OK to talk honestly about exit goals. It is OK to sell anytime everyone makes money.
6/ Do not be scared we will block a sale.
7/ If you need a salary raise, just tell us. Stressing about salary after a few million in ARR is dumb.
8/ Play to your strengths. If you aren't great at something, do more of what you are great at.
9/ Sell some shares later. That will help you push on for the next 5-50 years.
10/ You are either a very good or a great CEO
Sam Bare retweeted
We spent a few months reporting on Dario Amodei, and why he thinks about AI the way he does. What we found was a man — deeply influenced by rationalism, effective altruism and the writings of Ray Kurzweil — who survived a fight with testicular cancer and is now leading a trillion-dollar AI lab.
Anthropic's CEO has deep personal convictions on how to develop AI that has made some into believers and others into enemies. And some of those very convictions are being tested now as his company is about to go public.
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/techn…
Sam Bare retweeted
Before you eat or prepare food, wash your hands with soap and clean running water.
Your hands can carry germs that cause infections, even when they look clean!
A simple 20-second habit can help you protect you and your family!
Sam Bare retweeted
Hector Serrano (@hectorserrranoo) runs what may be the most innovative paid growth program in Silicon Valley.
He joined @WisprFlow at 19, days after quitting D1 soccer. After making every ad himself for 1.5 years, he took the playbook the best e-com brands have used for years and made it work for B2B SaaS: creators make the ads, get paid a cut of the ad spend, and the best of them earn $100K+ a year.
Over the past year, Wispr Flow grew revenue 30x+ and recently raised at a $2B valuation.
Hector shares his full playbook.
We cover:
01:17 What Hector does at Wispr Flow
03:10 The number-one growth lever
04:25 When to start investing in paid ads
08:27 The paid-UGC strategy and how it developed
13:44 How creator compensation works: percent of ad spend vs. GMV
20:07 The profile of a great modern marketing hire
25:03 The importance of young talent
28:22 Hector’s journey from D1 soccer to Wispr Flow
31:03 Step-by-step: How to build a paid-UGC group from zero
43:03 Reaching out to creators
45:37 Building culture inside your creator group
48:31 The role of the media buyer alongside the creative lead
50:05 Team size and structure
53:44 Why UGC works even in technical and enterprise SaaS
56:15 Advice for people embarking on the creator path
59:50 Common mistakes to avoid
01:02:21 The sports approach to hiring
01:03:52 Why the best marketers are allergic to AI output
01:08:07 Founder-led content
01:16:01 Why YouTube packaging matters more than production quality
01:20:06 Lightning round and final thoughts
Also available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=KzS5Qs7v…
Sam Bare retweeted
Join our private launch. Your email only is required. nueform.io/f/MJ-uC15gYR
Sam Bare retweeted
It is sad to see that the only purpose men had was to type on a computer.
Men, you derive purpose form within.
20 years in computer science and now Ai takes over, you should be happy and retired. Not sad without purpose.
This world has you thinking your purpose is a paycheck. It is not. That is debt slavery.
Sam Bare retweeted
Wake early.
Pray daily.
Exercise daily.
Eat healthy.
Work hard.
Avoid cheap dopamine.
Tidy your space.
Sleep early.
Be intentional with your circle.
Seek wisdom.
Live a quiet life.
Feel no guilt when resting.
Respect people.
Dream bigger than your eyes can see.
Cultivate patience like a skill.
Know what you know, and know what you don’t know.
Be a good follower, but not a zombie.
Be a good leader, not a tyrant.
Again, pray daily and believe.
This is the cheat code to living a happy and fulfilled life as a young person.