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Mikael Cho
Founder Catalog β€” What the world’s most influential founders are writing about
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Franco Varriano
@meseali @mikaelcho & team - awesome work guys! Site is awesome :)
Ash Read
This is a great piece of work. Excited to see how it develops and expands. Love the suggestions from @de on diversity and also @thetomwhatley's idea of an "up & coming" section too πŸ‘Œ
Jack Smith
I don't fully understand what the different category names mean. What makes Jason Calacanis a 'philosopher', or Sam Altman/Kevin Rose 'behind the curtain'? (on the latter, they both seem quite high profile founders)
Ali Mese
@_jacksmith hey Jack, huge thanks for the feedback! We just had a fun internal poll on how each founder's writing made us feel like. But yeah, I know it's super subjective when it comes to taste + matching. Is it super weird? Any suggestions for how we can improve it? thanks!
Jack Smith
@meseali got it. not sure about better category names; but some cool people listed there
Ashwin
Excellent! Just signed up
Dan Edwards
Lovely work and I love the idea! It would be great to see a bit more diversity. 90% of the people you've included are white dudes. ✌️
Ben Tossell
@de yeah would love to know the current diversity split and plans for expansion here. Love the idea here :)
Ali Mese
@de thanks for pointing it out, Dan, this is totally spot on and helpful. We asked our audience and let them decide the names but definitely starting to improve the list based on your feedback. super appreciated πŸ‘Œ
Ali Mese
thanks @bentossell, happy to hear if any more thoughts or suggestions as well!
Dan Edwards
@meseali That's great to hear 😊
Ali Mese
@de πŸ™Œ
Vivek Sancheti
Am I the only one who feels that blue color is overriding and itching?
Dhruba Adhikari
@evivz Yes, why so blue ?
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Can I update my profile photo?
Shaun Roncken
@chrismessina sure thing feel free to send one to shaun@crew.co :)
Lam George
I'm very excited about this product. I've already signup. Ps. Wonderful design.
Dale Brose
Good stuff. I'll pass this around in the #Minneapolis startup community.
Ali Mese
Hey guys! Super excited to get this out the door today! If you're anything like us and simply can't get enough of their essays, hopefully you'll find this tool useful. Of course huge thanks goes to @thisissethsblog @mcuban @rrhoover @fredwilson @ev @chrismessina @sacca @brian_chesky @biz @joelgascoigne @sivers @davemcclure @dhh @randfish @awilkinson @scottbelsky @sarahtavel @msuster @benedictevans @mgsiegler @james_clear @ericries @jason @davemorin @vanschneider @paulg @jasonfried @cdixon @caterina @ftrain @nireyal @bfeld @andrewchen @saranormous @natekontny @garyvee @dharmesh @levie @benchestnut @kevinrose @joshelman @sama @hunterwalk @danielle_morrill @stewart @bhorowitz for inspiring us with their awesome writing! ⚑️πŸ”₯ Also want to thank the awesome team behind it, especially @andrewjaustin @charlesdeluvio @shaunroncken @timswnπŸ’ͺ Please let us know what you think (any other name you'd like to see on the list? suggestions to improve the diversity? list expansion, etc.) πŸ™Œ
Kevin William David
@meseali Nice work. Great way to keep up with their writing. Just signed up! Would love to see @jaltucher @hnshah @NeilPatel @howardlindzon @robgo @om @satyap @jeremyliew @subes01 @stevenlevy @timoreilly on the list!
Ali Mese
@kwdinc great names! thanks for the suggestion Kevin, noted all πŸ™Œ
Nandini Jammi
@meseali @kwdinc Hey I would love to see @simplybastow on this list! ProdPad + MindTheProduct co-founder. Generally also a badass lady writing about product strategy, startups and prod mgmt.
Robleh Jama
@meseali πŸ‘πŸΎ Congrats Ali and Crew! Looks like another solid side-project! I'm really finding services that curate the type of content I like super useful. Some interesting examples recently that I've been digging are Hash (news), Hyper (video) and this falls in that category for me under writing.
Tom Whatley
I hope you guys never stop making cool sh*t. One area I would love to see is an "up & coming" type category. Those who are just getting their footing, writing about their journey and sharing their lessons. Think Alex Turnbull of Groove when he first started blogging about his journey :).
Ali Mese
@thetomwhatley thanks for your encouraging comment, Tom πŸ‘Š OK, noted, actually this reminds me we wanted to have a similar section at the beginning of the project but it got off the radar somehow. Will get our hands back on it πŸ‘
Fred Rivett
Dang this is cool πŸ‘€ We've all seen how popular curation is to Product Hunters. Heck, even this site itself is built upon the foundation of curation. Often I see replica sites spin up with little differentiation, stash this, stack that, but this, for me at least, is a new spin on keeping up with the writing of some of the most influential founders about. No surprise here that the folks at Crew are behind this. Ali wrote a post that really resonated with me almost a year ago now, "Side Project Marketing Is The New King". He's totally right, and the team at Crew know it. https://medium.com/swlh/side-pro... Great job guys πŸ™Œ
Ali Mese
@fredrivett oh man, seriously, you guys are so supportive - huge thanks from all of us at Crew! Glad that post resonated with you by the way. Thanks for taking time to give this feedback, really appreciate it
Fred Rivett
@meseali I like creative ways at solving problems from different angles. This is a cool way to keep up to date with the industry leads, your stuff always inspires me on the side project marketing front. Keep it up πŸ‘Š
Ryan Blair
This is a really nice idea! Thanks for putting together the resource. (Just FYI, your @benedictevans page is linking to @bhorowitz pieces: https://crew.co/founder-catalog/...)
Gua Tabidze
Entrepreneurial experience, openness and willingness to shareβ€Šβ€”β€Šthis is what differs from great entrepreneurs, founders to others.
Matt Nassar
Chamath Palihapitiya would be a great addition to the list.
Wilsarβ„’
I just see a bunch of white dude. I love the concept though, but really, sooo many white guys.
Adrian Rubin
Always interesting to get opinions off people who have been through what you are currently going through.
Rakesh
Brilliant idea. I just wish there was lesser blue @meseali... kinda hurts the eyes.
Gaurav Agrawal
Awesome job !! putting this altogether .