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Thiel fellow searching for a cofounder in VR/AR or Recruitment

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Tried YC cofounder matching, swiped all profiles but didn't yet find anyone relevant

Short: About Me: 24yo Thiel fellow. Scaled last company welovenocode.com to $52m, raised $3m and sold it to Toptal.com - Based in SF

Looking For: Someone interested in VR/AR/XR space OR Recruitment space. Experience doesn't matter, can be technical or biz. Hardware or Software. Be smart with achievements

Reach to kodjima33@gmail.com

Long: Life story: -Born in the middle of nowhere In Russia on an island in the Pacific Ocean -Started to mine crypto at 14 and sold 40 GPUs to my teacher at 16 -Started first company at 16 and sold it by 18 fundplatform.io -at 19 joined 500 startups and started 2nd company welovenocode.com which I sold to toptal.com - at 23 became Thiel Fellow

Interests: I like Recruitment, VR/AR, robotics and longevity but open to anything else. - Let's make sure everyone lives in Metaverse by 2026 - Let's make sure that robots are in every apartment by 2028 - Let's make sure that humans live 200 years on average

SKills: I can recruit, sell, market, raise, build using nocode tools

Looking for: I'm looking for a person with achievements who likes to build. I'm a good fit with someone who likes to design, build, code My top-3 values are: - Hustle - Always be learning - Be passionate

I don't care about your experience, but I do care about achievements. Please reach out to kodjima33@gmail.com mentioning what was the most impressive thing you did.

I can’t imagine you will get many quality responses to this post, so I’m going to give you some advice, not out of disrespect but because I have met so many people like you in my career, and you can be better than that.

If you really want to even attempt to work on any of the problems besides recruiting you mention above, or attract technical talent to help you work on these problems, learn to become technical yourself. Proficiency with no code tools is not going to cut it, being the idea person while someone else builds everything is a recipe for disaster and disappointment almost always.

If you refuse to be technical but are serious about starting a tech company, pick one of your ideas and at the very least research what kind of technical people you want to recruit. Someone who can help you live in the metaverse is going to have a very different skill set than someone who can make a robot that people want to put in their apartments, and you won’t be able to tell the difference by just asking them to tell you about the big achievements they have collected over the years.

I’m glad you are excited to work on things that interest you, I’m happy that you have had some success getting funding and selling a company, but reading this post does not make me feel the same way about the opportunity to work with you to solve hard technical problems.

To become that person you either need to ideally convince me that you will be an active participant in the hard, technical work that needs to be done or at least that you already have an idea, a plan of some kind, and a possible way of making money past VC funding. Asking me to email you an achievement list does not build confidence in any of these areas.

Reframe the way that you think about what you want to work on, does it actually matter to you beyond the potential monetary gain? What if you could only work on 3 different things for your entire life, what would they be and why?

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