This article was originally posted on the June blog. I am reposting it here for my own reference. Two years ago we raised a little over $2 million dollars as a seed round from some of the smartest investors in the world. Last week, Louis, our board member asked us to give a presentation to share our learnings with other companies in the Pointnine portfolio. We got great feedback from fellow founders after the presentation - so today I’m sharing our learnings publicly.

As a 13 year old, my dad’s advice on internet presence was: “Everything you post will be used against you in the future. So you should never associate your name with anything on the internet”. As a rebellious teenager my view was the opposite: “Everything you post on the internet will get lost. You should associate your real name with everything you find interesting” I think looking back, this might be the most useful lesson I learned from my high school years.

The only thing that matters is throughput. Becoming the most prolific version of yourself is the most important thing you can do to become proud of your work. Making a group of people become the most prolific version of themselves sounds like a reasonable way to build a great company. So that’s what we’re trying to do. Throughput is the speed of getting to some outputs. The faster you get, the more things you do, and the more you build momentum.

This is an open engineering question at June. If you want to solve problems like this one, please reach out - we’re hiring June allows you to add dynamic traits to your users. For example, if you want to run an analysis only on users that are on your pro plan, you can do that by adding a “plan” trait to your users. The value of these properties is mutable and has no relationship with time.

Sometimes I come back home from work, stuck on something, no adults to ask help to and a deadline in the morning. I fall asleep thinking: “Tomorrow is the day I’ll get caught. This will be the one problem I won’t be able to solve. The rest of my life is going to be misery and failure” Every morning though, with more or less pain things get sorted. Anyways here’s what you should do when you’re stuck: