Co-founder of @thorgate & @waybillercom. Estonian. Father. @seedcamp alumni. #Python developer. Maker.

Tallinn, Estonia
Joined May 2010
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"The quality of your mind is the quality of your life." @naval
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Across the ~30 unicorns I’ve funded, there’s only one common founder trait: optimism.
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Honoured to join PM @kajakallas & President @vonderleyen in Tallinn to mark Independence Day. #Estonia knows freedom is not for free. #NATO & the EU stand with #Ukraine in its fight for freedom.
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A team that ships quick together, sticks together.
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"Relax. You’ll live longer *and* perform better." @naval
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"Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything." @naval
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The “get shit done” founder always beats the “perfectly planned strategy” founder because speed is a startup's biggest advantage.
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I think everyone is underestimating how important it is to ship fast in this time and age I'm able to go from idea to product in 6-12 hours That gives you a first mover advantage A simple tech stack becomes important
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The value is in what gets used, not in what gets built #productmanagement #startups
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Most successful startups sell solutions to problems, not the tech they use.
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When building a startup 70% done today is better than 100% done with month-long delays in search of perfection that does not exist.
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One of my biggest learnings while building a startup: Things take longer than you think
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"If you can't decide, the answer is No." @naval
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"A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind." @naval
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Ship fast, listen to customer feedback, iterate, improve, repeat steps until product market fit is found. This is how startups are built, pretty simple. – at San Mateo, CA
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Most successful startup founders don't whine, complain, make excuses, blame people or things out of their control, they just get shit done.
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Building a great product is a creative, chaotic process which you won’t get right every time, so you have to also be learning from success and failure #productmanagement #startups
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Quote on my mind today: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." - Warren Buffett
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It doesn't take much to be in the top 5%.
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