Oh damn.
I’ve joined @float_financial as Head of Applied AI.
Back to my startup roots after founding Stripe Console at @stripe. Building 0-1 products as AI changes how we build for Canadian businesses. 🇨🇦
We’re hiring across roles and levels. DM me.
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Answering employment questions once again in the globe and mail theglobeandmail.com/business/caree…
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To effectively lead on employer brand, it’s best to use the Fielder method with the founders being the subject.
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somehow @nikolaevra trusts me with the keys to the @float_financial X account.
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Carl Casis retweeted
What event snack screams Toronto?
Jamaican patties, or a JrChicken from the McDonald’s at Queen & Spadina?
We’re hosting senior engineers at Float HQ on Nov 12 to talk about AI around money: where you trust the model and where you don’t.
6 PM
Snacks are still TBD, so let us knowsign up here:
luma.com/b1p96vcg
Jamaican patties, or a JrChicken from the McDonald’s at Queen & Spadina?
We’re hosting senior engineers at Float HQ on Nov 12 to talk about AI around money: where you trust the model and where you don’t.
6 PM
Snacks are still TBD, so let us knowsign up here:
luma.com/b1p96vcg
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Carl Casis retweeted
The Bank of Canada raised its policy rate by 0.25% to 2.5% today, its first hike since 2023. 📈
We raised our rates the same day. Our customers are now earning up to 3.75% on their USD/CAD balances, with no minimums, starting today.
Founders, stay focused on building. ake sure your money works harder here than it would sitting at the big banks.
We raised our rates the same day. Our customers are now earning up to 3.75% on their USD/CAD balances, with no minimums, starting today.
Founders, stay focused on building. ake sure your money works harder here than it would sitting at the big banks.
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Carl Casis retweeted
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the best employees are like “self-guided missiles.”
“You don’t even need to tell them what the goal is. They self-identify the goal, and then they reach it.”
“Average people, you tell them the goal, and then you need to spend weekly iterations management time. That’s what I don’t want.”
“The best executives are very tough.”
“Likable is never the goal for executives. The goal is always to achieve the goal with the minimal number of resources spent.”
“You don’t even need to tell them what the goal is. They self-identify the goal, and then they reach it.”
“Average people, you tell them the goal, and then you need to spend weekly iterations management time. That’s what I don’t want.”
“The best executives are very tough.”
“Likable is never the goal for executives. The goal is always to achieve the goal with the minimal number of resources spent.”
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Carl Casis retweeted
A lot of people predicted AI would mean hiring fewer people across product, engineering, and design.
At Float, we’re seeing the opposite. We’re hiring more than we ever have, and AI is a big reason why. When every person on the team can ship more, each new teammate moves us further toward our vision of frictionless finance for Canadian businesses, and we see a ton of upside ahead.
We’re super Claude-pilled in Product:
- All of our engineers ship with AI
- Our designers ship directly to code and Storybook
- And most of our customer feedback, product ops, and reporting has been long automated away with agents doing the tedious work, so teams can focus on shipping.
We have open roles in Product, Design, and a ton in Engineering. If you want to build world-class products on home soil for Canadian businesses, I’d love to meet you. Our open roles in 🧵
At Float, we’re seeing the opposite. We’re hiring more than we ever have, and AI is a big reason why. When every person on the team can ship more, each new teammate moves us further toward our vision of frictionless finance for Canadian businesses, and we see a ton of upside ahead.
We’re super Claude-pilled in Product:
- All of our engineers ship with AI
- Our designers ship directly to code and Storybook
- And most of our customer feedback, product ops, and reporting has been long automated away with agents doing the tedious work, so teams can focus on shipping.
We have open roles in Product, Design, and a ton in Engineering. If you want to build world-class products on home soil for Canadian businesses, I’d love to meet you. Our open roles in 🧵
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Scammers gonna do numbers with this
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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Carl Casis retweeted
Unpopular opinion: your results with AI largely depend on how smart you are
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Carl Casis retweeted
Sometimes you just have to stop thinking, start doing, and get lost in the process.
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Carl Casis retweeted
When business owners complain about hiring I sometimes can’t hold my tongue.
“Yeah, it's brutal out there. How much of your marketing budget goes towards recruiting and hiring?”
They look at me like I have two heads.
“What the heck are you talking about? Of course I don’t spend marketing dollars on employees. I spend marketing dollars on getting customers. Is that even a thing?”
These business owners, and I would venture to say MOST small business owners, just sit back and HOPE that a unicorn walks in the door.
They pray that the best, most loyal, hardest working employee who never makes mistakes are just browsing the free classified section of Facebook Marketplace, sees their job posting, and bends over backwards at the opportunity for average compensation at an average company with non-existent marketing.
You, as the leader of your company, have to hunt them down and convince them to come to your company. You have to build a company that attracts these A players and then go out and get them!
Nearly every single competent employee I’ve ever hired already had a job when I hired them.
I took matters into my own hands, took ownership over the shitty labor market, and did the work other companies weren’t willing to do to find and attract these people.
Hiring costs money. It takes a lot of time. But, making the active effort is how you grow.
“Yeah, it's brutal out there. How much of your marketing budget goes towards recruiting and hiring?”
They look at me like I have two heads.
“What the heck are you talking about? Of course I don’t spend marketing dollars on employees. I spend marketing dollars on getting customers. Is that even a thing?”
These business owners, and I would venture to say MOST small business owners, just sit back and HOPE that a unicorn walks in the door.
They pray that the best, most loyal, hardest working employee who never makes mistakes are just browsing the free classified section of Facebook Marketplace, sees their job posting, and bends over backwards at the opportunity for average compensation at an average company with non-existent marketing.
You, as the leader of your company, have to hunt them down and convince them to come to your company. You have to build a company that attracts these A players and then go out and get them!
Nearly every single competent employee I’ve ever hired already had a job when I hired them.
I took matters into my own hands, took ownership over the shitty labor market, and did the work other companies weren’t willing to do to find and attract these people.
Hiring costs money. It takes a lot of time. But, making the active effort is how you grow.
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Carl Casis retweeted
Life is amazing. You can just do things. Message people on Twitter, learn anything, build anything, talk to people in person, learn about them, try new foods, listen to music, go to shows, go to forests.
It would take only a moment to write another list about everything terrible happening in the world, but why? Optimism is the winning strategy, and it doesn’t require complacency. Engage, show up, help people, find a path forward for yourself, help others find a path forward.
Lead with love.
It would take only a moment to write another list about everything terrible happening in the world, but why? Optimism is the winning strategy, and it doesn’t require complacency. Engage, show up, help people, find a path forward for yourself, help others find a path forward.
Lead with love.
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My friend’s trying to break into tech. They asked him for a Loom video. He asked, What the hell is Loom?
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