why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Siroker: Rewind published its unredacted investor pitch deck and video on Twitter
“That's why I announced and shared our investor deck unredacted. I didn't hide any numbers. You know, you can find it on Twitter, you know, seven minute pitch you know, millions of people have seen it.”
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Siroker: Rewind ensures it passes the 'subpoena test' by retaining zero data
“You know, for us, the test I always use is if we were subpoenaed by the government, would we hand over anything useful or meaningful? No, like we never want to be in a situation where We have data about anything you've done that then we could hand over and tha…”
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Siroker: Rewind is exploring custom hardware due to off-the-shelf device limitations
“We are hiring for hardware people so it's possible that down the line if we cannot, by the way, I'm very much a big fan of software. I don't know if you're if you've ever done anything hardware related, but software has many, many benefits of which I'm the big…”
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Siroker: Most Regrettable Founder Mistakes Were Deferring to Board or Experienced Hires
“My gut says we should do A, somebody else thinks we should do B, and it turns out poorly. There are plenty of times we said I should do A, and it turns out poorly. I don't remember any of them. The ones I remember are like these deep existential, my intuition …”
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Rewind Evaluates Performance Exclusively Against Defined Cultural Values in Quarterly 360s
“When we do quarterly three sixties, which most startups don't do when we do them, the criteria we evaluate each other and I get evaluated on by my team is our cultural values. There's nothing else. There's no other thing that your performance it is. Do you liv…”
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Siroker: Rewind lacks a specific target persona beyond Apple hardware
“This is something I'm probably most embarrassed about in terms of our decisiveness. It's just, we don't have a super specific who you know, we have almost by constraints of the technology M one and M two users and app, you know, Apple or iPhone users.”
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Siroker: Three Team Members Ranked Rewind as the Worst Strategic Option
“Three out of my team members thought this was the worst of the five strategies to pursue.”