The Craziest Stuff We Found On The Internet This Week

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
It's insane.
I think it's insane and brilliant. That's a good find.

**Shaan Puri** (0:03)
Nobody knows about this account, by the way. This account only has 750 followers. So I kind of maybe I'm blowing up my own spot here.
It's time for the first ever Friday Quickie. This is a little idea me and Sam had, where we share basically the little things that we saw this week that were either the best article, the best tweets, the best little video that we saw. Normally, this is stuff we just only share in our group chat.
And we wanted to try it out on the pot, showing it to each other. I don't know what he's gonna say. He doesn't know what I'm gonna say. We each have three. So we're gonna do a list of six things. Let's run through it.

**Sam Parr** (0:45)
All right, you wanna go first?

**Shaan Puri** (0:46)
Oh, jinks. I'll do when I have a quick one. So this is a genius deal flow hack.
You ever heard about how hedge fund traders will move their servers to be as close as possible to the pipe or they'll use a certain kind of wire so that the trades get executed faster? I used to hear all these things about how in traditional finance, people would go to crazy lengths just to get that little edge, that little extra edge. And I always felt a little sad that us, the soft boys of Silicon Valley, we don't really do that. We're all nice, paying it forward, we're just blogging everything that we know. There's no real secrecy, no real ruthless secrecy about things, until I saw this. So our buddy Suli tweeted this out, that there is a company that started to help VCs improve their deal flow. So he was like, basically every VC knows deal flow matters. Normally the way you do it is you're hosting dinners or conferences, or you go on podcasts, or you make a Patagonia vest that you give away, shit like that. But they were like, the problem is, you don't know what deals you're not hearing about.
So what if there was a way where you could know about the deals you're not hearing about? So what they did was, some company basically puts a photographer in front of the offices of Sequoia and Andreessen and all the top funds.

**Sam Parr** (2:03)
Is this real or an idea?

**Shaan Puri** (2:04)
I think this is real. So when people are leaving the office, they're like, hey, do you want a picture in front of the Sequoia thing? I'll send it to you. They take a picture because it's a great moment for the entrepreneur. Oh, this is when we pitch Sequoia. And they're like, great, what's the name of your company? And they're like, awesome. They basically sell that list to all the other funds. It's like, hey, did you know these guys are out raising? They were talking to Sequoia.
And he's like, I heard about this and I thought it was amazing. Genius Deal Flow Hack. He's like, the VC who told me about it was like, we don't pay for this, but I know it exists and others do.
I think that's brilliant. What do you think?

**Sam Parr** (2:34)
I think it's brilliant. I think it's insane. I think it's insane and brilliant.

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
There's another version of this that I follow. There's a Twitter account called like Stealth Something. And it's anytime somebody who had like working on something new or stealth, blah, blah, blah.
Anytime they change that to like the name of a project, it immediately tweets out, this person just announced they're doing this thing. And so you could reach out to them and be like, hey, that's really cool. I like what you're doing.

**Sam Parr** (2:59)
What's the name of that handle?

**Shaan Puri** (3:00)
All right, so that account is called Stealth Co-Spy. So if you go to at Stealth Co-Spy, it's a real time notification of anytime like people, it also tracks like LinkedIn. Like if you leave a company that they consider like a high trajectory, like a fast growth startup, it's like this person's leaving to do something new.
And you could see it. So like, for example, the last tweet was, Julia is now building in stealth mode.
She's the ex data science director from GitHub. And now, and she lives in Boston. Here's her LinkedIn. She just announced, or she just posted that she's, she's working on something new that's in stealth.

**Sam Parr** (3:32)
This is awesome.

**Shaan Puri** (3:33)
Or it'll be like, no, it comes out of stealth.
He's got a platform for no code SDK tooling for enterprise LLM applications. Here's the link. Here's his LinkedIn.