Casey Allen
@caseyallen.bsky.social
Cofounder of helpful.
I get the snowballs rolling down the hills.
I'm capping the # of people I'm following here to 101 to ensure unbelievably high signal.
I mostly talk about startups, Midwest, and a 🤏 of politics that I think is under-discussed.
I get the snowballs rolling down the hills.
I'm capping the # of people I'm following here to 101 to ensure unbelievably high signal.
I mostly talk about startups, Midwest, and a 🤏 of politics that I think is under-discussed.
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“For years, conservatives loudly complained that government spending was opaque, that their hard-earned dollars were being secretly misused, and that the government definitely did not need all the money it was taking from them.
That was always hyperbole … until now.”
That was always hyperbole … until now.”
King Trump turns US Treasury into his personal piggy bank
He thinks our money is his.
www.publicnotice.co
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“For years, conservatives loudly complained that government spending was opaque, that their hard-earned dollars were being secretly misused, and that the government definitely did not need all the money it was taking from them.
That was always hyperbole … until now.”
That was always hyperbole … until now.”
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There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
August 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
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And Senate Republicans are about to confirm him to a life appointment on a federal appeals court.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Emil Bove misled lawmakers in his confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship when he denied targeting prosecutors who refused to go along with his dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests
The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And Senate Republicans are about to confirm him to a life appointment on a federal appeals court.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Democrats must ask: What’s a proportional response to Trump’s heinous corruption of the federal judiciary? Doing nothing means letting Bove and his ilk rule us for the next 40 years. I don’t accept it.
Has any new startup come along that replaces the "here's an email with intel on the next person you're meeting with in your calendar" void left by Charlie App (pivoted away) and Accompany (acq and killed by Cisco)?
June 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Has any new startup come along that replaces the "here's an email with intel on the next person you're meeting with in your calendar" void left by Charlie App (pivoted away) and Accompany (acq and killed by Cisco)?
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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American Semiconductor CEOs (the most important industry)
Nvidia CEO - Asian immigrant
AMD CEO - Asian immigrant
Intel CEO - Asian immigrant
Broadcom CEO - Asian immigrant
Nvidia CEO - Asian immigrant
AMD CEO - Asian immigrant
Intel CEO - Asian immigrant
Broadcom CEO - Asian immigrant
The U.S. literally gets the best and brightest PhD STEM talent from China and India to help our economy. Why risk messing this up? (chart source: WSJ)
May 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
American Semiconductor CEOs (the most important industry)
Nvidia CEO - Asian immigrant
AMD CEO - Asian immigrant
Intel CEO - Asian immigrant
Broadcom CEO - Asian immigrant
Nvidia CEO - Asian immigrant
AMD CEO - Asian immigrant
Intel CEO - Asian immigrant
Broadcom CEO - Asian immigrant
“Most successful startups are overnight success. That night is usually somewhere between day 1000 and day 3500.” - Startup L Jackson
May 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“Most successful startups are overnight success. That night is usually somewhere between day 1000 and day 3500.” - Startup L Jackson
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This is the chart I've been looking for. Exactly the right amount of detail on the new regime's tax policy goals.
May 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is the chart I've been looking for. Exactly the right amount of detail on the new regime's tax policy goals.
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If your new company didn’t have a logo, would anyone even notice?
Don’t dwell on things that don’t matter.
P.S. You can add one later if you want.
Don’t dwell on things that don’t matter.
P.S. You can add one later if you want.
May 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If your new company didn’t have a logo, would anyone even notice?
Don’t dwell on things that don’t matter.
P.S. You can add one later if you want.
Don’t dwell on things that don’t matter.
P.S. You can add one later if you want.
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I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: if we survive all this, and that’s a non-trivial if right now, it will take a generation to fix the damage.
By that point, China will have surpassed us.
By that point, China will have surpassed us.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: if we survive all this, and that’s a non-trivial if right now, it will take a generation to fix the damage.
By that point, China will have surpassed us.
By that point, China will have surpassed us.
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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes
May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes
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Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."
Paths to a VC intro.
Ranked from hot to cold.
🤩Founder in fund’s portfolio
😇Investor in current round
😉Investor in prev round
😀Mutual founder friend
🙂Respected advisor
😌Mutual friend
🥶Cold email
Ranked from hot to cold.
🤩Founder in fund’s portfolio
😇Investor in current round
😉Investor in prev round
😀Mutual founder friend
🙂Respected advisor
😌Mutual friend
🥶Cold email
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Paths to a VC intro.
Ranked from hot to cold.
🤩Founder in fund’s portfolio
😇Investor in current round
😉Investor in prev round
😀Mutual founder friend
🙂Respected advisor
😌Mutual friend
🥶Cold email
Ranked from hot to cold.
🤩Founder in fund’s portfolio
😇Investor in current round
😉Investor in prev round
😀Mutual founder friend
🙂Respected advisor
😌Mutual friend
🥶Cold email
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MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Investors should prepare to be fooled many more times. If a master plan exists, .. it's unlikely to work in the way the US administration envisions.”
April 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Investors should prepare to be fooled many more times. If a master plan exists, .. it's unlikely to work in the way the US administration envisions.”
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Just call it surrender. Stop playing word games. The United States of America is surrendering to Russia.
The U.S. Army is pulling forces out of a site near Poland’s border with Ukraine that has been instrumental in getting Western arms into the war-torn country, military officials said this week.
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
US forces’ exit from Polish city key to arming Ukraine is latest shift of burden to Europe
The U.S. Army is pulling forces out of a site near Poland’s border with Ukraine that has been instrumental in getting Western arms into the war-torn country, military officials said this week.
www.stripes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just call it surrender. Stop playing word games. The United States of America is surrendering to Russia.
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The problem is never that you don't know what to do.
The problem is that you know what to do but have ruled it out because its mildly uncomfortable.
The problem is that you know what to do but have ruled it out because its mildly uncomfortable.
April 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The problem is never that you don't know what to do.
The problem is that you know what to do but have ruled it out because its mildly uncomfortable.
The problem is that you know what to do but have ruled it out because its mildly uncomfortable.
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VERY on brand for this administration, this is TEXTBOOK abuser language.
Cool, normal stuff.
Cool, normal stuff.
Bessent: "One of the messages that I'd like to get out tonight is everybody sit back, take a deep breath, don't immediately retaliate, let's see where this goes. Because if you retaliate, that's how we get escalation."
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
VERY on brand for this administration, this is TEXTBOOK abuser language.
Cool, normal stuff.
Cool, normal stuff.
'lawfare' has now entered a new lexicon.
just like the term witch hunt.
anyone that uses it you should assume is just repeating political talking points and is not using any critical thinking whatsoever.
just like the term witch hunt.
anyone that uses it you should assume is just repeating political talking points and is not using any critical thinking whatsoever.
March 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
'lawfare' has now entered a new lexicon.
just like the term witch hunt.
anyone that uses it you should assume is just repeating political talking points and is not using any critical thinking whatsoever.
just like the term witch hunt.
anyone that uses it you should assume is just repeating political talking points and is not using any critical thinking whatsoever.
I just bought a Zoom Phone plan for one person, me, and I never had to spend more time and more energy setting up an account as I did this.
I'm sure it's fantastic for big enterprise.
But holy hell is it a terrible process for teams < 5.
I'm sure it's fantastic for big enterprise.
But holy hell is it a terrible process for teams < 5.
March 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I just bought a Zoom Phone plan for one person, me, and I never had to spend more time and more energy setting up an account as I did this.
I'm sure it's fantastic for big enterprise.
But holy hell is it a terrible process for teams < 5.
I'm sure it's fantastic for big enterprise.
But holy hell is it a terrible process for teams < 5.
Hubspot is running a sick deal right now where startups get almost the entire Hubspot suite of tools for $15/mo.
If you have <$2m in funding + know you'll probably want to run on Hubspot some day, this is a no brainier.
Courtesy of @enterpriserising.bsky.social
offers.hubspot.com/startups/fou...
If you have <$2m in funding + know you'll probably want to run on Hubspot some day, this is a no brainier.
Courtesy of @enterpriserising.bsky.social
offers.hubspot.com/startups/fou...
Secure HubSpot’s Best Founder Discount Before It’s Too Late
Are you considering upgrading to HubSpot soon? HubSpots Pro and Enterprise-level services are increasing by 10% soon. Be sure to
offers.hubspot.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hubspot is running a sick deal right now where startups get almost the entire Hubspot suite of tools for $15/mo.
If you have <$2m in funding + know you'll probably want to run on Hubspot some day, this is a no brainier.
Courtesy of @enterpriserising.bsky.social
offers.hubspot.com/startups/fou...
If you have <$2m in funding + know you'll probably want to run on Hubspot some day, this is a no brainier.
Courtesy of @enterpriserising.bsky.social
offers.hubspot.com/startups/fou...
I'm carving out a full day next week to have a 📞 w/ any founder (even you!) that wants to chat re: GTM, hiring, funding, whatever 👇
cal.mixmax.com/meetwithcase...
Just click and book. Open to any tech founder.
Excited to see how I can help you achieve big things.
*Founders only please*
cal.mixmax.com/meetwithcase...
Just click and book. Open to any tech founder.
Excited to see how I can help you achieve big things.
*Founders only please*
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm carving out a full day next week to have a 📞 w/ any founder (even you!) that wants to chat re: GTM, hiring, funding, whatever 👇
cal.mixmax.com/meetwithcase...
Just click and book. Open to any tech founder.
Excited to see how I can help you achieve big things.
*Founders only please*
cal.mixmax.com/meetwithcase...
Just click and book. Open to any tech founder.
Excited to see how I can help you achieve big things.
*Founders only please*
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It's been five years without meetings at my 7-figure SaaS.
Here are the details on how we communicate: lauraroeder.com/we-deleted-a...
Here are the details on how we communicate: lauraroeder.com/we-deleted-a...
We Deleted All Meetings and Deploy These 4 Simple Systems Instead
If you haven’t read part one of how we built a 7-figure company with zero meetings, start here.
lauraroeder.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's been five years without meetings at my 7-figure SaaS.
Here are the details on how we communicate: lauraroeder.com/we-deleted-a...
Here are the details on how we communicate: lauraroeder.com/we-deleted-a...
Stripe is supposed to be known for their high bar in creating product, but as someone that has used ~ 12 invoicing products, their invoicing product is downright lousy.
It would never be able to compete in the marketplace if it were on its own.
Using it is like chewing glass.
It would never be able to compete in the marketplace if it were on its own.
Using it is like chewing glass.
February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Stripe is supposed to be known for their high bar in creating product, but as someone that has used ~ 12 invoicing products, their invoicing product is downright lousy.
It would never be able to compete in the marketplace if it were on its own.
Using it is like chewing glass.
It would never be able to compete in the marketplace if it were on its own.
Using it is like chewing glass.
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CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library.
Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library.
Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...