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Chris Hollindale
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Tech entrepreneur based in SF. YC Founder (W14). Heavy tea drinker 🇬🇧
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2025 has been a sad year for my two favorite video game franchises 😔 (...the other one is Civ)
Football Manager 26: Your purchase has been refunded
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Cricket at the Coliseum #nokings #gounicorns
Major League Cricket at the Oakland Coliseum
June 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Loving this SF #Giants season - today's ending was baseball at its finest 🤣
April 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I've said for a long time that Silicon Valley criminally undervalues product designers. We stretch them across too many concurrent projects, and too often consider the first technical opex to cut. Great to see their value articulated nicely even if it was on the hellhole that is X.
A screenshot from Nikita Bier on X. It says: After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't: Having a full-time designer in the room at all times I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised billions—that do not even have a designer on payroll. This makes product development broken: 1/ You simply cannot have constructive conversations about ideas without visualizing them in real-time 2/ Your experiments will frequently have inconclusive results because users cannot discover features or they misunderstand how they work 3/ There is no one who can galvanize the team with a vision of what the product could look and feel like And to be abundantly clear: I'm not referring to visual UI or graphics. I'm talking about someone who can think through the fundamental building blocks of product comprehension—like navigation, interaction and copywriting—and is technically savvy enough to visualize those components in high resolution. There can certainly be exceptions to not having a designer, like where the CEO is an exceptional visual thinker, but that does not scale beyond a small team. At the end of day, products live and die in the pixels: it's what the users see and tap. And without someone shepherding that process, you are effectively wandering the desert blind.
March 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Happy 30th birthday to the best Radiohead album!
Radiohead - The Bends (1995) album cover
March 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Going to have to sit courtside for the NBA after this
Vancouver Canucks vs Columbus Blue Jackets at Rogers Arena
December 7, 2024 at 4:56 AM