Raad Ahmed
November 29, 2021

💌 6 Things Thursday #18

Hello,

Here's another microdose of things I enjoyed this week--written by me, Raad—CEO of LawTrades.


1. An internal memo I read


Bill Gates on Movie Maker


Bill Gates going off on the downloading experience of Movie Maker in 2003 through an internal company memo. I love how much he cared about the user experience even when Microsoft was valued at ~$500B at the time.


2. A tweet I tweeted


https://twitter.com/R44D/status/1190739666271686656


3. An episode I watched


Explained: Coding (Netflix)


A simple 24m overview on how computer code and programming works.


4. A track I'm listening to


Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube


Maxence Cyrin - Where is my mind


5. An article I read


The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups


Traditional software based businesses had perfect gross margins because their main expense was just writing that first version. But as software began eating the rest of the world, physical-world services blended with software to create new tech-enabled business models (ahem, LawTrades) that has COGS. This is great for the world but bad if you’re the founder that relies on VC money to subsidize negative contribution margins.


6. An article I wrote


Movements


In life, you have two choices. You can move horizontally— from one thing to another or vertically—from one moment and then deeper into that moment.



Raad Ahmed
Founder/CEO, LawTrades


P.S. - Which # was your favorite? Tweet me with the hashtag #6TT to join the conversation.