Larry Kim

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15+ years of experience in operations, finance & strategy. Experience with multiple C-level roles in startups, as equity research analyst and consulting. Raised more than U$150mn of new fundraising & existing shares for unlisted companies in private placements as well as conducting multiple M&A and investments in startups ranging from ~U$1M to U$20M+.

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18d ago

Does posting rejected threads hurt you on product hunt? how does approval actually work?

Had a thread rejected recently, still not fully sure why.
Got me wondering about a few things and figured i'd just ask directly instead of guessing.

Does getting a thread rejected affect your account in any way, algorithm, visibility, standing, anything like that? or is it just a one-off, no consequence, try again kind of thing?

Also curious how the approval process actually works. is it a human reviewing each thread, some automated filter, a mix of both? trying to understand what actually triggers a rejection so i'm not accidentally repeating the same mistake without knowing what it was.

If anyone from the team or anyone who's been rejected before can share how this actually works, would genuinely appreciate it.

19d ago

Ai content is why nobody trusts founders anymore

Strong claim, hear me out.

Every founder update reads the same now. "excited to share," emoji bullets, fake vulnerability about the rollercoaster. doesn't matter if it's real or not, it all sounds identical.

Noticed this hard while hiring. read every dm myself for a growth role. most were obviously ai-generated, same tone, zero thought put in. the ones that stood out were rough, specific, clearly written by someone who actually looked at the problem first.

Think the same thing's eating founder credibility. people used to trust a post because it sounded like someone actually figured something out.

What are you working on and why?

Why did you pick the SaaS / the niche that you picked? Do you have a vision of something that should exist?

Did you have a personal problem that you solved for yourself and now turned into a SaaS?

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