Jeff's officially joining Just Words and this story will speak for itself.

Jeff Hara and I had started co-founder dating but I wanted to take it slow before making a decision. I woke up in a funk one of these days (those sales and investor calls had gotten to me). He's like “Take the day off, it’s a wash”. I was low-key worried I was going to bring his energy down.

Half an hour later, I walked up to his desk. He's like - “We’re live with our next customer. I can see the live metrics”. He was going at it.

After some more last-minute debugging, he goes - “Alright, we're live. I'm going to have a shot”.

“A shot? Right now? It’s 3 pm?”. Before I knew it, he'd poured two shots for us and we were celebrating.

He’d managed to turn the day around. Something felt very right that day, and that crazy decision to do a startup started to make a tad bit more sense.

The next day, we make it official ;)

In his own words -

Happy to announce that I'm officially the cofounder and CTO of just words (YC W24), and I've partnered with Neha, an ex-tweep!

Some of you may know that I've been working on a startup recently, but the truth is that I've been tinkering with all sorts of ideas with many different people over the past year. after Twitter 2.0, I didn't see myself working at another big tech company again, and after seeing what ChatGPT can do, I didn't see myself being a software engineer for much longer either. in October, I applied to YC with a friend, and going through the interview was the most excitement I had felt in months. I actually printed out my rejection letter from @daltonc

and pinned it on my wall so that I'd remember how it felt. eventually, I decided that I needed to quit my job and go all in. Without a clear idea of what I wanted to do, my first goal was to keep my GitHub green and hack every day. it was a great period of pure exploration, and I learned how to do front-end with Swift, c#, and javascript and eventually how to sell the things you build.

In March, I was tremendously lucky in reconnecting with neha, and it has been amazing getting to work with someone as talented as her. we do have exciting news to share soon, but for now, I'll just say that we're hiring ;) finally, my startup adventure would not have been possible without the support of my beautiful, brilliant wife, Mei. she's building quantum computers for @IonQ_Inc, which is as cool as it sounds.

Welcome Jeff!