u/leahwbee

I'm so cooked!! :D

“You’re getting…too…heavy!” Dad would huff. I’d pout.

Nonetheless, I made my dad carry me to bed or throw me into bed with “Super Girl” for the longest time, probably until I was more than too big. He would count down from 3 to 1, rocking me and gaining momentum, before ultimately throwing me into my bed and saying good-night.

I recall playing with Allison in the Pinetree-wooded backyard and playing around with art tools and paints on the screen porch and deck. Alli loved riding her trike back then. We got fireflies in the yard every July and we loved the sprinkler. We liked to play with the neighbor’s kids and their two golden retrievers, Bailey and Casey. Things scattered about the house relating to Alli’s special needs, like therapy toys, medicine balls, baby gates in the kitchen, and covered electrical outlets didn’t register!

I remember one of me and Alli’s favorite activities was to dance in my father’s office while blasting the Chemical Brothers song, “Hey Boy Hey Girl,” strobe light flashing, while I spun Alli around a spinning chair. It always made us both laugh uncontrollably. I couldn’t really see any road ahead then, and I didn’t care. I was just happy to see Alli happy. Those are the times I wish stayed the same forever.

Hey everyone — longtime lurker, occasional poster.

I host a podcast called Unmapped, which is focused on the people building at the frontier of AI, deep tech, and emerging markets — the builders, not the hype.

I'm specifically looking for guests who are:

• Doing something genuinely new — not just deploying GPT-4 wrappers

• Willing to talk about what's actually hard, not just the wins

• Thinking about markets that don't fully exist yet

This isn't a pitch — just looking to connect with people worth talking to. Founders, researchers, engineers, operators. Less interested in credentials, more interested in perspective.

If you host a show and want to trade guests, I'm open to that too.

Drop a comment or DM if you or someone you know might be a good fit. Happy to share more about the show.

Yeah, this is a bit of a self-congratulatory post. Just so stoked, had to share! 😄

Yeah, this is a bit of a self-congratulatory post. Just so stoked, had to share! 😄

I’ve been interviewing with some early-stage founders lately and honestly it’s sent me down a rabbit hole. Started lurking r/YCombinator and r/founder trying to get unfiltered takes on how you all actually think about the first marketing hire — because the job posts are not telling the whole story lol

The tension I keep noticing: founders say they want strategic, but the role is basically ‘do everything yesterday.’ Is that just early-stage reality or is it a red flag about how they see marketing?

Also genuinely curious — for anyone who’s hired into an AI or deep tech company where buyers don’t really have language for the problem yet… how did that change what you needed from that person? Because that feels like a completely different hire to me and I’m trying to understand it better.

Not looking for anything specific, just trying to learn how founders actually think before I go further down this path.