Michelle Lim (@michlimlim) / X

Michelle Lim

3,529 posts

Michelle Lim

@michlimlim

Co-founder, CEO @tryflint building the autonomous website platform.

San Francisco, CA

Joined October 2016

Pinned
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Oct 14, 2025
Your website should build itself. It should adapt to your visitors and competition in real time. Introducing Flint: autonomous websites. We’re already powering pages for @cognition and @modal. Today we announce our $5M seed from @Accel and break out of stealth. More below.
00:00
352K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
May 17, 2021
Note to self after my LA trip: Sub-25-year-olds are getting rich on crypto, influencing, real estate, consulting for multiple startups, etc. These people are real. They are earning more than you think. 1/2:
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Aug 9, 2025
Many friends including myself have been offered allocation into OpenAI or Anthropic SPVs this week. Minimum check sizes are $100k-$1M, with fees as high as 16%. From what I understand, folks are creating SPVs on top of SPVs and making management fees on top of them. It’s like a
851K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Mar 22, 2021
Received the worst cold email from a founder yesterday.
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Jul 2, 2025
Replying to @Suhail
We just signed him up for our work trial next week. Saw this tweet. Cancelled work trial. Thank you for sharing!
560K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Sep 26, 2023
Shallow relationships matter. Small talk with folks in my gym and neighborhood is an instant mood-lifter. It reinforces that I’m part of a larger community and that the “tribe” has my back. I embrace small talk.
55K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
May 17, 2021
Replying to @michlimlim
There's an unprecedented wealth increase amongst the young. And they are investing it in startups and real estate. Capital allocation is going to look very different from now on. Welcome to the age of the Gen Z LP. 2/2:
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Jul 30, 2020
Thinking about the time I presented my app to Mark Zuckerberg in 2016. He asked me, "Isn't this the same as Venmo?" I thought he was roasting me. But now that we know Zuck loves cloning apps...was that a compliment? 🧐
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
May 31, 2021
A senior engineer got drunk and posted career lessons on Reddit. One of the most honest and insightful pieces on engineering. My favorite quotes: 1/5: “Good code can be understood by a junior eng. Great code can be understood by a CS freshman. Best code is no code.”
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Jul 7, 2025
Ex-consultants and bankers are an underrated startup hire. They grind, they’re analytical, and they’ll do anything. Founders wait too long to bring one on.
99K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Nov 7, 2022
Recently learned that there're people who build software with the intention of selling to Private Equity for $1-2mil. Compared to starting a venture-scale company, there's little overhead in managing a team or board. You exit earlier, and pretty decently. Food for thought 🤔
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
May 23, 2025
Prediction: The surge in undetectable call recording apps is about to drive more people back to in-person meetings and prompt more startups to move to SF. Secret recording tools like Granola and now Notion's new feature can capture any call without a trace - Zoom, FaceTime
225K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
May 8, 2025
Is it just me or has Silicon Valley become way more zero-sum recently? A pre-seed founder turned hostile when I asked about their tech stack, claiming it was "proprietary." Another accused me of espionage. An open-source API provider suddenly cut API access because they saw our
89K
Michelle Lim
@michlimlim
Sep 8, 2020
Trend alert: 5 out of 5 of my ex-APM intern friends have rejected their APM job offers. Instead, they've founded a startup/nonprofit, joined early-stage startups as engineers. Fewer students are buying the "become a PM to learn to be a founder" narrative.