Linq

We’ve raised $27M for this moment: starting today, your agent gets an iPhone and can talk like a friend.

Texting is the universal interface. Billions of people text every day, but until now, developers have been restricted from building on the most powerful channel to ever exist.

Linq is a single API for iMessage, RCS, SMS, voice, and even FaceTime and Find My. Nothing for users to download. Nothing new to learn.

We’re already powering Interaction, Pika, Lindy, Zo Computer, Dimension, Tomo (and others we can’t name just yet) to bring a whole new ecosystem to life.

Join them, and start building for free in our sandbox, linked in bio. Or comment and we’ll get you set up.

What does fundraising actually look like inside a tech startup?
Watch the full video on Linq’s youtube channel

Step in a day in the life of Jared Mattsson as President at Linq, where 4am alarm, a customer to save, a team to lead, and jokes at his expense abound.

Watch the video on our youtube channel

Got a question about startups? 🚀
Drop your questions below and Elliott will answer them in the next YouTube video. 👇

Putting out content has done a lot for our brand, but one thing stands out in particular—something I honestly didn’t expect when we started:

Attracting talent.

It’s amazing how many people want to be part of what you’re building when they can actually see what goes on behind the scenes and get a real sense of what working with you would be like.

If you’re going to create content for any reason, do it for that.

1. Shiny Object Syndrome
In the beginning, we said yes to anything that made us money.
It helped us generate quick capital — but it also left us scattered with no real identity.
Dialing in one specific niche for one specific type of person is what finally allowed us to focus, improve, and build something great.

2. Wearing Every Hat
At the start, you sometimes have to do everything yourself.
But delaying hiring real talent just to save profit will choke your growth.
The best investment you can make is in people.
Find people who are smarter than you in their lane, trust them to do what they do best, and take your time back to focus on what actually moves the business forward.
Startups scale when the team is full of people who outperform the founder.

3. Partnering
Only partner with people who bring something you don’t — skills, capital, or time.
If you team up with someone just because they’re your friend and they can’t contribute something unique, roles blur, tension builds, and the business turns into a mess of crossed wires.
when you truly find the right people to partner with, not only people that provide a unique value, but also someone you deeply trust and you guys are able to divide and conquer with an equal amount of care for the growth of the company… you become unstoppable.
(Also tip if you’re going to Partner with someone, you should try to do three partners instead of two.)

Trust me, we’ve been through plenty of these mistakes and 1 million times more

Hopefully they help you avoid them.

“Loving what you do”
is a term that gets thrown around a lot.

A lot of people misconstrue it, thinking that you will love every single day of it, which is just unrealistic.

Most things you do—even the things you like—will have days where you don’t enjoy what you’re doing.

But doing what you love means loving the process and loving the long-term outcome and growth enough to push through the short-term suffering.

The mission should be what you love working toward, and the outcome should be enough to push you through the hard times.

If you don’t have that passion, then every obstacle will feel 100 times harder and will most likely w**d you out.

So find something that you truly love—something you feel passionate enough about to push you through those obstacles.

How does a tech startup like Linq pump out 60+ pieces of content every week?

Simple: we record everything.

There’s nothing wrong with planning every shot — but if you want to mass-produce and actually show people what’s happening behind the scenes, you need someone filming constantly.

The wins, the mistakes, the chaos, the breakthroughs — all of it.
Because that’s where the real value is. That’s what people learn from.
And that’s what builds trust with your audience.