Charlie Reese

It's been ~2 years since I founded ForecastOS and ~12 years since I started my investment banking -> software engineering -> quantitative investing -> founder arc. I’ve learned a lot the hard way (pain) and the easy way (patterns). Below is a collection of 12 principles

From August 7 to 28 (2021), I biked 4,447km from Toronto to Vancouver to raise money for The Canadian Cancer Society and The Jonny Kellock Foundation. The journey was in memory of all Canadian cancer victims, like my dear friend Jonny Kellock. This article includes: Ride itinerary (with links

This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter @charlieinthe6.

I recently started a podcast with my friend Tom Zaragoza called the DEVpreneur. It's a podcast about working on a software / SaaS business as a software developer. Below I'll explain both how and why you should host your own podcast, as well as potential drawbacks of doing so. Table of

After an appropriate stint of rails-related imposture syndrome, I decided it was time to get a rough idea how rails works under the hood. Below is a list of knowledge gained / discoveries, in no particular order. Knowledge Gained / Discoveries:How to Start a VM for Ruby on Rails Core DevelopmentJumping

I was at a bar with an old group of friends over the holidays. While we were waiting in line, one of them mentioned that he heard about a Twitter-bot that replied to tweets containing Biggie Smalls lyrics with other Biggie Smalls lyrics. I thought the idea was hilarious, and