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The heart of the talk: every clown has a honk inside them, and leadership is creating the conditions for that honk to come out. Several attendees told me afterwards that they cried. One said it changed how he thinks about horns. Slides and a recording are available on request. I've already had a lot of requests.","image":null,"date":1791277733114,"postDate":1790010000000,"octothorpes":["honking","clowncon-2026","leadership"]},{"@id":"https://tristan.clown.business/posts/demo-day","title":"Demo day at ClownCon: what went wrong (everything) and what went right (also everything)","description":"We live-demoed Squeakly on the ClownCon Demo Day stage to 600 clowns. The conference wifi went down two seconds in. Contextual honking requires the cloud. Our horn produced nothing for eleven seconds. I squeezed it harder. It produced nothing, harder. Then Mimi Marceau, front row, mimed a honk. The room lost it. Biggest laugh of the day. I've watched the recording 40 times and I believe it's the strongest product-market-fit signal we've ever had, though my co-founder disagrees about which product. Grateful for every lesson. Rebuilding the demo with an offline mode.","image":null,"date":1791277691964,"postDate":1789830000000,"octothorpes":["startups","honking","clowncon-2026"]},{"@id":"https://tristan.clown.business/posts/squeakly-pre-seed","title":"Humbled to announce Squeakly's pre-seed (and that I've joined clown.business)","description":"Some news: Squeakly has raised a $2.1M pre-seed to build the AI-native honk layer for the internet, led by Big Top Capital with participation from angels including Bozo D. Ringwald. I've also joined clown.business. Founders should be where their users are, and our users are clowns. The problem: the honk hasn't fundamentally changed in 140 years. A rubber bulb, a brass horn, a squeeze. 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Thank you to Bozo, to Penny (who let me shadow a fall test and only fell on me a little), and to everyone who answered my DMs. See you all at ClownCon, where I'll be a student volunteer!","image":null,"date":1791277710947,"postDate":1787346000000,"octothorpes":["honking","internships"]},{"@id":"https://bozo.clown.business/posts/forty-under-forty","title":"Named to Clown Weekly's 40 Under 40","description":"Some personal news: I've been named to Clown Weekly's 40 Under 40 list for 2026. I'm 52. I want to be transparent about that, because I was transparent with the committee about it, twice, in writing. They felt strongly that impact doesn't have an age limit, and after a short call I came around to their view. Thank you to my team, my mentors, and the Clown Weekly fact-checking department for their flexibility.","image":null,"date":1791277687609,"postDate":1784890800000,"octothorpes":["honking","leadership"]},{"@id":"https://pip.clown.business/posts/day-one","title":"Humbled to announce I've joined clown.business (and started my internship!)","description":"Hi everyone!! Today is Day 1 of my summer internship at Ringling Strategic Partners and also Day 1 on clown.business, so it's a big day for Days 1. I'm a rising senior at Clown College (Class of '27, concentration in Honk Studies, minor in Small Cars). I'll be reporting directly to Bozo D. Ringwald, who I've followed since I was nine. Today he showed me where the horns are kept. I'm not allowed to touch them yet, but I know where they are. 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