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@ZevLapin

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Currently: building commerce AI products and GP/investor @BackedByBlue (FB alumni syndicate) | Previously: built e-commerce products @Meta | 2x founder

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9 months
@KimIversenShow Yes, that was exactly what they openly stated. Please read a history book.
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I went from startup founder -> PM at small tech -> PM @Facebook @Google . Have been asked by a few folks about breaking into Product Management. Figured a space + Q&A might be helpful! Set a reminder for my upcoming Space!
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Considering an MBA? Skip it and join a startup instead. Get paid to learn more vs paying to learn less.
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1/ I've raised over $500k in venture capital via cold emails. Lots has been written about the art of the cold email, but not much on the crucial step of actually getting email addresses. 📨 Here's how to get anyone's email address 👇
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@linaHsharif Couldn’t help but notice you left out what happened right before the “resumption.” You know, the part about Hamas breaking the ceasefire yesterday by murdering 3 civilians at a bus stop (including a recently married, first time pregnant woman). Or you know, Hamas breaking the
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@HenMazzig When you accidentally say the quiet part out loud..
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I got access to Twitter Communities to start the first Product Management community directly on Twitter. It’s a dedicated space for folks interested in PM to support each other along the journey & grow🚀 Comment below for invite👇 (pls make sure DMs are open or you follow me)
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1/ If you’re a PM, this will blow your mind: Within weeks of joining Facebook (Meta) back in 2019, there was a Q&A session between a PM who had been at FB for 4 years and all of us incoming PMs.
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10 months
@briebriejoy @chalavyishmael Here you go. A number of female witness testimonies as well because apparently a man who witnessed something doesn’t count according to your twisted standards:
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10 months
@Partisangirl False. There are now multiple witness testimonies, including those from examiners and those who first discovered the bodies. Source 1: Source 2: Lastly, you should know every major country excepts witness testimony as evidence,
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Want to break into PM? I’m going to choose one person to coach for free. Includes: - resume prep - finding/applying to jobs - mock interviews - negotiating offer The catch? All coaching will be documented/shared in public. To apply: follow, like, retweet.
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@aaronjmate Tell me you don’t know the history of the land without telling me you don’t know the history of the land.
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10 months
@antoniogm It’s incredible to witness people shift their moral red lines when Jews are involved.
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9 months
@aaronjmate Apparently your “evidentiary standards” are quite flexible depending on who is being accused..
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3 years
Twitter is by far, the best networking tool in existence. The number of high caliber people I’ve met through Twitter is astounding. Not sure there is anything else quite like this.
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3 years
4/ Process for the sake of process is what kills velocity. PMs need to identify the operational gaps and fill them. Every team is different and applying a cookie cutter process may make you more comfortable, but not necessarily what the team needs to be effective. Be flexible.
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10 months
@briebriejoy @chalavyishmael Also, do you think you’ve genuinely even stood by your 2017 tweet where you suggest we should “Support victims" or "sincerely consider diverse perspectives" - how have you demonstrated either of these with regards to the growing evidence of violent sexual assault on Oct 7th (see
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11 months
What an excellent response. Paul can double down and gaslight Jews all he wants, but what Sam explains here is exactly why Paul’s tweet and follows up are in fact anti-semitism cloaked in lazy quasi intellectualism. Still shocking that someone so smart can be so dense as to not
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I’m not apologizing for my correct assertion that parroting the propaganda of a literal terrorist organization dedicated, in its own charter, to the eradication of Jews is antisemitic. But I would like to parse these claims as thoughtfully as I can, because the situation is
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2 years
@PelosiTracker_ I hope he gets arrested as he walks to the podium.
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5 months
@mehdirhasan Ah, the old “I’m not antisemitic, I am just anti-Zionist” argument. Let’s try that with any other religion and see if this works: I’m not anti-Catholic, I’m just against Catholics having Vatican City. I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m just against them having their holy city, Mecca. Nope,
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ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi
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Hi Richard, I found a receipt with your name on it in the leaked PressTV files. It appears you have received money from IRGC-affiliated broadcasting, which is sanctioned in the US. Mind explaining? Asking for a friend.
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@paulg No, he was cancelled for posting a tweet seemingly justifying Hamas’ murdurous rampage the evening it happened. Before the IDF retaliated. As dead bodies still lay warm around Israel. Also, let’s be accurate. In his despicable follow up tweets, he was not “raising the question”
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3 years
We launched The PM Community on Twitter less than 24 hours ago and 900 PMs (and aspiring PMs) are already engaging to learn and grow. Part 2 of Breaking into PM is here! We’ll chat + Q&A w/ @tylerswartz this Sunday! Set a reminder for the upcoming Space!
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4 months
@ScooterCasterNY They can’t even allow people to mourn in peace.
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@Partisangirl So now there ARE tunnels?! Get your lies straight please, hard to keep track of…
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3 years
3/ 💼Company URL and Voila is a killer tool. It automatically takes an inputted first + last name + Company URL, validates a bunch of combo email formats against mail servers, and spits out it's highest confidence email address. 98% success rate + free💥
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6 months
Or.. just use Google Lens?
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Nikita Bier
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Ladies & gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to @dupedotcom I worked closely with @ghoshal on the concept + design of this tool to find the best price for any furniture item. It’s not perfect yet—but it will eventually intercept every transaction on the internet.
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@oded_kenny @HButterfly33 @REVMAXXING Wow, they go to great lengths to try and make Israelis look as bad as possible.
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@alexisohanian @Columbia Thank you for speaking up, Alexis. 🙏
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1 year
@mtracey Just a little fact check to your lies and shenanigans:
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So after all the drama yesterday it turns out the Gaza hospital wasn’t bombed, the parking lot was, and 500 people didn’t die. Oh and the rocket wasn’t from Israel, it was from a failed rocket that Palestinian terrorists shot at Israel. Absolutely insane.
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Assure is shutting down. “Market conditions have resulted in Assure evaluating its business model.” Are there so few SPVs being run right now or are they just blaming the market for bad product/execution?
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ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi
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Hi Richard, I found a receipt with your name on it in the leaked PressTV files. It appears you have received money from IRGC-affiliated broadcasting, which is sanctioned in the US. Mind explaining? Asking for a friend.
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@shaig Thanks for using your platform and speaking up, Shai! Very much respect you raising the volume in this moment. ❤️ 🇮🇱
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3 years
Too good
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2 years
Name a company or product that you’re still disappointed got shut down.
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11 months
@DaWoud1001 @kiyahwillis If you’re retweeting Jackson in support of your argument, you’ve automatically lost.
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10 months
@briebriejoy Witness testimony IS evidence. Why do you discount it? Especially when corroborated with clear signs of sexual brutalization and violence? Would you like to see the broken pelvis bones for yourself? I presume you’ll hold all claims of anything happening in Gaza (and anywhere
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@VANITYxVAULT Lol, you can literally hear the terrorist telling the hostages to keep waving
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@mtracey Take the L
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@mtracey Whatever you say
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I went from startup founder -> PM at small tech co -> PM @facebook -> PM @google If you’re trying to break into Product Management, I want to help!
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3 years
Want to break into PM? I’m going to choose one person to coach for free. Includes: - resume prep - finding/applying to jobs - mock interviews - negotiating offer The catch? All coaching will be documented/shared in public. To apply: follow, like, retweet.
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2/ An incoming PMs asked: is there a standard PRD template we use here at FB? The FB PM responded: I haven’t written a PRD in 4 years. The rest of us: 🤯 😮 🤯
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@omarsuleiman504 @svlleyy Source: trust me bro
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3 years
3/ The takeaway: focus on outputs (what your team needs to execute flawlessly) and you realize there are multiple possible inputs to get there. A PRD is one mechanism/input, but not the only one to ensure the team has the right context/requirements.
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3 years
My wife is a true warrior. She just gave birth to our third child this morning and I’m still in awe of what this woman is capable of 🤯 If you’re still discounting women in 2022 simply because of their gender, you’re an idiot and need to get out more. #InternationalWomensDay
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2 years
Guess how much a talented product photographer charged for this product shot? Nothing. Because it wasn't shot by a photographer. I took a product image with a transparent background and prompted an AI (DALLE) for about 3 min to generate the surrounding scene.
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UX matters. Still trying to figure this one out.
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@EylonALevy @mehdirhasan Love to see @mehdirhasan getting owned by indisputable facts.
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@mtracey @Justine_Brooke Lol, she posted the receipts. Nothing concocted , you were following, harassing, and then stalking her socials in real time and then came back and followed her some more!
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3 years
@aakashg0 On my team, I found lightweight briefs (1-2 pg max) to be the most effective. Sometimes an eng would even write the first draft of this and I would modify afterwards. Just enough for UX/eng to start exploring design, drive detailed specs, and for us all to hash out open Qs async.
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2 years
I wave at the end of Zoom calls and I feel like an idiot right after but it just happens 🤦‍♂️
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My friend left Bolt to join Stripe. They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
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@Partisangirl Yes, it’s all a Jewish conspiracy. I’m sure is has nothing to do with you driveling lies and dishonesty misrepresenting information…
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3 years
Made the PM Community open - too hard to keep up! You can join here:
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@mtracey 1. What is complicated here exactly? 2. Hamas is getting pummeled. They need the respite. Not sure why this is incongruent with them being barbaric terrorists.
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@cunnumalos @ShaykhSulaiman Glad we can agree this is propaganda.
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3 years
God, grant me the confidence of a pre-product web3 founder raising $5m on $30m pre-money.
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Minimum Viable Product
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Ibrahim Bashir ( @ibscribe ) went from tech consultant @Deloitte to ➡️Lead on Kindle Fire @amazon ➡️Director of Engineering @Twitter ➡️VP of PM @box ➡️now VP of PM @Amplitude_HQ Join us this Sunday for another 🔥Q&A on breaking into PM! Set a reminder!
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@ModernTalmud “Hate, Actually”
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@marcdaycom @Facebook @Google Yes, there is nothing that comes close to the adrenaline rush of building your own business. Babysitting versus having a baby. Night and day. I’ll be back at some point 🙂
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@karenxcheng Is it hallucinating the “20% increase” or was that established before this prompt?
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@mehdirhasan @EylonALevy “Open to interpretation” = “Alternative facts”
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@DannyMMorris Why is he so obsessed?
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@aaronjmate Caught lying again, Aaron.
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So you wanna still play this game? There is a direct link in my tweet and everyone can see that you once again cherry picked one part of a quote to support your narrative. Haaretz has now posted its English version too for everyone to read () Here is the
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@mehdirhasan Man, have you looked at the top 10 countries receiving US aid lately? Of those, go ahead and tell me which country works together with the US the most.. I’ll wait.
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3 years
2/ 🔎Search Their Twitter History People publicly share their email address in thread responses. Twitter makes it super easy to search for a combination of keywords from a specific account. This method hits often! Get creative. Example Search: email me @ (from:bgurley)
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@KeeangaYamahtta Imagine trying to lie in a tweet and posting the very evidence that proves you’re lying. Some next level confidence there.
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@ifollowonlyos @KimIversenShow Yea and “the Jewish question” was merely a quizzing of biblical history.
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@MTatersalad @briebriejoy @chalavyishmael Yea, you’re right this is the only time this has ever happened… Except for the many times it has happened just over the last couple of months on the opposite end of this conflict.
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3 years
The best way to build the skills for becoming a Product Manager is not product bootcamps or certifications; it’s building something that solves a problem. There are more tools available than ever to start building. Second best option? Join someone else’s project/company.
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@mowheeler @ggreenwald @jvgarrison Was that when you only agreed with what he had to write?
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3 years
⚠️Notes: 1. Please please use these tactics responsibly (ie. do not spam!) 2. Yes, there are plenty of other tactics. I've decided to highlight the ones that have a high hit rate and are less circulated. Feel free to share other tactics below👇
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3 years
If you haven’t flexed your ⁦ @wander ⁩ Founding Member swag, are you even on Twitter? Seriously excited to see what the @wander team builds here and can’t wait to book my first stay 🙌
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That time my mom found my startup on @producthunt and left an embarrassing (but sweet) FB post about it :-) @rrhoover http://t.co/Z8J3VIoCbN
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3 years
I bookmark so many tweets, but can’t remember the last time I revisited any of them 😞 just me?
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6 months
@mehdirhasan Zeteo: all Jew hating commentators in one place
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Just logging online after observing Shabbat and Simchat Torah and absolutely devastated to read about the horrific attack in Israel. 💔 🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai
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@LailaAlarian @CNN “Peaceful”
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11 months
Today was the first time I’ve told my wife to not let my 4 year old son wear his kippah on an outing. I did not feel comfortable with him wearing it without me there to defend them against some emboldened idiot. Ask yourself if the temperature on Jew hatred is rising? I know I
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3 years
Join me in my Space!
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4/✅Everyone has Gmail Okay, almost everyone. 1. Collect social handles (twitter handle, linkedin handle, facebook handle, etc.,) 2. Compose an email in Gmail and add each handle @gmail .com in the "To" field. 3. Hover over each email until you see one with valid Gmail profile🎯
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1/ “Can you fly out to LA to pitch us in person? We’ll pay for your flight and hotel.” This was the response to a cold email I sent an investor in 2015 when I was fundraising for my startup. I wasn’t sure if it was a scam, but all they needed was my name and we needed money.
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3 years
@DreNader @JasonYanowitz And the ability to copy and paste so not really that scarce. No one is checking if you actually “own” the ape in your pfp.
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3 years
🙈 Not looking at my stock portfolio for awhile. Wake me up in 2023.
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2 years
1/ I squeezed my way into a🔥 oversubscribed Series A round. How? "Facebook operators are badass."
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11 months
A few observations: 1. Poster ripping is social media false equivalencies manifested in real life. 2. He is willing to take these down, risking his name and reputation for an “I don’t know” on whether the hostages are innocent or actual hostages. (All this while claiming to
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NYC (5th and 60th) - a man is filmed ripping down posters of kidnapped Israeli children, stating it’s false information. The anger this man holds is frightening.
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@shaig I hear Antartica has some vacant lots with no connection to Israel..
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@mkobach Eating healthy
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@shaig Might have been easier to make a list of firms that don’t support Israel.
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2 years
LinkedIn connection requests be like: “Hi Zev, we both have a nose and face, would love to connect and see what synergies we have!”
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2 years
1/ People are looking at his monologue in a vacuum. Jews would not be as sensitive to it had there not been weeks long anti-Semitic ranting by Kanye, and then the promotion (+ the refusal to disavow) a vile film that claims the holocaust is one of the “big Jewish lies” by Kyrie.
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2 years
@MiPerkal Ha! Real talk though: took my 5 year old to an actual toy store for the first time and her mind was blown. She has only grown up ordering toys online, and there is clearly something special for a kid to walk into an endless warehouse full of toys.
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Just came across this old email thread between @paulg and @fredwilson about investing in @Airbnb . Interesting to see the behind-the-scenes discussion, but what I find most striking is how emphatically Paul believed in the team and how hard he pitched on their behalf.
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@shaunmmaguire This seems like the truly right take; it is just surprising how controversial it seems to be..
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3 years
Why user testing is critical:
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Who designed this?
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@DrSabha @mehdirhasan Are any non-Muslims allowed in Mecca?
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