Paul Bragiel
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founder of 7 funds: 🦄 @Uber @Unity @Zappos @Stripe @NianticLabs @Virtahealth @Playco @Gojeksg @Carousell 🇨🇴 ⛷️ national champion
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If you know anyone from Ukraine 🇺🇦 that has crossed over into Poland 🇵🇱, Slovakia 🇸🇰 or Hungary 🇭🇺 and needs help, please reach out.
Numerous friends in Poland are offering help including rides from the border, places to stay etc.
DM's are open.
Please RT to amplify.
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Update: People across Europe have been messaging asking if they can help. If you a place to stay, willing to drive, have resources you can share... reply below or message me directly and we'll try to match make appropriately.
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Today
@mbwana
and I are proud to announce
@SavannahFund
II, our $25m fund focused on partnering with the best founders in Africa.
30+ investments across 7 African countries later, we're just at the beginning of the huge growth story on the continent.
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Excited to share the news about our 3rd Sisu fund!
We’ve been super quiet historically, even though we've built the largest portfolio of game startups in venture capital. :)
If you're building a company with global ambitions, we'd love to talk!
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Looking for a few interns across the 8 global VC funds I've started.
12 years in and we've had amazing results including hiring at least 2 interns full time per year.
Appreciate you sharing it with brilliant folks looking to break into VC!
Apply here:
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Warms my heart to see the continued great relationship between 🇫🇮 and 🇨🇴 around cross-country skiing!
Mega respect to 15km gold 🥇 medalist
@IivoNiskanen
for showing true sportsmanship in meeting our Colombian skier Carlos Quintana at the finish line.
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To friends in Ukraine 🇺🇦, the Polish 🇵🇱 border remains open. The government has setup resources to help people seeking help.
Please share with anyone that might need this information.
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Super proud to be joining the Poland national baseball team
@pzball
as a bench coach & senior advisor.
Bringing on board
@cookie42dennis
and John McLaren with their years of
@MLB
experience will definitely level up our program!
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Meetings today at the Presidential Palace of Poland. Lots of things happening in the country when it comes to startups and innovation.
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Super proud to be in Cairo the debut of our
@CapeTownTigers
in the
@NBA
owned
@theBAL
Been a helluva ride launching a startup basketball team.
From a wild idea in late 2019, playing in the pandemic, to winning the SA National Championship in our first year.
Wish us luck! 🐯🐅
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Beyond proud to be able to walk in with Team Colombia into the Olympics in Korea.
This is all possible because of
@sebas_uprimny
. A few weeks ago he gave me the honor of asking me to serve as a coach on the Olympic team.
Please cheer him on as he competes next week!!!
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Russian Army
2021: 2nd best army in the world
2022: 2nd best army in Ukraine
2023: 2nd best army in Russia
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It's amazing to see everyday people open up their hearts and homes.
If anyone you know feels in danger... just tell them to get to the border however they can. The countries and citizens on the other side will take care of them.
(3/3)
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20 years ago this January, I shipped my first every video game. Project S-11 for the Game Boy Color published by Sunsoft.
Thread below 🧵
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no its not the luxor hotel...
I'm in Egypt 🇪🇬 :)
anyone around or folks I should absolutely meet?
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Just been informed that one of my friends working with PKP (national rail) has gotten them to open up all trains to be free for Ukrainian citizens.
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Once he arrived there were tons of fellow drivers like him just looking to help.
He held up a sign with his home town and in 4 minutes had 2 families he took back with him to Wroclaw (5 hours away). No cars leave empty. (2/3)
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Excited to announce that we've launched our 2nd
@Smokvc
fund. We focus on investing in CEE founders & diaspora out of our 🇵🇱 HQ
Mega ❤️ that I get to team up with my brother
@danbragiel
&
@michuk
&
@dianakoziarska
while plugging into my family roots!
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I think I might be the only person that has ever walked in with one country and out with another in the Olympics. :)
It was my honor to be part of your teams
@PitaTaufatofua
@sebas_uprimny
#teamcolombia
#teamtonga
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Great article about how Poland has been able to show amazing growth over the past 30+ years and is growing into a mature market on par with other European giants like France, Germany etc.
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Overheard in Amsterdam: Tulip mania was crypto frenzy but set in the 1600s. 😆
Hope everyone is having a nice spring!
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10 yrs ago today I got an email from my co founder
@vlauria
about visiting Singapore. Not sure either of us were expecting that we’d start
@GoldenGateVC
and have over $300 mil assets under management.
Crazy how a simple email can snowball into amazing things. :)
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Really proud of what we're building in Poland and Eastern Europe!
Hit me up if you'd like to co-invest with us in the region.
We had an amazing year 2021!
🔥 10 new investments
💰 €37M raised by portfolio companies
💸 91% portfolio startups raised follow-on funding in 2021
👩 45% of our portfolio startups are now female-founded
#ceevalley
#venturecapital
#yearinreview
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It was an exciting and eventful week in Cairo both on and off the court for our
@CapeTownTigers
!
Mega respect and big thanks to
@NBA_Africa
@theBAL
@WilliamsVictorE
@officialmutombo
and the whole team for hosting a great event.
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To all people arriving to Poland 🇵🇱 from Ukraine 🇺🇦.
In the last few hours PKP (Polish National Railways) has opened up all of its trains for FREE to Ukrainian citizens.
Just need to show a passport. Nothing need to even book a seat if its available.
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Really proud of
@dzikiwarszawa
winning the
#1kosz
championship and promotion to the top flight in Poland.
This team is the future of basketball and sports in Poland 🇵🇱
Congrats to
@dzikiprezes
@mtulecki
and the whole team for building an amazing foundation for sports success!
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Does anyone have high level contacts at LOT, Wizzair, Ryanair, Lufthansa etc?
Many refugees have connections throughout Europe that can help host them... but need help in getting cheap/free flights since it can be a huge prohibitive cost for larger extended families.
🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇱
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11 years ago today on 11.11.11 our journey in Southeast Asia began!
With a few more grey hairs & 4 funds later
@vlauria
,
@jpaine
and myself are still super excited about the region.
Super proud to see how much our
@GoldenGateVC
colleagues have grown over the years.
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Tonight in Cape Town I found out the average age in Africa has now officially dipped under 20 years old. In the next few years it will go under 19 years old.
This is the exact opposite trend of the developed world and where the opportunities of the future lie.
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In 2019 the
@NBA
announced it was launching
@theBAL
league in Africa.
Being excited about the future of the continent, I jumped at the opportunity to help launch a new team and be part of the
@CapeTownTigers
ownership group.
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Super excited to pass the 1 million mark in tickets sold in Poland. This makes our film the best performing domestic release of 2023!
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Super proud to announce the launch of my new fund Presence Capital focused on VR/AR!
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Please help my friend
@SamBloch1
and the great
@WCKitchen
organization he is working for.
He just flew in and is on the ground helping people as they come across the 🇵🇱🇺🇦 border. Some have been waiting to cross the border going on 24+ hours now.
WCK’s
@SamBloch1
is on the ground at the Ukraine-Poland border, where thousands of refugees are crossing. Tonight we have meals here & at a train station where families are sleeping. We will scale up efforts quick to serve hundreds of thousands here & in Romania.
#ChefsForUkraine
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Today is the last day we're accepting applications for the 101 Fellowship.
If you've ever wanted to get into venture capital, this is a great place to start.
#VentureCapital
#internship
#vc
#vctwitter
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My brother
@PeterBragiel
just posted his latest video where he travelled to Tunisia to explore the country and the movie set locations that depict Tatooine in the various Star Wars movies.
Enjoy and May the Fourth Be With You!!!
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The application deadline for our upcoming
@io
program is next Monday, January 16th. Apply now at :
http://t.co/nydZvf7N
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Really excited for Polish sports to see a great basketball rivalry developing in
@warszawa
Of course I’m a bit biased and on a bit of a high after last night 62:61 win by
@dzikiwarszawa
over
@LegiaKosz
:)
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I love how casually there is just a random naked Finn in the background. 100% 🇫🇮 Finland vibes.
Olympic Ice Hockey Gold Celebration, Finnish Style. If you’ve decided to swim in the fountain, you swim in the fountain, water or no water💪
#FINROC
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We're seeing TONS of growth in the SEAsia tech ecosystem.
It's moved faster than I had anticipated when I cofounded
@GoldenGateVC
10 years ago with
@vlauria
and
@jpaine
.
H/T to
@TechCrunch
for writing up a nice profile piece.
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Love the idea of this lone skyscraper being built in the middle of Brande, Denmark (pop 7000). When completed in 2023, it will be the tallest in Western Europe.
I'm definitely going to visit. Anyone with me?
h/t
@pvesterbacka
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This is why I chose
@danbragiel
as my brother. :p
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Does anyone have high level contacts at LOT, Wizzair, Ryanair, Lufthansa etc?
Many refugees have connections throughout Europe that can help host them... but need help in getting cheap/free flights since it can be a huge prohibitive cost for larger extended families.
🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇱
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10 years ago
@danbragiel
@PeterBragiel
and our friend Tony finished canoeing down the entire length of the Mississippi River. In total over 2300mi (3700km).
The trip took us 61 days. It was an epic journey but I must say this was the hardest thing I've done in my life.
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Was super fun chatting with
@Shobeir
Best of luck with your new podcast! I’m positive it will be a huge success.
My first guest of The Shobeir Show, Paul Bragiel (
@bragiel
),
I call Paul “The Most Interesting Person in Tech.” Paul attend college with the Paypal Mafia in Illinois, entrepreneur, early investor in Uber & Zappos, & represented 🇨🇴 Colombia and 🇹🇴 Tonga at 🥇⛷Winter Olympics.
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It’s always cool seeing an open source project born out of love take big steps toward market ubiquity.
Crazy to connect the dots looking back. Met
@reduzio
around 20 years ago.
We're happy to announce that
@W4Games
has raised US$ 8.5M as seed funding to accelerate the development of products and services for
#GodotEngine
users!
The round was led by
@OSSCapital
and
@Lux_Capital
, and was joined by
@CaretakerBob
and
@SisuVentures
.
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"In September 2018, Poland was officially declared the first country from the former Soviet bloc to reach developed market status"
I'm biased but Poland will become a tech investment destination in the upcoming years.
Anyone want to join me on a trip?
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OH: A friends co-founder suggested that after covid is over, they go to the office 2/5 days a week. Everyone else said: one day in every two weeks should be enough.
Makes me think there will be a huge opportunity to host 2-3 day offsite brainstorming sessions for smaller teams
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@pvesterbacka
Been proposing this the minute the war started. They should make the official language English and allow for super easy immigration to build up something like the Singapore of the Baltic.
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A large portion of folks don't know that I've been investing in games for years.
5+ years since starting Sisu, we put up a site and can share our 38 portfolio companies. :)
Has been an exciting ride. Sisu is one of my top 2 performing funds with 3 exits
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This growth story is why I have been investing so heavily into Poland going back to when I had office in Wroclaw and Krakow in the early '00s.
Poland ranks
#2
in terms of total GDP change in a 30 year period (1990-2020), right behind China, and just ahead of India.
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Breaks my heart thinking about the disaster that has hit my beloved Tonga.
We’re working with a few humanitarian missions as we speak.
Some have asked “How can we help?” One way is supporting the fundraiser
@pitaTofua
the Tongan Olympian has set up.
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Proud to be involved with this amazing piece of art created by DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman and their team of 100+ oil painters from Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Serbia.
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We've qualified 5 athletes for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in South Korea!
Super proud of Winter Olympics legacy Colombia is building.
Mega props to
@sebas_uprimny
who has put in countless hours building the program and leading the delegation next month.
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Proud of my
@SisuVentures
cofounder Samuli Syvahuoko's involvement as the organizer of Future Crew.
This demo amongst a few others are the reason I got into computer graphics.
I continue to work super closely with people from these early demoscene days.
The state of the art of computer graphics back in 1991 - pioneered by Future Crew - and part of the lineage of the word Unreal in graphical computing!
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Awesome to see the
@pixieraycom
crew announce what they've been working on in stealth.
Basically anything that
@wili
is working on
@danbragiel
and I are in. :)
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Super pumped for
@gino
and the
@CozyCo
on their acquisition! Proud to be the first check. Really enjoyed being along for the ride with
@danbragiel
,
@ashwinnavin
,
@stewart
,
@Jason
,
@mamoonha
,
@gvteam
and crew.
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I love this console! My first company Paragon5 got to work on some amazing titles for it.
Still remember the excitement when
@NintendoAmerica
showed me under NDA what they were working on, and the anxiety about sending a wire (which was a lot to me then) to purchase 3 dev kits.
Time flies! On this day 20 years ago, the Game Boy Advance was released. What was your first & favorite memory with the portable system?
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Wasn’t long ago I was boarding my first flight to Singapore to talk to the gov’t about starting a fund in the region. Am beyond proud of the team my cofounders
@vlauria
@jpaine
have built.
Super congrats to
@JVinnyHall
for making it to partner!
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Mega congrats on the Unity IPO today!!
Thanks
@jussil
and
@davidhelgason
for having me on board first as a shareholder at Applifier and then with Unity through the acquisition.
Investing sometimes is like snowboarding and you’re along for an awesome ride. :)
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I always smile when I think about the fact that I share the same birthmonth (is that a word?) with the
@atari
2600!!
It was predestined that I had to get involved with games somehow. :)
The Atari 2600 was released in September 1977. 🎁 🎉
When did you first play on an Atari console?
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This is how Polish moms prioritize what to pack in their luggage when visiting us kids. :)
For the first time in 18 months I'll be seeing my mom, she is Polish. First thing she mentions when planning her trip.
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Exciting to see a game studio being built across Finland 🇫🇮 and Poland 🇵🇱, leveraging the talent pools from two of the best game industries in the world.
Bonus that we got to participate from two of my funds
@smokvc
&
@sisuventures
:)
We're excited to announce our investment into RETURN ENTERTAINMENT, a Finnish game studio that develops console-quality games that are playable across devices and easier to join than a video call.
#videogames
#gaming
#cloudgaming
#smokportfolio
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I love how
@trent_reznor
dropped a double album so nonchalantly this morning. Very ambient vibe.
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Great day for
@Roblox
on their IPO!!
At
@PresenceCapital
we pride ourselves on getting involved super early. Time is sooo blurry going back to 3 months ago when we got involved via the
@loom_ai
acquisition. Wow... what a journey. 😝
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Always love the hang sessions over some nice drinks that
@danbragiel
and I have with
@NishRocks
! This time we got to do it in an interview format :)
Nissue
#28
of In Search Of Lost Answers is out today, featuring both the brothers
@danbragiel
and
@bragiel
. Early-stage venture capital,
@LEGOIdeas
,
@futureislands
, it's all in there!
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Thank you
@ctrent
for a great write up. Greetings from Poland!
Mega props to
@davefanucchi
for putting us together!
Dennis Cook won a World Series in 1997.
Now Poland's national team manager, he's heading to the Cooperstown of the country, a place Stan Musial visited 40 years prior, with a goal in mind.
Qualify for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, writes
@ctrent
.
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@TechCrunch
@DennisMitzner
Happy Finland is getting love for their game industry. Inside tip... its not Nokia's death, its the demoscene.
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Great to see the energy on the streets in Poland.
THIS IS LITERALLY HAPPENING ON POLISH STREETS AS WE SPEAK AND SOME OF YOU STILL CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT. PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF ABOUT THE SITUATION IN POLAND ! ! !
#StrajkKobiet
#piek
łokobiet
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One thing to add, we're hosting open tryouts and a training camp in Kutno, Poland April 26-May 5th.
We're planning a 2nd tryout for Americans with Polish ancestry in mid June in Chicago. Date tbd.
If interested please message
@polishbaseball
or
@pzball
Super proud to be joining the Poland national baseball team
@pzball
as a bench coach & senior advisor.
Bringing on board
@cookie42dennis
and John McLaren with their years of
@MLB
experience will definitely level up our program!
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Nice to see more Polish startups going through YC and raising follow-on investing from our friends at various global vc firms.
Polish startup
@VueStorefront
(YC W21) builds e-commerce infrastructure and aims to become the de facto front end for headless commerce. See the pitch deck they used to raise $17.4 million:
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Super proud that we've partnered up with
@WorldBank
group member
@IFC_org
on our 2nd
@SavannahFund
.
Feels very appropriate to use the African proverb "If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together." :)
.
@IFC_org
&
#WeFi
are supporting
@SavannahFund
to increase lending to start-ups across sub-Saharan
#Africa
with a focus on supporting
#women
entrepreneurs & disruptive companies in high-growth sectors. Read more: LINK
#DigitalAfrica
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Mega congrats to
@diveygulati
@saxenad
& the
@ShipBob
team on the big round!
Feels great to see a Chicago based team comprised of
#uiuc
alum doing well.
Looking forward to doing more Midwest deals. :)
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I can't do anything but smile when I meet someone that puts all their love and passion into a project. I could only wish that upon everyone.
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I would gladly pay Twitter so that I only get content in my feed from people I actually follow.
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Great to be amongst many friends building the future of sports and entertainment in Africa!
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Super proud investor across 3 of my funds. :) Great job
@konttori
,
@rainisto
and the
@varjodotcom
crew!
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I think our world would be much more fun and a better place if more PM's let their hair down. :)
Looking forward to the day that I run in to
@MarinSanna
at some party!
Finland’s Prime Minister
@MarinSanna
is in the headlines after a video of her partying was leaked today.
She has previously been criticized for attending too many music festivals & spending too much on partying instead of ruling.
The critics say it’s not fitting for a PM.
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I want one of these famous Polski Fiats!
Anyone want to sell me one?
Exactly 50 years ago, the car that motorized Poland left the assembly line in Bielsko-Biała. More than 3 million Fiats 126p (p for Polish) ended up being manufactured.
It's crazy to see how small this car was. Compare it to the now-most popular car in Poland, Toyota Corolla
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Always a pleasure to speak at
@arctic15
.
Thank you
@jan_ameri
for hosting us!
"You have to be ready to get a lot of no’s when looking for capital. Quite often a no can also become a yes."
(c) Paul Bragiel, VC, Bragiel Brothers
#arctic15
#arctic15helsinki
#arctic15startupconference
#startupevents
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Thank you ❤️
@nytimes
and
@ctrent
for sharing the Polish 🇵🇱 Baseball⚾️team story.
@cookie42dennis
@McJohn7m
& myself are currently in Poland for the National Team training camp.
We'll also hold tryouts in Chicago, Austin, Phoenix, LA & NY in May & June. Msg for details.
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Awesome to see the
@carro_sg
team join the🦄 unicorn club.
One of the fastest growing companies in our
@GoldenGateVC
family.
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GameFounders is accepting applications for our next cohort of startups. Apply now! ;)
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I love this. This just feels so JAPAN.
Tokyo 1964 ➡️
#Tokyo2020
The wood used to make the Olympic Rings comes from trees grown from seeds brought by international athletes the last time Tokyo hosted the Olympic Games. 😍🌳
#StrongerTogether
#OpeningCeremony
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This has to be my favorite Halloween costume of all time. 10 years ago! Wow time flies.
#tbt
http://t.co/7a9gwG27G9
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Happy 33rd anniversary of the Berlin Wall falling down!
This day always makes me smile and is one I super remember fondly as a kid.
I hope Ukraine get a similar moment in the near future.
Now time to put Scorpions on repeat. :)
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Who are the best up and coming VCs investing into Metaverse and crypto games?
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