Alex Friedman 🤠
@heyalexfriedman
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tweets about startups, business & life in between • 3x founder, 1 exit • angel investor, former @techstars • now building @thisisordinary_
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Joined January 2019
Idk who needs this but I’ve seen a few startups fail because of founder burn out. I haven’t seen any startups fail because a founder took a couple days off.
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People on social media have been dragging Chipotle so hard that allegedly a memo was sent out to Chipotle employees, instructing them to fill up the bowls as much as possible if someone has their phone out or is filming while ordering. That's the America I know and love.
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Recently found out that one of the big incely accounts on here that sells guides to American guys on how to be alphas is actually ran by 2 women in India and idk why that’s so damn funny.
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One of my best friends has pancreatic cancer and we are spending what most likely is our last New Years together. Her only ask? Me to bake her all of her favorite things. So that’s what I’m doing today. Baking (and crying). Sometimes life happens slow, then really fast.
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A year ago today my best friend Erika sent me and our other best friend this text message. At the time we didn’t realize this moment would change our lives forever and 11 months later she would be gone. She was 31 years old and 34 weeks pregnant when diagnosed with stage 4
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I wish Zillow allowed comments on house listings. I just KNOW they would go so hard.
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Omg, this is the best marketing play I’ve seen in a long time. Molson, a beer company and partner for the PWHL, or the Professional Women’s Hockey League, decided to re-vamp the jerseys for the league to announce their partnership. They saw a problem: many of the women on the
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Most know Costco for the $1.50 hotdogs, but I don’t think people understand the level of operation and thought that goes into each Costco location:. - They aim for a low ~17% margin on most of their products (for comparison — Walmart aims for ~45%, while Ulta / Sephora aim for
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The fact that Nintendo was founded the same year that Vincent Van Gogh painted Starry Night absolutely DESTROYS my perception of time
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LinkedIn makes me question my reality a little more each day
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Six months ago today, my best friend died. On our last day together, we lay in bed listening to her favorite songs as I retold her stories we had laughed about 1000 times before. I was there by fate. While our other best friend was trapped in Austin because of an ice storm, I
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So my dad broke up with his girlfriend of 10 years a few weeks ago… my mom just called and told me she’s now breaking up with her boyfriend of 12 years…. Should I parent trap my parents back together??!!??!.
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The girl in the video below is a friend of mine from college, Julia. She hosts a podcast where she talks about breakups, relationships and trying to love yourself at any stage you are in. The fact that Matt took her video out of context to build some commentary that fits a.
Her life doesn’t revolve around her family and kids so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. Worst of all she’s too stupid to realize how depressing this is.
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The year is 2017, you just paid $9.99 for a month of unlimited movies. You watch the LEGO Batman Movie 3 days in a row. You have no idea how any of this is sustainable, but you don’t question it. Life is good.
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I went for a drink last night in Austin. $22 for a basic cocktail. Tip options: 25% 30% 35%. What tf is happening.
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Your entire life will change when you actually start believing that you deserve good things, not just settling for what’s convenient or familiar.
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I was talking to a friend recently with a net worth of roughly ~$25m, making around $2m a year. They have a big house that’s paid off. Multiple sports cars, designer clothes — the works. They live in a very wealthy area, one where the houses can be anywhere up to $50m or even
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@davj This tweet is going to be responsible for so many tech bois getting hit by busses this week.
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The Taylor Swift Era’s tour is a global phenomenon but I don’t think many people realize the economic, physical, and artistic feat these shows really are:. - The show is 3hrs and 25 minutes long. - Each concert is 44 songs, divided into 10 acts that portray each of her albums. -
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Hey, the average age of a successful founder is 45. You’re fine.
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My love language is picking you up from the airport and driving you straight to bbq
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My moms house was broken into this week which means BOTH my parents homes have been broken into in the last year….There is a massive string of Chilean gang related break in’s across Southern and Northern California that I rarely see people talking about. They target specific
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My childhood best friend and I got in a fight and weren’t talking for like 2 weeks and this is how she reached out to me to reconcile. (We made up)
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Some of you have no culture and have no idea who Marc Rebillet is and it shows.
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A few years ago, my dad gave me the best dating advice I've ever received. He told me, “Alex, you need to stop dating people who want the same career as you and want to compete. Start dating people who are passionate about something but are down for the ride, soothe you, and can.
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Okay why did it take me 31 years of life to find out that PAPRIKA IS JUST GROUND RED BELL PEPPER?!?.
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I didn’t want to work a 9-5 job…. So, I began building a startup and now work 24/7 instead 🥰.
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@EthanDriskill Honestly if you’re raising prices and making portions smaller it’s so deserved.
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The older I get, the more I understand people who live in cabins in the middle of nowhere and choose to not talk to another human for like 20+ years.
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Should you buy the domain for that side project you just came up with?. yes yes yesyes.yesyes yes yes yes.yes yes yes yes yes.yes yesyes yes yes.yes yesye yes yes.yes yes yesyes.
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I’m starting to not see the point in buying a house anymore. - Most houses I’ve looked at are over valued. - Property taxes (in Texas) are wild. - I have to maintain everything. - Mortgage would be more than my rent. - No guarantee value would increase. - Less amenities than a.
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|. Change retirement age to 35 . I’m tired.|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|. \ (•◡•) / . \ / . ——. | |. |_.
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My dad and his cofounder sold their company for over $1B a few years ago. I asked them, “What was the best part of selling?”. They said, “Seeing all the people who worked with us from day 1 become millionaires.”.
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Journos, plz stop DMing me asking me who it is or what account it is. I may be a lot of things but I’m no snitch😤.
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Watching homophobes find out that Sam Altman is gay without realizing that Peter Thiel, Tim Cook, and Keith Rabois are also all gay….
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I’m sorry but as a CEO you cannot expect your non-equity incentivized employees to care about the business as much as you. It’s not fair to them, it’s not fair to you.
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Idk about you, but I’d rather cry over the stress of my startup than over my shitty manager at a corporate job.
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A hard truth about success is there are people dumber than you and less experienced than you making more money than you because they are doing the things you’re too lazy or embarrassed to do.
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My server today told me that she gets a $15 gift card for groceries and diapers for every positive review she receives on Yelp or Google…. Would be a real shame if people started leaving positive reviews for Kristina who works at De Nada Cantina in Austin, TX……….
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Julia has handled this with so much grace even towards the people who do not deserve it. I’m proud to know her. I’m proud to be her friend. 🫶
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This Diddy stuff is insane. For starters, Diddy allegedly blew up Kid Cudi’s car because he started dating Diddy’s ex. “In one incident described in the court papers, Cassie says that in early 2012, Diddy grew so angry about her dating Kid Cudi that he said he would blow up
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I asked two of my non-tech friends “if money wasn’t an object, what would you do with your life?”. They both said “not work and travel.”. So I asked “what about for work?”. To which they replied, “if money wasn’t an object why would we work?”. And that is how I realized that.
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A 10+ year friendship ended for me today after I noticed I couldn’t find a friend of mines Instagram. I asked two of my closest friends who are also a mutual friend of hers, they couldn’t see it either. We figured she just deleted her IG. Today, my mom told me she saw her.
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If you are young and don’t have any crazy financial obligations you should 100% move to a big city like NY, LA or SF for a while. Your chances of running into smart, succesful, driven people your age with a similar mindset who push you to do better gets exponentially higher.
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I’m spending the holidays “alone” this year after breaking up with my long term boyfriend a couple of months ago. My family isn’t traditional—my parents travel half the year, my brother has a long term girlfriend, so pinning anyone down to make plans is always a challenge. My.
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We have officially made it to “let’s circle back after the holidays” season 🙏🏼.
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Today, I’m making a donation to PanCan, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. There is still only a 12% survival rate for up to 5 years for people diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. It is consistently underfunded, misdiagnosed, and considered a “death
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Honestly most super-rich people I know are just nerds who didn’t care what anyone else thought and unapologetically built what they wanted to build.
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THE INTERNET IS SO AWESOME😭. Yesterday Siqi posted about his daughter who was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in September… . He created a GoFundMe that goes to Dr. Todd Hankinson at the U of Colorado, who runs the only lab in the world focusing on this tumor. The gfm is at
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Lmao at people saying this would be a horrible idea for Zillow. I’m not talking about Zillows best interest here. I’m talking about my best interest…and my best interest is stirring chaos up on over priced home listings.
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I’ve grown a 72k+ following on TikTok, generate ~$10k a month in side income, and work with some of my favorite brands all in roughly 6 months of posting. Here are the 5 things I would recommend every person getting started creating content (for personal or startup) to do👇🏻.
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My whole life I went to private Jewish schools in Southern California. Growing up we had armed guards outside our double gates. Multiple former special ops military guys carrying AR’s outside and around entry points. About once a year we had students from the local UC show up to.
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If you’d like to hear more about Erika’s story, please feel free to check out here GoFundMe and CaringBridge: .
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Today is my 32nd birthday!. No 32 lessons I learned. No thread. Just this: I spent my 21st birthday in a rehab because I didn’t want to live anymore. I never planned ahead. Didn’t see myself making it to 25… let alone 32. I’ve lived some of the best days of my life and the
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Anyway, here’s some banana bread. (And a test loaf)
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Stop acting like I’m trying to be racist or some shit and literally Google “Chilean gang burglary ring.”. I spent 4 hours talking to 12 cops last night I’m not in the mood to argue with people who want to turn this into something it’s not. I just want people to be aware.
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Since being single, I’ve noticed this trend where people say they want relationships but act like putting in effort is embarrassing or below them. People bragging that they won’t plan anything, they won’t cook / clean / perform acts of service, they won’t split or pay bills,.
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Never underestimate a persons desire to do business with you JUST because they like you.
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Thank you everyone for the incredibly kind responses. To the people sharing personal stories, I’m so sorry. Someone once told me, “the amount of grief is the amount of love.” . How lucky are we to have people we love so much? . Happy New Year from me, Erika and Makenna. 💜
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Also sorry about the grammatical and spelling errors in this post. I know I wrote the wrong role and probably threw in a few too many commas. These posts while cathartic aren’t the easiest for me.
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I lost my wallet the other night. Prada wallet, $400 cash, all my credit cards and ID inside. Someone found it and returned it to the police station. All cash inside, no credit cards used. Only in Japan 🫶.
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Erika was diagnosed at 31yo and 34 weeks pregnant. Cancer doesn’t discriminate. If you feel like something is off, please don’t ignore it. If you’d like to hear more about Erika’s story feel free to check out our GoFundMe and Caring Bridge.
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Women only want one thing and it’s for their man to defend them like Bill Ackman.
My wife, @NeriOxman, was just contacted by Business Insider claiming that they have identified other plagiarism in her work including 15 examples in her dissertation where she did not cite Wikipedia as a source. Business Insider told us that they are publishing their story.
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I just spent the last 3 weeks on a boat with my dad. The longest time we’ve ever spent just us two together in probably my whole life. It was an absolute blast. I spent a lot of time thinking about how relationships shift… .how much that relationship goes from them taking
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Being a founder is like getting punched in the face 99 times and still hoping the 100th time is a kiss instead.
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My dad sold his company for over $1.6B in one of the largest private acquisitions in history yet you would never know it if you were put in a room with him…. - still drove a red minivan for 5+ years.- treats everybody he meets with the same level of respect.- hates attention.
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@cassiefambro @yashar She’s a wonderful human being and she will be okay. We are chatting now on strategies to leverage this so hopefully it all ends up boosting her in the end anyway 😏.
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@akafacehots Can someone smarter than me explain how houses can be left relatively untouched in the middle of completely burned down areas? Like how did these houses get so lucky?
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The power of Taylor Swift is unmatched. Taylor posted a lavender skirt from the brand PopFlex for just 3 SECONDS in her 'For a Fortnight' challenge. The brand sold out of every single one of their skirts within 15 MINUTES of her posting.
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Pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest survival rates of any type. It is consistently underfunded, misdiagnosed, and considered a “death sentence”… even in healthy 31 year olds. If you’d like to learn more, please check out @PanCAN at.
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It’s so funny seeing these lists because most of my friends lists are like, a man who:.- has a job.- plans a date 1-2x per month.- calls them pretty.- showers and brushes his teeth.- doesn’t cheat .- is 1+ inch taller than them. And they’re all out here still single.
To me, a physically, mentally, emotionally, & spiritually healthy man —. - doesn’t vape.- doesn’t smoke weed.- doesn’t get vaxxed.- doesn’t watch porn.- lift weights weekly.- prioritizes his sleep.- eats lots of steak & eggs.- doesn’t drink tap water.- doesn’t use AirPods.- would
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A boss taught me this a few years ago: Assume good intent. Most people don’t realize they’re being jerks / aloof / dumb. Most people are just in their own world trying to make it through their day.
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Your tech startup but every employee is a character from The White Lotus:.
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In 1980 my dad owned a few stereo stores in Southern California called “Stereo Connection”. One day, a guy came in who wanted to buy this beautiful stereo set. He was already closed the second he walked in the store… knew what he wanted and everything. At checkout my dad said
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Apartment complex sent me a rent increase with lease renewal so I’m about to hit them with an Uno reverse card and ask for a rent decrease. Wish me luck 🫡.
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“Ha. ha… no babe, my phone died and I fell asleep early… ha… ha… you know you’re my number one girl…”
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Idk who needs this but I’ve seen a few startups fail because of founder burn out. I haven’t seen any startups fail because a founder took a Sunday off.
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You know the quickest way to piss off A+ employees? . Not firing C employees quick enough.
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@BrandonCWhite That makes a lot of sense. I’ve always been a 20%+ tipper and now when places make 25% the lowest I feel like I’m being tricked.
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My mom describing how she used to get to school as a kid:
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Honestly, things got much clearer once I stopped taking life and career advice from people who don’t live a life I want to live.
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If you want to check out Julia’s podcast you can find it in most platforms under “Pretty Much Done”:.
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The best marketing story I’ve heard lately?. A big creator spent months making content, telling everyone he was a private chef for a billionaire in the Hamptons…. But he wasn’t. He was renting out beautiful Airbnbs, cooking incredible-looking food, and posting videos about it.
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He’s an 8 but he calls your startup “that little project of yours”.
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My mom recently met and befriended the CEO & founder of a big, very well known company at a hotel she was staying at. I asked her a few days ago if he would be open to connecting with me. She’s like “oh, I’m sure honey! I’ll just text him!”……… like they’re just casually old
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Last two years alone: .Best friend died of pancreatic cancer at 31. Another friend diagnosed with brain cancer at 34. In remission. Another acquaintance died of bone cancer at 29. Somethings not right.
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