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Founder, https://t.co/CCWaCIEcQJ. GP @adventure_fund, Adj Professor @NorthwesternU; design founder w/ multiple exits: Twitter, Eventbrite, Brex. Prev. Innovation @Whitehouse
Brooklyn, NY
Joined November 2006
My favorite letters of the alphabet are R&D, followed by M&A, right before I.P.O.
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I’ve yet to meet one person who works from home that actually works from 9am to 5pm with a 30 minute lunch in-between with the occasional bathroom break.
Unpopular opinion: the people who love working from home do a lot less work at home.
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This is the greatest TikTok I’ve seen this year … I would watch this as a series on Netflix
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If you interview a candidate that completes anything 94% faster than every other candidate you’ve ever interviewed … (1) hire them immediately, (2) fire the hiring manager that passed on them, (3) adapt your interview process, because your talent just evolved.
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@saradietschy Your internet is 5x faster, you’re just doing things now that require 6x more bandwidth than before … so it feels slower. Like your photos that you send to family members are magnitudes larger than ever before. And now we send full 5 minute cinematic mode videos! 🤷♂️.
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The current state of @onepeloton … like a used mattress, you can’t even give them away for free
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Everyone is talking about how fast ChatGPT got to 100M users, I found it fascinating how many things have never even gotten to 100M users.- New York Times (9M).- Geico (16M).- HBO (60M).- Bank of America (67M).- Venmo (70M).- Germany (83M).
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What a startup really thinks about the “what if the larger, publicly traded company, were to build a competitive offering”
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@sanjazakovska My fear is that it puts folks in a position to want to pay you in relation to what you’ve been paid previously. Your previous salary should have very little influence in your current salary negotiations. You’re worth what they’re willing to pay that you can convince them of.
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@andruyeung They don’t do exit interviews and the most senior “leaders” organically eat lunch with some of the most junior people.
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@pa1ge I often feel like a certain type of person prefers Notion because it gives them busy work and makes them feel like they're being productive when they're not.
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So $TSLA has a recall of 300K cars that’s fixed with an over-the-air software update and you all freak out … but, Ford recalls over 1.2M cars and Honda recalls almost 500K cars this week and y’all got no comment?!?
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@rohindhar The fact that it only went up in value by $55K between 2006 and 2021 is a bigger red flag. Something is suspiciously wrong with this place.
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Okay, this is actually incredible . the Lego + DocuSign collaboration dropped just in time for Christmas!
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@kvlly “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” -Bill Gates.
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@luke_metro “For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.”.
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@iamharaldur Slight disagree … some people deserve it sometimes.
I would totally do this, not that I would want to, I just believe I would be compelled to.
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Another vantage point
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Rethinking your entire roadmap around something you just learned about 90 days ago … feels like a massive 🚩.
ChatGPT is coming to @brexHQ, and this is just the beginning. We're rethinking our entire roadmap around AI, and how we can bring superpowers to Finance teams. The future of software is here! 🚀.
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@step_nie What I didn’t miss was the “it was too perfect”. Who wants their code to be imperfect? Who needs their code to have depth? It needs to work, as perfectly as humanly possible … no, wait, better than humanly possible.
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The California tax refund (1) comes in the form of a debit card, and (2) is very humbling with respect to where you stand socio-economically
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It has to become clear that when the issue is the police, you can not send the “police” to police the outrage.
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@pitdesi I hate pick-ups . BUT, if car size is somehow tied to geographic space, the US is a little over twice the size of the EU . 3,794,080 sq mi compared to 1,634,472 sq mi. The EU also has about 100M more people with half the space than the US; forced consolidation?.
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@sdw The % of times the person I’m venmo’ing is within 2 feet of me is less than 10%. It’s a cool graphic though.
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@netcapgirl Also super interesting fact about Jurassic Park . Steven Spielberg increased the size of the Velociraptors 3x to make for a better movie. And then, paleontologist discovered the Utahraptor, which almost match the dinosaur in the movie to a T.
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The best experience I've ever had is being a part of a great team.
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@_ali_taylor What always confused me was the signing of an offer letter … one that can be rescinded by the employer before the start, that can be rejected by the candidate before the start and in an at-will relationship where one can be fired or quit at any point from day 1 onward.
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I used to dream of an NYC 32nd floor corner office … in 2022 that’s the dream we brought to life; but, the future of the office isn’t remote, it’s not an office at all … it’s a collaborative studio that brings the best talent together to work on the biggest (future) problems.
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@0xgaut My little social bubble seems to have ditched AirBnB for Hotels except for: long stays (for laundry), large group trips (a friend conference), or remote (non major city) international destinations.
I'm curious … have any of you found yourselves more recently preferring a hotel over an Airbnb?
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@RihardJarc If that were true, he would be wearing them on stage. Steve used the iPhone on stage . Mark won't even wear his own glasses on stage.
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@awilkinson Anything that thrives on face-to-face (belly-to-belly”) sales as a market differentiator … financial advisors, real estate agents, life insurance salesman, lawyers.
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I love this order of operations:.- FDIC: we insure you for up to $250K.- Mercury: nah, we'll insure you for up to $1M.- Brex: okay then, we'll insure you for up to $2.5M.- Mercury: did we say $1M, we meant $5M!. Who has $10M, who is going to $10M?.
It’s official: by Monday, Mercury customers will have access to up to $5M in FDIC Insurance – 20x the per bank limit. Learn more:
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@aarongraves The problem is that literally none of the candidates used it but this one! According to the original tweet.
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This guy guessing paint colors on TikTok makes my week . there’s still happy surprises and excitement to be found in 2020
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This was Twitter, iMessage, Slack, and Telegram all-in-one.
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So . this happened over the break! Excited to kickoff 2021 with a new member of the team.
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@SGroebner @JacobyBrandon @British_Airways @uncommon_studio You can only omit those items if your brand is over 50 years old and spend over $100M a year advertising that brand. But yes, sure.
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@Shpigford You’re looking for an engineer with this skill set when you should be looking for a designer with this skill set. In my experience.
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I don’t disagree. However, I can’t help but think how much @Clubhouse paid for … and no amount of backlinks could save it.
has 5.1k backlinks already. yes it was worth 1.8m.
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We built the prototype for in January, started the company in February, and closed the pre-seed round in March . my favorite part was that every investor signed our SAFE using our own prototype! . A special shout out to @sophiaamoruso who was first to.
We're excited to finally announce our $3M pre-seed round led by @pitdesi of @btv_vc with participation from @8bitcapital @trustfundvc @HustleFundVC @EverywhereVC @ExpediteVC @firsthandvc @singhcapartners @NEA Angel Fund.
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@anothercohen I still have just one question …
When are they rebranding it to “Forbes 30-to-Life”?.
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@aubreystrobel Yes.
An unfortunate fear . is that the American flag, specifically pride in it, is now becoming synonymous with “Trump Supporter” which is becoming synonymous with “White Supremacist” . a symbol of freedom is now at risk of being symbol of oppression. What do you see?
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@rod_mallo It all depends on context of the deal. We had a port co. get acquired for cents on the dollar, we negotiated stock instead of cash … got into the acquiring company at a < $200M valuation, last valuation was > $30B. That start-up “exit” turned out to be a success.
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@MorningBrew “Tesla will soon issue a free software update to limit the drivers' ability to use the company's Autosteer feature if they repeatedly fail to demonstrate they are in control of the car while using the feature” … a “recall” in 2023 means an over-the-air software update 🤷♂️.
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@jmj 1. Who I work for will most likely change. 2. Who I work with will most likely change. 3. What I work on will most definitely change. 4. One of the best things I should get comfortable with is adapting to change.
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You’re so worried that your boss will replace you with AI, that you haven’t realized that AI will replace you having a boss. Companies will need less people, so more people can create more companies
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@Samirkaji When asked to keynote a conference, the conference organizer should thank you for speaking, and then the keynote should reply with a thank you for having them. Treat your candidates as keynote speakers. You invited them in, thank them for their time in what’s a very hard process.
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@daveholtz @Airbnb Show us the original listing or it doesn’t count … how did they conceal this in the listing photos? That is going to be the most impressive part of it all.
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So . just bought a house on 3 acres in the beautiful hills of Los Gatos in Silicon Valley.
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This is why we can never had editable Tweets.
Admission: I'm a time traveler from 2020. Enjoy 2016 - it's as good as it gets for awhile.
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@toddkovalsky @DonaldRichard From a global perspective, a $40,000 annual salary is life-changing. Just not having to think or worry about where dinner is coming from tonight is life-changing.
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I can’t stop thinking about the idea of never starting from a blank canvas again. From our whiteboards and slide decks to our design files and code bases; the future might literally start with Gen AI. I absolutely love this concept from the team @vercel
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@markgurman My take … it’s because the tether cord to the battery is a very clunky experience IRL. The demos are all so very carefully calculated to hide it as much as possible. Watching the cord flap around ins’t an attractive look.
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@brextonpham Growth. LinkedIn generated $8 billion revenue in 2020, an increase of 19 percent year-on-year. LinkedIn has 3/4 of a billion members; up from 500 million in 2018.
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Excited to announce we’ve officially closed on the Meta Fund I — a fund exclusively comprised of LPs who are founders and seasoned operators investing in early-stage start-ups!
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@pmarca My eyes are bigger than my stomach.
Is apparently well read . 75% of our moving weight is definitely books.
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@nikitabier Almost* every four years there is room for a new player. Generally follows US high school/college cycle of new generational adoption trends: .95-99 - AOL.99-03 - Yahoo!.03-07 - MySpace.07-11 - Facebook.11-15 - Instagram.15-19 - SnapChat.19-23 - TikTok.23-27 - ?!?!.
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So . this just happened, adopted a rescue on our way to coffee this morning. Meet Cooper!
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