Sora is incredible:
"A backcountry skier in a yellow jacket with a backpack doing a first line in fresh powder in the Italian Dolomites. Make him average/ok at skiing so its relatable"
👋 Hello
@OpenAI
💡
I’m thrilled to be joining OpenAI as Head of European Policy and Partnerships.
A big mission, a small and stellar policy team and lots to build together in the coming years.
Dall-E: "A painting in the style of Kandinsky of a sunrise over a lake"
We're hosting a developer and founder meet up in Paris next week with the OpenAI team. If you're building with AI and want to attend, drop me a note.
[if you're a tech policy geek that wants to learn about what people are building, drop me a note too]
Watching this former lawyer in Australia and Belgian Software Developer turn into THE go-to source on cycling analysis online in the past years is 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Creators! Kudos
@LanterneRougeYT
@BenjiNaesen
Our
#TDF2022
Preview Podcast is now on YouTube! 🔥
🔗
A whopping 2 hours dissecting the route, discussing the favourites & their teams, and predicting what could happen in the upcoming Tour de France!
Brought to you by
@GoZwift
! 🧡
#LRCP
/ 📸 Cor Vos
It should be much easier to start and scale an online business across Europe. We spoke to 200 startups on
@Stripe
to better understand the realities they’re facing and the policy challenges holding them back. Here’s what we found 👇 1/6
4 Years
@stripe
🚀🦙🌱🌭
Complex problems, humble people and an unapologetic macro-optimism about the potential of the Internet Economy paired with a healthy dose of micro-pessimism about all the things that still need fixing!
Oh and Llamas - plenty of Llamas!
Thanks team!
5 years
@stripe
and moved from pins to socks to Llama ties! We are growing up after all 😇🧐😜
From 600 to 8000 people still working on building better economic infrastructure for the online economy and the numerous policy challenges and opportunities that come with it!
🫶🚀💡– Wrapping up 6 years at Stripe - ✅🦙🌭
This is my last week at Stripe and it’s bitter-sweet. It’s been a career-defining adventure and I feel incredibly lucky to have been along for the ride. Seeing Stripe grow from 700 to 7000 people as been an incredible journey!
🛠️💡🧐 - trying this building in public thing
Given the tough time for the tech sector I've decided how I can help is with an Open Google Doc (thanks
@marconav
for the push) with open jobs and talent pool for Public Policy in EMEA
(please share)
🧵
View from my room 🤩 👨🎓
👋
@UniofOxford
- beyond excited to spend the next 3 days at
@oiioxford
discussing all things technology & politics
My version of Paradise 🤓💡
Life Update - ⛰️🏞️🥰☺️
New Home Base for the Gianella Crew is beautiful Murnau in Bavaria between Munich & Innsbruck
Say 👋 when you are in the area!
PS: Job still the same, thanks
@stripe
for being so remote friendly for years already 👍
🇮🇪🇪🇺🚀Excited to share the news below! I've had the privilege and pleasure to see the Irish Tech community grow over the past 10 years and I can't wait to see what the next 10 years have in store!
🧵
🧡 our 🇪🇺 CTO casually flexing her 🇮🇹 Italian in a live-demo based on a request from a user watching the live-stream to do real-time translation
🥳
@miramurati
Well - almost 2 years into the fantastic journey that is Stripe, finally.... Although not really sure this is a good or a bad sign
@edwinwee
? Also: we are hiring ;)
Thanks 🇮🇪 Dublin for having us!
Fabulous week with the global Stripe policy team.
Special thanks to
@ScaleIreland
@dogpatchlabs
for hosting a great debate on the current state of the startup ecosystem.
🤩🎸 - also chatting with Edge from U2 💪😜
📣 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 💡 - OpenAI is growing our Global Affairs & Policy Team in Europe!
I'm looking to hire for two roles to build out our team:
Brussels - EU Policy & Partnerships Lead ()
Dublin - Ireland Policy & Partnerships Lead ()
🧵
🚀🇬🇧💡
We've just launched our first international office in London and I'm hiring for a UK Policy lead to join the stellar policy crew at OpenAI!
Share far and wide and DM if you have someone in mind ⬇️
👋 OpenAI’s Global Affairs Team in Europe continues to grow
We’re looking for a few more stellar (but humble) Public Policy professionals for OpenAI’s Global Affairs team in the region. Have a read about what we’re looking for in 🧵 and feel free to share!
Pretty unreal but cool - the Al Qudra cycling track in Dubai, 90km of purpose built cycling road in the middle of the Desert.
Been a whirlwind couple of days here and great to be able to spin the legs a little.
At OpenAI, we are committed to complying with the EU AI Act, not only because this is a legal obligation, but also because the goal of the law aligns with our mission to develop and deploy safe AI to benefit all of humanity.
Thanks
@SadiqKhan
for coming to Berlin and the passionate "pitch" for London and the much needed connections to cities all over the continent!
#Londonisopen
🇩🇪🇬🇧
Time flies when you are having fun 👌
Thanks
@stripe
for 2 wonderful, challenging and impactful years!
Such a privilege to be part of this fabulous journey and work alongside such caring, humble and smart human beings!
Congrats Stripe - 99.999%
Building infrastructure is hard and takes people sweating the unglamuorous details that compound over time -
@stripe
in its early innings still, go Team, cheering you from the sidelines!
Showed real bravery this week, analyzing a company that seems almost too good to analyze:
@stripe
.
I came away even more bullish:
- It's probably worth more than Goldman today
- It hits all of the 7 Powers
- It's just getting started
🐶 - left all screens at home yesterday morning and took this one for a long walk as it was all getting a bit too much.
♥️ - to every single one of the Stripes affected. You've left a mark on the Internet Economy.
🫶 - When you're ready my DMs are open to help.
🌅 Horizon Stage: Discussion on AI and policymaking
👉 Sandro Gianella, Head of Europe Policy & Partnerships at OpenAI,
👉 Peter Sarlin, Co-founder and CEO of Silo AI,
👉 Luis Viegas, Digital Adviser of the European Commission,
👉 and Melissa Heikkilä of MIT Technology Review
"Imagination is in high supply here and the ability to execute on it as well"
Great to partner with
@dogpatchlabs
to celebrate OpenAI becoming part of the Irish & European community
🙌📚 Launch Day!
@ansgar_baums
and I started a blog on the art of public policy and government relations functions.
Would love to hear your thoughts, reactions, comments and ideas!
💶🚀Good to see
@EU_Commission
push for a rapid rollout of Instant Payments (IP). This will make cross-border payments in the EU faster, cheaper and more secure. It’s the kind of policy update that removes obstacles and helps European internet businesses grow faster.
🧵⬇️
🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs with OpenAI in Europe!
We're starting our journey to grow our presence in Europe in London and Dublin and looking for colleagues to join us!
Thought I'd highlight just a few of the open roles on our career page ().
🧵
The way coffee shops and restaurants in Berlin say "no, we don't have WiFi" and *no, we only take cash" with a certain sense of pride and feeling of keeping something bad away from them is really starting to annoy me...
Back to the (home) office tomorrow and had to do some last minute errands to get the real
@stripe
feel for the place
☺️😀🌱🌿🌻🪴
Although I'm probably in a minority of Stripe employees who have ever been in an office and / or remember what they looked like 😳
Glad to have
@stripe
pushing for progressive policies for startups and scaleups in Europe alongside so many fabulous entrepreneurs and companies.
Thanks
@EU_Commission
for listening, engaging and acting!
💪🇪🇺🚀
EU's new Startup Nations Standard will be "a major step towards unleashing the full entrepreneurial firepower of Europe," write CEOs and founders of Europe's startups in an open letter following the launch of
@EU_Commission
's
#EUIndustrialStrategy
.
Dinner with
@dogpatchlabs
& Patch with 20 of the funniest, brightest most passionate and demanding 16-20 year old builders I've met - thanks for having us and letting
@OpenAI
be part of your community!
🇮🇪🤩🇮🇪
OK - it's one thing to run a publishing house within a tech company, it's something else entirely to make
@stripepress
look straight out of Indiana Jones!
(this is from an event in Mexico City this week)
Ok. Ok. Ok.
It's going to be back to tweeting about tech, payments, politics (and bikes) next Monday but couldn't resist a last round of pictures from the Dolomites.
♥️🇮🇹♥️
Love it - listening to
@HowIBuiltThis
and hearing
@patrickc
quote the one and only legend 🚴♂️
@greglemond
with the infamous "it never gets easier, you just go faster" 🚀 describing the "visceral pain" that never really goes away but is such good motivation to keep improving!
With the ☀️ hitting 32 Degree celcius the employee of the week
@stripe
Berlin is 🐧*Pinguino*🐧 - cool, committed, results-oriented teamplayer increasing efficiency and productivity in a scalable way across the company 😎
💪👋
#Berlin
!
My wife closed her shop *Grashüfer Kinder-Outdoor* due to
#Covid_19
and has within a day (!) put together a
@shopify
online version to remain open! While we still can, a delivery option is by cargo-bike with
@fLotteBerlin
Spread the word!
🤩 - 🇫🇮
@SlushHQ
🇫🇮
What an incredible 48h in Helsinki - kudos to
@emmalehi
@oonaporopudas
& thanks to the 2500 volunteers! The ambition, creativity, humbleness and warmth (no pun intended) of what you created is inspiring!
Glad we
@stripe
were able to contribute!
#Slush19
👋🇪🇺 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
I'm looking for a policy professional based out of Brussels to join our growing Public Policy and Government Relations team here at Stripe!
Please spread far and wide and don't be shy in reaching out.
Conversation on the train into the city with a German family office investor, Japanese official from the investment agency and a professional e-sports team from Sweden - already enjoying
@SlushHQ
;)
"Foto mit Mark Zuckerberg auf LinkedIn/Xing/Twitter/FB/Instagram posten" scheint ja gerade der heisse Scheiss in der Berliner influencer-lobbyist-politik bubble zu sein....
Sitting between former 🇬🇷 Finance Minister Varoufakis (who just launched his bid to get elected as MEP in 🇩🇪), 5 🇫🇮hunters with antlers of 🦌in their hands and current 🇬🇧 ambassador to Germany at the Airport ☕️. What to say to start a conversation? ;)
🎯⌨️💡🛠️ ahhhhh --- the sooooothing sound of German management consultants updating their powerpoint decks makes for a great backdrop --- someone should turn that into a Spotify playlist?
"Klaus - kannst du nochmal über Slide 39 gehen"
"Thomas - ich sehe den ROI noch nicht"
Stripe End of Year Challenge 💪
Listening to (and understanding)
@patrickc
while holding 200w steady on
@GoZwift
🧐🤷♂️💡🤯
3.5 years of training - the Watts are ok... 🤙🤷♂️