Thariq
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AI research fellowship @GoodfireAI Prev: CEO @OMMultiverse (Series A, YC) Raised at @medialab
SF via Toronto
Joined August 2011
@DaveOshry Honestly, I appreciate how chill everyone is being given that I am actively trying to burn down the entire world.
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Our accountant just informed me that someone texting me "did 30 hours a week" is not an "invoice" and that me replying "got it bruh" is not an "acknowledgement of receipt".
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Tank, Healer, DPS.
Can y’all even name the 3 branches of government?.
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Underrated reason for starting a company: a way to make friends in your late 20's.
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The most important rule of Star Wars is that there are only nerd robots and jock robots. No robot can say full sentences AND hold a gun, and that's the only reason why humans still exist.
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I'm just gonna brag on our engineering team a bit. We've built.- a web GL engine for pixel art.- a character generator for pixel art characters.- a pic-crew like portrait creator.- a world organization system like Notion.- a character sheet creator. And it runs in-browser, 60 FPS
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While you guys have been collecting badges, he's been sending Team Rocket into space. I don't give a fuck if he uses Pokemon for his mines, every single feat of human progress has been made using Pokemon. I love the fact that Giovanni is a billionaire and—.
Tweet like Pokémon were real.
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@deepfates there are probably articles online like "here's how to use chatGPT to build a fitness routine" that a 4o-model would have in its training data.
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We call the @play_multiverse team "the NPCs" and for the holidays @SaraAlfageeh drew us as a motely crew of NPCs in game!
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Game dev culture is having business meetings on Discord instead of Zoom, but then having to spend the first 5 minutes of the call explaining what childhood trauma created your gamertag.
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Me trying to be culturally sensitive in Beirut: Can I get a Bebsi?. Waiter: What's a Bebsi? (shouting to the back) Guys, do we have BEBSI?.
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Turnips selling for 300 bells on your island is a blessing, 600 is a responsibility.
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@mechanical_monk Love doing this. I’m always surprised by how much water you lose though— I can eat 4 eggs cooked this way without blinking.
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another year around the sun, another breathtaking drawing from Sara . ft one of my favorite poems 🌊
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A bottle of Zamzam water is like a mega health potion. Nothing is ever important enough to me to use it, but I have about 59 bottles.
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So so excited to announce our Series A led by @anthoscapital & thrilled that our seed lead @makersfundvc is also taking part. The ineffable @kevinlin is joining our board.
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The math is correct, and damning (it comes from their own example). For a slightly popular mobile game that has 300k new users per month and makes $1 per install lifetime, it’s a 15% tax on revenue. This will put studios out of business.
Unity's new Runtime Fee is a complete joke. Even their example calculation shows a game with $2 million in revenue having to pay Unity $282k per year, or 14% of revenue. And that's on top of the $2000/seat/year Unity Pro license cost.
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So inspiring to see all the #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!. Here at @OMMultiverse we are trying to build a game dev company that's as diverse as we know players are themselves!
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"Drawing people who are conventionally attractive is boring" Sara says looking at me dead in the eye.
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It's been winter for like 5 days and I've lost one beanie, one set of earmuffs, two pairs of gloves and every game of smash brothers.
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Also! We're hiring — we're a fast growing startup with big plans to bring TTRPGs to every gamer. And while we're at it, we're building the place we all want to work at. Check out our jobs here if you can see yourself with us:
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MIT in 24 hours
big miscalculation on the admin’s part, “the floor is lava and the consequence is jail” is the kind of loony tunes engineering challenge MIT students salivate for.
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This has been the journey of a lifetime and I'm still struggling to express what it meant to me. But more than anything, I've been so honored and proud to do it alongside our incredible team. Many of them are available for hire now and they're some of the most talented people.
We are devastated to share One More Multiverse is shutting down. It was a joy to be part of your adventures. Here is our full statement:
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Eid Mubarak! 🌙. after this year's congregation they had a Funeral Prayer (Janazah), which reminded me. in Islam when you're born your father calls out the Athan (call to prayer), but there is no prayer. at your funeral, there is a prayer but no call. they say that's how.
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Been talking to a lot of engineers this week who grew up making games, but never thought that they would actually get to do it for a living. I was in the same boat for a long time. But I realized gaming is growing in incredible ways— now is the best time to get into gaming.
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Seeing Sara do everything from art direction to making tiktoks go viral is one of the funnest parts of the job. Only q is what took Forbes so long.
I couldn't believe my eyes this morning, I'm included in @Forbes 30 Under 30 list!!🔥✨.It is a huge honor to be among fellow gaming founders and creators. I've made incredible friends, mentors, and learned so much from this community. THANK YOU, GAMERS!!.
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@SaraAlfageeh Doesn't like 90% of their power come from Raava anyways? Is Raava gonna beat herself up.
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Sherpa is the 2nd most important lifelong partnership I've made this summer
First, an update: We're starting a new company, Sherpa. Sherpa is a new way for busy people to use email, built from first principles. Thariq (@trq212) and I worked together a decade ago on a company called Chime. This time more focused on emails, LLMs, and doing more with less.
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Turning 30 is exhausting because all your friends are also turning 30, so you need to throw 10 very high energy birthdays in a year so that everyone doesn't have an existential crisis.
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Startups trying to get people to use a product they made last week.
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So many people told us yesterday that Multiverse literally changed their life. The first step of making a startup is to make something that a small group of people love. You don't always make it to the second step, but there's so much beauty in the first.
When we first made multiverse, I wanted it to be a place where people grew up. I think we did that.
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You can now CODE abilities in @play_multiverse, live in our in-browser code editor. This is the start of us exposing more scripting capabilities in Multiverse. We want you to be able to mod it like crazy.
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Economic sanctions really just hurt normal people the most. Paying our super talented contractors in Venezuela and Palestine is one of the most logistically complicated things we do in the company.
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It takes a village to raise a company, grateful for the investors & advisors we learn so much from every day @ballmatthew @TSMReginald @natemitchell @sjsivak @DonovanDuncan @fahdananta @YangCLiu @pokimanelol.
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Our accountant also just informed me that I have to clarify that this is a JOKE and we do have invoices.
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Among Us was 3 devs, Valheim was 4, Splint Gate is 7, Hades was 18. Gaming is crazy y'all.
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Everyone making fun of him probably would have said the same thing about the guy who made the Taj Mahal tbh.
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For a few beautiful hours our community carved out a @OMMultiverse logo on /r/place and I'm just 🥺
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Don't mind me— just sitting here with my heart full, watching our community form yet another whole new world that they're going to be playing in.
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OMM is out of Early Access! 🥹. Players tell us every day how OMM is their 'forever game' and that will never stop being the greatest compliment I will ever hear. So excited to keep building forever games that bring people into roleplaying ⚔️.
⚔️ Play, build, and share your next adventure with friends online!. Make your next campaign cinematic, and create main character moments for even the newest RPG players. With all the tools you need, Early Access is COMPLETE. ✨One More Multiverse is OUT NOW!✨
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So psyched for this! I describe Yazeba’s as a legacy sitcom TTRPG— it’s got a cast of characters you evolve instead of making your own. Seeing Yazeba’s made us think differently about what sort of games could live on our platform and how we could make that happen.
i'm super excited to announce that Possum Creek Games is partnering with One More Multiverse to create the OMM Digital Edition of Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast !
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When we first made multiverse, I wanted it to be a place where people grew up. I think we did that.
@play_multiverse is a love letter to roleplaying, to fanfiction, to playing pretend with your friends, to immersing yourself in a world. It's a platform for telling your own stories, and seeing your Self in all of its facets. I hope that it will be a place where people grow up.
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What are my hobbies? It's pretty simple actually— I like everything I'm good at and dislike everything I'm bad at.
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NEW QUEST LISTING for @play_multiverse. Full stack web engineer.Into gaming and TTRPG.Remote position.Work with @jynniit @ultimate_afro and I. Send your fastest rider to jobs@playmultiverse.com.
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10+ years ago, Fahd & I were doing internships in SV and trying to make something people loved. we're finally getting to run it back, here's to 10 more years of building.
I spent the last few days in SF and am feeling incredibly optimistic and grateful to work with my brother @trq212 on a new project. We worked together 13 years ago to build and sell our first company. Finally, life has lined up for us to work together again
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@SaraAlfageeh mA a lifetime of happiness to you both!. I knew it was true love, because if your relationship can handle your Dva ultimates, it can handle anything.😪.
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Look forward and be hopeful. Look backwards and be thankful. Look downward and be helpful.
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👾Guys, we're hiring engineers at @play_multiverse! 👾. If you're really good at Javascript and like Games, send me a DM!. We're fully remote, super diverse and pay competitively. Check out the full posting:
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What I want most to normalize in the gaming industry is that being good at "leadership" is not the same thing as management. No one is a natural born manager. Good management is the result of deliberate self reflection, therapy, practice, feedback & accountability.
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Almost every pixel of that screenshot could be user generated— the character, the pixel art level, the character portrait even the layout and appearance of their character sheet 😳.
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People I hate: people who order paper towels on Amazon. It's me. I hate myself.
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Honestly, I was not ready for how absolutely dripped tf out my engineering team is.
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Ramadan Mubarak! 🌖. Caught COVID on the first day which has been a reminder that:.1) everything that happens during Ramadan is good.2) weakness & need are what leads to growth. iA a month of growth for us all
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@visakanv Patio11 outlined the counterpoint best to me. If you have any success, your A+ talent will be stressed/anxious about their career— they want you to hire. Taking longer to hire because you’re not getting the applicants you want will make them more stressed.
Tasks can have arbitrarily low overhead but people, on the other hand, will *demand* overhead, and even companies which are skeptical of overhead as a general statement will *provide it in spades* in response to those demands coming from employees.
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Concept: A social deduction game where you have to find who's not cake.
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I think the @play_multiverse team is slowly realizing that Hisham, Sara & I started Multiverse so that we could pay people to play Overwatch with us.
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Programming is 10% figuring out what code to write, and 90% convincing your brain that it's not too ugly and there's no way to write the same thing but, like, 10 lines shorter.
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What if you never had to write your git commits again? 👀. Been tinkering with an open source AI coding agent to make myself more productive
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My favorite part of making games is that you can make the most beautiful MMO in the world AND make it work on mobile, but you’re still going to make less money than the games where people match 3 items of the same type together.
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For my 24th birthday, my friends got me a technical backpack partially made out of Kevlar. For my 32nd, they got me a gift certificate to a nice spa. Character Development 🤧.
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The only thing I know about games is that if you pitch one to an investor and they think it sounds fun— it’s a terrible game.
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The "breaking into the gaming industry" tips never tell you that it is absolutely vital to have a bookshelf of random nerdy shit in the background of your zoom calls so that you look like a real gamer.
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Adulthood is buying progressively smaller and more expensive cakes for your friends birthdays, so that everyone can say "wow that looks so good, but I really shouldn't. ".
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We'll be at GDC, and excited to host maybe the first ever GDC iftar?. Anyone is welcome to join for a great meal, you don't have to be fasting or Muslim! DM for invite details.
🌙Ramadan kicks off during #GDC2023 this year! .All game industry professionals are welcome to join us for an evening dinner Thursday, March 23rd in celebration of these first few nights of Ramadan. Join us for devs, dates, and dinner. ✨ DM me for invitation details!
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Always curious why this isn't bigger in gaming. Regional pricing for a zero margin good just makes sense.
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We had crazy initial growth but in 2011 we didn’t really think a chrome extension could become a huge company. Since then there have been multiple billion dollar companies that started as chrome extensions. Sometimes you just gotta take a leap.
In 2011 we started Chime together along with another friend of ours. Chime was a magical notification center for Google Chrome. We found product-market fit and scaled to 60K DAUs. We'd see kids on campus using the app during lectures, got covered in a few tech reviews, press,
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Devastated to find out that the more people like your game, the more they start telling you everything that's wrong with it in excruciating detail.
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The link between mental stress and physical stress has never been clearer to me than just now when I was overheating in a hot yoga class and started panicking about if we're calculating retention metrics right.
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Devastated to report this is still true. Halfway through January and we've already got double the amount of feedback & bug reports as our highest month in 2021.
Devastated to find out that the more people like your game, the more they start telling you everything that's wrong with it in excruciating detail.
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We have had the most supportive investors I could imagine. They have backed us every step of the way. I could not be more thankful for the risk they took us on, and the grace they gave us as we shutdown. From our Series A announcement:
So so excited to announce our Series A led by @anthoscapital & thrilled that our seed lead @makersfundvc is also taking part. The ineffable @kevinlin is joining our board.
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10 minutes into pokemon snap: this is dumb, why do I have to get my pictures graded. 4 hours into pokemon snap: the only source of validation in the entire world comes from the professors grading of my 4 star tyranitar picture.
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@ballmatthew Whenever @antodemico draws outfit concepts for us, I'm like . this is truly high fashion.
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Hardest part of making a game is when your non-gamer friends are trying to be supportive and ask them if they can play it, and then you need to explain what a dungeon master is.
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Running at a gaming company means. I have a lot of variants
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