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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

9 years

The future is bright. http://t.co/ugKY0G8sek

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

1 year

My wife does not care at all, so instead I ask all of you to acknowledge this elite parallel park

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

New post: The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class. A new rule, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated Gentry class, the more you become Michael Scott.

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated …

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Trying to buy some Affirm shares, but apparently I have to pay for them right now??? What am I missing here

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

@TwitterComms Interesting. Have you talked to any women on here

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Some personal news! 5 years ago, I decided to not move to San Francisco in the first place

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

5 years

STOP talking shit about Google’s messaging products Hangouts is SOMETHING I HAVE USED Duo Allo Wave Plus Android Messages Gchat Meet Google docs comments are MYSTERIOUS

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Hello everyone! Big personal/professional news: I'm joining Shopify.

Shopify

Two Truths and a Take, Season 2 Episode 14

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

On a happier note, I made this

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

First post of the year. This made me sad to write. But someone needed to write it down: Why the Canadian Startup Scene doesn't work

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

28 days

When you accept that sequoia term sheet

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

One day, and not today, but soon - and at first gradually, but then suddenly: Debt is coming to Silicon Valley.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Why is Audible so… terrible? Why won’t it let me pay money to listen to books? Why are books priced in “credits”, and why do I only get one a month? Why can’t I get more of these “credits?” Why can’t I upgrade my account to get them? Why can’t I find out how to do that?

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Honestly, hats off to Stripe for building a tens-of-billions dollar company off of the competitive moat of "our documentation and webhooks are very nice"

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

I looked at the whole milk we have in our house compared to regular 2% milk; 3.8% vs 2% = 90% above the benchmark.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

6 years

Your report card is posted publicly, as is everybody else's, at 3 pm. Everyone fights with each other for the chance to put them in the principal's secure filing cabinet. If you win the fight, you get an A in gym. You can sell the A to other students in exchange for drugs.

Psycho Sage

@psycho_sage

6 years

@lopp @naval How do u explain bitcoin to a child in a few sentences?

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

1 year

@RampCapitalLLC Irrelevant. Does not matter

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Biggest surprise in the Roblox S-1 is that they own 8% of Shopify

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

9 months

Watching tennis @jon_bois

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@Some1NamedRyan

9 months

no way 'Cotton Eye Joe' comes on mid-point

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

This might be the best sentence I’ve ever seen

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Turns out people can do just about anything big companies can do now. hmm

Waiting to Oxtail

@ThatDudeMCFLY

3 years

Good morning.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

@chamath cannot be stopped

Reuters

@Reuters

3 years

Britain's Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine, Times reports

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Books in the “Everyone is wrong about X, here is what you’ve been missing in plain sight all along” category that are good -Debt: the first 5000 years -The Red Queen -The Selfish Gene (when it came out) What are other good ones?

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@Alex_Danco

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Aw cmon dude I didn’t want to have to buy this

Scott Galloway

@profgalloway

4 years

#Palantir is a terrible business — my thoughts w/ @jchatterleyCNN @CNN

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Books finally looking presentable

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

It’s gonna be called Foundation, you heard it here first

The Verge

@verge

3 years

Exclusive: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Make this a gmail autoreply

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

@SenWarren Since Facebook has a monopoly on social media, naturally, that’s where you posted this message so that people would read it?

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Equity-based comp is usually a huge rip off that relies on employees being information-poor. But if everyone stopped believing in it, the economics of startups would stop working

Myk - 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 - Here To Help

@mykola

4 years

Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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@Alex_Danco

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

7 months

@ITYSL you gotta be right next to it for it to look real

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Finally, verified on Twitter

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

It's rare that this week's meme and this week's newsletter fit so well together. Like a beautiful eclipse

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

2 years

We are in the funniest timeline

Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin Outbid a Group of Crypto Investors for Copy of U.S. Constitution

The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, which he plans to lend to a museum in Arkansas.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

I audibly gasped

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Six lessons from my first six months at Shopify: -Learn leaders' "operating philosophies" -Conway's Law -Well-intentioned damage -The benefits of "secondary" talent markets -There is so much software -Accelerate transfer learning by 10x whenever you can

Six Lessons from Six Months at Shopify

I’m now six months into Shopify. So far it’s going basically on schedule: as I was told, “Your first couple months you’re going to have zero idea what’s going on. Then around month three you’ll com…

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

“Everyone’s job is sales” is good advice, and we can even update it: “Everyone’s job is world building.” It’s not enough to tell a compelling story; you have to build a world that other people can explore and build without you needing to even be there.

World Building

You’ve probably heard a familiar piece of career advice: “Everyone works in sales, even if they don’t realize it.” This is good advice. I want to propose an updated version for today: “Everyo…

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

One of the biggest mysteries today is the Profit Epidemic. Starting in the 80s, companies everywhere became much more profitable. And we have no idea why. But what if the answer was: a chemical contaminant? Time for a thread: 👇👇👇👇

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

This is a top 5 reply I've ever seen on Twitter, all time (screenshot before comms team immediately makes him delete it)

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

The best trick VCs ever pulled was calling it “valuation”, and not “price”

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Expert level troll

SEC Investor Ed

@SEC_Investor_Ed

3 years

What exactly are bonds and how do they work? We’ve got a 30-second overview 👇

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

In 1716 I got a call from John Law. His gaming startup, France, had failed. He seemed gutted. They had burned through millions and laid off their entire staff. He had an idea he wanted me to help with. A last ditch effort to get his investors money back...

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

@profgalloway

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Had my first Zoom with someone on Starlink today. Felt both totally unremarkable, but also like a pretty big deal

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

This is it. The perfect meme. This can never be outdone

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@mort

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

You know what word / concept has completely lost its usefulness? “Flywheel”. It briefly was a neat way to understand businesses with unappreciated positive feedback loops. But now we just slap everything we can think of on paper, draw arrows everywhere, and say “flywheel”

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Big “VC who first looked at the deck 5 minutes before the meeting” energy here

Dan Wilbur

@DanWilbur

4 years

This photo is incredible. You can see the idea percolating in his mind. “Why has no one thought of this. The answer is right in front of us. I will say it. I’ll be the hero we need.”

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Quantitative Cheesing (I’ll show myself out)

Bloomberg Law

@BLaw

4 years

Chuck E. Cheese asked a bankruptcy court to allow them to destroy 7 billion paper Prize Tickets that have built up in the company’s supply chain as a result of the pandemic.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

My wife, very not-in-tech, looking through baby stuff: “Why are there so many unicorns now? When we were kids, maybe you’d see one once in a while. But now they’re just everywhere.” Me, in my head: don’t say it. Just don’t. It’s not worth it. Do not get started on this. Just

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

So I wanted to buy a new car, right? Like an SUV? So I made a DeFi loan putting up crypto as collateral that actually - wait, you know what cryptocurrency is right? Okay wait, wait, hold on. So imagine, okay, you’re a general and there are other generals but you don’t trust them,

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Nooooooo

Scott Galloway

@profgalloway

3 years

A herd of unicorns is at the stable door, looking to trample Wells Fargo & Chase. Fintech is responsible for roughly 1 in 5 (17%) of the world’s unicorns, more than any other sector.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

One good part about being in Canada during the pandemic: Margaret Atwood writes the op eds

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@Alex_Danco

4 years

Farta

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

5 months

@BrantlyMillegan @pmillegan @morebang69eth @Shopify I am pretty sure we could get this built in a hack days - length period of time

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

New Thanksgiving blog post: how Angel Investing for Social Status is a core part of the SF tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities as they try to grow their own tech scenes.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Every detail coming out of this conference is somehow Just Right

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

I knew it! I KNEW it

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

@HipCityReg Product < Market < Fit

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

5 years

Congrats to founders on selling the business after 7 years of hard work: ▶ 🔘─────── 00:02 Reminiscing on how radical the idea felt back then: ▶ 🔘─────── 38:07 Thanks to investor 2 social tiers above me for sending me the deal: ▶ 🔘──────── 2:58:47

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Yes, saved you a click

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

If any of you send me money with this new tip thing and cause me to have California income this tax year I swear to God I will hunt you down

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Two things can be simultaneously true: 1) clubhouse does seem to have captured something special and magic 2) I have absolutely zero desire to join

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

No one has ever produced this much alpha on an absolute value-adjusted basis

Pivot Podcast

@PivotPod

3 years

. @profgalloway predicts that Alibaba’s stock is going to have a great year: “I think it’s at $300 by the end of the year.” Listen to Pivot:

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

2 years

@cdixon

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

You gotta hand it to fortnite, they’ve really got skins in the game

Fortnite

@FortniteGame

4 years

Epic Games has defied the App Store Monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Visit and join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming "1984"

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@Alex_Danco

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Big Tech Alert

@BigTechAlert

3 years

👀 @chamath (CEO of @SocialCapital , Chairman of @VirginGalactic ) is no longer following @TheStalwart

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

1 year

@nytimes Can you just try for one day, just one, to not do this

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

@mcmansionhell Not sure if this is counts as a conspiracy theory or just "is dumb", but I heard once that Open Concept rose to cultural prominence because HGTV won't air anything that doesn't involve hot people awkwardly swinging sledgehammers, which is the only watchable part of their shows

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

No one will ever write a joke as funny as this exchange

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

@chetanp It baffles me how “the future of work is we default to in the office 1-2 days per week and work from home 3-4 days per week; therefore, you still need to live in a city; you just commute less” isn’t a more mainstream take

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Stop this. Stop it stop it stopitstopitstopit. This is so frustrating

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

One of the weird side effects of 100% remote work is that we lose the signalling and "seriousness" of business travel as a way to confer priority and legitimacy. It's much harder to buy your way into someone's schedule now.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

I, too, love to publicly shit on founders but also carefully make sure to specify that they’re a *New York* founder in order to stay in good graces of the SIlicon Valley social contract

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Top shelf meme potential

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Get em tiger

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

The U.S. shouldn’t bail out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says. “Who cares? Let them get wiped out.”

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

8 years

This week's earnings calls, in emoji: Facebook: 💻📲💰 LinkedIn: 📉💀📈😂 Apple: 🎉⏳⌛😒 Twitter: 🐦🌀😨 Amazon: 🕸🔥🔥🔥

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@Alex_Danco

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

2 years

Hey everybody! Over the past six months, the blockchain team at Shopify - along with some awesome app partners - have done some pretty incredible work to bring tokengated commerce to life. Here’s what’s up:

Build for Blockchain Commerce | Shopify Blockchain

Discover robust APIs and components to develop advanced token-powered experiences.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

@craigmillr Computer, enhance

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

@patrick_oshag Two years of blog posts that went out to 8 subscribers

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@Alex_Danco

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

5 years

Hi everybody! Some news: I'm writing a book. It's called Scarcity in the Software Century. You can find out more here:

I'm Writing a Book, and I Want Your Help: Snippets 2, Episode 8

Snippets 2, Episode 8

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@Alex_Danco

3 years

@thetimes

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@Alex_Danco

3 years

@patrick_oshag 2022 weddings / venues

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

I dunno about all of you but I grew up here

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@Alex_Danco

4 years

A short thread on something that happened in plain sight over the last decade: the transformation of (some) VC dollars into "production capital", as Carlota Perez would call it. 1/

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

Spotify might be the lowest appreciation/magic ratio out there. “What if the radio was always good” for $10/ month. Dang

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe Our cat Rambo (shown below in her natural state) protects us fiercely from the pit bull next door - one time she successfully chased him (who was briefly off-leash) and cornered him under a truck. Poor dog was scared to death. We were very proud.

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

6 years

Why is Palo Alto barbeque taking over the world?

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

I audibly gasped in my living room when I heard this

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

4 years

“Bitcoin is digital gold; ethereum is digital oil” is looking better by the hour

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@Alex_Danco

3 years

Most people will tell you that the point of conversation is to exchange information, but the real point is to discover things that neither of you knew before

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Alex Danco

@Alex_Danco

3 years

Christmas conditions: ideal