Deva Hazarika @devahaz Twitter profile

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Deva Hazarika

@devahaz

4 months

Me: damn, $20 for a bag of macadamia nuts Zuck: each of my cows eat 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts a year

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George Soros with $7B apparently controls the global elites against regular salt of the earth folks like Elon with $200B, Kochs with $120B, Adelsons with $30B, and Murdochs with $20B

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Now that you mention it United, yeah lemme go ahead and get that $3500 ticket instead

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1 year

New Twitter CEO either far left woke globalist or far right anti-LGBTQ MAGA

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2 years

Startups are 2.8x more likely to fail if the CEO makes threads

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2 years

Shot / Chaser

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1 year

Jack Dorsey not standing up for the people and teams being raked over the coals for actions they took under his leadership is shameful

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@devahaz

4 months

Ok folks, we can all move on now — Bill Ackman has cleared this one up Claudine Gay: bad plagiarism Neri Oxman: good plagiarism

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@devahaz

4 months

No matter how people feel about Bill Ackman, I assume everyone will enjoy watching him burn Business Insider to the ground

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@devahaz

2 years

People should get tax credits for not owning a car

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@devahaz

6 months

Mira Murati career trajectory from 2012 mechanical engineering college graduate to 2023 OpenAI CEO is wild

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1 year

It’s absolutely stupid that if you have $2.5M the government insures $250k of your money if you keep it at one bank, but insures all of it if you keep it at ten banks

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@devahaz

2 months

For the “groceries are as expensive as ordering” people: Pork loin $1.97/lb Chicken legs and thighs $1.19/lb

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@devahaz

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People: how do so many second generation Indian/Asian immigrants make so much money? First generation Indian/Asian immigrant parents: no you will not be getting an English or sociology or philosophy degree, you will do engineering or accounting or biology and go to med school

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@devahaz

2 months

Huberman should do an episode on scheduling and calendar management

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@devahaz

6 months

Elizabeth Warren’s worst nightmare

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2 years

When the history books are written, will OPEC get the credit it deserves for legalizing marijuana in America?

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Trump thinking IDF is a fund is perfect

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@devahaz

5 months

Ribeye + crispy rice spicy tuna + yellowtail jalapeño + toro tartare w caviar + miso cod + tempura + lobster + wagyu + uni + toro + tip + tax = $955 on Doordash right now. For pickup. It's crazy.

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8 months

@tolstoybb I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the dispatcher’s plight in this particular situation

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@devahaz

1 year

The most talented, successful, and busy people respond to email instantly

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@devahaz

2 years

What if AOC and Elon really did start dating tho?

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@devahaz

2 years

Plenty of global elite billionaires influencing politics on the Left, but the idea that the political Right is not controlled by its own set of global elites has been an amazing marketing job orchestrated by a bunch of right-leaning global elite billionaires

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4 months

I see this happen all the time. People stop counting ski week to Tahoe and spring break to Hawaii as “real” vacations, those are just expected trips. $10k on clothes is just basics, they didn’t buy any “special” clothes. Just lose all appreciation for how great their life is.

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4 months

I actually think they're doing pretty well? - $1.5 million house - saving regularly - luxury vehicles - great childcare - 3x yearly vacations - twice monthly date nights - large charitable contributions - ample life insurance What are we complaining about?

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7 months

One thing a large chunk of American society hasn’t come to grips with is that many college degree office jobs are now lower skill and lower value roles than many non-college jobs

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6 months

I’m all for posting DM screenshots when people harass, threaten, etc Posting DMs otherwise is trash behavior

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2 months

One thing I admire about David Sacks is his consistency. Anytime the choice is between taking a) America or American ally side or b) Russia, China, or Middle East side, you can be confident he is unwavering about always choosing b.

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@devahaz

10 months

The “creator” who reportedly made the most money from the creator program doesn’t actually create anything, just reposts screenshots of popular content without crediting creators

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6 months

Nobody likes talking about what a waste it is to work at FAANG/BigTech more than people who gained financial security working at those companies and now make lots of money investing in people sacrificing financial security to pursue high-risk startup paths

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6 months

BREAKING: OpenAI expanding board to 5 members with new additions James Mattis and Henry Kissinger

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@devahaz

2 years

So much talk about “tech bros” and “VCs” and “progressive DSA leftists” in San Francisco, but it’s kinda weird that there’s also a whole powerful old-money society world in SF, like a parallel universe of debutante balls and endless galas and such

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1 month

@Duderichy Nothing says risk-taker like getting a PhD then taking jobs at Google and JP Morgan

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7 months

Loom just sold for $975M cash after about 8 years and raising a total of ~$175M, and TechCrunch thinks the CEO has to “put a positive spin” on the deal because their last round at market peak was at a little higher valuation — this is a home run startup outcome, period

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2 years

Web3 is gonna democratize access, power, and wealth through expensive exclusive clubs with first dibs given to elite insiders

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@devahaz

4 months

Hiring unqualified people because of DEI is bad, companies should not do that. But hiring unqualified people because they were prep school friends, frat bros, or B-school buddies is also bad. If it’s all about merit, should focus on all those HAF (hire a friend) hires too.

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2 years

My VC Twitter feed has people outraged at Fox, Murdoch, and Tucker for pushing white replacement theory and related content, but not at Peter Thiel for bankrolling politicians running on those same messages

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3 months

Before and after being caught in a lie

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Are you sure that’s the side you were on?

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2 years

Uber and Lyft then vs now are a perfect illustration of how much cheap capital and soaring valuations distort the true economics of businesses

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@devahaz

3 months

These guys became billionaires doing nothing but getting in and out of SNAP once a quarter

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@devahaz

4 months

Thanks to everyone pointing out Zuck isn’t paying retail for macadamias and is getting them for “free” after buying Hawaiian land and planting and tending macadamia groves. I should have done that instead of paying grocery store prices! Also I’m now an expert on macadamia meal.

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2 years

High-growth startups with male CEOs are never a shitshow internally, never have favored in-groups of founder pals, never make terrible hires based on Google/FB resumes, always are great on diversity, always stick to super focused product roadmap, and always spend huge VC $ wisely

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@devahaz

2 years

Classic SF: bartender and patrons at place with $14 cocktails earnestly discussing how rich people suck

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@devahaz

2 years

Most founder and startup origin stories are totally made up

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@devahaz

9 months

Common characteristics: -Prestigious undergrad or MBA -Early career stint at “hot” company -No long tenure anywhere -Talks about prior employer successes as their own -Big into “personal branding” -Really into frameworks and playbooks -Never works with same founders/execs twice

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There are groups of people in Silicon Valley who end up turning a high level of self-promotion into failing executive role after failing executive role. 10 years of getting fired from extremely high-paying 9-12 month stints at company after company and retiring rich. Wild.

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1 year

20 years as engineer, PM, and exec at Big Tech companies, about half that time at Google. Dip into crypto for 3 year stint at Coinbase and cash out $100M at the peak. That’s how you do it.

Coinbase’s chief product officer will leave with a $105 million payday

www.dlnews.com

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1 year

I wonder if anyone has ever looked at an Airbnb, decided it was too expensive, booked a hotel instead, then just gone and stayed there without tweeting anything about the whole process

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2 years

Kind of amazing how many people on Twitter are experts on poker, Credit Suisse, and tactical nukes

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6 months

Adam Neumann incinerating ~$17B of other people’s money on his startup’s journey to bankruptcy and somehow managing to pocket 10% of that money for himself should put him in the capitalism Hall of Fame

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@growing_daniel

6 months

It’s insane that Adam Neumann is worth $1.7b. That’s like name on hospitals levels of wealth. Imagine getting hit by a car and they take you to Adam Neumann hospital and you have to die at freaking Adam Neumann hospital.

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9 months

Unpopular opinion: Uber SHOULD be really expensive

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8 months

I'd pay $20/mo for a feature that kept posts like this from ever appearing on my TL

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5 months

Most people have absolutely no clue what it means to be truly academically elite, that’s why they sincerely believe generic pretty smart people are being screwed over by not getting into Ivies

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2 years

I wonder if some team of ex-Twitter people just raised a $50M seed round to build a competitor

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2 months

@vocalcry What if he has a very busy travel and work schedule and only has one free night every two weeks and always commits that to me?

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2 months

I don’t think a lot of people realize exactly how much extra UberEats and DoorDash tack on ($23 vs $41 for the same Chipotle double barbacoa burrito)

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2 years

@kane Google Meet (Taylor’s Version)

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10 months

San Francisco not turning Market Street from 4th to 10th into a crown jewel of a thoroughfare over a 20+ year stretch of immense prosperity is a civic failure of epic proportions

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5 months

@anothercohen I usually tip 10% on pickup but requiring it is ridiculous, that’s a service fee not a gratuity

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3 months

Facebook chart is so wild

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@devahaz

2 months

@mcuban “Will people who worked most closely to them come back to work for them.”

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The people who know Trump best won’t support him. Why should you? A thread

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5 months

It’s funny how class coded Christmas light colors are

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1 year

Over the last few years in tech a lot of people just assumed it was their right to become really rich without doing anything exceptional

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2 months

Lot of people dunking on this for many obvious reasons. But I sincerely have huge respect for people who just wake up one day and are like I’m bored of this crap, my new job is gonna be nuclear disarmament consultant and activist.

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“A world without nuclear weapons is totally possible,” says @Emma_Pike_ , a nuclear disarmament consultant and activist. She shared her thoughts with Times Opinion on TikTok:

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8 months

Big Banking got to her

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2 years

Lot of people really vocal against alcohol are surprisingly all-in on weed and adderall being awesome

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1 year

Doesn’t matter who you are, it hurts being left on read

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@devahaz

2 years

Absolutely horrible that MacKenzie Scott is giving away many billions to charity faster than anyone ever before without giving the proper cut to consultants and administrators

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4 months

@itswillbarry Just seems so pedestrian compared to munching on endless macadamias!

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1 month

@buccocapital Here’s some advice for this person. If you hate your job so much just quit and go do something you like more, otherwise stfu and stop whining.

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2 years

My very old-fashioned take is if you have a large audience and want to be taken as a serious, credible person, you have a responsibility to do at least a basic level of diligence before posting inflammatory claims. But I’m well aware that standard of care is long in the past.

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3 months

Gmail thing today showcases the widespread lack of the most basic of common sense and critical thinking skills

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5 months

Having hired and worked with many people from all types of academic backgrounds over a couple decades, the real top of the heap are public school kids who went to state schools undergrad (extra bonus if some community college in there) and later an elite graduate school program

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@devahaz

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Ok what’s the catch

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1 year

@Kenny___Rose Last flight I was on the exit row had three big guys jammed in so tight they couldn’t move. Flight attendant: that bag needs to be pushed all the way under the seat to keep the exit row clear lolllllll

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1 year

Becoming a decent cook is maybe the most bang for the buck life skill you can learn

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A New York 4.8 is like a San Francisco 7.5

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Perplexity is perfect if you’re looking for a combo of worse search than Google and worse chat than other LLMs

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@pmarca Once Zuck develops some EQ his business might finally start to take off

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Yeti pricing meeting: How much is the Lodge? $25 The fancy Lodge? $40 Stargazer? $145 Smithey? $210 What about the expensive enameled ones? Made In? $150 Staub? $220 Le Creuset? $250 Ok let’s go with no enamel and $400

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@devahaz

2 years

In 999 out of 1000 sims, everything worked out for Alameda, FTX, SBF. It’s unfortunate this run ended up going badly, but risk-neutral util maximization strategy required they do this to optimize the effective altruism. Everyone who lost money helped save many theoretical lives.

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@devahaz

2 years

@tomgara By 2030, 90% of US GDP will be newsletters and courses on side hustles

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@devahaz

3 months

Followed Eliezer’s advice and had this convo. I said 175%, she said 3%.

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in a world of greater legibility, romantic partners would have the conversation about "I'd trade up if I found somebody 10%/25%/125% better than you" in advance, and make sure they have common knowledge of the numbers

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@devahaz

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@anon_opin That attitude is what leads to this

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@devahaz

1 year

So many people these days have a complete lack of any intuitive sense for numbers, which leads to them believing all sorts of stupid shit that makes no sense if even a hint of critical examination is applied

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Good thing I don’t have Apple News+, I don’t even want to know

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@AmericaVaunted It’s stupid but you just gotta number them if you for sure want them answered: 1. Do you prefer we take the client out for dinner and drinks on Wednesday or Thursday? 2. Do you have a place in mind?

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@DanielleFong The correct answer is always the same

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@devahaz

5 months

Kinda wild how VCs were investing hundreds of millions of dollars into one-click checkout companies

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@devahaz

2 years

Props to Michelle for at least posting the update tweet

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@devahaz

2 years

VCs: if you can’t get a high quality direct intro to us from someone who can vouch for you, you prob don’t have what it takes to be a founder Also VCs: hey all my thousands of rando twitter followers, can someone intro me to x?

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@devahaz

1 year

These things always get resolved for people w/ large followings, tech friends, etc, but every tweet like this about Airbnb, Uber, eBay, PayPal, etc is a reminder how easy it is to be pretty arbitrarily banned from major consumer services in a way that didn’t happen pre-internet

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@devahaz

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The continuum from escorting to sugar daddies to regular dating keeps getting hazier

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Guys out here doing all this for ran thru puss Hoeflation is getting out of control

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@pitdesi Not just kids but all people who do drugs recreationally need to understand anything they haven’t tested themselves could easily be a death sentence, especially if doing it alone

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@devahaz

2 years

The worst recent era in bars was the fake speakeasy phase where you had to tell the door guy a secret password that was right on the fucking website

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@devahaz

1 year

The reason this recurring trope annoys me is it implies email responsiveness is the key to success, when what really matters is prioritizing what’s most important and getting it done — and for some people, yes that is indeed always responding to the most important emails quickly!

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@netcapgirl This will not do the numbers it deserves

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1 year

It’s kinda crazy how much right wing culture war outrage on Twitter is driven by this guy in Malaysia LARPing as a patriotic American

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@devahaz

2 months

@TheStalwart From 2011 article linked below

NFL Insider Ranger Man 🏆

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@TweetusChrist83 @GetOnTap @BNONews Yes, they do. Here’s an article from 2011 estimating the number of emergency landings due to maintenance is more than 1 per day. 2011. This isn’t a sudden occurrence.

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@WanderinPhil True but

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@KyleLogiks It’s the same quality protein being used at most of the places people whining about grocery costs are DoorDashing their food from

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@growing_daniel I appreciate everything you do for the cause of democracy across the globe

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3 months

Lyft first day close: $78 / $22B mkt cap Uber first day close: $42 / $70B mkt cap Market caps now $5B vs $145B Interesting how long they moved in sync directionally — until they didn’t

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