Imran Khan @dottkhan Twitter profile

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Biggest hiring lesson for start ups I learned: Be very careful when you hire fancy execs from big companies. They often can’t deliver results under constrained resources. What makes you successful in a big company is very different than what makes you successful in a start up.

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Imran Khan

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✋ Directly or indirectly helped create 1000s of jobs by founding Verishop, growing Snapchat sales to $1 billion from 0, advising countless companies. Paid nearly $100 millions in taxes. It’s OK to have a policy debate re: immigration, but it’s NOT OK to spread a false narrative.

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Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong.

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1 year

We cut our SaaS expenses by over 50% and have reduced the number of SaaS vendors by 66% over the last 12 months for one our companies. Don’t see a negative impact in the business from these cuts. Everyone should check their SaaS expenses and make sure they are spending wisely.

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Today @lindayaX spent the morning with us at this year’s first Khanference and we had a wonderful conversation. Here are some facts that Linda shared straight from the heart of the platform:

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1 year

Devastated to share that my dad has passed away. He was a loving father who always stood by me. I will miss him deeply. Love you abba❤️

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@dottkhan

2 years

It was great to be with my dear friend @John1wu and @el33th4xor at the Avalanche Summit. Congrats team organizing such an awesome conference.

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@dottkhan

11 months

After spending a day In SF, I realized I need to start spending more time here. AI revolution is happening here.

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@dottkhan

1 year

If you scale a money losing business then you only scale your losses. The idea that if you build and profit will come is often fantasy.

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1 year

Lyft Revenues (Billions)... 2022: $4.10 2021: $3.21 2020: $2.37 2019: $3.62 2018: $2.16 2017: $1.06 2016: $0.34 Lyft Net Income (Billions)... 2022: -$1.58 2021: -$1.01 2020: -$1.75 2019: -$2.60 2018: -$0.91 2017: -$0.69 2016: -$0.68 $LYFT

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Imran Khan

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3 years

My parents got vaccinated 3 days ago in Bangladesh. My dad had light reaction (low fever) and mom had no reactions. Both feeling great now and looking forward to their second shots. So happy 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽. Looking forward to seeing them soon.

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4 years

Verishop turns 1 today. We now have almost 600 brands and close to 10,000 product choices. Yesterday’s order volume exceeded Black Friday by more than 40%. Nearly 1/3 of our volume came from repeat orders. This year we are focusing on making shopping fun.

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@dottkhan

5 years

Excited to introduce Verishop, our new e-commerce venture that we plan to launch later this year.

We’re Verishop, a new kind of online-shopping company

When was the last time you enjoyed online shopping? Truly shopping — browsing, discovering, getting inspired.

verishop.medium.com

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@dottkhan

1 year

There are 1916 US public companies with over $1B market cap. According to Crunchbase there are 1440 unicorn companies currently.

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@dottkhan

30 days

I can buy world class public companies who will be incredibly benefitted by AI at 20x to 25x GAAP eps OR I can go buy some private companies with unproven management team who never made a dime profit but fly private jets at 50x revenue multiple 🤷🏽

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Dear venture capitalists: You're blowing it

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

Excited to introduce

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Imran Khan

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1 year

Over the last 18 months tech companies faced headwinds on 1) difficult COVID comp, 2) rapid rate increase, 3) Profitability headwind due to over hiring, 4) FX headwind & 5) Valuation reset. As we look @ 2023, it seems like many of these challenges are behind. Time to be optimist?

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

Today we launched “Shop Party,” a new feature in the Verishop app where users can hang out and shop with their friends online, in one place. You can finally go shopping with loved ones again. Online shopping doesn’t need to be lonely. Check it out!

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 years

Looking for entrepreneurial engineers and PMs for an exciting ecommerce venture. Any suggestions?

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

NPS is at 76🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

A new way of shopping....

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

In my 20s I learned from people who are in their 40s and now that I am in my 40s, I learn from people who are in their 20s!

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

This year was a great time for reflection and an opportunity to look at need around the world. Cate and I are proud to have donated $5M to charities addressing hunger, refugees, social justice, & education. Please join us in giving this holiday season. Every $ makes a difference.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

$snap announced today they have over 750 million MAU. Kudos to @evanspiegel proving all the pundits wrong who doubted him.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Just heard a decacorn company generated only $6M revenue last year. Many private companies valuation need to be corrected by 95%+ unfortunately.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Former Snap Executive Bets Social Shopping Will Finally Catch On

Verishop Inc., a startup led by former Snap Inc. executive Imran Khan, unveiled a new social shopping app on Tuesday that lets users buy clothes directly from their news feed.

www.bloomberg.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

At Verishop, we’ve embraced the shift to remote work permanently. Our corporate employees can work from home or their preferred location, and coming to the office will be optional. We are also hiring for our Growth Marketing team. DM me for more details.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Our family has a simple rule: Everybody shares responsibility and everyone has to contribute based on their ability.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

We will be launching our self service platform Verified Shop in September. DTC brands and small businesses will now be able to sell on our platform easily.

Verishop is diving into social commerce with shoppable videos, but experts say it will face tough...

Verishop is taking a page out of popular e-commerce outlets in China including Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo.

www.businessinsider.com

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@dottkhan

4 years

Excited announce Verified Shop. Now any brands can sell directly on Verishop via our self service platform.

Imran Khan's Verishop adds Verified Shops, a way for emerging brands to set up shop in its digital...

Verishop, the Los Angeles online retailer founded by former Snap executive Imran Khan, launched a little over a year ago to change the way people shop

techcrunch.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

I am proud of our small @Verishop team with big hearts. We as a team have contributed $50k+ to organizations on the frontline for social justice in last 7 days. In honor of #BreonnaTaylorBirthday Cate & I are giving $50K more to organizations that fight for equality.

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@dottkhan

4 years

Just watched Extraction a movie about a drug lord in Bangladesh. Finally Bangladesh is in Hollywood’s radar screen. It’s officially an emerging economy :)

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

So proud of our Verishop team!! Please try out the app if you haven’t done so yet!

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

Happy Father’s Day!! Miss my dad but loving my Father’s Day gift.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Last year a person reached out to me to be a consultant of Verishop and asked for cash and equity. I thought he was below average and didn’t hire him. Now he is inTwitter talking bad about us and attacking our former employee. So sad..

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Best advisor is someone who has best interest of yours in mind but doesn’t care about your feelings.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

We're here with a new way to shop.

Verishop, A New Way to Shop

Verishop is an e-commerce platform that enhances the online shopping experience by combining quality curation and advanced discovery– at the convenience you’...

www.youtube.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

7 years

Why close friends matter.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

11 months

Congrats @rabois and @openstore team on launching . We launched @verishop to support independent and emerging brands grow. We believe these small businesses are not getting the attention they deserve and so great to see @openstore effort in this area.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

First day of in person school today! Anxious and excited at the same time.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Retail media will continue to be a key driver for digital ad growth in the next few years

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

2 years

My daughter is tracking inflation of my Diet Coke 24 pack price. Time to give up caffeine

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

Verishop 2020 NPS: 73

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Limiting access to a qualified talent pool will only make our country weaker...and its a bad public policy.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

Excited to announce that we have videos on our product pages at .

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Getting ready for #shoptalk2023 interview. Come say hi if you are here.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 years

So excited to welcome Kristen to the Snap family.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

Immigration is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.

Vala Afshar

@ValaAfshar

3 years

Ronald Reagan's (born Feb 6, 1911) final speech was a love letter to immigrants: 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. We draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world.'

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1 year

We need system wide protection for depositors. We can not ask average person to figure out the financials of banks. I have 22 years finance experience and still don’t understand the bank balance sheet. We can not expect average citizens to be bank analysts.

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@dottkhan

4 years

A brand is a promise. We are excited to give brands the opportunity to tell their stories on our platform. Lot more work to be done but happy to get started.

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@dottkhan

5 years

So excited to have Alex on the team!

Alex Barinka

@alexbarinka

5 years

I’m so pumped to say I’m joining Imran Khan’s new e-commerce company as Head of External Affairs. The team is fabulous, and I can’t wait to help build something new that I’m so excited about. Watch this space, y’all.

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@dottkhan

5 years

I’m excited to say fashion pioneer Steven Alan will be working with our retail team to help bring the best brands to Verishop

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

First night in Dallas. Excited to call it home.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 years

😂😂

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Things are never as good as people think and things are never as bad as people fear. It’s important to seek the truth which is often in the middle.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

8 months

- People are spending 14% more time on X, with a 20% increase consuming video

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Auditioning for the new role!!!

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

In the last 5 yrs, Bangladesh's per capita GDP has grown at a CAGR of 9.1%. Bangladesh is set to post the highest per capita GDP growth rate in South Asia and the 4th-highest in the Asia, comfortably ahead of India and China, according to IMF.

Bangladesh set to surpass India in per capita GDP

Bangladesh is set to surpass India in terms of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 thanks to robust agriculture production, exports and remittance despite the coronavirus pandemic, in

www.thedailystar.net

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

7 years

Excited to introduce Promoted Stories, our newest ad format

Asos and HBO trial new Snapchat promoted stories with Black Friday campaigns

Asos and HBO have launched campaigns that take Snapchat's newly-introduced promoted stories ad format for a spin.

www.campaignlive.co.uk

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

2 years

In my career, I have seen 3 cycles: 1) Late 90s euphoria when people wanted to buy “future” at any price, 2) ‘02 to ‘08 when people focused on growth & profitability, 3) ‘11 to ‘20 when people only cared growth. Now we’re entering 4th cycle: where people will want rational growth

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

A lot of companies fail not because they don’t have money but because they have too much money. Often too much capital too early breeds inefficiencies.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Southeast Asia today has $3.9 Trillion GDP and has total population of 689M. It also seems to offer some exciting growth opportunities. Reminds me of China early 2000s; Chart via Asia Partners.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Wow. At verishop we source products from Brands. No third party sellers and no counterfeits. Also 1 day FREE shipping :)

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 years

Excited about all the great opportunities the camera will continue to bring to advertisers.

Augmented Reality: Is the Camera the Next Big Thing in Advertising?

“Camera marketing” using augmented reality is a fast-rising wave. Marketers need to move quickly.

www.bcg.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

1 year

Everyone at the government who worked hard over the weekend to protect depositors deserves special thanks.

SVB, Signature Bank Depositors to Get All Their Money as Fed Moves to Stem Crisis

The Fed said it would make additional funding available to banks to ensure they have “the ability to meet the needs of all depositors.”

www.wsj.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

8 months

- Gen-Z is the largest and fastest growing segment -- almost 200 million every month

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

So excited for our iOS app.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

2 years

“Today is difficult, Tomorrow will be more difficult but the day after tomorrow will be beautiful” — One of the best advices I was ever given.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

Please to announce our partnership with @Affirm . Our customers can now have the option to spread out the cost of a purchase over three easy, monthly payments.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

We just launched Trending. A new way for our users to discover what other people are shopping. Check it out. Perhaps you will find your inspiration.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 months

Just experienced a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on the 37th floor of a Tokyo building. I can take off one thing from my bucket list.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

7 years

So excited.

Snapchat’s Bitmoji avatars are now three-dimensional and animated

Move over, hot dog

www.theverge.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

3 years

Most shopped Black Friday items on Verishop: 1) Theragun, 2) SMEG and 3) Bala Bangles

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@dottkhan

5 years

Introducing our 2nd incubated brand Lett Clothing. So exited for Justine and Luwana.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

8 months

- Creators are a big priority for X. They've seen 10x increase in creators since June. Plus X has paid almost $20 million dollars to creators via its ad rev program

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

10 months

Excited to share that I’ve joined @Davebanking Board of Directors. Looking forward to working with the team to bring great banking products to more everyday Americans

Entities Managed by Imran Khan to Acquire 2.5% Stake in Dave via Secondary Market Transaction

/PRNewswire/ -- Dave Inc. ("Dave" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: DAVE), one of the nation's leading neobanks, announced today that Imran Khan, the renowned...

www.prnewswire.com

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

Thrilled to announce FREE 1 day shipping at Verishop. No Membership, No Minimum.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

Excited to launch our shoppable podcast. Please check out the picks from our guest Indie Lee, founder and CEO of Indie Lee. .

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Shopping should be fun and entertaining. Today we are releasing new Verishop app that make inspiration shoppable.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

Kids are now having Zoom birthday party!! A new generation is growing up with completely new digital experience.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 months

Imagine 72% of your workforce against you; 100% of your investors disagree with you. However you continue to do whatever you want because you think you are morally superior. That’s the problem in our country today. Small group of people will do anything in the name of their

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1 year

Spent a day at @GoldmanSachs private internet conference. Great investor turn out and had great conversations with a dozen multi billion dollar growth funds. I was quite surprised to see how engaged investors were despite difficult market condition.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

6 years

96% of Gen Z parents say their teens influence family spending.

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@dottkhan

8 months

- There’s a ton of activity on X -- with 100 billion impressions every day

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@dottkhan

1 year

If risk aversion was a stock, then it would be at 52 weeks high. Fear among the investor community feels real (or is palpable?)

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@dottkhan

4 years

Vote!!

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3 months

Wartime CEO is different than a peacetime CEO. Someone who is the ceo of a monopoly business may not do well when faces competition.

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@dottkhan

5 years

Ghost Democracy continues to win accolades!

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@dottkhan

7 years

Congrats to the Netflix team for creating an amazing AR experience. Very inspiring.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

4 years

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

5 years

We are looking for an entrepreneurial executive to lead our growth team. If you are looking for a new exciting challenge then please DM me.

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

10 months

I think there need to be a cap on how much colleges can increase tuition per year. Thoughts?

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Imran Khan

@dottkhan

9 months

Power of first party data and transaction level attribution capability👇

Trung Phan

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Amazon advertising has grown from $1B in 2015 to ~$40B in 2023. That's more than the *combined* revenue for Snap, Pinterest, X, Bing and TikTok. I wrote about how it happened (and how Amazon ads could challenge Google and Meta):

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7 years

Snapchat will let brands measure its ads’ impact on sales, results against rivals | MarTech

Snapchat is giving brands an apples-to-apples look at its ads’ bottom-line performance just before marketers map out their 2018 media budgets.

martech.org

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@dottkhan

7 years

Snapchat Show Earns First Emmy Nomination, For NBC’s ‘The Voice’

While the stock of Snapchat‘s parent has taken a beating this week, the messaging and media app got a tip of the hat from Hollywood with its first-ever nomination for an Emmy Award. The Snapchat Show...

variety.com

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@dottkhan

7 years

Every brand should think about their AR strategy.

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