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previously many things | currently @buildyourcorner

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Joined July 2017
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@elizalian
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1 year
if every woman agrees to potty train their son to sit while peeing, we can completely eradicate pee covered public toilets within 2 generations. let that sink in.
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2 years
this is all you need to know about sf
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nyc is rich ppl pretending to be poor and la is poor people pretending to be rich
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2 years
the secret successful people don't want you to know? you can literally walk away from anything or anyone that doesn't make you happy and start over
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1 year
@Wilmographer this is the status quo and doesn't seem to be working
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twitter influencers went from "the world must be decentralized" to betting everything on a single company's API over night
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1 year
finance gets so many things right compared to tech: private work spaces vs open floor plan, suits vs athleisure, 60-100% comp in performance bonuses vs hyper inflated salaries = sharks vs whiny babies
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you're on hinge to date. i'm on hinge to acquire users. we're not the same.
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first time at the salesforce tower wework. immaculate. how did newman fuck up it up so badly?
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2 years
when will "unfucking the world for future generations" become an official VC investment category?
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2 years
web3 ppl are like "now, it's time to bUiLd 😤👌🏼💯" bitch what were you doing before??
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2 years
uber owns no cars airbnb owns no homes you own nothing your life is a subscription
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3 years
My company just announced the ban of all personal stock trading...in THIS economy???
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sf is normal ppl pretending to be god
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men used to build pyramids now they build b2b saas companies
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2 years
anyone who tells you to sell 7% of your company for $125k is an enemy, not a friend
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1 year
the 1st generation of social was built by intense technical founders because it was an engineering problem. now that apps are easy to build, the next gen will be led by empathetic and relatable founders because social is now an emotional problem.
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3 years
Finally hired an EA
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14 days in london and 5 days in paris: haven't used google maps or tiktok to find a single place. just roaming around aimlessly and using corner 🫶🏼
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6 months
sundays hit different once your cofounder moves into your back yard
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2 years
am I allowed to dm people saying I've clicked through 3 pages of their website and have no clue what their co does? is this socially acceptable?
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1 year
just learned you only need 5 ppl to curate the entire city of SF
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will never understand this new wave of thinking where people refuse to do any work unless compensated or demand to be compensated for every minute of work they've done so much of my personal growth and so many great relationships came from doing things for fun
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1 year
laid in bed after a night of casual drinking and decided i never want to feel drunk again. there's nothing more freeing than a clear mental state.
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sf is the only city in the world where people can't take a joke. addicted to virtue signaling.
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oversupply of venture capital is fucking up the talent pool. every 10x engineer wants to be a founder. who am i supposed to hire. WHO?
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the only effective way to give tech bros dating advice is comparing everything to running a company
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2 years
who in the world has ever raw dogged their profile photo. why does this option even exist.
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2 years
if you're a founder from outside of tech without a network, it's 100x better to spend a year building a network than building product
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1 year
dating has become so exhausting that ppl think marriage is akin retirement, when in reality, it's much harder to stay attractive to the same person for 60 years than it is to court someone when things are fresh and new
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them: you won't get 200 people in sf to dress black tie for a holiday party me: *gets 300 people in sf to dress black tie for a holiday party*
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2 years
gm to everyone except the people who take tweets too literally and ruin the vibes
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2 years
some of my favorite memories in college were late night study sessions with friends (11pm-3am). wish this existed for adult work sessions.
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@marketplunger1 this is why i'm on this app
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1 year
waking up after a night of not drinking is the best feeling in the world
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2 years
this was made with @felt (amazing product) but not sure if they want to be associated with this controversial map
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the bouncer from my college bar hasn't missed a single birthday since 2017. ladies: if he wanted to, he would
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sundays are for pumping yourself up for the week
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2 years
I have no idea what @Poolsuite is but this is the sickest corporation I've seen in my entire life
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YOU CANT SAY YOURE READING A BOOK IF YOURE JUST LISTENING TO THE AUDIOBOOK
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my mom (trad chinese housewife) doesn't believe in therapy so i decided to become her "therapist" we talk deeply about her present, past, and range of emotions as a 64 year old coming to terms with aging. i give her homework and she calls me whenever she has a big realization or…
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10 years from now, google search will be a fraction of what it is today. it will only be used for objective search (e.g. medical advice, how to fix a flat tire, finding the best plumber) all subjective search will be done on social platforms with hyper-personalized algorithms
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called my cofounder at 12am to talk myself out of an irrational decision and he gave me the most life changing piece of advice i've heard in a minute: don't take the stress from things out of your control out on the things within your control bless 🙏🏻
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3 years
convinced business insider articles are just headlines and no content bc literally no one pays for the subscription
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2 years
before becoming a founder, I thought there was nothing left to build. every market seemed over saturated. after becoming a founder and meeting other founders, I think it's insane I ever thought that. it's a crazy exciting time to be alive.
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MY CO-FOUNDER DROPPED OUT OF WATERLOO AND JUST MOVED TO SF. life is a dream. @jakexia27 ☁️😗✌🏻
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instagram is just famous people pretending to be normal people and normal people pretending to famous people
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@sonofalli we could start some women's social club around this cause
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2 years
climate tech bf, shien gf
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the real reason why poor people stay poor despite having "opportunity" is the amount of mental space being poor takes up and whether their parents shield them from this burden or offload it on them
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i love sf because every tech bro thinks they're giving profound product advice along the lines of "corner won't work because it's never worked in the past" and i just smile and go wow good point never thought of that before!
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@stubbornella shockingly, even this issue is rooted in our education system
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most highly stressed people i know would benefit more from a cleaner coming every week than therapy. cheaper and more effective.
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saying please and thank you to gpt just in case
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"vibe" has replaced 30% of gen z's vocabulary
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2 years
the ultimate act of love: making 15 blue bottle espresso martinis for your bestie's nye party
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I will not shake your hand. Hugs only.
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2 years
drop your favorite work spots in nyc!!! I'll make a map and share it :)
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I'd rather dedicate my entire life to changing one small corner of the world than spend it theorizing and having an opinion on every big, seemingly important issue
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seems like a good opportunity to get everyone's favorite spots in SF. drop your recs 👇🏻 especially for the boring and unmarked areas
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I'm convinced that your home screen says everything about you....post a screenshot and I'll reply with what it says about you
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some days i wake up in my gorgeous apartment, ready to work on things i never imagined id have the opportunity to work on, in a life a 1st gen college grad from bum fuck new orleans did not know was possible...and think wow life is unthinkably perfect. but other days fear i may…
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irl > metaverse @eade_bengard
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damn ppl actually use the app we built???
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2 years
mid white guy after seeing emma chamberlain's new home: damn if i knew, i would've been a youtuber! no, brad. you were meant to be a pm at google. you're right where you should be.
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1 year
non-technical founders: don't let your engineers gaslight you when investigating bugs. STAND YOUR GROUND. 😤
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@AnthonyKirlew Before this goes really south: I work at a fund of funds where we have access to tons of restricted info, so it's to prevent insider trading. Many financial institutions have this policy. HOWEVER, I don't think outright banning everything was the right move.
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the fastest way to lose twitter followers? remove all your bio credentials
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#1 sign of a dying social app? increasingly desperate notifications.
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sf petty crime is exhausting. mail and packages constantly stolen. was watching a friend's car and it was keyed. feels like death by a thousand cuts.
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my 12 yo neighbor locked herself out yesterday so we ate salt & straw on my porch and talked about school and her pet bird and it was the loveliest sunday ever
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6 users have asked to invest in corner. it's the best feeling in the world and there are no words to describe it.
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every consumer: *literally never reads a single piece of marketing copy* every vc: *invests in ai generated marketing that further spam peoples inboxes* *tweets about first principals investing*
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engineers after the gpt4 launch
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shocked at how many beautiful public spaces there are in sf. made a list of all of them below. 🥹🫶🏼
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you can go work here for free in downtown san francisco. the city arranges for these "privately owned public open spaces" which are basically free weworks but nicer
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2 years
stop asking people to workshop your texts. learn how to flirt or die alone.
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today, I choose violence
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3 years
Have you ever causally met with a VC and got CHILLS / nearly teared up? Mac. Is. Changing. The. World.
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Today @Cartainc announced their investment in @RarebreedVC . For more info, here is Carta's memo of our fund - If you are interested go to and click "Become an LP". Min investment is 25K that can be broken up over 2 years
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This pandemic was the craziest thing that happened in my life time. I have no desire to "get back to normal" because I'm an entirely new person with an entirely new take on life.
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big meme accounts just copy tweets from smaller accounts and call it a day
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guys, it's a joke. this is obviously not a viable user acquisition channel.
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i'm so worried about my cofounder. he codes until 3am and falls asleep in public spaces throughout the day. is this ok?
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why are you, a pre-rev start up, designing intricate micro interactions like airbnb, a $100b company?
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why is U2 so important? first predownloaded on every itunes account. now the first to debut the sphere. what is going on.
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@brookeleblanc i've been building this list for months! there are a few cafes open past 9pm + all of these hotels🙂
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the "oh that's a good idea" to startup graveyard pipeline vs the "that won't work" to unicorn status pipeline
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Japanese breakfast > American breakfast 🤤
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ft on @scrnshts_club . we have 0 designers on the team.
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people love asking "how do you handle rejection as a founder?" sir, i was rejected from berghain after standing in line for 5 hrs in 20 degree weather. no one can hurt me.
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@tanayj it's peak sf tech bubble but it's beautiful
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the #1 predictor of successful people: they either grew up ugly or faced significant trauma as a kid. brownie points if you had both.
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on GOD
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corner ios engineer has NO BUSINESS going this hard with the transitions 😰💦🍆
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in a fit of blind rage, i unfollowed everyone to try and redo my algorithm from ground up. now very much regretting it because it's the exact same feed. fml.
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street cred is earned (circa 2014)
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not surprised a part of tech twitter dislikes this. it's fun, fucking hot and most importantly, NOT TECH.
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sparkles are so last year. introducing the new partiful logo, for a new era of partying ❤️‍🔥
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the founder of soylent really launched a zynn competitor. he's out here building the ultimate startup founder survival kit.
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