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finally, a sane person

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toilet seat or toilet seat + airpods pro

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absolute gigadad next to me on the plane has been looking at photos and videos of his wife and kid the entire flight

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humans: can shoot protons through our bodies to cure cancer also humans: skip the 13th floor

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60 minutes for $5,000. I have never been more bullish on interest rates coming back down. Track this

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my story

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"I'm a 21 year old CS undergrad at Stanford leading the entrepreneurship club, what should I do to advance my career?" how about this, go smoke a blunt and make out with someone at a party

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everyone across the company should learn SQL so they can all query the wrong undocumented tables in the wrong way and get the wrong information

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3 years

silicon valley did not make nerds cool - it just made them rich. few understand this.

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thinking about this guy on linkedin who manages to tie literally everything he says to the fact that he cut his pay to only $1M a year so he could pay his employees $70K

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I quit my last job because they refused to provide us with warm eucalyptus towels in the morning at the office

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is forbes 30 under 30 a dating app

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the hot path for new grads: CS at mid tier university, entry level role at fast growing Series B startup with meaningless equity grant, stay for two years and impact absolutely nothing, join mid tier VC fund and tweet about career growth

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tech people literally call talking to people "community"

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*deep breath* for the past 5 years, tech companies have treated content writing as a second class $60K job and now are running into an existential crisis as they've realized that content is critical to their success and even harder to hire for than engineering

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i really hate to say it but SFO might be the best airport in the country

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bro stop saying "frens" you're 31 lol

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cdc has announced that you can stop naming your startup with something that ends in -ly

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thinking about the people who put in 4 years at a startup only for it to get acquihired or whatever, options worth almost nothing, all comp ended up being cash, which probably wasn't amazing. happens more than you'd think

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you're working in tech because you failed at being creative

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You’re doing sales because you failed at marketing. You’re doing marketing because you failed at product.

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Buffett and Munger are just Naval for older people

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too many people are talking about maximizing sleep, cutting out alcohol, taking supplements, they're minimizing screentime...why? so you can work on your stupid little app? so you can run 5K twice a week? if you're going to restraint-maxx at least do something noteworthy

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2 years

im so fucking tired of having to click multiple times when i buy something online. is anyone working on solving this?

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3 years

if you work at a startup and want to get promoted, just say any of these things in a meeting: - "we don't talk to our users enough" - "what's the impact of this?" - "we need resources for this" - "i was thinking about this over the weekend" trust me, instant promotion

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this year, i moved to california to work at a tiny startup. happy to say that it is no longer tiny!

Retool Nears $1 Billion Valuation With Funding From Sequoia

Retool, Inc., a startup that’s less than four years old, is worth almost $1 billion after raising money from some of Silicon Valley’s top investors including Sequoia Capital and executives from...

www.bloomberg.com

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founders, remember: the single biggest issue facing humanity is the lack of good note taking apps

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4 years

there are too many MBAs with no actual tech experience working at and running venture funds

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@demiurgently

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everyone in tech be like "i'm curious" well damn why don't you be curious about how to buy clothing

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4 years

justin's rule: all no-code eventually converges to yes-code over time basically, at some point the UI becomes so unwieldy and hard to use that SQL is a superior UX

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Databases are getting an upgrade today 🚗 → 🏎️ Create super specific database views with nested filters. Combine AND and OR logic, and nest up to three layers deep! Learn how here:

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2 years

elon musk on a podcast talking about the meme that i made and he literally stole lmao

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4 years

my hell in 2020 will be me in san francisco, being forced to wear allbirds and lululemon pants, sitting on a beanbag chair, and listening to podcasts by 28 year old founders about distribution, completely sober

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SQL for the rest of us: a complete, practical beginner's guide to SQL and being a useful data literate teammate

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5 years

I don't have imposter syndrome, I'm just literally not qualified

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mate you're not "building" you're sending emails and assigning Asana tasks

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thinking about the worst advice i've gotten in my (short) career, "being a generalist" is probably the most destructive thing i was told. actively set me back my a couple of years

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VCs when they see a company in developer tools

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what's your side chill? tired of side hustles

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3 years

i broke down the whole analytics stack (what your data team is using), from segment to data warehouses to dbt to kafka. give it a read and let me know what you think

Technically: the analytics stack

What your data team is using: the analytics stack

technically.dev

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3 years

After 17.5 amazing years, today is my last day at Stripe.

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designers: it's so important to have empathy for everyone and be kind. i have 13 plants also designers: lmao this app is so shitty what losers designed this shit lmao

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this was fuckin difficult

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make fun of VCs all you want, if you could be a GP at benchmark at 29 you would do it

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the reason that klarna and affirm exist is because DTC brands have convinced millennials that it's normal to spend $2,000 on modular bookshelves

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you say you are "building" but you: - can't code - can't woodwork - can't weld - can't sew - can't operate heavy machinery so what are you even doing?

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l*cy guo was created by gpt3 as part of a master plan to coax out all of the tech simp betas from their subterranean hiding spots and expose them to the world

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without a doubt, at every startup I've worked at, the first bizops hire is the beginning of the end. it's the biggest possible signal to get the fuck out of there, because in 2 months some kid is going to be asking you to fill out an OKR spreadsheet

BizOps: What It Is, and Why Early-Stage Companies Should Hire For It

Emergence is a top enterprise cloud venture capital firm. We fund early stage ventures focusing on enterprise & SaaS applications. Emergence is one of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley.

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3 years

wut

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if you saw Snowflake's S-1 and you're wondering what the hell they do, i've got a thread for you 🎶 Snowflake is a managed data warehouse. Data teams pay them to take care of storing analytics data so they don't have to deal with managing infrastructure

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2 years

99% of people should have read-only access to the internet

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robinhood is just a social media app for r/wallstreetbets

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there comes a time where every B2B startup realizes that they don't make money off of $5/mo plans from hobbyists, and pivots to try to get those users to get locked in and then bring the product to work

Notion

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🤘 Starting today, Notion is free for personal use. We used to have a storage limit on our free plan, but no more! Everyone should have access to our tools to create what they need. Write, plan, and get organized at .

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the kids are alright

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4 years

more people offering help with YC interviews than people interviewing for YC

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substack had a bug that double (yes, 2x) counted views on posts for what i think has been multiple months, that they just fixed / told writers about today. so view numbers have been off by 2x for as long as i can remember. unreal

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The reason for the call today, John, is something just came across my desk, John. It's a cutting edge high tech thing. You'll be buying photos. Digitally, John. Right now, John, this stuff is trading for almost nothing. But my Twitter feed is telling me it can go way higher.

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she's not my girlfriend, she's my limited partner

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First day at the McDonalds drive thru tomorrow. Super pumped to change the way people eat, and learn from a stacked team 🚀🚀

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people want to hire rockstars but pay them like backup singers

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people with 237 followers tweeting threads every single day about their business that nobody cares about - we salute you

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well, I finally made it into Stratechery. guess i can stop writing now. thanks @benthompson

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if you're making $200K/yr you do not need to think about credit card points

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where were you when they came for new york as a "drinking city"

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@elonmusk at least tag me bro

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Congrats to all of the PhDs graduating today - excited to welcome you to Data Science in a year after you can’t find any jobs

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holy shit

Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet

Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity provider, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Auth0, a le

www.businesswire.com

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how does this place exist

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1 year

marc andreesseen isn't drinking alcohol because he wants a clearer head to enjoy his beachfront property in malibu. you aren't drinking alcohol because it gives you more energy to use zapier to automate your housecleaning. you are not the same.

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every day, there are men in silicon valley who have made more money than most of the world could dream of. and yet, rather than enjoy their creature comforts – a nice car, a good meal, a private island – they seek more work, better titles, a "new adventure"

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if you've been seeing @Plaid in the news and wondering what they do, i wrote a basic explainer

What does Plaid do?

Technically begrudgingly tackles Fintech

read.technically.dev

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3 years

no, it's not time for a thread

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Also this is just a fun little detail but. I'm 100% sure that this platform ("intro") has artificially written "sold out" on arbitrary time slots to convince the visitor that this hilarious product is somehow "selling out" Just imagine the poor engineer who had to implement this

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4 years

ok this is a new one for me

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big "eating the chip on my shoulder" moment for me today - my newsletter is now making more money than i did at my first full time job (which was at a VC fund, funny enough) thank you to all my loyal subscribers who for some reason continue to give me their money

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3 years

at this point in my career i am 90% sure that goal setting and OKRs do way more harm than good and should basically be abolished

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4 years

Most of my twitter feed is pretty normal but every now and then someone I follow who works in crypto will be like "the governance of flozorbs is based on a decentralized community of protocol bearers called finglons that vote in a flurpee to allocate binzips"

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MY TOP 20 BARS IN AMERICA 2023 in no particular order because that's silly 1. sunken harbor club (bk) 2. attaboy (nyc) 3. fresh kills (bk) 4. grand army (bk) 5. the long island bar (bk) 6. true laurel (sf) 7. abv (sf) 8. hello marjorie (des moines) 9. the dead rabbit (nyc) ...

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The thing I understand even less than complete Lambda School fanboys is people who seem to want it to fail. Like, all things equal, yes I'd rather there be reasonably priced life changing education out there

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this company is going to be large

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this is so unbelievably sad

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