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John McCrea

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Internet entrepreneur since 1994. Doing brand-safe, non-hallucinatory Conversational AI since 2018 at . Trying to save democracy along the way.

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John McCrea

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True story: Harvard Business School rejected me in '91. When I got the news, I checked to see if they'd cashed my $100 application fee check. They hadn't, so I did a "stop payment". When they called, trying to collect, I suggested they could learn a business lesson from this. 😂

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(And I thank HBS now for that rejection that ended up helping me to say "yes" to Stanford GSB.)

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And to those voicing worries about my actions, I can assure that everything turned out fine. LOL.

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@titudeadjust I did M.I.T. undergrad and worked there after. The Treasurer of M.I.T. tried to convince me to go to Sloan, but I was not (yet) ready to even consider business school.

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@GeraldoRivera @realDonaldTrump @seanhannity I'm sure this will be your best work since Al Capone's safe.

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@JohnCleese I think you've lost the plot.

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@matthewamiller That's because he is a national tragedy.

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@DavidCornDC Gives new meaning to "viral video"

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@vgcerf Have you seen this? (For a slightly earlier milestone.) At an historic watering hole in Silicon Valley...

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@NewYorkStateAG I invented a cocktail in your honor this past weekend!

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@davidfrum Also, the ultimate penalty is not impeachment, it is death.

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@DonaldJTrumpJr You are such an idiot. Obama is a private citizen and cannot be impeached. Unlike your father, who is going down bigly within the next 12 months.

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@cnnbrk I don't really care. Do you?

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A must-read for entrepreneurs and investors: "The Blockchain Application Stack" by @jmonegro http://t.co/YZv7wOPudY

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@McFaul @Billbrowder It's like the Cold War, but with the leaders of the U.S. and Russia suffering from dementia.

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@levarburton Love you guys!

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@JohnLGC @RonanFarrow I live and work in Palo Alto. If you need anything on this @RonanFarrow , I'd be happy to help. Either way, I wish you speedy success!

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@AlanDersh Isn't that you? Why are you tweeting like that?

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Wait, I thought CNN was fake news?

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@kevinroose @oliverdarcy The Bitcoin scam may be a head fake, with the real target being Biden's DMs.

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@markberman Shark-involved *chewing* incident

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@JWGOP He's being blackmailed.

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@PreetBharara It's a full-on mental breakdown. Conscience of guilt.

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@RudyGiuliani @realDonaldTrump You will die in prison.

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@realDonaldTrump With all your practice, one would expect you to be a much better liar.

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@AdamKinzinger Yes, and the use of the "overturned" kinda ties it all in a bow.

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@Interlingua3 @mehdirhasan I know! They rejected me so quickly that felt that hadn't even read my essays.

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@BrianRoemmele This being is over 1,000 years old

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@PhilArballo2020 @DevinNunes I'd like to offer you some Silicon Valley help. Who is running your digital? Thanks!

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@BirchandMaple @JWGOP Who knows? But pretty clear someone is forcing him to act in opposition to his beliefs and against his long-term best interests. I assume something worse than pee-pee tapes. Recall the Russians hacked the RNC, too, but never leaked what they got.

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@NormEisen Duly noted. Thanks for helping us navigate Trumpgate. I suspect when all the facts have come to light, this will be the biggest scandal in the history of the Republic.

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@realDonaldTrump Lock him up!

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9 years

"When one car learns something, they all learn it. That is beyond what other car companies are doing."

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ATX Therapeutics

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How Tesla is ushering in the age of the learning car http://t.co/SXj57DxJSD #SmartCar #IoT http://t.co/KihlUzf4xK

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Was always skeptical of sending raw materials to China & finished goods back across the sea:

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Those horrible iPhone manufacturing tasks that were such the outrage? Many are now being done by robots:

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Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots, according to Chinese media reports.

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Given the strong response, here's one last (higher res) pic from yesterday's @HawaiiFive0CBS shoot http://t.co/rUCmoPVgnZ

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@ChuckGrassley A President under investigation for conspiring with a foreign adversary to influence the outcome of his very own election should not be allowed to place someone on the Supreme Court. Let's stop this process until the investigation concludes.

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F*&k, yeah! @bhorowitz on IPOs from hell, the power of profanity, and why he likes a good fight http://t.co/iMjJPdPxz6

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@kaitlancollins And he just got moved over to the Trump campaign staff, where you're expected to be a crook.

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@TheRickWilson "are"

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This resonates with me: Am I the only techie against Net Neutrality? http://t.co/6Y4kWGLqRD

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"A robber's decision to wear Capri pants..."

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Loving @aeonmag ; great article: Elon Musk puts his case for a multi-planet civilisation http://t.co/YuOpN1aUIw

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@RexChapman Actually the fucking greatest soundbite in history.

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Huge story getting little coverage. Turkey becoming dark, Stalin-like autocracy. Very troubling.

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@ddale8 Or, worse, throughout his life @realDonaldTrump has found that dogs do not trust or like him. (Can't say I disagree with that dog sense.)

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@LindseyGrahamSC @GreenvilleNews The tide is turning on this issue. I'm with the teen survivor activists. It's time to enact sensible gun reform. #NeverAgain

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@HotlineJosh My late father was a believer of many aspects of the conspiracy, but didn't know it by the name QAnon.

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"Anyone who bought a Tesla in the past year will wake up to a brand new, more capable system." http://t.co/kd8kKzFQbG

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"The science of business is the things that scale, the art of business is the things that don’t."

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"On Escape Velocity, Necessary Ruckus, & Working At The Edge Of Reason"

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@RudyGiuliani You're making a fool of yourself.

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OMG. It comes full circle!

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Love how Amazon is reinventing the very thing it killed: physical bookstores

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@DonaldJTrumpJr "A great gift for the conservatives in your life or to troll the liberals you love." It is all a grift.

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@AndrewYang That is not how it works. When the Watergate hearings were started, there was not solid support for removal from office.

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Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan shooting a scene of @HawaiiFive0CBS minutes before we headed to the airport http://t.co/tJ8ubruy2W

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@DemeryUK @otherin 1,221°F is the melting point of aluminum.

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"Ethereum is a block chain platform for transacting anything at all." http://t.co/hu9XMtszw0

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@JonLemire Note the carefully chosen tense in "If I wasn't President." Not "if I hadn't been President".

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@DonaldJTrumpJr @yoda I heard you got caught cheating on your country.

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@jonathanvswan Funny, I got there in late 2015.

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@Kasparov63 And the falling out of windows thing.

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9 years

Spot on. @cdixon 's latest post on virtual reality as a new creative meidum: http://t.co/IolWzhwDYp

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8 years

It was 26 years ago this week that VR blew up for the first time: cc @pmarca

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Listening to @tferriss on @garyvee 's podcast. Much inspiration. Thanks, guys!

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@business But what about legcount?

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Actually, this just happened under your father's presidency*

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@realDonaldTrump Thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey. From that one act and your lies about it, we got Mueller appointed Special Counsel. Enjoy!

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5 years

@attackerman If they keep dragging their feet, is there another path forward? A change of rules, perhaps?

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@binarybits Guessing this is less about supply chain disruption, and more about mostly homebound folks spending on things in their homes and their cars, rather than on entertainment out of home and vacation travel?

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Snort another line, Junior.

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2 years

So proud of how the team at applied software leverage to help elect Democrats and help save democracy in the 2020 and 2022 cycles. More big things to come:

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Digital Organizing Tech: 2020 Investments and Learnings

By: Vishal Disawar and Jeff Chang

vdisawar.medium.com

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No biggie, as he would probably not be allowed to tweet from prison, anyway.

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KT "Special CIA Operation"

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Progress 👇

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. @garyvee is back with @WineLibrary TV (10th anniversary!) and shocking admission, "I like buttery Chardonnays."

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@BrianRoemmele She even made it harder by doing it in a handstand rather than a "cobra" position.

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Check out Ted Terry ( @tedterry1 ), an inspiring candidate for U.S. Senate in the potentially flippable state of Georgia:

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Minh Nguyen: The co-founder who wasn't http://t.co/1T12yutMOL tip @techmeme http://t.co/cuDbmrTtbT

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Want to help flip the Senate? Please RT this link to Ted Terry's interactive Messenger experience: . Ted's an inspiring, progressive candidate in the potentially flippable state of Georgia. cc: @tedterry1 @jvn

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@Fahrenthold @Trump I think you may have forgotten that "profits" and Trump don't go together. The businesses are meant to produce losses.

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10 years

Another post from #20YearsAgo : "The big pitch to TJ and the exec team" http://t.co/uTQ9u4myX4 http://t.co/yWm2xMuu97

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"The world’s best-kept secret is that we live at a historic inflection point when extreme poverty is retreating."

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Everything is awesome http://t.co/QbsVSiBIRl (not sure this is that much of a secret. But then I read a lot of capitalist propaganda)

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@KFILE And running political ads to get the people behind ending a criminal investigation seems at least a bit justice-obstructionist.

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@gregolear There's still sentencing to come. And heading off to jail. More drama to come. :)

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I am beginning to believe that the curation of one's media sources is one of the most important forms of "intelligence".

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@nytimes It's almost as if we're living in a reality TV show.

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@AdamDraper @paulg That is surface-level analysis. 😂

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Toyota investing $1 billion in a Silicon Valley research company to develop AI and robotics #goodluck

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John McCrea

3 years

@waitbutwhy @JesseAbraham But taste is a combination of taste (sweet vs. salty, etc.) + smell. So, different "fragrance" = different "taste".

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@jonathanvswan Thanks for acknowledging the error re: "verbally resigned" vs. "offered his resignation". A critical distinction.

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@DonaldJTrumpJr @TrumpStore You're a grifter.

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2 years

The vote counting continues, but once again I think my midterm prediction (made in September on Facebook) is aging fairly well. (For context, I also predicted Trump in 2016, Blue Wave in 2018, and Biden + flip the Senate in 2020!) cc: @msnbc @cnn @foxnews

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@NPR Also, opioids can make you fairly loopy and out of touch with reality. #justsayin

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@benjaminwittes It's a Nunesburger.

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"This is the first time technology has made me feel this excited since I was introduced to the internet in '94."

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Gary Vaynerchuk

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You Should Get Excited About Virtual Reality. Here’s Why. — Medium

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"In 1951...he built the first learning machine, an artificial neural network built from vacuum tubes"

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@AleResnik @adamnash I'm with Adam on this. Raised our daughter here in Palo Alto. Zuck bought Girl Scout cookies from us at a table in Town & Country a decade ago. Ate in restaurants with Steve Jobs and his wife and kids. Friends' kids worked ice cream parlor. Your critique is puzzling.

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@Billbrowder I think they'll just talk about adoption.

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6 years

@AdamParkhomenko Far better than death by Polonium.

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@mattmfm And it's only Tuesday.

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@DemeryUK @otherin Excellent point.

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@mjs_DC @Popehat If it's what you say, I love it, especially later in the summer.

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