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Jon Oringer

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Founder & Executive Chairman @Shutterstock — always bootstrapping

Miami, FL
Joined March 2009
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@roshanpateI @Katie_Roof Is the reach out AI generated?
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@InnaVernikov @IsraelWarRoom @cooperunion Why hasn’t MSM covered this ?
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I’m fascinated by the “building in public” phenomenon. Watching full stack independent devs like @levelsio and @dannypostmaa go from idea to MVP tweet-by-tweet is incredibly inspiring and has got me back to coding nights and weekends (👋🏻 @nuxt_js peeps).
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@lorakolodny @Keytothacity @roshanpateI @Katie_Roof Clearly ChatGPT is trying to blame Siri now .. @lorakolodny you have 2 factor auth enabled?!
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@IDF @nytimes time to correct
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@EMostaque @spawning_ @CommonCrawl Hey @EMostaque - at @shutterstock we would like to opt-out all of our contributor images from SD3. The URL and API you provide only allows this to happen one image at a time. Do you expect us to create 600mm api/web calls in less than a week? Will @spawning_ be ok with that?
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Jon Oringer
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. @TaliaOringer and I Just donated $100k to @UnitedHatzalah Who is joining @ericmreiner and us? #Isreal 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
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Why doesn’t China allow US businesses to operate in China? Why is this relationship one way? We allow them to go public on the US markets and operate here in the US… But as a US biz if we try to expand into China we get censored and shut down fast.
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TikTok Policy
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Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban:
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Shutterstock to acquire @envato ! Acquisition adds 20% to annual revenue and 15% to annual adjusted EBITDA.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
@damplik @fajartujuhbelas Is that a real wall in a real coffee shop?
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1 year
Ok.. @nuxt_js 🤯
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Jon Oringer
3 years
Imagine being an elected official and proud of doing this much damage to your state. Amazing.
@LorenaSGonzalez
Lorena Gonzalez
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@ramzpaul 🤣 you mean Elon Musk is such a snowflake he moved from California because I said a censored bad word about him? Wow, isn’t that weak.
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@EMostaque @spawning_ @CommonCrawl @Shutterstock why don’t we agree upon an industry wide robots.txt convention to disallow AI training using a domain and a wildcard - wouldn’t that be the respectable thing to do?
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Just another day: - SHUTTERSTOCK ACQUIRES @POND5 , THE WORLD’S LARGEST VIDEO MARKETPLACE - SHUTTERSTOCK APPOINTS PAUL HENNESSY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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Jon Oringer
3 years
Time to return to my startup roots. Who wants to create a biz? Thanks mentors : @HandlerRich @stanpavlovsky1 @kiwindian @DeirdreBigley and @wsj @JoannLublin
@JoannLublin
Joann S. Lublin
3 years
This is my latest ⁦ @WSJ ⁩ feature! Jon Oringer made nearly $50 an hour repairing home computers in high school. Now the billionaire founder of Shutterstock and serial entrepreneur says the time has come to return to his tech-startup roots.
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. @Shutterstock + @GIPHY — Welcome to all Giphy employees, their 1.7B daily active users, and 14,000 API partners!
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Where is our president ?
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Jon Oringer
1 year
People say that it was easier to start a company 10 years ago. In 10 years we will be saying the same thing about today.
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2 years
It used to be that when I wanted to meet somebody new I would look for a warm intro. Lately I just find their contact info and email them directly. Works better.
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@RashidaTlaib @POTUS Do you plan to correct this @RashidaTlaib ?
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@molly0xFFF At least they admitted they used it with a screenshot?
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All 3 had exactly the same message and pushed back on the questions the same way. They must have aligned on comms beforehand? Or did they just parrot the previous one and it turned into groupthink? Insanity - they all must resign.
@BillAckman
Bill Ackman
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The presidents of @Harvard , @MIT , and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The
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@elonmusk @zerohedge Well we just tested it
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Agree with this. .. here are a few visas to cancel :
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Ron DeSantis
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When I’m President, if foreign students are out there celebrating terrorism, I will cancel their visas and send them home.
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Jon Oringer
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@zerohedge We need to make nuclear cool again.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Shutterstock is donating $1mm USD to provide direct assistance to Shutterstock’s thousands of contributing photographers, videographers, 3D artists, illustrators and musicians in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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The world’s unstructured data is now available in a structured way.. this is insane…
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Hrishi
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This is the coolest thing we've ever done - and probably the least sexy demo This has been my white whale ever since the first release of WishfulSearch, to know if this is even possible. Let me explain - or you can just watch it work👇
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@Harvard She was very clear in her testimony to congress - it only matters if the calls result in action. President Gay must resign.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Shutterstock has always led with technology - and today we take the next step with our partnership with @OpenAI
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Jon Oringer
3 years
How it started in 1990, How it’s going in 2021:
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Jon Oringer
1 year
Current environment reminds me one again that bootstrapping creates the strongest businesses. Slow steady build. Learn from every single penny spent. Burn should be minimal. Every spend decision should be painful.
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Jon Oringer
3 years
It would be hard to cross this bridge without taking a picture.
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3 years
@Sigalow @Katie_Roof We took Shutterstock public almost 10 years ago. Different world now. More money chasing deals, more structures (spacs, direct listing, etc).. Today I would do a direct listing instead of traditional IPO.
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@EMostaque @spawning_ @CommonCrawl @Shutterstock Should be as easy as AI-agent: * Disallow: /
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Weekend reading. #QuantumComputing
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Jon Oringer
7 months
Agree.
@OliLondonTV
Oli London
7 months
Trump issues warning to pro-Hamas students: “If you sympathize with jihadists then we don’t want you in our country… I will cancel student visas for Hamas sympathizers on college campuses… come 2025 we will find you and we will deport you.”
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Jon Oringer
2 years
It’s time to make nuclear cool again.
@wolfejosh
Josh Wolfe
2 years
As WARNED 3.5 years ago… NOW—German “environmentalists” (the real threat to actual environment) politicall forced the shut down of stable ‘elemental power’ (fka nuclear)—handed Putin the leverage he sought––and now laughably have to restart…COAL! utter idiots.
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It’s time to accept nuclear.
@shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger
3 years
Progressives are mad that Sen. Manchin killed the climate provisions in Biden's budget, but they shouldn't be. The provisions would have increased electricity prices, blackouts, and emissions. Congress should pass nuclear-focused legislation instead.
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This is fascinating ->
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Aleksandr Volodarsky
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I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them. Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:
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Jon Oringer
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We need to make nuclear cool again.
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The fed may get the recession they have been trying to create - and at same time they may also destroy a large part of the engine that drives this country. We need to bail out SVB in a dilutive way that zeros out shareholders but instills confidence in our banking system.
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Full stack entrepreneur is the only way to go. Eventually delegate but get hands as dirty as possible for as long as possible..
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@levelsio
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I make $12,500 per day working on my own startups You play Half Life 2 in your mom's basement
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Jon Oringer
7 months
Universities that defend the actions of Hamas are about to learn where their funding comes from the hard way. @ProfKFranke and the 170+ @Columbia faculty who signed this letter don't deserve to keep their jobs.
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Katherine Franke
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The published version of the Columbia faculty letter supporting our students and the principle that situating the war in Israel/Gaza in the history of the region ≠ antisemitism, citing prominent authority for doing so, please go here:
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As the gap closes - what will be the point of being in the App Store and paying 30% ?
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Jon Oringer
3 years
Completely bootstrapped to $12B in 20 years - @benchestnut and @dkurzius are my heroes.
@axios
Axios
3 years
JUST IN: Mailchimp has been acquired by Intuit for $12 billion — the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding.
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. @NYTimes has zero credibility at this point
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2 years
It’s a new tech world.
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Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 – ⁦ @timoreilly ⁩ on point as usual.
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3 years
Amazing.
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Axios
3 years
JUST IN: Mailchimp has been acquired by Intuit for $12 billion — the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding.
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Jon Oringer
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Something huge is coming this week. In collaboration with @braddigital , Shutterstock is hosting an exclusive and immersive @ArtBasel Miami Beach event on December 1.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Shutterstock acquires Splash News! This acquisition brings our editorial newsroom to a total of 30 million images, with a live feed of over 40,000 images uploaded per day from a network of over 4000 photographers.
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Jon Oringer
1 year
Always hire this person on the spot :
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Akshay Narisetti
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This Project got me an interview at Google.
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Jon Oringer
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@StopAntisemites Hey @Citibank - you ok with this - she’s your full-time employee.
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2 years
What are we going to do with all of the GPUs?
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@AvivaKlompas
Aviva Klompas
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"The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children — they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences." Are we giving out awards for university's that give 🔥🔥🔥 statements? Because this one wins.
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Welcome @GIPHY !!
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GIPHY
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GIPHY is excited to officially be joining the @shutterstock fam! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 more to come, but check out more info on this exciting development here:
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Jon Oringer
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@WSJ @WSJopinion @AllysiaFinley How is it possible that this article even exists.
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Jon Oringer
3 years
Check out our new campaign. 100% Shutterstock.
@Shutterstock
Shutterstock
3 years
Turning your ideas into achievements has never been easier. What can you create with 100% Shutterstock?
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@Sigalow @Katie_Roof Why is the public market absorption rate only 100-150? Where is the bottleneck?
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Hey @ProfKFranke you may want to read this .. you aren’t helping your students with the example you set with your letter supporting Hamas’ attacks as ‘just another salvo’…
@Joelmpetlin
Joel M. Petlin
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Some of the largest law firms in the country have a message for the deans of law schools who have tolerated Antisemitic activities conducted by their students: If you want your graduates to get good jobs in our law firms, stop producing Antisemites.
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Jon Oringer
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Without a proper public Tether audit - how can anything in crypto be trusted at this point?
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@chrisfralic One is profitable- and has returned capital and a PayPal spin-out. The other hasn’t.
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@elonmusk Have you thought about changing the official company name ? Is the lease hardcoded to ‘Twitter’ or the business name.
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Miami: We need to help you step up your frozen yogurt game. Where is @Pinkberry ?
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I started Shutterstock with a shelf full of O’Reilly Cookbooks. If I had some extra free hours - this would be a fun one.
@OReillyMedia
O'Reilly Media
2 years
[NEW RELEASE] AWS Cookbook -- This practical guide provides over 70 self-contained recipes to help you creatively solve common AWS challenges you'll encounter on your cloud journey. #OReillyExperts #NewBook
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@pmddomingos We have no choice but to make nuclear safe.
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The New York Inaccurate Times strikes again
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Jon Oringer
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She wouldn’t say it under oath - but now wants to clarify it on a social network? Right.
@Harvard
Harvard University
6 months
Statement from President Gay: There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students. Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic
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Jon Oringer
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@wesyang @ProfKFranke and her gang of 170+ antisemites who signed the "salvo" letter need to resign. Furthermore, this shouldn't just be an open letter condemning the defense of Hamas. It needs to be a statement from @Columbia leadership on behalf of @Columbia university.
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Jon Oringer
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Bring back the native TweetDeck app! so much better than using a browser... cc @elonmusk
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Robert Scoble
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It is clear most people do not understand how I use X. I use X Pro. It looks like this.
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Jon Oringer
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Venture debt was never a good idea.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Yes.
@levie
Aaron Levie
2 years
It’s counterintuitive but raising less money will often lead to building a better business. It forces you to have constraints, which leads to more focus and higher quality decisions, which results in better products and more sustainable business models.
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Jon Oringer
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📣 🤖 Shutterstock introduces Magic Brush! - change an image using #AI by brushing over an area and describing what you would like to add, replace or erase.
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Jon Oringer
2 years
💯
@OrlandoBravoTB
Orlando Bravo
2 years
You will achieve better results by focusing most of your hard work on further building your strengths rather than on trying to improve your weaknesses. And you will probably be happier during the process as well
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Jon Oringer
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@HandlerRich Wow! Nice work.
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@stclairashley @alx @GavinElwes Is that truck right drive ??
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Jon Oringer
2 years
I need to meet this hamster.
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
2 years
A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June 2021 by running on a wheel & strolling through tunnels: in September it outperformed the S&P 500, its portfolio being up ~24% [read more: ]
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Jon Oringer
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@mikeeisenberg @nytimes @nytimes needs to do it’s homework first
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Jon Oringer
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Glad we are forgiving her student debt. What a great investment!
@NoahPollak
Noah Pollak
1 month
So the press conference jihadist is a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky (really) and this is what she's working on. Dying. Absolutely dying. Beyond parody. @TheBabylonBee couldn't top this if they tried.
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Jon Oringer
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The more I Twitter, the less I understand Twitter.
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Jon Oringer
3 years
If you are wondering where you can get the original image, here it is:
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@jonoringer
Jon Oringer
3 years
Our Pareto stealth NFT startup is looking for design partners :
@nadavbc
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
3 years
Looking for (1) gaming studios that want to build / merge their games with NFT technology or (2) marketplaces that want to add NFTs as an asset class and enable their customers to mint, store and trade digital assets. Intros would be much appreciated! @jonoringer @edwardlando
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Jon Oringer
2 years
Another @ParetoHoldings business making it’s mark in Miami.
@MariaDerchi
Maria Derchi Russo
2 years
Latest Refresh Miami News: Miami startup Runway Health making it easier, cheaper to get medicines before you travel #MiamiTech
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@jonoringer
Jon Oringer
3 years
. @braddigital is unique in his ability to reimagine iconic works of art; it’s been great to see him put his spin on the @ShutterstockNow archive. I’m thrilled to be here to celebrate this new era of creativity for @Shutterstock #shutterstockxbt #iconstransformed
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Jon Oringer
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@AvivaKlompas @ProfKFranke ‘just another salvo’ right?
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