Paul Griffiths @paul_griffiths Twitter profile

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Whole Foods is out here tearing families apart

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I'm building a team

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10 months ago I had 800 followers. Today I have 800 followers. Here are 11.5 tips to not grow a small account:

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Watching @elonmusk beam in to #allinsummit discussing if Twitter users are 5% “or 50%” bots & advocating for open sourcing the algorithm “I’m a moderate… It’s not a right wing takeover, it’s a moderate takeover.”

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Not a wordle, just a VC firm’s Our Team page 👨🏻‍🦱👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱 👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱👱🏻‍♂️ 👨🏻‍🦳👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱👱🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🦱

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Jared Kushner's VC pitch deck is 100% mid & as afwul as you'd expect, a 🧵critique from an LP of Affinity Partners PPT

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@US_Stormwatch Delhi: hold my beer

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2. Be funny, but not too funny. Write for a specific audience. Say, an 800 person audience.

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Bolt spent $20m / month to generate $2.4m in revenue & the former CEO was on this bird app giving bidness tips & visionary vibes, smh

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friday evening scoop: new details on the checkout startup Bolt's financials, including burn ($60m in q1 of 2022) and revenue ($7.2m over the same period). Bolt now aims to cut $200m in operating costs.

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1. Tweet irregularly. I find inconsistency is the key.

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@RobertKennedyJr Why would anyone do *eight and half* pushups?

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@Acyn What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? - James 2:14

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4. Find your niche Don't post about the World Series when you can post about the underwater Ukranian chess championships. Remember it's about the quality, not quantity, of followers.

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Beginning to think startup success is just a founder’s tenacity, willingness to pivot, & ability to acquire critical relationships (customers, employees, partners) as every pre-seed strategy has obvious flaws.

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11. Skip ahead to the end Narratives are overrated. Some times you can skip a few steps.

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12. Half-commit If a joke is only sort of working, don't be afraid to give up, you don't have to see

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3. Make threads Threads, like froot by the foot, are super fun to unroll. The best threads use icons. 😜😜

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LinkedIn is getting wild

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*you think you had a bad week?* someone accidentally spent $24.5m on ETH gas fees to send $100k⛽️ to himself 🤡 and the culprit? Javascript a rollercoaster of a thread on smart contracts, programming errors, and the power of community🧵👇

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Deep dive into Bolt Financial financials ⚡️💰🧵 Money raised, money spent, implication of loans 👇

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a short guide to NFTs for beginners - what all the fuss is about - how to get one - how not to overpay - why this is exciting from another newbie, let me save you money 🧵/1

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Size of average VC round funding: - all female-led teams, $6.8m - Adam Neumann-led team, $350m

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@jspujji @elonmusk Well: • costs not cut by 75%, at most 40%; plenty of other costs besides ppl (short term costs are up with severance) • no data to suggest team is 💯 aligned, many ppl stay in jobs (families, visas) w/o alignment • advertisers are spooked, pulling $$; Twitter Blue paused 🤷‍♂️

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A great life hack is being young, rich & attractive

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@sriramk @elonmusk So is explaining to your mediocre boss how the thing you built works in simple pictures. Hard to know which it is 🤷‍♂️

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Well @PalmerLuckey is going off on his treatment at the hands of @Jason and podfathers “Jason and the people like him are the reasons I was fired from Oculus. I am filled with rage about this. I always will be… Jason tried to poison me and my career.” #allinsummit

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@NikolasMeurett @RobertKennedyJr I did 3,000 but the camera dropped into the ocean and got sand on the lens

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Twitter: @Jason “is this deal going to get closed?” “how many bots? it’s a material adverse misstatement if they have been falsely claiming <5% bots but it’s 4 or 10x that amount. If I bought a house with 5% termites that’s acceptable… 90% termites u have no house.” @elonmusk

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I made 30 private investments this year: in 14 funds as a LP, 6 SPVs + 2 follow on rounds, 4 as angel, 2 from a squad, sourced 1 direct, & ran 1 due diligence for an angel group. If one of your goals in 2022 to be an angel investor, here's my story of how & why I did it🧵

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Top 🇺🇸 Midas List Investors Tweets on Roe v. Wade being overturned a (very, very empty)🧵

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@Lucas_Shaw “Taking it electric” is an especially grim & unfortunate metaphor but whoever penned this was really proud of themselves for this darling Well, that copy got punched up, I suppose

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@Jason You don’t know this, you can’t know “20 banks” Last night you were telling people to buy guns & stockpile food Serious people had serious conversations, closed door for a reason

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LP'd into a VC fund by sending this

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👀Why are Venture Capitalists addicted to SaaS Businesses? Or, why do VCs invest in 100x ARR biz - a rant🧵

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Finally got my @Rivian !!

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Holy crap @chamath just said he gets trolled by “some guys with a messed up Zuckerberg face.” And @jason says “oh you mean @greg16676935420 ? He trolls everybody.” #allinsummit

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7 📚books every startup founder should read: 1. A book 2. Any book 3. Literally any book 4. Ideally a non-business book 5. Like fiction, or poetry 6. But I’ll take anything 7. Except Jordan Peterson or Ayn Rand What others would you add?

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Dang it, @iamsophiegray put me over to 801

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Heather Morgan & Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested by DOJ today for embezzling 120,000 Bitcoins, or $3.6B in BTC/USD Forget the crypto heist, I want to talk abt Heather's rap ego Razzlekhan, & video “Versace Bedouin” This video is epically terrible. Let's go 👇

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How to woo an LP or, advice on what to say / not say in fundraising a 🧵for GPs & Founders

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Today’s Big Tech layoffs = next year’s start ups

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@BenWilsonTweets This is not a new meta analysis but rather an update to a previous study, funded by an anti-population think tank. The conclusion men won’t be able to have kids unassisted in 2050 not from this paper. Not a top 5 issue. Just a so-so paper. More:

Sperm counts are falling. This isn’t the reproductive apocalypse — yet.

Seven questions about declining sperm counts you were too afraid to ask.

www.vox.com

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@mattwallaert Backpfeifengesicht — from the German, roughly “a face that's badly in need of a fist”

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My master plan: 1. Get hired at Twitter 2. Ship the update that allows you to edit Tweets 3. Quit

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What 21 years of marriage teaches you: The wife woke up mad about something I said in her dream. I didn’t argue; I surprised her with flowers. This is the way.

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many VCs are Harvard/Stanford MBAs who underwent grueling educational experiences at elite programs, took on massive debt, dreamt bigger, & spurned McKinsey to challenge the status quo & *earn the right* to shill $2k mattress covers on their personal Twitter accounts #inspired 🙏

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🔮Predictions for Series A funding criteria come 2023: if you’re thinking of raising next year, this 🧵 is for you In talking to a number of founders & VCs this month, I am seeing three themes emerge about what it will take to get a successful Series A raise done next year…

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My advice for students considering a career in startups, venture capital or private equity/investment banking: notes from a recent talk, now a 🧵

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Now that I'm over 2k I have to make this legit Please visit me at (I may not have thought this strategy through)

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@TikTokInvestors “Hey I sent the IRS notarized junk mail & if they don’t respond, I’m off scott free” is a great defense

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For a pre-seed company, a founding team breakup is one of the most common and hardest internal challenges to overcome. Most early start ups fail at this point. Not b/c of funding, b/c of chaos.

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$6.2B to Ukraine 🇺🇦 explained • US pledges $113B to Ukraine • Gives weapons, not 💰 • Weapons new, but technically last year models (iPhone 12s) • Pentagon lists as iPhone 14s on books • Accountants says, not 14s, 12s (5% difference) • Now, US is 6.2B under our pledge

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“Nana, my gluten allergy is real!” – Mom

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Had a VC firm cancel a 4th time w/ a portfolio company, all same day, last-minute cancels. Can't believe in this day & age ppl want that to be their reputation. (Fortunately, the startup was in a position to pass on *them*.)

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@US_Stormwatch 100 likes in under 1 hr Never underestimate desi pride 🇮🇳 🫡

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22.5 hours ago, I had 800 followers Now, I have 2500+ Here are 12 things I learned about going viral The final thread for today, you wonderful lunatics 🧵

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@Trace_Cohen IQ test for a job applicant has been illegal since 1971

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Had a consultant end a call with: "whatever, you can fire me, it doesn't matter, I'm rich." How's your day going?

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@RobertKennedyJr Not even going to be mad about this ratio Vaccines save lives

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Executive coach that’s never been an executive 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Time to reach $1 trillion market cap: 👍Facebook: 17 years 🍅Tomato Plants: 1.7 years few understand scale

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“The Democratic Party is over controlled by the unions… which is just another form of a monopoly and trial lawyers… On the Republican side (the evil) is from corporate and religious zealotry.”

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@nypost The book was to reassure though your loved ones “always exist and they walk through life with you as if they were here” I hope we find out her husband’s ghost haunted a police detective

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@EW @hickoryburger

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just ended an interview 60 seconds in me: hey! how are you? him: *🧟 mmmm 🧠 brains* me: i sense this is not a culture fit, sorry he was super mad, but i think early stage startups are too hard to have zombie product managers thoughts?

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Etc. Etc. The only top 50 I found was @reidhoffman RT'ing @MichelleObama Noteworthy that very articulate libertarian voices have fallen silent on issues of individual freedom. (LMK if I missed public comments) I wonder if female founders will remember this on their next raise🤷‍♂️

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@_aaronmiles Nana doesn’t believe in gluten allergies

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now that i'm over 1k followers a lot of people ask me all the time in fact can we get an e-book? yes, yes you can

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Guys now that I'm over 1k followers i just wanted to hop on here and say THANK YOU i have been working hard on my e-book literally minutes in the making here we go (deep breath) would you all retweet for me?

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@insanedreamer Our landlord?

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Q @chamath what advice do you give young CEOs about political correctness? “The point of a company is to produce useful things for others. It’s not a gathering place for a political expression. Speaking of that, I’m late. I gotta go work on the rocket.” And he’s out

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@BeingofUniverse @tobinjstone you live in reading, pa

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Background: Jared Kushner, the walking equiv of the Dunning-Kruger effect, is fund-raising for his $2B VC firm which is bankrolled by Saudi Prince MBS. This deck is fairly awful. Let's discuss.

Jared Kushner Flaunted His Influence With Saudi Arabia, Russia in Pitch to Investors

Affinity Partners boasts of “accelerating transformation through connectivity” in a slide deck obtained by The Intercept.

theintercept.com

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2: G2M Does Jared like baseball bc This looks like a fair-ball batting chart for the Mets, redone in word art. Why is Affinity a wedge of cheese? Why is Strategic Enablement in the middle? Why is Affinity Value Add moving bi-directionally? Chart-junk at its finest, 0/5

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Utterly convinced preseed VC funds 20-22 are going to return 3x or better

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TL;DR Jared Kushner's new Affinity Partners pitchdeck is as bland and awful as you'd expect & he's already raised $2B. 1/5 stars, do not recommend

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@RonDeSantis I have no idea why Twitter’s algo is this broken to suggest I would ever want to see this ad, so: Dear 24 year old, social campaign manager: you can do better

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“Flowcarbon project ‘paused indefinitely’” Adam Neumann, quiet quitting king 👑

In Crypto: Adam Neumann’s Flowcarbon project ‘paused indefinitely’

Billionaire WeWork founder’s attempt to tokenise carbon credits, which raised $70m from investors in May, put on hold

businesscloud.co.uk

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@realEstateTrent First generation makes it. Second generation takes it. Third generation blows it.

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look at these 1.6K people smashing the like button without a follow how do you sleep at night

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“We’re started an insurance company… even if you’re a very good driver, it’s all statistical so you can’t get insured… but with a Tesla, our insurance is based on how you actually drive… you can lower your insurance in real time by driving more safely.”

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Having researched the history of payments to social media creators, I am concerned these new digital tipping payment models are designed to keep creators stuck on a single platform and reduce audience portability. On Direct Payments to Creators: a MEGA🧵👇

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my wife: 3,900 people doesn't make you Internet famous me: what does? my wife: i'm not going to say, because then you're going to try and get that number

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1:The mission Kushner & Co paid some consulting firm for this word salad of nonsense. What's the market? What's the focus? Why your capital? Oh c'mon, we know that - it's the ex-President son-in-law. That should have been the mission statement. 1/5 stars

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The real magic happens in the replies, you are all frickin hysterical

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OBJ's BTC deal now worth $184k before taxes Taxes were $372,750 (in fiat) If HODLed, Odell will have *paid* $188,750 to play in the NFL

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4: Literally every deck ever Affinity focuses on "five key verticals" which is somehow every vertical and no vertical at all. They mention "secular winners" at least, so glad this won't be a theocratically led firm. 1/5 stars

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$42B was withdrawn from SVB in 24 hours $42B

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When my son was 8, I bet him if got into an Ivy League college, I would take him to the NBA Finals He got into Dartmouth this year & now we’re off to see the Celtics🔥

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Celebrating 20 years of marriage today! 🎉🍾

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doge coin energy here

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Amazed how middle aged dudes never find their soulmates in women 20yrs older, like what are the chances statistically

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@mwwallace08 “It’s just a little butter.” The butter:

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@wagmi_energy Clearly we are looking to recruit her but Riker’s island has a hell of a noncompete

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🕴️‍♂️Sold my company in 2020 👨‍🎓enrolled in a PhD program on Economics (not my background, I studied Creative Writing) Spent 18m learning academic research🤓 This summer, will submit my 1st paper to journals📰 I'm in my mid-40's👴 It's never too late to learn something radically🆕

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11: Jared Kushner, 2 page bio Here's the star - Jared. Jared gives himself a 2 page bio, 6 TIMES the space devoted to the retired Major General. He also does A VICTORY LAP ON COVID-19. -1/5 stars, I hate it here.

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Also @jason asked if it hurt that, having voted democratic, he was snubbed from events at the Biden White House “Yes. It doesn’t seem right.” @elonmusk

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@ParikPatelCFA What is this To Do List?

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@JoePompliano "Capitalism is the most efficient system of allocating resources."

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I was offered a CEO role at a company going for an IPO in 3 months, with generous stock options, estimated payout of 40-50M. Even thought about it for a minute. But being a shitposter is just so rewarding w/ unlimited upside.

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NARRATOR: It was fraud.

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