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Taylor Crane

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Jobs dealer @fractionaljobs && Fractional Head of Product for early stage startups. Also built: ♣️ (acquired) ☀️

CDMX

https://t.co/jknyHinTNn

Joined March 2009

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 months

Today I'm hard launching (bet y'all saw that one coming from a mile away...) 🧨 Fractional Jobs is the job board for fractional work. We help senior talent become successful fractional employees, and we help companies reach and recruit that senior talent…

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Fractional Jobs | The Job Board For Fractional Work

Find fractional work in your job function - Engineering | Marketing | Design | Sales | Finance | and more. We help senior talent become successful fractional operators, and we help companies reach...

www.fractionaljobs.io

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

2 years

The endlessly impressive @levelsio with an AI project that takes a photo of your home as input and then outputs interior design inspo in different styles Below is my living room input

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2 years

And here are four outputs from

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Taylor Crane

2 years

You ever meet a curious/smart person that doesn't work anywhere near tech, you tell them about your startup, and they ask "so how do you make money?" And you look at them dead in the eyes and say "we don't." Those are my favorite conversations 😂

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Taylor Crane

5 months

My @Betterment portfolio performance over the last 10 years, compared to the S&P 500. S&P +237%, Betterment +101% Is this an absolutely damning criticism of Betterment? This seems incredibly disappointing to me but maybe I'm missing something?

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Taylor Crane

2 years

@levelsio maybe support additional keyword inputs like must haves: kitchen table, color blue

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Taylor Crane

9 years

The difference between @Yelp and @foursquare in one screenshot (cc: @dens ) http://t.co/ooiidg3ngP

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Taylor Crane

3 months

The Browser Company ( @arcinternet ) is the best performing team in software right now. I can't even think of a close second.

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Taylor Crane

5 months

@aarongraves @Betterment but, mine is crushed by the index. this feels normal to you? The fuck is the point if I can put all my money into the S&P and just call it a day.

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Big news for @playonclubs today. Funding secured. 💪💪💪 We’ve raised from @VillageGlobal + an amazing group of angel investors. Clubs Poker makes it dead simple to play poker with your friends/colleagues for fun. Sound up your alley? Come hang in our beta! ♣️ ♣️ ♣️

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Taylor Crane

4 years

My cohort at @beondeck (ODF5) just kicked off this week, and I have a few observations about the kinds of companies being started. It's 200 founders in the earliest stages of building their businesses.

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Taylor Crane

4 months

@neuroflow @Betterment Yes so it should perform 20% worse. Not like 55% worse.

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Taylor Crane

9 years

So, I built a thing!! It's called Hyperlax, and I'd love for you to check it out. http://t.co/liPEbkfdx0 http://t.co/tw8M2TpGOF

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Taylor Crane

8 months

Wow Clubs Poker was just acquired ♣️💪 ( @playonclubs ) Phew... turns out acquisitions are bananas-level hard, but I'm happy with the result and even happier that Clubs gets a new life. I can't share details until early 2024, but I'm passing the baton to a new group that I'm very…

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Since the @playonclubs fundraise is over, I'll share some data & insights on the process. This was a < $1MM pre-seed fundraise, with 2 co-founders, a working beta with real users, anecdotal traction only, and no revenue. TLDR: 71 meetings over 3 months led to 9 checks ⬇Thread

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Taylor Crane

5 years

@wilpannell @andrewtorkbaker holy hell, talk about deploying straight to production...

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Taylor Crane

1 year

Let me tell you a short story about conversation pits and dreaming big. I've always wanted a conversation pit. And after years of hard work, now I have one*! (* For two months**) (** and it comes with mosquitoes)

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Taylor Crane

4 years

4) Many founders explicitly indicating they are NOT trying to build $1B unicorns. The best for last. Founders are realizing (including myself) that it doesn't need to be "100x or bust". Lifestyle businesses++.

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Taylor Crane

2 years

Please excuse me while I brag for just a second. I can't hold it in, just this once 🤷‍♂️ This week's traffic on @playonclubs has been astonishing (2x what was already our best month ever). These are 3 emails I got from players just this morning...

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Taylor Crane

4 years

@Richard3d7 @levelsio He presumably sent the email to 200 restaurants. He might hear back from 10 of them. That's easily manageable.

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Taylor Crane

3 years

aayyee ✌️ @beondeck

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Taylor Crane

3 years

♣️ Last night was special. The Startup Poker Night on @playonclubs , hosted by @mikekarnj , kicked off with a bang. Joined by some amazing founders, investors, & poker pros. @EricFriedman @SparksRemarks @AdamLiebman @andrewparker @AviKarnani @andrewoved & of course @PhilNoLimits

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Taylor Crane

1 year

@levelsio Thank you for making sure my living room is seen by as many people as possible 😂

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Taylor Crane

2 years

@ChrisNCUS @dblockdotorg @levelsio And we love it for that

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Taylor Crane

5 years

Today, I’d like to finally introduce you to . What a journey this has been 🎢 I’ve been hosting retrospectives with my team every week for the past 8 years. I built Outro so that you can start hosting retros with your team, too.

Outro - Retros done right.

A new take on retrospectives for progressive teams. 30 minutes a week will help you build a more effective, more close-knit team.

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Taylor Crane

5 years

Two sketches of NYC's future: drawn in 1900 (left) vs. 1910 (right). Couple of observations stood out to me...

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Taylor Crane

2 years

This @dinner_dao brought to you by @raincards

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

This week @playonclubs

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Taylor Crane

7 years

Damnit changed the colors of Helsinki after I booked my trip. Now I'm staying next to "high class twats" @levelsio

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

2 years

Twitter fam! @playonclubs is on @ProductHunt today with the launch of Clubs Poker - For Companies. Helping companies ditch the virtual happy hour in favor of something a bit more... action-packed. Can you take a second to show us your support?

Clubs Poker - For Companies - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Ditch the virtual happy hours and host a poker night instead with Clubs Poker's new product --> "For Companies" 💚 Just send a link to your colleagues and start playing 💚 Add your company logo to...

www.producthunt.com

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Taylor Crane

1 year

Some EOY updates from @playonclubs In 2022 we grew 2.5x, now at 7,000 MAUs playing 3k poker games/month. 🖤💪 On the flip side, we weren't able to raise our seed round over the summer. So Clubs will live on as a product used by thousands, but no longer a venture-backed business

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Taylor Crane

2 years

Just learned that last month we dealt our 1,000,000th hand of poker on @playonclubs . Arbitrary? Sure. Cool? You bet. 💪♣️

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Taylor Crane

5 months

@aarongraves @Betterment The odd thing is if I look at where Betterment has invested my money, it's mostly into Vanguard index funds. So idk wtf is happening.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

👀 @beondeck poker tournament on @playonclubs Word on the street is they'll be dropping an On Deck Poker Fellowship soon 😂.

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Overall, the fundraise was: 1) A meaningful increase to the size of my network 2) A forcing function to learn more about our own business 3) *Far* more emotionally draining than I ever expected Thankful for these learnings and very happy to have it behind us 👊

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Taylor Crane

1 year

I'm spinning up a fractional head-of-product consulting practice. Today I worked on a blurb to position myself. It's too long and too broad probably (open to feedback) but feels fine as a first swing as I figure this all out

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Taylor Crane

1 year

Back in 📍NYC And feeling grateful for the past 5 months in Bali. Major live achievement unlocked, one I'd been waiting years for! 📸 [Bedugul, La Brisa]

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Taylor Crane

4 years

I shared my journey building Outro with @ProductHunt today.

How I *Actually* Finished My 19-Month Side Project | Product Hunt

It’s now clear to me why so few side projects see the light of day.

www.producthunt.com

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

11 months

This month will be the first month in exactly 3 years that I make more money than I spend 🤯😂 So funny to me and I have absolutely no regrets lfg

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

@imchristiepitts @WizLikeWizard When I raised money I absolutely celebrated the achievement. Important to find moments on the journey to call wins.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

@Houkage__ @blakeir And yet... here we are 😂

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

Flagrant brag-post alert but I woke up to two emails this morning from @playclubs users in our beta. #1 was to let me know they've scheduled their second poker night, 10 days after their first #2 was from a user who sent me a photo from their game last night, everyone smiling 😄

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Taylor Crane

4 years

3) So much health-tech! Including mental health. This one is surprising, because it's such a painful industry to work in. Kudos to everyone trying.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

1) So. much. crypto. Especially from African-based founders. Crypto isn't going away. It will be brute-forced into existence by millions of smart minds.

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Taylor Crane

6 years

Today I paid and paired up with a software developer living in Israel for 3 hours to help me build a critical piece of my side project, Outro, that I couldn't do on my own. So cool to me. I wouldn't be able to get through the project without this. (Thx @CodementorIO )

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Taylor Crane

6 months

I sent my dad a new biz idea I'm thinking about, and he responded with a list of suggestions that he used ChatGPT to write and thought I wouldn't notice 😂 "8. User Experience: Prioritize an easy-to-use and user-friendly platform." WTF DAD

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

6 years

@mrmeireles @elonmusk @GetMyGist those "computers" must still have physical manifestations in the form of servers. Where will the servers live if there is no earth?

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Taylor Crane

3 years

I've just finished a hiring sprint for @playonclubs , so here's some data & insights of my experience. The pitch was to join a pre-seed startup, with thousands of users, as a founding member & lead IC. TLDR; to hire one senior engineer required 55 interviews over 3 months

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Taylor Crane

2 years

Last minute shipping this onto Product Hunt tomorrow. Pls have those "support" fingers at the ready. 👆👆👆

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Taylor Crane

1 year

My consolation prize to myself was to travel SE Asia for the winter. This tweet coming to you from Phuket, Thailand 🏝 For the first time ever I'm working on... not working. And I'm doing an excellent job at it.

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Taylor Crane

6 years

Today @HelloAlfred announced a $40MM Series B. I've been here 6 months and the amount of change/momentum I've seen in that time has been very impressive. We're ramping up hiring significantly and I genuinely, highly recommend giving us a look.

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Taylor Crane

5 months

🎤 Reporting live from the fractional world... Guys it's going like, really well. For the first time ever I have a really clear line-of-sight towards how I want to spend the next ~10 years of my career. The other day I found myself telling a friend "I'm enjoying my work life…

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Taylor Crane

7 years

@rabois @justindross is vertical always superior to horizontal? if so, why?

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

11 months

Received my first payment today for my fractional Product work. Feels goOod. (And it was in USDC 😉)

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

9 years

@ProductHunt 50% of my motivation for building http://t.co/NTwtWp7t4G was to get that "Maker" badge. Means a lot. cc: @rrhoover

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Taylor Crane

9 months

ok so I now have 2 months of income data and can start to compare being a contractor vs. W2 employee wrt take-home pay. Keeping salary the same, do you take-home more money as a contractor or employee? A contractor. And I finally know exactly how much. 💸🚀 An employee's…

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Taylor Crane

2 years

I will forever be indebted to early adopters willing to put up with stupid bullshit bugs because they're just happy to support the creation of something new 🙏

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

5 years

I've started purposefully not typing what Gmail suggests I type, just out of principle. Like, psh you don't know me Gmail! That's totally not what I was going to type.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

We've been designing custom tables for some of our early game hosts at @playonclubs . One host insisted I use a picture of his dog... I must say, this is some of my finest design work yet 👨‍🍳💋

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Taylor Crane

4 years

. @drorpoleg 's weekly newsletter on RE/urban development gets better every single week. Possibly the only newsletter I read every week?

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Makin' memes today

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

2) Lots of cloud kitchen/food delivery startups. This one's not surprising, it was already a trend and COVID has re-emphasized it's importance.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 months

I go from "Fractional Jobs is the dumbest idea in the history of business ideas" to "I am going to be the next (cooler) Jeff Bezos" 4x per day, back and forth. Emotional brains aside, we finished the week quite strong. 600 signups so far and it looks like 4, maybe 5 jobs live by…

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Taylor Crane

5 years

@zero_startup It's valuable. Disregard the "If you're not embarrassed by your MVP...". I like this a lot:

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

When I first read this tweet a couple months ago I thought: "chyea in my dreams 🙄" Last week @playonclubs hired a senior engineer directly from our waitlist 😂 (part-time but still!)

@jmj

Jeff Morris Jr.

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A portfolio company with a 5000+ person waitlist asked for advice on where to hire their first engineers. I told them they probably have an entire engineering team on their waitlist. Hire from your waitlist.

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Combine co-working + gym + food together. Put it in a residential neighborhood. Sprinkle in a social calendar. ✨This is the way ✨

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

@202accepted @goforward @onemedical I've used both. OneMedical is your typical primary care doctor with nice software. Forward is a more ambitious re-imagination of the whole stack.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

2 years

GUYS I DID IT

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

Every single time... 1) Design something 2) Think its straightforward and bulletproof 3) Show it to users 4) Learn something you never thought about

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

1 year

My other new years resolution is to take more horizontal photos because our grandkids will def be using VR glasses to view media and I don't want to hear them complain about our dumb lil vertical photo phase

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

A couple months ago I demo'ed Outro at the New York Tech Meetup. In the demo, I walk through what a retro is, and how to run an effective one. Video is live now:

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Outro.co // New York Tech Meetup talk // September 2019

Outro is an app dedicated to the ritual of team retrospectives.In this talk I discuss what retros are, why they matter, and how to host a great retro with yo...

www.youtube.com

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

Just thought of this - I've met a ton of new people during the pandemic, and have never met them IRL. Some I'd even call friends at this point. That's pretty wild! (One contributor was definitely @beondeck )

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Taylor Crane

2 years

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mec.

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A photo of you as a child that encapsulates your energy

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Taylor Crane

4 years

This hurts so much

@MekkaDonMusic

Mekka Don

4 years

A friend posted this from the 2 Train in NYC tonight during rush hour. I’m assuming many of these people are “essential workers” with no other mode of transportation. This is sad for so many reasons...and a major reason why NYC is in trouble. #COVID19

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

Every month @WizLikeWizard from hosts a Tech Poker night. Last week came with a fresh new custom-branded table 👀, and the biggest crew yet, had to run two separate tables. It's so fun. If you're in tech & like poker, apply here:

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

1 year

📍Canggu, Bali 🏝 I don't know a single soul here. Do you? Would love to meet friends of friends, pls slide into DMs 🙏

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

Product Hunt is actually a big reason why Outro exists in the first place. Much of my motivation to teach myself to code and pursue side projects came from desperately wanting to get that "Maker" badge. So, kudos to you @ProductHunt and @rrhoover

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

1 year

I blasted this email out to a bunch of founder friends the other day. Feedback has been quite positive. Do others do this? Win/win/win for everybody. Everybody should be doing this.

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

Marty beat me to the announcement that we're hiring @playonclubs . Engineers + designers! More here:

Clubs Poker Careers

Find out if Clubs Poker is the right fit for your future career! Explore jobs, salary, equity, and funding information. Read about work-life balance, perks, benefits, and the company culture!

@martymadrid

marty.com

3 years

Dream freelance Product Design gig

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Taylor Crane

2 months

💰💰💰How much do fractional employees make? We're finally starting to see the data. Matt McFarlane () is surveying fractionals on their experience level, function area, and hourly rate. Peep the image for a summary of the current dataset. Matt needs your…

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

4 years

Tonight, @HelloAlfred is introducing a way for anyone that lives in a Hello Alfred market (NYC, SF, LA, DC, etc.) to get our service. If you're staying at home and need help with groceries, household essentials, prescription pickup, etc., sign up below.

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Taylor Crane

1 year

But not too sad bc I am in Bali and it's 🏝️😍

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Taylor Crane

3 years

Good morning, I had a dream last night that Yoplait yogurt launched an NFT

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Taylor Crane

9 months

Startups need more a24, less a16z

@bryce

Bryce Roberts

9 months

The Low-Budget Startup

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Taylor Crane

1 year

@Erwin_AI This is how I feel when I think about GPT4

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Taylor Crane

5 months

If this is the platform that ends up winning the space I will eat my shoe on live television

@ShaanVP

Shaan Puri

5 months

MFM Poker Night!!- this is sick. There's a real dealer, real cards, live video etc.. Poker > Golf

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Taylor Crane

3 years

I did a fashion shoot for @playonclubs swag today how did I do? #buildinpublic

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Taylor Crane

7 years

The saga continues for ! It has OFFICIALLY been resurrected after a year, and with the freshest #hyperlapse videos.

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Taylor Crane

5 years

I *think* I'm feature-complete on Outro as of today. Cannot believe that😮. 440 hours spent so far. Graph below because I'm a nut. Almost ready to launch. Remaining todo's include: - Rewrite all copy - Create marketing assets - Write a blog post

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@taykcrane

Taylor Crane

3 years

Learned two things last night playing in the Tech Poker Monthly hosted by @WizLikeWizard of @spacecadet 1) Poker is apparently about # of hands won 🏆, not chips won 💰 2) the @nba_topshot hype is REAL 📈 @GrantCov @jspeiser @AdamLiebman @jgold242 @gregmcbeth && @Joeingram1

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Taylor Crane

8 years

Listen to this podcast about Ethereum and I challenge you not to be convinced that this is the future

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Taylor Crane

2 years

@diplo @justindross @3LAU @join_royal WashU has the worst branding in university history 🤦‍♂️

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Taylor Crane

5 years

@hunterwalk Why don't VCs ever do due diligence by meeting with employees?

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Taylor Crane

7 years

This is the coolest. @joshfng took Hyperlax and re-purposed it for an ISS live feed. My code lives on at palebluedot.io!!!

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Taylor Crane

3 years

I'm so fucking happy seeing all my doctor/nurse friends getting vaccinated right now. Well deserved.

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Taylor Crane

1 year

Request for startup a plugin that monitors my email and forwards all flight and hotel info to my jewish mother for me

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Taylor Crane

4 years

I want to give a shout-out to all of my 6 remaining @SwarmApp friends. We will not go down easily. Stay strong.

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Taylor Crane

1 year

@elonmusk @paulg

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Taylor Crane

2 years

@NoelaMoggaMD @levelsio same but still cool :)

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