Bowman
@bowman
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From the time your kids are born to the time they leave the house at eighteen there are only 940 Saturdays.
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When I was young I thought management was about distribution/delegation of responsibilities. I now realize it is truly about the maintenance of morale and motivation. Morale and motivation are moving targets that require consistent and proactive effort to maintain.
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My original Uber application on March 10th, 2011 included a deck with expansion plans for Los Angeles. They were only operating black cars in San Francisco at the time. I spent 50+ hours on the deck and emailed Travis & Ryan. Amazing to read now. https://t.co/VWoXBGq14k
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Amazon has one employee per every 200 Prime members. Doesn’t seem all that impressive until you read that they have 560,000 employees.
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I’m sure lots of businesses drive over $100k in sales to a handful of SMBs... Amazon does it for over 140,000 of them.
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As per usual, the AMZN letter is definitely worth a read. All kinds of fun facts. https://t.co/V3R477McwK
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This is one of the best things I've read online in a long time. https://t.co/5zTbUqzjkm
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Teaching my kids how to set timers on Alexa and Google Home was a catastrophically bad idea. Never again will "I'll be there in five minutes" mean anything other than exactly five minutes.
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How to build a blockbuster product: -own a rigid constraint -align with a world-class designer + developer -eschew most negative popular opinion -find 1 unique distro angle -ride a cultural tide -have a simple story -identify an obsessed early adopter cohort -be good to people
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At 89, anything with the word “crypt” in it is a real turnoff for me.
@boonepickens Good Afternoon Mr. Pickens! What are your thoughts on Cryptocurrency?
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Jeff Bezos 1999. Next time you want to give up, think of this.
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Stitchfix is one of the hottest eCommerce IPOs in recent memory, with a data-driven subscription model that works.
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Please read the important disclosures at the end of this document. Goodwater Thesis is designed to help entrepreneurs understand the Winning Strategies that successful startups leveraged to reach the...
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*order pjs on Amazon *go to bed *wake to someone putting pjs on me Me: WHAT IN THE HOLY- Amazon employee: SHHHHHH, this is part of Prime now
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No Techstars or Y Combinator company has ever gone public before.
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Very interesting paper about how Uncertainty in Markets (price/safety) reduces size of market. https://t.co/GvdOVFAC5f
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It is so weird to me that with all of our capabilities as a species we still don't have a fucking clue which foods are actually healthy.
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My 1 repeated learning in life: "There Are No Adults" Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.
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Wow. "The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA1" https://t.co/OueTHjl6vr
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Twitter continues to be one the most magical serendipity engines in the history of consumer software
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