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Derek Andersen

@DerekjAndersen

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Co-Founder @Bevyhq/@StartupGrind, host @Divotdotorg. Posting about startups, community, Bay Area, sports, 4 kids, Little League coach and caddy. Still grinding.

Palo Alto, CA
Joined February 2008
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@DerekjAndersen
Derek Andersen
6 months
Today I’m launching a new weekly interview series called Divot (@Divotdotorg), featuring people making a mark on the world. Steve Jobs said, “We're here to put a dent in the universe.” A divot is a symbol of your impact. Episode 1 is with @sequoia's @dougleone. Full episodes will
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Derek Andersen
6 days
In a few weeks @Divotdotorg episodes will start again. Some pretty amazing moments already but I was reminded filming this morning with Atari/@ExoDexa/ Chuck E Cheese founder @NolanBushnell that life can feel truly special when you put all your creative energy into making a mark.
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@FDSportsbook
FanDuel Sportsbook
6 days
Get a FanDuel Profit Boost every College Football Saturday.
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@DerekjAndersen
Derek Andersen
17 days
Be careful mocking or vilifying people that work really hard - you’ll probably end up working for them.
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Dylan Field
17 days
tell me again about how locked in you are
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Derek Andersen
22 days
I'm part of one of the best communities in the world @StartupGrind. This week I received a thoughtful gift from +40 people in the Cyprus Chapter. To me Startup Grind is still a fun side project and all these years later it's still giving me way more than I ever gave it.
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@DerekjAndersen
Derek Andersen
26 days
I have met hundreds of CEOs over the past 20-years many from the top Fortune 500 companies. I can easily say after meeting @TraegerGrills CEO Jeremy Andrus yesterday for @Divotdotorg he is one of the very best I have ever met. I wouldn’t sleep on anything he part of.
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@DJTFentanylFree
Make America Fentanyl Free
8 days
Make America Fentanyl Free supports President Trump’s efforts to end the fentanyl crisis.
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Derek Andersen
27 days
Hard to beat Utah in the summer.
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Derek Andersen
1 month
I realize now that it can all change and go in a moment. Waves come in: you watch some, you ride some, you crash out on others and pick up the pieces on the beach. But we're still in the game in spite of it all and I'm grateful to still be fighting.
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Derek Andersen
1 month
I believe every step—good and bad—leads you down the path you were always meant to walk. AI is speeding up our work massive gains in time and effort now powering brands entire communities (Forum, User Groups, Events, Gamification) with AI.
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Derek Andersen
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Many tough moments and personal mistakes I've made as CEO learning to run the business to get here - things that seem impossible to forget and which I often try to bend time to go back and fix.
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@Playbook
Playbook
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AI meets betting. 🤝. No more entering parlays leg by leg. Tag @Playbook with your parlay or reply under a bet you want to tail and we’ll auto-build the slip for you.
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Derek Andersen
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After the virtual market collapsed in late 2021, almost all our original competitors shutdown or sold off. In past years we made massive cuts, major strategic mistakes, and painful product reversals that all could have killed us.
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Derek Andersen
1 month
Q2 just ended, and @BevyHQ had its best revenue growth quarter in 4-years. 2025 is also shaping up to be our best year on so many fronts: lowest churn, highest profitability, biggest product enhancements. Getting here has come with deep scars from very dark months and years.
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Derek Andersen
1 month
Whatever professional sadness you have on a missed opportunity, it pales in comparison to this guy.
@FearedBuck
FearBuck
1 month
After over a decade, James Howells has finally given up his search for the hard drive he accidentally threw away in 2013 that held 8,000 Bitcoin, now worth $950 million . By 2030, it could be valued at $8 billion
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Derek Andersen
1 month
Thank you Jim! Let it rain sales team!!.
@jimcramer
Jim Cramer
1 month
i always despise both August and September. just tough months to make money.
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@FreedomSpirit77
Bill Brown Jr.
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Warfighters Chamber of Commerce meeting at Pocono Mountains on Labor Day. When the NJ Veterans attending heard NJ Law Against Discrimination("NJLAD") includes LGBTQIA+, transgender individuals, and even on hairstyles as a protected classes but does not include NJ Veterans as a
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Derek Andersen
1 month
Figma gets acquired for $20B in 2023. Acquisition falls through. Repriced funding round at $12.5B in 2024. Go public at $42B on the first day in 2025. Startups are the ultimate business rollercoaster ride.
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Derek Andersen
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RT @suffiyanmalikk: We The Builders EPISODE 1 is LIVE with @Farshchi at @Lux_Capital . Shahin has invested in companies manufacturing in sp….
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Derek Andersen
1 month
I feel so validated.
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Katharine Birbalsingh
1 month
Brilliant from @billmaher on . TRAD DADS !! ❤️. Fathers - be like this! .
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Derek Andersen
2 months
Stop scrolling, get up!! 💪💪💪.
@BYUfootball
BYU FOOTBALL
2 months
this might be TOO motivational. ( thanks for the audio lucaspopan 🤝 )
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@DerekjAndersen
Derek Andersen
2 months
The French police rollerblading on Bastille Day today is about as French as it gets 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
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@DerekjAndersen
Derek Andersen
2 months
Had my lack of experience not completely messed up the deal, I would have sold @StartupGrind and @BevyHQ to peak WeWork for mostly stock and it would have all been shutdown soon thereafter.
@frozenaesthetic
Moon Dragon
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Share a piece of lore about yourself
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@Melanie_Balke
Melanie Balke
2 years
The rise and fall - and rise - of Abercrombie & Fitch is absolutely f*- insane. The hottest brand of the 2000 spread double popped collars and the smell of Fierce across every high school and college campus. But then got canceled and plummeted by 80% with 450 stores worldwide
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