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Helping America Build again at Tradeway🇺🇸 Refined: @michiganstateu , @USCMarshall , @techstars Follow me on TikTok: SillyConValley

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I am excited to announce my new company called TradeWay. We are a marketplace that connects those who are early in their career and are looking to break into or gain experience in the trades, starting with the building trades.
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My dad said once you’re in your late twenties/early 30s you really start to see a separation in people’s lives visibly
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This is my kind of petty
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Elon holding the visa employees hostage at 1:30am should not inspire you
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In your early/mid twenties folks are kinda all in the same space for the most part but as time goes on there becomes visible separations in folks finances, careers, romantic lives that can hit people a certain way
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Lanny Smoot, holds more patents than anyone at Disney—106 right now. He is the only the second Disney employee ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first? Walt Disney himself.
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If you are making $100K+ in your twenties please know a good amount of luck was involved
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You don’t personally own the IP you create for a company while working there. This seems to go over a lot of peoples heads for some reason
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Reminder that y’all favorite lil feature on y’all favorite lil app was stolen from a black woman
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Major life hack is forming relationships with the staff at the places you frequent
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The older you get the more folks lives need to complement each other in order for relationships to continue to work
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Uncle Nearest the whiskey brand owned by Fawn Weaver has recently been valued at $900M, close to becoming a CPG unicorn based out of Tennessee
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Which more than likely adds to folks anxiety and loneliness because they can visibly compare themselves to their age peers
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People talk about people “ghosting” but would you really want people to sit there and tell you why they don’t vibe with you?
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Which is why some people get closer while others become more distant
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When I give homeless people money I literally do not care how they use it, people should stop being so prescriptive with their giving
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Michelle Obama stating that once she realized Barack cant be everything for her all the time. Their marriage became much better. Your partner can’t replace community or be the center of your happiness
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DoorDash is making employees including the CEO to do one dash a month and employees are upset
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People in tech are so dramatic when they leave a job, it’s like they won an Oscar
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Do tech folks know its possible to quit a job without writing an essay about it?
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Tech industry: We don’t care about degrees
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Mr Biles, they’re cooking you..they said your cleats are very clean anytime the Packers game ends
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Yara Shahidi and her mom at her graduation from Harvard!
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She sold her company for $25M and breaks down who made what in the transaction
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Excited to announce that my next career move is building an audio first dating app called Heart to Heart! Which will let people tell the story behind the pictures in their profiles.
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Tech CEO talks about the all hands meeting
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The interesting thing about Teyana Taylor & Iman Shumperts split is that he made more money than her by a lot but was envious of her fame
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In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search,” he continued. “They go to TikTok or Instagram.”- SVP of Google
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The adults that keep their childlike sense of curiosity are much happier adults. Don’t lose your sense of discovery
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I truly think people romanticize starting a company and being a CEO way too much
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So it looks like Unicorn founders aren’t actually mainly dropouts like y’all said
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Steve Stoute was making $2.5M a year as a record executive at 27, took a pay cut to $150K and equity in the agency he joined. 2 years later it sold for $190M. You can’t teach people to bet on themselves
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If you’re building software that involves the physical world such as logistics or delivery, it’s smart to see how the world impacts its use
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Tech Founder talks about diversity in tech
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@blakjordanbreen Oh that’s a great insight, so much of our direction as adults come from how we were directed as children
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Employees can work in chat support for customers or merchants instead. In addition to making the food deliveries, employees will be reviewed on their performance. The delivery app’s goal is to allow employees to understand and empathize with the experience of the delivery person
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Tech guy talks about breaking into tech
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People say they want to be Directors, VPs, Presidents or C suite execs at large companies and in the same breath are unwilling to ever work a night or weekend...make it make sense
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Calendly made $60M in revenue this last year
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Folks make $100K+ and want to have a luxury apartment, a Tesla and vacation every two months and wonder why they can’t save/invest
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Meta employee rants about the tax he paid on his RSUs. Vested $250K and is going to see $125K
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Midwest startup investors vs California startup investors
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Elon Musk impregnating his staff is very weird to me
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I’ve long felt that millennials obsessed with constant travel are looking to escape from their day to day as much possible. Which is unfortunate
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$600K in revenue with 500 employees...
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Saying college is a scam to those from poor/working class backgrounds actually does more harm than you all think it does
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Tech Founders be like we are changing the world then don’t talk about the world at work
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Ring by spring? Texas universities are different I see
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Bro, nobody cares about your startup right now
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The pay everyone $70K CEO looking funny in the light
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Folks really marry whoever they are dating once they are about 27
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Zapier is on pace to make $100M in ARR while only having raised a $1.3M seed round and employs 250 people
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VCs when Stanford grads do anything
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There is a reason why the world richest man wants people to think he is funny
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The cost of getting drunk at night and feeling off the next day isn’t worth it
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If you’re lucky enough to find work you’re passionate about and have someone you love that loves you back..you’ve won at life
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Tech Guy & Politics At Work
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One day men will realize partnering with uneducated/financially unstable women are a liability to the ambitious you have for your life
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Do y’all remember when the Jordan documentary dropped and people in tech twitter were comparing working in tech to being a professional athlete? That was hilarious
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Do you agree that 20% of the people at companies to do a lion share of the work?
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Did it hurt? When you realized that your 62 side hustles only made you an extra $200 a month
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The reason that professionally ambitious men prefer women from the same socioeconomic background is because men look to their partner for professional and personal counsel, you need to be able to be an informed sounding board
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@msolurin This right here smh I was like wow
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When I tell folks money isnt everything, it really isnt when it comes to feeling fulfilled/accomplished
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Apple blew up everyone’s ads business to build their own, incredible
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Interested to see how this goes over, glad this includes executives as well
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Startup employees create friendships through trauma
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Stop identifying with being a former gifted child, you’re 35
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People who say “I want to build a startup because I don’t like having a boss” 🚩🚩🚩
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The NBA used to be made up of lower income folks now it’s primarily middle and upper middle class folks
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Dr Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker holds over 140 patents
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TikTok is leading product at Instagram
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Folks are forcing Miami like they are forcing Web3
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CEO of Canvas talks about raising $50M
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Tech guy talks about why he became a product manager
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This company raised $11.2M
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“At last an Airbnb for swimming pools”
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I still feel like folks who have a mix of startup and big company experience are some of the best hires to make
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What’s the first sign a neighborhood is on its way to being gentrified in your mind?
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You really can use physical to spread the word on digital
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Simon Sinek touching on constantly leaving jobs under a year. His point about skillset building and how employers could view it going forward were interesting
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Folks telling black kids to not go to college even when we are already in the single digit percentages of representation at colleges now
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Why work at Facebook when you can join a startup?
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Especially if you’re not dating or exclusive, someone you texted for a few weeks doesn’t owe you that
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The people who think lying on your resume works, never worked at anywhere reputable. Every reputable place does a check on education and employment
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Zuckerberg said his initial ability to launch Facebook back in 2004 wasn’t because he dropped out of college or abandoned any of his other interests. Rather, the Meta CEO said, it was due to the personal connections he made while he was still in school.
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Tech exec talks about college dropouts
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Sasha going to Umich for my Detroit followers.
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All grown up and ready to take on the world 🙌🏾 #SashaObama may have just announced her college pick 😱
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If we look at the academic records/colleges and or graduate schools attended by the people who actually run the world we live in..we would find this to be false
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The world is run by C students.
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Nobody in tech Twitter is talking about how TikTok surpassed Google in traffic this year
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@anothercohen It’s funny how quickly believe whatever folks say on the internet
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Stripe IPO day will break tech twitter
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Founders pitching VCs
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Everyday I’m like, my parents had kids at this age?!
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Career conversations are so different when talking to folks who are still in survival mode, vs those who arent
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Meta rescinding offers for engineers, it’s getting real out here
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CNN spent $300M on CNN+ just to get 10K DAUs
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Dating is just like being a startup founder, right?
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The main people who romanticize risk are the same ones who come from a safety net
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When you look closely at tech, the Black folks that work in the industry are usually first generation kids of immigrants..which is interesting
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau permanently banned BloomTech aka Lambda School from all consumer-lending activities and bans the CEO Austen Allred from any student-lending activities for ten years Wow.
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How do people have the emotional energy for all these happy hours and dinners in the NYC tech scene?
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