Kunal Bhatia
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product person • prev: design @mercury , a bunch of things that led me here • fun: building @Take1Design • callsign: komodo
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As I write this, another number overshadows my personal milestone on my phone – 196. That's the Air Quality Index (AQI) today in NYC.
And it's a good reminder that I'm passionate about quite a few things. I want to work on those passions in the next 2/3 of my life.
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My unexpectedly favorite part of
@karpathy
's video was about LLM security.
He covers just a handful of attacks used against LLMs and their safety mechanics.
Let's play a little white hat hacker ...
New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models
Based on a 30min talk I gave recently; It tries to be non-technical intro, covers mental models for LLM inference, training, finetuning, the emerging LLM OS and LLM Security.
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My favorite little detail from
@Cron
’s iOS app is the today’s date button.
It shows you where you are relative to today’s date (before or after) and if it’s more than 1 day away.
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Some personal news...
I'm working on a few things I care deeply about in the coming weeks. And I'm excited to shape my career in a way that speaks to all my interests.
tl;dr: I want to help people do the best work of their lives and help people live their best lives.
To start,…
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See, there are practical uses for very expensive sports!
An F1 car can cost up to $20m. The teams employ 1000s of people and spend $100m+ a year to win the tiniest edge.
Over the decades, F1 innovations have trickled down to everyday use (eg. road cars, healthcare, consumer tech).
I wrote about it here:
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@immad
Helping dementia patients and their caregivers extend their life at home with a smart environment patients and monitoring solutions for caregivers and clinicians.
Most patients have to be moved to assisted living or caregivers need to leave their careers early.
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Thanks to the Figma team for hosting a great AI demo night.
So cool to see how people are using simple transformers to gen AI to build features and solve real problems.
Can't wait to demo something at one of these in the future.
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One of the best articles I've read this year is Craft: Thoughts on elevating product quality by
@Stammy
.
It's a long piece, so I'd like to condense it to my highlights. If you get inspired by what you read, I'd highly recommend making this your next long read 🧵
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crossed the 1 year mark at
@mercury
spending time with customers irl, drinking lots of tea, and creating sans computers with the whole design team – wouldn't do it any other way
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@Ridderingand
We're looking for designers across all levels at
@mercury
(juniors to managers)! Help us reimagining financial technology 💰
You can learn more about our design team, see the job descriptions, and our new team page here:
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What are
@yourstacks
for starting something new?
My ideal? 🤔
Website–
@webflow
Design–
@figmadesign
Sales–
@Drift
Product Experience–
@Appcues
,
@cannyHQ
Research–
@segment
,
@Amplitude_HQ
,
@fullstory
,
@VempathyInc
Email–
@SubstackInc
,
@CustomerIO
Incorporation–
@atlas
Payments–
@stripe
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Heading back to NYC after
#Config2023
.
Can't thank the
@figma
team enough for bringing our community together. And to new friends and old – let's keep the conversations going.
Going to be dreaming of doing this again next year.
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Some personal news: I've always been a tea person.
Excited for day 1 designing at
@BankMercury
🍵
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We took our first
@Cruise
ride last night.
@NareshJBhatia
was narrating the whole time in astonishment.
@ImBharatiBhatia
was having a blast after being hesitant about ever sitting in a driverless car.
Can't wait for more people to experience this. Video coming soon...
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Just doing what one does when prepping for two
@ProductHuntIRL
Meetups — hanging out with the two Steves.
RSVP here for free:
🌉🏙️ SF —
🍵📦Boston —
We have a great evening planned. Please share with your friends + colleagues!
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Happy
@ycombinator
Demo Day to all who celebrate 👏
Fun facts:
– 229 startups funded (24k+ applications)
– 1st 100% in-person batch in 3 years
– Big presence in AI
– 70% are in B2B SaaS, 10% in Fintech, 10% in Healthcare
– 15% of S23 companies have a woman founder (📈 trend!)
Today is YC S23 Demo Day!
Many of the best startups raise today and the coming weeks.
Coinbase, Instacart, Whatnot, Rappi, Retool—you could have gotten into their rounds at their Demo Days.
Future decacorns await. That has been true for 18 years and it's still true now. 🚀
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Today's top 4 on
@ProductHunt
are straight 🔥
Design better, make podcasts shareable, forget checks, and make sales a whole lot easier. 🖖
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Nothin like hot drum corps summer 🥵
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For people who host
@ProductHunt
Meetups,
@Abadesi
asked what they can do to help. Any ideas?
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For everyone who's been asking, "Mercury, credit card when?"
Today ℹ️🅾️
The missing piece has arrived. 🔑
Introducing IO, the corporate card built to help founders scale their companies with confidence.
All the benefits of credit — built on Mercury:
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Thankful to
@thesephist
,
@amasad
, and
@tylerangert
for hosting a great discussion on "Building AI for People".
Some hot takes (and my opinions):
– chat as the interface (I'm in favor of using it as the onboarding mechanism to make it familiar for millions)
– process (building…
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I know which shirt to hunt for this morning 😉
So many startups represented in one package! Thanks
@ProductHunt
:
@jacqvon
@Nivo0o0
@rrhoover
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Starting to get invites to
@ProductHunt
Upcomings I subscribed to 🙌
One request–could you remind me what your product does in your email? 🙏
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Fun day of coworking with
@ycombinator
startups in the mythical
@mercury
tea room.
Yes, we had tea (mint rooibos to beat the heat), food, founders taking lots of calls, founders going heads down, and founders practicing for demo day.
And yes, the valuations are justified 😉
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I asked
@ProductHunt
–how do you reach a bigger audience with your writing? Add your thoughts here 👉
#AskProductHunt
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ChatGPT with voice – just having a normal, pre-Thanksgiving conversation with my friend, Sky.
Mind blown,
@OpenAI
team 🙏
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I just published “The New Generation of Prototyping Tools (Part 1/2)” on my Medium blog. Read:
#prototyping
#ux
#ixd
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Ask and you shall receive. 150 referrals or bust 😹
@ProductHunt
's ambassador program: join me. Get kitty swag. 🙌
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.
@ProductHunt
@rrhoover
This question on outdoor activities already has 22 recommendations in 2 hours! Time to go on a hike! ⛰️
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Looking for a great culture? I can't think of many better places to spend your time. Check out
@AngelList
.
I want to work with amazing designers and get better at what I do — come sit next to me in NYC, we're hiring RT pls
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wishing all my friends doing
@ycombinator
demo day this week a lot of luck!
some resources:
– the
@mercury
investor database
– the
@mercury
safe tool
– me: happy to connect you with potential customers and investors
put me to work!
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One of the most fun things I got to work on with the Mercury and Atlas teams.
If you end up starting a business this way, would love to hear how it goes – and more importantly, what you’re working on!
Consider this motivation to start that business you’ve always been thinking about.
And if you need a nudge — we’re still working with the stripe atlas team to cover a portion of your startups incorporation costs.
Details below 👇
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Reflecting on
#NYTechWeek
, here are a few experiences I'm grateful for:
1. Got my fitness fix in with great company. Book-ended the week with
@PitchandrunNYC
, rain or shine.
And ran the National Security 5k with breakfast after – thanks
@a16z
and
@decisivepointvc
for hosting.
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Mind has been blown.
@zeuslivinginc
is simply amazing 🤯
Not only do they rent me a business-ready apartment, but they're like my personal moving team 📦 📪
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Bye for now SF ✌️
It’s been fun getting to know you over 4 months.
Back to Boston for a while 👋
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Need time to digest
#Config2023
.
But the chat I had with
@alexcornell
was something special. Alex – to get your feedback on a video I'm working on + go deeper into your process was a joy.
@thisisehsan
+
@NazdaqIndex
+ Rowan joined and we expanded to a broader convo about life.
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Heading to Bangalore for rest of the week. Any founders, designers, and startup folks free to meet?
If there’s enough interest, we
@SlidesUp
can host a casual meetup on Saturday night in Central Bangalore?
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Serious subject here. What's your favorite emoji tool? 🤔
“The Ultimate List of Emoji Products 😎”
@ProductHunt
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Met the most amazingly talented and beautiful people of Bangalore!
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AI that I pay for:
@Superhuman
– $30/mo
@gyroscope_app
– $198/quarter
@OpenAI
– $20/mo
@runwayml
– $15/mo
@lazyappHQ
– $30/quarter
@midjourney
– $10/mo
@Humane
– $24/mo (soon)
That's a lot of compute 🥑✨
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Launching something tomorrow. It's unlike something I've ever done.
It's an open letter to a local government commission. I hope to convince them to implement common-sense regulations for clean energy projects.
Wish me luck. Send me advice.
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If you're trying to start your first startup, Startup School's community is fantastic.
We made our first sale after struggling with SlidesUp and built relationships with founders a step ahead of us. Plus, YC puts amazing content together.
Today, we’re opening up registration for Startup School 2022, a live, online course where YC Group Partners and successful YC founders teach you how to build a billion-dollar company.
Class begins June 27th, and it’s free and open to everyone. Register at
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Happy New Year from the Bhatias!
And to my Mom 'n Dad for 40 years 🥳
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Nice to see other orgs react to a complex crisis situation and how their product teams respond overnight.
Kudos to
@flexport
on the speedy response and for sharing how you approached the solution.
Flexport clients can see which of their shipments are impacted by the Red Sea diversions.
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my love language: making special experiences for my friends and family using my design skills. here are some of the things I've made in the past several years:
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My idea of wealth is to *never* have to budget or think about money.
It’s getting pretty close with Copilot. Try the new spend categorization features and more for 2 months free.
Use my referral code GWCVMU or this link:
AI for Spending Categorization is here!
Starting today, every Copilot user gets their own Machine Learning categorization model that constantly learns from the transactions they've reviewed in the past.
Learn more →
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i wish there were a way to search for tweets you've previously seen.
today's edition of "can't find that tweet again" – one about packaging design consumer products. was a case study of how a brand redid their packaging to be different from everything on the shelf. revenue 📈
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Excited to share that we have 3 openings for product design interns at
@mercury
this summer!
If you are interested in getting *real* experience designing + reimagining how banking works, please apply / share with folks who might be interested.
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By this time next week, my life will have transformed (for the better) because of
#Config2023
and
#Confits2023
.
Thanks in advance for bringing this community together,
@figma
(tes) 💞
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@lennysan
Reforge, hands down
– growth series (for the fundamentals)
– advanced growth series (for the application)
– and product leadership (for the practical things as a manager/looking at career)
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There’s something delightfully pleasing about personalizing a newsletter + thinking about how your recipients might receive it.
Manual processes FTW.
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@shreyas
Indian – GupShup (great brunch too), Semma
Ice Cream – Caffè Panna
Chai – Kolkata Chai Co
Tiramisu (+pizza) – Leo, Angelo's Coal Oven Pizzeria
Asian – Spicy Moon
Mediterranean – Cafe Mogador
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⚡️ Introducing Highlight One Thing ⚡️
It asks a simple question: what do you want the highlight of your day to be?
I built this for the
@ProductHunt
Maker Festival using
@coda_hq
and
@glitch
.
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No more patiently waiting for the IRS –
@stripe
@atlas
and
@mercury
have teamed up to let you incorporate + get a bank account faster.
This is a step change in the experience of starting a company. Makes me want to start another one :)
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Come find me and the
@mercury
twins,
@carolleii
and
@leonhan_
👯♂️
We have some fun pins!
#Config2023
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Candlelight illuminates
Feast fit for ancient Rome
Mercury's office glad
– with ♥️ from
@mercury
's Boston office, penned by ChatGPT, runnin' on Dunkin'
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.
@ProductHunt
@rrhoover
Also, I'm so proud to be the
#6
most helpful this week. Dare you to be more helpful than me! 😛🚀 Get asking:
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@CoachAnitaPhD
@pedroh96
@brexHQ
Sorry to hear about your experience, Anita. We'd love to have you
@mercury
.
The demo () is a great way to kick the tires, and happy to answer any questions you may have through DM!
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Just joining the free SaaS Breakthrough Summit right now.
Join today and drop in to learn from the best at:
🤖
@Drift
📈
@Baremetrics
📨
@ActiveCampaign
⚒️
@segment
📸
@wistia
Excited to apply the lessons to
@SlidesUp
! Get in here:
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Here’s how to build the absolute best teleconferencing webcam setup
📷 Sony Mirrorless
🔬 Wide angle prime lens
⚙️ Elgato Camlink
🙆🏻♂️
@around_hq
teleconferencing software
Full tutorial and the interview with Around creator
@dom_zane
using Around here:
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quick update: i've been a design manager at
@mercury
for the last 5 months
joined the team as an individual contributor, and i'm now excited to be working on new challenges, building teams, and helping our designers do their best work
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If you are designing & writing apps in React,
@jongold
of
@Airbnbdesign
just made your life 10x easier. Render components to Sketch. ⚛️💎 👇
Releasing the last 6 months of my life — react-sketchapp :) ⚛️💎
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What a bet by Adrian and the
@goforward
team. $100M in funding to build on their existing ~20 clinics and 100+ physicians.
CarePods would be placed in malls, gyms, and other convenient locations so you can self-serve your healthcare needs. Basically the MedBay and Tricoder from…
Couldn't be more excited to announce the
@goforward
CarePod, the World's First AI Doctor's Office!
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As I turn 30, I'm reflecting on how I'll make the next 30 high quality. Here are things I want to keep doing:
🍺 No alcohol (since '14)
🏋️ Workout 5-7x / week
🥦 Cook & eat healthier
💆♂️ Stretch & foam roll
📵 Fewer distractions
😴 Get quality sleep
📚 Read 1x / week
🚶♂️ Walk more
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So many interesting people that we had to take another photo just to tag everyone!
Thanks for making a special evening 🙏
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My
@ProductHunt
Golden Kitty nominations for 2019:
🌟 Product of the Year:
@Tesla
Cybertruck
⚒️ Hardware:
@whoop
Strap 3.0
📱 Mobile App:
@gyroscope_app
3.0 + Watch App
🎨 Design:
@figmadesign
Plugins
👩💻 Dev:
@gatsbyjs
Cloud
🌈 Diversity & Inclusion:
@startupschool
2019
1/
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All the awesome
@ProductHunt
people came to
@BostonTechJam
to hang out again. One meetup isn't enough! 🎉 🙌 🍻
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Massive love for
@demtzu
and the
@lazyappHQ
team. They make people feel like they're a part of the community, are super responsive to feedback we've given, and proactively tell us when those things ship.
These custom avatars are a pretty nice touch 🖤
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Happy Thanksgiving! Just curious—what's your plate look like today?
I'm at home and my Mom made Bhatia Curry 🙏
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Every now and then, you get the pleasure of meeting someone in real life who is genuine on Twitter.
Yup, that's
@imcatnoone
🙏
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We should have Boston companies partner with each other. On our list so far:
💬
@Drift
📔
@HubSpot
🐟
@tettra
✈️
@LolaTravel
💰
@ComptHQ
🎥
@wistia
👩💼
@draftedapp
📈
@ProfitWell
📊
@databoxHQ
🗓️
@SlidesUp
+ every company that's presented at
@ProductHuntBOS
😻
Who else wants in?
@ColinBrauns
Drift and Hubspot are pretty widespread — who else should be on the approved supplier's list?
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Want to know who has the lightest dark mode background of all the email apps?
⚪️
@Superhuman
Darkest?
⚫️
@Outlook
for Mobile
Don't mind me while I try to make accessible, personalized newsletters 🙃
#designtwitter
h/t
@getstarkco
+
@figmadesign
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.
@SlidesUp
@Medium
@ProductHunt
@Nivo0o0
@rrhoover
@DesignInc
@ycombinator
If you'd like to follow along with Startup School, you can watch the first video here by
@sama
&
@moskov
:
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Excited to share the new !
This is the first time I've spent more time on writing copy than any other activity. Thanks
@webflow
;)
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👋
#SXSW
-ers! Would you rather meet lots of people
@SXSW
or have a few great quality conversations?
@rrhoover
@ProductHunt
#SXSWInteractive
Meet lots of people 🤝
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Few great convos 🤗
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Both! I rock networking 🤘
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Other (reply below) ❓
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Still thinking about the Meridian Pivot Party from last week in NYC – great people, great food, great vibes.
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If you’re a
@ycombinator
startup in this batch…
@mercury
is running an event on Tue, Aug 22 with
@PilotHQ
+
@vouch_group
in SF.
We’re going to have tea, breakfast, lunch, therapy dogs, and hands-on pitch help before demo day.
If you’re interested, DM me for the invite link!
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The advantage of being in SF—every science fiction dream comes true here first 🤯
Just booked
@SandboxVR
for me +
@danielkbishop
on Saturday afternoon.
Who wants to join us?
✨It's on me 🥽
While you're here, check out Sandbox VR 2.0 on
@ProductHunt
:
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Some personal news–I've moved to San Francisco + just had my first day at
@WorkRamp
.
WorkRamp wants to empower every employee to reach their full potential. We're building the training platform of the future.
WorkRamp is aligned to my personal mission:
✨ Always be learning 📚
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Just tried AirPods as hearing aids with my grandparents. Nani loved it, but Nana was struggling with the AirPod earbud size. But they were more a part of the conversation this time!
Thanks for sharing, Stark team!
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Found myself in NYC and meeting two legends (in my mind) + another amazing human.
Thanks to
@Bosefina
for moderating a lively discussion about who controls our attention + our relationship with technology.
@MaxStossel
and
@nireyal
had tons of interesting views.
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Build with
@mercury
Raise to have your back.
🌱
1/ Doing startups is hard!
@mercury
is my fourth startup, my first two startups failed and I continuously faced roadblocks along my startup journey.
That’s why I’m excited to introduce the new Mercury Raise: one platform to help founders fundraise, network, and get answers.
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