Shane Mac
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Co-founder @XMTP_ , Co-founder @GoSquaredAway . Secure DMs here:
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OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
PHONE CALLS NO LONGER INTERRUPT YOUR ENTIRE PHONE IN IOS14
OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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Hey
@mkobach
- just FYI, your tweet is framed in our house because it’s the reason
@heykatieneal
and I started dating. I RTd you.
She liked my tweet. I DM’d her. And now we live together.
🐥❤️
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Holy shit.
@exxonmobil
Mobile payment using app extensions so I don’t have to download the app is the future.
That was amazing. Didn’t have my wallet, done.
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Today is the biggest day since we started
@xmtp_
@LensProtocol
has adopted
@xmtp_
as the decentralized DM layer for the Lens ecosystem
This is a new era for social & messaging + endless new possibilities for web3
But why? A thread...
🧵🧵🧵
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I just want to say it again:
The ability to send money globally for free in a simple and secure message is one of the greatest use cases I've seen to date.
Whatsapp can't do it.
Cashapp can't do it.
Venmo can't do it.
Coinbase Wallet can.
Time to add
@optimismFND
to this list.
Start sending gas-free USDC across all five chains.
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Why is there no Upwork or Toptal for "no-code" builders?
Highly vetted, insanely skilled, workflow builders with technical chops.
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I'm 3 days into
@andreasklinger
Gmail strategy from the book "The Great CEO Within" and I'm just wondering why I didn't do this like 7 years ago in my life...
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I think what most people are missing about the future of work is that it’s actually about the future of living, not working.
See Airbnb’s announcement. Living before working.
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Someone take what Roam did and use the same model for personal CRM.
Please.
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We at
@assist
have requested to buy back our shares from Binary Capital and dissolve our working relationship.
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Who’s building Stripe for HR tooling?
I don’t want Rippling and Gusto to be my employee experience. I want it all to be our brand.
It should be like
@tobi
Tweeted about X 100
Company news: We totally revamped our compensation system this summer. In short, "Flex Comp" now gives everyone a simple UX where you see your total compensation and choose a mix of Cash/RSU/Stock via simple sliders.
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HOLY F***ING S***!!!!
This is literally the EXACT UX I had in mind...
@RealKevinYang
just nailed it.
I just use Gmail like I always use Gmail, Drafts are sitting there pre-written for all emails.
This can get SO smart and personalized. cc
@justindross
@sama
Whoever builds the “Email Draft Writer” will be the email app actually worth paying for
I wanna wake up every morning and have drafts written for every email that needs a response
I just review, edit and send
Magic would be something like Sanebox + AI Drafts all-in-one
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Why has no one built
@BankMercury
for personal banking?
All personal banks suck. Mercury is incredible for business banking.
I just want them to allow personal accounts.
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We need a top-tier VC firm from NYC, SF, LA to move to Nashville. If you're interested, please say hi. Have a lot of thoughts.
If you moved here, even just 1 partner, you'd instantly be "the investor" for the best tech founders...
There's a ton of great founders here now...
SOHO House just opened their largest in North America in Nashville, TN
Over 100k sq ft.
Giddy up Nashville, so long this town.
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Whoever builds the “Email Draft Writer” will be the email app actually worth paying for
I wanna wake up every morning and have drafts written for every email that needs a response
I just review, edit and send
Magic would be something like Sanebox + AI Drafts all-in-one
Things AI can do now which will start showing up in tons of apps this year, an incomplete list:
- Code generation
- Write high school essays
- Summarize text
- Create & transfer styles on images, video
- Hold human-level conversation
- 10x better search
- Pre-draft your emails
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Always remember:
We are all just learning what someone else made up.
Everything. This entire thing.
It's all made up.
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1) 🙌🏼 Some personal news 🎉
After a couple years on the bench after our acquisition, I’m amped up to dig back in and start a new company with my good friend
@mg
!
We’ll be in the crypto/web3 world building (
@XMTPdotcom
)
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🚨🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🚨🚨
I’m launching a Rolling Fund with
@chris_herd
focused on the future of remote work and living. The Logos Fund.
We haven’t seen a shift this big since mobile and it’s already changing how we work and live. There’s no going back.
[ a thread ] 💻🌍🏠
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"If you were to follow all VC advice from Twitter for a month, you would probably die of contradiction" -
@rstephens
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“You can drink tomorrow, just don’t drink today.”
This simple quote helped me more than anything.
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The next dating breakthrough will look something like Clubhouse
Synchronous groups, interest based, matchmakers built in, location as the filter
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Holy. Shit.
I haven't found an app that blew my mind in a long time.
This. Is. Amazing.
At a restaurant, game 7 blues hockey. Can't hear TV, won't turn on audio.
Solved.
Tunity: Hear any muted TV by AudioStreamTV Inc.
UX is rad too. Scan, listen.
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The more I think about it the more the line of
“Sorry we can’t work together unless you move your entire family near me”
Sounds completely insane
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Who wants to build the future of communication for web3?
DM me.
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The phone is no longer a phone.
The incoming call should not takeover my entire device.
Want it to be like a push notification.
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In 2018, how you build your company is why people join. Not the idea.
When there’s a spaceship going to mars next door, your cool idea is no longer cool.
But you can offer a better place and way to work.
That’s the opportunity today. Very different than yesterday.
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This is gold for hiring.
"We tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence" h/t
@hnshah
http://t.co/fuL0CLar4f
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Looking for a product designer to help us design the future of our platform.
You'll get to work with Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms to power the future of conversations.
Remote works perfectly.
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ChatGP-EAT is a billion-dollar idea for someone to build today.
Imagine when this includes photos with it.
This is not 10x better than impossible-to-read recipe sites, this is 1000x better.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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Been wanting this since the day I bought an
@ensdomains
Just used
@chainjetio
to set up notifications to my wallet address via
@xmtp_
when my domains are about to expire.
Also setup "get an email if my wallet receives a message on XMTP" which is awesome.
Powerful platform
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@jmj
this is not a technical or product decision, this is a philosophy decision.
when you speak publicly, you can't edit or take back what you said. you can follow up with a response about your comment...
i think i understand why they don't want to edit... kinda agree with it
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This is powerful for web3
Using a Subdomain for
@ensdomains
identity so brands can have a verified and secure conversation and guarantee that the wallet you’re talking to is the person who they say they are.
Secure and verified support. For web3 is here.
Questions or curiosities? DMs open at grants.xmtp.eth via
Let’s build the future of messaging together 🤝
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Just tried the Bills product of
@tryramp
- everything they build is just so much better than anything before it.
Just drop in the PDF from email and magic.
Just wait til they just do it all automatically based on emails I receive / approvals I have set.
Win for all parties.
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This makes me happy.
Powering the first charity on
@messenger
accepting donations.
Check it out
@charitywater
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The way
@CoinbaseWallet
built
@poapxyz
+
@xmtp_
for EthCC is incredible.
See everyone at EthCC and instantly message them.
No app to download, right inside your wallet, can message any identity who has the POAP with any XMTP enabled app.
Nothing else like it. Magic 🪄🎥
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On April 15th, 2019, a 58 yr old man by the name of George Sherman became the CEO of GameStop.
A retail executive coming in to try and save a retail company.
He just woke up this morning worth $349,606,220
It’s time for the story no one is talking about… 👇👇
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It took AOL 9 years to hit 1 million users. Facebook 9 months. Draw Something 9 days.
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One of the biggest mistakes I made as CEO was sharing all of my ideas with the team to make sure everyone knew everything I was thinking.
Your founder brain needs an editor and all of your ideas are confusing when shot from a machine gun.
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Some people think they want the office back.
They actually want what happened NEAR the office back.
Everyone usually leaves the office to have their best meetings or hang outs after work.
So give it to them. Get people together in the same location, no office required.
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Renting a car is quite literally the worst consumer experience on the planet.
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An idea I want someone to build:
A notebook w/ an index filled w/ questions.
Over 10 years ago
@tferriss
wrote about indexing notebooks. I can say that 10 years later I have all notebooks, indexed, that have every idea and company that impacted my life...
Here's the idea...
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My one year sober was last Saturday.
I thought this week would be this amazing week.
It wasn’t. It was tough. Felt like shit. Tense as fuck. Tense at work. Anxious AF. Was struggling to write anything, felt like shit in most meetings, terrible energy.
Feeling much better today
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SMS created Twitter + more
Google maps created Uber + more
Agora will create Clubhouse + more
The tech plumbing allows the next wave, always.
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The search result, map result, phone button and Siri result turning into an iMessage button is sooooooooooooo huggggggggggggggggge
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Messaging + Payments on
@CoinbaseWallet
.
So useful it's irresistible. No reason to be embarrassed anymore.
It’s embarrassing that even my crypto friends use Venmo not crypto to split a dinner and we have to change that this cycle.
We can’t guilt people into it, we have to make crypto wallets so useful they’re irresistible.
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This moment is such a major milestone for
@xmtp_
Not just because group chat is here, but because E2EE group chat is here and it comes with so much more!
✅ Group chat
✅ Installation / per-app keys
✅ Perfect forward secrecy
✅ Post-compromise security
✅ More modern curves…
Hey devs, we've got some exciting news!
We just released Group Chat on the Dev Network, and we'd love your feedback on it before we 🚢 it to prod.
Let's work together to build secure, private group chats, portable across apps, and protected from spam by the network.
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These numbers & story are 🤯🤯🤯
After moving to
@coda_hq
, Squared Away saved $100k a year & over 1000 hours of labor. The business runs on Coda.
Such a great story + you get all the templates so anyone can copy what we did at
@gosquaredaway
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Besides running a company, probably the longest streak I’ve ever done
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Leaving the hospital today.
One week here. Lost a rib. Rebuilt veins. A long road of recovery ahead.
Thanks to all who were by my side.
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Being a CEO is so hard
Everyone in the company thinks everyone is telling you everything when in reality no one is telling you anything
Creating the environment of vulnerability so people will open up to you is so hard
Lonely at the top
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@chris_herd
We should open source a list of all companies returning to the office with link to their search results on LinkedIn.
I think that would be valuable.
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The most compounding interest activity you can do:
Increase the number of people who would say “you’ve added value to my life”
Compounds infinitely.
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I got sober 1077 days ago.
The day I got sober, a friend said to me "you're only as sick as your secrets" and it hit me like a freight train.
I sat down that night & wrote this. To be able to take these words and turn it into this song is mindblowing
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This page says it best for where we are going... Couldn't be more excited for the next chapter of
@assist
and
@conversocial
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Incredible work
@michellepencz
&
@gosquaredaway
team
2022:
- Over $5m paid to military spouses this year, over 300 strong
- $11.2m ARR Run Rate in May, growing 100% YoY
- No investors, profitable, say what?!?!
There’s 300,000 unemployed military spouses, just getting started
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Ramp is the single best product I’ve used in the last 10 years in terms of making something so complex dead simple.
Ramp is completing a $150 million Series D-2 funding round, raising the company’s valuation to $7.65 billion.
This round was co-led by
@khoslaventures
and
@foundersfund
, with additional new investors
@sequoia
,
@GreylockVC
, and
@8vc
. Our existing investors
@ThriveCapital
,…
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Just bought my first Bot
@chain_runners
today. Needed a little diversity from humans.
Black Friday Sale
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Shutting down my
@AmericanExpress
- all in on
@tryramp
Better aligned incentives, 1000x better tracking and reporting and intelligence.
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Pretty cool to launch the first automated experience inside iMessage...
Kinda crazy to see it mentioned on the Apple earning's call today, check out the experience here
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Screw it, gotta share this...
Our secret XMTP flywheel for developers to drive retention and growth has worked so well that we want to share it with everyone.
When developers can build with permissionless protocols, magic happens.
This is the XMTP Messaging Economy
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Need to take a second & acknowledge a huge milestone for
@michellepencz
with Squared Away
@gosquaredaway
$1m MRR, never raised a dime, always focused on profitability, and still growing 70% YoY
Over 330 military spouses are now employed because of her leadership
Incredible
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My favorite part of every startup is when you have to change all the VP titles you gave out to Manager.
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Ok, I really wanna do Sharktank format online but with Operator Funds + tech focus, call it something else
Live, 2 hours, 4-5 companies
Anyone can apply to pitch
5 investors taking live pitches
Negotiation and questions all happen live
@jmj
@ShaanVP
@rrhoover
@ankurnagpal
?
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Once you realize it's all about being different, not being better, it all starts to make sense.
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SOHO House just opened their largest in North America in Nashville, TN
Over 100k sq ft.
Giddy up Nashville, so long this town.
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It's time to go bigger.
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