adam bain
@adambain
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Investor at 01A. We spent a fortune on our website, so check it out: https://t.co/So3Ge6bpkR. Was Twitter COO.
California
Joined March 2008
We have raised a $395m Fund 3! Even better: @davidbfischer, former Facebook CRO, is joining us as Partner! https://t.co/Zg9kZ4kPyk After years of competing against David, it’s amazing to be on the same side of the table now. @dickc and i feel so lucky to work with him :) Our
techcrunch.com
You might imagine that if two former Twitter chieftains and a longtime C-suite Facebook exec agreed to build a venture firm together, they would chase The former Twitter execs -- who just appointed...
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Putting together a very important presentation and decided to go with Comic Sans on one of the slides. The slide is entirely Comic Sans. Wish me luck!
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In ancient Rome around 57 AD, during Nero's reign, citizens drowned in an era of carnal excesses—rampant sexual immorality, unchecked violence, and hollow idolatry. This depraved lifestyle was normalized, woven into the very fabric of social life. Today, we face the same
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Cue the theme music.
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FINALLY, something I can be hired as an expert in. @micro1_ai is paying up to $50/hour to do tasks you already do at home: folding laundry, loading dishes, making coffee. Waiting for them to add “replacing batteries in smoke alarm at 2am” - I’d crush it. https://t.co/BZPPZgXPve
businessinsider.com
AI startups are paying people to film themselves doing chores so robots can learn. Find out how much you could earn and why demand is booming.
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So excited this news is out: @morganb wrote the actual and literal book on growth. Read it here 👇🏻 Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success https://t.co/h08wAcr8I9
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It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters,...
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Half the world reads and writes in character-based languages — and now, so does Halo!
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They are who we thought they were…
It’s wild to me how common it is now for people to be completely wrong and so confident They’re all wrong. I used to think these people had some unique insight but overtime I realized they are married to their worldview, not seeking truth.
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Huge congrats to @micro1_ai on cracking the AI Apps Top 10! Classic @aliniikk move: I called him to say congratulations, and he told me all about how he was plotting to climb to #1.
🚨 Introducing the AI Apps 50: Startup Edition Ever wondered how startups are spending their money when it comes to AI? Our team at @a16z worked with @mercury to crunch the numbers and rank the top applications by spend. The list + what we learned from it👇
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Buying a home is the biggest purchase of our lives, and possibly the scariest. The fear isn’t just about money, It’s FOFO: Fear of Finding Out. Finding out the house isn’t what you thought, or that the neighbor’s dog barks all night, or that traffic zooms past the front yard, or
At @Opendoor we want you to love your home. Starting today, Opendoor buyers get exclusive benefits: 1. 7-day home test drive 2. 100 day home warranty This is just the beginning.
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Just popped by the @Opendoor office to visit @CanadaKaz midway thru his day to get a quick lunch break in at 9:30pm tonight. The dude is grinding. (That thing in the corner is his bed)
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Human brilliance is needed more than ever. Really the only way models are now learning is through net new human data. @micro1_ai is at the core of providing that data to all frontier labs, while moving at speeds I’ve never seen before!
I’m excited to announce micro1 has raised a $35M Series A, valuing us at $500M. This round was led by 01A with @adambain joining our board of directors. We’re grateful to be partnering with leading AI Labs & fortune 10s, such as Microsoft, to train frontier LLMs. We’re just
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Big Opendoor news: we’ve appointed @CanadaKaz as CEO. I’ve known Kaz for a decade - he’s incredible. The best tech companies succeed by having the right CEO in the seat. I believe Kaz is that leader. Thrilled. Co-founders @rabois and @ericwu01 are returning to the Board! They
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One of the best AI companies we've seen. Great AI products depend on world-class inference & @basetenco has become the partner of choice for teams pushing the frontier. Congrats to @tuhinone and team on the $150M Series D — thrilled to ride w you!
Today, we’re excited to announce our $150M Series D, led by BOND, with Jay Simons joining our Board. We’re also thrilled to welcome Conviction and CapitalG to the round, alongside support from 01 Advisors, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock Partners, Scribble Ventures, and Premji
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Grateful for what the retail community has done for @Opendoor and very thankful for @ericjackson’s efforts. The relentless hive mind of ideas and suggestions from him and the OpenArmy are focused from a place of thinking about how to win.
Hey $OPEN family 👋 When I checked into the Hyatt in SF last night, I had zero plans to meet with anyone at the company. I was here for other meetings. That all changed overnight. This morning, OPEN asked me to stay for the day. I dropped everything. Tonight I’m red-eyeing to
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🎉 GIVEAWAY ALERT We’re giving away 2× ErgoChair X (Black/Gray) to make sitting easier on your spine. To ENTER: – RT this post – Follow @autonomous_labs – Comment “ErgoChair X” + your daily sitting hours 2 winners will be announced after Oct 19.
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AI is rewriting the way people and experts get hired. Half a million AI interviews already & millions ahead…from medical doctors to professors, lawyers, finance experts and much more.
we have officially passed 500,000 AI interviews. when we built this as first company to ever build an AI interviewer, everyone asked: “who would ever do an ai interview?” we can now confidently say "literally everyone.” including medical doctors, Stanford professors, lawyers
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One of the best AI companies has picked up one of the best GTM leaders.
Welcome to Baseten @DannieHerz! We’re thrilled to announce that Dannie Herzberg has joined as our new President to lead Baseten’s GTM and operations. As @tuhinone shared: "Dannie is biased towards action, dependable, and long-term in her thinking, and she knows that the
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The #1 AI-native CRM and it’s not even close.
Big news: We’ve raised a $52m Series B! The round was led by @GVteam, with participation from @Redpoint, @Balderton, @PointNineCap, and @01Advisors. This raise accelerates our mission to deliver the AI-native CRM for the next generation of GTM builders. CRM has been the
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Very happy that @Opendoor is starting to communicate more publicly about what the team is working on & where they’re headed. Thanks again to the huge $open community for the healthy push on this. On AI: https://t.co/LFdlAVEKtQ
Wow. $OPEN leader @shrisha just said the company is going all-in on leveraging AI inside the business. Right after the most recent board meeting, he posted "I'm convinced AI is a core primitive for our next phase of growth. My personal stance on AI has shifted; a year ago, I
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Opendoor news: https://t.co/f1zZqO0TrB Today we are announcing our CEO search, and more: • The Board has appointed @shrisha President and interim leader of Opendoor. Excited for him and his focus on shipping great product! • The Board has also elected Eric Feder, President
investor.opendoor.com
Shrisha Radhakrishna appointed as President and interim leader of Opendoor SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opendoor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN), a leading e-commerce platform...
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