Adam Nash
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CEO & Co-Founder @DaffyGiving 🦍 Helping people be more generous, more often. 🙏 Inevitably optimistic. Slightly amusing. Always talking.
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I'll never understand why people choose to live in San Francisco, when this is Christmas in Los Altos.
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My son woke me up this morning telling me the water was running from the toilet in his bathroom… this is what I found. 🤦♂️
#AprilFools
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Turns out, giving billions of people a high quality video camera with almost unlimited storage in their pockets was a very big deal...
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Depending on how you look at the history of
@Minecraft
, this may (or may not) be surprising.
But for now,
@Microsoft
has made it very clear: no NFTs on Minecraft...
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@chrissyteigen
My entire career down to just one moment... 🤞
Hi
@chrissyteigen
👋 I’m a big fan, and also the head of product
@Dropbox
. If there is anything we can do to help out, please let me know.
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Ikigai: What you love, what the world needs, what you are good at, what you can be paid for.
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I met
@brian_armstrong
in 2012 at a Starbucks across from Twitter.
He told me about his new Bitcoin startup, “”
I told him, “Drop the ‘the’ - just go with “Coinbase”
The rest is history. 😉
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Bold prediction by
@claychristensen
- he predicts that in 10-15 years that 50% of the 4,000 colleges & universities in the US will be gone.
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Blessed are those who schedule 30 minute calls, finish them in 10, leaving ample time for kicking off & executing on agreed upon action items. 🎉
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Thank you,
@ZackSnyder
. Thank you
@jasonkilar
. Thank you
@hbomax
.
#SnyderCutJusticeLeague
was redemption. Not sure of the distance between this version and what was originally intended.
Grateful that you spent the $ & time to bring this version to market.
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"One of the most important charts about the economy this century"
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Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming obsessed with remote work, largely due to the housing crisis, brutal talent market, and now Coronavirus.
Hard for me to tell at this point whether it's a real macro trend, or amplification from inside the bubble.
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@patrickbetdavid
Selection bias. The people who come here are not "average," but have the fortitude to leave their country, the capability to make the journey, and the ambition to find success.
They are living the life they chose for themselves and their family, not the life they were given.
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It’s Later Than You Think.
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FYI:
@FirstRepublic
has an Insured Cash Sweep business account that is FDIC-insured up to $100M and currently pays a little over 3%.
They really should be marketing this more heavily...
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The sheer audacity of
@SpaceXStarlink
is really something to behold. One the first commercial systems that feels like it belongs in the 21st century.
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For my younger friends, if you are wondering what it felt like in 1991 as events in the USSR started spiraling…
… it felt kind of like this. 😳
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@AndrewSteinwold
GPT-4 will give us two things:
- The answer to the ultimate question 4️⃣2️⃣
- The design for GPT-5 which will tell us what that question is. 🌎
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Wow $AAPL. $261.5B in cash. $45.4B revenue. 41M iPhones. And this is Apple's "boring" quarter...
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... this is it. This is probably how history will remember today.
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Final 2023 Fitness Stats:
Dec 31, 2022: 217lbs, 24.2% body fat
Dec 31, 2023: 177lbs, 10.7% body fat
Blood pressure: 140/90 -> 105/60
Cholesterol: 207 -> 150
So, roughly back to where I was at 17. 🤷♂️
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Down markets are a gift to the young. Enjoy the ability to invest your savings for the future at lower prices and watch them compound. 📈
You have a gift that previous generations no longer have... time. Don’t waste it. 👊
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Once we move to the new architecture, we’ll be able to ship features faster.
What is the biggest lie you have heard from a programmer?
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Hard not to be impressed with
@BillGates
right now. Coherent, intelligent & realistic talk about how to deal with this crisis.
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Companies worth over $1 trillion are a very recent phenomenon. There are very few.
Currently, four of them have HQ less than 10 miles from each other:
Apple (Cupertino)
Google (Mountain View)
Meta (Menlo Park)
Nvidia (Santa Clara)
Silicon Valley 🤯
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Down markets are a gift to the young. Enjoy the ability to invest your savings for the future at lower prices and watch them compound. 🎉
You have a gift that previous generations no longer have... time. Don’t waste it. 👊
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Thanos of Product: the only way to bring balance to the roadmap is to eliminate 50% of the projects. 🔥
I am inevitable. 🎃
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What it looks like when a startup finds a clever new growth vector...
In this video we see a cyclist adopting a definitely unconventional position on his bike and the result is an efficient aerodynamics which makes him pass the other cyclists. This is why: [source, full video: ]
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@lulumeservey
… the part of this strategy that doesn’t make sense to me is that both Activision & Microsoft want this deal to go through.
So if it doesn’t, Sony has made Activision an enemy. And if it does, they’ve made Microsoft an enemy.
Doesn’t bode well for future collaboration. 🤦♂️
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If employment drops by about 33%, then employment will have to grow by 50% to get back to where it was.
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Can you imagine how valuable it would be for homeowners right now if you could sell your house & transfer the sub-3% mortgage on the house to the new buyer? 🤔
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@chrissyteigen
@Dropbox
... apologies for the delay. My inbox just exploded with ~1000 people volunteering to do this demo. 😳
Any chance you’ll be in SF on 9/25? We’re having an event, and I’d be happy to get you a ticket. 🤩
Announcing Michelle Obama in conversation at Work in Progress, a new Dropbox conference.
#DropboxWIP
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Measles was effectively eradicated in the United States by 2000. Unfortunately, the anti-vaxx propaganda against MMR vaccine has led to a 1.3% rate of non-vaccination. 🤯
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I have property & a backyard.
What turns people YIMBY is trying to hire great people under 35 and realizing there’s almost nowhere reasonable for them to live & start a family nearby. 🤦♂️ cc:
@Noahpinion
@cafedujord
And what turns people "YIMBY"? It's the lust for other people's property. (YIMBYS don't actually own backyards, they want to force people to build on them).
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There’s something so incredibly humbling about reading this letter from Steve Jobs in 1986.
It could have been written at literally any company I’ve ever worked at over the last 30 years.
Some things never change.
We are truly building castles in the sand.
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Pour one out for
@fryselectronics
, a true Silicon Valley institution.
I used to walk around the stores for hours, just exploring every aisle. It was a reliable index into the zeitgeist of builders. Every store has its own character.
RIP. 😓
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... California is now drought free, for the first time in 7 years. 🤷♂️
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This story is particularly infuriating to me. Every employee of a venture backed startup deserves equity. 😡
For those of you asking me if I bought my wework equity—I did not. But, not because I didn’t choose to buy it. Despite joining the company very early on, I was not offered options. Here’s a thread about what happened and my feelings about it now. /1
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@MonicaLewinsky
Live your best Gen X life and watch the original Clash of the Titans. 1981. Stars Harry Hamlin. 💯
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This is a big deal. We’ve been looking for a better solution than IPO for 20 years.
@Airbnb
is an exceptional company.
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India is deeply intertwined in the success of Silicon Valley & the future of the US. 🇺🇸🇮🇳
We should do whatever we can to help them & more importantly, we should let them know we will always be there for them. 💉
This is almost a Marshall Plan moment.
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PayPal is worth over $300B. Shopify over $180B. Intuit almost $150B. Square over $100B. Coinbase ~$50B.
If M&A spins up, there is a lot of firepower outside the incumbents & tech giants.
And if they get involved… 😳
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When Visa offered $5.3B for Plaid, it was a big deal b/c it made it clear that fintech companies could be worth billions.
However, now it seems like a steal compared to valuations in the public markets. Square @ $100B, PayPal at $250B, etc.
Plaid investors likely do better now.
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Best thing I’ve heard tonight:
After the Spanish Flu, we had the roaring 20s. 🤞
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Great ideas can come from anyone. This is a the story of how a 26 year old, working as a janitor for Frito-Lay, came up with the idea for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Called the CEO. He’s now a VP. 🔥
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The most common language spoken in each state, excluding English & Spanish.
http://t.co/gOkpik7WaT
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I’m constantly surprised by how many well-educated people don’t understand the answer to this simple-sounding question…
@Noahpinion
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In 1997, when I was at Apple, their market cap was around $2.3 Billion. Today, $AAPL added ~$17 Billion in value. In just one day. 🤯
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Talk to me again about Facebook “selling my data” 🙄
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Some days you work the garden. 🌱
Some days the garden works you. 😳
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Finding it somewhat hilarious that
@Costco
in Mountain View is jammed with cars & people, but
@Walmart
is relatively empty.
Even
#coronavirus
doesn’t affect retail preference that strongly, I guess. 🤷♂️
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Sometimes I forget how unique Silicon Valley is around business negotiation. You can get so spoiled by the "win-win" nature of the startup community and how many people just want to help & be a part of something that succeeds.
Grateful to be building a company here. 🙏
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For the last 9 days, every night at 9pm my 15 yo & I play chess. 👑
For this, I will eternally be grateful. ❤️
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After more than a year in stealth, we're ready to announce what we've been working on at Silverback Ventures.
@DaffyGiving
has a simple mission: help people be more generous, more often. Today we've launched an app to help making giving a habit.
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By the way, anyone who wants to see the
@OpenDoor
Series A deck can find it here. Clear, concise framing on the investment & the company.
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Good post by
@Noahpinion
on the practical results of the wealth tax on France, which had a top rate of 1.5% - 1.8%. Turns out this isn’t a new idea, and the results aren’t great. 🤷♂️
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@micsolana
@Noahpinion
… 3) If you look up the history of Hamas & Muslim Brotherhood, and then the history of the Muslim Brotherhood & Egypt, you’ll quickly get it.
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If your goal was to destroy the Silicon Valley ecosystem of creating new companies, this would be an effective way to do it. Taxing stock options at vest doesn't hurt execs, it would only hurt normal people who can't pay that tax bill with outside wealth.
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California GDP increased 4.9% last year. Mind boggling number for a developed economy, let alone one that is 5th largest in the world. 🚀🔥💯
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“It's easier to be a parent this morning, it's easier to be a dad. It's easier to tell your kids character matters, it matters. Telling the truth matters. Being a good person matters." 🇺🇸 —
@VanJones68
@CNN
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There was so much skepticism in the early days of
@Wealthfront
. Most people had trouble seeing a future where investors would trust their money to an automated service.
Congrats to the entire team, investors, and early customers who believed. 🎉🔥🚀
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The largest company in the world ($AAPL) just grew earnings per share by 31% year over year. 😳
But please, tell me again about the law of large numbers. 🤔
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This seems like as good a day as any to remind everyone that it *isn't* a blue check, it's a white check surrounded by a blue cloud.
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It's a bit ironic that here, in Silicon Valley, you have countless investors chasing 100x winners, and yet if you had just bought $AAPL at an average price in 1997, you would have a 1000x return by now.
In the public markets. No hot IPO. No private access needed. 🤷♂️
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“The Man in the High Castle” cost $72m to make, but brought in 1.15m new $AMZN Prime subscribers. That’s $63 each. Subscription economics will really change Hollywood.
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Had no idea how far California had pulled ahead of other states in GDP. ~$2.9T for CA. ~$1.7T for Texas, ~$1.6T for New York.
For reference, Canada is ~$1.6T 🇨🇦 , UK is ~$2.8T 🇬🇧
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Highly recommend
@AlphaGoMovie
on
@Netflix
. Fantastic & real documentary of the amazing AI victory playing Go & the very real humans involved.
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Given the news yesterday
@Figma
, decided to share one small story about that seed round, with a personal lesson.
Features
@zoink
,
@johnolilly
,
@dpatil
, and even a tweet from 2013.
Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto
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Couldn’t help myself. Bought this t-shirt for the weekend... 🤷♂️
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It takes a fairly special type of designer to sign up to be the "first designer" at a startup. Your work not only shapes the product, but the entire company & its culture.
If you've dreamed of being that designer and you love consumer fintech, let me know! 😉
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The drop in the stock market is not “a great time to buy,” and it’s also not “a great time to sell”. Market timing kills performance.
Spend less than you make. Save regularly. Keep costs low. Invest in a diversified portfolio of index funds.
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"Microsoft Excel Influencer"
Now that I've heard it, I can't unhear it... and I'm impressed. 🤷♂️
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One of the attributes that makes Silicon Valley vibrant is that we don’t worship our incumbents.
We relentlessly look for ways to disrupt them.
Clearing out old incumbents long past innovating is a win-win. It makes way for the new & they can’t compete here for talent anyway.
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The very first company that
@reidhoffman
discussed with me after joining
@GreylockVC
was
@AirBnB
.
Highly recommend reading his thoughtful piece on the investment, his rationale, and how it relates to his thoughts on venture in general.
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2/
@alejandrocrosa
& I have started a new company, and we’ve raised initial funding round led by
@ribbitcapital
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