**how @joinswsh went from a greek life photo sharing app to powering the world's largest events** @joinswsh is building shared albums for live experiences first, it was campus life - Greek Week, parties, tailgates. then swsh users took us with them: to concerts, music

the single greatest thing you can do for your sanity is to take life seriously. we live in a profoundly irony-poisoned society and you cut off 1/100th of what life can offer you by being a goofball. the jester may be near the king but he does not sit at the hand of the father

If you're hungry, scrappy, and excited to break into the live events + tech world, this is for you @joinswsh is hiring an Account Executive who can sell, operate, and help build the GTM engine from the ground up swsh turns fan photos and videos into marketing results and real

I think building technology is going to be one of the most if not the most important ways to impact The Culture over the next decade but I see so few people talk thoughtfully about this. @siliconvmg does but who else is there?

nyc rewards intensity but punishes stillness. it’s a place built for motion, not reflection. great for collecting inputs like ideas, people, serendipity but terrible for any sort of synthesis. after a while you’re just cycling stimulation with no real output. the city’s energy

there are 2 primary types of cultures at scale: indoctrinated plausible deniability, and brutal, truth seeking honesty. The former often comes across kind, but is low trust and leaves bite marks. The latter appears rude, quiet, or uninteresting, yet is infinitely better long term

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we launched organizations on @joinswsh your organic UGC marketing engine in one place built for brands, artists, teams and you

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storytelling is the ultimate compression algorithm for human attention. everything else, data, logic, tech feeds into it, but if you can’t wrap it in a compelling narrative, nobody will give a shit. people think they make decisions based on facts, but they’re mostly responding to

october @ swsh

people always ask why i care so much about culture… why i read about it, write about it, post about it. it’s very simple: it’s the only layer that actually matters. everything else… tech, markets, relationships, politics is just emergent behavior stacked on top. they’re

college admissions teams are the original VC

@zebulgar Some programs accelerate your startup. The Thiel Fellowship accelerates your life. I think at the start of the Fellowship we all knew this would be clear over a long enough time horizon, but now it’s super obvious.

to use devin or not to use devin, there is no question no devin, no cracked dev team

lore's lore has been dropped lfg!! @zehranaqvi_

in september, we launched one of our most requested features: CRM collection time to grow your audience and engage your super fans with @joinswsh dear sports, music, and brands - your fans and customers are waiting for you on @joinswsh

september was a big month at @joinswsh… and we’re just getting warmed up our customer activations are using swsh albums to > upsell merch + tickets > capture organic ugc > collect crm data > activate superfans/customers if you're connected to music festivals, tours, sports, or

YOU CANNOT COMPETE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING FUN

There are 3 main reasons the cultures + behaviors of young people in SF and NYC are so different (from a 22 y/o who’s lived, worked, and raised money in both): 1. Upbringing. If you grew up near SF, odds are you were raised in a single detached home, it was sunny year-round,