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Amit Kumar

@amitkumar01

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Founder & CEO at https://t.co/PZUfqTjx9F Building the future of messaging.

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Amit Kumar
14 days
If you’re traveling with kids, you should not be allowed to use TSA PreCheck. The whole point is to keep the line moving quickly! TSA PreCheck is supposed to be the express lane, not the ‘let me wrangle my toddler while you wait’ lane.
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Amit Kumar
1 year
RT @howardlindzon: Fascinating chart/data point form my pal @charliebilello . Both Cisco and Nvidia had to pass $MSFT to become the largest….
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Amit Kumar
2 years
This article is troubling. Unions like the Teamsters are prioritizing membership (dues, influence, power) over saving lives. Swiss Re compared Waymo's data to 125B human driving miles, and AVs are at least 300% safer than humans.
theverge.com
Can the industry get out of neutral?
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Amit Kumar
2 years
RT @natfriedman: Tons of respect for any team that maintains a high velocity of shipping at any time, let alone under unprecedented uncerta….
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Amit Kumar
2 years
RT @business: Citadel founder Ken Griffin sees one side effect of years of working from home: companies may find it easier to fire people h….
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Amit Kumar
2 years
. there's an implication that lives lost to human drivers are somehow less valuable than those potentially at risk with robot taxis.
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Amit Kumar
2 years
The strong opposition to self-driving taxis in California will sadly lead to more fatalities at the hands of human drivers, mirroring the anti-nuclear movement’s impact, which spurred the construction of coal power plants, resulting in increased deaths and suffering.
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Amit Kumar
2 years
RT @bgurley: Some (below) are arguing US capitalism would be better off if SVB had completely failed (also wiping out depositors). History….
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Amit Kumar
2 years
RT @lizrhoffman: *96%* of SVB's deposits exceeded the $250,00-per-customer FDIC limit and so are uninsured. That's wild (Bank of America's….
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Amit Kumar
3 years
RT @lennysan: Three tips for closing more deals from @SVMansuri . 1. Email is where deals go to die. Text messages are where deals get done….
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Amit Kumar
3 years
RT @modestproposal1: It's interesting that software multiples are now at the 5 year average of 2014-2018. Maybe not cheap, but fully revert….
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Amit Kumar
3 years
RT @zck: I love getting a WhatsApp notification because I never know if it's going to be ignorable spam or a critically important update fr….
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Amit Kumar
3 years
Why aren't you focusing on a solution to help these workers? Rather than personal brand building? .1/ Why protest outside of Facebook if the issue is with the custodial contractor SBM?.2/ Fastest solution to a contract violation is the NLRB. Why haven't you taken that route?.
@MattHaneySF
Matt Haney
3 years
Janitors are on STRIKE at Meta (Facebook) buildings downtown. Dozens of the janitors have been laid off by the custodial contractor (SBM), in violation of their contract, without healthcare or severance pay. @local87seiu @sflabor
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Amit Kumar
3 years
Zoom is feeling the same pain as Slack — battling for IT dollars against a free/bundled Microsoft (and in Zoom's case Google) alternative. Zoom's strategy to combat the resulting drop in revenue growth is to erode goodwill with post-meeting pop-up ads. on paid accounts!?😠
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Amit Kumar
3 years
Why don’t local service providers send .calendar invites? They are leaving money on the table. One of the important lessons I learned about SaaS sales was “no shows kill quota”.
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Amit Kumar
3 years
The long term strategic value of iMessage to Apple is really about digital services revenue.
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Amit Kumar
3 years
RT @matt_levine: ugh i wrote this a month ago
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Amit Kumar
3 years
Example of a company & investors successfully creating a favorable narrative by comparing a metric that isn't comparable. Time in app vs WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram. bad comp. TikTok format takes longer to consume & produce. comp against YouTube would makes sense.
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Sheel Mohnot
3 years
Tiger values ByteDance at $460B. For context: Facebook market cap is $540B. US consumers spend more time on TikTok than FB, WA, IG COMBINED, and TikTok is growing way faster.
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Amit Kumar
3 years
This thread is bonkers…vp of product since 2018…the company is in the middle of a takeover because poor product execution led to underperformance!. And yet he claims to have done a great job…his lack of maturity & self awareness explain the poor product execution.
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Kayvon Beykpour
3 years
Interrupting my paternity leave to share some final @twitter-related news: I’m leaving the company after over 7 years.
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Amit Kumar
3 years
Aggregators of demand seems like a better way to frame search, food delivery, eCom, social networks, app stores, streaming services.
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