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. If you have a moment, head over to our launch page and show our team some love 👇
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And we’ve officially wrapped up LA
#TechWeek
. Thanks for joining us on the journey via Twitter, and be on the lookout for a recap next week. 🦄
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@denk_tweets
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Cat's out of the bag...
As of this Monday, after two years of our startup covers, Unicorner has migrated to
@beehiiv
🦄🐝
It's been a pleasure working with
@denk_tweets
and the team to get this set up. Beyond excited for what's ahead. 🚀
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Who are some of the most talented community builders you know? Need some consults for an upcoming project at
@UnicornerNews
Some folks I know well 👇
@michelleefang
@amiyoshimura_
@thebrunchguy
@EstebanAvocado
@EspreeDevora
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Honored to have been interviewed by
@satourian
for EVN Report regarding my work on the Armenia Tech Trip - please give the podcast a listen to learn more about everything we’ve been building :)
This week on EVN Disrupt,
@areksds
from Hero House Glendale speaks to
@satourian
to recap the 2022 Armenia Tech Trip, a program that brings tech professionals from the Diaspora to Armenia to familiarize them with the country’s tech sector.
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@alexisohanian
@POTUS
You heard it,
@JoeBiden
. If not for the Armenians nationwide, then at least follow through for
@alexisohanian
's birthday
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LATW tweets break: this seems like a good time to announce that I’ll be joining the
@mercury
team as a software intern later this month!
Excited to meet some folks from the team today and pick up a copy of Meridian ✍️
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Armos on Clubhouse, I’m co-hosting two cool events on the Armenians club over the coming week: a casual Hye Happy Hour with
@lanaminas
on 1/7 and an Armenian Tech Talk with
@NersesAposhian
and
@robert_avak
on 1/12. Swing by to have a fun chat with us! 🇦🇲
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@michelleefang
IRL event in SF from our team at
@UnicornerNews
and
@Wefunder
- Founder + Investor Happy Hour on Friday, Feb 3
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The quarter system is basically just 8 weeks of studying followed by 2 weeks of wondering how it's week 8 already
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Today marks the day that we, as a society, made an important step towards meaningful justice. It’s time to hold nations accountable for their pasts, and to show the world that another genocide cannot ever happen again. Thank you
@JoeBiden
🇦🇲
.
@POTUS
' recognition of the Armenian Genocide comes after decades of struggle.
After years of Turkish threats and intimidation
After a murderous war on the people of Artsakh
After so many heartbreaks and disappointments
Thank you, President Biden, for speaking truth to power.
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Clubhouse chat on Armenian tech today! s/o to my awesome co-hosts
@elizabethets
,
@robert_avak
, and
@NersesAposhian
for leading a very cool conversation. To those interested in learning more about 🇦🇲 startups, check out
@meettalents
’s board 👇
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Thanks to everyone who participated in Covalent's
@ProductHunt
launch yesterday! We had hundreds of people visit our site and got lots of feedback from users.
Our team has come a long way. What started as an idea has turned into a months-long journey of learning experiences 👇
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Little over 24 hours since our migration for
@UnicornerNews
. Is this the
@beehiiv
effect? 🚀👀
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Awesome announcements coming to Unicorner soon. Can't wait to share with you all. 🦄
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Hey folks. It's been quiet lately. Quick re-intro!
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@UnicornerNews
. We've identified 100+ promising startups over two years for thousands of weekly readers. 🦄
Follow me to learn our secret sauce for building a successful newsletter and fostering an engaged community. 🚀
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Starting our evening off with
@CrescentFund
&
@USCMarshall
Panel with:
@spencerrascoff
,
@nic_detommaso
, and
@gabrignardello
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Currently listening to Elon speak in an overflow room for an overflow room, how is your weekend going
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Want a list of the next 100+ unicorns? I'm giving it out for free 👇
We've identified dozens of unicorns at
@UnicornerNews
before they were big
This list includes funding stats + our analysis of each startup
Reply with "🦄" and I'll DM you the list
Make sure you add me ➕
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Spotlighting a favorite newsletter:
@AltAssetsClub
🦄
We're coming on a year since
@stefanvonimhof
emailed us at Unicorner with some words of appreciation. We'd go on to write about them in May.
Alts is now 85k+ readers strong and runs a fund. Here's what we like about them. 🧵
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Want a list of 100+ early-stage startups from 30+ industries? 🦄
(including up-to-date details and articles about them)
We've written about EVERY SINGLE ONE of these startups for thousands of readers at
@UnicornerNews
.
React & reply "Unicorn" and I'll DM you the link.
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Whoever has the most liked reply to this tweet will have their brand featured to thousands of readers on
@UnicornerNews
👇
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After covering ~150 startups, I can now say that a startup's success can be entirely measured by one thing:
The file type of their website's logo.
🙈 .webp
🤗 .png
🥹 .svg
🥵 pure HTML
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Wrapping up the week at
@BioscienceLA
/
@WeAreLATech
— podcast panel and brunch hosted by the wonderful
@EspreeDevora
and
@djwhelan
🎙️
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Day 4 of our
@beehiiv
Newsletter XP watch party - email monetization tips today.
@denk_tweets
and
@businessbarista
have put together some awesome content and tips 🦄
Bonus: we also got to have Alex pitch us Morning Brew ads live👌
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@UnicornerNews
@ProductHunt
@alexisohanian
help an Armenian brother out! We're top 5 of the day, and have covered companies like
@Topiaio
,
@TryMetafy
, and more
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Nearly 100,000 of the greatest newsletter operators learned about
@UnicornerNews
last week. 🚀
Thank you to the
@beehiiv
team for an amazing Creator Spotlight cover. It's a privilege to work with a provider that supports you every step of the way.
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We're trying something new at
@UnicornerNews
. 🦄
Over the past year,
@ethankeshishian
and I have run several events in LA and SF.
• Panel, happy hour, brunch
• For: Founders, investors, students
• Result: 400+ combined attendees
Now, we're taking it to the next level. 👇
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Last week,
@ethankeshishian
and I sat through six hours of
@ycombinator
's W23 Demo Day so you don't have to.
Here are some of my personal favorite startups in this batch. 👇
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Newsletter writers: we just increased our new reader response rate at
@UnicornerNews
by 500% in the past two weeks. 🤯
We've had some incredible folks reach out to us just because of one small change we made in our welcome email.
It's so simple your brain will hurt. 👇
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Some incredible builders & operators at our SF happy hour yesterday night!
First
@UnicornerNews
event in SF—but definitely not the last. 🦄
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and stay in the loop on what we're hosting 👉
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We at
@UnicornerNews
are slowly converting into web3 nerds... are wgmi?
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Day: writing about the next cool startups
Night: watching startups get roasted
@techroastshow
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Get the next Uber, Netflix, or Airbnb straight in your inbox. 🚀
Join thousands of weekly Unicorner readers to learn about the hottest startups. 👇
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We announced something new at Unicorner this week.
For the first time in its 2+ years of emails, we didn’t cover a startup.
Instead, we highlighted a VC fund.
Join us and
@TomJWhiteIV
as we dive deep in this special edition of
@UnicornerNews
🦄
This week, we published a special edition of Unicorner in collaboration with
@TomJWhiteIV
🦄
Read out first Fund of the Week spotlight on rpv: an early stage deeptech fund, founded by
@arkady_kulik
and
@Khunjua_rpv
🔭
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Fluent is an incredible tool for anyone looking to learn a new language without spending extra time to do it. You literally just browse the web as usual to learn French, Spanish, or Italian. So go support their
@ProductHunt
launch 🚀
Also, @ 🇦🇲 followers, Ara is super cool.
Fluent V1 is out now!!
We've made learning new languages addicting. Turn Fluent on and make real progress every day.
No new study habits; you learn while you live your life.
We're so fucking excited for you to try it!
I'd love to have your support! ❤️
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Sunday: we’re clear! We had brunch and great panels with
@EspreeDevora
(
@WeAreLATech
) and
@djwhelan
(
@BioscienceLA
). What a great way to end
#LATechWeek
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Reply to this tweet with a startup idea, and I’ll tell you why we would or wouldn’t cover it on Unicorner. 🦄
We’ve covered ~150 companies for tens of thousands of readers. A lot of them started from just a simple email sent to us.
Tweets, too :)
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So… update… turns out we have
@UnicornerNews
readers from every major university in the U.S. 🦄
Any creative ideas on what we can do with this segment? Wrong answers only (right ones appreciated too 👀)
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Who are some people I need to meet in NYC? Will be in the area in mid July. 🗽
Awesome community folks I know:
@MorganBarrettX
@amiyoshimura_
@andruyeung
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We just made a Clubhouse club for
@UnicornerNews
, please follow for some cool startup discussions 🦄
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Been following
@copy_ai
and
@PaulYacoubian
on their journey since day 1. Insane how organically growth has come to them—they blow every launch out of the water.
Easily a top 3 startup review
@ethankeshishian
and I did for
@UnicornerNews
. After all, they made it on our cover. 🦄
Huge fan and proud investor of what
@copy_ai
is doing!
Congrats to
@PaulYacoubian
&
@chris__lu
on the Product Hunt launch today with the launch of Chat, the smarter ChatGPT that helps you get more done
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@Kalshi
- investing in world events.
Kalshi was started by
@mansourtarek_
and
@luanalopeslara
to find alternative means of investing.
A winning condition dictates payouts (ex. the S&P 500 will hit an all-time high on X date).
Investors include YC &
@neo
(
@apartovi
)
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It's been an exciting ride watching Contrary grow over the past two years. Thankful for the cool opportunities it's helped unlock for me since I started college.
Congrats to
@etarczynski
,
@whrobbins
, and the team on the new fund—looking forward to what lies next!
We started Contrary five years ago with one simple premise: that exceptional talent could come from anywhere.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $20M for our second fund.
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Insane
#LATechWeek
- only now recovering to post some of our week’s highlights at
@UnicornerNews
📸 🦄
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Hosting our first Unicorner coffee hour near UCLA at
@moccoffee
Westwood ☕️
Good vibes, good people. We’re here until 1 if you’d like to drop by. 📍🦄
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The power of community building is so underrated. If you can bring people together around a common interest, you can bring people together to launch something amazing.
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Starting our LA
#TechWeek
with a panel and brunch with
@ComcastVentures
&
@M12vc
🌴
Here’s a look from the Universal backlot. Cool venue to begin the week with 👀
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Excited to cover an incredible Armenian-led startup this week for Unicorner! Feel super lucky to know the great team behind
@embry_tech
and their awesome product
This week, we featured
@embry_tech
, an insole for your shoes that monitors your wellness. Some highlights 👇
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Welcome to my personal handle; I don't tweet out as much as I read, but that doesn't mean I'm not here 👋
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Thursday: the parties begin!
@ericzhu105
invited us to join him at the new Hype House before we headed out to the
@swimply
mansion party at the old Hype House.
@thechangj
@EstebanAvocado
@RealJustinJia
hosting a great party as always 🦆
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You see someone wearing one of these. What's the first thing you say to them
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My home country of Armenia is under attack. Our soldiers—many of whom just turned 18—are fighting to protect our lands.
The international community needs to hold Azerbaijan and Turkey responsible for their aggression. Help do your part.
#StopAliyev
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The best part about building a newsletter like
@UnicornerNews
: we get to work with some of the most brilliant founders out there.
Given the
@Techweek_
updates, I couldn't help but remember the LA founder panel we put together in 2022. Good luck
@KatiaAmeri
& team! Excited 🙌
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Last
#TechWeek
event for the day: rooftop happy hour with
@brexHQ
and
@vouch_group
Great stuff,
@thechangj
,
@DavidSantMon
, and team 🍸
Excited for tomorrow 🦄
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People of Twitter! Please be sure to nominate
@UnicornerNews
for the 2021
@ProductHunt
Golden Kitty Awards. For the categories, you can choose best overall, best side project, or best community & social. Let's do this! 🦄
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The day has come! 🐝
It's not every week you get to cover a newsletter publishing powerhouse. Excited to feature
@denk_tweets
& the
@beehiiv
team following their Series A. 🦄
This week, we featured
@beehiiv
, the next-gen newsletter publishing platform powering Unicorner. Some highlights 🦄🐝👇
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@alexisohanian
Alexis, r/azerbaijan is spreading misinformation and glorifying violence. Reddit is giving yet another platform for Aliyev's dictatorship to spread its propaganda. This needs to stop; please communicate with the admins. Your word has leverage.
#StopAliyev
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Founders & investors in SF: join us and the
@Wefunder
team this Friday, Feb 24 for our first
@UnicornerNews
happy hour. 🥂
We have limited spots left. If you know someone who should join us, tag them below! 🦄
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SaaS, 2023:
such aggressively aggregated software
Reading about
@useagave
in
@UnicornerNews
this morning - the more I think about it the harder aggregation as a service appears
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Super excited to be covering CopyAI this week at Unicorner! I’ve been following
@PaulYacoubian
and
@chris__lu
’s journey since October, and it’s great to see what they’ve accomplished to date. Be sure to give it a read and follow both founders for more cool updates 🦄
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Every AI thread:
I spent five minutes searching about ChatGPT.
Here's are 15 prompt hacks that will make you an unstoppable force in the world. 🧵
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Too much talk about vertical integration
Not enough talk about nap integration
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@whrobbins
"Hardcore" is a pretty subjective term in the startup world imo - in academia, you think of Harvard, Caltech, etc as hardcore because of their established credibility. Whereas the whole point of startups is that they're on their path to establishing that credibility in the future
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@Kalshi
@mansourtarek_
@luanalopeslara
@neo
@apartovi
@mypawp
@MarcAtiyeh
@AndrewMalek27
@codyrsimons
@Lux_Capital
@HOFCapital
@OrderShef
@joeygrassia
@alvinsalehi_
@altro_app
@ServeRobotics
- food deliveries via robots
Started as
@Postmates
Serve and after getting acquired by Uber, it spun off into Serve Robotics.
Founded by
@ahkashani
- ex-Special Projects at Postmates/Uber, and a serial entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in Robotics & Computer Vision.
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If you're building something cool, come tell us about it on
@TheGenZClub
tomorrow night at 7 PM PDT.
cc:
@Alec2435
@ethankeshishian
@itstimconnors
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When the
@read_dashboard
AI sees someone talking too much
This week, we featured
@read_dashboard
, a platform that tracks online meeting engagement. Some highlights 👇
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@Kalshi
@mansourtarek_
@luanalopeslara
@neo
@apartovi
@mypawp
@MarcAtiyeh
@AndrewMalek27
@codyrsimons
@Lux_Capital
@HOFCapital
@OrderShef
@joeygrassia
@alvinsalehi_
@altro_app
- raise your credit score with subscriptions
You get a card from Altro that you use to pay for subscriptions. You then pay back that card, increasing your credit.
It has all the positives of paying off credit without the negatives of opening a new credit line.
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@Kalshi
@mansourtarek_
@luanalopeslara
@neo
@apartovi
@mypawp
@MarcAtiyeh
@AndrewMalek27
@codyrsimons
@Lux_Capital
@HOFCapital
@OrderShef
- get home-cooked meals from around the globe to your doorstep
Founded in 2019,
@joeygrassia
and
@alvinsalehi_
wanted to make home cooking as accessible as possible.
They've raised $100+ million to make that happen, serving 11 metropolitan areas in the U.S.
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The best part of running a startup newsletter:
@ethankeshishian
and I get to talk to the founders of some insanely cool companies.
My inner astronaut was especially excited about this week's cover of Charter.
@AstroLawyer
is building something awesome. 👨🚀🚀
This week, we featured
@charter_space_
, an all-in-one management software built to aid satellite missions. Some highlights 👇
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You can rent out "super" strength at $299/month
Just saying
Exoskeletons and power suits? Sounds like something out of a movie.
But it isn't—
@germanbionic
is keeping workers safe with smart suits.
👉 German Bionic is a Germany-based robotics company that designs and manufactures wearable technologies for the workforce. Its offerings…
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Starting the morning off day 2 of
#TechWeek
with a gaming and entertainment demo day with
@a16z
x
@Stonks_dot_com
First time at the Google Venice office 📍
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An AI writing tool built for creatives, by creatives.
With a platform intended to empower, not replace,
@WriteOnSaga
hopes to shift attitudes surrounding artificial intelligence in the writing world toward the positive. 👇
AI writing tool built for creatives, by creatives. 🦄
@WriteOnSaga
is an AI-powered story-writing tool.
Saga helps screenwriters populate their ideas with complex characters, deep themes, and more 👇
💰 Priced at $20 per month
📈 Raised $125k pre-seed from
@Jason
via
@LAUNCH
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Google celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday.
It's hard to imagine a world without info at your fingertips. Yet 25 years later, in a world of AI, the way we process info is rapidly changing.
Who will be the Larry/Sergey of AI? Who will we be celebrating 25 years from now?
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Our friends over at Respell are live on
@ProductHunt
today 🦄
Take a sec to support their launch and drop your thoughts on their page before end of day 👇
LIVE on
@ProductHunt
🦄
Respell has officially launched 🚀
Come show your support and let us know what you think!
👇
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Go check out
@ProductHunt
#GoldenKittyAwards2020
— and go support our launch while you're there!
WE’RE LIVE! After months of hard work, Covalent has launched on
@ProductHunt
. If you have a moment, head over to our launch page and show our team some love 👇
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"Startup Revolution" now has nearly 1,000 Medium and 5,000 LinkedIn views. During the past few days, I've received countless connection requests from Armenian engineers, VCs, and CEOs.
Armenia's tech game is stepping up. It's time to take notice, people.
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@Bfaviero
This is the kind of quality content we look for in companies we cover at
@UnicornerNews
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Wednesday: we started at a place familiar with us—namely, a future of work panel held by
@uclaanderson
at
@UCLA
. Great conversation led by
@ZubinDavar
(and many thanks to
@THalamandaris
)
We then made our way to Santa Monica to enjoy some tacos with
@angellisttalent
🌮
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