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I'm imagining your november 1st phone calls when kids tell their parents "I got some snickers bars, and some M&Ms, and Mr. Johnson gave me a medical exam."
This halloween, am thinking I'll help kids test their blood glucose so that they can learn about the cause and effect relationship of sugar.
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Props to @nikitabier ... it is quite something to go into a 15-20 year old code base....ANY 15-20 year old code base, and act as quickly and nimbly as he has in making a variety of changes that certainly appear to be adding a ton of user value (and associated use metrics). Very
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Love seeing this throwback behind-the-scenes post from the early days of a now centi-billion dollar company (including what is surely the pre-handstand-pushup @patrickc's left arm in the shot here šŖ).
One Saturday 12 years ago, Stripe had a massive support backlog so we held a āhackathonā to clear tickets all day. I spent my weekend answering emails and somehow remember it fondly. Forgive the Instagram filter. It was of the time.
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This is a particularly curious take if for no other reason than John Altschuler was NOT the showrunner on Silicon Valley. https://t.co/HtzQYliz4m
variety.com
Speaking at Iberseries, āSilicon Valleyā' showrunner John Altschuler said on the real Silicon Valley: āThey're greedy, ravenous, terrible peopleā
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Iām 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. Weāre grateful to be partnering with leading AI Labs & fortune 10s, such as Microsoft, to train frontier LLMs. Weāre just
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Honored to welcome @adambain , former COO of Twitter, to micro1ās board of directors. Adam has already played a pivotal role in helping us earn the trust of multiple Fortune 500 companies. The entire micro1 team is grateful for his support and weāre so excited to be building
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Karri has always reminded me of @zoink in many ways, including but not limited to - a careful thinker. all responses are calm and considered - an artisan-like focus on Design and Purpose - no shortcuts. no edge or far corner of the company/product are unworthy of his attention
Happy to share that @linear has raised a Series C at a $1.25B valuation, led by Accel. Iām proud of how far weāve come while staying true to our way and values. In this next stage, Linear will be the purpose-built tool where teams, AI, and agents build software together.
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This is precisely the kind of idiotic behavior that will guarantee you keep losing elections. This is "defund the police" level stupidity.
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Wont post the photo to protect the guilty, but there is a 300 person line in Soho for a skin care pop-up at 10:30am on a beautiful sunday in new york. Like all soho pop-up lines (and there are many!) it's not really moving and designed to make the brand look even more popular by
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It's both fantastic and annoying to see how quickly @DanielLurie has whipped SF back into shape. I realize there's a ton more to do, but the fact this seemed like an intractable problem for years to the previous administration(s) is bonkers in light of how much Lurie has already
i don't know what sf's PR team is doing but i'll do the work for them i just wandered 20 minutes on a beautifully clean market street, no rotten smell, no people screaming in my face, no one doing heroin. this is powell station:
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This is really good. The sections on traits of top founders and founder assessment among partners are particularly great but the whole thing is great.
Uncapped episode #2 with @rabois is out! Here's what we discussed: (0:00) Competing where you have an advantage (2:29) Traits of top founders (7:16) Picking people (9:57) Being a consigliere to founders (13:54) Founder assessment among partners (21:51) Level of confidence at
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"Deel's alleged spy locked himself in an office bathroom when confronted by court-appointed solicitors on Friday" Probably not the best reaction. If true, you can imagine this guy getting a text from a burner phone later saying "I thought we agreed to go with righteous
Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched ādeelā in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deelās own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling.
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I'm sure nobody involved in the decision was long ADA because that is an OBVIOUS CHOICE to stockpile as a strategic reserve for the United States of America! (pour one out for Cardano's stated goal to "redistribute power to the margins"). Come on.
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You know you're in rare company when he says "you've got it all wrong, I'm a lot more like Genghis Khan than any of these other guys"
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"hey, which will get us in more trouble: not scrubbing problematic answers to questions about Xi or not finishing the find and replace of 'OpenAI with DeepSeek....hahaha just kidding, scrub the problematic answers"
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Psyched to be part of what @anuraggoel is building with the @render team. The "Stripe mafia" is emerging as the new "Paypal mafia", as many of the early Stripe team go on to found and build the next wave of great companies. https://t.co/CH42ul75AD
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Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: weāve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.
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