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Founder. Ski, F1, chocolate, & dog enthusiast.
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
If San Francisco can update the code of a website in less than 4 hours so people don’t have access to parking ticket data anymore, I know that we can do more important things quickly too, but inexplicably choose not to.
RIP. In lightning speed, the city changed their site so I can no longer get data. That's probably it.
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This is likely the fastest growing startup you've never heard of @Freshpaint_app is a privacy platform that makes websites HIPAA compliant Seeing their growth has been nothing short of incredible... they took years to hit $1M in ARR, and then months to go from $1M-$10M in ARR
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This isn’t truck stuff. This is Prius stuff
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Imagine SF has the greatest startup factory in the history of capitalism (read: creates oodles and oodles of high-paying jobs) telling founders to build their companies in SF…and half the city hates these people’s guts. Any city would be lucky to have this
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Fuck me this is wild
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A brief chat about wearing avalanche beacons inbounds. ➡️ When there's new snow, wear one. ⬅️ The reason it is called "avalanche mitigation" is because it reduces, not eliminates, the risk.
Wear your beacons inbounds! Please.
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Humans have a vice grip on the whole apex predator thing
How bees are trained to detect explosives https://t.co/LmCRoSqUqE
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But honestly…only 3 people have emailed me directly. The bar to get ahead is so low.
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1,500 applicants in 24 hours for our recruiter opening…really tough time to be a recruiter in tech right now
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Let’s goooo this is sick
Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels. We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional. We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.
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Freshpaint was like bottom 5% in the batch. So bad we actually deferred demo day to the next batch, and STILL had not an easy time fundraising. Fast forward a few years later: after our Series A we’re growing 10x (!!!) YoY. The road is long and filled with ups and downs.
When someone says you might be left “high and dry” if you aren’t a top 5% in the batch Don’t believe them
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Massive waste of money for a town with a population of 32k. And it’s the largest town in the county!
The Pullman Police Department is proud to improve public safety response through the deployment of an urban rescue vehicle! Learn more: https://t.co/I5NbdlL8FV
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Everyone left at Open AI is about to get a lesson in the amount of founder willpower it requires to build a company.
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Protein shake influencer boner vs one of the greatest athletes to ever have walked this planet
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This guy just casually found $92 million today
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This guy is why my family has shifted most of our travel to hotels. $150 cleaning fee and he still wants to you go thru his checklist to clean yourself. And then gets mad when you leave a sink full of dishes and one shelf of food in the fridge (normal). Cmon.
Airbnb checkout: Acceptable or excessive dirty? Checkout Instructions posted & emailed twice.
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I would 100% piss in the alley around the corner instead of going near this circus. …which is exactly the thing public restrooms are supposed to solve for. Californians should not tolerate this bullshit.
LA Park Rangers struggle to convince a severely mentally ill woman to briefly exit the toilet stall she’s living in so that it can be cleaned. California law prevents authorities from intervening to help the woman, so they eventually give up and walk away https://t.co/8KsLtBcJod
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The other day an investor told me that we are the only portfolio company (out of ~60!) that has consistently sent an investor update since day 1. He also said we are their fastest growing portfolio company. The Web 3 companies are the worst at regular updates he said.
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