Michael J. Miraflor
@michaelmiraflor
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strategy/marketing/vc/ads/brands/trends. art. culture. music. travel. retail. fashion. sports. tech. @ucberkeley & @berlinschool MBA alum. retired DJ. 🇵đź‡đź‡şđź‡¸
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Joined May 2008
Twitter needs more celebrities being wife guys and posting photos of their day to day. IG type behavior on Twitter stands out so much. Justin Bieber and Dua Lipa really the archetypes of this right now.
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I taught Marketing class at NYU SCPS in 2012 (M.S. degree) and MAN, do I have some stories about the foreign nationals in my class. Maybe for a memoir or something. Got in trouble for asking too many questions….
Chinese student numbers in the US are down -40% since pre-pandemic highs, and now Trump wants 600k Chinese students in the USA. Let's look at the data. It is:.—+34% of all international students.—2.75x the ~218k Chinese students in the US today. Unprecedented influx of students.
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HOB was my album of 2011. In rotation with Drake Take Care, Watch The Throne, Frank Nostalgia Ultra, Kendrick Section.80, Childish Gambino Camp, Long Live A$AP, M83 Hurry Up We’re Dreaming, James Blake debut, Adele 21… Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Metronomy, etc. Great year of music.
Hot Take: this is the most important R&B album post 2010. I have it just slightly over “Trapsoul” and way above “Nostalgia, Ultra”.
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RT @ericzawo: Is there an agency that specializes in helping international (non-US) brands get on Tiktok Shop? I've talked to like five com….
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The greatest of culture clashes. Silicon Valley engineering vs Hollywood creativity. Civilizational-defining stuff imho.
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Quibi 2.0. I think this has a real chance?
People still dunk on the idea of Quibi but there are multiple Chinese-based short form video drama platforms that are making tens of millions off American consumers. Most of the grocery store smut variety, but still. An emerging business model that no one’s really acknowledging.
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We’re still getting random medical bills for my mom, 6 months after she passed away. From insurance, hospitals, ambulance service, etc. Every smart person has advised us to not immediately pay, and wait, and make phone calls to verify, because every bill is likely wrong in some.
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This was a trick question, btw. We all know what the real answer is: . Advertising. Every business at scale eventually turns into an ad network. Or sells customer data to brokers… for advertisers.
So are consumer facing LLMs going to spike in price eventually, post-growth phase when they are subject to normal market forces (vs VC funding)? . Like how $100 Uber rides used to be $15 in the ZIRP era? Is my $20 ChatGPT sub eventually going to cost $300?.
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Grief is a motherfucker. You can be having a completely normal and productive day, and a random memory or an image or even a smell can trigger a tidal wave of emotion and completely take you out for the rest of it.
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Having “multiple streams of income” used to be wealth coded. Now that same language is used by people who are just trying to make rent or build a basic emergency fund for themselves. This happened pretty quickly post-pandemic. More money printing will make it even worse.
Folks don’t talk about this enough. Having different streams of income is the considered the minimum to “survive” in this economy.
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So are consumer facing LLMs going to spike in price eventually, post-growth phase when they are subject to normal market forces (vs VC funding)? . Like how $100 Uber rides used to be $15 in the ZIRP era? Is my $20 ChatGPT sub eventually going to cost $300?.
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Having a second job (or more) is one of the rebrands of the century. Used to be minimum wage / working class coded. Now if you don’t have a side hustle or multiple projects, you’re not working hard enough. Unfortunately necessary for many in both cases, just to get by.
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Cameras in what?.
The bigger deal for AirPods are the future models with cameras. Apple sees this as their core AI wearable, especially for those who won’t want to wear glasses.
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RT @SeanEcom: Tariffs:.The defining trait of 2025 will be tariffs. Tariffs have gotten to their highest levels ever, faster than ever. P….
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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed". (For automotive, this means China).
The more Chinese car reviews I watch, the more I want to short the entire Western car industry. With the Xiaomi SU7 you get:.•Ferrari-level exterior design (basically a Purosangue rip-off).•German-level interior finish.•Tesla-like performance, range, and UX. All for 50% less
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Have also been waiting a decade+ for Amazon to offer a Physical book + Kindle book + Audible recording discounted bundle packages. I realize this is a pipe dream. They need product innovation now that Spotify and others are offering audiobooks as part of streaming subs.
True sign of corporate stagnation is that Amazon, who basically owns the ebook market, still has not integrated an LLM into their ebooks where you can select passages from the book and talk to the LLM about them.
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