Shawn Kelley
@shawnmk
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Co-Founder at https://t.co/Plk9IDufIY, prev at @SeatGeek. A bit of payments & fraud, real estate, design, web, business, life.
Portland, OR
Joined January 2007
Comcast (and other providers) auto-creating email addresses for every customer — which went mostly unused — was one of the greatest enablers of undetected payment fraud in the past 10 years.
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I’m often drawn to old printed ephemera. The design, the type, the intention, often so good and so inspiring. This weekend I found a treasure trove of great pieces.
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I don’t understand the use of presidential pardons. Woman steals $50m over decades from a small town — the largest municipal theft ever in the US. Served part of her sentence and then got pardoned today. Wtf.
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Rita Crundwell, the woman who embezzled $53 million during her tenure as Dixon’s comptroller, is released from prison, the City of Dixon confirmed Wednesday night.
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Just passed this (heading north). I had no idea so many tow trucks existed. Looked like 40-50 crashed cars 🤯.
I-5 is fully blocked in the Kent area and a miles-long backup is growing after multiple cars crashed into eachother this afternoon.
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18 months ago I left my full time job in tech and started an enterprise software company because I had seen the need for it. Two months later I added a co-founder (I’m operations, he’s technical). We’ve worked on it every day since then, have a team of 10 and an incredible.
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A good friend of mine was on a bike and was hit & literally run over by a car in Portland a few months ago. Major concussion, broken wrist, gashes, road rash etc. Car stopped, driver had insurance & cooperated. Two months before friend could go back to work. Found out today the.
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One of my favorite things of being a software provider in a space that I know well is the ability it creates for us to be a true partner to our clients. Today we helped a client discover a user who has been taking advantage of their promo code system in a way that was invisible.
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I don’t understand why so many late model Subarus always have burned out headlights. Nine times out of ten, if I see a single headlight on the highway it’s a Subaru 🤔
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I don’t think this is bad advice per se but I also don’t think it has to be between living really frugal/delaying gratification or being broke. I do think retirement as a concept is different than it used to be when the majority of people worked physical labor jobs that required.
For practically my entire life, both of my parents told me “you gotta create a budget and you gotta stick to it, invest each month on autopilot, and you gotta live below your means”. It wasn’t until I was about 40 that my mom casually mentioned in conversation that they never.
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Brilliant new product/approach and great product marketing demo 😂👏 I ate 5.12 lb of spaghetti like Will Smith at Stripe's usage-based billing demo.
stripe.com
Easily bill your customers based on their consumption. Set different pricing models, handle free trials, and automate billing cycles, with Stripe Usage-Based Billing.
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Plenty (esp coming from the PNW/west coast) would complain about the politics but honestly I feel like politics are effed up everywhere. It feels cleaner, actually developing and moving forward, more free and like people care about each other/community more than a lot of places.
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I’ve taken a few trips to Texas the last month (2x Houston, 1x Austin) and I understand the appeal of TX to so many people. Austin especially - feels like part SF, part Nashville, part New Orleans, part Portland. Tech+music+culture+active, all with a unique Texas twist.
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