Timothy Young
@timyoung
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CEO @heyJasperAI , Fmr President @Dropbox , Founder of Socialcast (acq by VMware), VP Prod&Eng @VMware , Founded (acq by AOL) & built lots for @Interscope
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One of my best tips for founders: Ask every employee each week to email you the 3 things they are most worried about.
#founder
#entrepreneur
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🚀Excited to step into the role of CEO at
@heyjasperai
! Deeply humbled by the trust & kind words from
@DaveRogenmoser
.
Building tools and platforms that reshape work has always been my north star, and from my tenure at
@Dropbox
, I realized how content sits at the heart of…
Big news from the
@heyjasperai
camp today. I’ve hired
@timyoung
on as the new CEO of Jasper and I couldn’t be more excited.
Over the last year, we have shifted our focus from a writing assistant to becoming a true AI copilot for marketing teams. Specifically, we’ve become a…
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Super humbled and honored to have the opportunity to further partner with
@drewhouston
in serving our employees and customers at Dropbox as President. Thank you to our entire team. There is so much opportunity in front of us.
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New blog post: The Art of Fundraising: How I Raised $10 Million for 2 companies in one year
http://bit.ly/cQ9Yfm
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And finally, everyone's Dropbox has a story to tell. This week we introduced a new brand campaign to remind the world that for all things worth saving and sharing, there’s Dropbox. We’re incredibly proud of this effort, and hope you love it too.
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Excited to announce that Dropbox has acquired DocSend! Thrilled to bring together
@Dropbox
,
@hellosign
, &
@DocSend
to give our customers a full suite of self-serve products to manage their content workflows.
@rheddleston
& team welcome to the DBX family!
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Post Beats deal, Apple's products will no longer say "Designed in California". Being replaced with "Straight Outta Cupertino."
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Feeling lost, depressed, frustrated, or overwhelmed as a founder or CEO? My best advice is to drop everything, pick up the phone and speak with a supportive customer. The conversation will focus you on what ultimately matters and instantly reinvigorate your spirit.
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The most memorable days are the ones that suck the most. Not because of how much they suck but rather because they mark the starting line where you make a pivotal change. Growth is born of failure and suck. Success is born from that growth.
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Value follows developers. Crypto is no different than the past tech growth trends. As my old mentor
@Paul_Maritz
at
@VMware
once told me, "Developers are the best canary for where we should be focusing our investments."
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We were also proud to share this week that all of our data center storage server power is now covered by 100% renewable electricity—well ahead of our 2030 goal.
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Proud to share Dropbox's strong Q1. In addition to being a profitable quarter that beat estimates, we also welcomed
@DocSend
to the Dropbox family, saw continued momentum with
@hellosign
, & expanded access to premium features like Dropbox Passwords. Much more to come - Go team!
Our quarterly business update: Q1 revenue of $511.6 million, up 12% year-over-year, with $2.1B in ARR. Read more in our full earnings release: $DBX
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This is perhaps the best tweet to date from
@GeoffLewisOrg
- but sadly it will also be the least understood.
Changing the timescale on which you think will change your life.
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Not being taken seriously enough in your fundraising meetings? I suggest wearing these to your next VC meeting.
http://t.co/vVPDl6DcTt
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As we continue to focus on network effects, we saw a 15%+ increase in link sharing thanks to redesigning our web & mobile sharing experiences - including increased visibility for the “share link” button and faster upload speeds.
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As we focus on bringing more workflows to our users, we’re off to a great start with DocSend. DocSend exceeded our internal goals and milestones in Q2, and we made great progress integrating the product into the broader portfolio.
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Opportunities create opportunities. If you have an opportunity, seize it. If you don’t have one, create one.
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With eSignature requests up 75% YoY
@HelloSign
continues to see strength. We introduced support for Qualified Electronic Signatures, the most trusted & secure form of eSignature that also meets European Union eIDAS compliance.
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@hunterwalk
Agreed. Your best people always leave first. Typically, talent exits at board level are summed up simply as “regrettable vs non-regrettable attrition”. Level of impact, exit rate, or network potential of additional exits are not tracked or discussed in detail consistently.
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1/ Excited to share some of the new capabilities our team here
@Dropbox
has been designing to help our customers move their work forward.
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I spend a lot of time on BTCtalk Altcoin Announcements [ANN] searching for the next great opportunity.
Here is my guide for easily avoiding pure shitcoins (aka shit I wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole).
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The Dropbox Professional SKU — a favorite among freelancers and the creatives — is still growing at more than 30% YoY. Dropbox is uniquely suited to help these users, and we’re continuing to invest in new ways to support them.
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There are two types of people. People who actually want to do things and people who just want to have the illusion of doing them.
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@mitchellh
We feel you and agree. We haven’t forgotten our roots and that magical experience. It’s coming back very soon. Simple, pure, smooth, fast, reliable and there only when you need it.
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Your first job matters. Most people don't take their first job decision seriously enough. First jobs are imprinted on us strongly - both the what and how. They have an enduring effect on how we think about ourselves, our priorities, decisions and opportunities.
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Some start companies for the romantic notion of being an entrepreneur while others start to romance an idea that could change the world.
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We also recently announced the rollout of Camera Uploads to all 700M+ Basic users. Now they can automatically backup photos and videos from their mobile devices to their Dropbox account.
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@buccocapital
High growth covered up the quiet secret in tech that is the ineffectiveness of snr leaders to develop & manage middle managers. One day you are an IC, next day a manager. Prioritization & tradeoffs haven't existed in that layer. You need to do something new? Just ask for more HC.
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@andrewchen
Years ago (2009) this was the exact insight we had when we started . At the time, we were aiming initially to be the link people would insert on their Twitter bios.
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We generated cash provided by operating activities of $219.9 million & FCF of $216 million - a record! GAAP operating margin of 15.9% and our highest ever non-GAAP operating margin of 32%, with 13.5% revenue growth. See our GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation
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Thinking about goals tonight. "When a man does not know what harbor he is heading for, no wind is the right wind." Seneca.
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In my experience, the best early
#startup
employees are predominantly intellectually curious, collaborative & outcome driven.
#entrepreneur
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@parkerconrad
I have multiple emails from your team accepting responsibility for issue after issue over the past couple months.
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Humor is the most underrated tool for breaking tension internally in companies. The best managers carefully and deliberately use humor without it turning into aggression or sarcasm.
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I just sent out so many Keynote slide decks from this post
http://tcrn.ch/azcFbq
that
@googleapps
locked my email account. :(
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Founders should ban the word “fine” from use internally. Fine is meaningless w/ no details & not an acceptable answer
#founder
#entrepreneur
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Tech in SF: Best part is that every personal interaction is an opportunity. Worst part is that every personal interaction is an opportunity.
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It takes a hell of a lot of courage to pursue the insanity that we hold inside our heads.
#entrepreneur
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Architecture is destiny.
The initial structures you build for your company shape your growth and employee behavior.
- Declare a purpose
- Define success
- Establish checkpoints & align motivations
- Layout inclusive cultural rituals & identity
- Ruthlessly construct the GTM
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While $BTC struggles, the strongest performing large alts all have some of the most highly regarded developer teams and communities - $ETH, $DCR, $ZRX, $XLM. At the end of the day, value follow developers.
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@chasechandler
@scuttleblurb
@Dropbox
@drewhouston
Thanks for the heads up. I grabbed a subscription earlier today & am reading the post a few times over this evening. Will share w/ my staff tomorrow in our leadership meeting. Many of the themes & dynamics outlined are constantly discussed & strategized around on my team today.
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"Managing a business" is really just managing people. Managing their purpose, expections, creativity, and emotions.
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@levie
I saw this first hand. In 2009, I was at Nokia HQ in Espoo sitting in their exec sauna with their C suite team signing the deal for them to become a Socialcast customer. They said “you funny Americans, the iPhone is just a silly toy; what you call a fad”. 😶
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You can balance chaos with a sense of calmness by always looking far out ahead.
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Super excited for my friend
@joyce
’s new project - SparkChain Capital is a new $100M fund for crypto & blockchain
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Awesome & scary to think that an entire generation’s attention, behavior, & what they value is being aggressively shaped by the like button
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You are not a leader if you can't deliver bad news and still keep people motivated.
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Efficient management of your time, attention, and information gathering abilities are the 3 keys to success in today's world.
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4/ Today we are announcing Dropbox Capture, Replay and Shop— Capture is available in beta starting today for all our users. A great way to save time and reduce meetings, something I’m sure we could all use.
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People protect their property with great care and thought but are wasteful and careless with their time.
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SV is fixated on diversity (rightly so) but companies would be a lot stronger if they had mental health sensitivity & training for all staff
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"Up to a third of value-added collaborations come from only 3% to 5% of employees."
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I started my career working on water innovation and this is a huge opportunity. Much needed in the US and globally.
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While technology creates, it also destroys. My thoughts from last night on how
#SiliconValley
needs a wake up call.
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Why is anyone surprised that Twitter has no user growth? Most people lead routine lives & have nothing to say. (nothing wrong with that btw)
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2/ Be self-reliant. Don't diversify your time or effort. Be a nonconformist. Be present. Value uncertainty. Embrace chaos. Seek solitude.
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6/ Replay (simplified video feedback) and Shop (turn your
@Dropbox
content into a business) are coming soon, stay tuned for more on these. Excited for you to try these new experiences and give us feedback as we iterate!
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@devahaz
@laurajfagan
Sadly, this happens all too frequently in Cow Hollow these days. I’ve had it happen to my child and I numerous times since Covid began - even out in front of our own house.
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Good read by
@dennybritz
on being a solo founder. With Socialcast I was a solo founder but had a great technical team
http://t.co/0yr4Glpwtd
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2 of the most difficult moments in life 1) Facing the reality that your dream has come to an end, & 2) having the courage to find a new one
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Perhaps we all have a hidden genius waiting to be unlocked...Do our brains have extraordinary untapped powers?
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I'm excited to announce that Socialcast has been acquired by VMware. My thank-you note:
http://bit.ly/mAyu7T
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5/ Extremely proud of the small teams that are working on these new product experiences as they all started from strong customer insights and were born in our annual Hack Week as projects.
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Watch this to understand the current mindset of the average crypto investor.
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Simple change to improve your personal and work life: You should always ask "What if..." instead of "Why did..."
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“It’s not what the crowd believes. It’s what the crowd believes that the crowd believes.”
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"Pathmaker, your footsteps are the path and nothing more; pathmaker, there is no path, you make the path by walking." - Antonio Machado
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Don't long for the future while watching the present pass on by.
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Pretty tired of meeting w/ founders who tout their acquihire as a massive badge of success. Just be honest. The company failed. You failed.
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Apparently my office whiteboard is like snapchat. Wrote out marketing strategy plan, went to sleep, came back & janitor had erased it all. 😑
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There are no lightbulb moments. Progress and innovation are the results of growth from many small seeds over time.
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Some fascinating, just released light crypto reading for tonight from
@jcp
and
@VitalikButerin
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It's important to be sure you know the difference between knowing the path, walking the path, and building the path.
#founder
#entrepreneur
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Constant three step flow for entrepreneurship success: Listen, Learn, then Leverage
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People crave manufactured emotion. We favor what makes us feel.
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Interruptions are the silent killer of productivity and progress. The collaboration curse via
@TheEconomist
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@laraisuncool
@Dropbox
I’m looking into this now. Apologies for the fail. That shouldn’t have happened. My guess is you are on a Family plan.
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