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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

Really enjoyed doing this podcast interview for Secret Leaders. Thanks @danmurrayserter !

Dan

@danmurrayserter

3 years

Sued by Disney ✅ Sold biz for $1M ✅ Viral Internet hit ✅ ...all before finishing University. And that's just the first 10 minutes of today's awesome episode with @thread Co-Founder @KieranO

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7 months

@dereklwalker From the way you describe the company/management it sounds like you didn’t like or respect them. Why did you stay?

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@inthecompanyof Vaporwear Illiquid Death Ugo Bust Forever 0 Gaap Rip Url Archaeologie Bankrupt Boys Club GUESS WHAT

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3 years

@beaniemaxi Weird take. SpaceX is one of the most impressive things in human history, and web3 is full of bag promoters.

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4 months

@PradyuPrasad Don’t forget it lasts six weeks start to finish, vs two years of distraction and discord in the US

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@KieranO

2 years

@hubermanlab When will you put out a one-pager table on optimal habits/behaviours over a week, like you did for fitness?

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@KieranO

4 months

@shriyanevatia Depends if you're launching into an established category or creating a new category

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Currently all UK-based Y Combinator and Techstars companies are ineligible for the Future Fund. These are some of our brightest, most innovative startups. We've written to @RishiSunak and @hmtreasury to ask that they be allowed to take part.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

@amasad Hey, I'm fan of what you guys are doing, but a bit of candid feedback is grandiose, unknowable statements like that don't come across well.

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Kieran O'Neill

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7 months

@paulg Looks like a great workout for all involved

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@matthewclifford Most people I speak to in the UK seem to have a fixed pie mindset, which feels like the root cause

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@KieranO

8 years

Working on HR is the most leveraged area a CEO can focus on. CEOs who see it as a secondary function misunderstand how value is created.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

8 months

@MohammedAlo Looks like 10 of those studies don’t show a statistically significant reduction. Overall it’s very positive data for statins, but when you exaggerate you undermine your point.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 months

@siimland Has there been any research into how big a role genetics play vs lifestyle into rate of epigenetic aging?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 months

@mcneilly_alex Any plan that involves doing something else before you do the thing you really want to do is mid. If you want to build, just build.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 years

@devahaz @jasoncwarner If we’re assuming positive intent, I’d say it’s often less just about cool tech, and more people wanting to be future proof, scale well, follow emerging best practice, etc.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

Really excited to collect this stunning piece @travislrogers . Can't wait to see what you do next!

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

@malcolmtyson @amasad I have only positive things to say about Amjad in general. Honest feedback about a specific thing is healthy and should be encouraged ✌️

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 months

@GjMcGowan @eve_sleep They paid £80 + saas fee for this free exposure :)

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

Speed is directly proportional to autonomy. The more other teams (or the CEO) need to be involved in a decision the slower it’ll move. This isn’t just because of the logistical cost of involving more people, but also because anticipated bottlenecks diminish urgency and momentum.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

monogrid by @kimasendorf is one of the most complex and beautiful art collections I've seen this year. Definitely check it out ()

KiM ASENDORF

@kimasendorf

3 years

monogrid b9 is on auction @objktcom 24 hours; minimum bid 1 tez;

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

11 months

It feels like there's a shift happening currently in the tech leadership meta, from decentralized teams optimizing KPIs to top-down concentrated bets. This is best summed up by @bchesky in his recent interview with @lennysan . But it's happened elsewhere, e.g. Spotify, Wise. All

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

Mission is why, vision is what, values are how

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 months

Brainrot defence mode engaged

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

@amasad My comment was made with nothing but positive intent. Take from it what you will.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@BradStanfieldMD I love your advice generally Brad, but I think this is one position I suspect you’ll change over time. The better we understand our bodies the healthier choices we’re likely to make. You want people to understand what food choices cause unhealthy spikes before they have diabetes

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@Dr__Guess I suspect you’ll be on there wrong side of history in this one. Giving non-diabetics an insight into how their body reacts to food is a practical and helpful education that will lead to healthier habits and a lower chance of becoming diabetic. Have you actually tried Zoe? If you

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 months

@justindross The moral panic around seed oils isn't supported by the data. The problem might be as simple as excess calories. Portion sizes in the US are a lot larger, and the food is typically less satiating than in Europe.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

12 years

It's taken me 8 years of product design to learn these lessons. The best intro to UI design I've seen: http://t.co/q80QEKE2 /cc @bokardo

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Usually as a startup CEO the difficulty level increases slowly as you get further into the journey. This crisis just accelerated us all 10 levels. Now more than ever it's critical to reflect on how you lead, proactively seek feedback, and evolve your style.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

7 months

Why not make gym access free for the whole population? - NHS spends £73 billion treating preventable chronic diseases - 68 million people in UK - Exercise has the largest effect size for reducing chronic disease - With scale economies you could prob do it for £5-10pp/mo = £4-8bn

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

8 months

@MohammedAlo If the error bars cross 1 then it’s not a statically significant reduction, even if the mean line is below 1, right? There are 10 studies where the error bars cross 1.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

12 years

"Culture is how people decide what to do in the absence of explicit instruction." http://t.co/maTtiOEJ

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

Like this tweet if you often find yourself walking down the street composing emails in your head

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

@jeremysliew How present they were; how quickly they demonstrated that they got it by asking piercingly precise questions; whether I learned anything new

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 months

American friends: there is not a free speech problem in the UK. The laws disallow inciting violence (also illegal in the US) and hate speech (for which there is broad support). There is a line and I think the UK walks it pretty reasonably.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 months

@CamiloBAcosta @paulbz This is undergrad-level thinking

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

When things feel like they're going backwards, it's helpful to zoom out. We're doing OK.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 months

@nikitabier Secondaries fairly destigmatized at this point, no? ~80% of the 20-30 Series B+ founders I know have sold secondaries 1-2 times (goes back to ~2015, not just a 2021 thing)

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 months

@21spices @giorgallidis This is an out of date view, we now know this isn't true

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

When building products, should you be customer-led or vision-led? Optimal is both: talk to customers a lot to refine your mental model of the world, then form a bold, contrarian vision about the future you're working to create. Rinse and repeat as you go.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 years

@mlinsey @m2jr Think this is the best answer in the replies

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 years

@Gurpreetnarang2 @FoundersPodcast The New New Thing by Michael Lewis

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

Data vs intuition misses the point. Data makes your intuition better; intuition tells you which data to look at and how to use it.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

Dream startup idea checklist

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 month

@johnrushx It might not be best practice but > Startup Idea → Design → Coding → Audience is how most successful startups did it

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

A great question to help accelerate self-development: What behaviours do you occasionally or frequently exhibit that you'd be horrified if your whole team adopted?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Today the Government extended the Future Fund to allow startups with non-UK parent companies, because they participated in overseas accelerators, to apply. We called for this in May, and I've been impressed by how openly @hmtreasury engaged on the issue.

More firms can now benefit from the Future Fund

More start-ups and innovative firms will be able to apply for investment from the government’s Future Fund from today (Tuesday 30 June).

www.gov.uk

Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Currently all UK-based Y Combinator and Techstars companies are ineligible for the Future Fund. These are some of our brightest, most innovative startups. We've written to @RishiSunak and @hmtreasury to ask that they be allowed to take part.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 years

Subtle shifts in language can change group dynamics enormously. How different would team meetings feel if instead of "I don't agree with that" we all consistently said "I don't currently agree with that" or "That doesn't match up with how I currently understand things to work"?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

It’s pretty obvious given OpenAI’s rate of execution that they will add persistent memory, full personalization, connecting to all your existing services (Gmail, Drive, Slack, etc), agents, and more within the next couple years. Founders should stay well away from startup ideas

Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)

@8teAPi

1 year

I don’t know why there is any surprise. Here’s OpenAI’s product strategy for the next 2 years: - you will be able to upload anything to ChatGPT - you will be able to link any external service like Gmail, Slack - ChatGPT will have persistent memory, no more multiple chats unless

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

@thefunnyguysNFT @fx_hash_ This is a gem:

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 months

@alexabelson9 @Kazanjy Unfortunately this is a common scam. You get charged and he gets paid without having to do a ride.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Maximizing optionality = minimizing meaning

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@david_perell

4 years

My life improved dramatically once I stopped chasing optionality and committed to the things that mattered to me most

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

12 years

The surest sign a startup is going to fail: the founders calling developers 'techies'.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

8 months

Our board meetings became twice as effective when we switched to a written doc that everyone read/commented in silence during the first 30 mins of the meeting. Why it works so well: • Ensures everyone has actually read it (and remembers it) • Prose leads to much clearer

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 months

The day you internalize that there are no quick hacks to get what you want in life is the day you're set free. Stop striving to find the magic answer, and just start showing up and consistently putting in the work every day.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 years

Good teams focus on getting better. Great teams focus on improving the rate at which they get better.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 years

Honoured to be included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Consumer Tech. It's a great list.

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@thread

9 years

Proud to share that our founder @KieranO has been named one of the #forbes30under30 for consumer tech!

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 months

@JaceThings "annoying"? 🙃

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

13 years

Great list of the top startup posts of the year http://t.co/huQfEdI2

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

7 months

@nikitabier Was building gaming social products in 2009 and it was always Brazilians then

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

11 months

@Austen An important nuance is he was fired without cause. If he was fired for poor performance, sexual misconduct, etc there wouldn’t have been a revolt. In a way the employees’ collective action was governance of the governors.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@BradStanfieldMD Hi Brad, for your questions: 1. The value lies in seeing first hand how you react to different foods, so you can tweak your diet to avoid unhealthily high spikes. For me I learned that oatmeal spikes me beyond the safe levels recommended by the CDC (), but

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 years

@hubermanlab I tried this yesterday and it worked for me too

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

11 years

I Can't Believe Every Headline In The World Now Sounds Like Buzzfeed. If This Trend Continues You'll Be Horrified By What Happens Next.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

11 years

If I were starting a new company today I'd spend the first month doing nothing but going super deep on understanding the problem.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

@msoriaro Sorry to hear that. I know frustrating that can be. Quality is what matters; we'd much rather wait then there be a problem that affects the work.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 months

Founders often assume there’s a linear relationship between price and demand. More often there are consumers who want your product and have some flexibility on price, then there are other consumers who aren’t willing to pay for it no matter how cheap it is.

Gokul Rajaram

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3 months

CHARGE 5-25X MORE FOR YOUR CONSUMER SUBSCRIPTION PRODUCT Consumer CEOs: Charging $20 monthly / $200 annually for your product means that you need 1M subscribers to get to $200M ARR. Given the high churn with consumer SaaS products (4% per month not uncommon) you will need to

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 months

@garrytan It feels like savouring the moment and optimising for extraordinary are different things. Reminds me of an OG Zuck post on the tradeoffs of a life optimised for happiness vs impact.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 years

Part of leadership is helping connect the dots for the team between today's priorities and delivering the long-term mission. Your OKRs should achieve your strategy, your strategy should deliver your vision, and your vision enables you to achieve your mission.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

@johncutlefish In strategy theory, I don't think so. As any competitor has equal access to it, it would be considered part of operational excellence rather than competitive advantage. However, in practice it could be if all your competitors happened to be poorly run.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 months

@LNuzhna You do not need to check every scientific study yourself to believe it’s a better model than divine revelation

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 months

@joshelman Just reread your 2023 predictions. What did you have in mind when you said there are finally now ways to help people see that micro health actions add up?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

7 months

@altcap Calcium CTs are amazing. But they only catch heart disease AFTER it’s started damaging you. To prevent it getting to that stage you should be getting an annual check of your ApoB, HBA1C, hsCRP and blood pressure, and acting now if they’re elevated.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

I am verifying for @verses_xyz : sig:0x8391ffb75b508dcf7d3e21a7e4d2de0b992b5c1a896014d97983fda9d91703eb22c60f8e0a61244828ef8f49614a1308521a7b1d19cc73a9731b7145b5e6e70b1b

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@BioLayne Did you leave off cardio/Vo2Max intentionally? I know RT helps Vo2Max, but are there not complementary heath benefits from adding in some zone 2/zone 5 training too?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

8 years

Magic requires small teams.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 months

Also the type of moat. If you’re in a network effects, scale economies or high switching costs business and you don’t raise much capital but your competitors do, you’re at a major disadvantage.

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@bryce

6 months

“Time to revenue” is a more instructive metric for who should/shouldn’t raise VC than potential size of exit

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@levie So so bad

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 months

Having kids: trading 75% of your free time to get the most precious things in the universe

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 years

One of the great ironies of startups is that the only way to get truly rich is by being motivated by more than getting rich.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 months

All the "Gen AI is a sustaining innovation" takes feel so shortsighted. GPT4 was released 10 months ago. Our thinking is still stuck in the prior paradigm, so naturally all the current use cases will feel sustaining. Give it time for us to catch up.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

4 years

Want to know what someone truly values? Understand why they made the life choices they did. How someone historically navigated tradeoffs is the purest signal you can get.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

14 years

LinkedIn should have evolved into what Quora has become. Start with CV, then build authority, following, celebrity in your subject domain.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 months

This tweet goes out to all the founders out there having to figure out how to reply to “So how’s it going?” this holiday season

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 years

I was asked by @EveningStandard which apps, media, products and gadgets I've been using recently. It was oddly satisfying pulling the list together.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 years

Make your calendar reflect your priorities.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

2 months

I suspect ~100% of founder CEOs think they already operate in Founder Mode. We need to flesh out the principles further and create a self-evaluation quiz to help people see their behaviours more clearly.

Paul Graham

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2 months

Founder Mode:

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 months

@andrewdsouza But Airbnb did follow YC's advice, and even credit it for helping them succeed?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 months

@pixlpa Or maybe he's getting nearer to the end of his life and wanting to share what he's learned with a wider audience

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 year

@BradStanfieldMD I think most dermatologists would encourage these things 🤔 Don’t give up your integrity for a few extra views Brad, we like you for your level-headedness.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

10 months

@LizziePaton Aren’t they acquiring it for $0 and injecting $500m capital?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 years

@thesahilshah @DouglasCarswell @PaulRae_Jigsaw @mikebutcher Brexit would be a disaster for tech companies.

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

6 months

@alexabelson9 @Kazanjy tbf he was scamming, no?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

3 years

@qaulv @fx_hash_ @UseMasterpiece @artblocks_io Nice to see the AB data! I think so much is different for NFTs in general between Nov 2020 and Nov 2021 that I'm not sure we can extrapolate too much from AB's shape?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

7 months

Is it possible to train an LLM on the 1 million emails in my Gmail account and ask questions about them?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

5 months

@AndrewArruda @PalmerLuckey Which talk is this from?

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

9 months

Couldn’t think of a better signal it’s the ideal time to build in consumer

The Information

@theinformation

9 months

Venture capitalists have given up on the idea that they’ll make their career finding the next hit consumer marketplace, retail brand or media company. Dealmaker by @KateClarkTweets

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@KieranO

3 years

@fx_hash_ 🤯 Will be great for up-and-coming artists especially

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Kieran O'Neill

@KieranO

1 month

@nivi Learn about the world from reading, learn about yourself from writing

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