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Nick Pappageorge

18 days

I built a bot that analyzes all the "hq" crypto pods for bullish/bearish takes & tickers the GC loves it, but I want a few more testers hmu

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

never ask: a woman her age a man his salary a defi protocol how their yields are sustainable

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3 years

me: why can’t I stop thinking about NFTs? my neighborhood:

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Nick Pappageorge

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2 years

tech people seeing other tech people in Mexico City

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Nick Pappageorge

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3 years

Alcohol feels like some boomer technology tbh

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Nick Pappageorge

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2 years

My message to the people running Taco Bell is simple: this is a time of war and global peril A cheesy Gordita crunch should not cost 5 US Dollars, that Gordita was like 2 bucks a year ago. Bring down the price to reflect the CPI print of 8.4% inflation. And do it now.

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4 years

theory: all the smart people have fled NYC, and now it’s just the hot people

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@NpappaG

3 years

I just got called a boomer at a crypto meetup for being in my late 20s

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@NpappaG

10 months

@krrishd in a phrase: yum yum ice cream so good

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Nick Pappageorge

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1 year

Spotted on N 6th in williamsburg: the nail in the coffin

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Nick Pappageorge

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4 years

An app that confirms when friends actually listen to the podcast/spotify links you sent them

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Nick Pappageorge

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6 years

The real citi bikers know

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Why derivatives will power the next wave in crypto, a thread:

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

The scene at the Fortnite World Cup, at Arthur Ashe the world’s largest tennis arena Winner of today’s solos tournament gets $3M

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Some personal news: I joined @Delphi_Digital to focus on crypto vc investing & special projects Delphi is a research firm at its core, but has expanded into a venture fund (first check in, no LPs, no mandates) as well as tokenomics consulting (Delphi Labs)

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

Tencent was a 5,625X return. Better than FB or Whatsapp by my calculations. This may be the best venture deal of all time:

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

If "moats" are the ability to sell addictive, legal drugs, I'd say today's ranking goes like: 1. Fortnite 2. Juul 3. Blockchain gainz 4. IG likes 5. Netflix binging 6. Buying latest iPhone 7. Free shipping 8. Reaction twitter 9. Travel 10. Foodie gluttony (or new CPG equivalent)

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

No days off @Delphi_Digital

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

idea: a DAO that makes money

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

Recently gave a talk about how AirPods will be remembered as our first taste of transhumanism Slides below, specifically getting into: -why audio is a massive platform shift -Apple & Spotify's strategies -AR + 'artisanal internet' -where startups fit in

Audio & AirPods: The First Taste of Transhumanism

Audio & AirPods: The First Taste of Transhumanism - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

1 year

I see a lot of crazy stuff as a night runner in nyc, but a rave on the williamsburg bridge is a first

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

just picked up my bib for the NYC marathon on Sunday shoutout to my sponsor @nounsdao !

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

yes yes, I am aware of this excerpt you can stop sending it to me

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

TBH the @Delphi_Digital - @Disclosure relationship is the most compelling story in NFTs so far

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Monday night in New York is more lit than SF on a Saturday

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

wonder what’s being tested at the @rainbowdotme office

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

All the buzzwords in tradfi fintech (eg open banking, the API economy, etc) sound like complete bs once you’re cryptopilled It’s like a ‘safe cigarette’ or ‘clean coal’ — the incentives will never produce a meaningful outcome

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

1 year

from shitpost to NYT Biz section, well done @ryandawidjan (who afaik coined it)

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

Mueller's S-1 just dropped

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Nick Pappageorge

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3 years

@tbr90

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

when I tweet fire music to zero likes

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

For the first year or two of publicly writing, you're kinda shouting in the wind, alone. Until you're not. Today I got my favorite DM yet, and it feels worth it.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

7 years

Just published a teardown of Amazon's strategy, nearly 10k words about where it's going in AI, drones, retail & more

Amazon Strategy Teardown

Seattle-based Amazon is doubling down on AI for AWS and the ecosystem around its AI assistant, Alexa. It's seeking to become the central provider for AI-as-a-service. But it's not leaving retail...

www.cbinsights.com

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

VC tongue twister - Thrive Capital, Tribe Capital, Trive Capital, Drive Capital, Thrive Global

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

Note to self: try to IPO during a historic bull market + balance sheet expansion + zero interest rate environment

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

8 years

Excited to announce Game Changers 2016—our selection of startups with world-changing tech via @CBinsights . PDF here:

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Just 3 years ago, DAOs were futuristic and mostly theoretical Now, they are standard practice in crypto, and rapidly becoming no-code simple (here's me in late 2018 explaining them, surreal)

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

8 years

I wrote about behavior shifts with the Amazon Echo and the potential of voice tech

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

Founders, leaders, and internal comms folks— We're opening early access to AllHands, a knowledge base for all-company videos, broadcasts, CEO letters & more. Apply here 👇

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

@corry_wang Great thread. Reminded me of this:

Puru Saxena

@saxena_puru

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Incipient bubble shown as a visual - H/t @skaushi

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

the startups integrating with Slack (/unbundling it)—epic market map from @judwaite :

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

10 months

Was getting dozens of .edu signups for @fwdaudio . All in one day, all from The New School. I have no ties, so I think it’s going proper viral. Turns out, the truth was even stranger: a professor assigned FWD as homework. And they’ve invited me to speak in class today.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

You only get one first angel investment. For me, that will always be the legendary @Appyg99 ! Apoorva gave me a lot of confidence at a time I needed it (and vice-versa I hope as her first backer) ❤️❤️

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

10 months

World, say hello to @fwdaudio — FWD turns your favorite blogs, newsletters, and news sources into podcast-quality episodes. The easiest way to get to… all that reading you never get to

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

Hypothesis: we’re past peak credit card

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

TSA at a Delta-only terminal is wildly backed up, and Clear (the fast pass startup) is aggressively hawking its services — a number of people jump out of line and pay $180 to cut The whole thing rubbed me the wrong way So I look it up, and look who stands to gain here. Delta!

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

I'm writing an upcoming series on audio, AirPods, voice, and music Also, I'll be going full-meta and will send the posts out with audio for the lazy. Sign up! (Or be cursed with total irrelevance)

Audio-First | Nick Pappageorge | Substack

Exploring the future of audio, airpods, voice, and music. Click to read Audio-First, by Nick Pappageorge, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

pappageorge.substack.com

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

You vs. the subway they told you not to worry about

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

9 years

I mapped the landscape of Industrial IoT startups via @CBinsights #IoT #IIoT

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

I don't want much in this life but I do want to start a B2B startup appear on 'Jeopardy!' get crypto rich unseat the Live Nation monopoly win an EGOT write a book climb Kilimanjaro have a huge family move to LatAm angel invest and give back before I die.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

NGL, it pains me to see crypto founders pick trad VCs for the brand a global network of 70+ degens will help more than a boomer who hasn’t staked anything since their tent at Boy Scout camp

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

🫡🫡 @nounsdao 🫡🫡

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

wicked FOMO I’m in not in NYC tonight but I’ve been living with a dishwasher so it kinda cancels out

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

Domino’s pizza tracker is the next L1

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

First time squatting since Feb, wish me luck

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

required reading for learning web 3: nothing, tbh the only way you’ll learn is aping / using protocols, and if it’s too daunting watch Finematics videos oldest to newest & hop on RabbitHole

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

I wrote about the one thing making WFH a little more pleasant: electronic music

A Field Guide To Electronic Music

Historical appreciation, the best Essential mixes of all time, and "altars" for electronic music.

pappageorge.substack.com

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

7 years

I mapped out the AR/VR startup landscape via @CBinsights . 110+ cos by tech stack (hardware➡dev➡apps➡distribution):

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

I’m a simple guy—I hear Balaji on a podcast and I parrot it endlessly as my own

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

DJed a little mixer for the @shotsonclub ladies on friday did NOT expect them to be such house & disco purists, that was fun

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

9 months

@nabeelqu Uh that is nothing compared to this part

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

TIL Asheville, NC is the synthesizer capital of the world got to see how Moogs are made

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

imagine not loving new york

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Everyone talks so much shit about SF, but can you think of a better place to be exactly 37 years old?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

stop liking this dumb tweet

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Just aped into SF for a bit. First bar I go to I ask a girl for her name and she pulls out a poetry foundation web page and proceeds to read me verse. It’s different here.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Thanksgiving success: redpilled the fam on securities laws, ketamine & psilocybin research, the death of the nation state, and DAOs what would they even do without me?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

Have a little Nujabes, as a treat

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Imagine having a huge tech exit, buying the legendary nyc nightclub Output, and turning it into a wedding venue instead of restoring it to its former glory. It ruffles me daily.

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Nick Pappageorge

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3 years

when did you realize it’s better than MBDTF?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

The @sacca beard game remains strong is that thing sequestering carbon?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

Keep thinking about this passage from @antoniogm The torch-passing at mega startups must be something to behold

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

Yeah I got in on some wireless IPOs and the stuff just skyrocketed

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

7 years

@ReformedBroker Never bring a machete to a garbage can fight.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

My younger sisters are in college (or just out) and both a bit unsure of what to do/be. I offered them a flight to NYC if they read a 2 books of my choosing, starting with Zero To One (big one for me). Need to figure out the other. What should it be?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

I’ll never forget being the buzzkill at the crypto dinner party recently—where I was the lone dissenter who didn’t agree crypto abundance will solve society’s ills. (And I’m as techno-optimistic as they come.) some great points here on the limitations

goodalexander

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I just read an interesting thread by @RaoulGMI talking about techno utopianism and how we are all going to make it. 1/ We are in what I believe is the final stage of the Super Bubble. The Super Bubble is the misconception that bailout capitalism is actually a free market.

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Nick Pappageorge

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3 years

I’ve been entrusted to write the @Delphi_Digital Friday email and so far I’m enjoying the creative license

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Nick Pappageorge

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6 years

Me when the subway works normally: NYC is the center of the world, how could one dream of living anywhere else Me after a 3+ minute delay: what a once-great, past-prime shithole that’s crumbling before our eyes

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

DJing 2 parties in the next 2 nights, any heaters I should prepare?

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

My takeaway from today: esports is so obviously the future

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

Quick update: temporarily traded NYC for nomad life in... rural Georgia (the best spot we could find on eastern time). Hung out with my mom in Maine for a bit too. Truly been the weirdest year.

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

I never replied to a friend’s email, and he wrote it word for word onto a postcard and sent it cross-country lmao

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Nick Pappageorge

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5 years

I’ve listened to so much Kanye West that I arguably believe in myself too much

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

just dawned on me the S&P 500 is just staked USD

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

2 years

the lifelong democrat leaving my body around tax szn

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

70+ degrees in NYC—in February— is both a treat and absolutely terrifying

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

6 years

@ScottMAustin @eliotwb Exemplary use of analyst comment right after:

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

1 year

just rode my 1000th mile on citi bike! talk about a true public good

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

Say you take an AI system trained exclusively on Beyoncé songs, and then release a song that sounds LIKE Beyoncé. Is Beyoncé owed anything? Several legal experts believe the answer is “no.” Mind-bending implications on AI authorship from @danideahl :

We’ve been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one’s prepared

AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist?

www.theverge.com

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

7 years

Common Stock Charlie... a VC remix on the vintage finance meme (from today's @CBinsights newsletter) h/t @alexander_paci

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

Cousin Greg as Adam Neumann I'm still processing this

Lesley Goldberg

@Snoodit

5 years

Exclusive: #Succession breakout @nicholasbraun will star in a scripted TV series about #WeWork based on the book by WSJ reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

11 months

@BillAckman ngl you had me till the last line

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

5 years

@Austen The $15B analyst figure is prob a bit inflated (and would be for 2020) But AirPods are selling as much as the iPhone did out of the gate

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

4 years

LFG!! AllHands is #1 on PH today

AllHands - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

AllHands is the source of truth for company culture and announcements. Organize your team's videos, podcasts, posts, and Q&A in one place—with feedback tools to measure the impact.

www.producthunt.com

panda

@usepanda

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AllHands (posted by @npappag ) #1 on PH:

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

Grateful to have met a long list of tweeps, anons, & friends-of-friends on this latest west coast trip As I did 2 hours of yoga with an anon from the DMs, it dawned on me this ‘modern friends’ concept is very powerful

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Nick Pappageorge

@NpappaG

3 years

So good to see the twitterati again at last night's tweetup young ones don't know, but before @singareddynm @HipCityReg and @mikedemarais took the lead circa 2018, there wasn't anything like this in NYC

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Nick Pappageorge

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2 years

while you were out partying I studied the chain

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