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founder & CEO @theleague // nor cal girl 🌉 gone so cal 🌴📍atx // hiker by day 🥾hacker by night📱 @carnegiemellon @stanfordgsb alum

Austin & LA
Joined December 2009
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
A much belated life update - I’ve sold my company, @theleague , to The Match Group! WE’VE BEEN CALLED UP TO THE BIG LEAGUES! We’re now competing in the same arena as the most successful dating brands in the world, so I’m hiring a world-class Head of Marketing & Head of Product to
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Proud mom to 21 more frozen oocytes 🪺 This was my 5th & most productive cycle yet! (tho > 35 yo so its probs a wash probability wise). Tbh I didn’t think any funnel could be worse than @theleague ’s 😂 until I started number crunching to see # of frozen eggs needed for 3 kids 🤯
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9 years ago I incorporated @theleague with the goal of finding an equally ambitious life partner & to create a community where equal partnerships were the norm, not the exception. Use my anniversary VIP link to skip the wait 🙌 #neverSettle #meetYourEqual
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@Jack_Raines 💯! I pitched LinkedIn cofounder Allen Blue on this in my PM interview back in 2013. I also pitched LinkedIn becoming a CRM / sfdc competitor, and said I would happily lead both. Needless to say I didn’t get the job, so built it myself and it worked! 😂 @theleague
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@shl Hard disagree, good founders do the heavy lifting, esp in beginning
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It is, however, super interesting to see how many more high quality eggs I got post selling The League / since I have adopted much healthier habits then when I was in the thick of founder hell, 2016, not exercising ever with lots of unhealthy habits and no sleep etc. Maybe better
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10 months
Finally going through our user survey on dating & marriage - I am pleased to see that the men on @theleague crave an ambitious, goal-oriented partner nearly as much as women do! This is a huge shift from our parents generation
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Amanda Bradford
7 months
Single founder by choice 🫡
@agazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki
7 months
Friendly reminder you don't need to have a co-founder to build a startup and 67% actually fail due to co-founder conflicts.
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@ShaanVP Oregon trail
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Amanda Bradford
4 years
@groumbais @michelletandler @SFPD @sfgov @sfbos I don’t think it should be spearheaded by @sfbos at all, that’s part of the problem here, it should be audited by sf residents with P&L experience
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Amanda Bradford
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@theleague Credits: 🥇So much gratitude and pure love for my League DREAM TEAM who’s heavy lifting got us over the finish line: Mary Bradford, Eddie Bradford, Marko Krosnjar, Laura Stover, Christopher Taylor, Michael Rapp, David Siu, Rozmeen Ali, Kazuyuki Kohno, Alonso Holmes, Tiffany Von
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
@heyalexfriedman I’m so with you, it’s Cali prices here without prop 23, and anything with a decent lot is priced as if has an ocean view 🤯
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
Austin at twilight
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Amanda Bradford
5 months
Woah! The end of an era. How is @bumble going to play the feminist card now!? #dating #datingapps #bumble @nytimes
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
The 1st check IS EVERYTHING.... @XFactorVentures 2nd Fund has launched and I'm excited to be part of the team that invests in more than 50 new female-founded companies going after $B opptys! Get in touch if you're building something we should know about!
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
The austin founder/creator crew is STRONG, thanks Nick for making IRL meetups happen. I left inspired by these two to stretch my creator muscles finally - which apparently means cringe posts are a given in my future so buckle up 😂🙄🫠🤷‍♀️🙈
@nickgraynews
Nick Gray / How to Make Friends
1 year
I was with 2 founders in Austin today Left is @kimkaupe — she’s huge on LinkedIn but I’ll try to get her here more Center is @amandabradford — she started dating app The League and recently sold to Match Both very smart and savvy 👍 You should follow them!
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
Who needs tech conferences when you have podcast meetups w theme parties & a @Grimezsz set? Met such an awesome group of new besties at @allinsummit ( like @AlexElsea )! Thx @Jason @friedberg for creating an oppty for us to meet & rock my red rave wig. I’m all in 4 Dubai 2024…
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Alex Elsea
1 year
In this beautiful moment, the billionaire Wolfram Alpha founder, one of the world’s leading academics, held an impromptu debate on the essence of our universe outside an insane @Grimezsz rave where many of the world’s top founders/VCs danced like its 2021 That’s the @AllInSummit
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Amanda Bradford
7 months
I love this list and this one especially: 16. If you are fundamentally building and marketing something that is an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you on that.
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David Senra
7 months
Some of my favorite @naval ideas: 1. If you don't know yet what you should work on, the most important thing is to figure it out. 2. Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom. 3. You will get rich
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Amanda Bradford
7 months
@defendChrist @theleague 💯agree that frozen eggs are definitely not a commodity
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
I just published “Venture capitalist bias against female and minority founders is a real thing.”
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Amanda Bradford
8 months
If you haven’t laughed out loud today, this one checked the box for me
@historyinmemes
Historic Vids
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Steve Carell did not know that the cast would sing '9,986,000 Minutes', as it was kept a secret from him. His reaction to the song is real and not scripted.
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1 year
@thesamparr @theleague Best video of a backflip I’ll probably ever have maybe I should use it for all my posts 😂
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Amanda Bradford
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@gregisenberg Totally. In my next life I want to be a co-founder
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Amanda Bradford
8 months
Truth. I have never been defeated in this category nor do I ever plan to be🏆
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Howard Lerman
8 months
Founders, your #1 is QA of your own product. No one can find bugs like a Founder
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
You know you hired two amazing leaders when you ask them why things went well and they blame the other.... — feeling thankful
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9 months
This made me lol
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Sheel Mohnot
9 months
people getting upset about unreplied-to emails all the way down
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Amanda Bradford
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@sweatystartup This worked for me in LA but not Austin. Some markets like austin have pocket listings (off MLS) which are guarded by gate keepers and incentivize both buyer and seller with less property tax bill due to off mls transactions not needing to be disclosed
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Amanda Bradford
9 months
💯 agree
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jimmy
9 months
don’t date when - your life feels chaotic - your home isn’t in order - you don’t know what you want date when - you very much love yourself - you feel a strong center of gravity - you have space for someone else go inward, find your intentions, be intentional
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Amanda Bradford
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@FoundersPodcast @naval 16 is an excellent mantra to have handy when approached by acquirers that threaten to build it if you don’t sell. Wish I had hung this on mirror >>> If you are fundamentally building and marketing something that is an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you on that.
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Amanda Bradford
10 years
@theleagueapp is funded! http://t.co/PXfYmYRJO0 Sign up & join me in my mission to make online dating less terrible: http://t.co/cVqsn9PEZy
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
@Aella_Girl @tailcalled Interesting! If you did this pre-work w/ your audience we could send the final survey to @theleague users to get unbiased sample- I’d be curious how our users grade themselves on the sex negative sex positive spectrum & how it correlates w/ who they seek
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
Just found out we have the first #leaguebaby !! Buying him a onesie immediately. I also think I should be picked to be godmother 󾌴
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7 years
Amanda Bradford interview in Forbes! The League launched in Toronto this week as well as San Antonio, Sacramento...
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7 months
@EuphoricFuzion Woah! Bc the stress/pressure is gone I suppose. So interesting! maybe people need to go on baby making sabbaticals lol
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Amanda Bradford
9 months
This is the recipe
@TaraViswanathan
Tara Viswanathan
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hire great people. pay them well. hold them to high standards. 🔁
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Amanda Bradford
4 years
@JCT_212 @tiffani What infrastructure of the city funded by taxes was used to build the startups? Muni?
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Amanda Bradford
4 years
Yes! Investors FINALLY are seeing it!
@BrianNorgard
Norgard
4 years
If the Bumble IPO proved anything today it’s the TAM of online dating is massive.
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
So...apparently that “panel” I did was a recorded podcast....🤷‍♀️ awesome time jamming with @subes01 !
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Sunil Rajaraman
5 years
We just released our podcast episode about modern dating featuring @amandabradford from The League - one of our best guests to date. The best line from the episode - she describes Bumble in two not-so-flattering words (cc: @LisaQFetterman , @kaykas ):
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Amanda Bradford
6 years
Excited to be asked to be on one of my favorite podcasts!!!
@twentyminutevc
The Twenty Minute VC
6 years
Fascinating to hear @amandabradford @theleague discuss her approach to A/B testing demand for a premium product! Love to hear how you think about this vs the burning the bridges approach @aileenlee @Rosenrosen #vc #startup #founder #entrepreneur
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Amanda Bradford
9 months
I’m so glad we can edit SMS texts (imessages) now. My adhd trigger happy fingers breathe a sigh of relief that my logical brain can catch up. Why did that take so long. Also why did it take so long for suitcases to have spiny wheels
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
Pumped to do my first ever live podcast (😬) tomorrow about modern dating / life in San Francisco for “This is your life in Silicon Valley” podcast with the one and only Sunil Rajaraman!!!! Come out and join the fun!...
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
Honored to share this list with these gems!!
@YFSMagazine
YFS Magazine
8 years
10 Impressive Startups Founded By Women ft. @amandabradford #womenintech
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
@hunterwalk This also happens tons in dating! User: “Bug report - my match randomly expired!? We were having a great convo!” CS: Ummm......he/she expired you early
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2 years
@dustychipura Kramer obvi!
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8 years
The League went live DC today! Best birthday present ever is finally being a 'national' community! Thanks to...
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4 years
@ajt I love this question! Timeshares?
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
The opening experience for silo is beautiful
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
@agazdecki I like to frame this as above average at pretty much everything but best in class at pretty much nothing
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
@_TamaraWinter Oh man I wish this campaign only cost $200K - want to guess again? 😅 @_TamaraWinter are you not feeling our #goalDigger campaign? Have you seen our other taglines? Would love to hear your thoughts! Now that they’re all finally up I’m going subway riding to see them 🙌
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
Agreed - main thesis of my company @theleague
@JoshConstine
Josh Constine 📶🔥
1 year
Facebook fumbled the bag so hard on being the common denominator identity platform. By never trying to be cool, LinkedIn never became uncool, and outlasted everyone as an immutable utility
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
London League goes live in 1 hour!! So excited to be in London with Meredith Davis and Rob Clough holding down...
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
@ABCsofADHD Thanks for posting about ADHD things daily. I am newly diagnosed and a silent appreciator of these threads that help me learn about it without a giant research project, and hear how it impacts random day to day stuff. If there is anyone else I should follow would love to know! ☺️
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Amanda Bradford
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@danhockenmaier I agree w this take, pick one and crush it. We did this & it worked (press). Only issue is if it dries up (like when everyone moved to social media + press paywalled) you’re back to square 1 (0?) so maybe takeaway is Always Be Exploring/experimenting/improving your #2 channel too
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@thesamparr @WSJ This is so embarrassing for them
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Amanda Bradford
5 years
As a solo founder, I disagree. Being able to do an A- job at everything across the board is necessary to get your company off the ground!
@nytimes
The New York Times
5 years
In Opinion “School is the only place in the world where you’re expected to excel at everything, and all at the same time. In real life, you’ll excel at what you do best and let others excel at what they do best,” writes Margaret Renkl.
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3 years
New Story: Bucky’s first car wash
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1 year
@JessicaVaugn This makes zero sense, what are you trying to say? You are worried being good at biz means you are repelling men? Our data shows otherwise, men like women who are ambitious. Agree with whoever called this word salad 😂
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
Huge (belated) congrats to my friend Brendan Dowdle on raising a MONSTER SERIES A for his startup Arraiy (transforming how filmmakers create visual effects for film/TV - eliminating thousands...
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Amanda Bradford
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One of my hardest learnings as a founder / business owner when some of my favorite people left 😔
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@eriktorenberg Yay! I’m going in July! 🙌
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Amanda Bradford
6 years
@jasonlk Agreed with always remembering who gave you a check when you had no traction yet ( @rosenrosen , @aileenlee @robsiegel ), as well as remembering to appreciate luck + timing + the people that helped in the early days! Just wrote a post about this today!
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Amanda Bradford
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💯This holds true from my experience too (albeit we were at a much smaller scale). We were more effective with 12 vs 35 employees, and when there was one point person on product decisions (me, the founder), no question
@emerywells
Emery Wells
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I built and sold for $1.3 billion to Adobe, and along the way, I received plenty of advice that turned out to be entirely off the mark. Here's a look at some of the most glaring misdirections: 1. "As CEO, focus on executive business tasks." This couldn't
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Amanda Bradford
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If OpenAI is back, we're all back, so we're bringing @theleague back on Twitter, er, X! We'd welcome any thoughts on content (you'd want to read/follow). I'm pushing for FUNNY "overheard @TheLeague " tweets that illustrate dating in today's weird era, but maybe overplayed? Ideas?
@theleague
The League
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Hello X, it's been a while! Here's a refresher on our mission to help goal-oriented, ambitious people find a long-term relationship 👇 👇 👇 🔗
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Amanda Bradford
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@dustychipura Thank you I needed this today! Do you find your ghost rate on emails/text/slack goes to an all time high when you throw in a bunch of travel (creating even higher level of crushing guilt of knowing you probably won’t respond 🫠🥲)
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Amanda Bradford
11 months
Wow this is getting so spicy
@Benioff
Marc Benioff
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Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese. Send me your cv directly to ceo @salesforce .com. Einstein is the most successful
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@nikitabier This is how markus would launch POF but buy up all the brand new google mobile ad space in a country
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
I am pro-vax but getting these brand new vaccines to be listed in childhood vaccine schedule is gross & clearly (the only way) for Big Pharma to have zero liability for any long term effects that may show up from the vaccines. How did nobody stand up?
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
Congrats on going live Sam!
@thesamparr
Sam Parr
2 years
ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm back. Last July I founded a new startup. Today I'm sharing it with the world. It's called Hampton: a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs. Why launch a community? I'll explain + why it'll be huge biz.
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5 years
I guess it’s a good thing my father raised me with no filter! 😂
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Sunil Rajaraman
5 years
Thanks to @amandabradford from The League for making controversial statements about @bumble on the podcast - and to @TechCrunch for publishing the transcript :).
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Amanda Bradford
11 months
💯. Up there with SVB & FTX, it’s been a strong season in the twitter reality show network
@paularambles
“paula”
11 months
if you’re not in tech then all you need to know about the past weekend is that your tech friends went through like three seasons of succession
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My favorite kind of launch party - a digital one with no set up and no clean up! To all my singles out there, please join me for our League Live Launch Sunday December 1st at 9PM!!! Be there...
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Amanda Bradford
9 months
I made my first meme today when a friend sent an article telling me I was smart to move to Austin, what do I do now how do I make it more memy and look more like it was birthed from a Reddit bro
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@ShaanVP It’s how I learned about the dangers of cholera & diphtheria
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
Wow - speaking at this event made me want to be 19 again sitting there with the whole world…
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
Houston get ready for the best singles rooftop party you've ever seen tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7pm! Texas friends...
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
So proud to call this brilliant, creative, kind and beautiful woman an investor (my first “big” check!), a...
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
Goodbye london league, hello Vienna! So excited to see this country AND watch the brilliant & vivacious Coralie...
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Amanda Bradford
9 years
@pattistanger Yes! I've been collecting single amazing men/women with brains/entrepreneurial spirit on @theleague . Join!! Thx @laurenbwolf
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
100%
@agazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki
2 years
"You need investors" "You need connections" "You need rich parents" "You need capital" "You need a novel idea" "You need a ton of experience" “You need a cofounder” You don't need any of the above to build a startup so please stop making excuses and please start building.
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Amanda Bradford
8 months
Perfect summary
@bnj
Ben South
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@AzianMike Market = wave Product = board Founder = surfer
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Amanda Bradford
4 years
Yup. It’s incredibly difficult to get positive unit economics with Facebook CAC and Apple 30% take
@shl
Sahil Lavingia
4 years
Apple’s 30% is probably the main thing holding back the creator economy.
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
@flanciscoz @theleague Thank you!!! Best video of a backflip in my entire life haha
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
It's finally happening - The League is launching DC this Thursday! DC friends, you better be coming to Hawthorn...
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Amanda Bradford
7 years
We're live in Toronto!!! And yes, I highly recommend dating Canadians :) Sandy Gibson...
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Amanda Bradford
1 year
@zallarak Who needs a lead when you’re surrounded by angels ❤️😇
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
So excited to speak at this conference!!! It's all about that hustle...
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Amanda Bradford
8 years
That's it. I'm only dating androids from now on :)...
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
💯💯💯
@brian_armstrong
Brian Armstrong
2 years
Twitter has broken just about every piece of this FTX story using blockchain analytics, while NYT is writing puff pieces on a criminal. Feels like a turning point for citizen journalism and loss of trust in MSM.
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Amanda Bradford
9 years
Excited to speak at @General Assembly's Female Founders panel tonight at 7pm! Come check it out and throw some...
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
I subscribe to this wholeheartedly
@midnyt_simlyn
ꜱᴛʀᴀʏʟɪɢʜᴛ
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@karrisaarinen They barely shipped anything *because* they hired so many people. The more developers you have, the slower everything gets. Keep your team under 10 people and you will go at lightning speed.
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Amanda Bradford
2 years
@Jason @theallinpod How would (each of) you design the government of Mars if you were its founding fathers?
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