Athena Kan @athenakan_ Twitter profile

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 months

Andrew Reed

@andrew__reed

7 months

Finally made a triple venn diagram I can be proud of

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Incredibly dangerous to have your company’s name start with an A “I work at Affirm” “Oh which firm?” “I work at Asana” “Oh which sauna?”

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@athenakan_

6 months

🤯🤯🤯 Figma announced $12B ARR!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Zapier is a great product but the team is becoming complacent! if you're looking for a startup idea, there is a huge need a competitor now. if you build this I will be your first paying customer & help raise your round here are some ways u can build a 10x better product: (1/n)

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@athenakan_

1 year

I trained GPT-3 on every Money Stuff post published in the last 5 years. Here's what the model outputted:

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@athenakan_

2 years

Hot take: Amazon has done more to push wages up than any min wage law We work with tons of employers who’ve had to significantly raise pay to compete against Amazon offering $15-20/hr

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Don’t let anyone stop you from verticalizing everything. Lending for therapists. Stripe for artists. Payroll for real estate. Just rng a NAICS code + fintech category

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Forbes 30U30 nominations are due tomorrow If you are: - an immigrant - applying for an O1 visa soon - need some news coverage hmu

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

One underdiscussed challenge many female founders face: VCs don’t usually make purely team bets on them Have seen lot of men with truly awful startup ideas - get funded - realize their idea is bad - pivot into something great But women aren’t given that opportunity!

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@athenakan_

3 years

new On Deck fellowship ??

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

love that the Ramp support docs feature gifs of Looms of a person with an ungodly number of tabs showing you how to use Ramp

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

school who has trained 15K+ electricians just reached out to work with us 😳 excited to expand into a bunch of other vocations soon 👀

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

I believe we should have near open borders, especially for skilled workers and founders! While that remains impossible, If you are: - applying for an O1 soon - someone I know, and - interested in a Forbes 30U30 nomination, DM me!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

This is the most frustrating one for me: Very poor unit testing support. you have to test with live samples! the way you test sending an email to a customer is you have to actually send an email to that customer. there's no "test mode" or way for you to preview the email

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Excited for the trend towards hyperspecific founder dinners, here are some suggested groups: - married couple cofounders - founders who raised a $30M+ "Series A" - founders blocked by pmarca - founders who almost launched last week but didn't because Russia invaded Ukraine

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Very poor debugging support - if a zap fails it's tedious to figure out why & error messages are not descriptive

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

for those who are 18-23, apply for the 2022 Interact Fellowship! fully-sponsored weekend summer retreat (among other things) for mission-driven technologists meet future mob bosses, become one yourself, etc

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

had more @dreambound students in Jan than the last quarter combined! 2022 is going to be an insane year 🎉

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

What a nice belated birthday gift! honored to be featured next to @camitellez13 @kesava_kirupa @benpasternak

How 15 People in Their 20s Built Million-Dollar Businesses

Think you're too young to start a business? These inspiring young entrepreneurs built companies that are making the world a kinder, more fun place for all of us.

www.entrepreneur.com

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

all these tweets saying "the most successful people respond to emails within 5 min" are psyops to get you to respond faster to them

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Zapier is slow: takes a long time to open zaps, load options, add steps We need a Superhuman for Zapier (keyboard shortcuts could be nice too!)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

What is with people needing their water to be cold all the time I would keep my Brita filter in the oven if I could

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

(A bit delayed) but excited to announce our partnership with Honor, the largest home care network in the world!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

We have heard from our partner trade schools that “Everyone is Zelle-ing” (not Venmo, Paypal) ..narrative violation

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

personal life update: have successfully completed my first pull-up!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

lmao John Foley, the Peloton CEO, is on the Peloton layoff google sheet circulating around

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

SF literally has free, fully self-driving cars that anyone can take - not sure why there’s a debate where tech is in America

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Doesn't support obvious features w popular apps eg there's a trigger for created and deleted events in Calendly but not rescheduled events (yes there's a webhook for rescheduled events in the Calendly API)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

I'm doing an AMA on @elpha this week! Feel free to troll me but also down to answer questions about: - labor marketplaces - why fintech & edtech go hand-in-hand - and more!

Office Hours: I'm CEO of Dreambound to train people for trade jobs and run a Peppa Pig themed VC...

Office Hours: I'm CEO of Dreambound to train people for trade jobs and run a Peppa Pig themed VC meme account.

elpha.com

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

There’s been some insane innovation in fuzziness of blankets in the last 10 years In 2012 we were satisfied with those fake velvet plush throws (figure 1) but now we have faux fur softer than real fur (figure 2)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Clunky, bad design - eg no way to view what the full text of "Contact activity: Me..." is even with resizing windows, clicking into box, etc ended up having to inspect element lol

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Brittle support for any sort of branching in workflows. If you want to add an if/then branch it can only go at the end of a Zap and you can't move/copy actions! so if you want to add a branch to an existing zap you have to manually copy every step in the branch over

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

Having a hard time getting in front of someone important? , simply brute force their Calendly link

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Pave acquired Option Impact!! there's now a monopoly on tech salary databases, where is the FTC

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

Super excited to work with @jffmsl @NickSinai to launch a tech internship program at a federal govt agency 😍

Introducing the Civic Digital Fellowship

A premier data science and technology internship program across federal agencies

blog.codingitforward.com

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

At Dreambound we're able to see what's happening in the labor market before any data is publicly available One trend I'm seeing: workers now prefer the *physically closest* job instead of the *highest-paying* job bc of high gas prices

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

bought this oolong chrysanthemum tea for the office to remind myself of getting dim sum w my family while at work however, it has backfired and now I think about work while at dim sum

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Female CEOs have been pushed out after hit pieces saying they hold their staff to high standards Meanwhile there's a male CEO of a company with a hit piece saying he verbally abused employees & jacked off in his employee's bed and he's still there🤔

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@athenakan_

2 years

There's a HUGE crisis going on at nursing homes right now: - Health care workers are required by law to be vaccinated - But COVID vaccination rates among health care workers are lowest among certified nurse aides (<50% CNAs vs 96% of doctors!!) (1/n)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

TIL the Mormon Church has a huge workforce development arm to get their believers upskilled a local branch just paid for one of our students to start class 😳

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

From one of our recent graduates 🥺 "You have no idea what you've done for me...There are a lot of mommas out there like me that don't know what they're going to do from one day to the next...and BAM- there y'all were, Dreambound!"

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

one of our alums referred 34 candidates in the last 3 days 🤯 go Karla!!!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

Free startup idea Zapier but with literally any support for debugging and unit testing

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

lmao

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

my portfolio is 50% ETH 50% Costco

Vikram Rajagopalan

@rajavick

3 years

🧵 🧵 the most wonderful time of the year-- the 2021 Costco Annual Report just dropped; once again they crushed an insanely challenging year 🦠 let's dig in to understand how they’ve navigated the pandemic by leaning on their strengths 🥕 🧵 (1/26)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

Quora and Reddit need to merge. Quora kills it in SEO but no one likes using it; meanwhile everyone has to append "reddit" to get any reddit results to show up

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

4 months

true friends engage with your cringey linkedin content

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Never too late to make a career switch 😁 61 yo customer started their journey to become a Certified Nursing Assistant through @dreambound !

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Costco reported an all-time high for membership renewals. US & Canada renewal rate was *92.3%*, 90%+ worldwide! are there any other consumer subscriptions with higher renewal rates? 🤯

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

So it turns out that this beautiful new building on Van Ness is not @benchmark ’s latest office but in fact a climbing gym

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

Best decision I've made in college!!!

Dorm Room Fund

@DormRoomFund

7 years

JOIN THE DORM ROOM FUND TEAM 🚀 We're looking for a new batch of investment partners at DRF. LEARN MORE & APPLY 👉👉👉

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

If you complained about female founder hit pieces (and drove traffic to them by doing so) then you are ethically obligated to share this one

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

if you've previously won and want to help more people enter the beautiful USA, please hmu too 🙏

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

We have a big smoking meat culture @dreambound , one 20lb brisket has sustained the whole office’s meals for over a week now

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

more of my friends than ever are starting companies — very excited for them 👀

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

such a privilege to be a part of the family 😍

First Round

@firstround

7 years

. @DormRoomFund announces its new partners! The strongest community of student entrepreneurs continues to amaze us.

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 months

@jfbrly Hope to make it to the money stuff links section

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

Loom is going to get killed by @jamdotdev for debugging If you trigger a bug you can share your last minute (w logs included) instead of reproducing and screenshotting everything manually

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

@JanOberhauser @grahamneray @ravisparikh nice good thing i'm a technical person trying to build complex workflows

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

6 months

@bnj This wouldn’t have happened under Michelle Obama!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

"You know what else is a free library? A regular library.’”

Bloomberg CityLab

@CityLab

7 years

"Little Free Libraries sprout where public library branches are plentiful and where neighborhoods are white."

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

have been on hold on the phone to pay business federal taxes for the last 2.5 hrs with no end in sight. fortunately the line is available 24/7, will call back at 2AM

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

One very cool thing about helping people get their CNA licenses through @dreambound is we see so many unvaccinated students but they're willing to get vaccinated to go through our program 😁 making a diff one student at a time!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

My favorite little known fact is that sauna usage causes (temporary) male infertility

prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️

@mrexits

2 years

My favorite little known fact is that you can reduce your chances of a biological death by 40% (!!!) per year by just using the sauna 4-7 times a week for 15 minutes @ 180°F +. Source:

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

this whole time i thought it was omnicron not omicron

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

It is too hard to start a small business! The state of Florida threatened to send us to collections for $20 (which we paid months ago, they just didn't match up our payment to the bill) !!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

If you see a hit piece on a founder and they step down shortly after, that probably means their board was trying to push them out

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Just learned that the largest potato in history weighed 5kg. This whole time I thought that the 6 ton potato Airbnb was a national award-winning potato they hollowed out and turned into a hotel. Feel very lied to rn.

Farm stay in Boise · ★4.90 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 bath

Big Idaho Potato Hotel 🥔

www.airbnb.com

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

just heard that the Nevada DMV requires a password exactly 8 characters long(??) and is! not! case! sensitive!?!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

5 months

at a coffee shop and the people behind me are talking about doing a RIF. but turns out they were jazz musicians

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

The NYC GOP mayor candidate: - founded vigilante justice org that faked rescues for publicity(??) - was once kidnapped by NYC mafia and shot in the groin The Dem candidate: - lives in NJ - says his tax returns dont reflect that bc his accountant was homeless?? what is going on

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

I very fortunately didn’t have this experience so it’s not all bad! But have seen many friends who have

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

This is the most brilliant tiktok growth hack I’ve ever seen This guy is typing out all of the US cities and commenters are adding their cities to help him out He’s done 60% of the whole US

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

APPLY NOW: Silicon Valley-esque internship in the federal govt!! Looking for data scientists, PMs, designers & data journalists!

Coding it Forward

@CodingItForward

7 years

The Civic Digital Fellowship is now live! Thanks to @NickSinai and @jffmsl for their #civictech enthusiasm!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

6 months

@alth0u And webgl !

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

should I buy this for the office yes or yes

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

one of our partner employers says he spends $600k per month(!!!!) on staffing agencies for nursing assistants right now... insane

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

Amazing to see that DRF is the largest subcommunity within YC's S17 batch!! 😍😍

Dorm Room Fund

@DormRoomFund

7 years

1) Next week, 7 DRF startups will be pitching at @ycombinator 's demo day, representing the largest community in YC.

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

11 months

Uber finally won - got matched w a taxi driver!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

“The new movement recruiting designers for social good” Thanks @mollieruskin @SFath for letting me interview you!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

Hey @LondonBreed @GavinNewsom would love to have you at our office tree lighting ceremony over Zoom 🙏 Are you both available?

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

Seems like there might be a lot of fraud in hiring rn Got an applicant who applied with a name completely different from what was on their resume and introduced themselves under a third name!

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

11 months

Discord's revenue model seems kinda sus - I've never met anyone who has paid for Discord Nitro, all the benefits are purely cosmetic, everyone on Reddit who says they pay for it do it out of some weird sense of charity

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

10 months

The Information does by far the best tech reporting - they get every juicy scoop & nail the facts (mostly) whereas some other outlets’ tech desks (won’t name names…) are brazenly wrong

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

Hey @matthaneySF - London Breed didn't show to our tree lighting ceremony so we've rescheduled it Are you able to attend on Monday?

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

coincidentally banned nsfw chat in late May

character.ai | Personalized AI for every moment of your day

Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.

character.ai

Brett Winton

@wintonARK

1 year

@zackhargett that's 3 month trailing visits(?) rather than monthly (which is running at mid-60s) also has fallen off in June session length still super-impressive...

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

How Mark Zuckerberg Fundamentally Changed the Culture of Harvard via @TandCmag

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

Oops and since we never announced our round, there you go 😅😅

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

1 year

You’re a libertarian? Then why don’t you park at the $0.30/30 min spots in the city, defunding the city 2.6-2.9% at a time (depending on what they negotiated w their payment processor)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

@joshbuckley @ycombinator and 7 from this batch are backed by @DormRoomFund 😉

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

7 years

It's been incredible going from an idea to a non-profit creating federal government jobs in just 6 months! Thanks for all of the support ♥️😍

Coding it Forward

@CodingItForward

7 years

It's our 6th month anniversary! 🎈We're going back to where it all started by reflecting on our launch:

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Update: Zapier has been shipping way more fixes/features than usual...not trying to take credit but

Athena Kan

@athenakan_

2 years

Zapier is a great product but the team is becoming complacent! if you're looking for a startup idea, there is a huge need a competitor now. if you build this I will be your first paying customer & help raise your round here are some ways u can build a 10x better product: (1/n)

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Athena Kan

@athenakan_

3 years

What’s the best way to export from iMessage? I have no phone storage left

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