Bilal Farooqui @bilalfarooqui Twitter profile

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Bilal Farooqui

7 years

Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself. We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.

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Bilal Farooqui

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9 years

This is why Twitter is amazing http://t.co/JDRcXQ4M25

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Amazing description of cryptography, thanks to Reddit!

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@bhertzog @jpm25 The insane part is the insurance company paying $9k for a simple test. It’s the unholy payer-provider alliance.

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Sutter Hill invested $5 million in Snowflake’s Series A in 2012 Their stake on IPO day last week was worth $12 billion That’s a 2400x return in 8 years

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Why Uber drivers are contractors 1. They drive their own car 2. They use their own phone 3. They don't *have* to show up to work, ever 4. If they disappear for a month, or a year, they aren't "fired" 5. They can drive for Lyft or Amazon or Postmates too

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@Smorgasboredom I've never heard a Joe Rogan podcast, but judging by his followers, he definitely fits the bill for dumb person's idea of a smart person

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@rohindhar quite literally may be the dirtiest, most unsafe street/intersection in san francisco this seller has the board of supervisors to thank

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5 years

Request for startup I’ll email or upload a document and someone delivers printout to my door within an hour

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@emilychangtv @karaswisher @bchesky @sama @btaylor @eshear @adamdangelo It’s incredibly unusual for a new interim ceo to come in cold and start “repping the board”

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@karlitaliliana This argument would be valid if every single incoming student at Harvard had a perfect ACT They don’t

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5 years

Pure rent-seeking behavior from states like New Jersey with large pension liabilities looking to collect payroll taxes is not going to change the reality that Uber drivers behave significantly more like contractors than like employees

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@garrytan imagine pretending to be for education, but then banning algebra in middle school; being for immigration, but then telling new sf residents to go back to where they came from; being for housing for everyone, but then banning high rises from most of the city That’s them

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@nivi credit to Sam & Greg, it sounds like they built an absolutely insanely talented team with high integrity and loyalty their only mistake was creating OpenAI as a non-profit and appointing career opportunists to the board out of naivete and idealism

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Bilal Farooqui

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8 years

You say "dictators always want their opponents jailed. unfortunately for Donald Trump, we live in America"

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

10 years

We may not realize this yet, but internet search is broken. Nearly every phrase has been SEO'ed to uselessness. Who's going to fix this?

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3 years

@ashleevance Wokenfrauer

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Bilal Farooqui

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10 years

Decoupling health insurance from employment, whenever it happens, will be an amazing boost to our economy, productivity, & innovation.

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Tl;dr Emil is saying Benchmark/Bill Gurley were against Dara’s appointment as Uber CEO to the point where they said they’d drop the lawsuit against Uber if the board voted against Dara and for Meg Whitman Travis was for Dara Now Gurley seems to take credit for Dara 🤯

Emil Michael

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Truth #1 : CEO vote by @Uber board stalemated at 4-4. Benchmark against Dara, Travis for. Bench then tried to trade dropping lawsuit against Uber to sway vote against Dara, for Meg. This infuriated one who took it as their lawsuit being BS and instead changed vote to Dara, 5-3.

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@nivi no wonder Ilya regrets what he did jfc

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@ashleevance It would’ve happened if the Apple board consisted of Noam Chomsky and Karl Marx

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@brian_armstrong Ilya is from Google, just saying

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@zachtratar The unanimity is due to Ilya’s silence and the board’s lack of transparency about the statement they made, coupled with their willingness to fold quickly when questioned by Microsoft and the other investors

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Bilal Farooqui

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8 years

In light of @nero 's ban, @twitter 's "block" needs to be more comprehensive. If I block someone, they should be blocked from @ mentioning me

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@laura_waxee @salesforce They’re pulling out of salesforce East, which is a different building across the street from salesforce tower

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

7 years

Google is preparing to become Yahoo

Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads)

@randfish

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Google is changing its homepage massively - get ready for a potentially huge shift in search demand + behavior:

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Bilal Farooqui

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8 years

This is a perfect response to complaints about rapid gentrification in Harlem

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@justindross I never understood why people think so highly of him

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

9 years

It's much more important than you think to know "if we invest x amount of money into y sales & marketing process, we will get z return"

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8 years

😂😂😂

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@pmarca So we should collaborate with people who want to ban us from writing code or register with an agency before we write code? Hard pass

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9 years

Just imagine how amazingly well content could be presented if designers didn't have to think abt best places to insert ads for monetization

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@hfyi53ko @Austen the privilege of working harder? yes

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

8 years

It's really not a co-incidence that the winners in both parties tonight are hated by their actual "parties"

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Bilal Farooqui

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Kids can now get high paying tech jobs out of high school just like they could get high paying manufacturing jobs out of HS in the past.

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Bilal Farooqui

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8 years

People sometimes forget that if Trump actually becomes President, we *need* him to be surrounded by smart, sane, competent people he trusts

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Bilal Farooqui

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@bgurley @travisk you should not have fired him, then

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@realEstateTrent It’s forced savings People are terrible at saving $ A mortgage forces them to save $ That’s it

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Bilal Farooqui

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Airbnb math is the eBay shipping math of the early 2000s $323/night x 2 nights = $1,000

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Bilal Farooqui

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@tszzl massive cope for mids to assert confidently that these people aren’t real

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Bilal Farooqui

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Alumni @ycombinator demo day is my favorite Good luck, everyone launching and/or raising today

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Bilal Farooqui

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@octal Tweetstorm format didn’t help

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

10 years

From my apartment to the office @Lyft line costs $4 ($6-7 in heavy traffic); cab ride costs $12-$20. Amazing.

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Bilal Farooqui

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@typesfaster @Noahpinion Direct correlation with the number of PhDs they hire Larry and Sergey were entrepreneurial PhD candidates so they thought filling their engineering ranks with researchers would be great Turns out that PhDs publish, but PhDs don’t ship

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This person who I don’t follow or know is in my timeline solely bc she supports the current thing Make it stop Twitter @elonmusk @pmarca

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@the_transit_guy The new highway is amazing Can’t believe people would choose a bunch of random ugly parking over a highway that connects people and enables commerce

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This is grade A first class horse shit Kevin, do your job, stop telling citizens how to react to violent murders in their neighborhoods, and start arresting people

The San Francisco Standard

@sfstandard

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WATCH: San Francisco Police Commissioner @KevinMBenedicto speaks on Bob Lee killing. "We don't know all the facts...But I find it premature and distasteful to try to fit this horrifying act of violence into a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda."

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Bilal Farooqui

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10 years

To break down gold into really small exchangeable atomic particles you need a particle accelerator; for Bitcoin you just need software

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@delk Our country is incredible

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@Suhail SV people who collaborated with the feds on this should be ashamed of themselves

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9 years

If you blame the city's ills on the people who pay millions of $ in taxes that help the city sustain itself, reevaluate your thought process

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

9 years

"Mr. Trump, 69, is an improbable virtuoso of the tweet. He has no computer in his office" He has a supercomputer in his hand almost 24/7 :)

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

9 years

So who else thinks @pmarca is a cylon who wants to divert attention from AI? It would explain the inhuman tweeting ability, for one thing:-)

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We should detain everyone on the no fly list or eliminate the list entirely

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Bilal Farooqui

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Journalism majors will literally call a man who raises $260 million on an uncapped note “struggling” instead of going to therapy

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ryan petersen will literally raise a quarter billion dollars on an uncapped note and the journalism majors will still doubt him

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@sulemanali The best founders won't want to raise from you due to signaling risk & unaligned incentives

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@karlitaliliana There are people with 1200 sat scores who get into Harvard It’s asinine and corrupt

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

7 years

Dear @Twitter , Please stop taking UI tips from @LinkedIn . Two taps or clicks to get to my own profile/feed is one too many. Thanks.

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Bilal Farooqui

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8 years

Xbox with Madden in my uber this morning 👌🏼

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Bilal Farooqui

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@garrytan My parents could afford it, but I still only used 10 real SATs and Gruber’s verbal book and came pretty close to a perfect SAT score (It helped that my parents got me the Gruber’s book in 7th grade, so I got a multi-year headstart) Parental involvement is the key missing piece

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@typesfast @Jason If the sf government had 10x more money, the only outcome would be 10x more money for the left wing grifters

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

10 years

People who lament "death" of American cities are often same people who lament gentrification (new residents moving in!!) of said cities!

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@pitdesi The problem isn’t that they suck at writing, the problem is they suck at telling the truth

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Bilal Farooqui

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@garrytan It is not surprising that a communist or socialist would hate a moderate capitalist more than they would hate a reactionary fascist Fascists and communists/socialists usually team up, historically speaking

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@agarwal I am so ready for Dean to be replaced by someone honest and competent

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4 years

I really should build those flying cars, shouldn’t I? @pmarca

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@zachcoelius The lender should sue the city of San Francisco for breach of contract (they pay a ton of taxes; the city fails to keep their end of the bargain)

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@bilalfarooqui

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@amasad @garrytan He should come out and start explaining the board’s decisions, then

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@laura_waxee @brezina @salesforce I see “salesforce” and “tower” and “San Francisco” But keep going with the clickbait

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Bilal Farooqui

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@Nate_Cohn have you guys considered disabling the needle? it clearly doesn't work

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3 years

@EricNewcomer PR done well is supposed to look organic right? :)

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@zachcoelius These hotels are literally in the middle of the tenderloin fentanyl containment zone It is no surprise they aren’t viable

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@pmarca Is this the current thing?

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Bilal Farooqui

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@jbarro Josh in 2050: I told you so on Biden

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

8 years

So @lyft line has been consistently better than @uber pool in the past week. Lower ETAs, fewer poolers, more efficient routes, lower rates

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Bilal Farooqui

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@laura_waxee @brezina @salesforce It’s misleading bc your headline is leading people to believe that salesforce is pulling out of the tallest building in sf that everyone knows as salesforce tower In reality, they are consolidating at salesforce tower and giving up all the other legacy space in sf in older

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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@goldman Disagree — if Elon takes over, 5 years from now both the product and the company will be healthier

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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@tszzl they're closing + banning nuclear power plants nothing while their constituents are burning wood and garbage to stay warm -- its way worse than doing nothing

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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@ShaanVP But vcs do invest in undifferentiated me too businesses if other vcs invest in them first

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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And the people saying that somehow, *this* is the true character of the city, the *one* character they want to keep.

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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I invested $100k in Snowflake on IPO day at $232 per share & sold at $270 per share on the same day for a 1.16x return in a few hours Should I be a fund manager? 😇

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Bilal Farooqui

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4 years

Who do you think wins the next decade based on the home page CTAs alone?

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

9 years

@pmarca what one could achieve in 30 years organically, one could achieve in 5-10 with the right VC; VC = time compression.

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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@Austen Entirely accurate based on my day to day experience - and it’s not just from tech, many Indian-American households are two-doctor households, or high cash flow producing small businesses (seven elevens, days inn, etc)

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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Magic of @Lyft line: riding w/ @startuployalist to female founders conf in nob hill from fidi, matched w/ 2 other ppl going to conf as well

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

9 years

Here you go. Skynet has begun learning. Imminent doom just around the corner.

Electrek.co

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The Autopilot is learning:Model S owners already reporting Tesla's Autopilot self-improving

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Bilal Farooqui

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high burn rates often necessary for growth; when plan succeeds it's lauded, & if it fails burn rate takes blame; tough job for ceo+board

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

4 years

Digging into why Costco fired Amex and found this amusing nugget

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

4 years

I'm looking for a Director of Product to lead strategy and execution (and mentor PMs) for Rally's virtual care experience Must be a builder and strategic thinker who wants to fundamentally rethink and change at scale how people get healthcare nationwide 0.1 BTC for a referral

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Bilal Farooqui

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@faraz_r_khan @indiainpixels Not just engineers/tech workers - doctors too

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

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@amir Yeah I think he's wrong. Higher-end Airbnbs can be amazing and beyond compare, but a $100 Marriott beats a $100 Airbnb 9 out of 10 times. Re: uber, cabs can never beat uber unless in a cab line at the airport when its raining

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@Jason His strategy is to make 100 dumb takes like this one, hope to be right about 1, and use that as proof of stable genius 😇

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Bilal Farooqui

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@rodeopart3 Watched both this past week and they’re just very different movies — I prefer Margin Call by a sliver but the Big Short is a blockbuster (and it is incredibly hard to make an accurate amazing film **and** be a blockbuster)

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He's not dead, guys. These obituary tones are weird.

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@PalmerLuckey I think OpenAI dies and Microsoft ends up with most of the IP through lawsuits

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@Noahpinion When I read this I was like wow either npr is totally wrong or I knew nothing about Japan

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@amasad should they rename it “hedge your bets” podcast

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@jbarro That’s why they sued him to force the sale!!

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Bilal Farooqui

@bilalfarooqui

8 years

The brewing witch hunt against @peterthiel in SV is alarming. Watch out, people, this is a very slippery slope.

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It’s insane and hilarious how super ideological leftists will try to make you believe that this dude lucked into Tesla through some south African mining fortune 😂

Jon Erlichman

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Elon explaining Tesla’s pricing strategy in 2008:

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