Daniel Kaplan @dankaplan Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@ViewsVietnam

@sc_harb

@lunaluvspoca

@MarlinProtocoI

@ActualSpark

@InfosdirectC

@heaatwaves

@watinmh

@BDesniar

@ihalilucer

@penikmatt_ibu

@NeoGodGoku

@ginza_nekoten

@JohnEstey

@IndivisibleTeam

@MakinaNagumo

@maron_mt

@lovinksn

@daisyhall96

@MonaJalal_

@Kvalitetsaktie

@3141592k

@_ryancortes_

@ThatColeKing

@RMHCMidMo

@DavidWethe

@COFFEELIKECOLA

@starlightrazor_

@Beatles4ev3r

@LaBruyereESC6

@Tah_908

@kei1111t

@Sweet__Alina

@stwmaniax

@bekmezci_f70358

@ElkyService

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

Yeah, this is very inaccurate. YC22-24 has dozens of companies building foundational infrastructure for AI-first orgs and AI-accelerated GTM. One YC24 startup ( @gumloop_ai ) is (IMHO) the most interesting, high-potential app I've seen in years.

Ronak Shah

@MrRonakShah

3 months

@annaarthoe YC is now just a B2B SaaS factory for ivy league or big tech alumni. No big bold ideas…..

6

2

72

6

73

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 months

If you’re not on the @gumloop_ai train, your ride is leaving the station. There’s a learning curve, so DM me if you need help getting set up.

Max Brodeur-Urbas

@MaxBrodeurUrbas

2 months

An intern's summer project at a YC unicorn was to add internal links across their 800+ blog posts She did it in 1 day with Claude 3.5 Sonnet + got a return offer 🎉 -It reads every blog -Spots thousands of chances to link content together -Explains each opportunity in a sheet

31

54

1K

3

47

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Gauntlet thrown: How Silicon Valley’s bias against marketing obliterates value, time and brilliance wherever it goes

8

15

40

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 years

@ashleymayer Correlation ≠ causation. The unicorn head could have been because you subtweeted a Miami dude or disrespected an NFT around the same time. Also: be careful what you imply in public about Stripe. I heard a woman in tech woke up with a unicorn head in her bed.

2

0

41

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

@TheRickWilson The question, Mr. Wilson, is how long until you accept that the GOP’s tent no longer has room for reasonable, moral conservatives like you?

6

3

34

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

I keep being blown away by @gumloop_ai . This AI-first workflow builder has the potential to supplant dozens of "point solution" SaaS apps... And automate dozens (hundreds) of repetitive, moderate-skill tasks. If you can document it step-by-step, Gumloop can probably automate

3

2

40

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

Said it before and I’ll say it again: @gumloop_ai is the most interesting early startup I’ve seen in years. “AI + workflows” is obvious…but their implementation allows non-tech people to stitch together AI agents, pre-built “mini apps,” and APIs to build full-fledged SaaS.

Liz Wessel

@lizwessel

3 months

(1/6) Excited for @Gumloop_AI on their fundraise announcement! They were 1 of the companies whose rounds we led in the recent YC W24 batch & I couldnt be more excited about the traction, customer love, & most importantly… the founders. Why'd we invest?:

8

10

131

3

2

37

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

29 days

The @gumloop_ai team continues to build out a uniquely powerful foundation for large scale AI automation. Today, they launched a "Chrome extension as a platform" that lets you build your own AI chrome extension in minutes without any code. Gumloop's chrome extension combines

1

0

33

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

How a single, brilliant page can boost your conversions by 150-300%: http://t.co/S3dkILehF6

Go To Market Strategy In The Era of AI + Spatial Computing

Fractal GTM frameworks, big ideas, and narrative techniques

threadling.com

1

12

30

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

4 years

@ashleymayer It’s like the parent that only validates or rewards you for accomplishments that fit its narrow definitions of success..and no matter how many times you meet its bar, the next day: “Sure, you graduated Harvard/burned 2k calories in 22 mins, but why not Stanford Med/70 VO2 Max?”

0

29

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

@HazelMonforton Skepticism is always a reasonable thing. But consider a counterpoint: by creating a market for electric cars that can run 300k-500k miles with almost no maintenance costs, Elon has opened the door to nearly-free, zero-net-waste transportation for everyone, incl. working class

3

1

21

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 months

The possibilities with @gumloop_ai + LLM orchestration continue to be whoa. GPT 4o mini + Claude 3.5 Sonnet + Scraping = 🪄 It: - Takes B2B SaaS co URL - Finds the top 20-50 case studies - Delivers accurate analysis of the GTM, high value use cases, and ICPs All in > 4 mins

3

24

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

HelloBar's new-user flow is outstanding. Here, I explain why: The anatomy of a brilliant onboarding experience http://t.co/UJ7fwxefok

1

14

21

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

The narrative that @harvey__ai is smoke and mirrors has traction on X today. If Harvey is smoke and mirrors, the illusion extends to multiple global law firms fabricating the outcomes of their Harvey rollouts. This looks like a case for the product marketing detective 🕵️ 🧵 👇🏻

2

1

20

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 years

@VitalikButerin A wise teacher once told me that when you start to discover the irresolvable paradoxes, and accept that they are in fact irresolvable, you are close to the truth…or at least ready to seek it where there’s some chance of finding it.

1

2

20

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

If you work directly or even tangentially on building products and are not already reading @hnshah 's newsletters, you are missing out on some truly great, honest, and mature thinking about the process: You might even call it wisdom:

1

2

20

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

My latest post on @TechCrunch : Real Engines of Growth Have Nothing To Do With Growth Hacking. http://t.co/r9vx7NgQfS

7

10

20

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

This post from @tristanharris (about how technology hijacks our capacity for free will) is a must-read:

0

11

18

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

An insane, 2200-word teardown of @HubSpot 's homepage copy and storytelling: http://t.co/x4g0s4txM9

2

7

17

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

I just published “The Complete Moral Bankruptcy of Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts”

2

6

15

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest post: A ridiculously deep, 2740-word teardown of Slack's new homepage http://t.co/SBKilvfgsi

2

10

13

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 years

Tana ( @tana_inc ) is clarifying the tools for thought/one-productivity-app-to-synthesize-them-all category and if I were betting, would guess it'll play out as the Google to Notion's AltaVista. @cortexfutura is Tana's leading prophet, and his course + template are exquisite.

Cortex Futura

@cortexfutura

2 years

That's why I've compiled all the best practices from the productivity community into a single template: @fortelabs 's PARA? ✅ GTD? ✅ Zettelkasten? ✅ QCE? ✅ Interstitial Journaling? ✅ Journaling your wins and losses, feeding a yearly review? ✅ All of it tightly integrated.

1

9

2

1

15

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

@shriyanevatia @drgurner SF: industry town with new elites clashing with old school elites. no consensus on how to govern, monoculture. NYC: every industry in this town, cross currents everywhere, no one elite can rule…everyone has to learn to flow or get pulled under the tide, cultural oasis.

0

15

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

6 years

@eringriffith "We redistribute inequality by pouring gasoline on tens of millions of dollars in pension fund money and burning all of it to ash."

0

15

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

Nice article on bootstrapping your startup, featuring insights from @robwalling and @hnshah : http://t.co/1uesBY1sem

Bootstrapped startups buck trend toward VC bucks

People often e-mail Rob Walling to offer him millions of dollars — and they aren’t...

www.sfchronicle.com

0

8

13

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest post on @TechCrunch : Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Lean Startups http://t.co/i1qUCiw9CD

2

6

14

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

A well-deserved spot ( #4 on NYT Bestseller List!) for @robertwrighter 's new book, "Why Buddhism Is True," Congrats!

0

2

14

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

Had a great conversation with @Wealthfront 's @ibringtraffic about the real engines of startup growth and why #growthhacking is wrongheaded.

1

0

13

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Today, I was ecstatic to learn that @rrhoover found the perfect home for @ProductHunt with @naval and @AngelList . Play on, player. 👊

1

0

12

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

@evgenymorozov @1Br0wn You've got the story right, but it's only half of it: At these cafes, Facebook will allow you to confess YOUR privacy sins while recording the conversation for purposes of targeting ads, training its AI, and turning your outward self into a tokenized asset. Plus lattes.

0

3

12

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

Even great products need help telling their stories (and other teachable moments from @mixpanel 's homepage): http://t.co/ZtrPZgFQCt

0

7

12

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

Concierge on-boarding helped @robwalling activate 60% of his SaaS app's new signups http://t.co/HtJeXj2k1B #growthhacking #onboarding

0

1

9

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

How @oculus Rift Will Make Us Into Better Humans (And Maybe Help Save The World) cc / @pmarca @ramez @ken_goldberg

1

6

10

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

Absolutely outstanding example of consumer app marketing. Sent to my gf and seconds later she’s an instant user. I’m guessing every piece of furniture she considers from here on out will be filtered through Dupe.

Dupe.com

Find stuff you can actually afford

dupe.com

Nikita Bier

@nikitabier

3 months

Here's a window into how I approach growing products: inverting the time to value, so that the user experiences the Aha Moment in seconds. For the companies I advise, it works particularly well when the founder is a generational talent in marketing like @ghoshal

11

32

777

0

2

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest post on @TechCrunch : The Apple Watch Can Become Our Sixth Sense: http://t.co/slhs7vlOd0 http://t.co/T3FfZG8Wwx

0

1

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

Published my first column @Inboundorg : Concrete Lessons in Great Copywriting From @CoSchedule 's Kick-Ass Homepage: http://t.co/wkdz7gPZRa

0

7

9

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

"Acquisition Is The Last Thing You Worry About": A post on the importance of activation & retention by @bhalliburton http://t.co/hCQnCE0XA1

0

2

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest @TechCrunch explores the next major frontier for porn (virtual reality) and wonders about the consequences: http://t.co/5gwKgwmqAv

1

2

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

This may be dicey, but it's worth it: "What Stephen Hawking did not understand about super-intelligence"

Why We Have Only Our Fearful Selves to Fear With A Super-Intelligent AI

Even a cold, analytical look at the data through the lens of a machine super intelligence could very well produce the conclusion that “we are all one.”

exponents.co

0

2

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

@harvey__ai @emilyinvc @ashurst In the blind study of LLMs, @ashurst discovered - 45-80% time savings on drafting legal docs - 50% of the time, experts couldn’t distinguish between legal docs created by a human or LLM - 61% of participants reported more freedom to focus on higher value strategic work More:

0

2

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

Open Letter To @tim_cook : Merge @Apple & @Tesla + Make @elonmusk CEO + Embrace Your Genius As COO = Save The World:

Go To Market Strategy In The Era of AI + Spatial Computing

Fractal GTM frameworks, big ideas, and narrative techniques

threadling.com

0

4

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

The @gumloop_ai train continues to gain steam.

Allie K. Miller

@alliekmiller

3 months

Spending my afternoon testing AI agent platforms. Just had a BIG wow moment testing @gumloop_ai (minus some random node selection issues). Whoever designed that UI - chef's kiss.

15

8

126

1

0

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

In 2014, I published an essay @TechCrunch about how Facebook’s massive personality database, its micro-targeting capabilities, and its leaderships’ naïveté could make lead to it becoming “a multi-tool for modern totalitarianism” Seems apropos today:

Facebook 202X: How It Becomes The Multitool For The Modern Totalitarian, Part 1 | TechCrunch

Maybe it is naive, but I’d always hoped that Facebook would evolve into the internet's humanizing, unifying force—the one that stretched across geographical, national, religious, and racial boundar...

techcrunch.com

Techmeme

@Techmeme

7 years

Sources and documents reveal how Cambridge Analytica used harvested personal information from 50M Facebook profiles to build psychological profiles of US voters (New York Times)

0

18

27

0

1

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

The scale and reach of today's marches against @realDonaldTrump is a bright, shining star in the political darkness of the last 12 months.

0

8

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

@msuster A tweet you wrote this summer (on the challenges of hiring a Head Of Marketing helped inspire this: Enjoy!

0

3

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

If you missed my post on the real engines of growth vs growth hacking when it hit TechCrunch, I've posted to my blog: http://t.co/dCb0mJHvOd

0

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

This is compelling rhetoric and also (mostly) nonsense. Nothing “went wrong with generative AI from a business perspective.” Generative AI is in the “early adopter/innovator” stage of its adoption curve…and from a business and adoption perspective it is right on schedule.

Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker

3 months

Here's my thesis on what went wrong with generative AI from a business perspective and how that's changing now. When ChatGPT launched, people found a thousand unexpected uses for it. This got AI developers overexcited. They completely misunderstood the market, underestimating

62

198

1K

0

2

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 months

Before @gumloop_ai , comprehensive competitive research + actionable analysis required dozens of hours per competitor per quarter. Or the core features of a $5-10k/year SaaS app. (And that’s IF you have a thorough PMM with the bandwidth to stay on it ) Now? <4 mins.

1

0

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

@harvey__ai @emilyinvc First, this huge case study from @ashurst : They did a months-long blind study comparing 3 different LLM vendors before rolling Harvey out to their entire org. Highlights:

Ashurst pulls back the curtain on GenAI data from its latest trials

www.ashurst.com

2

0

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

@fmanjoo Well, technically, you were correct:

0

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

My 6-part growth marketing course is now open. If you're wondering if it's any good, open rates are 60-80%: Sign up!

1

5

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

13 years

My @twilio interview w/a legend: Ron Conway on mega-trends, non-bubbles and the joys of angel investing. http://t.co/VOWyKsr tip @techmeme

0

8

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

Smart post from @rrhoover on creating a community at Product Hunt: The Building Blocks of Community - http://t.co/5trAaJzUjW

1

3

7

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

An open letter to @Valleywag : Why your snark is going to get us all killed:

1

2

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Oh snapizzle! @asana just made the core of @trello 's entire product into a feature!

1

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

Thanks, everyone, for the awesome response to my post on growth. Extra-special thanks to @joshelman , @stan_chudnovsky , and @ibringtraffic !

4

0

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

Despite its mundane name, the TaskRouter API from @twilio is a big deal: Breakthrough stuff for marketing and sales!

1

2

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

@GregKamradt @harvey__ai Just search “Harvey AI case studies” Ashurst recently announced a global rollout to 4k lawyers after a months-long pilot. Found hundreds of hours/month of efficiencies and blind tested Harvey against 2 major competitors:

Ashurst launches global Harvey partnership following extensive firmwide trial

www.ashurst.com

0

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 months

@Justin_Halford_ @DrJimFan With lots of love and respect towards you: early adopter consumer tech products don’t and shouldn’t have target audiences beyond “tinkerers who are willing and eager to fuck around and find out”

3

0

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

My latest post on @TechCrunch holds my most "out there" ideas. Digital Telepathy Is The Future Of The Human Species http://t.co/ZZn9dOnzhj

1

3

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest post: What every startup can learn from @ProductHunt 's brilliant go-to-market strategy Thanks, @rrhoover !

1

2

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

6 years

@hnshah We are neither our experiences nor our thoughts and we are both, everything and nothing at the same time, and outside of time.

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

1 month

Andriy’s tweet is a great template to copy if you want to attract lots of views/ comments and you don’t care about being radically, obviously wrong. LLMs + @gumloop_ai can automate thousands of repetitive, college-educated-intern-level knowledge work processes. Claude and

Andriy Burkov

@burkov

1 month

So far, I see 8 major LLM use cases. All other are either niche or snake oil: 1. Writing drafts of documents and plans. 2. Quick idea validation. 3. Quick question answering where errors aren't critical or where answer validation is much simpler than finding an answer. 4.

271

144

2K

0

1

6

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

Just had an illuminating chat about sex, technology, and the challenges of building a sex-positive startup with @cindygallop . Fascinating.

2

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

I've put together a free one-page report on the 5 critical tools I use to build growth engines for clients. Want it?

0

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

@MrRonakShah @gumloop_ai YC's strategy has evolved since batches were 10-20 companies. They seem to invest in a mix of: - an array of high-potential founders with distinctive approaches to big, obvious opportunities (Gumloop, Octolane, Alai) - a handful of highly-technical founders going after

1

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

@Bryathlon @NikkiElizDemere It really depends on the use case. For drip email and lightweight marketing automation, @getdrip is outstanding.

2

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Much like the man, himself, @realDonaldTrump 's facial color is a thin veneer, painted on to cover up the pasty, decrepit reality beneath.

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

One major difference is that when Oppenheimer saw a demo of his invention, he said “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” Zuck’s perspective seems closer to “I am become Internet, benevolent connector of meatspace nodes.”

Ryan Shea

@ryaneshea

7 years

Zuckerberg is an Oppenheimer of our time: a brilliant mind who unleashed a world-changing creation for which nobody understood the full implications, not even him

8

15

61

1

2

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

Coda looks brilliant, @shishirmehrotra . I've tried all of 'em and relied on many of 'em ( @asana , @airtable , @Mindjet ). They're in trouble.

2

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

If you’re a freelancer who needs to grow your pipeline of high-quality leads, check out @brennandunn ’s course.

Brennan Dunn

@brennandunn

9 years

Please RT! Double Your Freelancing Clients is now available. Ditch "feat or famine" and get clients like a pro —

0

11

5

0

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

An essential post for company leaders about measuring the real $$ costs of employee turnover (from @jaltma )

0

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

This may be why @Google wants to acquire @HubSpot (and why HubSpot is better off independent): HubSpot has a complete offering for everything that happens AFTER a prospective customer clicks an ad or completes a Google Search. As generative AI matures, it's a CRM flywheel. 🧵

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

The master of SaaS article roundups @hnshah , rounds up again: The Best SaaS Articles of 2016 From Around the Web

1

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

11 years

Interesting analysis of the best times of day to write and be creative, from SCIENCE and the good people of @buffer : http://t.co/4c5cFxdrgF

0

2

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

Agreed. The workflow canvas + "nodes-as-agents" + nested, re-usable flows = an amazingly powerful foundation. Too soon to tell, but @gumloop_ai may have found the formula for a low-code app builder that can deliver (or supplant) multiple full-fledged SaaS products.

Matt Schlicht

@MattPRD

3 months

@dankaplan @gumloop_ai Gumloop is amazing

0

2

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

The most important app on my homescreen, @timefulapp , has been killed months after an acquisition by Google. I wish they’d open source it.

1

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

@hnshah A Holmes Run. A Madoff Bankman-Fried A Fyre Sale

0

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

Sometimes, the journey takes such elegant turns that the tapestry of life reveals itself to be a work of such wonder, mystery, and grace that I burst into tears. Other times, it seems to be dangling by fingertips on the edge of infinite abyss. I burst into tears for those too.

0

1

5

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

@KateBour Threads like this are my queue to pull out this evergreen gem of hard knocks: cc @naynerz

3

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

2 years

@paulg This one doesn’t hold up. Moviegoing was a logical extension of a long-standing behavior (going to a theater to watch actors)… shifted to a new medium that offered radically lower marginal costs of repeat productions.

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

I would be conflating positioning and framing... If, on the other hand, I say: I'm blending my product marketing skills in Series A-B B2B startups, my knack for articulating tech, market, and geopolitical trends years ahead of the curve, mix in the

1

0

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

@marshallk @paulg The world might become far more peaceful if more of us began opening to the concept that (nearly) all forms of anger(annoyance/contempt/rage/etc) or strong excitement (arousal/idealization/etc) comes not from the other person's behavior but a pain inside we haven't acknowledged.

1

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

My latest piece for @TechCrunch : Facebook, Oculus, and The Future of Virtual Reality: http://t.co/OGUk117XTz

1

8

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." - G.G. Marquez

0

2

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

3 months

@harvey__ai @emilyinvc The CEO of a Harvey competitor jumps on, penning a thread claiming that Harvey has no PMF. She submits the lack of case studies on Harvey’s website into evidence. Notably missing on both counts: a robust explanation for the counter-evidence. There’s a fair amount:

Cecilia Ziniti

@CeciliaZin

3 months

🧵 Harvey, the legal AI darling, to zero? Makes sense. They don't have PMF yet. Thread 👇

10

13

284

2

0

3

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

This great post from @airtable makes two things clear: Airtable is gunning for @asana AND Asana should be worried:

0

1

3

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

The Apple/OpenAI deal would be way more interesting if it goes beyond a ChatGPT chatbot on iOS and Mac. The most interesting: Apple works with OpenAI to get GPT running on Apple Silicon, powering Siri on-device ...and maybe inside Apple's data centers. Scenario game time: 🧵

1

3

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

How @intercom reached tens of millions in ARR without splashy media coverage, a sexy story, or a famous founder:

0

1

3

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Thought-provoking post on the role of "Hybrid" #AI in the sales process from @daters4 and @TechKnoScere :

1

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

My latest post @TechCrunch explores the threat to Google search posed by Facebook's A.I. personal assistant, M: http://t.co/ZsmqYhfj5A

3

1

3

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

7 years

Recent conventional wisdom has said the next wave of great startups will be "take X and add AI." Wrong. It's "take X and decentralize it"

1

2

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

When people reach out to “pick my brain” I invite them to play the most dangerous game on my 80’ yacht. Why? It weeds out folks that aren’t ready for pray-to-be-prey close quarters bloodsport of YC’s demo day.

Natalie Sportelli

@N_Sportelli

5 years

When people reach out to “pick my brain” I invite them to an Old Western-style quick draw. Why? It weeds out the folks that aren’t ready to pull the trigger on exciting new content and social initiatives at their respective startup/VC.

2

1

15

1

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

Wow. Wordpress founder @photomatt says that @Wix straight-up jacked WP's open-source code without attribution:

Matt Mullenweg

@photomatt

8 years

The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint

15

269

295

0

3

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

@lessin A lot of truth there. What you've said leads one to wonder if email is more of a scapegoat for people resenting the omnipresence of their jobs in their lives...or maybe simple resenting their jobs, period.

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

9 years

Inspired by @hnshah 's survey of @slackhq users, I tear down Slack's new homepage give suggestions for improvements: http://t.co/SBKilvfgsi

0

2

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

10 years

Excellent blog post from @intercom , written by their money analytics guy @bobbypinero : SaaS Metrics for Fundraising http://t.co/lpCOu40HKQ

0

1

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 years

@gerstenzang The Inner Engineering course offered by @ishafoundation . One week of practicing the yoga and meditation techniques has been like 3 months of weekly EMDR for processing some pretty intense trauma.

0

4

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

8 years

About that whole "tech undervaluing marketing thing".. Case ->> rested.

0

1

3

Daniel Kaplan

@dankaplan

5 months

@mgsiegler @OpenAI This is what Jobs acquired Siri to build. I really wonder why the rest of Apple’s execs didn’t grok the vision.

1

0

4