*taps mic*
Some professional news: today was my first day at Snap. I'm working on strategy for Bitmoji thinking about avatars, visual identity and lots of related stuff. I am very excited about it!
Some personal news: Moses has put on ONE WHOLE POUND over the last five days. 🤯
[preamble] Rare ~* thread *~ forthcoming. Consider this a pre-roll ad for Dusk by
@GossamerHQ
. It's excellent. Been sleeping great despite everything. Anyway, thread:
1/ Facebook is acquiring GIPHY. This is an incredible thing and I believe it will be awesome for both companies. So many current and former (like me!) employees put their hearts and souls into building GIPHY and I'm excited that Facebook gets to benefit from all that work.
ONE. BILLION. BITMOJI. Today, more than one billion Bitmoji have been created — now, wherever people want to show up digitally, their Bitmoji can, too! Snapchatters can show off their style and express themselves in messages, games, and partner apps.
#SnapPartnerSummit
My GIPHY -> Snap story is long and winding but shout out to the person who got the ball rolling ~18 months ago over bialies (bialys?) at Gertie ...
@PatrickMandia
.
It's been almost 4 years and I try to not speak this guy's name let alone retweet him, but can we be real this "the ramp was steep and most importantly very slippery" tweet is some of the smallest and funniest shit ever.
How good is the egg + cheese on a homemade English muffin being sold at Winner in Park Slope?
Short answer: it's a transcendental experience masquerading as a breakfast sandwich.
If you live anywhere in this circle it's worth the trip for breakfast tomorrow.
3/ But first..! New York tech should be proud of this. Out of offices in Meatpacking and west Soho / no man's land / Hudson Square, GIPHY built a globally recognized consumer tech brand that was a force for good and made the internet a better, weirder and funner place to be.
Unity partners with Snap to extend the reach of Unity's ads and integrate SnapKit in Unity's game engine, including Bitmoji in 2021 (
@deantak
/ VentureBeat)
there is a not-insignificant subset of men who are "rawdogging" England games — no entertainment, no headphones, just watching the match for 2+ hours (bonus points if you don't pee or eat). i spoke to some for
@GQMagazine
tl;dr this is the pitch.
If you need to be something other than yourself in a game, do that.
Otherwise, we built the best possible product to let you be you, and your friends be themselves.
@tomiferra
@adamcl
23/ Here we are lifting the Champions League trophy and hanging out in FIFAs non-sinister-basement-level-multi-denominational-marble-prayer-room.
@goldfarb_eric
@caroline
@tomiferra
Postscript 2 for tech industry nerds: Here we are at the Bellagio in Vegas. November 2016, Goldman Private Internet company conference. The Goldman geniuses turned Alex's deck full of GIFs into a PDF but he still crushed it.
22/ One of my proudest moments and best trips (!) was getting FIFA and UEFA on GIPHY. We thought this would be impossible. Just before Xmas 2017
@tomiferra
@adamcl
and I went to France + Switzerland to seal the deal.
Come listen to three extremely smart people talk about Fashion, Tech, Sustainability, Social Good and other things this evening in Soho. I will be taking a seen_but_not_heard approach to moderating.
Also, we're hiring.
It's notoriously hard to predict the future but I can confidently say this will be the best job you will ever have.
Designers, Engineers, Journalists. See here:
We have three events @ 6pm ET - all amazing guest speakers. I wish I could go to all but I'm hosting one.
The first is the BD / Partnerships Social
#14
w/ David Rosenberg (
@david_rosenberg
) - Director of Strategy at Snap / Bitmoji. RSVP from your phone -
@goldfarb_eric
@caroline
30/ 5 years later I feel privileged to have made true friends for life. I've watch them marry and have children (shout out to "the Loaf"). We got through hard times together and celebrated so many successes. The best gift GIPHY gave us all = each other.
4/ We built a crazy big partner network of media cos, sports leagues + teams, recording artists, visual artists, tv networks, movie studios, actors, comedians and eventually a huge long-tail of local businesses and brands.
[non spon]
I’m doing
@joinupstream
office hours this Friday and you can sign up here:
Why sign up? Maybe...
+ you want to share some feedback on my recent tweets 📝
+ you want to meet the boy (see attached)
+ you want to talk shop 🛍
+ other 🤷🏻♂️
26/ We (maybe?) hold the record for most onstage appearances at F8 (2015, 2017, 2018) and have been tight for a while. Thanks
@MikeIsaac
for making me the-other-Berg in this NYT F8 piece. Also pictured Zuck +
@adamcl
and some cupcakes we sent when IG + GIPHY Stickers launched.
Hi from the floor of
@samwang
's apartment. It's one year ago today.
-
Head buried in my hands. I'm shaking. Starting to come to terms with the sad ending to a beautiful story. Mad at myself for daring to dream!
I feel a hand on my shoulder. It's Sam. He says:
"VAR!".
/Scene.
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@copilotmoney
for a few weeks for keeping track of our budget. Best new software product I've used in forever.