Varun Arora @itsvarora Twitter profile

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

11 person startup made up of 4 engineers and 7 chiefs of staff

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

Absolutely incredible and yet another example of "things that only happen in SF". An MTA bus ran over a man in SF and killed him without noticing. The ambulance takes him to the hospital but he's dead before arriving. The Fire Department then writes a report blaming a random

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@varunramg Might be the first time in the history of the internet a European created quality humor

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@LeonDerczynski @Sicclord1 8 year old me: "if my Gameboy crashes the plane it deserved to crash anyway"

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@ruhee_w almost guaranteed that bereal's data security practices are awful btw. there's probably an open S3 bucket out there waiting to be found

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@debarghya_das @sberens1 His startup is the courses

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@Pandurevich @spignal Delete your original tweet

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@hollllogram @0xgaut Folding phones are pretty objectively better. Shame that Apple won't make one until the iPhone 20 in all likelihood.

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@coldhealing "They're from America, Harvey!" is like a line out of an old-timey Roald Dahl based movie

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1 year

@NekomimiScience "that's way too hot for pizza" is going to be my new standard response to everything

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1 year

@terronk Yeah incredibly sad. We should be aiming to deploy safer (autonomous) driving in public buses ASAP, not limiting its use.

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1 year

@thechosenberg I wonder what she thinks about the people who have to make the food she eats, or build the house she lives in, or design the pencil/laptop she uses to write/draw? Does she just think enough people are passionate about those things that she'd be able to have them no matter what?

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2 years

@bryce And it's not a good thing. Apple's world is one in which the richest 10% have the privilege of using vastly different and better software than the other 90%. The golden age of the best software being available to everyone (regardless of economic circumstance) is over.

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1 year

@SHL0MS @NathanpmYoung Feels like one of the (implicit) criteria for the list is that the questions can be answered again with the same results.

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Varun Arora

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2 years

1/ At @capitalxyz we’re constantly incorporating feedback from our customers. We recently launched a few subtle tweaks to make the login experience much more delightful for founders...

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1 year

@debarghya_das @SFGate The worst part is you know they won't publish a correction.

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Varun Arora

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5 years

@skirani Is this satire?

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1 year

@ejc3 The ambulance was never blocked. It was all a distraction.

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Varun Arora

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3 years

Met a cool founder in the DAO space at @FWBtweets x @rabbithole_gg

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Varun Arora

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2 years

@shark_infinite @tripp_jaden42 @TechEmails ...he said the complete opposite of that

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1 year

@TradingFemale @roshanpateI I think this is what's commonly referred to as a "parody"

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

10 months

@echetus @Noahpinion You're not being intellectually honest with your response here. The infrastructure will look decrepit in 20 years, not now when it's being freshly built. Cities tend to ossify after a certain point in their development.

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Varun Arora

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2 years

@jamessfoster @TechEmails They initially predicted "$10-15M" in November 2005

Internal Tech Emails

@TechEmails

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Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" November 8, 2005

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Varun Arora

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2 years

@WillManidis did gifted programs across 3 different school districts and never once ran into a satanism pipeline lmao

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

Excited to share some of what we've been working on since I joined @PartyRound . We're rolling this out already so if you're about to kick off a hybrid USD + USDC raise let us know and we'll get you onboarded!

Capital

@capitalxyz

3 years

Raising in USDC coming soon 👀

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

@bunjavascript You mean @sveltejs right?

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

realized I've been following a similar trajectory in life to cardi b ever since I left the mobility space to work in fintech I don't dance now I make money move

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

Extremely pumped to be joining the incredible team at @PartyRound 🚀 @jordihays and @sarahchase are building something truly special, and I couldn't be more excited to be a part of it. Also pumped to be working with @brianarmstrong again after almost 6 (!) years!

Jordi Hays

@jordihays

3 years

Insanely hyped to share that @itsvarora starts at @PartyRound today 🎉 During the interview process Varun and I spent many, many hours talking about product, crypto, and where all of this is going and he's going to be an absolute force in the org

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

11 months

@courtstarr @ashleevance Or still asleep. Engineer schedule is 11 to 11 after all.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

Holy shit Glass Onion was awful

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

Extremely excited to share something we've been working on — 4% APY interest on all funds held on Capital! As a startup founder, you shouldn't have to compromise between product experience and great rewards, and you definitely shouldn't have to micromanage your treasury.

Capital

@capitalxyz

2 years

Introducing the world’s first high-yield checking account for startups. Earn 4% on all funds raised on Capital, or transferred in from another bank 🏦 Get started today at

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Varun Arora

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1 year

@knshkvshsht Good thing Cruise is expanding to other cities quickly then (Nashville soon!), because if California has its way SF will no longer be one of those cities.

California bill to ban driverless autonomous trucks goes to Newsom's desk | TechCrunch

California passed a bill that requires a trained human safety operator to be present any time an autonomous truck operates on public roads.

techcrunch.com

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@itsvarora

1 year

@gbrl_dick @finkd @gigafelon

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@itsvarora

1 year

welcome to the start of zuck's poaster era

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1 year

@AgholorPooch @zachweinberg @AnimaVeroMundi The hard part is getting the permits not literally building the homes. Thus the solution is a policy change. Tweeting helps with that.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

@growing_daniel eh, in NYC 2021 was definitely retvrn to taxi year, I found myself taking taxis at least 20% of the time after years of never taking them. They're the obvious choice whenever surge on Uber/Lyft gets 1.5x or higher.

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Varun Arora

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1 year

@CampbellJAustin @ArmandDoma @kendroiddddd Literally go look at the NYT right now and then try to claim with a straight face that an “overwhelming majority” of articles are anything like you’re claiming they are

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

@DavidSacks How many trillions of stimulus were pumped into the economy in 2020, before Biden ever took office?

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

It's heartbreaking to witness the collapse of an institution that was so integral to our ecosystem. At @capitalxyz , our biggest priority is helping founders get set up with business checking accounts *today* using Capital, so that they can get their operations back on track.

Capital

@capitalxyz

2 years

To answer your questions, Capital does not use Silicon Valley Bank in any way. SVB’s current situation does not affect our ability to provide the best banking services for startup founders. Our banking partner is Blue Ridge Bank (Member FDIC) and was established in 1893.

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Varun Arora

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@micsolana Absolutely insane behavior: "Many of the protesters left their cars on the bridge and threw their keys into the bay, to make it difficult for officers to move the cars, according to CHP Chief Ezery Beauchamp. At least 15 cars had to be towed."

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2 years

7/ To fix this, we discovered a (relatively) unknown feature in the Google developer documentation: login_hint. We now automatically remember which Google account (of many) a user previously used to log in, bringing back one-click login for users who signed up with Google.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

@eric_seufert It's incredible how so few people know it was effectively a hoax. Hell, even the EU commission completed their investigation to conclude it had no impact.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

@NickAPappas @evanbear20 @mattyglesias That would require Adam McKay to know what he's talking about.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

9 months

@powerbottomdad1 @Minty_MintTea It quite literally is the AMA restricting doctor supply. Different from the surplus healthcare administrator problem though.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

4 years

@moskov Incredible, really, how for decades we've communicated the results of every single flawed, low sample size, non-replicable study to the public. Only to then pretend we have no reason to believe obvious things about Covid until proven verifiably.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

@DrBonillaOnc @debarghya_das This is plain and simple racism. You cannot claim without any supporting evidence that there is some merit lacked by Asian applicants across the board, but somehow you are confident that applicants of other races magically possess that same merit. And yet you cannot describe it.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

@Zanzeh2 @klcmurphy @DavidAstinWalsh Which is exactly why the answer is not E. There's nothing in the passage to support that conclusion. It's not a poor question, it's just a test of verbal reasoning ability.

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@imjaredz what is it about ex Facebook engineers and dating apps I swear

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1 year

@GunjitSingh13 @Noahpinion Yeah but butter chicken was invented decades earlier in Delhi at the restaurant Moti Mahal as a way to revive day-old tandoori chicken. And CTM is basically a mediocre rip-off of butter chicken.

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@eshear @agarwal Also if you have passengers you should almost always drive in chill mode and turn down the regenerative breaking.

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@itsvarora

1 year

@terronk @sarthakgh Average human digestive system produces ~3g/day of ethanol which is more than these bacteria would produce

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

8 months

@La_Mont__ @sam_d_1995 "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

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1 year

@sm This is also why there's always going to be a disconnect here between ICs who do deep work and managers who do not. The former can be more productive towards a preassigned goal (that doesn't change) at home, while the latter take advantage of instantaneous feedback loops.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

Excited to support @yugalabs ' latest raise at a $4 billion valuation. At @PartyRound we're building tools that scale with founders from their earliest rounds for life.

Capital

@capitalxyz

3 years

Powered by @PartyRound 🎉

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

@eshear @paulg ChatGPT does provide a shareable link for chats, and so do other chatbot clients. I think the bigger reason is that people usually cite the original source, not the content aggregator that reshared info with you. Same reason we don't cite Google or Wikipedia either.

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1 year

@evanbd @ejc3 I described the narrative at the time of the incident correctly, which indeed blamed Cruise for the death. The SFFD and local media didn't claim that Cruise ran over anybody, but they also didn't bother mentioning the fact that somebody else did. Thus leaving the association

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

8 months

@QuetzalPhoenix @whstancil If you think of your individual political power in a tribal manner, there's something deeply wrong with you.

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@itsvarora

2 years

@gbrl_dick Seems like a miss by our society that this sort of innovation isn't profitable.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

5 years

@BrooklynSpoke This is what San Francisco needs to understand. Zone for dense multi-family housing and all of the positive environmental impact you're looking for will arrive on its own.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

@dhh You should include @limebike on this list. Built on Rails since day 1 and the world's biggest (and only profitable) micromobility company.

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@itsvarora

2 years

@coldhealing lol was waiting for the tough day of work since the day “ended at midnight” but it was apparently just house parties and barhopping in all seriousness though we all already knew nobody at MSFT does any real work, some people just quietly revel in it while others poast about it

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

Behind the scenes of the Capital launch + NYC Tech Week double whammy. So so proud of the team for pulling all of this together, and stoked as always for what's next!

Dylan Abruscato

@DylanAbruscato

2 years

Two months from ideation to execution. Still blown away by the response to NYC Tech Week. We had thousands of attendees across hundreds of events. Until next year...

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

some personal ~news~ after more than 2 years on the growth eng team @limebike I've made the tough decision to leave. It's been an incredible ride watching micromobility grow from a toy to a transportation staple of cities worldwide. what's next? stay tuned 👀

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

@plemy11 @AndrewHires They won't exist anymore when we turn the current coast into flyover country.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

9 months

@wanyeburkett People who make fun of induced demand miss the part of the concept which talks about people *moving further away* from their destinations when highways are built. Not all transportation is a good use of transportation. Local maximas exist. Pareto improvements exist.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

3 years

@sama @apmotapinto sam you forgot about b2b saas

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@itsvarora

2 years

@Sherveen @thisisrayguo @sarthakgh This guy's entire Twitter history is ChatGPT responses

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@itsvarora

2 years

Houston, we have liftoff.

Capital

@capitalxyz

2 years

Party Round is now Capital. Raise, hold, spend, and send funds — all in one place. Get started:

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@itsvarora

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4/ We noticed that users often run into the problem of forgetting which sign-in method they used. Why not remember it for them? Now, when you log in to Capital we remember who you are and guide you towards your previously selected sign-in method by default.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

2/ First, highlighting the founders in our Founder Series ( @marygooneratne , @ankurnagpal , @roshanpateI to name a few!) But it’s actually the less-visible improvements we made to the login experience that I’m more excited about.

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@itsvarora

1 year

@AlwaysFlacko @nikicaga ...that's how democracy is supposed to work. the candidate with the widest support wins

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

Men will join a seed stage startup but still wear a seatbelt on the bus

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@itsvarora

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8/8 The result of this work is a much nicer experience for new and returning users. We were able to design & ship a better login experience than the status quo – faster, easier, and safer. Check it out yourself & get started with @capitalxyz today!

Capital | Modern companies are built on Capital

Raise, hold, spend, and send funds — all in one place.

app.capital.xyz

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

3/ We’ve always supported Google & Apple Sign-In as the primary methods of creating an account. This allows us to have ironclad security built into our product (with 2FA and seamless account recovery being table-stakes).

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

1 year

I was skeptical four hours ago, but honestly the energy today on the new app has been incredible. Calling it early, I think zuck won the cage fight before it even started. They're at 6.5M users and growing. Wouldn't be surprised to see them hit 10M by the morning.

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got worried for a second she was gonna bring Kanye out

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1 year

@tmarkovski @aizzi68 @nfarina @Austen That's because of how record label contracts are structured, not anything to do with the internet.

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@itsvarora

2 years

@sujaykotwal @sarthakgh @RishiSunak my brother in krishna butter chicken was invented at the moti mahal in Delhi

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

alright boys pack it up, it's time to return to our regularly scheduled GPT wrapper startup launch programming

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@itsvarora

2 years

@stevegraham ...you couldn't be more off with your Ruby statistics if you tried

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

6 years

SF's attitude on every challenge facing the city

DoorZone

@D00RZ0NE

6 years

@Bob_Gunderson I admire the “we’ve tried almost nothing and it’s not working. I give up” attitude.

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1 year

@evanbd @ejc3 Just like most of the original headlines :)

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@itsvarora

5 years

@Scott_Wiener Now let's go the rest of the way and ban taxis as well. There's no reason for them to receive special treatment, especially when Uber/Lyft are already banned, except for regulatory capture.

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Varun Arora

@itsvarora

2 years

An amazing milestone. In a year that has been less than ideal for the tech industry at large, Lime has instead defied expectations and grown significantly. Kudos to the team and my former colleagues there. I'm proud to be an investor!

Wayne Ting

@wayneting

2 years

I am so proud to share that @limebike delivered our first EBITDA profitable year ever! The first micromobility company to achieve this milestone in history! Micromobility is here to stay, and Lime is leading the way to a green transportation future.

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@itsvarora

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@benthompson It's like getting a Michelin star — do you take it as a compliment or decide you're too popular and shut down your restaurant/newsletter?

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@itsvarora

2 years

@micsolana And that's why Biden will always have my respect over these extremist hacks

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1 year

happy America day everyone blessed my parents chose to bring me to the greatest country in the world at age 4 & lucky it only took me 18 years to become a citizen. others aren't so lucky. this independence day let's pledge to ensure the greatest american tradition, immigration

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@itsvarora

2 years

@WillManidis how many times a week do you tweet about adderall jc

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4 years

@MikeIsaac @gaberivera I know you linked your story but I think the NYT wants us to read something else

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2 years

@tjcages god now they added view count too

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1 year

@s_ketharaman @krishnanrohit It's a free consumer social app. There's no sales. They're not even running ads yet. And Meta's ad organization would have nothing to learn from Twitter anyway.

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4 years

@tanayj With a board that's 73% women as well! Absolutely amazing.

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@itsvarora

2 years

end of an era

Capital

@capitalxyz

2 years

Final Party Round drop. Coming soon. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▢　　　　　　　　　　　　　╭━╮╭━╮╭╮　╱ 　　╰━┫╰━┫╰╯╱╭╮ 　　╰━╯╰━╯　╱　╰╯ 　　　　　COMPLETE

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@itsvarora

3 years

Booked a last minute flight to #ETHDenver on a whim for tomorrow night. Who should I meet while I'm there?

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@itsvarora

2 years

5/ Because access to a bank account is very security-sensitive, banks typically implement short session lengths. This requires users to log back in far more frequently than they prefer. Sign-in with the previously mentioned methods helps part of this, but creates a new problem.

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1 year

@s_ketharaman @krishnanrohit hiring employees is not "stealing IP". You have to actually show IP that was stolen. And noncompetes are illegal in California.

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@itsvarora

1 year

welcome to the start of zuck's poaster era

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@itsvarora

2 years

@tszzl @0xveggies meanwhile the doctors are over at r/medicine making hate threads about NPs and how inferior they are every single day

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@itsvarora

2 years

doomsday is finally here

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@itsvarora

2 years

Ramp is successful but what Google/FB have achieved is on an entirely different level. If that's what daycare offices gets you I think they're entirely happy with those results.

Pavel Asparouhov

@Pavel_Asparagus

2 years

Writing software is a mentally grueling activity and is best done in no frills environment. The idea that a ping pong table and junk food is the right environment for it is insane and I'm sure if Meta/google had offices that felt less like a daycare they wouldn't be here

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3 years

never thought I'd be jealous of NYU kids

Variety

@Variety

3 years

Introducing Dr. Taylor Swift. New York University will award Swift an honorary doctorate of fine arts and Swift will speak at commencement at Yankee Stadium, the institution announced.

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