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Kirill Makharinsky

2 months

Learning to code just became 10x easier! @enkidevs just launched an AI coding coach experience that just… works. Think “Superhuman for learning to code” 🧵

Enki | Learn 10x faster: coding, no-code, data

Enki is your AI-powered coach in coding and productivity tools. Python, SQL, Spreadsheets, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker.

www.enki.com

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

1 year

1/7 On behalf of @enkidevs , excited to announce Enki AI! We’ve taught 2 million professionals, and are now the biggest 1:1 coaching service in the world. Check out our demo video and how Enki is building the ultimate work skills coach.

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@ljxie Then he should’ve gone all the way — called it a retrospective, shared prioritized takeaways in a Notion doc, asked other exes for their comments. All ready for discussion with future girlfriend when she’s onboarding 🤣

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@GaryLineker @leekern13 The march is literally organised by a Hamas-sympathising group This plays into their hands and you’re taking the bait With power and influence comes a lot of responsibility — I really recommend thinking at least a little more on topics that can cause a lot of harm @GaryLineker

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6 years

@mikekarnj 0-1: Vision, Fundraising, Product. 1-n: Strategy, Recruiting, Culture.

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@loganbartlett I remember reading a book where it said that drinking is bad for you After that crazy experience I stopped… reading

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4 years

@Suhail (I am in the US, but as a Russian..) It's a few days after the election and we still don't know who the winner is 100%. The Russians have a much better system -- they know who the winner is BEFORE the election 🤣

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

@HarryStebbings never forget the duck. Calm, cool and collected above the water. Paddling like crazy underneath 😅

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7 years

Very underrated skill: willingness to go all in. Even more underrated: knowing when to do it.

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Kirill Makharinsky

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4 years

@ZacharyDeWitt those are just employees that know how to maximize their salaries

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5 years

@schlaf If the partner at the fund was hypothetically looking for something new, would the founder want to start that same business with them? This cuts 90%+.

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4 years

@LifeMathMoney weak take

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Kirill Makharinsky

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6 years

Being a founding CEO means you only have two work moods: - I’m a demigod, I reign supreme over everyone - Even amoebas are smarter than me and would have done a better job And you pretty much switch from one to another several times a day

Definitely not Tuni

@tuni_tech

6 years

Being a developer means you only have two work moods: - I’m a demigod, I reign supreme over machines - Even amoebas are smarter than me and would have figured out this by now And you pretty much switch from one to another several times a day

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5 years

@garrytan ok billioomer 😂

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Kirill Makharinsky

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6 years

OH your happiness is positively correlated with the % of weekends in which you want to focus on what you usually do, rather than get away from what you usually do

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Kirill Makharinsky

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3 years

@auren everyone tells me I'm crazy for flying transatlantic twice a month although for me each flight is essentially 8 hours of uninterrupted work, which is gold dust

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9 months

@SteveStuWill smart kid - knew the fame from being in a viral clip is worth a lot more than $10k

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4 years

@nikitabier I can’t believe no-one mentioned this: The inconvenience, stress and time-loss (related to charging needs) when doing long and/or remote trips

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Kirill Makharinsky

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10 months

@homesickalien80 and you’ve been fed it really well by the Iranians and Russians

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Kirill Makharinsky

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10 months

@paulg do you not think a lot of pro-Palestinian / Hamas sympathising content on TikTok and elsewhere was “coordinated” also? Genuine question. How much of the content from both sides in the information war stems from some kind of “coordination”?

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Kirill Makharinsky

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4 years

Secrets and Stories is back - this time with the one and only @justinkan ! The episode on Tuesday will be all about team performance. What worked (and didn't work) at Twitch and Atrium? How did he build and motivate his teams? And much much more...

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Kirill Makharinsky

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2 years

@nateobrienn Even without a line I never go to the lounges - their food and atmosphere is worse than in pretty much every airport restaurant But the card is definitely worth it - just for the air miles if you use them right

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8 years

A to do list: a selection of tasks which you know you should do, but want to procrastinate on as much as possible

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

Apple’s app of the day —> in our case, 3.7M people land on your app page that day

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

4 years

this is a good, specific example of the more general advice (which applies not to just recruitment): understand and align incentives early in the process.

Adam Smith

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4 years

The best piece of advice for early stage startup recruiting I can fit into a tweet: Don’t interview candidates who are also interviewing at FB, Google, etc. These folks always end up joining BigCo. The precision on this heuristic is unreal: 100% out of n ≈ 10 offers we’ve made.

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Kirill Makharinsky

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9 years

While moving out found one of @ev 's first Twitter biz cards. "kinda like away messages and sorta like blogging"

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

5 years

Announcing EnkiCamp! Read the post below about how it's completely transforming the teams that @enkidevs is working with. It saves time, helps to execute faster, and improves culture. A no-brainer for any team that wants to move as fast as possible.

EnkiCamp: up-skill your baby unicorn with a 100X ROI

TL;DR: Through a “human experts empowered by software” approach, Enki has designed and built EnkiCamp: the ultimate way for teams to learn…

blog.enki.com

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

6 years

Spending 10 days in London, away from SF. I'm not annoyed by the rain. I'm annoyed by the absence of scooters and Jump bikes cc @brezina

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6 years

@SusanMoussalli @nntaleb “If I had understood it better, I would have written a shorter explanation” - me

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Kirill Makharinsky

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11 years

You know you're at a tech conference when you're playing startup-pitch-roulette in a nightclub @davemcclure @plibin @zackbogue @benhuh

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4 years

Just spent time in SF for the first time in a year It may be full of shit politically and literally But the feeling of magic is still there. It’s still the MVP of places to be if you’re building an MVP. And it’s not even close.

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6 years

“Strategy is what we say no to.” David Gilboa’s ( @WarbyParker ) thoughts on staying focused as a company

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5 years

@garrytan replace “pilots” with “cofounders”, and “place crashes” with “startup failure” and will still be pretty accurate

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

Copywriting is just design using words and language. Improving copy is 80% removing unnecessary words. Improving design is 80% removing unnecessary actions and features.

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

@KateBour IMHO the best ones here (empathy, focus, listening) are often mentioned, so I wouldn’t consider them overrated. I’d say “strengthening your relationship with your partner and the people closest to you in your support network”. The impact of this on a business is never discussed.

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Kirill Makharinsky

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9 years

There should be friction between the head of growth, the head of marketing and the CEO. The former should be most aggressive #SaaStrAnnual

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Kirill Makharinsky

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11 years

Top 100 things learned from 296 TED talks http://t.co/1o9mS2RcHk

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Kirill Makharinsky

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9 years

Whatever you show off - defines what you are scared of losing.

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5 years

@lennysan that’s the power of being in SF, in one tweet

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4 years

@spakhm I’m pretty sure his “no work” is above average for everyone else

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

9 years

To succeed in a relationship of any form with anyone is simple. Give more than you take.

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

5 years

Celebrating 1 million Enki learners! And announcing the next version of our app. One more step towards building the continuous learning coach of the future.

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@kirill

9 years

A growth team should aim for 10 tests every week. And share the results of all them with the whole team, not just the wins #SaaStrAnnual

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5 years

@garrytan @fstoppers was there this morning. I’ll call this shot the “eye of the dragon”

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

5 years

90% of what makes a company execute well comes down to effective communication and empathy between its teams. Yet 90% of companies don't focus on improving this.

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

4 years

FREE INSTRUCTOR-LED COURSES IF YOU'RE OUT OF WORK. FOR EVERYONE. Learn data skills, no-code, productivity tools, writing, and how to nail your interview. From the experts. Pay only when you start a job. No catch. Let's get America back to work!

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

@sbyrnes @lpolovets it’s just code for “not exciting for me right now, but if things change a lot then maybe”. But not sure why they don’t literally say that. Every entrepreneur I’ve spoken to says they would respect the VC more if they did so.

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5 years

@BiruckAnmaw @paulg Following through on what you’ll say you’ll do. Being easily accessible during critical times. Not disappearing when the going gets tough.

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5 years

@Suhail @garrytan My variant is 5 or 6 year vest, back-weighted. I think 1 year cliff is reasonable because you should get *some* equity if you contributed for say 18-24mo. But if that’s how long you stay for, you’d vest 10-20% at most.

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7 years

"Software is simply the encoding of human thought" h/t @cdixon

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

Best productivity hack: When you’re about to explain to someone why they were wrong on Twitter...and then deciding not to

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

6 years

Money can give you happiness. But only a very specific type of happiness! One that comes from solving brand new types of problems that are available or thrown at you as a result of having money. But it’s also easy to be miserable if you don’t solve those new problems well.

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

4 years

Recently moved to LA and would love to get to know the startup community here! Aside from @rrhoover , who are the best connected entrepreneurs or those working on interesting stuff here?

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

4 years

Excited to be hosting a BLOCKBUSTER webinar on how a few of the companies you've heard in the news recently invested in their data culture (which, it turns out, was one of the biggest reasons for their success. You'll have to listen in to find out why.)

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

3 years

even if you have zero interest in tennis, the stats nerd inside you should get excited a qualifier winning a slam without losing a set in all 10 matches is almost definitely never going to happen ever again @EmmaRaducanu — simply amazing!

Emma Raducanu

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3 years

We are taking her HOMEEE❤️🇬🇧🏆

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Kirill Makharinsky

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4 years

@LCaffeinated @chipnanimus Nice i like it. But wouldn’t it be quicker to think (48+2 = 50) + (27-2 = 25) Because 50 + 25 is easier than 45 + 30, and 2 < 3?

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Kirill Makharinsky

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2 years

@elonmusk @KanekoaTheGreat @DavidSacks anyone who says "Yanukovych was democratically elected" has no idea what they're talking about on the topic

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

5 years

thanks for your review of the @enkidevs app, @MakeUseOf !

6 Coding Apps That Make Programming Easier

Want to learn coding but can't afford a course? Coding apps are the smart answer, letting you learn to code wherever you go.

www.makeuseof.com

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4 years

@ashleymayer hm, I dunno. What % of those weekday waking hours is everyone *actually* working?

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4 years

Wowed by (and lost too much sleep to) The Last Kingdom! I’d put it above Game of Thrones.

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

4 years

Super excited to launch a NEW product next week -- to help get America BACK TO WORK! If you're one of the millions affected by Covid or laid off in 2020, then stay tuned.... We will get you back and STRONGER than ever before.

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

6 years

@lpolovets @tylerwillis name of Mark’s dog (in the logo)

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

1 year

7/7 Enki’s mission of giving 1 billion professionals a continuous 1:1 mentor is fully aligned with this effort. Join us on this journey! PS. Thank you @justinkan @zachcoelius @Bandrew @nem035 @andreasklinger @harjtaggar for reviewing drafts of this post and demo video.

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1 year

@goodalexander great thread, thank you

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4 months

In a semi-remote AI agentic world, strong written communication has become the most important skill to worry about team-wide

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LLM bullshit knife, to cut through bs RAG -> Provide relevant context Agentic -> Function calls that work CoT -> Prompt model to think/plan FewShot -> Add examples PromptEng -> Someone w/good written comm skills. Prompt Optimizer -> For

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5 years

Why the “X for startups” branding makes so much sense when you start an enterprise company a) 90% of potential clients -want- their brand and culture to be associated with startups b) in 90% of cases it’s the only distribution starting point as @DavidSacks says

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@DavidSacks

5 years

First sell to startups. Then sell to LOB (line of business / departments). Then sell enterprise wide. Almost impossible for a SaaS startup to build sales momentum any other way.

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Kirill Makharinsky

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7 years

Just realized that over 40% of the @enkidevs team is female. Can anyone beat that? (given a team of 20+)

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@kirill

7 years

@jrmaidment @BenedictEvans and trump was clearly very pissed off, judging by his handshake

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Kirill Makharinsky

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1 year

4/7 Thousands of people are already getting 1:1 coaching with the help of Enki AI every day. Some of the use cases: - Learning to code - Mastering data, no-code and BI tools - Learning best practices and new technologies - Applying AI tools to workflows

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Kirill Makharinsky

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3 years

Excited to share that the video of my TedX talk is live! I pitch "The Big Switch" - a trend accelerated during the pandemic - which has created a new American Dream. And I talk about some of the opportunities that you might find in this new reality.

The Big Switch: the new American Dream | Kirill Makharinsky |...

Kirill is founder of Enki.com, the data skills training platform. He is also a co-founder of Emerging Travel Group, a leading online travel agency. This make...

www.youtube.com

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Kirill Makharinsky

@kirill

5 years

Next week is going to be one for the books. Launching a new product and announcing another. And even more exciting — the whole (usually remote) @enkidevs team is working together from London. Hell yeah! 🥳

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1 year

5/7 For companies, Enki is the most effective way to onboard a whole team to its tooling and productivity stack. As a result, they execute faster org-wide, make better decisions, AND save costs. Enki AI now allows us to scale to companies with thousands of employees.

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4 years

What happened in most countries was a knee-jerk “we need to freeze everything to buy time to understand / figure this out” And the result will be common-sense proposals like this, everyone wearing masks, and others

Naval

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"65X+ difference in deaths between ages 18-44 and those 75+. Under certain age people rarely die, and 90% who do have diabetes, cancer, immune compromised, etc. [Proposal] Under 50, doesn't live with anyone > 50 & lacks comorbidities, no longer subject to future quarantines."

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3 years

If your MRR is growing fast and you’re happy with your investor base - What are the reasons to raise VC instead of non-dilutive financing?

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6 years

@briannekimmel Props to the thought to start the conversation, but this is one of the most “it depends” things I’ve ever heard. This is like saying “going to a party to meet new friends is a massive waste of time”. Obviously it depends on what kind of event you’re going to..

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8 years

@halletecco is there a single intelligence-heavy profession that women are -not- better than men at? I'm not sure there is.

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2 years

@DaveRogenmoser Complimentary, or complementary? :-)

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4 years

Seeing a lot of people surprised that you can get COVID if you’ve been vaccinated. The reality is that the vaccine massively reduces the chances of severe symptoms and the length of time you have COVID in your system, but it doesn’t stop you from getting it (or passing it on).

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6 years

@mwseibel for sure, although you gotta have both. ensure everyone is crystal clear about what they're doing, why, and be super motivated about the why.

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5 years

Literally what your brain looks like when you’re deliberating whether it’s worth distracting your headphone-wearing colleague with a question

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5 years

If you think Slack's product is easy or small, here's how 'easy' their notifications are. (And bear in mind this chart is before they released 'Pause' features)

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4 years

@rogerdickey @sulemanali That was my first thought. Only 3x??

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7 years

That awkward moment when France is more forward-thinking than the US and the UK.

Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher)

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France, I love you. And thank you.

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1 year

I get sent tens of startup pitches a day but I’m not investing right now — fully focused on @enkidevs what should I do with those? Ignore? Nice replies to build network? Forward all / good ones to relevant investor friends?

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5 years

@hnshah @usefyi definitely @leontheakita

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1 year

3/7 THIS IS A BIG DEAL! The results show we're on to something big: 86% completion of learning objectives, 90 NPS, 80% cost savings relative to in-house training. Enki has now designed hands down the most effective format to pick up any new tool or hard skill.

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4 years

Grateful that both my parents and all my grandparents have been vaccinated already

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Kirill Makharinsky

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5 years

@thogge ..with a 4 year cliff. lots of problems with this, not least that it’s unfair to not get any equity if you leave after say 2-3 productive years. If back weighted and longer, sthg like X = {5, 15, 30, 50, 75, 100} where you get X% after n years reduces the potential misalignment

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Kirill Makharinsky

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1 year

2/7 Enki AI leverages key LLM models (like GPT-4 and Claude) and expands their capabilities. It's human-like, on-demand, infinitely patient (similar to ChatGPT) But Enki AI is ALSO tailored to what you’re learning, your profile, goals, and your company’s tooling and workflows.

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9 months

one of if not the top reason to be an entrepreneur imho

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build the future you want to live in life is more fun that way

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@kul @paulg @MarcusRashford when you buy Man Utd after exiting a YC-backed company the circle will be complete

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@JoeyMannarinoUS erm, they already defeated him once?

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@zachcoelius I think it’s just a *relatively* small, loud group of people who need affirmation for their decision-making and don’t want to be isolated (plus, clearly none of them ski) from my point of view: fair enough on the first point. definitely not on the second

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9 years

France was the Silicon Valley of the 19th century - the first versions of the telegraph, bicycle, and the X-ray were invented there

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@OliverCash9 @BennettJonah @primalpoly Yes there’s a big market for content which sounds good, is in fact absolutely useless (or bad advice), but hard to test without material skin in the game

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@kirill

8 years

Applies to startups too.

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5 years

@eriktorenberg this is up there. good history of (social) network effects and how they’ve impacted key things in history

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6 years

“Consumers are moved by culture” is the reason for the @a16z Cultural Leadership Fund cc @bhorowitz

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5 years

@lpolovets hm, I think for the best founders it’s the opposite in terms of antifragility: each major flip has a 5-50% chance of making a trajectory-changing positive impact on the company. While letting the company die is not an option.

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5 years

Our whole family just did our Shabbat ritual altogether, for the first time over... zoom. No reason we couldn’t have done it before, but this crazy time enabled it.

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7 years

The whole of @enkidevs content is now open-source! Now you can leverage the largest learning community of developers in the world to teach others and learn even more effectively.

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