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Leif Abraham

@leifthunder

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Co-founder, Co-CEO @public | Opinions my own/not financial advice

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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
11 months
Next week, the movie Dumb Money is coming to theaters telling a dramatized story of what happened in January of 2021 during the GameStop craze. Public was in the midst of the event in real-life. This is the story of how we experienced it: a thread …
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
⚡️ Our team made a Chrome extension that turns any mention of stocks like $TSLA into a roll-over stock chart. You're welcome.
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Leif Abraham
17 days
Some folks been sharing their stories on purchasing domain names. Here's how we got ...
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
Super excited to have @profgalloway join us on the ride ✊🔥
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
🔥 We raised our Series C Psyched to keep growing this stellar community with amazing people.
@public
Public
4 years
We raised $65 million to change the culture of the stock market.
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Leif Abraham
8 months
Alpha, our AI assistant, is becoming quite awesome. Randomly looked at Etsy’s financials in the Public app and wondered why they had this big loss in Q3 of 2022. Swiped down to ask Alpha and it was able to give me a fast, clear answer together with sources from the earnings
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Extremely proud of the team and humbled by everything that's happening
@public
Public
4 years
We now have 1 million members in our community of investors. To support this growth, we've raised an additional $220 million in funding, which allows us to accelerate new product features and invest in our infrastructure.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
We’ve grown 700% last year. It’s important that with growth this quick our organization matures with it. Today, I’m extremely happy and excited to announce that Jessica Neal & Chris Brummer will join our board as independent directors.
@public
Public
3 years
Today, we’re excited to announce two additions to our Board of Directors: Jessica Neal, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, and Georgetown Law Professor @ChrisBrummerDr . Learn more:
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
5 years
Bell ringing. Fiverr IPO. ✨🎊💥
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Crypto is now on Public ⚡️🔥
@public
Public
3 years
Today’s the day. Introducing: Crypto on Public.⚡ Learn more →
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Leif Abraham
2 years
Incredibly excited to welcome @mikekarnj and the entire @withotis team to Public. Together we'll be the place to invest in any fractional asset, from fractional NFTs, Art, Collectibles, to Crypto, Funds, and Stocks — all in one place.
@public
Public
2 years
Today, we're announcing our acquisition of @withotis . Public members will soon be able to invest in NFTs, art, collectibles, real estate, crypto, funds, stocks, and more—all in one place. Learn more:
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Leif Abraham
17 days
We purchased for $900k from folks who are proper 'domain sharks', at a time where we had raised around $15M. The way we structured the deal was what made us comfortable: - $150k upfront payment - $4k/mo over 36 months - $606k lump sum payment at the end
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
When the speech to text engine gets it right.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
New logo and lot more to come 🔥
@public
Public
3 years
We just launched a new logo. 🎉
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Might be bias but team is on 🔥 today we’re launching Public on the web. Many updates to come. This is just a start.
@public
Public
3 years
Public is now available on the web. ➖ Trade stocks, funds, and cryptos ➖ View portfolio performance ➖ Join community conversations Get started on your desktop at .
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
✊⚡️We got some news and I am pretty excited.
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Public
4 years
Some news: We've raised a $15MM Series B round co-led by @accel and @greycroftvc . Also joining are: @dreamersvc (Will Smith & @kskgroup2017 ) @jjwatt @sophiaamoruso @casey @scottbelsky @morgandebaun @AdvancitCapital
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
The Banker Bag for people who don't work for banks.
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Public
3 years
You don't need to work on Wall Street to be an investor. And you don't need to be a banker to own this duffle. RT for a chance to secure the bag 💼
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Leif Abraham
5 years
Today we launched ⚡️
@public
Public
5 years
* makes it possible to buy any stock with any amount of money. Buy and sell in real-time, using dollar amounts, not number of shares. #nobigdeal
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
👀
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Public
3 years
Coming soon 👀 Reserve IPO shares at the IPO price. Join the waitlist:
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Calendar is launching today. See when earnings are reported, what Public Live sessions are coming up, and more 🔥🐝🔥
@public
Public
3 years
NEW: A calendar for tracking educational events, right in the app. Tap 🔎 and then 🗓 to save the date for: ✔️ Public Live sessions ✔️ Public Town Hall Q&As ✔️ Earnings calls ✔️ Upcoming IPOs, and more
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
10 years
hmm.. looks like clean design is not always working design: http://t.co/jq7QXQPh1H
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Last month we launched Crypto. Today we've added a few new assets.
@public
Public
3 years
We just added 10 new cryptos to : ➖ Solana ($SOL) ➖ Terra ($LUNA) ➖ Uniswap ($UNI) ➖ Avalanche ($AVAX) ➖ Chainlink ($LINK) ➖ Polygon ($MATIC) ➖ Algorand ($ALGO) ➖ SushiSwap ($SUSHI) ➖ Basic Attention Token ($BAT) ➖ Ren ($REN)
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
17 days
Our thinking was simple: We have three years. If we make it, the money won't matter. If we didn't make it, the domain wouldn't matter. We paid it off 18 months later.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
2 years
Proud Public made the @forbes Fintech 50. The team has been hard at work the past year helping people be better investors and building a PFOF-free platform across stocks, funds, crypto, and soon NFTs, art, and collectibles. Congrats to the team ✊
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Welcome to Public @coinbase
@public
Public
3 years
Now available on Public: @coinbase ( @Nasdaq : $COIN)
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Public now makes it possible for investors like you and me to connect directly with the founders & CEOs of the companies we invest in (or might be planning to) 🔥⚡️✊
@public
Public
3 years
Everyday investors don't often get the opportunity to speak directly with executives at publicly traded companies. It’s time to change that. Today we're launching Town Hall, which connects our members with the founders and CEOs behind the companies they believe in.
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Leif Abraham
1 year
Breaking: Bear market cuter than expected
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
7 months
We're live. Options trading is now on Public and it's the cheapest place to do it. In fact, you get something back with every single trade. Activate by March 31st to lock in your rebate.
@public
Public
7 months
New: The cheapest way to trade options Today, we’re introducing options trading on Public, and with it, we’ll be sharing 50% of our options trading revenue directly with you. Activate by March 31 to lock in your lifetime rebate.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
This man knows things about breakups
@public
Public
3 years
An important message from Michael Bolton: Break up with your brokerage:
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Leif Abraham
3 years
SPACs can be hard to understand for new investors, and even experienced ones benefit from more transparent information about them, their status, and their targets. This update is a first step to build more transparency around SPACs.
@public
Public
3 years
We’ve launched more robust stock pages in the app for SPACs that make it easy for our members to see the key investors, acquisition plans, and which stage the SPAC is in.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
1 year
Playing with Alpha, our GPT powered research analyst. Still lots of work to be done, but slowly getting quite powerful. cc @public @OpenAI
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
Very excited this is finally rolling out. It's one of the most important infrastructure updates needed to truly open the stock market to more people. And it was 18 months in the making.
@public
Public
3 years
💳⚡Something new: You can now invest with your debit card.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
I'm channeling my inner @katieeperry and giving away Invest Hats. Who wants one?
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
These guys ... ✊✊⚡️⚡️ @saman @rob @ZReitano
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Forbes
3 years
Digital Health Startup Ro Raised $500 Million At $5 Billion Valuation
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Simpler and prettier ⚡️♥️🔥🔥
@public
Public
3 years
We did a little spring cleaning 🧹 Check out a tidier home screen in the latest version of the app.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
17 days
We worked with the infamous Larry Erlich to acquire it, an intro from the BoxGroup folks @AdamRothenberg @davidtisch years ago when I bought the domain for my former company (which was much cheaper)
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
7 years
AND CO got acquired by Fiverr (and btw. it's completely free now)
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
Who wants a box?
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Leif Abraham
4 years
♥️💥Love our new website:
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
3 years
🔥 Welcome @Gfilche & Moe
@public
Public
3 years
Today, we’re announcing our acquisition of @hypercharts , a financial data visualization platform that turns complex SEC filings into simple, interactive charts that investors can use to make decisions. Learn more:
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Leif Abraham
2 years
After Jennifer Coolidge's speech we won't get any airtime today, but we just announced Treasury Accounts on Public. Pretty big deal too.
@public
Public
2 years
Earn 4.8% yield with a Treasury Account.* Coming soon (like, really soon) to Public. - Higher yield than a high-yield savings account** - Access your cash at any time - Backed by the US government
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Leif Abraham
1 year
Like everyone, we're incredibly excited and fascinated with the recent developments in AI. Today, we're rolling out our first experiments in the field, called Alpha.
@public
Public
1 year
Say hello to Alpha: your investing co-pilot powered by @OpenAI ’s GPT-4. Get real-time and historical market data in a natural language interface. On demand. Go ahead. Start a conversation about any asset you care about.
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
4 years
What happened today and where do we stand:
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Public
4 years
A Note on Access with Responsibility:
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
1 year
Today we’re live in the UK 🇬🇧 This has been nearly two years in the making and is especially important and exciting because our team has been partially European from the start. With our offices in Copenhagen and now London, and teams in Amsterdam and Lisbon (and obviously
@public
Public
1 year
Big news: Public is officially live in the UK! We’re delighted to bring our investing platform across the pond and provide UK investors with a better way to access US markets. 🧵
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
6 days
Rate cuts have been in the news a lot. But before they happen, there's an opportunity to lock in a high yield. Today we're launching the Bond Account. An incredibly easy way to lock in a 7.3% yield -- even if the Fed cuts rates.
@public
Public
6 days
Exciting news: the Bond Account is officially live on Public, offering a 7.3% yield* with monthly interest payments: Here's the backstory on how we created a simpler way to invest in corporate bonds. 🧵
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Leif Abraham
4 years
We will stop participating in the practice of Payment for Order Flow.
@public
Public
4 years
ANNOUNCEMENT: To better align our incentives with those of our members, we will stop participating in the practice of Payment for Order Flow.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Congrats @willactf for making this year’s 30 under 30. Public’s community wouldn’t be what it is without you. ✊💙🚀
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Well, we made cereal. What a milestone for everyone at @Airbnb ✊⚡️
@public
Public
4 years
Airbnb is going public so we dropped a cereal. Enter to win one of 500 limited edition boxes 👇
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Leif Abraham
4 years
⚡️ Soon launching a view counter on Public. Posted something earlier and already seeing 25k views in 5 hours 🔥🚀
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Leif Abraham
3 months
Major update to our portfolio screen. Team has nailed this one. Making it more sophisticated, yet cleaner at the same time. Customize your portfolio views, see allocation breakdown by asset class, and more.
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Public
3 months
Introducing the new-look Public portfolio, with more ways to track your performance, customize your data, and organize your investments. Here are some highlights:
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Would love this sweater, but it won't arrive until May 🥁
@typesfast
Ryan Petersen
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Merry Christmas Eve!
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Every morning, 15 min before markets open, Public Live is now hosting "The Open". A 15-minute overview of the events that might drive the stock market that day.
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Public
3 years
Introducing: The Open ☀️ Today, we're launching a daily morning show that unpacks the biggest headlines before the Opening Bell.
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Just published our internal cultural principles so we can share them with folks before we hire them. It's easy to dismiss this stuff as meaningless posters for the office, but we use these every day to make decisions. They're tools. (thread)
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Big shoutout to @zachdioneda for crushing the production of our Michael Bolton campaign. I had to tell him to set up his Twitter account so I can give him this shoutout. Maybe it leads to his 7th follower on Twitter. Who knows, things are crazy right now.
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Leif Abraham
4 years
In celebration of Bitcoin hitting $31k, here's a tweet from 2013.
@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
11 years
i sold my bitcoin too early
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Leif Abraham
4 years
@profgalloway There’s a Time Machine for these:
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Leif Abraham
4 years
How the Public community's performance stacks up against the S&P 500. 🤯🔥⚡️👇👇
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Public
4 years
The 10 most popular stocks in the community included $TSLA, $AMZN, and $MSFT, and the performance of these stocks significantly outpaced the S&P 500.
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Leif Abraham
17 days
The domain was put into domain escrow and if we'd ever miss a payment, the seller had the right to simply take back the domain and keep all the money we paid them up to that point. Also, we could pay it off in full at any time.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Our new report is out with some interesting results. For example: 56% of investors starting in the past 3 years said their parents did NOT own stocks. Many new investors are first-gen investors.
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Public
3 years
With millions of new investors entering the market, we wanted to dig deeper than the stereotypes and explore the behaviors and motivations of people who started the journey over the past 3 years. Here's what we found:
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Leif Abraham
1 year
New homepage, who dis?
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@leifthunder
Leif Abraham
7 years
AND CO just got featured in the App Store.. Damn Damn Damn :)
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Today we launched Public Trends. A new initiative where we will share insights around the markets, from our community, and the changing culture of investing. ⚡️
@public
Public
4 years
We just launched Public Trends, a new tool for seeing what’s trending in our community over time.
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Tell your friends
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Public
4 years
We are doubling the free stock slice value for member referrals today. Tell your friends.
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Welcome to Public @tonyhawk ✊🛹🔥
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Public
4 years
Skateboarding legend @tonyhawk just joined Public. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Education in context when it matters most. Very excited about this new feature 🔥✊
@public
Public
3 years
Invest with context. You can now see why certain stocks are moving ⬆️ or ⬇️.
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Leif Abraham
11 years
i sold my bitcoin too early
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Leif Abraham
4 years
⚡️We launched polls. (And rolling it out slowly to more and more people)
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Public
4 years
Spot something different in the feed? Open the app for a new way to share your thoughts on the companies you believe in. *This is not investment advice. See .
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Leif Abraham
3 years
The stock market is real-time. Our new audio broadcasts help you comprehend what's happening, the day of. Tune in at 10:30am ET today to learn more about it directly from our Product team.
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Public
3 years
Today, we’re launching Public Live, a drop-in audio feature for real-time commentary on the latest market news and trends.
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Leif Abraham
8 years
The Evolution of Careers - Why not every independent considers themselves 'freelance'
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Leif Abraham
1 year
And just like that Public has become my go-to for listening to earnings calls.
@public
Public
1 year
Now, you can access every earnings call directly on Public. No more logging in to a company’s quarterly webcast or navigating an outdated web player. We’re bringing the earnings calls to you. Catch up on earnings calls, decks, and reports from any company, on demand.
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Leif Abraham
4 months
Love how 'multi-asset' is coming together on the asset pages in the Public app. For example: on each stock page, you can now get a quick overview on the equity, options, and bonds position and/or access the asset class right there.
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Leif Abraham
2 months
Dinner.
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Leif Abraham
1 year
Excited to launch our catalogue of investment plans together with renowned asset managers like BlackRock's iShares and Engine №1.
@public
Public
1 year
Automate your investing with recurring contributions to our new data-backed Investment Plans. Each Plan takes the guesswork out of choosing the right asset combinations and allows you to gain exposure to a range of investing styles and risk tolerances.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Fast money movements is one of the biggest problems in fintech. Extremely excited for this partnership to keep building the investing app that can run entirely on 'card rails'.
@public
Public
3 years
We’re partnering with @stripe to bring faster, more flexible money transfers to all investors. Learn more:
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Growth💥📈
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Leif Abraham
4 years
I am weirdly excited about this thing. Also, 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪.
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Leif Abraham
11 months
By Friday 4pm we had roughly doubled our user-base, topped Tinder in the app store, kept the system up, and, with the markets closed, could finally take some sort of a breather.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
The biggest barrier to the markets is that people feel it's not for them. That investing is some rocket science they could never master. Financial education is one of the key tools to break this barrier. New: Educational videos by community members, for community members.
@public
Public
3 years
You can now watch short-form educational videos, right in the app.🎥 Hear from trusted financial creators as they break down key investing concepts, from diversification strategies to blockchain basics. Tap 🔍 in the app to start exploring.
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Leif Abraham
4 years
We're hiring. A lot of very exciting work to be done. Please share. (see thread for all roles)
@public
Public
4 years
📣 We're hiring for a few key roles. Drop us a line at jobs @public .com (or better yet, DM us in the app).
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Leif Abraham
6 years
AND CO's Desktop App launched! Ask any questions on Product Hunt:
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Leif Abraham
3 years
Love the new Portfolio view the team has built. 💙✊
@public
Public
3 years
Introducing an all new web experience, featuring more ways to customize how you build and manage your portfolio on Public. Explore the updates at .
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Leif Abraham
3 years
I heard Crypto is coming to Public, as well as your next Insta story
@public
Public
3 years
We just dropped an Instagram Story filter to celebrate Crypto on Public. Try it out and tag us in your story ( @publicapp ) for a chance to win a limited edition Crypto is Coming shirt. Get the filter here:
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Leif Abraham
11 years
Get free promotion on Twitter with http://t.co/XRIMzTLVZJ http://t.co/TIOIXcjYyg
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Psyched to have these two join us and run the things @malling and I completely suck at.
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Public
4 years
Welcoming Sruthi Lanka (CFO) and @stephensikes_ (COO) to our leadership team:
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Leif Abraham
5 years
Featured ✊
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Leif Abraham
4 years
👇🔥👇🔥👇
@public
Public
4 years
We're hiring. — Product Manager — Accounting Manager — iOS Engineer — Sr. Android Engineer — Web Engineer — Customer Experience Manager — Sr. Brand Designer — (There's more but we're running out of space)
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Leif Abraham
1 year
Awesome to see @public on Forbes' list of "America’s Best Startup Employers". Number 17 of 500.
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Leif Abraham
3 years
One tool we use at Public is 'DYT' - it stands for 'Do Your Thing.' It's that little push to give people the trust and autonomy to make their own decisions, even if it might feel uncomfortable at first.
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Leif Abraham
11 months
Competitors stumbled before, so we made plans for how to take advantage of it. I.e. Twitter ads to “Transfer your account to Public” pre-approved to simply unpause and be live in seconds not hours. We later called this a Black Swan Playbook. A checklist when an event strikes.
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Leif Abraham
1 year
Today in random things happening
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Leif Abraham
4 years
Every startup wants to be viral but that's hard to plan and forecast for. Knowing and estimating your "K-factor" can help. This is how we do it at Public. (Thread)
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Leif Abraham
4 years
With all the IPOs happening, we've launched "Road to IPOs" to tell the story behind the company.
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Public
4 years
It can take years, even decades, for a company to make it to the public markets. Open the app to start exploring the Road to IPO.
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Leif Abraham
11 days
We got some news to share next week 🚀
@TheCompoundNews
The Compound
11 days
Cooking it up at The Compound studio with @public 🎙️🔥👀
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Leif Abraham
4 years
We're hiring a few new roles. A lot of very exciting work happening. 🔥
@public
Public
4 years
Public is growing fast and we're hiring for a few new roles in Product and Operations. Here they are (thread):
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