The one and only
@TheTripHawkins
(
@ea
Founder & Madden Creator) & I got to finally meet in person after working together for almost two years via Zoom (He is a Board member at
@bigwolfgames
) 🧵👇🏾
I remain long on crypto - and will continue to buidl as we've been doing - but these racist meme coins are just .. disappointing to say the least. Let's do better y'all.
We did it Joe.... 🤗
Excited to Announce
@useRealtime
has raised a $4M Seed Round led by
@alexisohanian
@sevensevensix
Realtime won’t just change the way people connect and interact... We will redefine what it means to be a social network!
Super pumped for
@Calendly
.
Did it his way and quietly for so long. The product did all the talking. Massive respect. I am so juiced for them (and the culture!)
Mahbod (
@Genius
cofounder) was one of the funniest and wittiest folks I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. From being internet friends to finally meeting at a
@ycombinator
event to hanging out in LA, laughs and wild dialogue were sure to be had. Gone too soon. RIP homie 🕊️
Just left the
@SuiNetwork
Basecamp event. Great event. Roadmap of products / features / built-in chain features are insane. Incredibly bullish on Sui &
@PLAYTR0N
’s gaming device - but i dunno if i see this beating Solana phone from an adoption perspective - and it has nothing to
the new Sui gaming console by
@PLAYTR0N
is absolutely based
these are the types of plays we need to be making to drive crypto adoption
I think this has a higher probability of success than Solana phone
> well-defined market
> no need to replace existing device (like a phone)
This is MASSIVE!!!! While not the full victory we wanted, we’ll take this for now. thank you
@TimSweeneyEpic
&
@EpicGames
for fighting the good fight 🫡
As of today, developers can begin exercising their court-established right to tell US customers about better prices on the web. These awful Apple-mandated confusion screens are over and done forever.
‘People chase investor validation which is wrong. If you have a business built on the success of customer validation - investors will follow. This was my experience while fundraising.’ - Jeff Lawson (
@twilio
CEO) after raising $0 in 2008 with early product
#KaporCapitalSummit
@VernTheLegend
- as your big bro - the journey has really only just begun. I’m honored to know you and for everything you’ve taught me about patience, human interaction and not being influenced and staying the course (and introducing me to Notion, DaBaby and all things GenZ lol)
HISTORIC 73-POINT NIGHT FROM LUKA DONCIC 🤯
🔥 73 PTS
🔥 25/33 FGM (75.8%)
🔥 15/16 FTM
🔥 8 3PM
He becomes the 4th player in NBA history to score 73+ points and the first ever to score 70+ on 75% or higher from the field.
It's always a good idea to have an engineer-entrepreneur in your
#VentureCapital
orbit. So check out Ismail
@Maiyegun
, an incredibly well-rounded leader and advisor 👉🏾
#BVIGrads
Second, was to introduce him to a wide range of investors and founders/operators I knew. (Special shoutout to Nick T for writing a check early and trusting my conviction, before any other investor and before BLM movement exploded)
So when he told me
@alexisohanian
wanted to lead his seed round my initial reaction was ‘Of course he does! let’s go!!’ but it was followed by tears (he doesn’t know this haha).
Third, was inviting him out to all most every tech/startup event I went to or was invited to, as my plus one. He met a few important eventual angels this way e.g
@nickcald
in person (on his own by being my +1 to the /dev/color event)
2.5 years ago, I was prepping to give a talk at Kapor Capital and a young black founder approached me with a myriad of questions b4 & after. He also showed me his ‘app’ and I’m not sure what I expected to see, but I saw enough to say ‘OHHH this kid is serious’.
We’d spent many nights having constructive debates about his company/vision and I admittedly occasionally felt like he may be better off finding another means to survive financially in the meantime (pre funding momentum) because the road to financing was SO brutal.
My strategy was simple: increase the likelihood of serendipitous interactions that would help
@VernTheLegend
. I felt like at this stage HE was the product and he needed to be closer to the action and I wanted to create momentum around him.
Tears were 70% joy & vindication - the remaining 30% was because I couldn’t also help but to feel sad that if he looked differently, he probably would have closed his round a LOT sooner.
I decided a few days into meeting and getting to know him (and Kevin -
@ThoseGuysinTown
, his cofounder) that I’d throw the full weight of my support behind them.
I learned that he was a college student at UC-Santa Cruz that was spending 3+ hours to head to the Bay Area proper, to attend events like the one we were at. He told me he was likely going to have to drop out due to a mix of tuition and other factors.
After a fortuitous encounter he had with
@sama
(unrelated to his YC application) that led to an angel investment several months later, the snowball started to really take off.
ahhhh i’m so pumped for my bro
@devarispbrown
& the
@meroxadata
team!! Been such an honor to see you building this up close. Proud to be an early customer (and thanks for all the knowledge re: all things data)
Let’s go!
You mentioned you wanted to see the graphs without using log scale.
You mentioned you wanted a site depicting activity accurately across the different gaming chains.
@jihoz_intern
has delivered.
-> launch app
Ulupreneur
@maiyegun
began his career as a result of an ultimatum by his father. He turned it into building a successful gaming business with a different perspective
@bigwolfgames
. We thin he’s building a more empowered gaming world.
#BlackHistoryMonth
8 years ago on this day I broke my neck & started to see the world from “the other side of the stethoscope” as a disabled physician.
Today, I celebrate our nation’s Independence Day being honored alongside other essential workers at
@WhiteHouse
with
@POTUS
,
@FLOTUS
& my family.
Mike took time to meet with my old founding team after I met him at a talk he gave. He was interim CEO of the publicly traded
@stitchfix
but made time for dinner etc. Got to hear some great stories about early Stitchfix.
Exciting news for the ecosystem.
I 100% agree. Mixpanel did it to themselves though - for a while, it was still arguably the better product (might still be) but the pricing was so cost prohibitive for folks starting out or anticipating scale.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Today we launch our new gaming division. 🎮
To lead this charge, we're excited to welcome Atif Khan as our new VP of Gaming.
Atif brings 15+ years of experience at Facebook & Stardust to help us accelerate blockchain gaming with best in class developer tools. 💫
Yeah I know the newly announced plug-in system is next level and I’m excited to experiment with building some stuff with it but this video of ChatGPT speaking Naija pidgin is both so funny and impressive to me
@vibhu
lol can confirm. met homie through mutual e-commerce venture (Hingeto for me.. b8ta for
@vibhu
) and we were exploring a partnership / collab at the time. def a big nerd :p but in a good way.. whatever that means (nerd recognize nerd). he just cared about building useful products
This all feels so surreal.
@gdb
gave me early access to GPT wayyyyy back when. He was actually a bit more synonymous with
@OpenAI
(to me) than Sam (who I also highly respect). Sad day for the company on all fronts. But excited to see what they do next 🫡
Elon will tokenize X and do what $TON/Telegram did within the next 10 years.
It gives him the opportunity to return liquidity on the purchase and gets the users financially aligned.
Ultimately, it turns X into the platform it was destined to be, the platform of the people.
I'm happy and grateful to announce
@trydaily
has raised a $40M Series B led by
@RenegadePtnrs
. 🎉
@imthemusic
is joining our board to work with us on the future of video, audio, and WebRTC.
Today I was shared a link of the new
@shopify
Collective product launch which looks like a near-carbon copy of one of the products we built at my previous company (
@hinge_to
). Interesting feeling (mostly massive validation) to see a mega company you respect, think the way you do
This goes over a mechanism I mentioned the other day in my Unity thread (leveraging AI-enabled workflows to assist with porting, specifically LLMs & other tools to help with engine migration)
Verzuz (
@verzuzonline
) took me back to my sophomore & junior year in College. I think Thug Motivation was the last CD i bought and it would just play over and over. A lot of Jeezy’s songs were the hype songs of my good friends and I (adlibs and all haha).
Everyone loves SpaceX, and thinks of Elon as the genius founder that invents new types of rockets that are cheaper, faster, more efficient.
It's fun to think of it as SpaceX versus NASA, or Silicon Valley vs Aerospace.
But let's talk about D&I, and logs. Logs as in timber. 🌲
So proud of my brother/former teammate/best man -
@Okanlami
. So deserving.. Super glad the world got to see your work & resilience get celebrated this morning.
Rinse is "One Medical for Dental". They've just launched in San Francisco!
I know how hard you've worked on this
@caseyharlin
! Excited for you & team
#proudadvisor
Congrats
@vsodera
& team! Amazing product. I've legitimately become more productive with email. Email anxiety has gone down by orders of magnitude thanks to
@Superhuman
. Proud of y'all!
@McCorkley
@fritzchain
@hnshah
@hinge_to
Haha!!! 💪🏾 We’ve helped a bunch of big folks do just that to date (some have an existing relationship but most often don’t) - Obviously there are various factors that go into whether a brand ultimately decides that your Marketplace is a fit for them or not.
I recorded a
@loom
vid for my team today. The platform auto generated a title for the video. It freaked me out because I hadn’t realized it did this until I went to edit it and noticed it had *already* written what *I* was going to write verbatim.. yikes lol
The
@SECGov
twitter account was compromised, and an unauthorized tweet was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.
@mattmireles
saw this ad too. Asked myself why it captured my attention even if it made me uncomfy (i was scrolling fast & did a wtf is this?) realized it was a rippling ad & had a hard time deciding if it was good or bad attn. i ultimately didn’t click so maybe therein lies the answer lol
This is hilarious to me. I just had to do
#3
recently a few times last week. I’ve started using this as an opportunity to 🧠 train by practicing memorizing the call-in codes lol.
3 most stressful things about business:
1. Growth
2. Profit
3. Trying to switch between the Calendar app and Phone app fast enough to type in the conference call code before the woman’s voice tells you to start over again.