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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

One year ago today, my co-founders and I launched an app out of our dorm room to make learning easier for students. Today, we have helped over 1.3M+ students receive support on 35M+ questions, generated $1M+ in ARR, and raised over $800k+ in funding. Here is our story (1/n) 🧙‍♂️

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Mike

@mgiar2015

7 years

@HYPEBEAST @lilyachty Proxying DM

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 months

1. Zuoyebang 2. ByteDance 3. Duolingo 4. Google 5. 500 person app agency 6. 4 20 year olds who got that dog in em

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3 months

Approx half of the top 20 apps in Education category are now AI cameras that do your homework for you

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Mike

@mgiar2015

7 years

@richchigga

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

women are temporary, nfts are forever

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 months

Congrats to my favorite interns. You are all cracked, and I’m so grateful to be able to work with you all every day. Sadly, this is an announcement post that you are all fired as you can no longer provide valuable insights as college students. Thank you for your service 🫡

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Mike

@mgiar2015

15 days

I’m thrilled to share that @sleenyre has joined Quizard as the 5th core team member and our first Founding Engineer working with us in NYC 🧙‍♂️ Sangwu is an AI researcher from South Korea. Along with @SidBendre , Sangwu is leading the research to improve our AI models that are

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Mike

@mgiar2015

11 months

Been a minute...

Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

2 months into the Quizard launch 🪄 Goal for next month is 5 million

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 months

is looking for a part-time designer to lead design on our app and a top-secret project 🧙‍♂️ dm if you: - want to join a vc-backed fast-paced team ($2M+ ARR, 1M+ users in ~1 year) - have an eye for details - are excited to change how people learn

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

Thats a wrap🕺 Some exciting news coming, stay tuned

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Feel like I’m finally getting a handle on @anchorlang Would recommend @paulxpaulxpaulx and @ironaddicteddog articles on building an escrow for anyone who is looking to get started with Solana development.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Life update: I got over my fear of heights

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

Got the team together for the weekend to celebrate 1 year. There is magic in the air🧙‍♂️

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

We have some exciting plans for this year. The Quizard app is only our wedge into the broader edtech market. 2 new products are dropping, we are expanding the team, and the mission is clearer than ever. We are making it possible for anyone to learn anything faster, starting

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Permanent Legit Check, Please leave some feedback if we have done business in the past.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

am I an NFT influencer now?

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Mike

@mgiar2015

20 days

Neo cuts through the noise. It's rare to find a community with such a high concentration of talented and caring people. Apply!

Ali Partovi

@apartovi

21 days

Calling future tech leaders: Neo Scholar applications are open. Apply now! Past @Neo Scholars are crushing it in AI and beyond. (🧵...)

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Ill be interning at @SlackHQ this summer and I’m looking for a few roommates to rent out a place with in SF. Shoot me a dm if you are interested, would love to chat

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

1 month into the Quizard launch 🪄 Goal for next month is 1 million

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Happy days @ eth denver

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

A little proof of concept I built with @neilyyeung @YiboHe3 @alexdmartin314 at @HackMIT A tool for improving english comprehension with GPT-3 generated stories and quizzes + images generated with stable diffusion.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 months

Kayla is the 🐐, one of the most talented designers + engineers I have had the privilege to work with

Kayla

@kayladotdev

2 months

😴→🥳 created the cutest hover interaction for @quizardai chrome extension

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

February: Growing too fast Not all growth is good. We grew too fast. The app was riddled with bugs leading to shit retention. We spent the next several weeks with minimal sleep fixing everything. Shoutout to @getsentry ; you are the goat. Our users were not concentrated in one

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

April: Assembling a team and getting funded Only work with 10x people. @AchrafGolli is a great product person. He built and designed the first prototype of the app. @benorchen could sell water to a fish. He helped us reach 100k users in less than 2 months. We recruited

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

I asked for a plain slice of pizza in San Francisco and the person looked at me like I had two heads, insisting that it is called a cheese slice. I miss the east coast.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

May: Graduating We graduated college and moved into an apartment in Rochester, NY. We were paying ourselves nothing and living in a city with nothing to do but talk to users and code. Our previous plans to travel Europe turned into being huddled in our living rooms around our

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

10/10 @fredagainagain1

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

This is why everyone should download @withopal

Paul Graham

@paulg

3 years

The most dangerous thing about carrying a cell phone everywhere is that you're never bored. Boredom, like pain, is a signal.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Having a really good day today

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

I am convinced that an apartment with big windows would greatly improve my quality of life

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

June: The best product will win In June, several competitors began to hit the market. A competitor gave away 10 Teslas with David Bobrik, a team that had launched a unicorn previously in HK decided to enter the market and started spending boatloads of money on ads, and a

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

One of the biggest lessons I have learned this year is that I need to stop overvaluing the opinions of my mentors and put more value on my own insights. Mentors are great until you use them as a substitute for making your own decisions.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

A little proof of concept for an application that attempts to make social media less satisfying by throttling your connection speed to platforms like Instagram etc.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

This made my Friday

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

2 months into the Quizard launch 🪄 Goal for next month is 5 million

Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

1 month into the Quizard launch 🪄 Goal for next month is 1 million

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

July: The importance of mentorship In July, we spent a month in Sunriver, OR for the Neo accelerator. We worked 24/7 together in a coworking space and shared every meal with 20 other startups. Having the right community of founders and mentors will 10x accelerate your journey

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 years

@SwiftCop this aged well

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

January: Growth through a viral Tiktok On January 28th, we launched Quizard. We posted our first 3 TikToks, which hit 1M+ views in 2 days. We went from 100 users to 10k users and hit #30 in the app store education charts overnight. Here is a fun Bereal (RIP) to commemorate the

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

this is exactly how I have been feeling.

gabby chan

@yccgabby

3 years

the temptation to take a gap year and go bullish on a startup grows stronger everyday

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

March: Running on no money We answered 250k questions in the first two weeks of the launch. How did we cover the initial OpenAI costs as college students with no revenue? We didn't :) OpenAI’s heavily rate-limited Codex worked well for our use case, and the best part is that

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

December: Our next big thing Fundraising eats up your time; it is a full-time job. Stepping away from pitch meetings allowed the team to return its focus to our users and build an awesome product. We onboarded new interns and started to work on building our next product, a big

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

ChatGPT api release really has got me feeling like a kid on Christmas.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

I told myself I was going to try and build a "personal brand" this summer. I am now realizing that I first need to work on building strong opinions and learning to articulate them. Time to start reading and writing more.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

September: Back to school The summer was over, and we saw it in our revenue. We hit $650k ARR in September and $1M ARR in the following month. Consumer edtech for students is incredibly seasonal. On a micro level, you better get used to seeing your usage drop by 75% on the

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

March Pt.2: Cracking monetization We made $69 in February and hit $7000 in MRR in March. We launched the app with a coin system that was monetizing horribly. We realized everyone who was making purchases was actually buying the max amount of tokens we sold. We implemented a

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

Get yourself a co-founder who debugs in their dreams

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

The Beatles never fail to put me in a good mood

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 months

@SidBendre @quizardai @TheRundownAI @rowancheung Bro you are supposed to be working on the agent stop tweeting that is my job

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

October: Learning to pitch We set out to raise a $3M seed round. I learned that talking to investors is a lot like dating. You not only need to have baseline sex appeal (great numbers in an appealing market), you need to have rizz (sell a story). You learn that some people

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

November: Becoming profitable and not raising We got a few offers that we were not happy with. After re-evaluating our options, and hitting our first profitable month, we decided we did not need VC funding to hit our next milestone.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

@unreleased

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

2 years

I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. Will publish the source code shortly for others to try and improve.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

7 years

eBay api is so trash

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 months

August: Diversifying marketing efforts We just moved to NYC, and the pressure was high, school would start in early September. Viral Tiktoks are not a sustainable strategy. Our organic product content was no longer driving strong growth. We diversified our strategy to include:

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

sneaker twitter to crypto twitter pipeline

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Looking to connect with students who can help us spread the word about finding research assistant opportunities using @joinauraus . Any intros are appreciated!

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Imagine companies had bereal accounts

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

CEO of funko pops reporting for duty

evil princess on the run

@funnyslut2

3 years

i love pretending that Mikey is the owner and inventor of funko pops

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

@jonathandansoba yeah i also love $60 gildan hoodies

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

I want cereal but afraid to leave my pc

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Looking to chat with students about their experience with getting involved in research at their universities. Shoot me a DM if you are down to connect🤠

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Mike

@mgiar2015

9 years

@bigDmota8 they fake tho....

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Anyone want to work on a new project related to sneaker Twitter? This is NOT a cook group, bot, proxy company, etc. DMs are open👋

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Mike

@mgiar2015

4 years

If you have not already, go follow my hand sanitizer tracker. Any shares are appreciated❤️ Friendly reminder: If you resell hand sanitizer or face masks you are a shitty human being.

SaniTracker

@SaniTracker

4 years

🦠 PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer Naturals with Plant Based Alcohol, Citrus Scent, 12 fl oz Pump Bottle (Pack of 2)- 9629-06-EC in-stock at Amazon 🔗Url:

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Such an inspiration. Would recommend everyone give a listen to this talk Virgil gave back in 2017: Rest in power king

Core Studio Public Lecture: Virgil Abloh, "Insert Complicated Title Here"

Virgil Abloh (Rockford, IL 1980) is an architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the

www.gsd.harvard.edu

LVMH

@LVMH

3 years

LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years.

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Damn, I've been on this app for 6 years and still have not figured out how to tweet

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

paulx post: ironaddicteddog post:

Anchor: A Powerful Framework for Solana Developers - HackMD

# Anchor: A Powerful Framework for Solana Developers > **This document is not maintained anymore. P

hackmd.io

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Mike

@mgiar2015

4 years

Laptop stopped working randomly for the second time in 6 months... Will I still buy another Mac? Yes

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Uncaged UB copped

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

@hec_stylez @njsneaks @thenikebandit but that ruins all the fun of it...

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

These atmos asics are round two of the 3.1s

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@mgiar2015

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@mgiar2015

7 years

@R8T3D Oh yeah that shit that i spent my 60 bucks on a year ago

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

@mgiar2015 @abubacar_gborie @B_rog1996 @WestCoastSoles thanks guys really appreciate the help

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

@whrobbins While there is no shortage of free educational resources, navigating these resources can be challenging. Working on solving this problem.

Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

1 month into the Quizard launch 🪄 Goal for next month is 1 million

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

@AlecVandy98 lol your salty about a 5 year old being better at basketball then you

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Mike

@mgiar2015

12 days

Anyone have extensive experience in SEO that could help us figure out why our site is not ranking on searches for our brand name?

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Mike

@mgiar2015

6 years

@JuicyJeremy @picsoleated @RonnieFieg @KithSet @fvckdiego @sneaker1freaker @wilson99z @SouthernTenn @CryptoTheKidd I can help you buy a funko pop but thats about it

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

If you can garuntee me a small peach box logo hit my dms im paying heavy

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Mike

@mgiar2015

2 years

Formatting issues on google docs cause me irrational amounts of anger

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

Was going through my closet back at my parents house and found a plushie sample we had made for the @funkodojo ninja a few years ago. Good times🥹

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Is 600 ms to slow for supreme proxies?

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Hmu if you need footsite proxies cheap

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Mike

@mgiar2015

1 year

Any bets on when the official ChatGPT app is going to drop? 🤔

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Shouttout to my man @SwiftCop always hooking it up, throw him a follow hes blowing up

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

@BobbyThakkar @faktorfi Big fan of #3

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Mike

@mgiar2015

7 years

@shmatt_ta @cookiepluhg I can assure you a bot on github will not get you a $200k job. If that was true, @pxtvr would be working at google rn

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 months

@adamludwin

Mike

@mgiar2015

3 months

1. Zuoyebang 2. ByteDance 3. Duolingo 4. Google 5. 500 person app agency 6. 4 20 year olds who got that dog in em

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

@semester Hacker

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@mgiar2015

7 years

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@mgiar2015

6 months

@zachcohen25 @a16z Appreciate the mention🫡

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Mike

@mgiar2015

7 years

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Go cop the Sneaker Bible from @SwiftCop if you haven't yet before price goes up tonight. DONT FORGET TO TELL HIM WHO SENT YOU

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

For Sale: Yeezy V2 Beluga: 9 x3 10 x1 Yeezy V2 Red Size 6 Yeezy V2 Copper Size 7.5 x2 Ultra Boost Mystery Grey: 8 8.5

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

These headphones are dumb lit

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Who has experience with getting charged back months after you've shipped the item plz dm me and Rt to find someone who can help

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

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Mike

@mgiar2015

8 years

Size 5 Trios for $102🤓

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Mike

@mgiar2015

3 years

Party Round marketing is 🐐🐐🐐

Capital

@capitalxyz

3 years

Drop 002 — Helpful VCs Investors have 5 hours to verify and claim their NFT by tweeting it out… if they don’t, it goes to auction. Not a VC? Retweet this tweet for a chance to win a Helpful Analyst!

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