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Pablo Villalba

@micho

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Product / biotech / finance / code / art ✨🔊🏄🏻‍♂️🌈 Prev. founder at @8fit (acquired by @Withings ), @RedboothHQ , $40m+ revenues

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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
Years ago I pitched a German VC. During my presentation, 3 white men in suits kept insulting me with stereotypes about Spanish laziness disguised as jokes. I left the room feeling humiliated, with my team's achievements ignored. @8fit later closed a great Series A & B. 🧵👇
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
Awesome UX detail from ReadMe.io http://t.co/KjiWMQQ3cK
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Pablo Villalba
11 months
An 32 ETH Ethereum validator is now $75k and yields ~$3k/year (up from $50k and $1.5k/year before) If you're in, congrats on the gains! If you're priced out, keep an eye on @divastaking which will soon lower the barrier to run a node to 1 ETH :)
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
My favorite health tech company acquired my startup @8fit – another exit for the EU ecosystem!
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TechCrunch
3 years
Withings buys workout app, 8fit by @bheater
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
Hoy somos la cuarta app más descargada en España, por encima de Instagram 🍒 En España tenemos ganas de comer sano y ponernos en forma ;)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
4 years
Here's an optimization problem (Source: Die With Zero)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 months
Another Christmas miracle – after nearly a decade!
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
Closing a chapter with @8fit 👋❤️
@Withings
Withings
3 years
Welcome to the team, @8fit . Today we’re announcing the acquisition of leading health & fitness app 8fit as part of our commitment to invest over $30 million in the next 3 years to combine cutting edge medical devices with personal health & wellness plans.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
Downloads aren't signups. Signups aren't actives. Actives aren't revenue. And revenue isn't profits.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
@jmculling @noclador Except he didn't. They are asking you to purchase a new $500+ dish. Stop giving him positive PR for something he didn't do
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
Moving to a new office soon, just by the canal – my favorite part of Berlin :)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
We raised $200k for @8fit_app a month after launching http://t.co/BgHi3ztxjx The post has the full pitch deck and metrics we used
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Pablo Villalba
1 year
Got ETH or stETH? Here's a dead simple way you can help revert the centralization of Ethereum and get DIVA tokens: 1. Go to 2. Deposit ETH or stETH 3. Sit back and relax :) All ETH gets staked into Diva once it launches, you get DIVA allocations 💯 👇
@enzymefinance
Enzyme
1 year
Enzyme is thrilled to support @divastaking , an Ethereum Liquid Staking Protocol. Diva’s Pre-Launch TVL Vaults are live! These Enzyme vaults enable Early Stakers to deposit $ETH or $stETH to earn DIVA rewards, as proposed by @Avantgardefi . Learn: (1/6)
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
While the European VC ecosystem at large keeps talking about values, diversity and "building a better future", the truth is that it's mostly white / cis-male / business-school / rich-country decision makers backing others like them
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Code like no one's testing
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 years
I decided to leave Teambox (now @RedboothHQ ) to start something new. Here's the story: http://t.co/FO7Li7V1M3
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
@javilop Qué hacemos con esto?
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 months
Been wanting to set up your first @divastaking DVT node from only 1 ETH? Sign up for this pilot course! You’ll be learning staking 101 and get a grant to buy hardware 💻 @divastaking 🤝 @ethStaker 🤝 @stakesaurus , now accepting applications 👇
@ethStaker
EthStaker 🦇🔊
11 months
DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator EthStaker, with @divastaking and @stakesaurus is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
✨Preparing my talk at @0xliscon , today at 2pm ✨ Come learn how to run crypto & DeFi on institutional traditional finance rails
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
"Like" (and feel old) if you remember what these numbers mean: 14.4, 28.8, 56
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
Our first 5 months at @8fit_app : $20k in expenses, $5-6k in revenue, 30-50%/mo (profitable) customer growth http://t.co/I4efUgWMiF
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
. @8fit , after 1.5 years, has a run-rate of several millions in revenue and over 2 million downloads. We're excited about 2016! :)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
2 years
Gas is ridiculously cheap right now. Good moment to move ERC20s into @gnosisSafe
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
If you put 2 hours into learning something niche, you'll be better at it than 90% of the population
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
So where to start? Here are some ideas: 1) VCs, stop hiring people like you. Bring diversity to your DECISION MAKERS and INVESTMENTS, not just to your office mgr, website and deck. Stop the cycle and choose someone non-white, LGBQT+, etc as your next partner / decision maker
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
6 years
One cool thing about being the CEO in a mid-sized startup is the constant learning you get outside your core field of competence. Interviewing and working with smarter-than-you specialists gives you expertise from the trenches. No blog post, course or book can offer that.
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
Discord allowing Web3 logins with an ETH wallet? You know where this is going
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
When done properly, inclusion & diversity make for a rich ecosystem with stronger ideas, better skills and execution.. which ultimately translates into % performance and that "better world" you keep talking about. Thanks for listening 🌈
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Pablo Villalba
1 year
Good thread on the risk thresholds of centralization. @DAppNode @divastaking @ethStaker all part of the solution, helping more home stakers come online
@thegrifft
griff.eth - $GIV Maxi
1 year
@sobylife Lido is good, but Lido at 33% is bad They could stop the network from finalizing & that's a bad look for Ethereum Bitcoiners have said forever that ETH is centralized, at 33% they have a point At 66% they can reverse txs Where do we draw the line? 33% is where IMO.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
4 years
What if the next reserve currency is not owned by a country?
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
This morning I shared a personal story and have been impressed with the support. Many people reached out to me publically and personally. I hope the thread reaches the right people. I've been out of Twitter for a while. I guess it's time to come back.
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
The Asus Zenscreen is the extra travel display I was looking for – compact and powered by one single usb c cable ❤️
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Pablo Villalba
1 year
Something that had been in my mind and somebody finally put in words: “For open source contributors, showing support and acknowledgement is a form of caring, like you do for friends or family” at #devconnect #dreamworld
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
Wow: "Arabic numerals were originally designed so number of angles on a symbol equals the number" http://t.co/LSiUob9TmO
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
"Thank you 8fit for giving me a second chance at my life" http://t.co/34lpiOIWAY
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 months
My talk about Impact Staking at @ETH_dreamworld @EthPrague , feat. @OctantApp Anyone interested in seeing it? If so I'll share video, slides & writeup. Lmk!
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
I had forgotten about this story until today, speaking to another successful Spanish entrepreneur who moved to Germany. I was surprised to hear he had exactly the same experience of disguised discrimination and racism.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
The VC model is being disrupted and no one's crying
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Pablo Villalba
10 years
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Pablo Villalba
9 years
We just crossed one million @8fit users. That's almost the population of Estonia. Now for the next 9 million :)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
More than 25% of all @8fit_app customers were acquired in the past 14 days. And we're a +$1m/y company :)
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Pablo Villalba
11 months
Wow it's been 10 years
@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 years
I wonder how many of the journalists writing about bitcoin have even used bitcoin to pay for something
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Moving to a new office.. goodbye, Kreuzberg, you’ve been good to us!
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
New office for @8fit_app . We'll be happy here :) http://t.co/UfFsBy8wJD
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
SaaS tools come and go, but spreadsheets are forever
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 years
My first post on @Forbes : Five co-founder stories, five different results http://t.co/Fu49wM8lZf
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Once again we've had @8fit cloned word by word by a competitor. I'm surprised Apple and Google are allowing this.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
2 years
🤖 I love the idea of AI bots starting to apply for online jobs, passing as humans, figuring out competitive rates, getting paid in crypto, subcontracting humans, learning how to reinvest their earnings.. where does it end?
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
. @RedboothHQ , the company I founded, raises an $11m Series B to a total of $17.5m in funding... an impressive number for a Spanish startup!
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
My startup @8fit_app is at ~$10k/month with 40% MoM growth avg. Would you invest $10k+ in our Series A through @AngelList if we opened it?
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
Fun analysis from @EcoWatch on the estimated CO2 impact from billionaires. Yachts as the biggest polluters. Observation: geeks don't like yachts.
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Pablo Villalba
1 year
Thank you @CryptoCanal for an amazing #ETHdam event! Was great to share a cozy couch with the giants of staking @DAppNode 's @Pol_Lanski , @LidoFinance 's @IsdrsP and @Figment_io 's Nikhil. It's the year of Liquid Staking! 🚀🚀🚀
@alinalatinina
Alina Latinina
1 year
ok but why are y’all are on the same couch
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
6 years
First customer! Thank you. So it starts.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
I added "be frugal" to our values, and now I feel great about being cheap ^^
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
1 year
“Don’t let staking become the next DAO” — Ethereum core dev @dannyryan
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
This is probably the coolest research article about neural networks I've read in years http://t.co/xKNkbitGKq
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Great advice for CEOs from seed to Series B
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 months
The equilibrium doesn’t have to be winner-takesaall like they want us to believe. Look at stablecoins, look at AMMs. That’s why they’re pushing so hard for irreversible dominance.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
If you live in your calendar and use a Mac, download this
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
1 year
A large validator queue is a centralizing force for stETH. Why? If Lido receives +100k ETH ($150m) new deposits, its yield comes from 99% staked ETH + 1% ETH waiting. But for a smaller LST with 100k ETH TVL, the yield can drop to half for weeks, severely handicapping growth!
@christine_dkim
Christine Kim
1 year
@dapplion One caveat to note about future churn limit increases and projections on validator set size growth is the fact that the Ethereum entry queue has been steadily *decreasing* since its peak on June 10. H/t: @ZackPokorny_
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
"It's a blue ocean", a note I sent to the @8fit_app team on creating our own market space. http://t.co/XPxepDzv5v
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
1 year
Congrats Aragon team, loving how you just shipped my #1 wishlist feature for @divastaking ❤️ L2 next? 👀👀
@AragonProject
Aragon 🦅
1 year
Delegate voting is now available on the Aragon App! 🗳️ Any token-based DAO can start delegating today to improve decision-making, enhance security by increasing participation, and save on gas fees. Learn more here ➡️
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Pablo Villalba
7 years
If you think you're done after finding product-market fit and funding, wait until you get to scaling recruiting, facilities and HR
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
We're looking for a PM in Berlin. Nutrition Fitness Real people Millions of users $$m in revenue Apply here:
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Water contained by food allows bacteria to grow. Sugar, salt, acids and dehydration help. So pick two: - Tasty and healthy? Can’t be stored - Packaged and healthy? Too dry (“tastes like cardboard”) - Packaged and tasty? Expect tons of sugar and salt So eat fresh ;)
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
Put those "Values" up in a website, sell that your LPs. ESG-washing has come to startups too. A likely facade for those using offshore jurisdictions as tax havens.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
Apple, at $171 billion in revenue last year, made about $25 per person in the *planet* (7 billon people)
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Pablo Villalba
9 years
Classic startup day: new office, 3 new team members, +30% conversions, record sales, 2 interviews, 1 hire, 9 bugs fixed, 54 videos recorded
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Pablo Villalba
10 years
What a great month for @8fit_app . At this track we'll be at $1m/year in revenue by the end of summer. http://t.co/80IPuKqoii
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
As an entrepreneur, I feel closer to an artisan than to a manager
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Iterating on a live product is like fully rebuilding a block of apartments while the tenants live inside
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Hi Jessica, what a beautiful story! I'm glad we could help, and hope you had the wedding of your dreams ✨
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Buscas local / oficina en Madrid? 500 m2 disponibles entre Principe Pío y Plaza España, con posibilidad de reformas a medida. Compártelo con alguien que lo necesite (alguna startup?), o pídeme más detalles :)
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Pablo Villalba
10 years
Use this to spoof your MAC and renew that "30-min free wifi" http://t.co/s6iEM9IHH1 Simple as `sudo spoof-mac.py randomize en0`
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
11 years
Finally watched @janaboruta 's talk "Marketing isn't Bullshit". http://t.co/gTU8iSzLjz. Invaluable for anyone launching a new app!
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
2) Founders, stop putting up with this and call out being discriminated against behind closed doors. I wish I had shared this sooner, but even I had convinced myself that it was just innocent misguided humor. It wasn't, it was racism and discrimination, and that's never ok.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
User acquisition is your army, product / tech is your industry and monetization is your economy
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
Featured by Apple in 66 countries for @8fit_app 😃
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
6 years
A beautiful visualization of the S&P 500 (via )
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 months
Welcome to @divastaking , @HashKeyCloud ! This brings your regulatory & staking expertise on the Asian side – further diversifying the ecosystem
@HashKeyCloud
HashKey Cloud
10 months
Excited to be part of the Diva Testnet operator community! 🚀 Let's keep building on #DVT and growing together! 💪🏽🛠️ @divastaking
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Live close to your work for a potential +5% life bonus. Get a cleaner for a potential +7% bonus (trade money for time).
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Pablo Villalba
10 years
startup.results = opportunity.size * Math.min(skills.product, http://t.co/NWEdoQftTL, http://t.co/JAQBEvWo5l, skills.hr, skills.legal)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
"Most bars have more revenue than your typical startup"
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
Excited about having setting up a US office soon!
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
I realize that a lot of us are in a position of incredible privilege – but that doesn't mean that we can't call for positive change. In fact, it is BECAUSE of that privilege that we should be standing up to others, and redistributing the opportunity we've been given with others.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
We just shipped a new design for
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
7 years
Start using 45 minute meetings (instead of 1h) for a +25% gain in productive time
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
1) Pick one your problems. 2) Read lots of articles about it. 3) Walk, work out, sleep. 4) Solutions will magically come to you.
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
Life after leaving your startup, from @notch http://t.co/98qXSdD2ck
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Pablo Villalba
8 years
Writing on a whiteboard
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Pablo Villalba
3 years
How it started vs how it’s going
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
6 years
If you've been wondering how the Fed works, @khanacademy has a fascinating 3 hr course about it! I can finally make sense of graphs like this one Course:
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Pablo Villalba
9 years
I love visualizing the progress of @8fit users: 17 kg lost since xmas by exercising and eating healthy with us :)
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
Another @blackmirror prophecy coming true: China's social credit app via @Thomasbcn (check the video)
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Pablo Villalba
9 years
CEO is for Chief Email Officer
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
3 years
Over the last days the European community (web3 and not) has truly built a network of autonomous support groups, open source intelligence, financing, logistics and physical resources. Feels like a shadow state in the making 🌱
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
8 years
Just another day at @8fit
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
2 years
This sunflower is as old as the war
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
10 years
This is a good resource on where to recruit specialists: http://t.co/kbvZXtswyY
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@micho
Pablo Villalba
9 years
. @8fit_app is hiring Full-Stack and Android developers in Berlin. Join a rising startup! http://t.co/n5jqm28NU6 http://t.co/CsX01Ypi9b
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