happy 70th birthday,
@stevewoz
!
one of the greatest moments in my life was having breakfast together in December 2011 – talking Apple history, about Jobs, electronics we loved, STEM & helping the next generation of kids and getting to know how much you love using
@foursquare
.
it’s the second-to-last day ever open for my wife’s ice cream company
@milkmade
— and the line is around the block! fans who’ve been there for all ten years are here for the last scoops of their favorites.
this is EXACTLY how we built early foursquare in 2008-9: before your friends & the network show up, make 1P mode fun. become a regular at places (mayor), earn points and badges for being the first to discover places, for keeping streaks alive, for clearing your city's fog-of-war.
The genius of Instagram V1’s filters was in how they solved the “ghost town” problem.
Filters were a useful single-player experience even w/ 0 friends.
If building a new social network—I’d paradoxically focus less on network design—more on crafting a novel 1-player experience.
We’re moving offices later this summer, and before we go, I want to open the safe that’s built into the wall here in our space. I’ve been staring at it for five years. Any good safe crackers in our network?
Guy walks into Balthazar the other morning for breakfast wearing basically what looked like the Bane mask: "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."
#covid19
oh my lord, Silicon Valley: there is a ‘CoFounder’ magazine. i’m reminded of 30 Rock: “I have a huge presentation coming up—Meeting Magazine is already calling it the first great meeting of the decade.”
As someone that used to say, “Gentlemen should never wear shorts in public, except when within eyesight of water, or on a run”, I regret to admit that I’ve worn shorts everyday for the last sixty days since I moved to California.
I'm solo dad (Dad Solo?) for a week while my wife** is away at ice cream college*. AMA.
* Yes, that's a thing.
** Yes, our son has the coolest mom of all time.
Night. Walking down a street in SF, heard what sounded like someone having an argument in a nearby apartment.
"Alexa! ALEXA! ALEXA!"
...
"ALEXA, NEXT SONG!"
Current is accelerating its mission to build better financial products and to improve outcomes for more than two million Americans (and growing!) who live paycheck-to-paycheck and whose needs aren’t being met by traditional banks.
We're excited to announce we have raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management, which we will use to accelerate our growth, innovation and mission to improve more financial outcomes.
Apple/Google Maps need a “Nap Mode” — baby happens to finally fall asleep just before getting to destination, so press it to extend the route by 30 minutes. scenic, quiet streets with fewer stops preferred.
#dad
we have our office until the end of the weekend when we vacate completely.
any safecracker out there that wants to help us open this thing?
after five years of waiting, i must know what's inside!
We’re moving offices later this summer, and before we go, I want to open the safe that’s built into the wall here in our space. I’ve been staring at it for five years. Any good safe crackers in our network?
Some stores in SoHo are so cool that I doubt most of you would get by security.
While walking the pup past Off-White on Mercer:
Bouncer: "Sorry man, not today."
Father, a tourist from the Midwest, with fam: "I could have bought something! Given you money!"
Bouncer: "Nah, man."