Patrick Finlay @patjfin Twitter profile

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Patrick Finlay

5 years

If you ever need a bit of motivation, check out the Wayback Machine snapshots of companies you admire. A few of my favs:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Hey folks 👋 here's a bit of holiday reading for you. I wrote a piece about leaving the company I co-founded

Leaving the company I co-founded

Romy, David and I started Monaru in May of 2019. We were part of the YCS19 batch and raised a seed round in March of 2020. This post is about my experience leaving the company in the summer of 2021.

www.patjfin.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

13 days

Bit emotional here in Dublin airport waiting for my latest flight to SF - it was the first time I didn’t need to have a return flight. This time I’m staying 🇺🇸🦅

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Big news from @QuorumChat - excited to team up @adjacent , @localglobe , and Amaranthine to power the next wave of the Passion Economy 🚀

Irish start-up Quorum Chat secures $2m from well-known tech backers

Paddy Cosgrave’s Amaranthine, Y Combinator and Local Globe among investors

www.irishtimes.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Quick work/life update 🧵 - I left the Mona/Monaru team a few weeks ago. The team is continuing on in a really exciting new direction and I'll be cheering from the sidelines

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Lol

Irish lockdown sea swimmer hopes to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco

AN ex-rugby player who took the plunge and started sea swimming during lockdown out of boredom — now hopes to take on the infamous Alcatraz to San Francisco race. Dun Laoghaire man Patrick Finlay r…

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

It's happening! @MonaruHQ is demoing today as part of the YCS19 batch.

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

10 months

Hey twitter friends - looking for a Designer / Webflow expert for help building a new marketing site for - would love an intro to anyone great in your network 👨‍🎨

Solidroad | AI-first training and feedback platform

AI-powered training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Empower reps with realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.

solidroad.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Really excited to share what we’ve been working on for the last couple of months - a big leap forward in how we’re helping solo-entrepreneurs make money online

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

Sharing something I wrote a few months ago about a tough experience I had this year

There’s a scar on my neck now

A post about finding meaning and changing perspective

www.patjfin.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

What if WhatsApp was built for running your club or community? Check out the latest from the Monaru crew:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 months

Here's a little side project I worked on this weekend: It's an easy way to find public saunas around Ireland

Sauna Surfer

Find the best public saunas near you

www.saunasurfer.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

12 days

Day 1 in SF: It’s possibly the nicest day of weather that I’ve ever had in the city, so I decided to do something really special…I’m at the Social Security Admin office in Downtown to apply for a Social Security Card 🦅🇺🇸

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

We're kicking off the search for Engineer No. 1 at @QuorumChat 🎉 - looking for someone to be an expert on all things Mobile:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

Wow, we're a little overwhelmed at the response! 🥇on Product Hunt 🚀 We're on-boarding people manually right now, may take us a little while to get through to everyone 😅 Prioritizing people with iOS-only WhatsApp groups they already monetize. DM me if you fit the bill 😁

Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

What if WhatsApp was built for running your club or community? Check out the latest from the Monaru crew:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

been writin' again ✍️ small content warning: this post talks about grief and loss (and it's a little sad in parts) if you've ever wondered why I know a fair bit of 90s and early 00s internet trivia - here's your answer 💾

Why I Love Computers

A post about love, loss, and sharing a passion with my big brother

www.patjfin.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

A bit over a year since we first walked into the YC office for our interview - what a life-changing experience it's been. Cheers @paulg for starting a startup to help start startups🍻

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

4 years

Irish startup @QuorumChat (YC S19) secures $2m for its ‘WhatsApp with community management’:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

We gave our landing page a little TLC 👀

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

An early Christmas gift from the Monaru crew:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Time to put the band back together 👨‍🎤

Devin McGloin

@devinmcgloin

4 years

So I'll be switching things up a bit, and joining @QuorumChat . Excited to join a small team, work with @DavidNewell95 / @patjfin again, and to get more involved in a bit of everything else.

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

We're live on Product Hunt! Check it out here

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Part 4 of our YC story. Hope it provides a bit of comic relief in these crazy times -> @RomyLynch @DavidNewell95

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

I’ve had a few people ask me about my Interrail route after reading the piece I shared over the weekend. Actually arrived in my final stop (Paris) yesterday and finished a lap of Europe - would definitely recommend to a friend

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Keep an eye out for some big @QuorumChat news tomorrow 👀 - In the meantime, we're kicking off the search for Product Designer No. 1 at Quorum 🎨

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

16 days

Nothing like launching on Product Hunt on the same day as....Product Hunt 😅

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Jesus me nerves - first big test of Mona Streams 😅 wish us luck 🤞

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

Playing around with Dreambooth / StableDiffusion today. I followed a tutorial and spun up a google colab notebook; after roughly 1 hour of poking around, I started seeing these kinds of images holy smokes this is cool 🤯

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

11 days

Day 2 in SF: Jet lag hitting hard so I’m starting early. Time to find some ☕️ and get a bit of work done 🤝

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 months

Just hit the very important milestone of ~when stuff breaks, people 🚨complain🚨 straight away~ Something you take for granted in big companies but for a long time in startup-land, NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANYTHING YOURE DOING

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Really excited to be helping @RozannaPurcell deliver a new Vegan Meal Prep live course - check it out on her @earnmona page here:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Hey everyone - my little brother wants to do an internship in a startup this summer. He's a super-smart computer engineering student with a serious work ethic. Does anyone have any tips on how he should approach the search?

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Someone with 1M followers tweeted about us aaaaand we hit the rate limit within seconds. Stay tuned - we're working on getting things back up again ASAP! #tweetsfyi

100T Nadeshot

@Nadeshot

4 years

What a lineup

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

I've been @loom redpilled - I recorded 3 different lil explainer videos this morning to share context with teammates. Simple but so effective 👏

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

Ever wonder what it's actually like to interview for YC? Or wonder how @DavidNewell95 looks in a hairnet? the long wait is over -

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

We just launched on product hunt! Check it out here:

Monaru - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

A virtual assistant that helps you build deeper connections with the people you really care about.

www.producthunt.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

16 days

Big day for us here at Solidroad - we're launching our new and improved training platform on Product Hunt 🥳 would really appreciate your support

Solidroad - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Solidroad is the AI-first training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Scale training & feedback with your own AI coach. Be at your best.

www.producthunt.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Sneak peek 👀

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Managed to nab a cool domain ✨ ✨

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Something cool on the way from Team @QuorumChat 👀 #yearinchat

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Hey Twitter folks - starting a bit of an interrail trip this week. First stop is Paris - here til Sunday. If anyone is in Paris and is up for hanging out, gimme a shout 🥖🇫🇷

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 months

ah lads Claude is insane. shipping a feature here that would have taken at least 4x the time without it. what an exciting time to be alive

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

This is definitely not a fake laugh

Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Hey Twitter folks - starting a bit of an interrail trip this week. First stop is Paris - here til Sunday. If anyone is in Paris and is up for hanging out, gimme a shout 🥖🇫🇷

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Covid caught me in extra time, 1 week after the J&J jab. Symptoms are pretty mild but not being able to smell is really not great. Is this t-shirt clean?

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

13 days

Massive thank you to the team at @deel for sorting the O1, everyone at @ycombinator for betting on a young team from Dublin 5 years ago, and @eoghan @destraynor and @ciaran_lee for that first opportunity, and for inspiring the next wave of Irish founders to follow their dreams

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Oooft that is unreal - massive congrats to the team that made this happen. This is a really competitive option now 👏

NDRC

@NDRC_hq

4 years

Today we launch the new entrepreneur-led #NDRCAccelerator ! 🚀 One of 1st European accelerators with €100k SAFE investment 🌎 Access to 40+ globally renowned mentors 🗓️ Weekly coaching with Entrepreneurs in Residence Apply 👉

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Contactless payments for public transport dramatically decreases the mental overhead of hopping on a bus - would love to know what the ROI is on it from a passenger numbers perspective

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

"Let's finish the year with a fun little side project, not put pressure on ourselves yano...." @devinmcgloin @RomyLynch @DavidNewell95 @eoghanreid LOL

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

the YC pipeline of founders from Ireland named Patrick (middle name John) is going strong 💪

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

3 years

Apparently around 150 Irish companies applied to YC over the past year. Pretty cool.

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

1 month

Here’s a bit of fun for your next team offsite: get Claude to create an evil nemesis for your company based on your marketing site. Solidroad vs. Weakpath

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

1 year

Hey twitter friends 👋, @MarkHuqhes are launching our new and improved version of Solidroad on Product Hunt today - would really appreciate your support!

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

🚢 hitting our stride a bit now - some great new tools shipped in the last week, and more to come this week 🚀

Quorum

@QuorumChat

4 years

This weeks changelog: - Web chat: Since we launched our business dashboard you've been able to manage your groups on the web. Now you can engage with them too via a web chat client

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Writing something new 👀

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Ah lads, you can’t be announcing the continuation of the most extreme restriction of civil liberties in the history of the state at 10PM on a Thursday in a feckin tabloid paper

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

That awkward moment when you forget to reschedule a Product Hunt launch and it goes live the day of your transatlantic flight home 😅 Simple tool @DavidNewell95 , @RomyLynch and I built to help people manage a busy Slack workspace - check it out 🚀

Product Hunt 😸

@ProductHunt

5 years

Those @SlackHQ notifications can induce a lot of anxiety, we get it 🙈 Here's a better way for teams to manage requests within Slack 💬💫

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

Real time collaboration

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Very proud big brother 🔥💚

Premier Sports

@PremSportsTV

3 years

What a start for @Gonzagadublin ! 🔥 Rory Finlay finishes in the corner after a clinical move 🟢 @leinsterrugby | @LeinsterBranch

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

"It's like fancy Chatroulette" - @DavidNewell95 . This is some craic #WebSummit

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 months

What I imagined selling to enterprise would be like vs. the reality ☠️

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Happy #InternationalWomensDay @RomyLynch ❤️

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

If you have a second to give us a bit of ❤️ on Product Hunt, Team Monaru would really appreciate it 😊

Quorum - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Chat as simple as WhatsApp, with community management built-in

www.producthunt.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Spicy tweet thread - if we’re continuing the lockdown for another 9+ weeks, we should double the Covid payment and bring in an emergency income tax rate increase

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Ok I'm very close to writing a strongly worded letter to whoever's in charge of the Twitter DM product team. How the hell does anyone with a large following manage to use it

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

If a vaccine is going to be thrown out, it should go into someone’s arm - don’t think this kind of headline is helpful without that context @rtenews

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

This is pretty Epic in fairness...🥁

Fortnite

@FortniteGame

4 years

Epic Games has defied the App Store Monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Visit and join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming "1984"

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

🚨Job Alert 🚨 Words mean things ✍️ We're looking for someone help our users build a business through chat by creating great educational content - please retweet/share with your pals 🙏

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

is one of like 3 startups that are making the “City of the future” book I read as a kid come true - so feckin cool

Manna Drone Delivery

Drone delivery made simple

www.manna.aero

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

We’re live! Take a look at how you spend your time chatting 💬

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

The amount of different scooter companies across Europe feels like an elaborate practical joke

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

Just spent about a day and a half wrestling with an unexplained and intermittent error with auth0 while setting up a new product - tried out @ClerkDev and I'm now up and running less than 2 hours later. Annnnd they have a well maintained ruby gem 🤩

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Buzzing for this! We'll be talking on Clubhouse about all things audience building in our new series "My first 10,000 followers" - I'll be taking down notes for myself 😅

David Newell

@DavidNewell95

4 years

New from Mona ✨ We're starting a series called 'My first 10,000 followers'. It's a regular discussion about growing your audience from 0. First up is @LubaYudasina with 100k YouTube subscribers!! (Details in the next tweet if you need a CH invite)

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

PS. if this resonates with you, or if you're going through something similar - my DMs are open. Always happy to chat

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

how it started how it’s going

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

11 months

The 24 x Silicon Valley show that is made about the last 72 hours has so much potential 🤯

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Conor and Ronan are two of the big reasons why @earnmona exists - they encouraged us to apply for @ycombinator way before we thought we were ready. They’re setting the bar high for the next wave of Irish founders ☘️

Inscribe

@inscribeai

3 years

Today, we're very excited to announce we have raised a $10.5M Series A and surpassed $40M in fraud detected per month. For more, read our blog:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

1 month

THEY ARE SMASHING IT. Revenue up loads, customers love the tool, growth solid and consistent. No silver bullet he can think of over the last 9 months, just a lot of lead ones. WHAT A BUZZ 🚀

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

For the week that's in it - Check out how our first attempt at raising money went (Hint: not that well)

Part X - Post Demo Day

Literally anyone can raise....

nomarketneed.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 months

me every time I check my openai / elevenlabs / vapi dashboards

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 months

Can’t be bet

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Launching remotely in one picture 😂

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

1 year

Hey folks 👋 The following thread is our job posting for 2 internship roles at Solidroad for this summer. Please share / DM me for more info!

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

2 years

-Chat GPT3 is at capacity right now-

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

Something fun to finish off the year from Team @QuorumChat - It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for your tweets 🐦

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Got a bit contemplative sitting on a bench I thought was dedicated to someone named Tony Towns who died in 2001 but turns out it said Tidy Towns lol

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

TLDR; Airbnb ads are misleading - Check out part 5 of our YC story:

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

@Daniel_Kyne @waitbutwhy this was one of those things in school that lodged somewhere deep in my head - think I've referred to it like once a month for the last decade

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

😅

Alex Friedman 🤠

@heyalexfriedman

3 years

You are not your startup. Your startup is simply an element in your life. Don’t form your identity around volatile things that can easily be ripped away.

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

17 days

Really looking forward to this 🇺🇸 anyone in SF who is a fan of building new things, check out sffc dot party. Also - what a cool site from @adisbanda 👨‍🎨

Eoghan McCabe

@eoghan

17 days

Today I’m launching THE SAN FRANCISCO FREEDOM CLUB Go to sffc DOT party in your favorite browser and follow the instructions :) The MO of the club is parties. Epic parties. And the very first will be on Fri, Sep 27 in a grand, historic venue in the middle of the city. We’ll

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

It's sometime in 2021. You've been queueing since 4PM, but the anticipation started a week ago when they announced it was reopening today. You're getting close to the front now. Harcourt Street is jammed full of people...

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

How's your day going?

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

Part 2 just dropped 🎧 #nomarketneed

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

5 years

If @DavidNewell95 asks me "Is that the best use of your time?" ONE MORE TIME I think I'm gonna fire him #finalWarning

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

When google auto-adds a meet link to a zoom invite 🙃

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Another viral boomer message hits the family WhatsApp....

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

9 months

got a lick of paint 💅 more exciting though - we've included quotes from early adopters who are big fans of what we're building for them 👀

Solidroad | AI-first training and feedback platform

AI-powered training and assessment platform for customer facing teams. Empower reps with realistic simulations and feedback to perform their best.

solidroad.com

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

11 months

spaghetti for dinner this eve

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

😅 this has happened quicker than we expected, trying get around it ASAP #tweetsfyi

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

1 year

A very idilic start to #thisnextthing here in Zurich. Our host @seldaek let us know that the big hills in the distance are actually the alps. The more you know….

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Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

3 years

Ok these are legit cool. The fact that I’m actually considering spending money on a jpeg is very 2021

The Surreals

@SurrealsNFT

3 years

Sit down, get comfy and pour yourself a bowl of surreal.

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@patjfin

3 years

Wrote this thread nearly exactly 1 year ago.💔 that I can’t be there this eve to live my dream. Anyone in Coppers tonight, swipe the end of an unattended pint off a table in my honor 🤘

Patrick Finlay

@patjfin

4 years

...You pass under the @CopperFaceJacks sign. You can hear Dancing Queen by ABBA playing inside. A wave of relief washes over you. Finally...you're at peace.

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