Patrick Vlaskovits @Pv Twitter profile

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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12 days

@dieworkwear Because out of the box, it's mid brow at best -- like most of the data it has been trained on and...what most people appreciate.

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@roblabonne Good post Rob --- moreover, pits (like chows) have had the "demonstration of fear" instinct bred out of them (since it is not useful in dogfighting) -- this means, pits can become highly irritated but hapless humans cannot "read" them -- leading to tragic consequences.

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@SMB_Attorney Here you go: Have one more kid. Very common regret years later for families with 1 or 2 kids. Don't let kids' friends come on vacation. Vacation is more memories for family & siblings. No TV in kids' rooms.

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7 years

IPhone portrait mode has rendered irrelevant 95% of low-end “professional” family/baby photographers.

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2 years

@cdolan92 @girdley You both have too much time on your hands.

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8 years

Trick question. Answer: They don't exist.

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@SeanODowd15 on average cost per unit is less expensive -- anyone with a large family knows this

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2 years

@SMB_Attorney Unfortunately, your buddy fell for the classic "let's string along the associate with the partner carrot" trick. Brutal.

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2 years

Our local Chick-Fil-A had *ZERO* cars in drive-thru line the other day at 1:15pm. I double-checked time to be sure. This place usually has a minimum of 47 cars in line at all times. Pretty sure this means: a) recession is happening or b) serious glitch in the simulation

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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11 years

With Bay Bridge closed, SOMA has spooky apocalyptic feel. http://t.co/ITmkPTfzZs

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@realEstateTrent To all the people responding to Trent's tweet -- there are specialized mortgage brokers in your region that know how to get mortgages for self-employed/entrepreneurs etc etc Find those brokers & skip the commercial national banks.

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6 years

This data-set needs to normalized by actual sets-played. Then it might be interesting to see what the data suggests.

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6 years

Serena Williams said women were punished more than men in tennis matches & blamed sexism for why it happened. The sports media spread this claim as truth & cheered her for saying it. Turns out twenty years of tennis data shows men are penalized far more often. Data via @nytimes

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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9 years

"The only way one startup can kill another startup is by getting into other’s head & leading them off a cliff."

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

3 years

This is one of the few interesting articles on Russia/Ukraine I have read this week.

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3 years

What if everything you think you know about the causes of the Ukraine War which Putin started today....is wrong? Open post, read if you dare.

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2 years

@lndian_Bronson If I had to speculate, this was the result of a massive ego insult (ie she had cheated on him, he blew up yet he ended up in jail) --- and this is his twisted way of getting back at her.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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4 months

@owl_poster @ikristoph I've heard similar stories about guys employed by railways -- who would listen to the trains and then point to the section of the track that needed replacing. An AI startup I met years ago was *literally* trying capture whatever the hell that guy was picking up on

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

1 year

Hills to die on: --Italian pizza in Italy is not that super great. --Europeans aren't cultured super-sophisticates from which Americans have a lot to learn. --Solar and Montessori are genius-level scams. Puncturing long-held cultural triggering myths on my feed today. :P

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

7 years

@patio11 Patrick, (in your copious spare time!) you really should write an article about engineers' self-perceived identities as Truth-Seekers and how that perception conflicts with their perceptions of Sales & Marketing as Mistruths....and subsequently hinders their success & careers.

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2 months

@ShelbyGrosch How long would it take a smart and dedicated HS student to learn that?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@mbrandolph @SantoJLeo Q: When investors asked why Blockbuster couldn't copy what you guys were doing (ie send DVDs via post) - what was your reply? Presumably something about their biz model & fees. (Netflix eliminating the late fees was genius btw.)

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

6 years

We all know that VHS sucked -- but no one could that to you.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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6 years

Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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10 years

Giving a fuck trumps talent. And smarts. Every. Single. Time.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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7 years

@michaelmalice I have had ppl condescendingly tell me that my parents didn't really understand Communism and it hadn't really, truly, actually been tried. I mean, they only tortured and imprisoned my uncle, grandparents - and father had to escape in '56. But...what would my parents know?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

I have literally been saying this for years. I could QUADRUPLE revenue at any European establishment by simply: a) teaching wait staff not to argue customer preferences b) make wait staff ask table if they want another round of drinks c) bringing the check at reasonable time

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Raising PE to acquire local French cafes. Will raise EBITDA by 50% simply by bringing checks to the tables within 30 minutes of completing food. 125% IRR estimated.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 month

@SeanODowd15 Prof Xu better bring some data b/c the burden of proof is on him.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

10 years

David Bowie’s 75 must-read books http://t.co/nU650iHrWn <--- many great books on this list. Ziggy Stardust is an intellectual at heart.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@dvassallo He went fishing with his cousin Ricky. But he'll call you next week, if he can remember your name and job but since his texts are a mess, he'll just get on a job from the GC that calls him everyday. That is literally the answer 87% of the time.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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7 years

Not just SF. Many preschools in affluent areas operate similarly wrt wait lists. It’s a total ruse.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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6 years

The Internet in stages: -1) Academic & Military Private Playground (1960s to 1990s) 0) The Hyped Next Big Thing (early 1990s) 1) The Wild Wild West 2) The Hockey Stick (2010) 3) Tragedy of the Commons 4) Governance & Civilization <--- we are here 5) Decline

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12 days

@dieworkwear same for most other forms of generative AI

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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8 years

Based on my twitter stream, I can safely say your candidate is completely demolishing their opponent.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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7 years

@patio11 Too often engineers mistake 'storytelling' as the gratuitous maraschino cherry atop the ice-cream sundae -- when really, storytelling is how you arrange the sundae from the banana to the ice cream to the whipped cream to the cherry.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@lndian_Bronson @chopstickfury01 Eastern European racism is machine-gunning an entire town's male population -- that speaks the same language as you and is largely indistinguishable from you by outsiders, so you both need separate countries.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 year

I'm in Budapest for all of <<checks notes>> 5 mins. And who do I run into in Buda Castle? The lovely and gracious @painharold ----> Mr. András Arató.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

7 years

Old-time radio shows are hot again. Welcome to 1917!!! ;)

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@amyjokim

7 years

Musicals (Yes, Musicals) Are About to Shake Up Podcasting

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@SMB_Attorney Also, realize you are modeling your best/worst behaviour for them ALL THE TIME. I chewed out my son once (unnecessarily). Watched him chew out his sister the next day. Identical to me. *FACEPALM*

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@WilsonCompanies A site that helped players of a popular board game cheat. Saw porn-level monthly traffic volume, had no competitors in SERPs for *years*, printed millions -- all with a $300/mo server bill and less than 10 hours a month screwing around on the server by one very smart dude.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

7 years

I volunteer to be the idiot in the room and ask: Really? Why?

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

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7 years

In the future, owning an asset and not having it tokenized on the blockchain will be the equivalent of owning a company and not being on the Internet today.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 year

@gas_biz Isn't the conclusion get as >>little<< or no insurance as possible? :P

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 month

@Molson_Hart Dude -- this is old news. The Soros innovation was understanding that: a) the importance of local DAs b) understanding how cheap it was to win races (relative to their power/influence) c) building a nationwide network of these

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 year

As they say in Hungarian: "They preach water, but drink wine!"

Katherine Doyle

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Palo Alto will make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef José Andrés, after the landlords for the chef's planned restaurant warned Andrés may pull out over the regulation.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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12 years

RT @benWoz : When to not build a Minimum Viable Product http://t.co/u655gY9L #leanstartup

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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11 years

Difference between Master & Beginner? The Master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried. --> http://t.co/f1buzxcey7

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@moseskagan @sweatystartup Nah. You'd be surprised at how many similar opps -- even when offering a free alternative + inbuilt scale/traffic -- Google totallly strikes out on. Ppl thought Google Hangouts would kill Zoom, Google+ would kill FB, Knol kill Wikipedia, Offers would kill Groupon etc etc

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@quinnjmiller Whether you agree or not agree -- do not override the Dad's wishes.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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14 years

Handwritten notes by @vkhosla in interesting paper on entrepreneurship are priceless: "Typical MBA Horseshit" - http://vlskvts.co/entraZ

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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7 months

@mhp_guy It's not a garage or even car storage -- it's a high-end luxury man-cave.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

3 years

@evanmr Hahahahahhaahah! Amazing! Years ago, had a prof call me about a book we had written. Wanted 75% discount for a bulk buy for his class. While he was on the phone, I googled his crappy no-name private college tuition -- has $80k/year...

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@Molson_Hart Year ago, my buddy left his laptop in a cab in LA -- called cab company and figured it out. The Incredibly nice cabbie....held it hostage for $300. "You live nice house. You have $300. Or maybe I don't have laptop." Easier to pay than call police etc etc

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@sweatystartup @BillDA I love the judo move by the sales dude. Hyper-aggressive. Respect the hustle. But yeah, delete it. He's counting on you not countering his anti-social move with equal force.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

11 years

RT @andrzejkrzywda : Remember: One year of coding can save you 10 hours of market research.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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9 years

Looks like next test for AI to pass isn't Turing, but 4chan. Need to engineer un-trollable AI bot that doesn't turn on its creators.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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10 years

Per @pmarca rec, I read The Big Score (1985). Fantastic SV history, with cycles & patterns still relevant today. http://t.co/nQhVXicMsz

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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3 years

@flynn_bob I've met a lot of sharp Texans who love playing the country bumpkin role.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@spactastical @SMB_Attorney You will see everyone of your flaws reflected back to you by your children. Heartbreaking sometimes.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

6 years

@DanielPink "I LOVE YOU DAN PINK." -Every +40 entrepreneur, including me, on Twitter today.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

10 years

“ @TheEconomist : The Economist explains why eating insects makes sense http://t.co/JSZ6I5Sg9N” cc @tferriss

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@shawngorham I shit you not, in mid 1980s, my Dad was doing biz in Encinitas and I tagged along. We stayed at his friend's place -- which is >>identical<< to your description (right by Swami's). While they worked, I walked down to beach and played volleyball, surfed and swam. Heaven.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

1 year

This photo was taken in 1938 in Venice, Italy. My grandmother is the young lady on the left. My great-aunt is on the right. Anyone know the precise location? Does that fountain still exist?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 months

Pool dude I fired yesterday sent his minion out today anyway. Me: We’ve moved on. Not sure why he didn’t give you that message. Minion: Your pool is green. That’s crazy. What happened? *pause* Me: You tell me. You guys were taking care of it... ACTUAL CONVO

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

10 years

Very cool. #CustDev & #LeanStartup Checklist for Web Startups as an Asana template ---> http://t.co/TLeEoIv5HB

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@Cribdilla One of my friends (successful CRE dev) says the fundamental problem is that there are many young, successful developers/investors who have never seen a down-cycle in their career -- hence, the "this time it is different" magical thinking.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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@antonia_mdprjct I read somewhere that if a flight gets rescheduled twice, the probability that it leaves the airport that day is basically zero -- so best to do what you did and reschedule with another flight before official cancellation notice.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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5 months

@BillDA 1) Every local market has a mortgage broker who knows how to get mortgages done for entrepreneurs. Just need to find that guy. 2) Agreed that if one could build a reliable system for this -- ton of opportunity vs wasting time with retail banks.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@ElbridgeColby USA foreign policy has successfully trained German politicians & electorate that US taxpayers will guarantee German security & subsidize German social welfare policies. No German politician will ever elect to spend less on butter & more on guns, if they want to be re-elected.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

12 years

New Lean Entrepreneur site -- now let's break it. ;) http://t.co/sMjixzAg

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

4 months

@creativelytired @owl_poster @ikristoph Agreed. I think that's exactly what you see in the best and most creative quarterbacks.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@GuyDealership Serious question: what's preventing a financing company from offering a 10 year auto loan product?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 year

@TheBrometheus My neighbor's wife once confessed to me that she knew her husband just wanted a little bit of recognition that he was a good provider (he is) -- but she couldn't help herself and refused to give him that in front of her and their kids... :(

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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13 years

Best Advice for CEOs. Must Watch! http://t.co/P0HNsEdx

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@cdolan92 @girdley As someone who has spent more than a few bucks on customer acquisition -- out of professional courtesy, I just go straight to the browser address bar. :P PS all marketers know that 3/4 of their branded PPC spend is basically a login link

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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2 years

@girdley There are two distinct Millennial cohorts: 1) All the bad press you hear about (entitled, self-absorbed etc etc) is indeed true. 2) a bunch of hardworking and super-smart savages that are way more savvy & successful than their Gen X and Boomers analogs.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@moseskagan This is 'Ready Player One'. Unfortunately, this will be the future for some: 24/7 VR + porn + all-you-can-eat-junk-food-with-drone-delivery. :(

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

10 years

Anyone else notice 'recency bias' in how people rate film & books? "The best book/film I have ever seen (I just read/saw)!

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

16 days

Biggest thing they can do is get back in business of grinding beans, tamping/packing espresso shots and roasting beans in store. Economical? No. But in terms making a Starbucks smell and feel like an awesome place to hang out -- unparalleled.

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This is a letter from the new CEO of Starbucks. What do you think? Can Starbucks reestablish itself as the community coffeehouse?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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11 years

Marc Andreesen on segmentation & marketing: "Being different is way better than being better." http://t.co/0sXlXHYJRU

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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1 year

Just me and my middle-schooler while rest of fam is in Europe. We've already watched The Matrix, T2 and Commando. What does 80s/90s Twitter have for me for movie recommendations?

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

6 years

1,000% true.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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6 years

IMO you can feel people pulling away from Twitter to other platforms, private or social. There was a five year period where people engaged in a rhetorical arms race here. But that’s over now. Retreat has begun.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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6 years

The mask slips. This tragically hilarious video is a prima facie case of how the media manipulate our reality. Doesn't matter where you stand politically; terrifying to ponder all the media manipulations we don't catch.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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12 years

Nice to see @tferriss blowing up on @Paleohacks -- http://t.co/dOu8oMlC #4HourChef #Paleo

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

8 years

If you love books, publishing and marketing -- a huge >>PAID<< apprenticeship to learn from one of the masters himself @TuckerMax

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4 months

@shawngorham Not quite. Crossfit (heavily influenced by military) pre-dates Attia and Huberman has been pushing rucking for years...

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

7 years

Total domination by @SynysterGates at @TheOfficialA7X concert

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1 month

@FischerKing64 I knew a girl who went to an exorbitantly expensive college for the full ivy and brick experience -- whose father paid for the entire thing -- would come home from college on break....and excoriate her father for his patriarchal attitudes etc etc She never saw the irony.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

9 years

'Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.' —Benjamin Franklin

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

2 years

@loganzuber17 It is the worst. Sometimes takes 14 secs, sometimes 47 minutes.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

8 years

Alright alright alright. #HustleBook is out. Get it today --->

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6 months

@twotenths @roblabonne It's explains the common story of "everything was fine until the dog went nuts". Dog was already fearful/irritated etc -- but just not growling.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

@Pv

8 years

Gentlemanly & drunkenly. As it should be.

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When Arthur C. Clarke & J.R.R. Tolkien went to the pub & got pissed. From Francis Spufford's brilliant Backroom Boys

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11 years

Note to Self: Do not mess with old Russian dudes. http://t.co/AGIB9pnxnj cc @dmitri

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@Pv

2 years

@LindyScience @Paracelsus1092 Zeihan is painfully ignorant for a "geopolitical strategist" --

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@Pv

2 years

@loganzuber17 Wait, you're actually in a BP FB group? Might be more embarrassing than that dude's error. :P

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@Pv

2 years

@ArtemTepler @GuyDealership As a consumer, I don't really care about their profitability, hence "Carvana's economic troubles aside" They innovated a legitimate and pleasant buying experience - for that they deserve credit. Too bad the unit economics didn't work out...

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@amandatoryfigs @roblabonne If you are a true expert at pit bulls -- sure. But the average person certainly isn't and expects a pit to behave like a golden retriever that wears its emotions on its sleeves. --- why 99.9% of people shouldn't get a pit, let alone a rescue pit.

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@Pv

6 years

@patio11 Patrick, did you tell him to raise his prices? :P

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@Pv

12 years

3 reasons NOT to build a Minimum Viable Product http://t.co/hDsMOFcN #LeanStartup #YoureDoingItWrong

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@Pv

6 months

This could be used to entirely replace expensive college texts by corrupt profs and universities.

Garry Tan

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6 months

What if I told you there could be a TA that never got tired, knew the syllabus and what a student knew, and could help any student learn any subject? That's Shepherd (YC W24). Here it is solving a math problem ChatGPT can't.

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6 years

@MimeticValue @peterthiel @tferriss Fundamental problem is that most recommended books lists are simply virtue-signaling/in-group signaling. Virtually nothing to do with content & utility of book themselves.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

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7 years

Basically, Mystique from X-men but found in nature...

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2 years

@FischerKing64 It is well-known that doctors self-medicate, sick people become psychologists/therapists and there is a thin line between police and criminals.

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