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Founder of @TaikiHQ — extracting tax forms 💰 @YCombinator @Columbia @USC alum

San Francisco, CA

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Joined September 2013

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Richard Zhang

7 months

Really excited to share what @alanlu1999 and I have been working on 🚀 @TaikiHQ is the universal API for tax documents. We extract tax forms and data from payroll and financial providers. Here to power the new generation of tax experiences! See thread for more info 🧵

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Y Combinator

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. @TaikiHQ (YC W24) is the universal API for tax documents. Customers use Taiki to extract tax forms and data from payroll and financial providers. Congrats on the launch, @richardfzhang and @alanlu123 !

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Richard Zhang

6 months

Presenting at @ycombinator demo day tomorrow ✅

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Behind the scenes at Demo Day (I wanted a white wall as background)

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5 months

YC alumni features live launch, which happens every 2-3 weeks. So much great energy. Watched @christinacaci from @TrustVanta , @dakshgup from @greptileai , and more today.

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6 months

Meet the new (knockoff) hosts of the @ycombinator Lightcone podcast. Here talking about pivot hell, tarpit ideas, and talking to users. (Executive producer: @gustaf )

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Met students from @gosparksc on their semesterly bay area trip to visit startups. I’m lucky to have been part of this community. Everyone is infinitely curious and passionate despite inevitable uncertainty that naturally comes with high aspirations. Spark SC is a hidden hub of

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When your co-founder gets featured by Historic Vids

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This guy couldn’t find an internship so he built this robotic hand

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Instead of door-to-door sales, just go to Dolores Park on a sunny Saturday and approach every picnic group. 80% of the people there work in tech anyways.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

Super excited to announce that our team at @blockchainatusc is hosting the Southern California Blockchain Conference. We’ve invited the top founders, investors, and students in web3, with an emphasis on uniting SoCal crypto communities. See you at USC on Nov 10 and 11!

@0xBlockchainSC

BlockchainSC

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Blockchain @USC ’s inaugural VanEck Southern California Blockchain Conference is coming on NOVEMBER 10TH AND 11TH! @USCMarshall x @blockchainatusc will be hosting the convention along with huge industry heads - RSVP in the link below! 👇🏽🧵

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3 years

Welcoming @JaesonMa (co-founder of @OP3Nworld_ , @88rising , and others) to USC tomorrow night 🎉 We will talk about music, creator economy, and how web3 can power these industries. Jaeson is a true OG. @BlockchainAtUSC and @GoSparkSC are very excited to have him.

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Richard Zhang

4 years

Featured on the front page of @hackernoon . WooHoo 🚀 Been building a new platform with my good buddy @rolandtshen , and we wrote some thoughts down. Hear more of our story during the @mozillabuilders showcase this week.

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Anonymity Could be the Key to Fixing Social Media | HackerNoon

The Social Dilemma has been a trending film and a large topic of discussion these past few months, and for good reason. Social media in its current form is deeply flawed.

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This is the entirety of SF rental properties with EV chargers installed. We need to do much better. Can't wait for @andrewkouri to solve this problem.

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@anquetil Will see a surge in number of startups if this is widely adopted. People would eventually start businesses with their friends instead

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6 months

I can't express enough in words the impact that @dflieb has had on me as a person and founder. He's truly an inspiration. It makes me very, very happy that a lot more future YC companies get to benefit from his wisdom and experiences.

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Y Combinator

6 months

We’re excited to welcome @dflieb as our newest Group Partner! David co-founded Bump, part of YC's S09 batch. In 2013 Bump was acquired by Google, where he took Google Photos from inception to over 1B users.

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Richard Zhang

3 years

Hello world... I'm tweaking... @NFTweak @TwistedTweakNFT

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Richard Zhang

2 years

I'll be moderating the University Blockchain panel at SCBC this Friday with good friends from @CalBlockchain ( @timg51237 @sehyunchung ), @StanfordCrypto ( @0xkydo ), and @blockchainucla ( @jackcorddry ). Will talk about blockchain startups, edu, research, etc

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3 years

Contribute to society by reporting spams in Discord DMs

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Richard Zhang

4 years

It’s been about a week since Clubhouse started taking off in China. The app is so popular that invite codes are auctioned off. Similar to what happened in the US, early adopters are mostly in tech, who sway conversations to this space. Here are some trends I’ve noticed so far:

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Richard Zhang

6 months

The need for @TaikiHQ is at an all-time high

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Shahed Khan

6 months

A product I haven't seen built yet: An automated tax document collector and analyzer. K1s, W2, 1099s, 1098, 1095-A, etc. There are endless docs to gather during tax season and it can easily take hours organizing, sorting, and sharing with your CPA or filing it for yourself.

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5 months

Happy to be featured by @tryfondo — one of our beloved customers! We’re working together to make taxes less taxing for all ✌️

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Fondo

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🚀 @TaikiHQ launched! Universal API for tax documents 💰 🌐 ⚙️ Auto-extract tax forms and data from payroll and financial providers 📄Help your users skip manual document uploads Congrats @richardfzhang @alanlu1999 !

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Richard Zhang

2 years

Tokenized carbon credits platforms are the college tutor matching websites for web3. Every day you're just like, "Another one?!"

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Richard Zhang

5 years

R.I.P. to one of the greatest role models ever. #Kobe will live on in history and in our hearts. He was the embodiment of hard work, dedication, and passion. Condolences to his familiy 🙏🙏🙏

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Richard Zhang

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Such a touching experience for an intern... My team at @alibaba_cloud gave me personalized gifts as my internship comes to an end. I’m so fortunate to have worked with some of the best talent and professionals. This group of people will hold a special place in my heart.

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@jeffdaw34130648 @Tayinho He getting double-teamed every game and still gets 12 as a DT

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3 years

the sheer potential for UX improvements within crypto is astonishing

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@historyinmemes And now he’s building @TaikiHQ

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Richard Zhang

7 months

To give some thanks: We'd like to thank our YC Group Partner @gustaf for his inspiring guidance since the very beginning of this company. Of course other YC Partners whom we work with as well: @bradflora @daltonc @dflieb @garrytan @ycombinator is truly a special community!

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Richard Zhang

4 years

Me: How many tutor pairing platforms can there be on a college campus? Student Founders: Yes

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Richard Zhang

3 years

Metaverse unlocks new possibilities for people to make a living while doing what they love. Play-to-Earn games are a good example.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

College professors can benefit so much from better marketing. All this high-quality research (and researchers!) going under the radar due to poor distribution and promotion.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

🐻 = time to build

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Richard Zhang

7 months

Love it when people request @TaikiHQ unprompted

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

7 months

I wish there was a fintech API that was like, "Here are all my brokerage and checking accounts, please just rollup all of my necessary tax forms when available into one downloadable package".

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2 years

Really excited about @BlockchainAtUSC this year. We’ve got research articles, education curriculum, content, and of course amazing speakers coming your way.

@0xBlockchainSC

BlockchainSC

@0xBlockchainSC

2 years

Hey everyone! Blockchain @USC is SO excited to announce its E-Board for the 2022-2023 school year in the following 🧵:

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4 years

Increase in students taking a gap semester in the fall due to online school means new tech made for and by young adults. Stay on the lookout people 👀

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6 months

Kind of crazy how many people use AI for emails and job applications nowadays and don't expect others to notice.

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Richard Zhang

3 months

Taxes affect every aspect of modern society, but how did this intricate system develop? Here's a brief history of US taxes 🧵

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Richard Zhang

4 years

Wrote this article on @readimprint , a blogging platform designed for the "rest of us" that @rolandtshen built. No paywall & you own your work 100%. Try it out

@readimprint

Imprint

4 years

"What we can choose though, is what we do and how we react, now knowing the existing gap between us and where we want to get. In truth, “playing catch up” just depends on how you choose to run and where you want to go."

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3 years

Why hasn’t @Spotify ramped up their social features?

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2 years

AI-generated startup ideas?

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Proud to be working on Imprint. Share your thoughts, build up your audience, and make knowledge accessible again together with us one blog post at a time.

@readimprint

Imprint

4 years

Last Friday, we launched on Product Hunt and ended up as No.4 Product of the Day 🎉 We aim to create an accessible and open social blogging experience for all. With your enthusiasm and support, we are now more motivated than ever to achieve our mission!

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3 years

Web2 and web3 still share some of the most important startup building principles. Seeing too many web3 founders forgetting them. Although we are experiencing a paradigm shift, we are still building startups after all, and that means supply and demand, product-market fit, etc.

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. @salkhanacademy is the Confucius of our time Keep getting amazed by how much accessible knowledge is available due to his efforts

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Richard Zhang

4 years

Clubhouse is basically college frat parties for tech. “Do you know a brother” turned to “Do you know a user”.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

Democratizing access for the everyday homeowner to participate in distributed computing? @AriSokolov and I have been working on an environmentally friendly model. Check out our journey so far 🌱

@AriSokolov

Ari Sokolov

2 years

Recently, @richardfzhang and I started a project to use excess solar energy for distributed computing. We realized that homeowners make 10x more from this than selling their excess solar energy back to the grid. Here is what we built and learned along the way. 🧵👇

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10 months

@Jai_Bhavnani This is the most IYA thing I’ve seen you do

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Richard Zhang

3 years

The fact that not enough people are talking about live shopping in the US still amazes me

@danqing_liu

Dan Liu

3 years

Two Chinese streamers sold 18 billion RMB (about $3B) worth of goods in a half-day livestream yesterday. 🤯🤯🤯 That's almost as much as Twitter's annual revenue ($3.72B).

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3 years

An important responsibility of any founder is containing FOMO in the team. esp in web3.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

👉👈 What a GM >|<

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2 years

@hosseeb Love this. So many layers here.

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Richard Zhang

5 years

I remember when I moved out of my college dorm early and people told me I was overreacting. Now those same people are defending the seriousness of COVID-19 more than anyone else. Glad to see progress.

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2 years

@blockchainatusc @giozaarour @lucacs_eth @rzhang139 @BasedDoge2 @0xotakuwu Not pictured: rest of E-board and committee members!

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Richard Zhang

3 years

Nearly $3B in total funding for web3 startups in this past month. Wow.

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Richard Zhang

4 months

You can tell a lot about a founder by the first couple questions they ask about someone else’s company.

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Richard Zhang

3 years

My old argument against art NFTs (that I refuted) goes: P1: "Real" and "Fake" art NFTs have the same viewing experiences P2: Any art that does not exclusively control its viewing experience cannot hold high sustainable value Conclusion: NFTs cannot hold high sustainable value

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3 years

Olympians should be awarded gold, silver, and bronze medal NFTs alongside their physical medals.

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4 years

Me scrolling through Twitter: Wish I posted this. Wish I posted this. Wish I posted this. Wish I posted this. Wish I posted this.

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1 year

People aren’t talking about Apple’s fintech strategy enough

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Richard Zhang

5 years

About to start the OBA (Online Basketball Association) on 2K now that the NBA is cancelled 😤

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Richard Zhang

3 years

Had my first genuine friendships formed in the metaverse today. Feeling great.

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Richard Zhang

7 months

People dread gathering tax forms 😰 Tax and accounting software often suffer from high churn at this step. @TaikiHQ extracts files like W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, bank and brokerage monthly statements. We help companies get rid of their manual document upload process.

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4 years

We’ve come a long way

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@anquetil @IstamiNafisa @GoSparkSC Oooo good idea 👀👀 Can write it on @readimprint too because it also has newsletter feature😁😁

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Richard Zhang

3 years

I’ve noticed that the brightest minds around me are also the best at looking stuff up Learn to treat search as a teacher. Think about it. Professor on call 24/7

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Richard Zhang

4 years

Great company. Great mission. Even greater people.

@project_wren

Wren 🌱🍉

4 years

Wren is hiring! We’re looking for a great Marketing Generalist and a Marketing Intern 📯 If you or someone you know wants to help us be a voice that gets millions of people to do something about climate change, head to:

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2 years

There's so much noise in crypto. The ability to eliminate noise is a huge advantage.

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Richard Zhang

5 years

People see athletes breaking records and think, “I can do it, too.” It’s the same thing for #entrepreneurship . We need more innovators to go back to schools and tell students that THEY CAN DO IT, TOO.

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Richard Zhang

3 years

So excited for @BlockchainAtUSC to be a part of @Edu_DAO 👏

@0xBlockchainSC

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@0xBlockchainSC

3 years

We are thrilled to take part in the genesis batch of @Edu_DAO , an important milestone to accelerate the future of Web3 development through the hands and minds of students 🙌🏼

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2 years

@DeadCaitBounce @blockchainatusc

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Richard Zhang

1 year

Semantic search for shopping makes a lot of sense. Excited to try out Market

@CalvinnChenn

Calvin Chen

1 year

Introducing Market — a shopping platform that helps you browse and curate the looks you want instead of spending hours manually browsing across different websites, Market finds the perfect products from across brands, personalized to you.

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Richard Zhang

4 years

3. Tons of WeChat users are posting screenshots of their Clubhouse profile pages + current rooms in Moments (WeChat’s social feed). Whenever an app achieves this massive “WeChat-sharing effect”, it’s often a sign of explosive growth 🧨

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Richard Zhang

2 years

@tomhschmidt @tarunchitra Fart to earn?

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Richard Zhang

3 years

Awesome to see such an NFT project with social good as a priority

@NFTrees_

NFTrees

3 years

We have officially launched NFTrees!💚 Offset your carbon emissions today at

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Richard Zhang

5 years

Coronavirus has me wanting to build in a college dorm: - dorm farm - dorm gym - dorm cafe - dorm library - dorm museum ... Looking for volunteers!

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Richard Zhang

2 years

If I were @Apple , I would focus a lot of attention on filling out the rest of the Health tech suite, besides developing Apple Glasses 👀 This would include: Apple Watch Mini and Apple Ring. (Every time when I check my Fitbit I think of this so ofc I can’t help but Tweet it)

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Richard Zhang

3 years

@anquetil @landaccini @suvir_ @isabelahoban The day when I make it onto Martin’s gms & gns is the day I know I made it

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Richard Zhang

3 years

We need to figure out content moderation in web3. Any innovative solutions so far?

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@CalvinnChenn @tryKopia Super cool!

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Richard Zhang

4 years

You know you're sleeping too late when all the morning newsletters that you've subscribed to show up in your inbox before you go to sleep

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5 months

@garrytan We just got 250+ applicants daily

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Richard Zhang

3 months

This has become one of my favorite PG essays, answering the age-old persistence vs obstinacy question.

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Paul Graham

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The Right Kind of Stubborn:

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@hosseeb @khanacademy @salkhanacademy Fact that it’s a nonprofit (and many people don’t know this) is insane. We had the pleasure of hosting @salkhanacademy at USC and it was incredible. Its AI use case is also super clear and a big value-add.

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6 months

@davj @tryfondo Top 3 in my book

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Richard Zhang

3 months

Does X hiding likes make LinkedIn the better platform for startups to get exposure?

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Richard Zhang

4 months

@garrytan Should also account for the travel time to the next IRL event based on the current location.

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Richard Zhang

7 months

My DMs are open to anyone who wants to use @TaikiHQ . Feel free to ping me to brainstorm, discuss, or provide feedback! Here's to our shared future of having great software for every tax scenario. Let's turn tax headaches into a thing of the past 🌟

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Richard Zhang

2 years

Used to help organize Moonshot hackathons and events. Such a great community and really happy to see everyone building and shipping.

@buildmoonshot

Moonshot Commons | Where Web3 founders build

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Our 1 month Web 3 Hackathon culminated with 20 founders presenting their startups in front of 300+ buidlers / investors at @southpkcommons . Four of our founders are awarded 🔝 three at hackathons like @ETHShanghai2022 . S/o to @victorhunt_ and the Moonshot team for organizing ❤️

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@tryfondo And those who have been or are in the arena will respect you for it

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2 years

bullish on discord groups still active in the bear

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2 years

Seeing more and more web3 football/soccer plays. Speaking of an international sport, anyone building for F1 yet?

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Richard Zhang

7 months

We support both file and data extraction. This means: We can provide you the documents directly, OR If you only need certain data, we can give you what you need. We're unlocking this data for better software to be built 👏

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@kwuchu @jeffbarg Thx for the shoutout @jeffbarg ! We indeed extract tax forms from different places. We currently provide this solution through our API. @kwuchu Sounds like you want to use this product for your own taxes? We've gotten similar requests and are def not opposed to it.

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Richard Zhang

2 years

Great experience with Delta Fellowship. Look into this program if you're already building/want to build.

@humancapital

HUMAN CAPITAL

2 years

Our Delta Fellowship is back again for driven students and recent grads: 💸 $50K grant, equity-free 💸 🌐 The resources and community to help you build 🌐 Learn more and apply by October 20th👇

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2 years

@ColinandGarrett @USC Looking as young as ever! In how many years will our IDs be in Apple Wallet or even NFTs?

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Richard Zhang

7 months

Love this team and what they're doing

@UbicloudHQ

Ubicloud

7 months

We are building a new cloud—one that is open source, can run anywhere, and costs 3-10x less. Join our Rebel Alliance, as we launch part of @ycombinator W24!

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Hi mom 👋

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The tax system is broken. We desperately need more and better solutions.

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7 months

Tax will be automated! There are 3 possible options for the tax experience when this happens: 1. Government-provided solution 2. Old incumbent solutions 3. New Al-powered startups and software 🙌 We believe newcomers will become the preferred choice, and @TaikiHQ powers them!

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Richard Zhang

3 years

I notice many startups contacting their waitlisters without re-introducing themselves... People sign up for many waitlists — and they forget what they signed up for. A small re-intro can make your launch emails much more effective.

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@RealRichomie Let it beat GeoGuessr

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