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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 months

Sora is incredible: "A backcountry skier in a yellow jacket with a backpack doing a first line in fresh powder in the Italian Dolomites. Make him average/ok at skiing so its relatable"

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

9 months

OpenAI is nothing without its people

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

300km. From dusk til dawn, that's one way to spend a Sunday 😜🚴‍♂️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

👋 Hello @OpenAI 💡 I’m thrilled to be joining OpenAI as Head of European Policy and Partnerships. A big mission, a small and stellar policy team and lots to build together in the coming years. Dall-E: "A painting in the style of Kandinsky of a sunrise over a lake"

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 months

We're hosting a developer and founder meet up in Paris next week with the OpenAI team. If you're building with AI and want to attend, drop me a note. [if you're a tech policy geek that wants to learn about what people are building, drop me a note too]

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 months

OpenAI ♥️ Berlin Wonderful conversations were had - thanks everyone who joined us!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

Watching this former lawyer in Australia and Belgian Software Developer turn into THE go-to source on cycling analysis online in the past years is 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Creators! Kudos @LanterneRougeYT @BenjiNaesen

Lanterne Rouge

@LanterneRougeCP

2 years

Our #TDF2022 Preview Podcast is now on YouTube! 🔥 🔗 A whopping 2 hours dissecting the route, discussing the favourites & their teams, and predicting what could happen in the upcoming Tour de France! Brought to you by @GoZwift ! 🧡 #LRCP / 📸 Cor Vos

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Sales - Public Policy - Marketing - Comms

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

9 months

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Sam Altman

@sama

9 months

i love the openai team so much

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

11 days

Picking up some swag in San Francisco this week 👀🫶🤗

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

It should be much easier to start and scale an online business across Europe. We spoke to 200 startups on @Stripe to better understand the realities they’re facing and the policy challenges holding them back. Here’s what we found 👇 1/6

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

4 Years @stripe 🚀🦙🌱🌭 Complex problems, humble people and an unapologetic macro-optimism about the potential of the Internet Economy paired with a healthy dose of micro-pessimism about all the things that still need fixing! Oh and Llamas - plenty of Llamas! Thanks team!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

5 years @stripe and moved from pins to socks to Llama ties! We are growing up after all 😇🧐😜 From 600 to 8000 people still working on building better economic infrastructure for the online economy and the numerous policy challenges and opportunities that come with it!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

🫶🚀💡– Wrapping up 6 years at Stripe - ✅🦙🌭 This is my last week at Stripe and it’s bitter-sweet. It’s been a career-defining adventure and I feel incredibly lucky to have been along for the ride. Seeing Stripe grow from 700 to 7000 people as been an incredible journey!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

🛠️💡🧐 - trying this building in public thing Given the tough time for the tech sector I've decided how I can help is with an Open Google Doc (thanks @marconav for the push) with open jobs and talent pool for Public Policy in EMEA (please share) 🧵

EMEA Public Policy / Government Affairs Job Board

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

♥️🤙♥️ Hello 🌍, meet Dusty.

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Seeing this photo taken with hundreds of us joining virtually was so special! 🧡🧡🧡 What a team!

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8 months

we are so back

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

What do you mean by "your working from home (hammock) set-up is distracting on zoom" 😊

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

View from my room 🤩 👨‍🎓 👋 @UniofOxford - beyond excited to spend the next 3 days at @oiioxford discussing all things technology & politics My version of Paradise 🤓💡

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Life Update - ⛰️🏞️🥰☺️ New Home Base for the Gianella Crew is beautiful Murnau in Bavaria between Munich & Innsbruck Say 👋 when you are in the area! PS: Job still the same, thanks @stripe for being so remote friendly for years already 👍

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

11 months

🇮🇪🇪🇺🚀Excited to share the news below! I've had the privilege and pleasure to see the Irish Tech community grow over the past 10 years and I can't wait to see what the next 10 years have in store! 🧵

Introducing OpenAI Dublin

We’re growing our presence in Europe with an office in Dublin, Ireland.

openai.com

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 months

Hello 🇺🇸 - spending the week in SF with the OpenAI Global Affairs team

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

@sam_vinograd @PhilipRucker @realDonaldTrump @CNN US Department of Commerce having a hard time explaining the move also seemingly unable to know what the decision will be in the end with heads of states of Europe in the room here at #BrusselsForum

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

"It never gets easier - you just go faster" Greg LeMond parting gift from my team at Stripe 😍😇

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Well - almost 2 years into the fantastic journey that is Stripe, finally.... Although not really sure this is a good or a bad sign @edwinwee ? Also: we are hiring ;)

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

10/10 Sunday back home in 🇨🇭

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 months

🧡 our 🇪🇺 CTO casually flexing her 🇮🇹 Italian in a live-demo based on a request from a user watching the live-stream to do real-time translation 🥳 @miramurati

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

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OpenAI has just demonstrated its new GPT-4o model doing real-time translations 🤯

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

11 months

📣 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 💡 - OpenAI is growing our Global Affairs & Policy Team in Europe! I'm looking to hire for two roles to build out our team: Brussels - EU Policy & Partnerships Lead () Dublin - Ireland Policy & Partnerships Lead () 🧵

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Thanks 🇮🇪 Dublin for having us! Fabulous week with the global Stripe policy team. Special thanks to @ScaleIreland @dogpatchlabs for hosting a great debate on the current state of the startup ecosystem. 🤩🎸 - also chatting with Edge from U2 💪😜

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

🚀🇬🇧💡 We've just launched our first international office in London and I'm hiring for a UK Policy lead to join the stellar policy crew at OpenAI! Share far and wide and DM if you have someone in mind ⬇️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Working from Van - cause the definition of an "office" has been thrown out anyway and I got my LTE antenna to keep me company 🧐😜🙈🤙

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 months

👋 OpenAI’s Global Affairs Team in Europe continues to grow We’re looking for a few more stellar (but humble) Public Policy professionals for OpenAI’s Global Affairs team in the region. Have a read about what we’re looking for in 🧵 and feel free to share!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Die @coronawarnapp gefällt mir langsam richtig gut ✅👍 Integration der Schnelltests für 2G+ funktioniert top

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Pretty unreal but cool - the Al Qudra cycling track in Dubai, 90km of purpose built cycling road in the middle of the Desert. Been a whirlwind couple of days here and great to be able to spin the legs a little.

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

🇨🇭 moved to beast mode tonight ;) Swiss Transformers:

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Time flies when you are having fun 👌 Thanks @stripe for 2 wonderful, challenging and impactful years! Such a privilege to be part of this fabulous journey and work alongside such caring, humble and smart human beings!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

Thanks @SadiqKhan for coming to Berlin and the passionate "pitch" for London and the much needed connections to cities all over the continent! #Londonisopen 🇩🇪🇬🇧

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

I might be biased but recently hit 3+ years at @stripe and am also getting more bullish then ever - lots of work ahead 🚀 Thanks @KlaasFlechsig @G_Princen @huberfelix @collision @sam_vinograd @JZieger @MichaelCocoman @iainmcdoug @SarahKHeck for taking a chance on me back then!

Packy McCormick

@packyM

4 years

Showed real bravery this week, analyzing a company that seems almost too good to analyze: @stripe . I came away even more bullish: - It's probably worth more than Goldman today - It hits all of the 7 Powers - It's just getting started

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Sandro Gianella

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9 months

London vibes 🤗

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Congrats Stripe - 99.999% Building infrastructure is hard and takes people sweating the unglamuorous details that compound over time - @stripe in its early innings still, go Team, cheering you from the sidelines!

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

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Stripe, live: .

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Do Venture Capital firms need Public Policy teams? Something I've thought a lot about lately so wrote a piece for our @GRBlog2 Thoughts on the topic? @vojtech @twehmeier @Nicolas_Colin @floetry @MichaelOrtizCJ @LindaHGriffin @AoifeHoulihan

Why Venture Capital needs Public Policy Teams

Technological progress exponentially shapes our economies, societies and ways to live (indeed maybe even on which planet we will live). New…

medium.com

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Here we go again.... our 🏠 is back to being: - a Montessori primary school 👧👧 - a University Campus 👩‍🎓 - a Stripe office 🤓 all at once 🤯🥰🤯

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

The magical time between jobs - 😁😉😍☺️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 months

Heading to 🇮🇪 and making use of the OpenAI swag 🤗🤗 Looking forward to speaking at the Digital Ireland Conference, hit me up if you're around

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

🎶I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it 🎶 (you're welcome) @stripe is launching in 5 more 🇪🇺European🇪🇺 countries today! 🇨🇿🇷🇴🇧🇬🇨🇾🇲🇹 --> 🚀

Stripe startet in fünf weiteren europäischen Ländern

Online-Zahlungsabwicklung für Internetunternehmen. Stripe erstellt E-Commerce-APIs für Firmen jeder Größenordnung.

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

🐶 - left all screens at home yesterday morning and took this one for a long walk as it was all getting a bit too much. ♥️ - to every single one of the Stripes affected. You've left a mark on the Internet Economy. 🫶 - When you're ready my DMs are open to help.

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

What a great few days in Helsinki it's been with the OpenAI crew.

Slush

@SlushHQ

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🌅 Horizon Stage: Discussion on AI and policymaking 👉 Sandro Gianella, Head of Europe Policy & Partnerships at OpenAI, 👉 Peter Sarlin, Co-founder and CEO of Silo AI, 👉 Luis Viegas, Digital Adviser of the European Commission, 👉 and Melissa Heikkilä of MIT Technology Review

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Off the grid for 2 weeks - good start today ⛰️🤗⛰️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 months

"Imagination is in high supply here and the ability to execute on it as well" Great to partner with @dogpatchlabs to celebrate OpenAI becoming part of the Irish & European community

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

New Home Base starting Summer 2021 🥰🥰🥰🏔️🏔️🏔️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 months

🇫🇷😍

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

🙌📚 Launch Day! @ansgar_baums and I started a blog on the art of public policy and government relations functions. Would love to hear your thoughts, reactions, comments and ideas!

GR_Blog – Medium

Discussing the craft of Government Relations.

medium.com

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

New working space set-up is getting there 😇😉😇

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

7 years

Extremely excited to announce that I have joined @stripe as European Public Policy Manager working with @sam_vinograd and @jzieger !

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 months

@twehmeier

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

💶🚀Good to see @EU_Commission push for a rapid rollout of Instant Payments (IP). This will make cross-border payments in the EU faster, cheaper and more secure. It’s the kind of policy update that removes obstacles and helps European internet businesses grow faster. 🧵⬇️

Mairead McGuinness

@McGuinnessEU

2 years

Instant payments arrive in less than 10 seconds, at any time of day or night, 365 days a year. And we’re rolling them out across the EU. Here’s how...

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Sandro Gianella

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4 years

New @stripe Swag Day 🥰😜🙏

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

⛷️❄️⛷️ - Season Opener #zugspitze After 17 years of living in cities far away from mountains having this right outside our home 😍😍😍

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

11 months

🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs with OpenAI in Europe! We're starting our journey to grow our presence in Europe in London and Dublin and looking for colleagues to join us! Thought I'd highlight just a few of the open roles on our career page (). 🧵

Careers

Developing safe and beneficial AI systems requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. We’re always looking for curious minds to join our team.

openai.com

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

The way coffee shops and restaurants in Berlin say "no, we don't have WiFi" and *no, we only take cash" with a certain sense of pride and feeling of keeping something bad away from them is really starting to annoy me...

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

❤️🇮🇪💪 - Stripe Public Policy EMEA

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Home Office 👌 E-Mails on SCA-delay are best sent under an 🍎-tree

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Always 👌 great to see policy-makers and entrepreneurs come together - thanks to @_TheFamily @vojtech @IndexVentures @StartupVerband for bringing the important topic of stock options reform #notoptional to the table and @DerDanyal @starkwatzinger @RonjaKemmer for joining!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Back to the (home) office tomorrow and had to do some last minute errands to get the real @stripe feel for the place ☺️😀🌱🌿🌻🪴 Although I'm probably in a minority of Stripe employees who have ever been in an office and / or remember what they looked like 😳

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Very exciting week at Stripe and for the EMEA teams - this has been a long time coming, yet is only the beginning 💪🚀 👋 🇵🇱🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇸🇰🇸🇮🇬🇷🇵🇹

Stripe

@stripe

5 years

Stripe is now available in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, and Portugal. 🌍

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Glad to have @stripe pushing for progressive policies for startups and scaleups in Europe alongside so many fabulous entrepreneurs and companies. Thanks @EU_Commission for listening, engaging and acting! 💪🇪🇺🚀

Not Optional

@NotOptional

4 years

EU's new Startup Nations Standard will be "a major step towards unleashing the full entrepreneurial firepower of Europe," write CEOs and founders of Europe's startups in an open letter following the launch of @EU_Commission 's #EUIndustrialStrategy .

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Ski Touring season opener 🤩🤩🤩

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 months

👀♥️ London

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

🇮🇪 - Good Morning Dublin Where US golf tourists, tech workers, bachelor parties and history nerds meet at the hotel breakfast buffet ☺️😉😁

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Living that #vanlife now 😜🤙😜 First weekend with the newest member of our family - 🐻 Baloo!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

OK - it's one thing to run a publishing house within a tech company, it's something else entirely to make @stripepress look straight out of Indiana Jones! (this is from an event in Mexico City this week)

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Ok. Ok. Ok. It's going to be back to tweeting about tech, payments, politics (and bikes) next Monday but couldn't resist a last round of pictures from the Dolomites. ♥️🇮🇹♥️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

9 months

Dinner with @dogpatchlabs & Patch with 20 of the funniest, brightest most passionate and demanding 16-20 year old builders I've met - thanks for having us and letting @OpenAI be part of your community! 🇮🇪🤩🇮🇪

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

With the ☀️ hitting 32 Degree celcius the employee of the week @stripe Berlin is 🐧*Pinguino*🐧 - cool, committed, results-oriented teamplayer increasing efficiency and productivity in a scalable way across the company 😎

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 months

😇😁🇮🇪 - glad we put on a good show @ChasTaylor

Charlie Taylor

@ChasTaylor

5 months

‘Like being at a Taylor Swift concert’: OpenAI arrival sets Dublin abuzz via @businessposthq

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

Love it - listening to @HowIBuiltThis and hearing @patrickc quote the one and only legend 🚴‍♂️ @greglemond with the infamous "it never gets easier, you just go faster" 🚀 describing the "visceral pain" that never really goes away but is such good motivation to keep improving!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

🤩 - 🇫🇮 @SlushHQ 🇫🇮 What an incredible 48h in Helsinki - kudos to @emmalehi @oonaporopudas & thanks to the 2500 volunteers! The ambition, creativity, humbleness and warmth (no pun intended) of what you created is inspiring! Glad we @stripe were able to contribute! #Slush19

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

💪👋 #Berlin ! My wife closed her shop *Grashüfer Kinder-Outdoor* due to #Covid_19 and has within a day (!) put together a @shopify online version to remain open! While we still can, a delivery option is by cargo-bike with @fLotteBerlin Spread the word!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

🍕🍕🍕

OpenAI

@OpenAI

8 months

ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users. Download the app on your phone and tap the headphones icon to start a conversation. Sound on 🔊

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Early Bird ride to catch the 🌄

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

👋🇪🇺 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! I'm looking for a policy professional based out of Brussels to join our growing Public Policy and Government Relations team here at Stripe! Please spread far and wide and don't be shy in reaching out.

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

"Foto mit Mark Zuckerberg auf LinkedIn/Xing/Twitter/FB/Instagram posten" scheint ja gerade der heisse Scheiss in der Berliner influencer-lobbyist-politik bubble zu sein....

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

6 years

Sitting between former 🇬🇷 Finance Minister Varoufakis (who just launched his bid to get elected as MEP in 🇩🇪), 5 🇫🇮hunters with antlers of 🦌in their hands and current 🇬🇧 ambassador to Germany at the Airport ☕️. What to say to start a conversation? ;)

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 year

Let's go! :)

Greg Brockman

@gdb

1 year

Announcing OpenAI London office:

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Taking the Stripe Dubai crew out for a spin ☀️☀️☀️

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Early bird - back in the office at 09:45 👀🤗

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

5 years

Conversation on the train into the city with a German family office investor, Japanese official from the investment agency and a professional e-sports team from Sweden - already enjoying @SlushHQ ;)

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

1 month

I feel seen 😇

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

@VCBrags

1 month

People in tech have bios like: “ex-Google, ex-Stripe, ex-OpenAI” It’s ok to move on from your ex folks. I promise.

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Sandro Gianella

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3 years

♥️♥️♥️ OK - the Stripe Tax Team clearly knows how to incentive people to work with them! What a lovely crew & product!

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

🎯⌨️💡🛠️ ahhhhh --- the sooooothing sound of German management consultants updating their powerpoint decks makes for a great backdrop --- someone should turn that into a Spotify playlist? "Klaus - kannst du nochmal über Slide 39 gehen" "Thomas - ich sehe den ROI noch nicht"

Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

2 years

Murnau --> Brussels Office for the day @DB_Bahn

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

8 months

Imagine if all that VC money would have been spent on cycling infrastructure & campaigns to get people to ride and love cycling 🫣😇

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

8 months

Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

Sunset at 2000m above @stadt_innsbruck in 🇦🇹 ♥️♥️♥️ Will start posting about payments, regulation and tech policy again next week, I promise 🙈😜

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

4 years

OOO - back in 2 weeks. Wonderful start today ♥️🚴♥️

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Sandro Gianella

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8 months

Worth 20min of your time - interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati as part of the release of the State of European Tech Report

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati in an exclusive interview on European Tech

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Sandro Gianella

@sGianella

3 years

Sunday is for riding the 🚴‍♂️