Thomas Marban @thomas Twitter profile

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Thomas Marban

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3 years

Do it like @mcuban [✌🏻] and help us establish a new community of sharp people who love sharing great business reads ->

BizToc

The Entire Business World on a Single Page with the Web's Most Comprehensive One-Stop Finance News Hub.

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@tim_cook Screenshot from 10Y

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@profgalloway The only answer to this:

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@DunkinDAOnuts @wallstreetpro Never skip rug pull day

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@levelsio If a gas station is the only option

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BizToc Crypto launched 🙌🏻CC @mcuban

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@mcuban @elonmusk @Twitter Drama addiction 🤔

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@Jason Everyone's a genius in a bear market rally, no?

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@lavern_spicer If you're looking for a reason to delete your post, you can call my grandmother who lived throw both times. She'll explain it to you in simple words.

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@PeterMcCormack @JeffBezos That raft

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@levelsio What’s wrong? This _is_ just a single job.

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@Jason Unlike Threads, Twitter is the raw life. Hard to stomach but essential for understanding the human soul.

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3 years

@RolfeWinkler @garrytan @Initialized @usv @fredwilson @RibbitCapital @nshalek @mickymalka @a16z @cdixon @dfjgrowth @BSchuler @IVP @tomloverro @paradigm @matthuang $424: @thomas

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@thesamparr @ShaanVP Doesn’t hurt if you have a million followers to get to 50k subscribers…

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2 years

@thesamparr What's the purpose of 200k followers when they have no taste? Cayenne Turbo GT with Dakar decals.

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@Jason

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@benedictevans Please send via Fax.

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2 years

@profgalloway Buying Twitter is like buying an old man's classic Jaguar — Timeless car but open the engine hood and you’ll find yourself in a snakepit that’s very expensive to fix.

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@mcuban It’s 1993 again for blue checks.

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@Tom_MFFL I'm not for sale

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2 years

It has become a regularity to revisit @kevin2kelly ’s 1k True Fans every year now.

The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?

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10 months

@ben_mckenzie "That hacker has returned one ape, 31 ETH and a couple mutants." Imagine reading that sentence a decade ago 🤣

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2 years

So far, @CNNplus feels like a weird mélange of in-flight entertainment packed into a confusing UI but @profgalloway was promising enough to not cancel it right away.

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7 years

Best thing about this solar eclipse is that it will be the last one that's being streamed via Flash players.

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1 year

Some great post-traumatic Crypto insights from the anti-bro @ben_mckenzie

What Ben McKenzie Learned When He Started Investigating Crypto | Odd...

When the pandemic struck in 2020, the actor Ben McKenzie (who you might know from The OC) had a lot of time on his hands. And like a lot of people, he sudden...

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4 years

@profgalloway What tool are you using for your hand-drawn charts?

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3 years

@Jason I remember Fondue from a Mahalo office visit. If you witnessed Web2.0 as a dog and you're still around, you had a good run.

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2 years

@_alexbrogan I created Upstract 20y+ ago but apparently there are still two or three people who’ve never heard of it.

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1 year

Proof that fancy note-taking tools are overrated. [And nothing really matters]

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6 years

Cancelled @WSJ subscription, signed up for @Medium -> 100% less Wine Club Ads 💪

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2 years

@yongfook "Success is like pregnancy. Everybody congratulates you but nobody knows how many times you got fucked to achieve it."

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1 year

After wasting millions in venture capital, the micropayments industry could have simply employed a single psychologist and saved us from a decade of micropain.

The poster child for micropayments for news is getting out of the micropayments business

Blendle has been selling news by the article for nearly a decade, but "very limited" demand and the rise of digital subscriptions have done the idea in.

www.niemanlab.org

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2 years

AI takeover is real — Just witnessed another autonomous robot attack.

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2 years

@profgalloway Blue badge funding secured

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@punk6529 Some call this gym membership.

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1 year

Old VICE vs. New VICE 💁🏼‍♂️

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3 years

@ev I gladly overpay for peace of mind that I have the stuff at my door within 24h and a top-notch CS where a human replies within 10minutes with a satisfying solution 99.5% of the time. (~20k orders).

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@profgalloway And it only took 25 years.

Apple, Think Different - 1997 Internal Meeting

Steve Jobs 1997 internal meeting discussing Apple's "Comeback" and a return to core values.

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7 months

Brilliant episode 👇🏻

Tech Won't Save Us

@techwontsaveus

7 months

Silicon Valley isn’t delivering products that actually improve people’s lives anymore — and you’re right to be angry about it. This week @edzitron joins @parismarx to discuss the state of the industry and why the AI hype makes no sense. Full ep:

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2 years

@profgalloway My 2008 statement ‘You don’t buy an Android device for someone you love.’ still holds true.

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2 years

Just 24h after launch, Adobe Firefly is already feature-complete. It can render dogs and pizzas. Thanks @scottbelsky

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7 years

Dear fintech startups: 95% of your business is building trust. Chatbots, UX, anonymity and lower fees are no arguments unless your goal is to run a playground for toy money.

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2 years

@mcuban The follow:followers ratio will be the new DIY legitimacy indicator, again. Worked well since day one.

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1 year

All the money in the world won't solve your retention problem.

Instagram Looks for Ways to Revive Interest in Threads

Three months ago, Threads, Meta Platforms’ answer to Twitter, was the hottest social media app around. In just days, 100 million people had signed up for it. Since then, usage has plunged, prompting...

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@Jason Good to Great

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4 years

@florianklenk Playstation 5 sneak peek?

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2 years

@Jason Bring back the fail whale.

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2 years

The fact that these video games turn 30 this year just proves that we peaked as a society in the mid nineties. - Doom - SimCity 2000 - Syndicate - Day of the Tentacle - X-Wing H/T @dosnostalgic

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1 year

When will newspapers stop wasting resources by trying to cram colossal & static print experiences onto mobile screens? It's like trying to eat a burrito through your nose. @FT

FT launches new app to recreate print edition for international readers

The FT has launched an app of the digital edition of its print paper, saying it will help to meet demand for a curated news experience

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@ArminWolf @chr_rai @barbaratoth @falter_at Gruß vom Zentralfriedhof

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2 years

@profgalloway Can we also get @JeffBezos back from his yachting side hustle?

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The only constant in life is a new Beatles song every 50 years.

The Beatles

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3 years

@FerroTV Cancelling my BB subscription as we speak

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14 years

famous last words: dropped my iphone in the pool and before it died the >this accessory is not supported by your iphone< message popped up.

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2 years

Twitter needs neither decentralisation pipe dreams nor a single owner with the pathetic need to be in the press every 24 hours. It works great for what it is, and if you can’t handle the load that reflects the mess that is life, go look at wallpapers on Pinterest.

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5 years

Think I've clicked on more crosswalks in Captchas than I've ever walked over in real life.

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@richardbranson Riding rockets, yes — Bikes, not so much.

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@PatrickEBoyle When buying Youtube views, always use a 24/7 shop 😎

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3 years

A week ago, 99% of Twitter didn't even know where Ukraine is located and here we are with 101% opinions and armchair commanders.

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3 years

Fractionalized NFT, ca. 1983 #tangiblenft #nft

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A man of good taste.

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@profgalloway Nothing will ever beat Otl Aicher #1972

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2 years

✅ ChatGPT Plugin to pull in finance news is done. Waiting for approval.

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3 years

Pretty clear that german car makers are going to supersede the cult of Tesla. Better engineering, materials, history, support, network, trust and an actual taste for design. Bonus: Leadership teams that don't post Crypto gibberish.

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4 years

@Jason Try before you <strike>buy</strike> clone.

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13 years

yoko ono at DLD http://t.co/UPla9HRG

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1 year

@katie_robertson @MikeIsaac @nicoagrant There are alternatives to (social) gatekeepers and tastemakers. | 🙋‍♂️ @mcuban

BizToc

The Entire Business World on a Single Page with the Web's Most Comprehensive One-Stop Finance News Hub.

biztoc.com

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@Julian Those PLG examples are legit but there’s too much survivorship bias involved. Slack didn’t become Slack because of invitations just like Hotmail didn’t become Hotmail because of their often-cited signature.

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7 years

After taking care of Uber, the EU could perhaps regulate some basic fraud, politeness and cleanliness standards for regular cabs.

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2 years

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really an expert as long as you split a tweet into a thread.

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3 years

This guy basically runs the silk road for Apple prototypes

My Rare Collection Of 250 Unreleased Apple Products

If you search for rare Apple prototypes, you'll likely come across the name Hap Plain.Over the last decade, he's amassed a collection of more than 250 unrele...

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2 years

@Jason 2010-2022: It's still so early

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7 years

If everybody complaining about Medium on Medium would create actual content, it would make my membership a lot more valuable.

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2 years

@coffeebreak_YT Remove the flag and use a neutral bio text

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@Jason Lycos

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@photomatt Tumblr not on the blacklist — I smell a conspiracy 🤭

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2 years

@yongfook Or include a 🧵emoji

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@marckohlbrugge Mine is done and pending approval for like 3 weeks. Typical two-class system.

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3 years

@Porsche Should be Airbag; introduced in 1987. Less controversial topic ;)

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@scottbelsky Too bad I kept all my pre-Cloud Adobe CDs but not a single copy of the pre-2022 Web 🤔

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3 years

@mims Still waiting for an official (allowed) way to sell a username…

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4 years

Buying canned sardines on Amazon is the new Supreme drop.

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6 years

Poisonous for the industry: 24 Hour Startup Challenges.

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4 years

Bold predictions for 2021: Newsletter services will offer web-based reading because people can no longer handle the email load. They will call it blogs. New services will emerge that scrape those websites and deliver them via email. RSS will watch from the sidelines.

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2 years

@marckohlbrugge Before creating a DIY version, I’ve used to test the waters.

Advanced Artificial Intelligence API

Advanced AI platform, for NER, sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, text classification, summarization, dialogue summarization, question answering, text generation, image generation, translation,...

nlpcloud.com

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2 years

@OnChainWizard We won’t get the same great movie though.

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2 years

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@elonmusk @pmarca Twitter doesn't work in Netscape 2.0 — Can you guys get together and fix it?

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7 years

Disregarding the underlying tech, I wonder how the payment industry would look like had it seen the advent of Amex subsequent to Cryptos. Global acceptance, real-time transactions, low fees, buyer protection, flight miles, status symbol? Count me in.

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7 years

Drone footage with tropical house music is the new Youtube spam.

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11 months

"Conquer the boardroom, navigate the corporate maze" — CEO Quest is out now.

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2 years

The Web is out of control.

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“If it were possible to die from cringe, LinkedIn’s demented hustle culture and vapid thought leadership would be the terminating trigger.”

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2 years

@profgalloway Easy. -> Country

GET /2/users/:id/followers

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4 years

Support the old-school Web, here and now:

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

I created the OG of News Aggregators some twenty years ago, and since it's 2005 all over again, it was about time to couple it with a community that Digg once was. You know, all those interesting,...

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4 years

@gregisenberg Sounds good — Can't wait for The Big Short II

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2 years

The Mariana Trench of Crypto. 👇

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2 years

@wallstreetpro “I'm standing in front of a burning house and I'm offering you fire insurance.”

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1 year

Dear press, Please refrain from trusting and publishing advertorials for Similarweb and other BS guestimate numbers. CC @Reuters

Exclusive: ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row

OpenAI's ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline for the third month in a row in August, though there are signs the...

www.reuters.com

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@ben_mckenzie Citizen journalist starter kit: Blue checkmark, 'BREAKING' at the beginning of every tweet, and crypto or AI in every second tweet

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