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🔮 5× founder | 2× exits | 2× girl mom 👯‍♀️ 🎀 | there’s magic in the mundane

Joined April 2007
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Q4 Pod Retention Update: For the first time ever, I didn’t lose a single AirPod. Huge win, considering past units have chosen “remote work from the Caribbean” without notice. Growth is growth.
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Tech light Tuesdays: I decided that I avoid AI outside of work on tuesdays and Google my own questions to save a bit of processing power. #techlighttuesdays
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Laugh but it does build nostalgic bits of hearty pre-2021 confidence. #techlighttuesdays
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I’m honestly faster than AI most of the time. And I love a freaking Boolean query string esp with quotation marks. #techlighttuesdays
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going viral on linkedin is like getting tons of chaotic snail mail you didn’t want for weeks but it feels festive? It keeps happening to me and I’m always amused. It tends to open weird doors I’d never expect.
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crashing out on X is infinitely less “edgy/ vulnerable thought leader in vc” and way more giving “forever immature adult with serious focus issues who’s making women/ moms in tech look like unhinged cliches” // have some composure, call a friend.
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The hardest part of building a new product category was never the technology. It was the conviction to build what the market didn't know it needed yet. Casting to TVs. The smartwatch. Wireless earbuds. Every big bet looked risky, right up until it wasn't. That gap between why would anyone want this and how did we live without it is where the real magic happens. It's what I do now with teams building the future of AI hardware. All I can say is that the future is looking extremely bright again for hardware.
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No one talks about it but one of the reasons why startups die is founder getting a wrong girlfriend.
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Tumblr & Livejournal 🪦
Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?
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I’m enrolled in Motion's Creative Strategy Summit 🌱 by @motionapp_. Really looking forward to it. Lineup looks legit. Wanna join? Register for free here: motionapp.com/events/2026-cr… Cc @motionapp_
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Imagine typing “graduated between 2020–2024” into a job description and thinking, “yes, this is a reasonable way to evaluate talent.” We’re cooked.
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Pepper (Chipotle's customer support chatbot) is out here solving LeetCode problems between burrito orders.
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BREAKING: Amazon reportedly holds mandatory meeting after “vibe coded” changes trigger major outages.
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The level of AI slopification is so high that Ariana Grande has 6 fingers on the cover of Vogue Japan and NOBODY noticed it before publishing it:
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Doesn’t get much clearer than this
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How it feels to go to a Target in the suburbs and not have to ask an employee to let the toothpaste out of jail
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Crypto bros please listen when I say, WOMEN IN THIS INDUSTRY ARE NOT TRIAL RUNS FOR YOUR SOCIAL SKILLS Please for the love of god, go outside and talk to more women than just the ones you see at conferences …or at least start pay us to beta test you all Something’s gotta give.
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Spotify Wrapped is the most successful marketing tactic of the last ten years Built on one simple idea: People are obsessed with themselves
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since a fuck ton of people dm on why lowercase writing & now some complaints on copying… lemme explain the my thesis on lowercase: i have a deep disdain for capital letters because uniform text is cleaner, more elegant.. there is no arbitrary hierarchy, no forced structure disrupting the flow. lowercase removes friction, lets ideas stand on their own. everything exists on the same plane, creating balance, visual harmony, & a kind of effortless cohesion. it also lets your brain process information faster ironically. i’ve been writing this way since middle school, even in professional emails. when i worked in corporate i would send vp’s emails in all lowercase. people lose their minds over it, mistaking it for laziness when it’s actually a deliberate considered choice. ppl’s frustration only proves the point… which is how fragile their attachment to meaningless formality really is. also sama didn’t invent lowercase writing just like he didn’t invent the transformer. lowercase is better.
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Proud moment. 🗞️ Featured today in Business Insider: YouBallin launches $YBL on Solana — turning fandom into ownership and engagement into value. 🏀🔥 Read below: 👇markets.businessinsider.com/…
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