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

Joined April 2007
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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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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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🚨 $YBL drops tomorrow @11am ET!!! Followers were the old flex. Ownership is the new one. 🏀 youballin.com
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The reason it’s incredibly hard to break out of a “kind lie” doom loop is because the longer it’s gone on, the more unkindness is needed to get back on track. And the fact that you’re in this situation to begin with probably means your culture will hate that.
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Me: "ChatGPT, are these berries poisonous?" ChatGPT: "No, these are 100% edible. Excellent for gut health." Me: "Awesome" # eats berries .... 60 minutes later Me: "ChatGPT, I'm in the emergency ward, those berries were poisonous." ChatGPT: "You're right. They are incredibly poisonous. Would you like me to list 10 other poisonous foods?" And this, folks, is the current state of AI reliability.
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unpopular opinion marketing is harder than coding
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Some founders are getting REALLY dodgy with their ARR metrics. Almost like: "We booked $1000 in the past hour, and therefore are now on a $9M ARR". I'm spending a lot more time now trying to understand how founders are 'annualizing' their revenue...
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