Founder of The Breadwinners | Former @nea, @SoftBank, @Square, @Weebly & @Braintree | Angel Investor | @mixingboardco member | Photographer
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The rise of the TinCan phone is the perfect example of understanding culture. The founders saw the backlash against smartphones and resurrected the landline. They didn’t invent anything new, they just brought it (back) to market at the perfect time.
(We ❤️ ours)
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Lots of 🔥 hot 🔥 takes on the @EmmaGrede topic this week.
Here's mine 👇🏼
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I'm gonna shoot my moonshot. 🚀👩🏻🚀🌔
I'd be honored to interview Christine Koch on The Breadwinners Podcast when she returns from her epic journey. What an incredible Breadwinner story.
Putting this out into the universe if anyone can make a connection.
Its a long shot but 🤞🏼
Liftoff.
The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.
Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.
Our first national feature for The Breadwinners! Huge thank you to, @emayhawk for the coverage!
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Alexis Contos retweeted
Working moms are building community beyond parenting trib.al/JdekZb3
Alexis Contos retweeted
So let me get this straight. You support the Khamanei regime that killed 38,000+ protesters and maimed hundreds of thousands more. A regime that has repeatedly called for Death to America and has killed thousands of our servicemen and citizens. One that has taken away women’s rights and freedoms for the Iranian people.
And then you call our efforts to destroy the evildoers a catastrophic escalation.
You also support those who attack our police force. You take the side of the criminals rather than the victims of violent actors in our city.
How is it that you can’t differentiate between good and evil?
Why is this so hard for you?
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
Alexis Contos retweeted
It’s almost been 24 hours and not a single Corporate Media outlet has had anything to say about this.
Funny how that works.
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Welcome y'all @craft_ventures - excited to have you in the Lonestar state
Alexis Contos retweeted
.@garrytan I would urge you to reconsider this decision and open YC Austin.
First, the data is looking in the rear view mirror. “Past performance does not guarantee future results,” as the saying goes. The Austin startup ecosystem is off to the races thanks to first movers like @elonmusk and @JTLonsdale.
Second, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If YC and others support Austin, it will be successful.
Third, and this is a biggie, if you don’t open YC Austin, you’re basically acknowledging that Silicon Valley has insuperable network effects, which was effectively Ro Khanna’s point. You may win this or that political battle, but eventually the political system will extract as much as rent as it can. If you don’t start diversifying now, you won’t have any leverage.
Fourth, if Tech doesn’t start sharing the wealth with Red States, it should expect narrow and shrinking political support. With the Left going socialist, the Right should be an ally; it still believes in innovation and property rights. But many on the Right wonder why they should support radical change that mainly enriches Team Blue.
I fully agree with you that the tech backlash is bad for America, but to solve this, Tech has to include all of America.
This goes for the rest of the VC ecosystem. I would urge you to open Austin offices in 2026.
Alexis Contos retweeted
We're officially live!
Beautiful, incisive new podcast from @lex919. Listen.
Nobody Is Doing It All | Our Pilot episode with Kim Chappell (Chief Bran... youtu.be/mtL7W4RMqSw?si=Yhe3… via @YouTube
We're officially live!
Beautiful, incisive new podcast from @lex919. Listen.
Nobody Is Doing It All | Our Pilot episode with Kim Chappell (Chief Bran... youtu.be/mtL7W4RMqSw?si=Yhe3… via @YouTube
Alexis Contos retweeted
Do hard things. Because if you try enough hard things you’ll eventually uncover your meaningful struggle. A struggle you can fall in love with. Joy in chaos. True flow. The hard-earned win. That's where you find the magic of life.
I started my career in advertising 20 years ago. I remember spending days on end in recording studios on voiceover work for tv commercials and radio ads (remember radio ads?!)
I am completely floored by this technology and how it's going to change the marketing industry forever!
Alexis Contos retweeted
I'm speechless...
This is a major step-change in AI generated voice (TTS)
Elevenlabs just released v3 as a public alpha and you can try it now for 80% off during all of June 💸
Let's unpack this 👇
Alexis Contos retweeted
I criticized the American government a lot the last 4 weeks. The tariffs seem stupidly implemented and are hurting our customers and millions of other businesses and consumers in the U.S.
I spent the last two days in Washington, DC visiting with senior administration officials and republican senators and congress people to learn and share my views. Everyone was respectful and interested in learning what our logistics data is showing about the emerging situation.
At no time did I worry I would be locked up or disappeared for criticizing them. They didn’t even ask me to stop. We take this for granted but it’s not the norm everywhere around the world or through most of human history. And where it is, that’s in large part because of our founding father’s wisdom in creating the Bill of Rights.
Again feeling grateful for the first amendment! 🇺🇸
