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23 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I've lived a far from perfect life, just tried to be on the right side of history, tried to give more than I took, tried to be a little better from each mistake.

Everyone is figuring it out as they go.
I'm all good btw! Had a heart to heart with a founder in the @sevensevensix portfolio and wanted to repeat my words here on Twitter. Everyone can use a bump!
Being a CEO is a really lonely job, especially when the success, survival of the business is far from certain.
Part of our job as investors is to mentor a CEO, which doesn't always mean having all the answers, but instead to be honest about where our expertise (even as founders-turned-investors) ends 🙏

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Traditional sports ranking of community strength:

Teams > Players > League

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Players > Teams > League

Players are realizing it. Teams will be wise to adapt fast.
We're doing our best at @weareangelcity to build a world class pro sports club with the new reality in mind.
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Excited to approve our 2021 budget for @sevensevensix! My 2021 salary will be $776.00 ~ I'm living a blessed life + want to put our management fees to work paying amazing people on this team, building software, supporting our founders. Thx @katelin_cruse @GarvinLissie 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣
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Mazzy’s 1st observation while listening to Laraaji was, "I feel like the earth. I can listen to it in my ears.” After an instrumental passage, "We haven’t seen him in a while. Are these secret instruments?” ... "I hear the lights.” - experiencing @odaislive is like nothing else
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18 Oct 20
Typical first-time CEO mistake is to hire people who you're friends with. I love my friends. I've known most of my closest friends since first grade. But I would not hire any of them for a startup unless they were truly exceptional at the jobs we needed them for.
I didn't hire my friends at the start of my career, but did hire literally the very first people who even showed interest in working with us, simply because I'd never hired before and no one coached me on how to actually run a hiring process. Sometimes we got lucky with a star...
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WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD BET ON MOMS? (V2) - updated 2020 edition with new study data from @The_Mom_Project @werk_labs

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