I owe so much of my career to Meg inviting me in to share some of the earliest days of Rocksbox.
Damn, what a fucking education in building a business.
Meg had designed a product customers LOVED.
She taught me the value of healthy margins and stress of customer acquisition.
I know that being acquired by a public company will bring the Rocksbox vision -- women bringing their best selves to the world because they feel confident -- to a much larger scale 📈
(so funny to see the RB member described as "self-purchasing woman" 😂) forbes.com/sites/pamdanzi…
but - it also, the end of an era ☺️
The little startup inside of Valencia Labs, cleaning jewelry and shipping boxes (while Launchrock and Card.io were trying to concentrate writing code 😂) has taken flight.
👋 Rocksbox 💍🎀
Good luck out there ✈️
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the most persistent, longest-running thread of trauma in my life is “you should have known better”
for the first 15 years of my life it was “you should have known better because everyone knows this” and for the next 15 years it was “you should have known better because you’re so smart” and now it’s “you should have known better because you have so much influence”
it’s driven my furious drive to always learn more about the world, but it never seems like I learn enough, or maybe not the right things?
and now I’m getting tired like fuck it seems like I can never get ahead of hearing this refrain so why bother trying
if you’re an extremely whacky fintech person I can’t recommend applying for a mortgage enough it is a wild and super fun time pscp.tv/w/ceh8vzg0Nzgz…
featuring frequently asked questions of me like “you list having $10,000 in “Affirm”. Which firm are you talking about? Is it a retirement firm?”
“What is H *squint* M Bradley?”
“Is this... Chime... $250... something?”
“I see you have an installment loan... for your rent?”
oh also I’ve heard lots of complaints about it being hard / annoying / outdated to get a mortgage but it actually seems like it is fun and easy my guess is that people who complain about this amount of documentation have never e.g. become a licensed money transmitter
ugh I tried to cook dinner last night (because doesn’t this look SO GOOD!) and it was so fucking hard and I was so resentful. Nothing kills my appetite faster than cooking. it put me in such a bad mood I got into bed at 9pm and listened to clubhouse while shopping for sweatpants
the salmon was raw and undercooked and the brocollini (WHICH IS COOKED TOGETHER IN THE SAME PAN) was all burnt?
I would have just tossed the whole thing in the trash but my boyfriend said gently Maia, it’s ok, I can fix this
but also HOW just abandon it
anyway now I’m starving because I didn’t have dinner last night but I have too much PTSD to go into the kitchen
Credit reports are a HUGE component of financial inclusion - yes loans but also employment & apartment eligibility, car insurance rates and more. ANYONE can sign up for @Chime's new Credit Builder, it is not gated on credit score or anything else. And, there are no fees ✨
thank you for the write up @TechCrunch - this is my dream of how credit cards can work: "The card feel more like a debit card, as it’s tied to how much cash is in a user’s bank account" techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/u-s…
I thought we all JUST switched over to deodorant that only works for like an hour now we’re rebounding back to deodorant that works for a week???
sorry y’all I am new to spending
much time on instagram so everything just seems so crazy to me, is it better to have caffeine... through your skin... than to ingest it normally??
but also I DID just buy these because I hate showering, so maybe it’s a perfectly targeted ad