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AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

@alexisohanian

6 Jul

@OnlyAltOfficial

Grail Acquired. @OnlyAltOfficial just secured the most valuable trading card in the world: a 1/1 @StephenCurry30 (his rarest card). The gag is that even at $5.9M today, it's going to look like a steal in 10, let alone 25, years. This is a new era for contemporary art.

A simple thought exercise -- this is a $91M sculpture. It's beautiful, seminal work of Jeff Koons.

Do you even know what Jeff Koons looks like?

christies.com/features/Jeff-…

How many kids or grown adults have ever shouted at the top of their lungs as Jeff Koons was making his art? These beautiful pieces of cardboard capture icons in an age where cultural moments are being created on courts + pitches + fields in real-time for the world to see.

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AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

@alexisohanian

2 Jul

@sevensevensix

You have until midnight tonight to apply for our @sevensevensix Analyst position 👇 really proud of how we built an application designed to attract + hire the very best from first principles, eschewing standard VC bullshit signals.... here's a glimpse of our application

From the start, we're laying out the archetype for this role (to make sure we're not wasting anyone's time)

Now it's time ask some questions... they're designed so they're not a total waste of your time (and will also give you a chance to reflect on the career you've had so far)

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AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

@alexisohanian

28 Jun

@UVA

I gave the commencement address at my alma mater @UVA this year. You can watch the whole thing on my YouTube channel (spoiler: @Olympiaohanian cameo at the end) or just read this thread for takeaways 👇

1/ People & experiences are the ones who matter.

Graduation day isn’t for you. It’s for all the people who helped get you here - take some time to celebrate them, because you don’t know when it’ll be your last chance.

2/ I wish I could’ve been in C-Ville for this bc it's an impt community for me (where I decided to become an entrepreneur, named Reddit, created Snoo, etc). Everything I’ve done as an entrepreneur, investor + (business) dad is threaded w principle of bringing people together.

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AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

@alexisohanian

6 Jun

@NWSL

I guarantee the @NWSL / @WNBA pre-game runway content is gonna be a massive marketing opportunity. Loving see my @NBA pals doing it, but the women do it way better

https://twitter.com/togethxr/status/1401305212695068672

As a thought exercise: if you knew nothing and I told you there was a sport that had effectively popularized and monetized the "fashion runway" of athletes before a match... Wouldn't it be surprising to learn it was the men (of the NBA)?

Given how female models absolutely dominate the culture (can you name a single male model other than Zoolander?) and how much more women produce/consume on social--This is a goldmine

Again, investing in women's sports is going to seem OBVIOUS in a decade, these are just receipts

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AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

@alexisohanian

4 Jun

https://twitter.com/technology/status/1400577617565192194

End this idea that diversity overrides merit.

Our gameplan is simple: hire the best people we can, intentionally attracting diverse backgrounds and optimizing for potential -- not just experience.

Then take that team and be the best.

This is the way.

https://twitter.com/technology/status/1400577617565192194

@katelin_cruse

Lucky to have a founding partner like @katelin_cruse who roadmapped our rather unique hiring plan for operating partners (and then open-sourced it). @sevensevensix hasn't launched yet + we had 1,100 applicants, 83% self-identifying as underrepresented.

sevensevensix.com/news/the-opera…

And I'm not the only business leader who believes that genuine DEI work is not b/c it's trendy or politically correct—it's because we want to absolutely fucking win.

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