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Jan 25 11 tweets 3 min read
👀 i spy someone making moves.

Here's the characters:
@joshbuckley - at one time I think he was the youngest YC founder ever?

He built a gaming company (Mino Monsters)

I remember walking w him. He checked his phone and just laughed. Showed me the screen w/ revenue $

me: "nice month!"
him: "that's just today"
Then he told me he started investing.

Investing? Aren't we both broke founders?

Apparently someone big had given him $$$ to play with.

He named some investments. Multiple $1B+ co's already.

He had level of confidence/self belief that is rare but obvious when you see it.
Josh is the chairman of a new company.

But lets look at the other characters.

next up: @_shahedk

my bearded brother
Shahed used to come to a founder mastermind I hosted in SF

He was working on some product where users could give feedback or something.

It was a little confusing. Plus, he was so young. My read was "he'll win someday, but not yet"

Josh I knew right away. Shahed I got wrong
A month later his team pivoted to something called @loom .

The idea was instead of emails or meetings, you can just record a quick video of you talking over your screen and send to your coworker.

"interesting. I can see some people using that"

(i now use it almost daily)
Stupidly didn't invest. Missed out on a big one.

It's now probably worth ~$3-5B (I would have ~250x'd)

Note to self:

- invest in friends, even if I don't totally believe it'll work. You won't regret backing your friends. But you will regret NOT backing them.
Today, they've teamed up with @ahiggz and are announcing something new.

It's called Prologue.

I'm keeping an eye on this one.

* Founders get 2 things they want:

MONEY
DISTRIBUTION
They are running an accelerator (think YC, but earlier and smaller/tighter batches).

This is called @hyper_ . Founders can apply to their next batch in march.

Then they are buying distribution (eg. they own Producthunt, which imo is the best way to get your first 1-2k users)
and looks like they just raised $23M to go buy other distribution properties

YC had hackernews. A great place to launch (like dropbox, airbnb did) and to find talent.

If Prologue owns PH and buys a few more good properties. Could be pretty sweet distribution for their co's
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Jan 23
Holdup. There are only TWO teams competing at Nationals in the show Cheer!?

All that hype for "Nationals" and it's just 2 tiny schools competing against each other??

The worst you can do is 2nd place?!
Monica is portrayed as the cheerleading John Wooden.

14 championships.

but every year it's just a 50/50 coinflip to see if you get a championship or not?!
all that hype about "going to daytona"

They coulda just gone to a Kroger parking lot in texas and cheered against each other

smh
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Jan 4
Going to a conference for Farmers 🐓🐷today.

Will tweet what I learn here:
So Kansas City isn’t in Kansas? Nobody else finds this fishy?
Almost miss my flight because I lost track of time eating a subway sandwich

Lady at the gate laughs and asks what I was thinking

I ask her if she’s ever had the turkey on Italian herbs and cheese

She nods. She understands
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Dec 26, 2021
web1: information networks
web2: social networks
web3: money networks
web1: Information Networks

* wikipedia
* google
* yahoo answers
* email
* News sites

pipes for information to move around the world quickly & cheaply.
web2: Social Networks

*myspace / facebook
*twitter
*instagram
*twitter
*reddit
*youtube
*pornhub
*twitch
*tiktok

pipes for content (pics/videos/text) to move around the world quickly & cheaply
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Dec 26, 2021
In 2021,

I made some 🔥good decisions...and some terrible decisions 😭
I made some 🔥 good investments.. and some awful investments 😭

investments, decisions, purchases, advise, habits, - I wrote em all down. Here's my list of the 🔥BEST & WORST 😭for 2021 ⬇️
🔥BEST DECISION - hiring a personal trainer

Hiring Coach John as my personal trainer to come to my house 5x a week.

I still look "before photo"-ish, but made a lot of progress & flipped habits

smash teh like button if you see my little abbies coming in
😭WORST DECISION

"Secure the bag"

My deal when we got acquired had a 3-year vesting clause

I stayed for 2yrs

I shoulda stayed for... zero

Hard to say no to a 7-fig 💰but I woulda had more fun & made more $$$ if I had quit on day 1.

I undervalued the biggest asset, TIME!
Read 23 tweets
Nov 25, 2021
For Thanksgiving me and @theSamParr made a list of our "Favorite Finds" of the year

*stuff (gadgets, etc.)
*apps
*content (articles, podcasts, etc.)

Here's the list of my favorite finds!
FAVORITE APPS:

I have apps for FUN (Twitter, TikTok, games..) and WORK (email, slack..)

These are great, but they keep the mind BUSY at all times.

So I found a few apps that bring PEACE of mind

#1 @fiveminutejour = Bring awareness to the things in my day I'm grateful for Image
#2 I've tried starting "meditation" many times but it never clicked and became something I enjoy.

Until I discovered "breathwork". My new morning routine is @othership_us. Guided breathwork by @robbiebent1 (was early at Ethereum). The music is top notch, makes it fun Image
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Oct 29, 2021
Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse.

here's my 3 part theory..
Part I - Everyone is wrong

Most people think "the metaverse" is a virtual place.

Like in the movie Ready Player One.

A virtual world, like Minecraft, Roblox, or like Zuck showed in the facebook demo yesterday.

But what if it's not a place?
Part II - It's Not a Place, It's a Time

A time? wtf?

Yes, a moment in time.

You know in artificial intelligence, there's an idea of "the singularity"?

It's a moment in time where AI becomes smarter than humans. The moment when artificial intelligence > human intelligence
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