CEO & Co-Founder @DaffyGiving 🦍 Helping people be more generous, more often. 🙏 Inevitably optimistic. Slightly amusing. Always talking.
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I'll never understand why people choose to live in San Francisco, when this is Christmas in Los Altos.
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My son woke me up this morning telling me the water was running from the toilet in his bathroom… this is what I found. 🤦♂️ #AprilFools
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The supply of rental housing in Buenos Aires has jumped 195.2% since the repeal of rent control.
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Turns out, giving billions of people a high quality video camera with almost unlimited storage in their pockets was a very big deal...
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Depending on how you look at the history of @Minecraft, this may (or may not) be surprising.
But for now, @Microsoft has made it very clear: no NFTs on Minecraft...
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My entire career down to just one moment... 🤞
Hi @chrissyteigen 👋 I’m a big fan, and also the head of product @Dropbox. If there is anything we can do to help out, please let me know.
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Ikigai: What you love, what the world needs, what you are good at, what you can be paid for. weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/i…
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I met @brian_armstrong in 2012 at a Starbucks across from Twitter.
He told me about his new Bitcoin startup, “theCoinBase.com”
I told him, “Drop the ‘the’ - just go with “Coinbase”
The rest is history. 😉
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Bold prediction by @claychristensen - he predicts that in 10-15 years that 50% of the 4,000 colleges & universities in the US will be gone. cnbc.com/2018/08/30/hbs-prof…
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Blessed are those who schedule 30 minute calls, finish them in 10, leaving ample time for kicking off & executing on agreed upon action items. 🎉
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Thank you, @ZackSnyder. Thank you @jasonkilar. Thank you @hbomax.
#SnyderCutJusticeLeague was redemption. Not sure of the distance between this version and what was originally intended.
Grateful that you spent the $ & time to bring this version to market.
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Wow. @Stanford is making their famous, "Introduction to Programming Methodlogy," CS 106A open this Spring quarter, to help "educate people in place" during the COVID-19 crisis. Includes virtual sections for personal learning!
compedu.stanford.edu/codeinp…
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Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming obsessed with remote work, largely due to the housing crisis, brutal talent market, and now Coronavirus.
Hard for me to tell at this point whether it's a real macro trend, or amplification from inside the bubble.
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Selection bias. The people who come here are not "average," but have the fortitude to leave their country, the capability to make the journey, and the ambition to find success.
They are living the life they chose for themselves and their family, not the life they were given.
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FYI: @FirstRepublic has an Insured Cash Sweep business account that is FDIC-insured up to $100M and currently pays a little over 3%.
They really should be marketing this more heavily...
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The sheer audacity of @SpaceXStarlink is really something to behold. One the first commercial systems that feels like it belongs in the 21st century.
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It has been painful to watch @Opendoor over the last few years.
As one of the original angel investors, $OPEN always had audacious goals for a $100B+ company. But it recently lost its way.
This is why I support the current efforts of @ericjackson to reinvigorate the company.
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For my younger friends, if you are wondering what it felt like in 1991 as events in the USSR started spiraling…
… it felt kind of like this. 😳
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GPT-4 will give us two things:
- The answer to the ultimate question 4️⃣2️⃣
- The design for GPT-5 which will tell us what that question is. 🌎
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Wow $AAPL. $261.5B in cash. $45.4B revenue. 41M iPhones. And this is Apple's "boring" quarter...
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Final 2023 Fitness Stats:
Dec 31, 2022: 217lbs, 24.2% body fat
Dec 31, 2023: 177lbs, 10.7% body fat
Blood pressure: 140/90 -> 105/60
Cholesterol: 207 -> 150
So, roughly back to where I was at 17. 🤷♂️
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Down markets are a gift to the young. Enjoy the ability to invest your savings for the future at lower prices and watch them compound. 📈
You have a gift that previous generations no longer have... time. Don’t waste it. 👊
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My course material for Stanford CS 007, “Personal Finance for Engineers,” is at cs007.blog
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Hard not to be impressed with @BillGates right now. Coherent, intelligent & realistic talk about how to deal with this crisis. cnbc.com/2020/03/25/what-bil…
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... only way this chat could have been better is if the response to the last message was:
"You'd have to have brainworms to bring a dead bear to Central Park."
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Down markets are a gift to the young. Enjoy the ability to invest your savings for the future at lower prices and watch them compound. 🎉
You have a gift that previous generations no longer have... time. Don’t waste it. 👊
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Companies worth over $1 trillion are a very recent phenomenon. There are very few.
Currently, four of them have HQ less than 10 miles from each other:
Apple (Cupertino)
Google (Mountain View)
Meta (Menlo Park)
Nvidia (Santa Clara)
Silicon Valley 🤯
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Thanos of Product: the only way to bring balance to the roadmap is to eliminate 50% of the projects. 🔥
I am inevitable. 🎃
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What it looks like when a startup finds a clever new growth vector...
In this video we see a cyclist adopting a definitely unconventional position on his bike and the result is an efficient aerodynamics which makes him pass the other cyclists. This is why: buff.ly/338WcmN [source, full video: buff.ly/32cLGM4]
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A real gem of a @JeffBezos @WarrenBuffett story at the end of this post by @pt medium.com/@pt/cryptos-big-l…
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… the part of this strategy that doesn’t make sense to me is that both Activision & Microsoft want this deal to go through.
So if it doesn’t, Sony has made Activision an enemy. And if it does, they’ve made Microsoft an enemy.
Doesn’t bode well for future collaboration. 🤦♂️
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If employment drops by about 33%, then employment will have to grow by 50% to get back to where it was.
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... apologies for the delay. My inbox just exploded with ~1000 people volunteering to do this demo. 😳
Any chance you’ll be in SF on 9/25? We’re having an event, and I’d be happy to get you a ticket. 🤩
Announcing Michelle Obama in conversation at Work in Progress, a new Dropbox conference. bit.ly/2TPgQDr #DropboxWIP
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Can you imagine how valuable it would be for homeowners right now if you could sell your house & transfer the sub-3% mortgage on the house to the new buyer? 🤔
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Measles was effectively eradicated in the United States by 2000. Unfortunately, the anti-vaxx propaganda against MMR vaccine has led to a 1.3% rate of non-vaccination. 🤯 cnn.com/2019/01/26/health/wa…
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Think what you will of @elonmusk, but he has been an unbelievable agent for change in the industry.
The industry has been talking electric for decades. @Tesla took just 8 years to outsell Mercedes-Benz in the US. businessinsider.com.au/tesla…
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I have property & a backyard.
What turns people YIMBY is trying to hire great people under 35 and realizing there’s almost nowhere reasonable for them to live & start a family nearby. 🤦♂️ cc: @Noahpinion
And what turns people "YIMBY"? It's the lust for other people's property. (YIMBYS don't actually own backyards, they want to force people to build on them).
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There’s something so incredibly humbling about reading this letter from Steve Jobs in 1986.
It could have been written at literally any company I’ve ever worked at over the last 30 years.
Some things never change.
We are truly building castles in the sand.
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Pour one out for @fryselectronics, a true Silicon Valley institution.
I used to walk around the stores for hours, just exploring every aisle. It was a reliable index into the zeitgeist of builders. Every store has its own character.
RIP. 😓
kron4.com/news/national/frys…
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... California is now drought free, for the first time in 7 years. 🤷♂️ earther.gizmodo.com/californ…
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This story is particularly infuriating to me. Every employee of a venture backed startup deserves equity. 😡
For those of you asking me if I bought my wework equity—I did not. But, not because I didn’t choose to buy it. Despite joining the company very early on, I was not offered options. Here’s a thread about what happened and my feelings about it now. /1
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Live your best Gen X life and watch the original Clash of the Titans. 1981. Stars Harry Hamlin. 💯
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This is a big deal. We’ve been looking for a better solution than IPO for 20 years. @Airbnb is an exceptional company. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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It turns out @Xapo @wences has a decommissioned Swiss bunker to store bitcoin (keys) in. Achievement unlocked. 😳 qz.com/1103310/photos-the-se…
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India is deeply intertwined in the success of Silicon Valley & the future of the US. 🇺🇸🇮🇳
We should do whatever we can to help them & more importantly, we should let them know we will always be there for them. 💉
This is almost a Marshall Plan moment.
cnn.com/2021/04/25/asia/indi…
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PayPal is worth over $300B. Shopify over $180B. Intuit almost $150B. Square over $100B. Coinbase ~$50B.
If M&A spins up, there is a lot of firepower outside the incumbents & tech giants.
And if they get involved… 😳
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Fairly sure @OpenAI would make more revenue if they released a family plan for up to 6 members for $50/mo.
Add in some vertical tutoring features or parental supervision and charge even more.
cc: @kevinweil
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When Visa offered $5.3B for Plaid, it was a big deal b/c it made it clear that fintech companies could be worth billions.
However, now it seems like a steal compared to valuations in the public markets. Square @ $100B, PayPal at $250B, etc.
Plaid investors likely do better now.
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Great ideas can come from anyone. This is a the story of how a 26 year old, working as a janitor for Frito-Lay, came up with the idea for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Called the CEO. He’s now a VP. 🔥 thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inv…
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In 1997, when I was at Apple, their market cap was around $2.3 Billion. Today, $AAPL added ~$17 Billion in value. In just one day. 🤯
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I’m constantly surprised by how many well-educated people don’t understand the answer to this simple-sounding question… @Noahpinion
noahpinion.substack.com/p/wh…
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Talk to me again about Facebook “selling my data” 🙄 vice.com/en_us/article/evjek…
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Last week, I shared my thoughts about @Opendoor and my excitement about the efforts to reinvigorate the company.
I also made a commitment:
If $OPEN hit $10 per share, I would donate 10,000 shares to charity w/ @DaffyGiving
Looks like today is that day! 🎉
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Finding it somewhat hilarious that @Costco in Mountain View is jammed with cars & people, but @Walmart is relatively empty.
Even #coronavirus doesn’t affect retail preference that strongly, I guess. 🤷♂️
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Sometimes I forget how unique Silicon Valley is around business negotiation. You can get so spoiled by the "win-win" nature of the startup community and how many people just want to help & be a part of something that succeeds.
Grateful to be building a company here. 🙏
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For the last 9 days, every night at 9pm my 15 yo & I play chess. 👑
For this, I will eternally be grateful. ❤️
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By the way, anyone who wants to see the @OpenDoor Series A deck can find it here. Clear, concise framing on the investment & the company.
drive.google.com/file/d/1FzR…
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After more than a year in stealth, we're ready to announce what we've been working on at Silverback Ventures.
@DaffyGiving has a simple mission: help people be more generous, more often. Today we've launched an app to help making giving a habit.
blog.daffy.org/introducing-d…
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Good post by @Noahpinion on the practical results of the wealth tax on France, which had a top rate of 1.5% - 1.8%. Turns out this isn’t a new idea, and the results aren’t great. 🤷♂️ bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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… 3) If you look up the history of Hamas & Muslim Brotherhood, and then the history of the Muslim Brotherhood & Egypt, you’ll quickly get it.
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If your goal was to destroy the Silicon Valley ecosystem of creating new companies, this would be an effective way to do it. Taxing stock options at vest doesn't hurt execs, it would only hurt normal people who can't pay that tax bill with outside wealth.
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First day @Dropbox, so this is your shot to have undue influence on the product roadmap.
What features do you love about the product? What features delight you? What would you add / change / improve?
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California GDP increased 4.9% last year. Mind boggling number for a developed economy, let alone one that is 5th largest in the world. 🚀🔥💯 bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
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... as a result, I have recently purchased 50,000 shares of $OPEN.
... and if it gets to $10 per share, I will donate 10,000 shares to charity @DaffyGiving. If it gets to $82 per share? I’ll donate an additional 15,000 shares to charity.
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“It's easier to be a parent this morning, it's easier to be a dad. It's easier to tell your kids character matters, it matters. Telling the truth matters. Being a good person matters." 🇺🇸 — @VanJones68 @CNN
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There was so much skepticism in the early days of @Wealthfront. Most people had trouble seeing a future where investors would trust their money to an automated service.
Congrats to the entire team, investors, and early customers who believed. 🎉🔥🚀
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The largest company in the world ($AAPL) just grew earnings per share by 31% year over year. 😳
But please, tell me again about the law of large numbers. 🤔
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This seems like as good a day as any to remind everyone that it *isn't* a blue check, it's a white check surrounded by a blue cloud.
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“The Man in the High Castle” cost $72m to make, but brought in 1.15m new $AMZN Prime subscribers. That’s $63 each. Subscription economics will really change Hollywood. thestreet.com/story/14523700…
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Had no idea how far California had pulled ahead of other states in GDP. ~$2.9T for CA. ~$1.7T for Texas, ~$1.6T for New York.
For reference, Canada is ~$1.6T 🇨🇦 , UK is ~$2.8T 🇬🇧
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It's a bit ironic that here, in Silicon Valley, you have countless investors chasing 100x winners, and yet if you had just bought $AAPL at an average price in 1997, you would have a 1000x return by now.
In the public markets. No hot IPO. No private access needed. 🤷♂️
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Given the news yesterday @Figma, decided to share one small story about that seed round, with a personal lesson.
Features @zoink, @johnolilly, @dpatil, and even a tweet from 2013.
Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto
adamnash.blog/2022/09/16/fig…
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Highly recommend @AlphaGoMovie on @Netflix. Fantastic & real documentary of the amazing AI victory playing Go & the very real humans involved.
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