Deidre Paknad

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Deidre Paknad

Deidre Paknad

@day_dree

CEO & Co-Founder of @WorkboardInc Serial company starter, leader, learner, innovator, grown up, risk taker.

Palo Alto Beigetreten Mayıs 2009
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
The team at @WorkboardInc was thrilled to rank 162 in fastest growth tech companies in No. America and 44th in Silicon Valley last week (Deloitte: 3 yrs of growth). Turns out, WorkBoard is fastest growing woman-led Silicon Valley company on the list. workboard.com/workboard-in-t…
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@eoghan Just moved to fin from zendesk (clearly not transforming themselves!). Love and learning from your journey.
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Codie Sanchez
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez·
I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on
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Startup Archive@StartupArchive_·
Vinod Khosla: “70% of investors add negative value to a company” When junior team members at Khosla Ventures ask Vinod if they can serve on portfolio company boards, Vinod responds:) “You haven’t earned the right to advise an entrepreneur. Just because you got an MBA and joined a venture firm doesn’t mean you’re qualified to advise an entrepreneur.” Vinod believes one of the best ways to earn that right (but not the only way) is to build a large company yourself: “Have you gone through how hard it is, how uncertain it is, how traumatic it is to go through?… If somebody has never dealt with this decision-making under ambiguity, they’re not qualified to help you… Whose advice to trust on what topic is the single hardest decision an entrepreneur makes. It’s also where the right investors can really help you.” He gives the example of asking a marketing executive at IBM for marketing advice: “They’ve never dealt with things where the market isn’t established… They’re not qualified to invent whole new markets.” He also recalls a recent argument with a co-investor who wanted their healthcare portfolio company to hire a healthcare executive from an established company: “They wanted this healthcare person who had never dealt with change beyond 2% a year, and I’m like, experience doesn’t matter. The rate of learning matters [for a role like this].” Video source: @ycombinator (2019)
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Jason Reza Jorjani
Jason Reza Jorjani@Jason_Jorjani·
This is NOT about empowering the Iranian people. It is the first stage in a CIA plan to threaten the territorial integrity of Iran. Empowering the Iranian people would be ARMING the majority of urban Iranians, NOT arming and backing a bunch of retarded Kurdish separatists.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN, appearing to confirm earlier reporting from ITV News. The Trump Administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in both Iran and Iraq about providing them with military support, sources said, with President Trump said to have spoken Tuesday with the President of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), Mustafa Hijri. Iranian Kurdish opposition forces are expected to take part in a ground operation in Western Iran, in the coming days, according to senior Iranian Kurdish official, with the idea being for Kurdish paramilitary forces to take on the Iranian security forces and pin them down to make it easier for unarmed Iranians in the major cities to turn out without getting massacred again as they were during unrest in January.

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Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes@brhodes·
It would be a terrible idea to arm ethnic minority groups in Iran to turn this into a sectarian civil war and a regional war.
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari@RepYassAnsari·
If true, this could lead to a massive civil war in Iran and chaos in the region. Countless lives would be lost. Instead, we need a real plan focused on delivering stability, democracy and self-determination for the Iranian people.
Natasha Bertrand@NatashaBertrand

NEW: The CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN. Iranian Kurdish opposition forces are expected to take part in a ground operation in Western Iran in the coming days and they expect US and Israeli support, a senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN. cnn.com/2026/03/03/pol…

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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@shaunmmaguire Yes, many have outed themselves. How does your either/or work in a world where sovereignty exists?
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@vladtenev Not surprising that more clarity on “how” and more control over what you can change/do (your behaviors, consistency) produces more than abstract “win” or “perform better” goals. Our data shows more frequent measurement (relevant on process) is as big a factor in success.
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@chamath That sounds remarkably like government operating like a business 😉
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath·
Really nuts that we, US taxpayers, are paying for this stuff. The projects are technically written in English, but it’s not in English. No one can explain what these are. For those that reflexively hate DOGE, do you honestly think your quality of life or cost of living goes either up or down because of these projects?? Because they don’t. We should probably cancel them and keep cancelling other questionable spending until all that is left are the true projects that improve quality of life and decrease cost of living. Then we can take a bunch of the money we saved along the way and put more money into those core programs and see sustained improvements for Americans.
Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE

Contracts Update! Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 43 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.5B and savings of $222M, including a $4.3M Dept. of Treasury IT contract to “develop a comprehensive strategic narrative and management approach aimed at the Human Centered Transformation and Enhanced Partnerships”, and a $29M Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for “providing the necessary staff to perform Program Management, providing planning, analysis, and support in managing projects”.

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Dave Gerhardt
Dave Gerhardt@davegerhardt·
I love social media. But also we were not meant to open up the phone and just get a direct line to violence, tragedy, crisis, conflict from all parts of the world. While I’m standing in line at a Jersey Mike’s.
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@jrichlive Love this about you and I’m excited for her and her family!
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Jeff Richards@jrichlive·
A HS senior our family has been helping for a decade+ just got into a great university. Will be the first of her family to ever attend college. Today is a great day. 😊
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Andrew Rea
Andrew Rea@andrew__rea·
you should probably not work at a startup or be around startup CEOs if you don't want to get asked about why this isn't happening faster... always, until you die or the company achieves mega-scale. and even then, we're gonna want it to go faster. and it almost always can go faster.
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Deidre Paknad@day_dree·
@jrichlive @SkylineETH Gruppo Sella shared at @WorkboardInc event Thursday that its AI let them adapt and align on strategic priorities 2x faster and 10x better so 1) they are super responsive and 2) get 12 weeks more execution leverage/year. Compounding advantage since 2023.
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Jeff Richards@jrichlive·
“An August report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that 58% of some 3,800 small businesses surveyed said they use generative AI. That is up from 40% in 2024 and more than double what it was two years prior.” Definitely a 🫧🫧🫧
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Praneeta Pujari
Praneeta Pujari@PraneetaPujari·
@aschwags3 Seems alright to me. Just two problem-focused adults having a disagreement. No one has the time to take things personally, or sugar coat words, and have more urgent things to worry about
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adriane schwager
adriane schwager@aschwags3·
Do you think your boss is scary? Look at this brutal email from Marc Andreessen to Ben Horowitz during the heat of a Netscape product launch
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Aadit Sheth
Aadit Sheth@aaditsh·
Perplexity just quietly dropped a 42-page internal guide on how they actually use AI at work. What I found most useful: → How they automate the small stuff. Email, meeting prep, research (all done by AI) → Using AI to amplify your curiosity, not replace it. → Their prompting playbook is simple, practical, and genuinely good. Comment “AI” and I’ll send it to you for free.
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