Bryce DelGrande

@robgo Following. Not out til later

selfish tweet - anyone fly out of Boston today? How are the tsa lines?

When your 6 year old brings home his school work telling you he talked about Dave Grohl today cc @foofighters

Incredibly bullish on self driving as a whole 80%+ of our driving is FSD primarily in Boston It’s like being an attentive passenger, most intervention is when I opt to be more aggressive than the car Meanwhile there’s dozens of people on TikTok driving themselves alongside me

@pitdesi Adding “by perplexity”

Best guess?

This one hits some feels

@NathanAClark @LuizFRdeO Did we miss because of transfer fee/structure or personal terms? Obviously PSG compelling opportunity but does this also tie back to our lack of willingness to pay hire wages?

@LuizFRdeO We were very close to signing Doue!

Mainly it's that they have 10 times the budget but also their coach unexpectedly (to me, at least) made significant changes to his style and they have considerable pull with French players (by some distance the best national pool in the world)

@teddypowday Rippling took it a step further to constantly having your competitor in your bathroom

Ramp and brex pioneering the brand-building practice of constantly having your competitor's name in your mouth

@gilbert Meta glasses - pictures feel like the moment and you don’t have to look at your kids through a lens all the time. Doesn’t fully replace camera depending on lighting but surprisingly big improvement to being in the moment

Advice for new parents: go buy a mirrorless or point-and-shoot camera. Almost everything on the market is awesome now. Any brand, any price. You'll be grateful you have more than just smartphone photos of your kids.

@ankurnagpal 🤚

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@pitdesi I assumed they leveraged it into teams video/audio since the call tone is the Skype ringtone but maybe not?

End of an era Skype could have been WhatsApp + Zoom in one, but it was a terrible Ballmer-era Microsoft acquisition ($8.5B) in 2011, and it never transitioned to mobile. So much interesting history: 2003: The company was founded in Estonia by the founders of Kazaa, a p2p file sharing service used to pirate music. The Kazaa money meant that they didn’t need to raise VC $. 2005: 54M users, $7M revenue in ‘04 to $60M in’05. Acquired by eBay for $2.6B!! eBay claimed it would help buyer-seller communication but that never made sense to me, and eBay wrote it down by $1.7B in 2007. 2009: 400M users, 100M DAU, $700M revenue. 65% of Skype was acquired by Silver Lake, A16Z, CPPIB, and Index, for $1.9B, valuing the company at $2.75B. A16Z wrote a $50M check out of their $300M 1st fund, people thought they were crazy for investing in a late stage PE deal. 2011: 600M users, 170M MAU, $1B revenue. Ballmer buys it for $8.5B. Incredible deal for the ‘09 investors, 3x in 2 years. A16Z looks really smart with early DPI. At Ballmer-era Microsoft, innovation slowed, Skype never really made the move from desktop to mobile. Skype had poor UI, technical debt and never got much mobile adoption. Meanwhile, Zoom was founded (2011) & WhatsApp took off. WhatsApp has 2.5B users, is probably worth at least $100B. Zoom has 300M+ users, is worth $25B. Still blows my mind that zoom trades lower than it did pre-pandemic, when it had few users (went from 10M to 300M). The other interesting tidbit is Tony Bates (CEO of Skype at acquisition by Microsoft) was considered a rising star at Microsoft and was actually one of top folks considered to be in the running to be CEO of Microsoft, but left once Nadella got the gig. Anyway - fun look down memory lane for me, I used Skype a lot in my life. I was dating someone in the US when I lived in India in 2006-7 and I couldn’t afford to call the US from a regular phone at the time so I would spend my nights at a “Skype cafe” in India on the phone with her. I used Skype regularly until 2018, because it was industry norm for one of my companies. In 2018 they started requiring a Microsoft login and they lost many of the users they had left. What could have been!

@teddypowday YOURE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THAT IM WRONG? AM I WRONG GEMINI?

AI can’t even get basic cultural context right. How am I supposed to vote for this thing for president

@drewvolpe Fill my stocking

Dear Santa, 🎅 Please bring Waymo to Boston.

Places that are intended for children should charge less for adults who go with children. I will not be expanding at this time

@ankurnagpal Throw it in a skillet until it melts and bread browns. Will change your opinion

If you didn’t grow up in America: What’s a food people eat here that you just don’t get? My answer: PB&J sandwiches, they are terrible and I will die on this hill

@NikMilanovic I’ve never been more excited for a product to exist m

I miss the Coin super-card. Surprised that nobody ever ended up pulling off this product. blessthisstuff.com/stuff/technolo…

@matthcrane You should get orange intelligent instead

I have just found out my phone will not be receiving Apple Intelligence. I will be forced to stay unintelligent until further notice

@WizLikeWizard Wait what. Only safari?

Honestly the best feature of iOS

@drewvolpe Was thinking about this earlier today and what ROI comparison is vs traditional spend like TV as buys on awareness and influence

Has anyone done the math on how much $$$ it would take to move the market 5 points? Curious how this compares to say one more TV ad buy.

@bendjmercer @SawkurGod @robbo277 What if their pacy winger is timo Werner

@SawkurGod @robbo277 dream post. In attack the same. In defence depending on how pacy their wingers are. 4-2-1 if pacy and push them to the middle, 3-3-1 if not pacy and push them out to the wings.

If you were playing 8v8 on a shortened pitch (60ish yards) with slightly smaller than regulation nets, how would you organize your team? Asking for myself. This is what I have so far. I should add that there's no offsides and everybody's washed.

Not sure folks realize yet how bad this was…