Josh Constine 📶🔥
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Josh Constine 📶🔥
@JoshConstine
Boundless enthusiast investing in pre-seed consumer & AI. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, pitchcrafter, SF maxi.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ocak 2009
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@myhandle Take our spot in aquatic park / Fort Mason when we leave
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@zeldapoem Ohhhh so this is the unnamed leader. That’s awesome. No better feeling than him peeling back a fence for you to sneak into somewhere wild
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@JoshConstine In this very blog post I shared that I’ll be interviewing John next ;)
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@zeldapoem John Law, burning man founder and still throwing weird stuff here, should be your next interview
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Really? So many odd assumptions, like that the startup market is zero sum. New widespread tactics don’t just raise the standard in competitive spaces. They help founders unlock net new spaces. And more companies being founded as “founder” becomes a prestigious title means succcess rate may be lower amongst people who shouldn’t have been a founder, and higher for legit founders applying the tactics.
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This is the most interesting thing I've read in like 3 years colossus.com/article/we-hav…
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@adilmania @josiezayner Some the comments on the original killed me
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Can TBPN start Livestreaming VC pitches of some of these ideas
Aris@aris_segueg
building the biggest women-only community in San Francisco 1) You get approved 2) You get in 3) You get to know women you should've known years ago if this sounds like you, comment👇
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Two new very cool comms roles:
1. We're looking for a comms lead for the newly formed Anthropic Institute. You'd be working closely with @jackclarkSF to shape the Institute's strategy
job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…

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@Clara_Gold I think a lot of the response was likely tuned to the fact that it’s a legal third rail
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@JoshConstine The problem is not that it's illegal, it's people being offended by "they want a woman without kids"
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We’ve reached a point where political correctness matters more than being honest about what a job actually requires. It’s ridiculous.
I’d hire for the exact same criteria, especially the polemical ones.
For a community role, of course I’d want a woman in her 30s without kids. Because that’s what works. Women get more attention, build stronger relationships, are more caring. In your 30s, you have the credibility to host, people trust you, respect you, and engage differently than with someone too junior. And yes, no kids. Most events happen at night, availability is part of the job. Parents, and especially mothers, have that time locked with their kids. That’s reality, not discrimination.
And somehow saying this out loud makes you the asshole? Please.
VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏@VCBrags
“Is a woman (ideally between 25 - 33 years old) and doesn't have children” 🤨🤨🤨🤨🧐🧐🧐
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@ananayarora @mat @WIRED TechCrunch broke all my old video and carousel posts including my Best Of YC Demo Day roundups that I’m so sad are gone. All my receipts!
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@JoshConstine @mat honestly i would blame @WIRED for nuking the old URL - they should've just setup a redirect
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@mat Wait, why is your sim port hacking article gone? Crazy that 14 years later I'm still trying to get friends to protect themselves from this stuff wired.com/gadgetlab/2012…
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@ananayarora @mat Ugh. My internet panther skills are atrophying
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@JoshConstine @mat It's actually the exact same article! Wired just removed /gadgetlab/ from the URL that's why its going to a 404.
Confirmed via Wayback Machine:

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@ananayarora @mat Yeah there were a bunch of great follow-ups that link to the missing original
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@whatdotcd Huh. Many weird Sama clips but that one felt pretty reasonable
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I've had my agent summarize a group chat I'm in with my really successful really smart friends.
I think they're fun to read and I'm debating on sharing them more widely, would you subscribe to something like this?
Reply and I'll DM you to get an email so you can get them and also give feedback <3
Trev🙃r is hiring DM me!@whatdotcd
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We need the equivalent of Oscar award show but for tech each year. @tbpn please make it happen
- Best Company
- Best CEO
- Best Investor
- Best Meme
- Best Launch Video (poke?)
- Best Public Blow Up
- Best Product (claude code)
- Best Comeback (travis ofc)
- Best Flop
- Etc.
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@JoannaStern @NBCNews Love the brand and vibe. Tech has gone from underdog to overdog to just the dog in everyone’s house, but it’s still too often covered as a business or via reviews rather than its cultural and philosophical impact. Can’t wait to read
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Some big personal news today!
- My new venture is called New Things! Newsletters, video, live events. Head to thenewthings.com and sign up. We're hard at work building and will launch this spring.
- I'm partnering with @NBCNews in a big way. As chief Tech Analyst, you'll see more of me on their TV and digital shows, plus New Things content coming to their platforms!
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@qianjiang___ Welcome to the city of lucid dreams. I run a text message newsletter of the best arts and culture events that might help get you going bit.ly/outgoers
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What’s the most impressive company merch you’ve seen over the past couple of years? e.g. the @notion chore coat, @linear employee gift, @stripepress books...



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@bryanculbertson @DominicJPino @PostOpinions So with 1/50th of the time in market, Waymo has gotten to just twice the price with an infinitely better user experience and speed?
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@JoshConstine @DominicJPino @PostOpinions That graph is deceptive, it is "indexed" but not inflation adjusted, the chart is not dollar amounts
BART has a cost per passenger mile of $1.15. Waymo's subsidized costs are more than double that.

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system's labor costs rose by $150 million between 2019 and 2024.
It used all that extra money to complete 73 million fewer trips.
@PostOpinions looks at the financial death spiral of public transit in the Bay Area. 🧵

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