Simon Yu
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Simon Yu
@SimonYuSEA
Cofounder DuelNow. Prev: StormX, 15+ year entrepreneur All views are my own. @getduelnow
Antartica Katılım Şubat 2016
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Love the fact that in China, founders give some equity to their previous company's investors (a company that failed) when they raise/exit for their next company
this allows investors to take founder bets. crazy that silicon valley is so transactional, everything relies on contracts and nothing on culture

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Hey everyone.
We just opened up March Madness Brackets on @getduelnow ! Selection Sunday is tomorrow and would really appreciate everyone here participating today.
It's $20 entry (no fees) the total amount will be split between the top three winners.
duelnow.com/app/brackets

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imagine you’re Travis Kalanick
you built Uber from nothing into a $70 billion company and changed how every city on earth moves
then in the worst three weeks of your life, family tragedies hit, and five of your investors hand you a letter demanding you resign
so you step down
the board replaces you, your successor and board sell off the self driving division you created, the thing you believed was Uber’s entire future
gone
$4 billion to Aurora
the mainstream media tries to write your obituary: toxic culture, bad leadership, and a cautionary tale
silicon valley moves on
as they always do
but you don’t
you don’t really forget
you go quiet, completely quiet
you take $150 million and buy a ghost kitchen company called CloudKitchens
you raise over a billion dollars, hit a $15 billion valuation, build a company with thousands of employees
and nobody even knows the name
eight years in stealth, employees aren’t even allowed to put your company on their LinkedIn
then today you rename the company Atoms, and it’s not a kitchen company anymore
it’s a robotics company
1. food
2. mining
3. transport
your first move?
acquiring Pronto
the autonomous vehicle startup
built by Anthony Levandowski, the same engineer you originally swooped away from Google to build Uber’s self driving program
oh and he went on to deploy 100+ autonomous trucks for one of the largest materials companies on earth
now he’s coming back to work with you
and the reports say Uber itself
the same company that pushed you out, is now backing you to go after self driving harder than Waymo
the guy they removed is the guy they end up needing
poetic justice
your framework aka everything in civilization is mined or grown, manufactured and moved
you call it the golden age
your manifesto ends with three words:
“I never left”
eight years of silence
then this
but here’s what people keep getting wrong about your situation
everyone wants to call it a comeback or a revenge story
it’s neither
you just went quiet and built for eight years while everyone who wrote you off had stopped paying attention
that’s not revenge, that’s just what true builder obsession looks like
most founders would’ve stayed bitter
most would’ve written a book and done a podcast tour, most would’ve taken the $2.5 billion in shares and disappeared off to a beach or Epstein’s island
you didn’t do any of that
you just kept building
and now the same people who pushed you out need you again
so whether you love him or hate him
the most dangerous person in any room is the one who goes quiet yet never stops building
karma is real
welcome back Travis

travis kalanick@travisk
Atoms. atoms.co/vision
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Hey everyone hope you’re well. It’s been extremely rough with especially with the markets being so down and investors/builders alike leaving the space.
Despite the rough patches our team at @getduelnow has been hard at work rolling out the new app on the @base migration.
Within the next few weeks we will be rolling out a March Madness bracket as well as our pick’em challenges being revived.



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@mitchell_gambin @getduelnow We’re about to launch our new March madness bracket would love to have you participate
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@SimonYuSEA Hey Simon @SimonYuSEA / @getduelnow how’s DuelNow going? Anything I can help with (testing, feedback, promo)?
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Lock em up and throw away the fucking keys
threadguy@notthreadguy
what the actual fuck was jane street doing in these orderbooks 💀
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Jane Street exposé gets leaked....
and all of a sudden, the daily scheduled BTC nuke fails to take place
zerohedge@zerohedge
For the first time in 2 months, a full day of bitcoin trading without a "motivated seller" taking out the entire bidstack in one trade to crush momentum. Amazing how that works
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