Amaury Besse

Tip: Except if you were asked a yes/no question, do not reply to someone with "No." If you don't agree, explain why. The "No." is unnecessary and doesn't invite your interlocutor to listen to you.

Just spoke to @KanyeWest about his friend A$AP Rocky’s incarceration. I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky. So many people would like to see this quickly resolved!

Proper prototyping better be done like this... 🙌

C’est une sortie mais pas une surprise pour @Michel_Augustin, racheté par @Danone buff.ly/2ZispFs #Exit #Agroalimentaire

Invest more time, effort and money to keep talents than you do to recruit them. Recruiting the right people is insanely difficult, don't ruin all your work by not caring for your teammates.

Bankin’ raises $22.6 million for its financial coach tcrn.ch/2Xmiwom

Ubisoft offers Assassin's Creed Unity for free so you can visit Notre-Dame tnw.me/Z5IwYiG

Congrats @pierrevalade @ODesmoulin and team for the launch of Jumbo, your new privacy assistant: techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/jum…

Alternatives to "Hey guys" hey team hey crew hey all hey folks hey people hey peeps hey y'all hey everyone hey pals hey friends hey

🔥This, from an old @naval podcast, is simple but great Vs. 15 years ago: 🔽 It's 10-100x cheaper to build a software business 🔼 Market size have increased by 10-100x as internet & smartphone penetration 📈 ➡️ The opportunity to make money in software is simply 100x to 10,000x

What I thought we were building: a SOFTWARE company What we're actually building: a software COMPANY

A: "I need your 3 year plan." B: "We have a 6-month plan & will adjust from there." A: "I need your 3 year plan." B: "Our market changes every 18 months." A: "I need your 3 year plan." B: "No 3 year plan has lasted longer than 6 months." A: "I need your 3 year plan." B: "Okay."

Uber and Lyft now doing >1 million rides per day. Most of those are random contractors picking up random people. There are 2 million Airbnb stays per day. 2 million strangers staying in strangers’ homes every night. People are, on average, much better than we’d suspect.

It’s the worst feeling when you have to use a product Stripe might eventually offer but doesn’t yet. Old school financial companies are beyond abysmal at software and customer service.

In Sweden when you donate blood, you get a text message ever time it’s used. Goose bumps. ❤️

Thread: Looking at China illuminates just how nascent the US “influencer stack” is. While the US continues to debate whether influencer marketing is even effective, China has an entire industry of influencer incubators who work end-to-end to turn individuals into big businesses.

Adobe is bolstering its 3D design tools with its latest purchase tcrn.ch/2FSu9hj

Marie Kondo, but for internal business strategy memos.

Pia d’Iribarne joins Stride.VC as third partner tcrn.ch/2CkuOER