basil
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Seeing the tech world through my liberal arts english major cofounder's eyes is hilarious -- "Startup job roles are easy just take any random job title and add engineer to the end" - @basilvalfaro, Human Resources Engineer
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We (@slashapp) raised a $100M Series C at $1.4 billion valuation to build the world's most powerful business banking platform.¹
The round was led by @RibbitCapital, and co-led by @khoslaventures & @GoodwaterCap.
And we're releasing Twin: the world’s first AI private banker.
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SF people are like "here are TEN huge HACKS to throw an EPIC PARTAY" as if it's not just "be cool and have cool friends"
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that's a wrap
thank you for coming
until next time
donald@donaldjewkes
the Jmail documentary is screening tomorrow night in san francisco attend below
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I spent a week with Donald Jewkes. He's an engineer-turned filmmaker responsible for:
- projects with Cursor, Physical intelligence, and Meter
- a 33 million view launch video for Waves, a startup making hidden camera glasses for streamers
- the Jmail documentary, covering how a small group of cracked 20-somethings made the Epstein emails accessible to 450 million people
No one sees him because he's a puppeteer. He's behind the scenes for almost everything that's gone viral in the past year on tech twitter. You might not know him but you definitely know his work.
I wrote an article for @sfalexandria_ about his feral work ethic and how he engineers virality.
sfalexandria.com/posts/donalds-…
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I made a documentary on the creators of JMail
it's an attempt to capture what it feels like to be a young person in san francisco right now
dropping tomorrow
donald@donaldjewkes
got to sit down and talk to the team behind jmail incredible story of how a weekend project became load bearing software in one of the biggest scandals in history documentary coming soon, support their work below
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@naluconcepcion @basilvalfaro hi nalu! this is me I' m also on twitter!
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letting my tiny twitter audience choose my next rabbitholes
making my way through ‘my brilliant friend’ (elena ferrante). enjoying it! tons of shiny phrases.
craving a blend between this^, ready player one, and exhalation (ted chiang)
movies/shows/essays also acceptable
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was so fun to have worked on this vid!!
also go pre order fort
Miranda Nover@mirandanover
Introducing Fort, a wearable that automatically tracks strength training. Strength training is one of the best things you can do for your health and longevity. It deserves better tools.
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max is the ultimate dogfooder
5 minutes after unboxing this vestaboard he was controlling it with gumloop
when someone really loves using their own product it shows
Max Brodeur-Urbas@MaxBrodeurUrbas
gumloop raised a $50m series b led by benchmark here's a video we had fun making about the journey back to work.
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basil retweetledi
Some fun BTS from the @gumloop Series B vid! Highlight was getting @MaxBrodeurUrbas on FaceTime to a remote monitor while he was on Coit as we pointed a 300-1200mm zoom lens from 1982 at him. Longest lens available in the Bay Area - and still wasn’t long enough😵💫
Max Brodeur-Urbas@MaxBrodeurUrbas
gumloop raised a $50m series b led by benchmark here's a video we had fun making about the journey back to work.
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we raised a $50M Series B led by @benchmark
understanding a task should be the only prerequisite to automating it
we're hiring exceptional people across the board.
gumloop.com/blog/series-b
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