Ben Ehmke

Jesus Freak is the greatest Christian song of all time Change my mind

@jasonfreedman Blasphemy!

First Big Arch. It’s actually pretty good. Almost as good as Shake Shack.

@All_Things_Mavs Anthony Davis At trade, he was billed as Top 10 player (some said top 5) … pretty sure I never saw that. Even when he played.

Who’s the most OVERRATED Maverick of all time?

@WORXTools I have a product that stopped working for me. I've gone thru the guides on your site. Is there someone I can talk to or an email address I can get in touch with?

@TwinklyLED Done

@benehmke Hi, pls get in touch with our Customer Service team here: twink.ly/HelpRequest

@TwinklyLED Yo fam, are we gonna get our hands on those cool cool C9s before Christmas?

@TwinklyLED @TwinklyLED can we get an update on C9 stocking? I gotta start making plans for my setup for Christmas if we're not going to have them soon.

@TwinklyLED @TwinklyLED

"Buying Apple TV to get free Apple TV sounds like a recursive capitalist fever dream that will never end." Favorite quote of the day

@jasonfreedman I think I’m holding until they stop OS updates. I just don’t want something that large.

Okay fellow iPhone 13 mini hold-outs. Are we finally jumping ship to iPhone 17 Air?

@All_Things_Mavs Some offseasons start out on second base

Added two starters without giving up a single asset And one of those starters is the building block of the future

@Suhail Too busy trying to strangle the software industry in the courtroom

Still!?

Let’s go Super Sonics!

The NBA is not a serious organization

@byoboo Defense wins championships

Turns out...it was dumber than anyone could have thought possible

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory 👉🏻 cato.org/sites/cato.org…

@CityofLongview Any idea when it will back? Next few months? Next year?

Yes, our sanitation crews have begun picking up recycling separately, but curbside recycling isn't back... yet. In order to help ensure all routing is in place for when curbside recycling returns, you may notice our crews collecting the recycling carts on their own.

I never found my way in college. I never found my way in business school. I couldn’t see myself as a consultant or a banker. And doing a startup was not a thing. For most of my 20s, I was pretty lost. In 2009, I moved from Boston to Silicon Valley and joined the summer batch of a little known accelerator called Y Combinator. I said I’m all-in. And my life changed forever. Just a few weeks later, sitting on wobbly, homemade white benches, eating homemade chili, I listened to advice that was not stunningly new or ground breaking. It should have been obvious to anyone building a startup. >>Make something people want. >>Be like a cockroach, impossible to kill. >>Launch early. You need feedback from real users. >>Mostly just write code, talk to users. >>Please a small number of users a lot, rather than many users a little. But most of the world was still teaching business plan competitions, pitch decks, professional CEOs, patents, partnerships. YC just wanted us to focus on building with real users. — Now, 16 years since my first YC batch, I’m going all-in on Y Combinator once again. This time in the form of a venture firm, called Orange Collective. I’m hoping that I might just have a chance to pay forward the kindness, wisdom, and direction I’ve received. We’re not going to do anything stunningly new or ground breaking. Our premise is so simple that it should be obvious to everyone. We will treat founders the way YC has treated us. Which means: >>We will believe in the founders earlier than anyone else. >>We will stay committed to founders. >>We will give honest feedback to founders. >>We will decide fast and get out of their way. I'm working with Ryan Bednar, Dave Yen, Omri Barzilay, and Tara Perillo. Together, we’re recruiting every Y Combinator alumnus we can to join us in our ‘Collective’. We currently have 150+ Y Combinator alumni as investors and that number is growing rapidly. Each is an accredited investor and contributes by investing in the fund and helping us evaluate investments (we're not affiliated with YC directly). Together, we pool our money and our expertise to evaluate the founders of every Y Combinator batch. We’re looking for founders that are incredibly curious, obsessed with learning from their users, and especially determined. Our goal is to be the very first investor into YC companies after they’ve started YC, when the outcomes of the startup are still unknown but the character of the founder is on display. We also have 75+ non-YC accredited investors in the fund that want to be closer to YC and able to benefit from the incredible potential of these founders. That number is also growing rapidly. If you’re interested in learning more (and accredited!), please reach out.

I hope Luka drops a fifty burger on my Mavs tonight. Mavs leadership needs sit in their filth. #lukaforever #mffl

I will always be a Mav for life, but had to come support my guy 77 @luka7doncic in the first game of his new chapter!