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Joy Ghanekar

@jghanekar

CPO KonstructIQ. Previously at talech (acquired by U.S. Bank), Zynga, Yahoo!, Amazon. #goblue

San Carlos, CA Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Joy Ghanekar
Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
Fareed Zakaria wrote an excellent book on this subject a.co/d/08z7upew "California is the most vivid example of a state that has been rendered ungovernable by an excess of democracy... Through the initiative process, California's citizens have taken over the most important functions of government, particularly taxing and spending, leaving the legislature and the governor with no power and no responsibility."
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Sheel Mohnot
Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi·
Everyone is getting this wrong: The politicians in California are pretty terrible, but you can't blame them for the wealth tax... they actually killed the idea 2 years ago. Our uniquely bad form of direct democracy is the actual culprit. Democratic Socialist assemblyman Alex Lee introduced the wealth tax in Sacramento (AB 259) 2 years ago. It was not popular, it actually did not even make it to a vote. It was deemed too leftist even for the California legislature. So why is it back? California's uniquely bad form of direct democracy lets you bypass the legislature if you get enough signatures... You can put almost anything on the ballot if you get signatures. That is what the SEIU-UHW, the healthcare workers union did. Union leadership spearheaded this initiative and funded the campaign directly to collect signatures for the wealth tax. They collected signatures by going around asking if people want more money from billionaires to fund hospitals, healthcare, food aid, and schools... naturally people said yes without realizing the consequences. The only major currently elected official from California that supports it is Ro Khanna. My guess from seeing his support on twitter is that Ro decided to support it without understanding it and then dug his heels in for some stupid reason (he actually acknowledged that it is bad as written). Tom Steyer and Saikat Chakrabarti who are running for office also support it (we need to do everything we can to oppose them). I can't believe I'm defending California politicians, but remember - they actually rejected a wealth tax. This is a union-backed ballot initiative trying to go around them.
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Kyle Tibbitts@KyleTibbitts

Room temp IQ politicians in California looked at the greatest entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world and said “fuck it, let’s blow it up”.

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Joy Ghanekar
Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
@Amplitude_HQ can someone from sales help us with a billing issue. We are hitting our MTU targets & our session replays are paused. I've contacted billing multiple times but our support person closes the ticket and asks me to just contact sales. Need a better experience. DM me.
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Joy Ghanekar
Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
Amazing read!
Colossus@colossusmag

This is the story of Hyperliquid, the most profitable startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore. Last year, its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken a dollar of venture capital, and is beginning to change how century-old markets work. Its founder, Jeffrey Yan (@chameleon_jeff), had never taken a physics class when he picked up a textbook at 16. Two years later, he won gold at the International Physics Olympiad. In 2019, he started trading with $10,000 from a living room in Puerto Rico—working off a television because he didn't own a monitor. Within 3 years, he was running one of the largest anonymous crypto trading firms. Then he shut it down. Yan was rich and free, but he had spent years inside crypto, watching it betray itself. Bitcoin's central premise was decentralization. Yet the biggest exchanges were centralized. Crypto kept reintroducing the dependence on trust it was built to eliminate. He set out to create what should have existed. Hyperliquid is a blockchain with a trading exchange on top, and anyone can build on it. Yan's vision is to house all of finance. In 3 years, it has done over $4 trillion in volume. And in the past few months, it has begun to outgrow crypto. Markets for oil, silver, and the S&P 500 now trade on Hyperliquid around the clock, weekends included, and are growing roughly 40% week on week. When the US and Israel bombed Iran on a Saturday in February, Hyperliquid was the venue traders turned to. Hyperliquid's success has cost Yan his freedom. He works out of a secret office in Singapore and cannot travel without two bodyguards. Even the team's housekeeper doesn't know what they do. In January, @domcooke spent a week at their office. Read his profile on Yan and @HyperliquidX below.

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Blue By 90
Blue By 90@bluebyninety·
National Championship Mr. Brightside
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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. wsj.com/tech/kimwolf-h…
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TBPN@tbpn·
Apple's Eddy Cue reveals the logic behind charging $0.99 a song when the company launched iTunes Store in 2003, despite the fact that Apple would lose money at that price: "There were two keys to $0.99 that we really believed in, and people didn't see." "Number one is when the price is $0.99, and it's consistent, you never have to think about price." "The second thing was that people could never do that, because at $0.99, if you're charging a credit card, you would lose money. Because credit cards have a fixed fee and a percentage that you pay." "Well, the fixed fee and the percentage you pay on a $0.99 song was like a quarter, and the vast majority of the [rest of] the money went to the labels. So every time we'd sell a song, we'd lose money. Nobody wanted to do that." "What we decided to do is, as we were building this — and it was a huge discussion, because we would lose a ton of money — we said, 'Look, this thing is amazing. You're not going to buy just one song, you're going to buy a lot of songs.'" "'And when you do that, instead of closing the transaction on every single one, why don't we just combine them over a period of time? Let's keep the transaction open for a period of time — let's call it 24 hours, or 8 hours. And everything you buy, we're just going to give you, then we're going to charge you at the end.'" "And that's exactly what happened. Very few transactions were just $0.99. Most of the transactions were multiple dollars. And the fixed fee didn't matter."
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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
@tferriss 10. Quiet, non-intrusive, well designed, does a great job of navigating through tight spaces and cleaning messy areas. Mop + vacuum combo is killer. My wife who’s usually skeptical of new tech loves her Matic. And the customer experience is amazing. Proud customer and investor!
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Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss@tferriss·
Has anyone used Matic (robot vacuum)? If so, from 0-10 (no 7 allowed), how strongly would you recommend and why? Thanks! 🙏
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Mehul@mehul·
"Wired and ZDNet have both called it the best in its class... andvacuums are just the beginning as it focuses on building smart robots for the home."
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Matic Robots@maticrobots

Matic was chosen by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2025, ranked #3 in Consumer Electronics. The robot vacuum hasn't changed much in decades. We re-designed it. Not just smarter. More aware. Built to see your home the way you do and evolve as it does. That's why we built Matic. And we are so amazed by the outpouring of love. We've already cleaned 156 million square feet with over 7,000 customers and we're cleaning 1 million square feet every single day. This one's for every home we've had the privilege of being part of. Meet Matic: maticrobots.com #FCMostInnovative

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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
Superb! I could hear their voices as I was reading it.
Marianne 🔆@GreatAbysmal

Jim Hacker: Humphrey, we have to do something about Iran. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Prime Minister, the government is already doing a great deal. Jim Hacker: Such as? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Monitoring developments, coordinating with allies, reviewing contingency plans and expressing concern. Jim Hacker: That all sounds like nothing, Humphrey. Sir Humphrey Appleby: On the contrary, Prime Minister. In diplomacy it is vital to appear active without becoming involved. Jim Hacker: The Americans are bombing things, the Iranians are firing missiles, the Strait of Hormuz is practically closed and we’re… appearing active? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Precisely. Jim Hacker: Innocent people are dying, Humphrey! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister. That is why the Foreign Office is drafting a very strongly worded statement about it. Jim Hacker: A statement won’t stop a war. Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, Prime Minister, but it will ensure that we are on record as having been extremely concerned while it was happening. Bernard Woolley: If I may, Prime Minister — the Cabinet Office has identified six possible courses of action. Jim Hacker: Good! What are they? Bernard Woolley: We can condemn the escalation, call for restraint, urge negotiations, support our allies, assist defensive operations or participate directly. Jim Hacker: And what do they recommend? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Supporting our allies. Jim Hacker: That sounds suspiciously like participating. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh no, Prime Minister. Participating means fighting. Supporting merely means allowing others to fight from places that technically belong to us. Jim Hacker: Humphrey, if Iranian missiles hit one of our bases, we’ll be in the war anyway! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister, but we shall have entered it with the invaluable diplomatic advantage of being surprised. Bernard Woolley: It’s generally considered the safest way to enter a war, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: How on earth can that be safe? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Because if the war goes badly, we can say we never meant to join it. And if it goes well, we can say we were there all along.

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The Curious Tales
The Curious Tales@thecurioustales·
🚨BREAKING: Scientists tracked a bird that flew 8,425 miles (13,560 km) without stopping even once — the longest non-stop flight ever recorded.
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Organizermemes@OrganizerMemes·
I love this video
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Peter Hague@peterrhague·
"Yes, Prime Minister" anticipating the EU response to Iran 40 years ago
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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
Excellent interview. Highly competent, very balanced in his approach between the risks and promise of inter planetary travel, and deeply passionate about space. We need more people like him. And he did fintech/payments for years! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/int…
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rvivek
rvivek@rvivek·
10-minute delivery in India isn't magic. It's really good engineering. @albinder and @letsblinkit built tech that most people never see. We went deep on how it works.
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Joy Ghanekar
Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
Matic is a fantastic product. Happy customer! Go get one today! Let’s go Matic team.
Mehul@mehul

Announcing $60M for @maticrobots. We didn't ask "What's the most impressive robot we can demo?" We asked "What's the most useful robot we can ship? What comes after Roomba?" Customers answered with their wallets: It's Matic.

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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
At Crane Stationery, the craft of high-precision engraving is in danger of becoming a lost art and it isn't because of AI wsj.com/lifestyle/care…
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Joy Ghanekar@jghanekar·
The modern world is filled with these unsung heroes who make our lives better through simple but powerful improvements. The other one that comes to mind in recent times is the engineer who put the OTP on the iOS keyboard. wsj.com/business/autos…
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