Sora has some wild ideas about airplanes😂 (joking aside, it is an amazing product)
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Roman Karachinsky
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Roman Karachinsky
@romirez
CPO @IncodeIdentity, prev - product @Google, founder of @news360
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mart 2008
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Dear friends, sharing more works for you in this heavy days. Machine Hallucinations - Nature Dreams using 46,474,696 photographic landscape memories of our Earth with machine intelligence. This time with beautiful S. Rachmaninoff. Symphony № 2. Movement.
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My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here’s what it's been like. [Thread]
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It's here. The Wall Street Journal on @PressReader. Recognized for its outstanding and accurate journalism, @WSJ joins our prestigious collection of the world’s best newspapers and magazines. #ReadYourselfBetter.
Read the full release: hubs.ly/H0n4fjG0
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Digging the new @Facebook beta dark mode and UI element refresh, but the whitespace is even more ridiculous now🤯
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Candidly, despite spending a LOT of my time over the past 15 years presenting ideas, I still feel I've got plenty of room to grow in being a good public speaker. This talk by Patrick Winston @ MIT is a great overview on becoming better: youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY
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Nice collection of experiences on filling early supply in marketplace startups. Common thread is to a) set quality bar high, b) overcorrect suppliers to ensure a great off-platform experience for consumers, c) define supplier culture fit.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
How Airbnb, DoorDash, Uber, Instacart and Caviar onboarded new supply (Thread) Airbnb: “For every new listing we brought onboard, we went through a 12-point checklist (e.g. number of pictures, length of title, etc), so that every listing that went live had a minimum standard..."
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Sure are a lot of opinions flying around about the necessity and viability of open source protocols for social networking/media. Some missing the forest for the trees:
A social media giant says the internet needs a decentralized, open source alternative. And that’s really big.
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This mirrors my experience - cold outreach works incredibly well if you do it in a sincere way. I've gotten tons of help from people I didn't know, just by asking. The key thing is to give back, and do the same when you have some way to help.
Li Jin@ljin18
Many people ask me about my path to VC. The truth is - I actually *COLD* applied to @a16z. Story time 👇
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We read/preach a lot about startups being hard, stressful, etc. That's all true... but they're also so much fun.
Many of us founded/joined a startup because few things brought more joy than seeing an idea come to life.
It's easy to lose sight of this.
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Oh man, it's such a treat for my brain every time a new @paulg essay drops. 3rd one in a month and this one rings particularly true paulgraham.com/lesson.html
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6/ Building News360 has been, by far, the most fulfilling and the most challenging thing I've done in my life, and it's bittersweet to let go and know that it's no longer "my" thing, but there's no way to grow without change, and I'm stoked to see what comes next.
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5/ The best thing about them is that their mission aligns almost perfectly with ours - to bring the right content to the right people. Together, we can build a new generation of premium news products that will understand your preferences and find the stories you'll love.
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1/ Some personal news - News360 has been acquired! We've been working on News360 for more than 9 years and it's been a gigantic part of my life and my identity all of this time, so this definitely feels like a pivotal life moment.
techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/pre…
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