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dick costolo
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Excited to welcome to as COO. The timing couldn't be better. We're hitting a new scale in the business & seeing a growing opportunity in becoming the new standard for building software. Cristina brings in her experience from Stripe, Notion, & First Round.
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This week, I’m joining the incredible team at @linear as Chief Operating Officer. In looking back on the startups I’ve joined in my career, they’ve all had a combination of extraordinary founders and customers who deeply love the product...
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I remember thinking (and writing here) that Claire's interview in Elad Gil's "High Growth Handbook" was some of the best management advice i'd heard in a while. No surprise that "Scaling People" is now being hailed as the new go-to management book in tech circles.
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The @chughesjohnson stans have spoken! So excited to see that Scaling People is now a WSJ Bestseller: wsj.com/articles/bests (a first for @stripepress!)
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The shockingly bad takes from journalists and politicians on both the right and the left about SVB (w/ Elizabeth Warren's nutty take in the NYT probably the winner) is your regular reminder that the people who least know what they're talking about tend to do most of the talking
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Back from a week cooking in kitchens and trattorias across Italy with . Learning a new skill and practicing it next to experts is hard, exhilarating, and humbling in the best way. A craft where you cant BS your way through, and if you do, you get your ass kicked.
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Derek Delgaudio's one man show on Hulu "In and of Itself" is just incredible. See it without reading any of the reviews. Reminded me of "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants" as a show in which the magician's incredible prowess is rivaled by his storytelling.
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I can't tell if Robert Reich wants you to hate him or not, but whatever the case, it's working. Also, that blue tshirt with the maroon sweater, Mon Dieu! (worth noting he must have grad students making these nitwit cartoon clips...seems like a great use of time)
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Elon Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa. Bill Gates’ mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM. Jeff Bezos’ garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents. “Self-made billionaires” are a myth.
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Who should serve more prison time: the two girls who threw tomato soup at van gogh's sunflowers or the person who published a "vegan cacio e pepe" recipe in the NYT cooking section yesterday? Discuss.
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Bulk/auto following/unfollowing are prohibited. They inevitably result in polluted timelines, spam via DM, and inappropriate account ties.
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John Donahoe is quietly one of the most impressive CEOs out there. What he's achieved at eBay over the past few years is fascinating.
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Fiction "takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity" - CSLewis
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