Startups @AnthropicAI. Formerly @awscloud @MongoDB, @Griptapeai & @aiven_io. 🖤. Skier. Kettlebell aficionado. Spaceships. My twitter & my ideas & views.

the Internet, from Yorkshire
Joined April 2010
No longer active on Twitter/X. Find me on LinkedIn
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I don't come on Twitter/X much, but I saw this from @houlihan_rick & I wanted to follow up by thanking him for trusting me & joining @MongoDB when I was there. This is best example of 'hire people smarter than you' that I have ever executed. Thank you Rick & stay awesome
In late 2021, @MarkLovesTech and @IanMmmm saw the opportunity to run this model for @MongoDB with focused field marketing and account teams. They recruited me to lead the effort. Today we run Developer Days for hundreds of accounts and touch thousands of developers every month.
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The X Window System wants to talk about licensing their logo en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Wi…
X is here! Let’s do this.
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Ok, it's here. Just saw 'prompt engineering' on a resumé/CV that I was reviewing for the first time.
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Stick that in your scope 3 emissions report
Corporate sustainability & sponsoring F1 really doesn’t work for me. They literally pay money to teams that airfreight cars around the world so that execs can hang out in the pit lane & take selfies.
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Corporate sustainability & sponsoring F1 really doesn’t work for me. They literally pay money to teams that airfreight cars around the world so that execs can hang out in the pit lane & take selfies.
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Leeds, the famous global startup hub…. And this is one of the reasons a that it isn’t one, of course. Zero air connectivity, really crappy rail services to London & Manchester, where the meaningful international connectivity is.
Replying to @thomasforth
Imagine being a business in Leeds, working with clients around the world, raising money from investors around the world. They do probably want to come see you sometime. Do you think having no reliable and modern way to get to Leeds lays the foundation for accelerating growth?
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato It’s more that a little ironic that someone from AWS would use this quote as part of a pitch. How many services do AWS have, and how many are heavily adopted?
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I dropped in at the AWS Partner Summit in London 🇬🇧 today. It was cool to see a few old friends & a few people that I was involved at hiring while I was at AWS.
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[JOB ALERT 🚨] We're looking for a Tech Evangelist at Qovery :) Who is the best tech evangelist you know? Who should I talk with? 🙂
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A relevant ad was just shown in my feed. Shocking. It was for beer. Admittedly it was still useless because I already buy that beer, but I still feel with worthwhile highlighting that this happened. It's been a LONG LONG time.
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Is it even possible/viable to make MVP hardware products that require precision manufacturing like an iPhone or MacBook Pro? I seriously doubt it.
Apple’s unique culture dismisses three commonly held beliefs of most other product builders: 1. Delivering high quality products always beat MVPs, even if it means launching late to the market. MVPs hurt your brand way more than they help.
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I don’t tweet about games much. 20 years ago today at 17:21 I typed Activor Faust into a new game called Eve Online to create this angry looking individual & I have been playing it on & off ever since. #tweetfleet Thank you @HilmarVeigar & @W0wbagger_ for the fun good times 🚀
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He has definitely has the confidence of a white man with a blue checkmark 🤣
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If AWS sees this - they will put Tom Cruise behind an API & charge $12.9M/year for access 🤣
Our board just approved our startup's budget for 2023: - AWS: $30k - Salaries: $150k - Snacks: $44k - Rent: $0 (squatting vacant SF office space) - Tom Cruise advisory fees: $13m - Legal: $125k Times are tough but we will continue to stay disciplined with our spending
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Securing someone’s promotion of course 🤣🤪
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