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PM. Angel. PE. BoD @jibjab. Co-Founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/MANzzl6gM2, https://xitter.cf/t.co/1SESy7Fdfb, former: CEO @grindr. SVP @ Yahoo! CEO @ Xobni. Founder/CEO i-drive, Gizmo5 and few other startups.

San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2006
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Excited for Aigency.ai which has closed its pre-seed round and hired a great head of AI. Something new coming soon from OWOW.ai as well.
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I am surprised people are reacting as if WP Engine’s intent wasn’t originally to suggest an affiliation with @WordPress. And WP Engine isn’t some mom and pop developer. It is owned by Silverlake, one of the biggest PE firms in the world. I am with @photomatt on this one.
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Super Bowl Sunday is a good time for humanity to check-in on the state of the art for fake talking animal technology. – at Barcelona, Spain
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English be like: bi, by, buy, bye. – at Attiki, Greece
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I just got an email from a startup looking for “a lead investor for its post-seed round”. I have heard of pre-seed and seed round but now there is a “post seed” round? Then the angle round? Anything to avoid a Series A, i guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – at Los Altos Hills, CA
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Many days I miss being a founder. Today was not one of those days.
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Vote for both Folk and Nook (now Bloks) for the 2022 Golden Kitty Awards on Product Hunt producthunt.com/golden-kitty…
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The real victims of @apple battle with @facebook is small business and startups. So many amazing small biz that offer products people want to find and buy are hurt. Convincing the world that ad targeting is evil is disingenuous on Apple's part. ft.com/content/1959b06d-0a6e…
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Want to support your LGBTQ+ employees? Your healthcare plan needs to change. Read about Grindr’s new health insurance benefit for our employees. Please contact us to find out how your company can do the same. We are happy to help. blog.grindr.com/blog/inclusi…
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Uhhh. 137 tweet thread.... @MichaelDell might not understand how Twitter works. Fun easter egg! He asks for your crypto wallet to give you 100 BTC in the 124th tweet.
Here are the similarities and differences between @elonmusk take private of @Twitter and our @Dell take private in 2013 and @EMC take private in 2016 1/137 🧵
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Excellent product. Excellent startup. Check it out.
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Whoa. MBAs are evil, after all. I would love to see the impact of appointing an exec with a BA in Classics! Veni, vidi, vici. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New NBER paper: When U.S. executives with an MBA take over a company, wages and labor share in the firm go down. nber.org/system/files/workin… Just more evidence of toxic American capitalism, right? Well, they ran the same study in Denmark—and they found the same thing.
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A terrible person made this remote. The difference between the "sun", "snowflake" and "circulate" icons is critical and almost impossible to differentiate. A fraction of people can correctly "turn on the heat". Still less frustrating than an AppleTV remote.
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Best defensive rating in the league? That belongs to #DraymondGreen #NBAAllStar
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