CPO @IncodeIdentity, prev - product @Google, founder of @news360
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2008
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Roman Karachinsky retweeted
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.
Roman Karachinsky retweeted
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]
Roman Karachinsky retweeted
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
Digging the new @Facebook beta dark mode and UI element refresh, but the whitespace is even more ridiculous now🤯
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
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.
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Here is our big longread tale of acquiescence on WeWork's financial enablers: the board and the bankers
wsj.com/articles/the-money-m…
Roman Karachinsky retweeted
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.
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.
Many people ask me about my path to VC. The truth is - I actually *COLD* applied to @a16z.
Story time 👇
Roman Karachinsky retweeted
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.
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
Roman Karachinsky retweeted
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius: paulgraham.com/genius.html
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/pr…
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.