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Great interview with Mathias Döpfnerhttps://t.co/ewnaHc4cH0

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2020

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December 30, 2020 at 09:40PM
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I have to admit after listening to this that Michael Saylor seems less crazy than his BTC/treasury decision has been portrayed. We'll see over time whether he's right, bit he certainly thought about the alternatives quite clearly.https://t.co/DZPejG8mNa

— Scott Kupor (@skupor) December 31, 2020

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December 30, 2020 at 08:31PM
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This is THE BEST tactical podcast I've heard to date on leadership, recruiting, sales practices, & engineering an amazing gtm engine

John McMahon created the MEDDIC sales qualification framework & board member on $SNOW, $MDB, etc

Learnings in a 🧵👇https://t.co/sKlJhlvzp6

— Shomik Ghosh (@shomikghosh21) December 31, 2020

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December 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it https://t.co/NMcFha7nix (https://t.co/NeXUqCNorZ)

— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 31, 2020

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‘Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel…was disrupted’ // wrote this a while back though it was a decade in the making. I pointed out the challenges because that's easy. If you think there is a quick fix then I'd perhaps say more needs to be learned. https://t.co/dDnU886IJl

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) December 30, 2020

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If you need to integrate a Keras model in a C++ app, here's a CPU/GPU inference engine for Keras with a C++ API: https://t.co/eG7lzoHTZZ pic.twitter.com/4hnzGy35hb

— François Chollet (@fchollet) December 30, 2020

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👩‍💻 Trending Libraries for 2020, featuring:

- Transformers @huggingface
- PyTorch Image Models @wightmanr
- Detectron2 @ppwwyyxx
- MMDetection @OpenMMLab
- as well as work by @eriklindernoren, @myleott, @ZloiAlexei, and others pic.twitter.com/p7vemul7lc

— Papers with Code (@paperswithcode) December 30, 2020

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#SPAC Volume Leaders (12/29)$IPOC 14.8M$BFT 14.3M$RMG 11M (-15.4%)$GHIV 7.3M$ACAM 6.4M$THBR 6.1M$BTWN 5.9M$LCA 4.8M (Merger completed today. Will trade as $GNOG tomorrow, 12/30)$SBE 4.2M$THCB 4.1M (-11.4%)

— SPAC Track (@SPACtrack) December 29, 2020

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December 29, 2020 at 01:45PM
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This week, I reflect on the wild year this newsletter has had, and share a bit about what's coming next. See thread for summary.

I've also taken the opportunity to collect the top posts and tweets from the year, plus my favorite mother-in-law takeaways 🥰https://t.co/iW2OtA2JdH

— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) December 29, 2020

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Trading Card No.10 • Fairy Bottle pic.twitter.com/KQ7h7HCoC1

— Robbie Tilton (@robbietilton) December 29, 2020

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The COVID vaccine explained for computer scientists: https://t.co/keCG1bAdw0

— Isil Dillig (@IsilDillig) December 29, 2020

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Deep Work vs. Shallow Work: As writers, we need to protect time for the former from the encroachment of the latter. Here are four strategies to do precisely that. https://t.co/UyRHRBewek #productivity #creativity #writing

— Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) December 28, 2020

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December 27, 2020 at 06:20PM
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Content is really, really hard.

Which helps us understand just how fricking insane the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE is (+ why it's so popular)

It has 3 of 88 films to ever receive an A+ CinemaScore

By 2022, it's likely to have longest run of A-letter grades ever (beating Pixar) pic.twitter.com/EaWpZ3WxD4

— Matthew Ball (OOO) (@ballmatthew) December 27, 2020

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December 27, 2020 at 11:50AM
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extremely fascinating to read this reverse-engineering of the pfizer vaccine

this author translates everything into computer science-like terms

crazy to see how humanity has so many tools to basically "program" our bodies and how we used them herehttps://t.co/euAw5RjSxj

— delian (@zebulgar) December 26, 2020

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December 25, 2020 at 04:22PM
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I’ve heard the story many times before but this is a good article by @JasonTorchinsky for @arstechnica. ‘How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world’ https://t.co/812AxXOXqw

— Francis Muir (@francismuir) December 24, 2020

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December 24, 2020 at 08:28AM
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DeiT is a new Vision Transformer which trains on ImageNet alone, with a new teacher-student training strategy specific to transformers. Paper, code, results, methods and more have been indexed below. https://t.co/JTINOzaUzA

— Papers with Code (@paperswithcode) December 24, 2020

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December 24, 2020 at 05:31AM
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Startups are awesome.

Feels *so* good to close a $100,000 deal, and then after paying AWS, Stripe, Mercury, Airtable, Loom, Twilio, Github, Google, Mailchimp, Mixpanel, Zoom, Figma, Heroku, Typeform, Zendesk, Carta, Dropbox and Zapier we still have a whole $77 left over.

— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) December 24, 2020

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Utterly useful cheat sheets for math students. 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/2ivLLgE1SK

— Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 (@mathladyhazel) December 23, 2020

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In 2016, AlphaGo was introduced. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - showed significant progress in Go, chess and shogi. Today in @Nature, our team describes MuZero, a significant step forward in the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms: https://t.co/RVY320HucF pic.twitter.com/gv5wZnGTjn

— DeepMind (@DeepMind) December 23, 2020

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December 23, 2020 at 08:09AM
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A thread on my most-read essays of 2020 and my thoughts 3-11 months later.

Thank you everyone for the reads, feedback, support, follows, notes, edits, gripes, responses, more!

— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) December 23, 2020

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December 22, 2020 at 05:46PM
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Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V https://t.co/j2QthWfVjo (https://t.co/FE5nGC9qrU)

— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 20, 2020

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December 20, 2020 at 03:03AM
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4/ People knew the Internet existed in 1993, but few understood its commercial implications. Example: That year Steve Jobs explained the business potential of the Internet to Craig McCaw. Craig said: 'Let’s buy it.' Steve then explained to Craig why that wasn't really possible."

— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) December 19, 2020

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December 19, 2020 at 12:59PM
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Interesting from the former chief economist @Spotify

Music streaming volume has flattened out over the last 4 months; potentially due to growth in podcasts along with a light release calendar and losing share of time spent to videogames, TikTok.https://t.co/7EN6WcWsAu

— Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) December 19, 2020

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December 19, 2020 at 06:22AM
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From reversing Parkinson’s disease to defeating Diabetes to the COVID-19 vaccine, these are some of the biggest breakthroughs of the year in bio, from @lr_bio: https://t.co/N70m0XI9sm

— a16z (@a16z) December 19, 2020

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December 19, 2020 at 10:39AM
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Thoughtful questions every CEO should consider (from @tobi, h/t @sriramk)https://t.co/9BL7gCnx3S pic.twitter.com/OtM6Bdjiya

— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) December 19, 2020

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December 19, 2020 at 07:49AM
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Enjoyed this huge deep dive into BTS, Big Hit Entertainment, and their fan engagement flywheels. H/t @_judyknowshttps://t.co/nCbAgRFOxt pic.twitter.com/la7N5kfgG2

— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) December 19, 2020

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December 19, 2020 at 07:09AM
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From Ben at Pinterest on Ron:

“There are a few times in life when you meet someone who sees more potential in you than you might see in yourself.” https://t.co/LT4SDGXZrT

— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) December 19, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 07:15PM
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Helpful. https://t.co/dwnZoGZBs8

— Michael Arrington (@arrington) December 19, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 11:22PM
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A little Friday 🔥🔥🔥 for the All-In army:

Introducing "The Besties" 🏅, our inaugural award show featuring the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
@Jason @chamath @DavidSacks @friedberg

🔊: https://t.co/LBH6pIcpdl
📺: https://t.co/s3eoqfF7hl

— The All-In Podcast 💧🐦 (@theallinpod) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 05:43AM
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Julie Portfolio 2020:

Account 1: +190%
Account 2: + 92%

vs S&P 13.72% 🤩

This was driven mostly by gains in $TWLO, $SHOP, $SE, $FSLY, $ETSY, and $BILI

excludes a small amount I sold and lost trying to be a cool day trader in March. also excludes some long term crypto holdings

— Julie Young (@juliey4) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 10:40AM
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Amazing to hear the Moderna vaccine story directly from @sbancel -- the story of the year. Thank you @JorgeCondeBio and @omnivorousread ! https://t.co/mL3B3PtlmB

— Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 09:30AM
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I've been reaching out to many of the people who supported Airbnb in our earliest days to say thanks. While there are a number of people who believed in us, without Ron Conway, Airbnb wouldn't be what it is today. https://t.co/QiGX7grGNo

— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 09:16AM
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1 year, 50 words. These were the ideas that defined fintech in 2020.

Featuring @arampell @astrange @illscience @seema_amble @rexsalisbury & @matt_haf:https://t.co/Qp5th033r5

— a16z (@a16z) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 08:10AM
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What we're reading:

Progress curves, mandates, and big economic shifts. https://t.co/rb59TIwWWP

— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 08:09AM
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My thread on Disney's 12/10 announcements. Eight days later, Disney "one more thing'd" this event with another blockbuster series announcement... Which airs less than a year from now. https://t.co/LUq0YWGdr4

— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 07:46AM
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NEW: Dick's Sporting Goods is partnering with Instacart to offer same-day delivery at 150+ stores. Instacart has been growing its roster of retail partners this year, to include Staples, Sephora + more. Consumers want speed, esp around the holidays $dks https://t.co/lDLyUZLtW4

— Lauren Thomas (@laurenthomas) December 18, 2020

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December 18, 2020 at 05:03AM
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@ballmatthew pic.twitter.com/itLtAzgfyr

— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) December 17, 2020

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December 17, 2020 at 02:59PM
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2 years ago I raised a $3.6M micro-fund. After 40 investments and close to ~70% funds deployed, I'm now thinking about fund II. Time flies!

— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramkri) December 17, 2020

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December 17, 2020 at 10:14AM
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Some news: starting in January 2021, Social Capital will resume Series A and Series B venture investments in a big way.

1. We think we’ve found a way to allow you to participate.

2. We have a disruptive spin on syndicates.

3. It will be a community effort.

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) December 17, 2020

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December 17, 2020 at 07:33AM
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🤖🚼🍼How to explain supervised learning to a kid (or your boss) 🤖👔🍼

English version: https://t.co/6QtQcq9A9r
Now also in BR Portuguese: https://t.co/4PJxJyQC4n#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #datahttps://t.co/6QtQcq9A9r

— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) December 17, 2020

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December 17, 2020 at 07:31AM
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Facebook Is Developing A Tool To Summarize Articles So You Don’t Have To Read Them https://t.co/JgUD4ryoWW via @RMac18 // AutoSummarize was a feature in Word 97 called “stunning” at the time by NY Times https://t.co/xN6VF8B5Bu (now discontinued!)

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) December 17, 2020

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December 16, 2020 at 11:37PM
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Second Thiel fellow this month to take a company public with more than a $2 billion valuation https://t.co/nPZfxRYQR9

— Michael P Gibson (@William_Blake) December 17, 2020

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December 16, 2020 at 04:32PM
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The Softbank 30-year deck (2010): spike protein "Unknown Virus" risk, rise of telemedicine, remote work and new forms educationhttps://t.co/D253xD6pIe pic.twitter.com/13LEl2tdhP

— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 16, 2020

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December 15, 2020 at 07:43PM
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In 2019, I got a chance to see a functional @cloudkitchens facility. My immediate reaction was holy s*** this is going to change EVERYTHING.

If you don't know what it is -- here's a feature I wrote.https://t.co/a4IaCqfiTZ

— Akshay BD (@akshaybd) December 15, 2020

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December 15, 2020 at 02:52AM
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Publishing a new Observer Effect interview tomorrow two months in the works. This one involved multiple hours of research, pre-interviews with colleagues/friends and is *very* wide ranging. Really excited to get this out!

Will be posting at 9am PT here and at @ObserverOrg

— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) December 16, 2020

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December 15, 2020 at 04:24PM
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In 1997, "The Sovereign Individual" made predictions about the ways in which the internet will radically alter society.

Many of those predictions, including the rise of "cybercash", are playing out before our eyes.

This illustrated thread summarises the book in 12 Tweets.👇 pic.twitter.com/PXJYPRZzJT

— The Austrian (@TheAustrian3) December 14, 2020

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December 14, 2020 at 03:27PM
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"So let’s stop worrying about Silicon Valley, it will be fine, and start celebrating the rise of tech entrepreneurship everywhere. That is a profound thing for the world and something to be incredibly happy about."

(perfectly put, @fredwilson!) https://t.co/u4HLNOI3RT

— Boris Wertz (@bwertz) December 15, 2020

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December 15, 2020 at 07:15AM
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Tomorrow, one of my favorite guests returns, and we launch a new service for podcasts listeners.

Be sure to check out both in the morning! pic.twitter.com/Vgc6KuqHOv

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) December 14, 2020

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December 14, 2020 at 12:41PM
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The Idea Maze by @balajis pic.twitter.com/ao2IYY7J6S

— david (@afrogodd) December 14, 2020

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December 14, 2020 at 06:08AM
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Cloud revenue is exploding. And the wild thing is, we're still in the early innings of cloud penetration. Crazy to think about the value that will be created over the next 5 years. The graph only captures public company rev. With private company data the slope would be steeper pic.twitter.com/be4fZzWYdo

— Jamin Ball (@jaminball) December 14, 2020

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December 14, 2020 at 06:14AM
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Manage Riskhttps://t.co/ytrUyzcHUf

— Farnam Street (@farnamstreet) December 14, 2020

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December 13, 2020 at 06:41PM
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Jeff Bezos on the tension between efficiency you need to execute and the wandering you need to innovate pic.twitter.com/NRSsLZxMCB

— David Perell (@david_perell) December 14, 2020

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December 13, 2020 at 06:07PM
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Eknath Easewaran gave us three brilliant translations, accompanied by excellent introductions in each:

- Upanishads
- Bhagavad Gita
- Dhammapada

The last (usually the least read) is worth your time:

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.” pic.twitter.com/xdujgD4WgA

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) December 13, 2020

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December 13, 2020 at 08:36AM
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With retail stores all over the world closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer brands have suffered tremendously.

The interesting part?

Nike is thriving.

Time for a thread 👇👇👇

— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) December 12, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 05:33PM
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Spacechains – Permissionless Blockchains for Bitcoin

- New chains without needing altcoins
- Unlimited opt-in block space
- Fees go to BTC miners

No 2wp, but enabling asset issuance, DNS, DAOs, DeFi, DEXes with ~0 on-chain overhead✨

Full presentation:https://t.co/0buqK1urfk

— Ruben Somsen 🚵‍♀️🚵‍♂️🚵🚳 (@SomsenRuben) December 12, 2020

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December 12, 2020 at 12:56PM
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Very thoughtful post on AlphaFold2. (Also worth reading Mohammed’s prior thoughts on the original AlphaFold: https://t.co/0nF5izPmK1.) https://t.co/tH14znB8bn

— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) December 12, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 10:11PM
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Thread: How do you make 💸💰 as a social startup? 

Many hesitate to launch social companies because of monetization or because they think ads are the only way to go…founders, this post is for you 👇

⁰https://t.co/Cv3gcYuYUw

— Anne Lee Skates (@anneleeskates) December 11, 2020

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Has your phone ever activated because it misheard some noise as yr voice saying Siri or 'Ok, Google'? Mine has. What happens in the future when robots hear ghost instructions? 'Player Piano After The Goldrush', a story from Import AI 226: https://t.co/aE46sjImTu https://t.co/60eU4kAHTX pic.twitter.com/dkiBnP2FNC

— Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) December 11, 2020

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Read more: https://t.co/DnWbJ2zSwO

— DeepMind (@DeepMind) December 11, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 11:38AM
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We've just released our award-winning news translation models for #WMT2020. This features low-resource languages pairs: Tamil<->English and Inuktitut<->English Download the model here:https://t.co/LrZYC8DGHa

— Facebook AI (@facebookai) December 11, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 11:09AM
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natively physical →
intermediate →
natively digital

paper →
scanner →
text file

wet signature →
e-signature →
digital signature

banking →
fintech →
crypto

community →
social network →
metaverse

pre-internet →
1969-2019 →
2020+

— balajis.com (@balajis) December 11, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 09:54AM
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Henry, knowing they are both smart, searching for alternative to "brainwashed" theory. Their firm is an investor in a new listing exchange (@LTSE) Perhaps they aim to thwart innovation at @NYSE/@NASDAQ, such as adding primary capital to a Direct Listing. https://t.co/IcnsU2Cmu6 https://t.co/jgpiM8Cfgr

— Bill Gurley (@bgurley) December 11, 2020

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December 11, 2020 at 09:24AM
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These predictions were from 2016: https://t.co/V3QditzY12

— Shervin (@shervin) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 09:27AM
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Awesome story about the journey of DoorDash! True builders. https://t.co/0XRzo1EKED

"Never underestimate a great team that stays focused, and continues to improve day after day, year after year."

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) December 10, 2020

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December 09, 2020 at 04:14PM
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Congratulations to @ricfulop and the @DesktopMetal team on taking the company public today! GV's Andy Wheeler explains how Desktop Metal shaped the future of metal 3D printing – https://t.co/qruKzLzB3t

— GV (@GVteam) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 10:00AM
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My launch episode for @mastersofscale, @bchesky! https://t.co/tC9FhsaIN2

— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 02:28PM
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Airbnb to be valued at over $100B today. Here are 5 rejection emails they got when raising at a $1.5M valuation. Amazing: https://t.co/EWxtwfJAzs

— Aaron Levie (@levie) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 08:42AM
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What if social interactions in virtual game worlds could mirror the randomness and serendipity of IRL encounters? Through the rise of cloud streaming, user-generated content, & AI, we'll soon be untethered from our current constraints, writes @Tocelot ➡️ https://t.co/rhGAXCd9IX pic.twitter.com/viinhpBbnE

— a16z (@a16z) December 10, 2020

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Congrats @bchesky @jgebbia @nathanblec and the entire @Airbnb team on today’s milestone! We at @GreylockVC are incredibly grateful to have been a part of your journey since Series A. Here @ReidHoffman reflects on what he learned from Airbnb: https://t.co/eNHVwNfZIe

— Greylock (@GreylockVC) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 11:16AM
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To celebrate @Airbnb's IPO and help future founders, @paulg explains what was special about the Airbnbs (YC W09): https://t.co/AoyXGR16gP

— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) December 10, 2020

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December 10, 2020 at 09:26AM
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Fidelity Digital Assets is excited to enter the digital asset financing space with our new collateral agent capabilities. Clients can now pledge bitcoin as collateral against cash loan agreements managed by @BlockFi.

Read the full press release: https://t.co/5OdHtOU7Uh

— Fidelity Digital Assets (@DigitalAssets) December 9, 2020

from Twitter https://twitter.com/DigitalAssets

December 09, 2020 at 12:56PM
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💻 BERT Made Easier

Run BERT training and inference directly on text inputs: #TFHub lets you preprocess text for its numerous BERT models in just a few lines of code.

Read how ↓ https://t.co/AHIjOq7b4W

— TensorFlow (@TensorFlow) December 9, 2020

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Dollar loans against Bitcoin collateral is one of the best lending businesses in the world.

Cool to see @DigitalAssets and @BlockFi working together to make this more popular.https://t.co/IeObh1Q2UW

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) December 9, 2020

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Our AR future is going to yield some wild experiences. https://t.co/GuYtz1LeHf

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) December 9, 2020

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YC Group Partner @paultoo shares what a great company like @DoorDash (YC S13) looks like at the earliest stages: https://t.co/ZKe54Dqlq5

— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) December 9, 2020

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Fidelity Digital will allow its institutional customers to pledge Bitcoin as collateral against cash loans in a partnership BlockFi https://t.co/Dl2Im53Xsk

— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) December 9, 2020

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Fascinating interview between @ansanelli and @Allbirds ceo Joey Zwillinger on the often surprising influences and strategies underlying @Allbirds' quest to "make better things in a better way." https://t.co/L6Gl7yonlP

— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) December 9, 2020

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Today was definitely an outlier. pic.twitter.com/XSY7hlyjE6

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) December 8, 2020

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My conversation with Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack founder @dhmeyer.

We cover a lot of ground, including:

- “always be collecting dots”
- scaling hospitality
- leadership
- focus vs expansion

You will find a lot to ponder here. Enjoy!https://t.co/3YzkyXyptx pic.twitter.com/bNY2N3xvzo

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) December 8, 2020

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This is Melanie's talk: https://t.co/32MB90qgOt

and Christian's talk: https://t.co/aRRpMXcrsa

— François Chollet (@fchollet) December 8, 2020

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You can watch my talk from today's NeurIPS tutorial on abstraction & reasoning here: https://t.co/363V5ZM6gJ

I've entirely retyped the caption file, so please turn on the subtitles and select "English"

— François Chollet (@fchollet) December 8, 2020

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Apple (AAPL) Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs - “Company tests faster performing processors than Intel’s best” // shocking plans if true https://t.co/35G5sX3Q32

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) December 8, 2020

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Stripe x Shopify deepening their partnership led me down a deep rabbit hole on APIs, strategy in an API-first world, API-first business models, Factorio, and Twilio.

It's APIs all the way down. https://t.co/kOtqZNufym

— Packy McCormick (@packyM) December 7, 2020

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$SFIX Stitch Fix beats on eps, beats on rev. +20% AH pic.twitter.com/Mr4CErNIZq

— North Bluff Capital (@bluff_capital) December 7, 2020

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Have you ever seen a person bat 1.000? In any context?

Well @Futurejurvetson did – and for a 10yr period at that

From 2008-2017, Steve sat on 7 Churchill Club Top 10 Trends Panels and made 11 “predictions”

+He nailed every single one – trend AND timinghttps://t.co/sfgi72zU7f

— Kevin G. (@kgao1412) December 7, 2020

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— Gopi Vikranth (@GopiVikranth) December 7, 2020

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Social's not dead,
Video shopping is new,
Where do we think it's headed?
Well, here's a preview!

We're excited about social. So many problems to solve: meeting new people outside of dating, group learning, different identities, interactions beyond likes.https://t.co/sCWuL1GKbL

— Connie Chan (@conniechan) December 7, 2020

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“It used to be biology was the subject you would major in if you loved science but didn't want to do any math.”

Not anymore.

On Bio Eats World, Stanford professor Markus Covert explains how we’ve entered the quantitative modeling era of biology. https://t.co/2nR3f4XMIV

— a16z (@a16z) December 7, 2020

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Coming tomorrow: a conversation with @chamath you won’t want to miss, including his latest venture backing emerging managers.

With thanks to @Coinbase Prime, @CanalystModels and @iconnections2 https://t.co/PmGVeNPgnh

— Ted Seides (@tseides) December 7, 2020

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Apple Silicon M1 Disruption by @gassee https://t.co/leVlno6w5x

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) December 6, 2020

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Two years ago, DoorDash was a distant third behind Seamless & UberEats in the food delivery race. This week, $DASH will IPO at a $30B+ valuation as America's biggest food delivery provider.

I was one of DoorDash's first 50 employees. Here's an inside look at how we did it 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/1MXg2i6UlJ

— Michael Bloch (@michaelxbloch) December 6, 2020

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Shout out to @ErikVanZwet and Eric Cator as the authors of the paper featuring this now infamous figure. Click the link to go check out their paper! https://t.co/Ij6eiupbDS pic.twitter.com/y698N1fIAs

— 🔥Kareem Carr🔥 (@kareem_carr) December 6, 2020

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Interesting cautionary tale in these two charts, I suspect. pic.twitter.com/a584lFuL63

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 6, 2020

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The mystery of Dark Statistics has vexed statisticians for decades. It is hypothesized that as much as 95% of all statistics are dark statistics! These elusive statistics are invisible but we know they MUST exist due to their influence on the visible data. pic.twitter.com/fdOD8zyfq7

— 🔥Kareem Carr🔥 (@kareem_carr) December 5, 2020

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This thread has a lot of ideas in it that I agree with. Two specific sources of startup ideas:

1. What could you build that will enable asynchronous work?

2. Now that productivity will be measured less by hours worked, how will it be measured? https://t.co/PgBvAZVhwg

— Paul Graham (@paulg) December 6, 2020

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Producing leather and meat using microbes instead of cows sounds great and could be a huge boon for the environment... but there is a big hitch: price. @heyjudka and @VijayPande break down this cost problem and suggest 3 creative ways forward: https://t.co/TevktYHrZ8

— a16z (@a16z) December 5, 2020

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I spoke with more than a dozen current and recently departed WarnerMedia execs about what’s been going on there over the past couple years. Here are their thoughts — and some new details about HBO Max, brand confusion, culture clash and strategic haggling https://t.co/0pzLkomRUr

— Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) December 4, 2020

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I co-led a $275M PIPE in $TRNE (with Bill Miller and JB Straubel) and we are in the home stretch in its merger with @DesktopMetal. They will ring the bell and start trading as $DM on Dec10.

This is a really important company in fighting climate change.

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) December 4, 2020

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One Learning to RL them all:
ReBeL (Recursive Belief-based Learning) is a general RL+Search method that works for all two-player zero-sum games, including imperfect-information games (poker, liar's dice,...) and perfect-information games (chess, go....). https://t.co/2sw8Zbe8rg

— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) December 4, 2020

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In a new blog post, @davidmbudden and @matteohessel discuss how JAX has helped accelerate our mission, and describe an ecosystem of open source libraries that have been developed to make JAX even better for machine learning researchers everywhere: https://t.co/SQVPLS4yJO pic.twitter.com/1zyEIhnAUt

— DeepMind (@DeepMind) December 4, 2020

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I honestly don’t know how to summarize this conversation

My latest is out!

A chat with @sriramk : https://t.co/44QnQSPQNL

— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) December 4, 2020

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This @CaseyNewton piece helps explain why I’m sad about Slack’s fate (even if it thrives within Salesforce) and also why the deal reminds me so much of when I covered productivity in the 1990s and Microsoft Office was sucking the wind out of the category. https://t.co/yY6tziD0GH

— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) December 3, 2020

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[NEW RELEASE] AI and Machine Learning for Coders -- Most books on machine learning begin with a daunting amount of advanced math. This guide by @lmoroney is built on practical lessons that let you work directly with the code. https://t.co/8PgKuQ7M8a #OReillyExperts #NewBook pic.twitter.com/4P8WjOWgul

— O'Reilly Media (@OReillyMedia) December 4, 2020

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— Archillect (@archillect) December 4, 2020

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Stripe Treasury is the latest in banking-as-a-service and shows just how rapidly companies are adding finserv to SaaS ... we wrote about that phenomenon and how SaaS founders should think about it earlier this year: https://t.co/2Qvuj4X8Gd@astrange @seema_amble @kimberlywtan

— Kristina Shen (@kshenster) December 3, 2020

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Great passage from @sriramk here (via @sarthakgh) https://t.co/HCsR2STLlG pic.twitter.com/qjCTWddfcr

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) December 4, 2020

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December 03, 2020 at 05:32PM
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Great piece by @sarahdingwang & @DavidGeorge83 about how to scale ARR beyond the first $20M with top down sales. I shared some insights on this topic for their article, along with leaders from GitHub, Slack, Twilio, and more. Worth a read. https://t.co/Xu32PjCDyH

— Nick Mehta (@nrmehta) December 3, 2020

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In this Infinite Loops podcast I answer questions like:

What's the gravitational force pulling businesses toward base rates?

Why are business and investing the greatest games on Earth?

What's the right mentoring framework?

Why does luck compound? https://t.co/lH7s2YnzC2

— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) December 4, 2020

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4/ Thus it’s incumbent on the startup to quickly convert bottom-up traction into deals. Bottom-up is great for top-of-funnel but you still need a sales team to close. Enterprises don’t self-serve. This was a central learning of Yammer. https://t.co/B2IscQ1e7S

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 3, 2020

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1/ Ok since you asked, here are my reactions to the Slack deal and @levie comments to the effect that “the idea that workers would someday choose all their own tools was always a fantasy... Best product doesn’t always win, you also need the biggest sales force.” My thoughts: https://t.co/ZYdaf9XvaF

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 3, 2020

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M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness https://t.co/C0SiBQIKzd (https://t.co/r50apzVcg7)

— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 3, 2020

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Good Morning, #Seattle! Today's #sunrise was one for the books. pic.twitter.com/kOHhfLQad3

— Sigma Sreedharan (@sigmas) December 3, 2020

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Maybe shouldn’t have dropped a piece about Hollywood streaming services, blockbuster hits and incentives 40 minutes before Warner announces they are co-premiering films in HBO Max. https://t.co/Iw23PNL8Rv

— Tal Shachar (@tweettal) December 3, 2020

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Stripe: Platform of Platforms

Stripe's announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company's ambition.https://t.co/twnKQczar4

— Stratechery (@stratechery) December 3, 2020

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AI bots have bested humans in both chess and poker but the algorithms used to win each game were very different. Today we introduce ReBeL, a major step towards a single AI algorithm that can play all games including chess, Go, poker, Liar's Dice and more.https://t.co/OvgYOaOmRf pic.twitter.com/iwnNCeoux1

— Facebook AI (@facebookai) December 3, 2020

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Here's a follow-up to my essay that coined "solo capitalists."

What I didn't dive into in the first piece were the tradeoffs of being in a partnership vs. being solo.

I believe the best partnerships can win in the long run, but the bar has been raised. https://t.co/i3erPaYOSK

— Nikhil Basu Trivedi (@nbt) December 2, 2020

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December 02, 2020 at 07:20AM
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Steve (@builderio) has built for headless commerce for 6yr

Jordan (@CartHook) has been in the Shopify ecosystem for 4yr

They’re troves of knowledge around commerce and I learn from every one of our chats. Excited to have them together on this pod.https://t.co/EXlAxHb15E

— Mike Duboe (@mduboe) December 2, 2020

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The creator economy is shifting from thinking of itself as a cash-generating industry to an equity-building one, where creators can build wealth that grows once they stop working

— David Perell (@david_perell) December 2, 2020

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December 01, 2020 at 09:42PM
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Slack aims to be the integration layer for every other cloud service - the place you go to search, see what's going on, comment and discuss and launch any other document or task. So is MS Teams. Salesforce wants that, and also, sees it as a threat.

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 1, 2020

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December 01, 2020 at 03:47PM
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Grocery was the fastest growing ecomm category in Q3, up 153% YoY. Heavy reversal from bottom of the pack in Q4 of 2019.

Source: https://t.co/KoqQPx1Mzi pic.twitter.com/IOxdPU0X3s

— Turner Novak (@TurnerNovak) December 1, 2020

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There are some Stratechery posts that contain more wisdom than volumes of best-selling management bookshttps://t.co/Z3kyxW9IXE

— Austen Allred (@Austen) November 30, 2020

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November 30, 2020 at 02:21PM
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I recently listened to Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) on the superb @ExponentialView. He was dreaming with the moment that AI would tackle some of the most fundamental problems in science. I think DeepMind is about to do just that, what do you think @azeem? | https://t.co/9AHBaFH237

— Jose Piquer (@josepiquerm) November 30, 2020

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November 30, 2020 at 01:21PM
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"My dream is that in the next 10 years, @DeepMind is part of cracking a fundamental problem in science that unlocks a whole new era," @demishassabis shared with @azeem in a recent conversation ➡️ https://t.co/peS0RQmQIL https://t.co/Rhhgc31SFy

— Exponential View 🔮 (@ExponentialView) November 30, 2020

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November 30, 2020 at 09:13AM
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