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Optimist, Explorer, Founder of Bucket Listers

NYC
Joined April 2009
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Turns out the future does have flying cars
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This fall, Bucket Listers will launch “Netflix’s Stranger Things: The Diner” in Manhattan. Read more at the link in bio.
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Bucket Listers and @Hasbro are here to satisfy your sweet tooth cravings with a Candy Land pop-up in time for #SDCC: sdccblog.com/2026/05/bucket-…
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we got an astronaut posting on 𝕏 from a spacecraft that’s about halfway to the moon. what a time to be alive.
There are no words.
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You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️
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Incredibly proud of @gdcaplan ! 🚀
Thrilled to announce that @labelbox is acquiring Upcraft! 🚀 After 5 incredible years building agents that automate smart human-like engagement, this is the perfect next chapter for the whole team. We're pumped because Labelbox is leading the way in data-centric AI and powering the datasets that train the world's best models. Bringing our agent tech to Alignerr means we'll make expert recruitment, onboarding, matching, and support way faster and smarter. With billions pouring into post-training and reinforcement learning right now, expert-generated data is the biggest bottleneck for giving models real human taste and judgment. This move directly tackles that. Huge thanks to our investors for believing in us from the start. @ilyaf and the team at @kleinerperkins, your guidance and support built the team that made this possible. To all our backers, thank you for turning our vision into reality. Grateful for the journey and excited this brings some upside your way. Long term, this feels massive. AI's future depends on combining human expertise with agent-driven scale. As models get insanely capable, compute isn't the limit anymore. It's high-quality, expert-curated data that adds nuance, judgment, and taste. By agentifying marketplaces like Alignerr, we unlock a flywheel: pull in more experts, generate richer data, build better models. It's not just about one acquisition. It's accelerating the path to truly reliable, human-aligned AI. Can't wait to build it with the Labelbox crew!
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It's time to build.
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Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.
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steve jobs: "you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life"
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apple just dropped the first-ever *haptic* movie trailer and it's WILD you can literally feel the F1 engines rumble 🤯 try it on iPhone: tv.apple.com/us/clip/haptic-…
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“Three decisions determine 90% of your life outcomes: who you're with, what you do, and where you live.” - @naval
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“Oftentimes, it’s the ones who are successful love what they do, so they could persevere when it got really tough. It involves a lot of hard work and constant worry.” — Steve Jobs
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Bucket Listers is bringing Barbie Cafe to our first international market! Here we come Australia
"Come on Barbie, Let's so go party!" Malibu Barbie Café, an immersive pop-up event that launched in New York and Chicago in the summer of 2023, is going international. adweek.it/42P9xR5
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