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building. prev agents & data @stripe, founder @supaglue_labs, marketplace platform @uber.

Joined April 2008
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There are two reasons that someone would fail an interview question that should be easy given their CV. (1) they’re actually incompetent (2) the interview was scary and they froze
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I’m excited to share that @supaglue_labs is joining @stripe! supaglue.com/blog/supaglue-i…
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1. Iteration velocity matters more than anything. You will mess up when moving fast, but the damage of moving too slow is far greater. cc @rauchg who I’ve stolen this truism from ❤️
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The best way to get good ideas is to generate a lot of ideas.
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In every startup, you need: - Someone who always wants to get shit done - Someone who obsesses over numbers - Someone who is honest about shit that doesn't work - Someone who is eternally optimistic
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Among the first questions I ask startups who join the YC batch is: who is your customer? Who desperately has a problem that your startup will attempt to solve?
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🚀🚀 Today we’re introducing Supergrain’s newest product, Newsletters. Newsletters allows any team with a data warehouse to send/schedule bulk emails to users using their own email provider.
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We’ll be at @SnowflakeDB summit in a few weeks! Let me know if you’re planning to be there and want to learn about what we’re building at @supergraindata
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1/ Today we're relaunching @supergraindata as a modern customer engagement platform built natively on your data warehouse. supergrain.com
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Thomas retweeted
While at @Minted I built many terrible versions of what became the "modern data stack". An API for serving metrics was one of those terrible tools. I'm delighted to see my former Zynga co-worker @tomkit08 supersede my crappy code with the headless BI platform @supergraindata
1/ We've been quietly building @supergraindata for the most of the last year. Today, we're excited to officially launch our product in public beta and share our vision for headless business intelligence. 🚀🚀🚀
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Headless BI solution released by data startup Supergrain wp.me/p8wLEc-btXT by @tim_keary
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We are such fans of @SupergrainData's vision for headless BI! Big ups to @g_xing, @tomkit08, and the entire #Supergrain team on today's beta and seed announcement. Check it out ➡️ bit.ly/3H6alUK
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Thomas retweeted
Another Vurb alumni co @tomkit08
1/ We've been quietly building @supergraindata for the most of the last year. Today, we're excited to officially launch our product in public beta and share our vision for headless business intelligence. 🚀🚀🚀
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working with the @supergraindata team is largely why i do what i do thrilled to support @g_xing & @tomkit08 on their mission to build headless bi for modern data teams 💫
1/ We've been quietly building @supergraindata for the most of the last year. Today, we're excited to officially launch our product in public beta and share our vision for headless business intelligence. 🚀🚀🚀
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1/ We've been quietly building @supergraindata for the most of the last year. Today, we're excited to officially launch our product in public beta and share our vision for headless business intelligence. 🚀🚀🚀
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One of my fav projects to “try” w/ a new language is to write a basic regex impl. Ties together a lot of seemingly mystical concepts into “oh, I just read a character at a time” You get some compiler theory, finite automata, graphs in a very practical package. They aren’t magic.
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Replying to @jthandy @ankrgyl
💯 I’m building @supergraindata to tackle this exact problem. Metrics are the foundation of all analytic workflows and decision-making. They shouldn’t be locked into any single BI tool.
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An early VC at HashiCorp told me: "Don't ever put your life on pause for your company." In my early 20s, I almost broke up with @amyokuda cause I came to believe I had to "commit" to my company and she was a distraction. Now I think how INCREDIBLY fucking dumb that is.
This is a big nope from me. It may seem that way from my “public” persona but don’t be fooled: in my personal life I rarely talk about work, my family/friends mostly just know I do some “tech things”, and my life revolves around my family, hobbies (👨‍✈️ , 👾, 📖), etc. Balance.
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It’s a big day for the UserLeap team! Today we announced our $16M Series A led by @Accel to make continuous research possible for product teams. We’re also live on Product Hunt! Be sure to check us out and leave feedback.💬 Head to userleap.com to read the news👇
Replying to @mitchellh @BRMatt
There's some great talks out there by the creators. An example use case they had (its out of Uber) was: every single driver on Uber has a long-running workflow that triggers monthly/bi-weekly to pay them, for example. Just super cool stuff.
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