#Founders

Sam DeBrule

SamDeBrule

1/ Only 1% of venture-backed founders are Black.I'm one of them.On May 31, I sat crying next to my fiancee as she drove us from Santa Cruz to SF. I

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

These were GREAT ideas.They were also racist ideas.Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, et al were great founders who WERE ALSO white supremacists.America is a great country and IT IS ALSO racist. Both

Alex Banks

thealexbanks

Peter Thiel is one of the world's greatest investors.But in 2005 he made his biggest mistake ever costing him billions.A valuable lesson on following your winners: Rewind to the start

Dmitry Alexeenko

dalexeenko

1/ Here is my story: after living in SF for 6 years, I moved up to Seattle 8 months ago at last 2/ My main concern was missing out on

Markham Shaw Pyle

MarkhamShawPyle

THREAD: Here we fucking go yet again, for the slow traffic.1. Every election in a democracy is a choice between evils. The voter attempts – or so one hopes –

buggeroaf (BO)

buggeroaf

And so today a few things Investors *do* care about (pre-Series B) and a few they *don't* (but founders think they do) Thread/ 1. Salaries: If you've raised >$1Mn, Investors

Shah

shahhhhahmed

A thread on the mysterious Nation of "Islam" The nation of Islam is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting groups and a very influential group in the civil

LGB Alliance USA

LGBAlliance_USA

Today's #LGBTQHistoryMonth spotlight is a guest post from @FredSargeant, & these are Fred's words about his associate, Jim Owles: "Jim Owles was a central figure & one of creators

Doctor Historianess

historianess

Minneapolis has a long history of police brutality. Starting in the 1950s, a lot of police violence was directed at Native people living in the Twin Cities. 1/ The Federal

Michael Kinyon

ProfKinyon

Why I Was Destined To Become An AlgebraistAbstract: In this thread, I discuss how the New Math movement influenced my career. I meander quite a bit, so skip to tweet

Being Ulti

being_ulti

Almost everything I learned about coaching I learned through teaching at Amherst Regional High School. I taught for over 20 years there and at the same time I was doing

buggeroaf (BO)

buggeroaf

A thread about feeling "stuck" in your startup..Disclaimers:I'm a funded startup founder / CEO. I'm incredibly privileged.I live in an awesome cityI am a knowledge worker.These are high class problems.People

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

There may be a few who don't get it, but most do.In 2016, lots of Trump voters may not have understood what they are voting for—but not this time.Consider the

Turner Novak

TurnerNovak

Yalla is a voice-centric social network for the MENA region that IPO'd this week at a $1.3b valuationTheir two apps had a combined 12.5m MAUs in Q2 '20 using them

Dan McMurtrie

SuperMugatu

Hot Take: “Value” in the way most people use the term is never coming back. Most of the factors people look to for a potential “return to value” (rates, inflation,

The Majority

themajorityscot

How to argue with Nationalists (A MEGATHREAD): Nationalism is based on deflection: It's always someone else's fault (England/Westminster/The Toaries/Red Tories etc). To fight effectively, never let them get away with