Mike Maples, Jr

@m2jr

I invest way too early in outlier founders. Twitter, Twitch, Okta, Applied Intuition. How do 0.1% see what others can't?

California

Joined May 2007

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Mike Maples, Jr
@m2jr
Jan 29
In 2020, Jeffrey Katzenberg raised $1.75 billion for Quibi. At CES, he faced a skeptical crowd and said: "I've been doing this before you all were f*&king born." Eight months after launch, Quibi was dead. Reality doesn't care about your résumé.
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Mike Maples, Jr
@m2jr
Sep 16
Germany is too important for this. I hope they will elect capable leaders sooner than later.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
Sep 15
Wow. Normally Europeans at least claim to support free speech. Merz has now dropped the pretense, explicitly rejecting the American model and insisting the state must protect citizens “from false information, from personal putdowns, from discrimination.”
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Mike Maples, Jr
@m2jr
Sep 16
Woah.
Julian Reichelt
@jreichelt
Sep 15
BREAKING NIUS: Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz will Social Media massiv einschränken und sagt: "Komme mir niemand mit Free Speech!" Man müsse "immer noch in der Lage sein, die Bürger vor falschen Informationen zu schützen." Gegen Männer wie Merz haben wir das Grundrecht der
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Mike Maples, Jr
@m2jr
Sep 14
@ATTHelp I’m trying to complete a Transfer of Billing Responsibility for three wireless lines. I spent more than an hour with AT&T support Saturday getting account access restored. Since then, the TOBR site has returned the below error I snapshotted continuously for two days. I
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Mike Maples, Jr
@m2jr
Sep 8
When your best employee finds a better way to work, does everyone else inherit it? The most AI-pilled companies are building software factories: turning individual breakthroughs into capabilities the whole company can use. @annimaniac describes this below in "The Software
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