How the fuck are people not praising @paraga?
- Texts revealed in discovery made him look smart
- Signed docs in April when no one thought he would
- Won PR war
- Refused to renegotiate price with @elonmusk despite pressure.
If anyone ever won a negotiation, it was him. #kudos
1. Shopify stock is down 50% over the past 12 months. Its mission may be to "arm the rebels," but it is giving us muskets in a war that is increasingly being fought with machine guns.
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I've worked with 3 different private wealth managers over the past 5 years, including @GoldmanSachs.
To date, I can say that:
A. They have provided virtually no value in growing my net worth.
They promise access to exclusive investment opportunities, but the investments
Honest Question: if you're earning $300K a year, where are you supposed to go for financial advice?
Too poor for private wealth manager. Too rich for savings account or clerk at Bank of America.
How much are you supposed to save? Should you invest in stocks? What are bonds?
I started Native Deodorant by actually buying deodorant sold on Etsy and then white-labeling it.
I don’t talk about this story often, but I think it is a good example of how scrappy entrepreneurs can be, and so wanted to share it.
Here’s the story:
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If @PayPal holds your money, they should be required to pay you interest on it.
Not right that they get free float of billions of dollars per year because they lock your money up.
Who is with me?
1/I’ve failed at starting businesses far more often than I’ve succeeded.
You never hear about the 25 businesses I tried to start but could never get off the ground, because people only talk about the wins (including me).
So let me tell you about a couple of my failures..
Why does every graduate of Harvard Business School think they should be CEO of my company without (i) doing a lick of real work or (ii) understanding anything about running a real business?
This isn't a case study - this is real life.
Dear Mark Zuckerberg (@Meta),
I’m writing to make you an offer.
Let me run Facebook Shop for one year. I don’t want a salary. I don’t want equity. I don’t want a title.
What I want is one year, full autonomy, and complete access to twenty of your best engineers—product minds
