Derek Hopfner

Building new stuff. x co-founder @FoundedCo (acq by @RBCx). Avid runner & record collector.

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@danielnieto_ this!

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@skanwar @torontolibrary @aratisharma @TPL_Foundation Love this. ✅

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@saleh_digital i love jazz

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

"The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive."

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

https://t.co/NLznlOypmv

[Alex Rampell @arampell]

Sometimes the market for something done very well is 100x the market for something done ok

[Sid Seixeiro @Sid_Seixeiro]

Canadian filmmaker Sean Menard recently uncovered nearly 100 reels of film chronicling Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope in 1980.

This previously unseen footage is coming out later this year in a documentary titled “Run Terry Run”. It looks incredible.

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@AndrewArruda @jimohovb @bench_iq @maniacvc Love to see it! Congrats @jimohovb! 👏👏👏

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@scottastevenson This is so true.

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@ramit Run. The. Numbers.

[Elijah @eli1ah]

we underestimate how much you have to break from convention to break through

[Mike Scollins @mikescollins]

dark horse contender for favorite video online. can't even think about it without laughing

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

The Paris Olympics opening ceremony: https://t.co/YHwnNnVDDW

[Reggie James @HipCityReg]

I beg a lot of you founders to go out and have some real life experiences, have some love for other people, listen to beautiful music

I begggggggggg of you

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

All of this!

"Take your work seriously, but yourself less so. Hard work often looks suspiciously like play."

[Tamara Winter @tamarawinter]

Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.

The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety:

[Just Mets @just_mets]

The streaming feed of the Mets game just cut to a mariachi band playing “Higher” by Creed during the commercial.

The vibes are wild right now 🤣

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@ycwest @BainCapVC Bravo! Love to see it, Yoseph!

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@DarrenShaw_ Bravo! 👏👏👏 Such great work!

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

@scottastevenson @SpellbookLegal @inovia 👏👏👏

[Derek Hopfner @DerekHopfner]

Bravo @OmarMouallem 👏👏👏The Lebanese Burger Mafia was so great! And to premiere @HotDocs, no less! 🎬