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This week’s trending links in the tech startup community.

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Fantastic story of an outsider's rejection behooving him to blaze his own path to become what insiders now aspire to be @semil https://t.co/phHX0pFa7b

[Naval @naval]

The difference between investing early into a company and investing early into a protocol is that companies die when they run out of cash, but protocols die when they run out of believers.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Most underappreciated skill for new founders: Numeracy. Can you speak with authority about your numbers, now and in the future?

Can you define the levers of your growth, pick feasible goals, and then hit them week after week, month after month?

This is true product market fit

[Naval @naval]

Smart partners negotiate fair deals because they know that lopsided deals are fragile and that most value accumulates in long term trust relationships.

You can tell a lot about a potential partner by their opening offer.

[Michael Sayman @michaelsayman]

Facebook doesn’t sell user data. That’s not how Facebook makes money.

THREAD...

[Sidebar @SidebarIO]

Breathing life into digital products https://t.co/YlHqCvX60j

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

1/ I believe we are approaching the point (or have we already passed it?) where every startup in the San Francisco Bay Area will have a distributed team. Such is the reality of living in the Bay Area, with housing costs, traffic, commute times, high rents, and more.

[Rebecca Kaden @rebeccakaden]

1/ I'm excited to share that I'm joining the Union Square Ventures partnership @usv Why I'm excited here: https://t.co/994X7Rjm7r

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Sorry we're down right now. Be back soon 👇https://t.co/gvJb7uloCV

[Alex Shye @alexshye]

Dammit.. got my first twitter account suspension this week and it's "permanent"... for whatever that means

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Saluting the incredible women at Apple, and around the world, who are leading the way to a better future. #WomensEqualityDay

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

Why Social Capital’s CEO is betting big on India’s cashless economy https://t.co/uDpLNKYBtn

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Each venture round increases odds of Boardroom drama by 15%

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Pinterest raises $150M at a $12.3B valuation as it makes a full press into visual search https://t.co/FiWq3mmzxw

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People.ai raises $7M to automate sales ops for the enterprise https://t.co/F47tS9bG1p

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A First Look at the Essential Phone, Andy Rubin’s Anti-iPhone https://t.co/PwQH2XG9RA

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Inside the GIF factory: How Giphy plans to build a real business by animating the internet https://t.co/DTTVEVavl7

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Server-less eats the infrastructure, by @chakrabartis https://t.co/X8OI6Q255U

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What I learned about hiring a Chief Operating Officer https://t.co/L2HI2XHWhM

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Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars https://t.co/SOKWXEu5rz