John Adractas

Entrepreneur. Investor. Musician. CEO/Founder EncircleLabs (construction fintech). Formerly @SimpleePay @Google @VoyagerCapital. Father of 3. OODA evangelist.

[Nick Mehta @nrmehta]

"You can't have a great culture and be remote-first."

A lot of people believe that. And maybe it's harder - I don't know.

All I know is Gainsight has been a work-from-anywhere company for a LONG time and is now the #1-rated company on Glassdoor.

You can make anything work IMO.

[John Adractas @adractas]

Well that took a while... McCarthy finally got the nod on the 15th try

#SpeakerVote #McCarthy

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

Happy New Year!

[John Adractas @adractas]

One might broaden that to life generally...

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

So much of software engineering is just not giving up when you're stuck

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment." - Lao Tzu

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.

[Ashley Mayer @ashleymayer]

How to write an email:

Write email.
Replace apology with “thanks for your patience.”
Remove all instances of “very” and “so.”
Delete exclamation points. Okay yikes, rude. Add half back in.
You get one (1) smiley face so use it wisely!
Is “cheers” weird? Change to “best.”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

It's a dangerous skill to be good at convincing yourself that you don't want things you worry you might not get. Useful in some areas perhaps, but disastrous in others.

[John Adractas @adractas]

LOL... craziest list of user roles. Poster child for why contextual help rocks ;-)

worse "admin" not their highest and I mistakingly lost access w/o warning by changing from a mysterious "brand admin"

worse yet, #usersupport only visible to "brand admin"
Jeez @Qualtrics!!??

[Simone Biles @Simone_Biles]

the outpouring love & support I’ve received has made me realize I’m more than my accomplishments and gymnastics which I never truly believed before. 🤍

[John Adractas @adractas]

@naywilliams That's awesome @naywilliams

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees, and titles.
Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility, and generosity.

[David Haber @dhaber]

You never forget the people who bet on you early. Feeling very grateful today! 🙏🙏🙏

[Nick Mehta @nrmehta]

I can't count the number of days where I've had to go from:

A call with a teammate who is resigning to
A call to recruit someone new

A call with a client leaving to
A sales call

A call with an investor passing to
A VC pitch

Very few skills more important than bouncing back.

[Katelyn Gleason @katgleason]

"the difference between baseball & business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. when you swing, no matter how well you connect, the most runs you can score is 4. in business, every once in a while, when you step up to the plate, you can score 1,000."

[dj patil @dpatil]

When you’re the first data scientist on a team

[Adam Nimoy @adam_nimoy]

The son of Russian immigrants he was raised in Boston where he sold newspapers and vacuum cleaners. Then he entered Starfleet Academy. Happy 90th Dad. Still inspiring so many. Love always. #LLAP #StarTrek 🖖🏼

[Michael Mettler @mettler]

This is the internet cheese emergency that I have been training for. https://t.co/SDT5qgTFEB