Bryson Thomas

twitter is for the intalectuals

[Jay Hartzell @JCHartzell]

Students - The provost and president are asking you to bring your A-game for @CollegeGameDay! Horns up and signs up! 🤘 @UTAustinProvost

[BB @Basi_cally]

February 29th should always be a holiday. Once in 4 years. I think we can afford that.

[TB4A.com @TheBig4Tweets]

“you’re an accountant?”

“yeah”

“I sucked at math, i could never.”

[☔ @Whotfismick]

when my friends are trying to teach me the rules of a card game and I physically cannot listen

[Chris @citehchris]

if usher wants a truly memorable halftime show he’ll bring that pop tart out

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“so the metric gets some hate & it’s a bit of meme because it’s not a GAAP financial ratio but the story behind it’s invention is pretty interesting. so basically john malone wanted to lever up his cable empire to acquire more assets & use the interest expense to lower his taxes”

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

“I hope you all enjoyed the fireworks! Looking forward to seeing more fire work in Q3”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

”Last night, while waiting to board our plane, our daughter Carter was being her usual inquisitive self wanting to meet and say “hi” to everyone she could, until she walked up on this man.

He reached out and asked if she wanted to sit with him.
He pulled out his tablet and showed her how to draw with it, they watched cartoons together, and she offered him snacks.

This wasn’t a short little exchange, this was 45 minutes.
Watching them in that moment, I couldn’t help but think, different genders, different races, different generations, and the best of friends.

This is the world I want for her.

In a country that is so deeply divided by beliefs, I want her life to be filled with moments like this... not liberal or conservative republican or democrat, socialist or capitalist, just HUMAN.

Joseph from Samsungus in Oklahoma, if this should happen to find you.

Thank you for showing my daughter what kindness and compassion looks like.

Continue to shine your light in the world.”

Credit: Kevin Armentrout

[litquidity @litcapital]

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces a new Twitter CEO. She starts in 6 weeks

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

Exactly 25 years ago today - on April 14th, 1998, at 8am in the morning, Eric Meyer leaned forward, tapped a few keys on his laptop, and launched Netflix to the world.

That first day was a long one.  We crashed our servers. Ran out of mailing labels.  Scrambled to get everything to the post office in time.  But we ended that day with 200 customers.

Today, Netflix has more than 200 million of them.

Starting with a dozen people squeezed into a tiny office with dirty green carpet, Netflix now has more than 10,000 employees.  It has customers in nearly every country in the world.  It produces it’s own movies.  It makes it own television shows.  It’s brought the world “Netflix and Chill”.  (And I promise, I never saw that last one coming).

25 years ago, we simply believed there “had to be a better way” to rent movies, but along the way we ended up not just changing the way the world consumes content, but how that content is created.

We started out just wanting to enjoy work, and ended up showing it was possible to build a culture based on radical honesty, freedom and responsibility.

But looking back, I know it could have gone very differently.

- What if the DVD had gone the way of the LaserDisc? (Don’t know what a LaserDisc is? My point exactly!)
- What if Reed and I had accepted Amazon’s offer?
- What if Blockbuster had said yes to our $50 million ask?

I can point to hundreds of other forks in the road that may have made the difference between success and failure.  Each of them reminds me of the importance that luck plays in every success story.  (And the role that survivor bias has in the fact that I’m the one telling it).

Speaking of luck, what about the people?  Would any of this have happened without the right startup team?  Without Christina Kish?  Te Smith?  Jim Cook?  Eric Meyer?  Mitch Lowe?

Where would Netflix be if PureAtria had not acquired Integrity QA; the lucky break that resulted in me sharing an office - and a carpool - with a guy named Reed Hastings.

And what would have happened had we not stumbled - more than a year and half into our journey - onto the no-due-dates, no late-fees subscription model that ended up saving us?

It’s been an amazing ride, and at the beginning, all I wanted to do was start a company that sold something on the internet.  I ended up with so much more than that.

As Netflix closes out it’s first 25 years - and hopefully kicks off it’s next hundred - I’ve never been prouder of what Netflix has become.

And I’m proud of everything that we accomplished.  We started out wanting to solve an interesting problem, and ended up proving that a handful of people with a crazy idea and a bit of determination can change the world.

But I’m proudest of the fact that I didn’t listen when everyone - and I mean everyone - told me “That Will Never Work”.

[wengel @wengelll]

there goes the last great american dynasty

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Elon Musk and AOC finally worked out their differences.

The chemistry these two have is crazy.

[Quinn XCII @QuinnXCII]

My fifth studio album, The People’s Champ, is finally yours January 27th. New single coming 12/2.

I’m so excited to officially enter this new era - there is a lot coming and I appreciate you all being patient with me.

https://t.co/BxSxlGeNY8

[m @msnetik]

I always forget Elon is short for Watermelon