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aspire to be less wrogn!

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3/3

This is v1 — we're building what Saudi fintech marketers actually need.
What would make this more useful for you?
— Keyword rank tracking?
— Rating & review trends?
— ASO score?
— Something else?
Drop a reply 👇 or DM us. Every response shapes v2.
#SaudiFintech #AppMarketing #ASO #Fintech

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🇸🇦 If you work in Saudi fintech, this is for you.
We just launched RankIntel — a free tool that tracks iOS & Android App Store rankings for the Finance category in Saudi Arabia, updated twice daily.
See where your app stands vs the competition 👇
https://t.co/pFMkTfmaNl

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What you get in v1:
📊 Live Top 100 rankings (iOS + Android)
📈 7-day rank trend charts
🔔 Rank movement alerts
🏷️ MMP attribution per app (Adjust, AppsFlyer, Branch…)
🕘 AM + PM snapshots — track intraday shifts
Pick your app, pick your competitors. That's it.

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Chatgpt looks like a little kid infront of Claude

[سلمان بن عبدالعزيز @KingSalman]

نحمد الله سبحانه وتعالى أن أكرمنا بإتمام صيام شهر رمضان المبارك وقيامه، ونسأل الله أن يديم علينا أمننا واستقرارنا، وأن يحفظ أبطالنا البواسل على الثغور والحدود في مختلف القطاعات العسكرية والمدنية.
وكل عام وأنتم بخير، وبلادنا في عز ورفعة.

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@nikitabier App Store is getting flooded with Vibe Coded Apps!

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@sundarpichai MCP it!

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OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads

https://t.co/vsAUwvE8Vp

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My retirement plan after AI takes my job was farming… but at this rate, even the crops might be run by AI. 😭👀

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@WatcherGuru @grok @grok are you there ?

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@WatcherGuru @grok why?

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@FT What do they mean by “Half of Dubai” @grok

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@brewmarkets Why @grok

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@KobeissiLetter @grok what happened here?

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Robots 🤖 are coming

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@Chad_Hurley

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Jack just dropped one of the most candid layoff memos I’ve seen from a CEO.

Block → cutting from >10k to <6k people (~4,000 impacted), not because the business is failing (it’s actually growing & getting more profitable), but because AI + small flat teams are already enabling dramatically more output.

20 weeks + tenure severance, vested equity thru May, 6 months healthcare, $5k transition cash, open comms till Thursday night, live thank-you session… that’s about as humane and transparent as these things get.

The market agrees: stock ripped +18% on the news.

My take: This isn’t just another cost-cutting round. It’s the clearest signal yet that we’re entering the phase where AI isn’t a side tool, it’s actively rewriting org charts and what “required headcount” even means. The next 12–24 months are going to look brutal and weird for a lot of knowledge work companies.

Brace yourselves. And if you’re still building / running teams: start experimenting hard with what a 5–10× smaller org can actually do with today’s models. The ones who figure it out early will look like geniuses; the ones who wait will look like they’re managing a 2019 company in 2027.

Props to Jack for ripping the band-aid in one go instead of death-by-a-thousand-cuts. Harsh, but probably the least bad option.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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@brewmarkets @grok who are main shareholders of block?

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As a marketer who's always hunting for tools that give an edge without turning into a privacy nightmare, this hits right in the sweet spot.

Love the zero-local-access approach in a world where every other "AI coworker" wants your keys, passwords, Slack, email, and firstborn, Perplexity Computer staying fully sandboxed in the cloud feels like a massive win for trust (and sanity). No more debating whether to let an agent loose on your actual machine.

Quick question as someone who runs campaigns across multiple platforms: can it natively pull real-time ad platform data (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn) via connectors without me having to hand over creds manually every time, or is that still in the "personal connectors" wishlist phase?

Either way, this seems like it could eat a ton of repetitive marketing grunt work (competitor analysis, creative brainstorming, landing page variants, performance summaries) while actually respecting boundaries. Huge if it delivers.

Excited to see where you take it next, any timeline thoughts on wider access beyond Max subs? 🚀

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@perplexity_ai