Pascal

Big on data because curiosity skilled the cat.

[David Nuñez | Emerging Tech+Humans @davidnunez]

Dr. Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist & Nobel-prize winner. He believed passionately in learning:

“I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.” — Richard Feynman

This is how he did it:

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Purchasing power of one dollar:

2022: $0.04
2020: $0.05
2010: $0.06
2000: $0.07
1990: $0.09
1980: $0.15
1970: $0.32
1960: $0.42
1950: $0.51
1940: $0.88
1933: $0.95
1913: $1

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

Elon Musk is a big believer in First Principles Thinking.

Not just Musk — Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Feynman too.

Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

Most companies suck at communicating the value of their product or service.

Here’s how to instantly show your value:

[neeraj arora @neerajarora]

In 2014, I was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp.

And I helped negotiate the $22 billion sale to Facebook.

Today, I regret it.

Here’s where things went wrong:

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

Saw this on LinkedIn and thought startups on Twitter who haven't watched it can learn one or two from the pitch. Video published by BBC: Dragons' Den

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

10 things your parents never told you about work (but probably should have):

[Varun Mallapragada @varunm30]

To tell great stories, you need to understand how stories are structured.

Did you know that there are only ~7 story plots (archetypes) in existence?!

1. Overcoming the monster
2. Rags to riches
3. The quest
4. Voyage & return
5. Comedy
6. Tragedy
7. Rebirth

[ag @adltyagaur]

How an internet darling went from $125 Billion to $5 Billion.

A story of how Yahoo after winning the race, lost the battle.

🧵

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

College completely failed in teaching me how to write.

So I spent over 500 hours studying legendary authors and copywriters.

Then, I distilled what I learned into 6 simple frameworks.

But unlike college, these won't cost you $120,000.

Here they are for free:

[Brian Bourque @bbourque]

22 startup principles to scale your company in 2022:

[Ali @AliTheCFO]

How to understand the financial performance of any business:

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

13-year-old Magnus Carlsen gets bored while playing chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov

[Pascal @tweet_pascal]

I like this.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

How to Stand Out: Develop a bias for action.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion; a body at rest tends to stay at rest.

When in doubt, act.

[VV @visualizevalue]

Failure is the frame, not the picture.

[Pascal @tweet_pascal]

Thread of the year . . . so far 😃

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Every second, 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter.

That's over 350,000 tweets sent per minute.

500 million tweets per day.

200 billion tweets per year.

Which means you've probably missed some of the best content this site has to offer.

Here are 15 you need to read: 🧵👇

[Aaron Levie @levie]

My best startup advice:
1. Find an under-appreciated problem
2. Build the simplest way to solve it
3. Expand the market
4. Find the next adjacent problem
5. Repeat step 2-4 forever

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

Everyone is in sales.

Few do it well.

10 secrets to better selling: 🧵

[Hassan W. Bhatti @hwbhatti]

8 mental models to master startups: