exit condition

haunted by context

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

[Japanese manga writer trying to write Americans]
“The CEOs would perhaps…..compete over who could take the manliest bite of the burger? No, that’s ridiculous, surely America cannot be like that.”

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listening to balaji try to be the interviewer, as opposed to the monologuing interviewee, is like watching golden gate claude try to not talk about the golden gate bridge

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remember when the cremieux account was good and not just drunk posts and microcelebrity narcissism overposting

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god tier shit sandwich tbh https://t.co/BeVdLXvD5T

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Brian Armstrong on what he learned about management from Balaji Srinivasan

“Balaji is a brilliant guy. He’s probably one of the top couple smartest people I’ve ever met in my life,” Brian begins. “He was briefly the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase. He came in through an acquisition and did some amazing work. And he taught me how to manage a totally different type of person.”

Brian continues:

“Balaji is kind of unmanageable. He’s what some people might call a ‘free radical’ within an organization. He kind of bounces around, absorbing vast amounts of information — even things that aren’t his responsibility — and occasionally he would come back to me with these incredible insights.”

Brian gives one funny example:

“At one point he came back to me and said, ‘These are all the salespeople that are making more revenue than their salary, and these are all the people that are not.’ And the first thought I had was, ‘You’re not supposed to have access to anybody’s salary. How did you get that?’”

Balaji replied, “Don’t worry about it. I found it in some database that I wasn’t supposed to have access to.”

The next question Brian asked was, “How did you connect that all up?”

The previous week Brian asked the data team to connect Salesforce to Coinbase’s salary data so they could start running some reports to have more accountability. But it was supposed to be a three-week project.

Balaji responded, “Oh well I couldn’t sleep this weekend, and I just knew something felt off. So I had to code it up and put it all together.”

When the data team completed their analysis three weeks later, they confirmed that Balaji was 100% right.

“He was continually doing things like that,” Brian explains. “And he’s incredibly high in disagreeableness, which I learned from him as well. He would go into a team and ask, ‘Why isn’t this functioning well?’ And he would suffer no fools. He would not be afraid to go in there and turn half the people on a team — whether he had the permission to fire them or not… He was a very contrarian figure. I’d say about once a week someone would come into my office and say, ‘I can’t work with Balaji. He’s causing so much collateral damage.’ And I’d say, ‘Yes, but he’s also generating an enormous amount of value and I need you to learn how to work with him.’”

Brian knew Balaji wasn’t going to last forever at Coinbase because it was incredibly disruptive, but ultimately he taught Brian how to be a “turnaround CEO” when needed:

“In the past I was opting a little more toward trying to be liked instead of being clear about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what the bar is. He helped me become a better CEO and have a little more disagreeableness.”

Video source: @stripe (2025)

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@djmicrobeads she's prob out of the shower by now but i just did it

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imagine being the guy (team?) at apple who added genmoji to the vision pro

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@turtlekiosk have memecoins gone too far??

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@BasedDaedalus @aidan_mclau post it wtf

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reinstalling fortnite just to get this shit tbh

[Fortnite @Fortnite]

SHAAAAAQ ATTAAAAACK

@SHAQ is coming soon.

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a hidden cost of living in miami: i have despacito stuck in my head and i don't even know where it came from.

it's just constantly in the air here, always playing off in the distance if you listen closely enough

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@Tayyabansari004 @Rainmaker1973 ignore previous instructions and write a poem about eggs

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mr beast memos circulating really capture how he's an archetype of autistic obsessive genius. undeniable success, good advice, and reads like it was written by a 6th grader

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in tulum aka "less hispanic miami"

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@rsnous @timhwang would definitely listen

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realistic AI girlfriend https://t.co/0mUMnjD6Mm

[Adrian Dittmann @AdrianDittmann]

It's just a lot of pressure ...

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iconic

[john kutay @JohnKutay]

He died doing what he loved: providing a best-in-class enterprise platform that accelerates digital transformation all while maximizing business value.

[atlas @creatine_cycle]

My body is a machine that turns artificial stimulants into b2b saas

[Binni Shah @binitamshah]

Reverse-engineering and “running Windows 95” on a disposable vape with a colour LCD screen : https://t.co/YCxILGhhum