Victor DiVentura

[Victor DiVentura @victordv]

@LindaRaschke I'm in

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@EndWokeness Why was this not reported in the minor networks

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@Rainmaker1973 Reason I don't dance, I'm afraid to look like that

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@Polymarket The war machine keeps moving forward

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@daviddunn177 TDS

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@lecternleader Good time to invest in Carhart stock

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@DonaldTNews Yes

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@MelissaJane_1 @WSJ You forgot to say weird

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@engineers_feed 2

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

I’ll shut down the FBI & ATF and here’s one more reason why. A voter in Iowa recently reminded me of the story of Ruby Ridge & the Weaver family. In 1992, Randy Weaver sold a sawed-off shotgun to a federal informant & was then surrounded at his cabin for refusing to appear in court. First they killed his dog, then they shot & killed his son, *14-year-old* Samuel Weaver. His wife, Vicki, also was shot & killed by an FBI sniper while holding their 10-month-old daughter inside their house. Weaver was later acquitted & awarded a $3mm settlement by the DOJ. Another classic case of entrapment & a disproportionate, politicized abuse of federal police power. I will *shut down* toxic 3-letter agencies like the FBI & ATF that are beyond the point of incremental “reform,” using my Constitutional authority as U.S. President to do it.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Suggested mockery:

Let’s say you are a public figure, and a reporter asks you some sort of stupid gotcha question about, for example, Trump’s choice of words, so as to create news out of nothing.

You could calmly explain what Trump probably meant. That’s always useful. But if you want to have fun, try this:

“When you found out you might ask me a question today, and you considered all the big issues in our troubled world, what made you think that question was important?”

Then laugh and take someone else’s question.

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@ianmiles People are still reading newspapers

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@ScottAdamsSays You move your 1 million followers over to Thread?

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

I started my company 16 years, 3 months, and 5 days ago.

Today, it went public.

But let's rewind for a second...

5,939 days ago, I was a barista at a small cafe called @2percentJazz2, in Victoria, Canada.

I made $6.50 an hour.

Two guys, Chris and Jeff, started coming into the cafe.

They'd sit there all day drinking espresso and typing away on their laptops, using the wifi.

After weeks of this, I asked them what they did for a living.

Didn't they have jobs?

They told me they were "web designers" and this — sitting on their laptops — was their job.

As I dug in, they told me how it worked:

They asked local businesses if they needed a website, then charged them a couple thousand bucks to make one.

They could whip a website together in a few days, and each make $1,000.

Simple.

This blew my mind.

And at that moment, I realized something:

I wanted to be the guy drinking the espresso, not the one serving it.

Chris and Jeff were clearly smart, but I knew some basic HTML and figured I could do the same.

I decided to try it out.

When I got off my shift, I took the bus over to a book store downtown and bought a book called 'Bulletproof Web Design' by Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) to hone my skills.

Then, I googled "freelance web design jobs" and found a tech job board called Authentic Jobs made by this guy in Utah, @cameronmoll.

There were hundreds of posts, mostly from startups in San Francisco, looking for freelance web designers.

I decided to try to win one of these contracts, but I had a critical insight:

Nobody wants to hire an 18-year-old barista to build their website.

So, I decided I'd create a fake design agency.

Using tricks from Dan Cederholm's book, I whipped together a slick looking site and called my "agency" MetaLab (after the <meta> tag in HTML).

The website was very vague as to what exactly MetaLab did, who worked there, or where we were located.

It also featured a cringe-inducing tagline "We Help People Make Cool Stuff."

Like an email spammer, I started sending emails to every single web design job post I could find.

I was met with crickets, until I got an email from a guy named Kavin Stewart (@kavinstewart).

He worked at a startup called Offermatica in San Francisco and told me he needed an interface designed for a web app.

I barely understood what a web app was, but I assured him I could do it.

He proposed a $2,000 USD budget and my eyes went wide.

This was more than I earned in a month, and the project was just a few days of work.

I walked into the cafe the next day and quit my job.

I told myself that if I could just make enough money to wake up whenever I wanted and comfortably make rent, I'd be good.

The rest is history.

But I slightly overshot.

I still own MetaLab, but along the way me and my business partner @_Sparling_ started dozens of companies, then began buying wonderful businesses, including one (Dribbble) — amazingly — from Dan Cederholm, the designer whose book I bought when I first started.

Today, Tiny went public, and as of this moment has a market capitalization of just under $800 million.

I can't even begin to explain how mind boggling this is to me.

This has not been a feat of entrepreneurial genius.

My key skill has been choosing incredible people to work with, both internally and externally, and I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has worked at Tiny and our various companies over the years.

And a special thanks to @simplebits, @cameronmoll, and @kavinstewart for helping with my first step😉

Watch for us on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker TINY (how cool is that ticker?).

https://t.co/tlpgiEO2MU

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@ScottAdamsSays My question to you is if you had known In hindsight the backlash including the cancellation of your book would you do it all over again

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@shawngorham $350 is cheap I was charged $600 here in the Northeast and would not budge on price

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@karaswisher @karaswisher I thought your were done with Twitter?

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@engineers_feed F6

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@creation247 Ego

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@ramit Traveling to Japan with my son on a whim