Learning On Twitter- Edition 11.0
Hi,
This is Ankit here writing from this beautiful place called Goa. It’s really beautiful. Don’t believe me? See below!
Now, back to the best tweets I found in the past week!
One thing I want to build!
An E-commerce company has the third largest Online Ad business in India
Your periodic reminder that Flipkart has the 3rd largest online ad business in India (after Google+YT, FB+IG).
Possibly the largest media business (~$200m?) that gets talked about the least.
JUST ASK[Also, don’t forget to follow up]
When I meet with someone more junior, I try to help out and offer to introduce them to job opps, investors, mentors etc
Always tell them to send me something I can FWD to that person
Amazing how few actually follow up
Those that do always end up in more interesting places
Why world needs more products like Stripe Capital[FYI: Banks suck]
We launched Stripe Capital today: stripe.com/capital
It offers extremely fast, data-driven access to working capital in advance, based on your business' activity on Stripe.
This was my #1 ask of Stripe as a customer for 3 years running. I'm so happy we're rolling it out.
Hiring Remote is an edge. One of the few reasons I am so bullish on Remote Work!
Recruiting strategies to give your startup an edge:
1. Go fully remote.
2. Let tough-to-hire recruits start as contractors, then convert to full-time when they're ready.
3. Be open to hiring teenage engineers (there are plenty of great ones out there)
Want some inspiration for the upcoming landing page for your product? Check this tweet out :)
Some fantastic things to read here.
If you had to pick one thing you've read that changed the course of your life, what would it be? (ht @rivatez for the question.)
Under-explored areas of the Internet
I’m shocked that no one has successfully unbundled ‘post game (or episode) threads’ from Reddit into a new standalone product.
There is so much amazing commentary around sports games and TV show episodes.
Guess which one?
There IS a social network (content, messaging, some txn) with less than 400K members, with an annual membership fee of $25K/yr. So around $10B in revenue.
This is beautiful
@bentossell @m1guelpf @Mailchimp @ConvertKit @SubstackInc @anchor @TransistorFM @Shopfiy @webflow @thunkable @stripe @airtable @zapier @clayrunhq @VoiceflowHQ Replace "to code" with "to knit" to see that there is nothing to disagree about. Knitting is a universal computer that computes clothing, but you can get clothes without knitting, and you can also knit for pleasure. Knit if you'd like, avoid it if you prefer.
This is my latest favorite tweet of mine!
If you think of it, @Uber stands on 4 important APIs:-
1. @twilio for Calls and Messages
2. @braintree for payment processing
3. @googlemaps for Location Services
4. @checkr for the background checks
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