“I’m gonna buy the Salesforce tower” Elsewhere, I might have dismissively laughed at Coffee with One bold answer to “what’s your dream?” But as we stood there, in the heart of Cerebral Valley, I just crossed my fingers tightly. SF lets you dream. Big. sfstandard.com/2024/08/30/y-c…

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Got stopped twice at our dining hall today by users who gave incredible feedback Hate balancing Styl with classes Love being close to our users

Hiring a UI/UX intern to redo our app onboarding Email an animation you’ve made to [email protected] for an interview You have 48 hours 🫡

I’ve never read How to Win Friends & Influence People But if I were to have written it— I’d need 2 words Self deprecation. It’s amazing how disarming and endearing a roast can be in our world of nonstop flexing.

“Retention is a rich man’s problem” Okay but I’m still broke af.

My superpower: raised by 2 founders Now that I’m months from graduating and see all my friends pretending to be excited for corporate jobs they hate, I’m grateful for the privilege of being able to choose my career and having parents who actively pushed me to pursue this path

“Throughout college, my monastic, scholarly study of human meaning would conflict with my urge to forge and strengthen the human relationships that formed that meaning. If the examined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?” Deedy perfect suggestion

The trick to dealing with angry customers: finetune your bots to sound more human

As much as I pride myself about our $0 ad spend with Styl, that’s not always the best approach When I made this marketing campaign for my mom the video had strong engagement but only did 50k views in a week. I paid for 10k views and that catapulted it to nearly 1M

90 days until graduation. It’s starting to feel real

Being sent a video of 4 UMiami students swiping on Styl in class has officially made its place as a core memory for me

Not sure if this is because of my inexperience or just rite of passage as your company grows, but we’ve had to constantly rethink our metrics We used to love saying users have swiped 25M+ times. Now we realize that as reccs improve, median swipes per session go down but that’s

This is gonna be controversial. Some people find this story creepy, others think it’s inspiring. I’ll let you judge for yourself. 3 months ago I drove an hour north from SF to meet a CEO I really look up to for a coffee chat. She was running late and as I anxiously waited, I

Been realizing that negative hooks do a lot better than positive ones for Gen Z audiences My Top 3 video hooks from September: “I just realized something depressing af” “My least favorite part about staying in the US” “I’m cursed with the world’s most useless talent”

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Introducing Apex This isn't the launch of an app, a product, or a pre-order. It’s something bigger, link below 👇

Everything is about to change. The time to build is now. And if you need any more convincing, Fei-Fei Li is here to inspire