Mark Ghermezian (@markgher) 's Twitter Profile
Mark Ghermezian

@markgher

Founder & GP @mxvcapital Co-Founder & CEO @Gynger_io & @useTildei Co Founder @Braze, Chairman @Apploi, @edmontonoilers fan

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In 1992, I arrived in Silicon Valley from Iran with $700, unable to speak English and knowing only a handful of people. My first home here? An attic above a yogurt shop where I worked. It wasn’t much, but it was a start. That attic was the foundation of a journey that would

In 1992, I arrived in Silicon Valley from Iran with $700, unable to speak English and knowing only a handful of people. My first home here? An attic above a yogurt shop where I worked. 

It wasn’t much, but it was a start. That attic was the foundation of a journey that would
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Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO “The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision,

Jack Altman (@jaltma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think it’s fine as a founder to meet investors when you aren’t fundraising, but one piece of advice I got that helped me a lot when I was running Lattice: if you’re truly not fundraising, don't talk about your numbers. I would open up the meeting saying something like “hey

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🕯️ Baruch Dayan Haemet With great pain we share that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Abu Dhabi, UAE, was murdered by terrorists after being abducted on Thursday. His body was recovered early Sunday morning, and his family has been notified. Please do a mitzvah in

🕯️ Baruch Dayan Haemet
With great pain we share that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Abu Dhabi, UAE, was murdered by terrorists after being abducted on Thursday. 
His body was recovered early Sunday morning, and his family has been notified.
Please do a mitzvah in
Jared Kushner (@jaredkushner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ivanka and I are saddened by the loss of Rabbi Kogan, who was senselessly murdered to stop the historic bridges he was building between Jews and Muslims in the UAE. The success of his work, in partnership with the bold and positive vision of the Emirati government, has been a

Morgan Brown (@morganb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵 Finally had a chance to dig into DeepSeek’s r1… Let me break down why DeepSeek's AI innovations are blowing people's minds (and possibly threatening Nvidia's $2T market cap) in simple terms...

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Larry Ellison on what made Steve Jobs great “Steve was my best friend for about 25 years. We were neighbors in Woodside and his peacock wandered onto my property and woke me up. His girlfriend had given him a peacock and I came over to complain.” Steve replied: “You don’t like

Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The best CEOs find a way. Almost always. They just need time. The real risk sometimes is that they have a crummy finance person and don't manage their runway accurately.

Yael Bar tur 🎗️ (@yaelbt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I see this guy every Sunday at the NYC hostage rally. Today I finally asked him his story. His name is Simon, and he was born in South Sudan. When he was 9 years old, he was kidnapped and spent 3 years as a slave. He’s been living in New York for many years now, and on Oct 7th

I see this guy every Sunday at the NYC hostage rally. Today I finally asked him his story. 

His name is Simon, and he was born in South Sudan. When he was 9 years old, he was kidnapped and spent 3 years as a slave. He’s been living in New York for many years now, and on Oct 7th
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"I don't really think about competitors. I just think about making the product as perfect as possible. What we want to achieve is the platonic ideal of the perfect product." - Elon Musk

Harry Stebbings (@harrystebbings) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bold statement: if you are a CMO at a consumer facing company of any kind, if you don’t deeply get and value content and social. Your time is numbered.

Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gold from Paul Graham: The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it. As I often say "be obstinate about your vision, be flexible about your tactics" . Obstinacy is a reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas. Persistent