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Raj Vir

@rjvir

Co-founder, NGL (250M+ downloads). Previously @instagram @umich

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If you are a high school student thinking about which college to go to, you should consider a school in the south like UT Austin, Georgia Tech, or UMiami. Whatever algorithm they are using to filter applicants is clearly superior. That means the student body will be cracked.

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The Snapchat/Facebook tragedy of 2013: > Evan turns down $4B acquisition offer > Zuck asks for a counter > Evan doesn't respond, and moves to close a fundraise at $3B valuation > Zuck loses hope, but makes one last ditch call > Evan hints at wanting $1B liquid post-tax >

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Anthropic is running paid influencer ads on Instagram They must be desperate to boost Claude’s growth Monthly downloads per SensorTower: - ChatGPT: 125 million - Deepseek: 18 million - Grok: 15 million - Gemini: 15 million - Claude: 1 million

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For Mother's Day, my mom asked me if I could retire her. I did something even better - I sent her an inspirational profile of Mark Zuckerberg's dad, who is still a practicing dentist. If he doesn't need to retire, she doesn't need to either. The grind never stops 💪

For Mother's Day, my mom asked me if I could retire her.

I did something even better - I sent her an inspirational profile of Mark Zuckerberg's dad, who is still a practicing dentist.

If he doesn't need to retire, she doesn't need to either.

The grind never stops 💪
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Steve Jobs downloaded Siri off the App Store in 2010 and was obsessed. He saw it as the future of Apple. He called the Siri founder 24 days in a row until they agreed to an acquisition. I wonder how Apple AI would look if Steve was still around

Steve Jobs downloaded Siri off the App Store in 2010 and was obsessed. He saw it as the future of Apple. 

He called the Siri founder 24 days in a row until they agreed to an acquisition. 

I wonder how Apple AI would look if Steve was still around
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You may not like it, but this is the guy who created the iPhone And he's much cheaper than $6.5 billion Jony Ive had a minimal role in iOS design in the early days. When Ive took over 5 years after the iPhone launched, his primary contribution was to make all the icons flat

You may not like it, but this is the guy who created the iPhone

And he's much cheaper than $6.5 billion

Jony Ive had a minimal role in iOS design in the early days. When Ive took over 5 years after the iPhone launched, his primary contribution was to make all the icons flat
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There's ~0 profit in being a 1:1 copycat All value comes from creating a 10x better product that births an entirely new category that everyone else wants to copy