iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Content is what’s called in Economics a stable equilibrium. That’s why Immigration is an essential force that propels America forward.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Thinking how people stare at you intently to detect if you are lying. A lot VCs do this. While this works, a much better way is to be friendly and relax the person you are analyzing. You want to understand how people are when they are natural.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Today is my book 📕 planning day. Going to review a ton of best of and other lists to build my list to consume over the holidays and into 2025. The explorer in me never rests but my job doesn’t afford a ton of time to read new books, so holidays is the time to catch up!

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some of the best founders I know has the most sever case of happy ears. They just want to bend reality their way but reality has its own way too. Use reflective listening to make sure you are headed in the right direction and not wasting time.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A few days in Zurich and Lucerne

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just jaywalked in Zurich and the look 👀 of pure horror in the eyes of the person standing across the street from me.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Nothing ever makes me feel the way Murakami books make me feel. His latest City and its Uncertain Walls is another masterpiece.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What near term future technology inevitabilities do you believe in?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

To every VC out there who thinks they are better than founders, who don’t treat founders well - you are badly mistaken. We only exist because of founders. We aren’t all that special. Founders are.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Best book 📕 you read in 2024 ? 👇

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

One thing I proposed was to completely buy out the coal industry. For about 36b , you could buy all the coal plants (at a nice profit for owners ), give their customers 5 to 10 yrs to transition and give all employees full pay till retirement. Take out coal and other paths get simpler Thoughts?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

When are we going to get intelligent skip to next chapter / topic in podcasts / podcast apps and video / video players? The books have simplest thing we can do - go to next chapter. With all the tech we have why can’t I do this with podcasts and video?!

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Whats the best thing you got this black friday?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Do yourself a favor and watch Emila Perez on Netflix. It will blow your mind.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 everyone! Grateful to be here. To have the opportunity to connect and learn. Grateful for you all. Grateful to be not (yet) AI generated.

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Katie Roof @katieroof.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Forgot to post this here but Stripe is doing *another* tender offer. This time for EX employees. $70B valuation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Stripe to Buy Shares in Tender Offer at $70 Billion Valuation

Private fintech giant Stripe Inc. is again buying back some of its shares and at a roughly $70 billion valuation.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I love meeting repeat founders who start again in the same space.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am obsessed with people who are impossible to understand at 2x speed.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I now occasionally check Fox News - just - you know - to see what’s going on. This is a screenshot with an actual advertisement they are running. 🤔🤔🤔

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I observe two dominant behaviors in business: - People who always do what they say they are going to do - People who never do what they say they are going to do. The middle is rare. 🤷

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The only thing that matters for moving onto to Blue Sky is community. Make it super easy to move followers and who you follow and you win. Make it hard or focus on other things and you won’t win.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Emilia Perez on Netflix is a must see. Absolutely incredible. g.co/kgs/zG6Yg9H

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Emilia Pérez - Google Search

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 16/11/2024

18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉 bsky-users.theo.io

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Next time you're applying for a job, tell your prospective employer you'd prefer they not do a background check. Let's see how that goes.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@jay.bsky.team I think if you could implement the following you will win Twitter migration. This is what every other effort failed to do - ongoing update of my social graph 👇

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Is it okay to say here we Tweet or no? Cause I tweet.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hearing large companies blame cloud for their expenses is misguided. It is not cloud providers, it is bad engineering choices and overly complicated tech stacks with layers of complex tools and abstractions. Moving in house won't solve any of that but will create more costs and overhead.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 13/11/2024

15M people on Bluesky!!! 💫 The Verge beat us to our own announcement — that's the beauty of an open network with public stats!

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It feels easier to breathe here…

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This election made me realize that most people couldn’t care less about what billionaires have. Instead most people care about what they - people - don’t have. Most people simply care about money in their pocket and that’s it. This is the message republicans sold and people bought.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 14/05/2023

You see, the Universe is uneven. Nothing ever is quite the same.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

I sometimes offer people to chat on a weekend to test them / their eagerness. Not a lot of them cease the opportunity.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Simple self-care hack: Go on a morning walk every morning to walk and think for 20-30 minutes and only breathe through the nose. Nasal breathing is up there with sleep, diet, exercise and light exposure but few understand how simple and powerful it is.

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

What are you building this week ?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

Curious who here drinks Yarba Mate ?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

Recent shows we liked - Dead Ringers - Rachel Weiz should win an Emmy for this - Beef - fun, Breaking Bad style - Drops of God - sort of Queen Gambit And really enjoying the last season of Succession. The script is 👍 What about you?

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Alex Iskold @alexiskold.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

Hello 👋 so glad to be here!

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