"The One That Didn't Work Out." Startup founders, you know what I mean: We spend years on a product - starting it from scratch, recruiting friends, getting it off the ground. We think we'll spend years on this. This is the one. We tell that to ourselves, investors, and friends
10 years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting. I called it Bump, and sent this email to Andy Huibers.
— David Lieb (@dflieb) October 13, 2018
Here\u2019s a thread with some memories and lessons learned in the last 10 years. pic.twitter.com/jjfOrOlOVj
Btw, Groupon is a public co worth ~$2B. Obv it's not Google but @andrewmason still made it a huge success. This interview is compelling and honest, though ignore the headline. "The Quick Rise and Even Faster Fall of Groupon, Through the Eyes of Its CEO" https://t.co/7aE945ngLG
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) October 14, 2018
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I'll begin with the ancient history ... and it goes way back. Because modern humans - and before that, the ancestors of humans - almost certainly originated in Ethiopia. 🇪🇹 (sub-thread):
The famous \u201cLucy\u201d, an early ancestor of modern humans (Australopithecus) that lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, displayed in the national museum in Addis Ababa \U0001f1ea\U0001f1f9 pic.twitter.com/N3oWqk1SW2
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 9, 2018
The first likely historical reference to Ethiopia is ancient Egyptian records of trade expeditions to the "Land of Punt" in search of gold, ebony, ivory, incense, and wild animals, starting in c 2500 BC 🇪🇹
Ethiopians themselves believe that the Queen of Sheba, who visited Israel's King Solomon in the Bible (c 950 BC), came from Ethiopia (not Yemen, as others believe). Here she is meeting Solomon in a stain-glassed window in Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Church. 🇪🇹
References to the Queen of Sheba are everywhere in Ethiopia. The national airline's frequent flier miles are even called "ShebaMiles". 🇪🇹