Loren Appin
@lorenappin
Cofounder & COO @fishbowlapp (acquired by Recruit Holdings)
it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain (via @christophepas)
It’s awesome to see @jkwade and @RSerna2010 taking on Stripe and building @finix into the next billion dollar payments company
Over the last 1.5 years, @Finix has enhanced its in-person payments capabilities, launched new features, become a payfac, and more in order to support software platforms of all sizes. Today, we're reintroducing Finix: A PayFac for Platform Payments. finix.com/resources/blog…
The San Francisco accent is so weird—I’ve never understood why “I don’t want to go to that” is pronounced “yeah, I might be down.”
(1/2) NEW: In honor of Women's History Month, we collaborated with @fishbowlapp to analyze the Best Cities for Working Women: 🏀 1. Raleigh 🍑 2. ATL 🎸 3. Austin 🏛️ 4. DC 🏙️ 5. Minneapolis Read our full report → bit.ly/36G3Nyk
This 💯. Prioritize your top investors towards the end of your pitching. We all need practice.
If there’s one piece of advice I’d give to 1st time founders: line up as many pitches as you can with the worst investors you can find. It will get the kinks out of your pitch before you start talking to the whales. By the end, your pitch will be an Oscar winning performance.
1/ Blockchains are not networks—they're cities. 🏙️ This simple mental model will help you understand why the L1 wars are evolving the way they are. New blog post + short 🧵 medium.com/dragonfly-rese…
Part III - What it is The metaverse is the moment in time where our digital life is worth more to us than our phsyical life. This is not an overnight change. Or an invention by some steve jobs type. It's a gradual change that's been happening for 20 yrs
Excited to share that in just 100 days, the Cap Table Coalition has helped nearly 200 Black, Latino/a, LGBTQ+, Native American, and women investors deploy $16M of capital into some of today's most exciting startups! usatoday.com/story/tech/202…
Glassdoor acquires @fishbowlapp, the company founded by Pixable alumni @lorenappin! Congrats! Loren was part of the Pixable founding team and stayed as VP of Growth for 6yrs. I couldn’t be happier to see so many Pixable alumni succeeding as entrepreneurs techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/gla…
Proud of the entire @fishbowlapp team and very excited about the next stage for Fishbowl.
Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn tcrn.ch/3lp2NTh by @ingridlunden
1) LinkedIn feels antiquated and ripe for disruption. Sales Navigator and the flood of absurd InMail’s are an active disincentive to engagement. i.e. LinkedIn clearly believes I am a “Chief Information Officer” so I am constantly targeted with IT InMails.
In February, @Finix announced that we’d allocated 10% of our latest fundraisers to underrepresented investors. Today we’re announcing the Cap Table Coalition as a way for more VC firms, startups, and investors to get involved in this initiative. Join us!
The Cap Table Coalition is live! Since allocating 10% of funding to Black + Latinx investors, many startups came to join us. S/o @Synctera for being first. If you’re a startup, VC firm or fund manager wanting to diversify the VC ecosystem, sign up today! captablecoalition.com
Professional collectives are going to be an exciting trend in the roaring 20s. They’ll emerge for creators, coaches, angels, writers and many other professions. The professional will have access to shared infrastructure and community while retaining the benefits of being indie.
Impressed with how engaged folks are on @fishbowlapp, a social network focused on career development. I'd describe it as a cross btwn Glassdoor (anonymous Q+A) + Clubhouse (live audio discussions). It's sweet spot is the anonymity to openly chat about anything career-wise.
Great conversation going on right now on @fishbowlapp with Twilio CEO @jeffiel, YouTube Product Director @ErinTeague and Founder @namrataganatra. joinfishbowl.com/live_a31z75
We @GGVCapital hosted a holiday toast last night w/70 founders from around the 🌎. It was a special moment to reflect on the challenges of 2020, the resiliency of teams, and a look forward to 2021. An amazing group of people with a very bright outlook for the future 🙏.
This was incredible last night. Excited for what's to come.
Hello Advertising @fishbowlapp! Join me @boughb @DeadraRahaman @3rdGeers @dereklwalker @LaurenMaillian @leemaschmeyer to kick some stuff around about the pandemic and working from home TONIGHT Tuesday Oct 27 at 8pm EST/5pm PST #FishbowlLive #pandemicpositivity
I started a new experiment with my new “one sec” Shortcuts Automation app: it enforces to take a deep breath before opening social media. After two weeks of use, my screen time is down by more than 40%: apps.apple.com/de/app/one-sec… But how does it work?
Thanks @NBCNews for inviting me to chat and featuring @fishbowlapp as a primary platform professionals are using during this time to stay connected.
For my attorney friends - don’t just take my word for it but we have some great communities for you!
What are some of the most excellent online and offline communities for in-house legal professionals? @ACCinhouse @cloc_org @techgc_co @fishbowlapp's in-house community (anonymous) @Legal_io (legal.io/community) @LinkedIn's corporate lawyer group (linkedin.com/groups/117520/)