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investing at @bessemervp | @stanford design + mech e
hosting a cowork & build for creative technologists with @florafaunaai in NYC, if you're tinkering on something (or not), come hang out, and if you're feeling really crazy, give us a mini demo. rsvp below

creative technologists hang was a blast - thanks to everyone who came & to FLORA for cohosting! tons of interest on the demo front so we'll be hosting another one soon... its clear creatives arent choosing whether or not to build - its a matter of what to share first ;)
Chicago architecture was a trip and a half. I wondered if the cars in the parking lot of the building ever back up into the river, but was told the building has 24/7 valets for this reason.

We raised $6.5 million to build the world's most powerful creative tool.
My favorite part about Portland was the stellar graphic design team behind the city’s trash bins. the serif and ! is just perfect!


A loose memory of how we used to “hack ASCII” if we wanted to text in english was by replacing the Arabic letters that had no corresponding sound in English with numbers - also looked vaguely similar. ح was 7 (a sharp h sound.) ع was 3 and so on. All on a blackberry may I add



making a fashion history geoguesser using the met’s api to pull from its costume department and realizing it’s not fun when half the guesses are likely 18th century France or England

The financial times’ app onboarding experience is randomly really magical??