@CallMeGillette

VP @lightspark | Founding Team @twifintech (acq. @Plaid) | 12+ years in B2B Fintech | đź‘ĽInvestor | Views are my own

Joined March 2009
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now do a silly one
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Of note; @Cheesecake is constantly ranked as one of the top companies to work for.
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 24
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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That’s a lot of cheese 🧀 (My one year old loves @AllGoodles) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Barilla Paid $750 Million for Goodles in an All-Cash Deal

Italian pasta maker Barilla paid $750 million in cash for Goodles, a healthier macaroni-and-cheese company, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

bloomberg.com
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Free Idea: feed a prediction market API in and let employees gamble on whether their flight will indeed have Starlink 🛜
Devon Tivona
@devontivonaOct 23
Yesterday I had five hours on a flight with Wi-Fi that barely worked. “Has Wi-Fi” is a pretty low bar. So I added a @Starlink filter to @tryramp travel. Now you can check the odds of getting Starlink before you book. 🚀
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Tokenized deposits issued by US banks are essentially CBDCs backed by a bank/FDIC. Tremendously exciting to see this come to life with products like SOFIE from @SoFi—excited to test out cross-platform interop and exchangeability with stablecoins.
Simon Taylor
@sytaylorOct 23
Tokenized deposits are internal stablecoins for banks Because "a bank" is actually lots of little banks inside a big one.
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Can we all agree that Nathan Fielder is the millennial’s Sacha Baron Cohen?
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Alex Gillette retweeted
Nikhil Krishnan
@nikillinitOct 22
We’re like one hack away from me finally being able to get my medical records easily
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If I were a CPA my practice would be called Brass Tax
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payments-brained people will really be like “someone exploited the philippine peso?”
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what if the php patch is the hack you can never be too careful đź‘€
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90% of my meetings didn't have a badge or didn't have time to sit down to see a panel If you work in payments, most of what you missed is very succinctly summed up in this thread; xitter.cf/lightspark/status/2112…
Lightspark
@lightsparkOct 21
We may be approaching one of the biggest changes in how money moves since the internet went mainstream. Our CEO @davidmarcus shared some thoughts on this in a conversation with @hopeking at @Money2020 yesterday. A few takeaways from their conversation:
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nick has seen his shadow, which means there will be 3 extra weeks of fall golf
Nick Watts 🇺🇸
@NickWattsOct 19
BREAKING: I have made the yearly switch from cold brew to hot coffee, white boy autumn rages on
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i feel like i say this at least 2x per year, but the @united lounge in Vegas is among the elite tier of their domestic lounges passed apps and sorbet machine is next level
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salespeople on day 3 of money2020
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Lightspark
@lightsparkOct 19
Every day, 10 to 15 people make their first $20K on @whop. Today, Lightspark powers a new way for them to cash out instantly to their bank accounts.
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PSA: there is currently a line for the Venetian gym @iamjakestream pls help
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TIL that @jackiereses has an agent named Pork Chop, and @NikMilanovic needs more @newbalance sneakers.
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best view is the 16:30 cross-country westbound sunset-chaser
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survived the nazis only to fall to the philistines.
Globe Eye News
@GlobeEyeNewsOct 17
BREAKING: Historic 143-year-old Limoges town hall in France collapsed after protesters set it on fire.
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we just saw a car fly so i don’t want to hear about how your neobank can’t share rewards on interchange and generate yield
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